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Countdown to #buddhaday - 10 days to go...

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 29 Apr, 2020 - 11:35

Countdown to #buddhaday - 10 days to go...

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 29 Apr, 2020 - 11:35

“A thousand brilliant hues arise,⠀
More lovely than the evening skies,⠀
And pictures paint before our eyes…”⠀

During this day of recollection and celebration of the many beautiful qualities of Enlightenment, Saddhanandi and Saddhaloka will offer a special Buddha Day Q&A live-streamed from Adhisthana.
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🎧 “The Poetry Interviews – Saddhanandi + Sangharakshita”

thebuddhistcentre.com/buddha-day for the full programme and to connect⠀

Prajnaketu

make a difference - a conversation

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Wed, 29 Apr, 2020 - 11:00

make a difference - a conversation

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Wed, 29 Apr, 2020 - 11:00

I’m Prajnaketu and I’m in a field (…slightly getting bitten) but this Sunday I’d like to invite you to join me and other young Buddhists from around the world at the Sunday conversation.

This is a great way to connect with other young Buddhists (18-30) from around the world and to enter into deeper discussion on topics that matter to you at the moment.

The format is normally a bit of meditation, then I kick-start a conversation, but the majority of the event takes...

Centre Team

Make Room For Fun (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 21)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 29 Apr, 2020 - 00:07

Pleasure is a thing that also needs accomplishing…

from The Word by Tony Hoagland

Today’s episode of the Dharma Toolkit asks a collection of fabulous guests how we can meet the deep and urgently serious aspects of life and of the current times without jettisoning a similarly vital human sense of fun, pleasure, play, spontaneity, creativity – even joy.

From painting with a beautiful thrash metal soundtrack on as ecstatic backdrop, to re-watching favourite TV shows, to going for a walk in familiar...

Centre Team

Being Divine Online: Q & A with Ratnavandana on the Brahma Viharas (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 20)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Tue, 28 Apr, 2020 - 01:58

Loving Kindness (Metta)
Compassion (Karuna)
Joyful Resonance (Mudita)
Equanimity (Upekkha)

This week on the podcast we’re in full-on love mode with our Home Retreat: Being Divine Online.

Our guide to the series of meditations in focus - the Brahma Viharas - is Ratnavandana, and in this special episode recorded live online she’s in discussion about a practice that has been one of the touchstones of her life.

The sense of someone choosing to dwell inside a mythic vision of...

Maitriyogini

For the Happiness and Welfare of Many

From Adhisthana on Mon, 27 Apr, 2020 - 11:46

For the Happiness and Welfare of Many

From Adhisthana on Mon, 27 Apr, 2020 - 11:46

In his second talk in the series counting down to Buddha Day, Saddhaloka shares the stories of just after the Buddha’s enlightenment. This talks covers the buddha’s first teachings, and the compassion that moved him and his followers to teach.

akasajoti

International Buddha Day: an Invitation!

From Community Highlights on Mon, 27 Apr, 2020 - 10:55

International Buddha Day: an Invitation!

From Community Highlights on Mon, 27 Apr, 2020 - 10:55

On the 9th of May you are invited to join us in a celebration of Buddha Day - the festival of the Buddha’s enlightenment.

There will be a global wave of dharma practice and inspiration, from New Zealand to the Americas, so that as many people as possible can join in over nearly 24 hours.

It features meditations, talks, Q&A and pujas, led by members of the College of Public Preceptors and friends from all around the world.

thebuddhistcentre.com/buddha-day for the programme and to join in!

Most of the events will be...

Maitriyogini

Livestream Puja tonight 7.15pm BST

From Adhisthana on Sat, 25 Apr, 2020 - 16:53

Livestream Puja tonight 7.15pm BST

From Adhisthana on Sat, 25 Apr, 2020 - 16:53

Please join our fourth Facebook live-streamed Puja for Bhante, led by Saddhanandi with the Adhisthana community:

https://www.facebook.com/adhisthana.triratna/posts/3410280642339584?__tn__=-R

We will be chanting the five mantras Bhante asked us to do at his death.

Join in and participate at home (put your laptop/tablet/phone on your shrine and meditate, chant and make offerings with us!). Thanks to everyone who took part last week. We really enjoy doing puja with you all.

Ratnaprabha

Taming the Bull

From North London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 25 Apr, 2020 - 16:48

Taming the Bull

From North London Buddhist Centre on Sat, 25 Apr, 2020 - 16:48

Ratnaprabha’s slideshow on the Zen Ox-herding pictures. Live-streamed series on Buddhist Symbols, Imagine a Buddha, look on the North London Buddhist Centre’s new YouTube channel every Saturday until 23 May at 11:30 UK time.

Centre Team

The Making of 'Hair On Fire' with Mary Salome (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 19)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 24 Apr, 2020 - 20:29

This week we are marking Earth Day - all week long! Check out our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts: “Hair On Fire: Using the Threefold Way of Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom to Turn Toward Climate Change”.

Rounding off a week of Earth Day podcasts we’re delighted to be joined by the series producer, Mary Salome, for a ‘making of’ special. Think of it as a kind of Director’s Commentary on a fascinating year-long journey in sound.

We hear Mary’s own...

ratnadharini

FAQ: The Order Robe OM

From College of Public Preceptors on Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 - 15:36

We would like to apologise for the lack of communication around the process of introducing the Order Robe, leading to confusion and concern for some Order members. With hindsight it’s clear that we needed to share much more background information, including the reasoning behind its introduction and the circumstances in which it might be used.

Most of these questions were raised during a meeting of women preceptors, and this FAQ document has been compiled to help fill in the gaps.

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