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Mindfulness: A direct path to freedom - an online retreat

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:54

Mindfulness: A direct path to freedom - an online retreat

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:54

Maintaining steady, kindly awareness of changing phenomena is the essence of Satipatthana practice - the Buddha’s teaching on mindfulness in the service of liberation. Treat yourself to space, simplicity, beauty – inner and outer.


If you are training for ordination then please join Prasadavati, Maitrisiddhi, Maitrimala, Viryadhi for this journey into open-hearted wisdom from Saturday 21 November...
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Sadayasihi

Public ordinations at Akashavana

From Triratna News on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:47

Public ordinations at Akashavana

From Triratna News on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:47

We are delighted to announce that three new Dharmacharinis were ordained at Akashavana on 16th October 2020. 

Public preceptor: Paramachitta

Monica Tamarit becomes Kavyadhi (long first ‘a’ and long ‘i’) - a Sanskrit name that means ‘She whose wisdom is inspired, creative and poetic’.
Private Preceptor: Saddhakara

Carmina Amaya becomes Bhavati (long first ‘a’) - a Sanskrit name that means ‘She who is full of light’.
Private Preceptor: Saddhakara

Reme Rojo becomes Suriyadassana (long...
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Public ordinations at Akashavana

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:47

Public ordinations at Akashavana

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 16:47

Dear Order Members,

We are delighted to announce that three new Dharmacharinis were ordained at Akashavana on 16th October 2020. 

Public preceptor: Paramachitta

Monica Tamarit becomes Kavyadhi (long first ‘a’ and long ‘i’) - a Sanskrit name that means ‘She whose wisdom is inspired, creative and poetic’.
Private Preceptor: Saddhakara

Carmina Amaya becomes Bhavati (long first ‘a’) - a Sanskrit name that means ‘She who is full of light’.
...
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Kulanandi

Forthcoming Ordination at Metta Vihara, Holland

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 12:41

Forthcoming Ordination at Metta Vihara, Holland

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 12:41

Dear Order members,

Sandra Lanckman from the Ghent Sangha, Belgium, will have her Private and Public Ordination during a short retreat at Metta Vihara in Holland, 28th October — 4th November.

Her Private Ordination will be on 31st October and her Public Ordination on 2nd November.
 
With metta,
Kulanandi
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Jinamati

Further Update on Prajnapriya's health

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 12:37

Further Update on Prajnapriya's health

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Oct, 2020 - 12:37

Dear friends,

Thanks, again, for your kind words and thoughts, which have brought with them a mandala of warmth.  Prajnapriya was discharged from hospital on Monday and is back at Vajraloka.  The heart specialist didn’t want to take any action after the angiogram but will recall him to hospital in a month’s time for further assessment.  Prajnapriya is now convalescing in a specially prepared room in the retreat centre building, eating regular meals, and the fire doors have been loosened...
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Could you help support Taraloka through the Covid-19 pandemic?

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 15 Oct, 2020 - 16:51

Could you help support Taraloka through the Covid-19 pandemic?

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 15 Oct, 2020 - 16:51

Since March, Taraloka has been unable to run residential retreats, Finally, last weekend, our first, small, socially-distanced retreat was due to begin. Then, the Welsh Government declared our county, Wrexham, to be in strict lockdown again.


Now, we can’t even offer solitaries, donations from which, alongside those from online retreat attendees, had been seeing us through. Even when we can offer residential retreats again, social distancing means they will be for small numbers only, so we will be running them...
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Dharmabyte: In the Company of Padmasambhava

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 15 Oct, 2020 - 05:10

According to Tibetan tradition, in the bardo, an ‘intermediate state’ in the endless round of birth and death, we are free for an instant from that round. The Tibetan book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) describes six of these opportunities for escape from reactivity. Here Sangharakshita explores our resistance to facing death and the impact of the esoteric teachings of Padmasambhava.

From the talk Psycho-Spiritual Symbolism in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. part of the series ...

The SoundCloud content at https://soundcloud.com/freebuddhistaudio/dharmabytes-podcast-852-in-the-company-of-padmasambhava is not available, or it is set to private.
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Buddhist Economics, Part 1 - Pre-Pandemic (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 33)

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 7 Oct, 2020 - 20:50

We’re back with the first episode in a two-part conversation about what Buddhism has to say to 21st C. economics in the wake of populist political tides, globalization and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Listen to part 2 of this conversation

Vaddhaka is the author of The Buddha On Wall Street, a Buddhist critique of Neo-Liberal notions of capitalism. Expect a stirring, provocative discussion around the state of western democracies...

The SoundCloud content at https://soundcloud.com/thebuddhistcentre/buddhist-economics-part-1-pre-pandemic-the-dharma-toolkit-episode-33 is not available, or it is set to private.
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Sadayasihi

Sangharakshita's 'Complete Works' Returns to India

From Triratna News on Fri, 9 Oct, 2020 - 09:09

Sangharakshita's 'Complete Works' Returns to India

From Triratna News on Fri, 9 Oct, 2020 - 09:09

In this video, from Urygen House, Vidyadevi introduces the work of the literary executors - and her work as series editor - of Sangharakshita’s Complete Works. Launched in October 2016, the Complete Works includes all Sangharakshita’s previously published work, as well as talks, seminars and writings published for the first time. This collection of twenty-seven volumes will represent the definitive edition of his life’s work.

Here we take a closer look at the latest volume in production - Dr. Ambedkar...
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We're offering another free eBook

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 12 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

We're offering another free eBook

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 12 Oct, 2020 - 16:15

Those of you who’ve been enjoying the free eBooks we’ve been giving away since March will be pleased to learn that we’re giving away another one. This time it’s the turn of one of Sangharakshita’s classics, The Bodhisattva Ideal.

How can we be happy and at the same time responsive to the suffering of others? It can be done: this is the message of the bodhisattva ideal. The image of the bodhisattva, one who wishes to gain Enlightenment for the sake...

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