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Lifting the Heart - Connecting Through Puja week 3 (facebook 30.05.20)

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Sat, 30 May, 2020 - 14:58

Lifting the Heart - Connecting Through Puja week 3 (facebook 30.05.20)

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Sat, 30 May, 2020 - 14:58

Lifting the Heart : Connecting Through Puja. Kalyananara continues our exploration of the meaning of the stages of the Sevenfold Puja. This week he considers Going for Refuge and the Five Precepts (or ethical training principles). A short talk and led meditation live streamed on Facebook, Saturday 30th May, 10.30am. 

Please help keep Croydon Buddhist Centre online : donate at http://www.buddhistcentrecroydon.org/support-us/4594080060
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Centre Team

For the Earth - BAM! 2020 (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 28)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 29 May, 2020 - 12:59

This year’s Buddhist Action Month (BAM!) - happening around the world throughout June - is about to kick off. The theme is “For the Earth” - and here on the Dharma Toolkit we’ll be looking at the intersection between urgent human issues like climate change, economic inequality and social justice. 

The poetic version of this, rooted in personal and community practice, is that we have a perfect opportunity to speak up for the many...
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akasajoti

Ordination Training Online during Covid-19

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 29 May, 2020 - 11:48

Ordination Training Online during Covid-19

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 29 May, 2020 - 11:48

This is a non-comprehensive gathering up of some of the provisions being made for ordination training online around the world during the Covid-19 pandemic. If you want to share other information to be included or ask a question, you can do so here.

(Updated 30 May)

At Tiratanaloka, UK:

The team at Tiratanaloka have been providing online study weeks, guided Prostration Practice every weekday afternoon on Zoom, as well as continuing...
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akasajoti

A Selection of Recordings from Order Bodhicitta Sundays OM

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 29 May, 2020 - 10:37

A selection of recordings from the Order Bodhicitta Practices.

These are recorded directly from Zoom, and unedited, so the sound quality is lower than usual.
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The Magic and Mystery of Meditation -- Kindly Awareness

From North London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 28 May, 2020 - 11:02

The Magic and Mystery of Meditation -- Kindly Awareness

From North London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 28 May, 2020 - 11:02

Tuesdays, 19:00-21:00, with Visuddhimati, Zoom link here.

This is an ideal class to experience an in-depth taster of meditation or to deepen your existing meditation practice. Visuddhimati of the North London Buddhist Centre has decades of meditation experience. 

How can you develop even more kindly awareness in meditation, meeting life’s challenges with resilience? Awareness coupled with kindness can bring about a radical and mysterious transformation in our everyday experience. 

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Free day retreat with Karunagita

From North London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 28 May, 2020 - 10:36

Free day retreat with Karunagita

From North London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 28 May, 2020 - 10:36

Sunday 7 June, 10:00-17:00
4 ways to respond – from de-escalation to insight
In this practical, grounded NLBC day retreat, Karunagita will introduce four ways in which we can respond to any experience as it arises, from a Buddhist perspective, touching on ethics, goodwill, and setting up the conditions for Insight. The day will include guidance in just sitting/ formless meditation and an emphasis on direct body experience.

There will be around 4.5 hours on zoom plus suggested mindful...
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Ratnaprabha

Mindfulness for Stress Workshop

From North London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 28 May, 2020 - 10:33

Mindfulness for Stress Workshop

From North London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 28 May, 2020 - 10:33

Saturday 6 June 14:30-17:00, online with the North London Buddhist Centre

Plunge in and experience how mindfulness practice can help with stress. An ideal introductory session for newcomers, also suitable for experienced mindfulness practitioners and meditators. The session leader, Niccy Lowit, is a practising Buddhist and an accredited Breathworks Mindfulness Teacher.

Niccy says: “Happiness is a skill. This is what the ancient practice of mindfulness teaches, and what modern psychology research has shown. The wonderful thing is that this...
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FOR THE EARTH...

From North London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 28 May, 2020 - 10:23

FOR THE EARTH...

From North London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 28 May, 2020 - 10:23

Sangha Night Buddhism, Mondays, 19:00

On 1, 8 and 15 June, Sangha night will focus on the theme for Buddhist Action Month, which this year is …for the Earth. We will explore what we want to do or say ‘for the Earth’, with short talks, discussion and ritual and with reference to the Brahmaviharas – specifically Metta (love), Karuna (compassion) and Mudita (joy). These weeks will be led by Karunagita with support from Katja and the Sangha night team. 

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The River Under the River (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 27)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Tue, 26 May, 2020 - 22:27

“Deserving a place in a realm where miracles happen”

Let’s start with this image: there’s a river under the river. Then follow it via the works of William Stafford and the creative lives of members of the Wolf at the Door group: poets and writers exploring the interplay of modes of attention in their chosen art forms, mediated by the practice of Buddhism.

The wolf is there too. Alive and real and, sometimes, scary. But...
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Windhorse Publications Free the Dharma - Stories of practice

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Tue, 26 May, 2020 - 12:55

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Windhorse Publications Free the Dharma - Stories of practice

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Tue, 26 May, 2020 - 12:55

Many Dharma books give advice on how to meditate or reflect: others offer maps of the mind. But this week we’re giving away a book of a different kind; a book of stories of practice. 
 
How does the Dharma work? Based on 22 interviews or reflections, Challenging Times: Stories of Buddhist practice when things get tough is a compelling read. You can download it here until 8 June. 
 
Each person in the book faced some sort of...

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