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Hebrew recordings of Triratna ceremonies

From Hebrew Translation Group on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 23:37

Many thanks to Prakashika for her Hebrew recordings of Triratna ceremonies.  

Part of the Triratna Translation project - for more, see thebuddhistcentre.com/translations.
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Carol Robertson

Lifting the Heart - Connecting Through Puja week 1 (facebook live 16.05.20)

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 13:06

Lifting the Heart - Connecting Through Puja week 1 (facebook live 16.05.20)

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 13:06


Lifting the Heart - Connecting through Puja: Saturday 16th May, 10.30am, live streamed on Facebook. Vajragupta kicks off a new theme exploring the meaning of the stages of the Sevenfold Puja. A short talk looking at two incidents from just after the Buddha’s Enlightenment, followed by a led meditation. All welcome. (With thanks to Catherine Payne for the beautiful painted “mandala”.)

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

 
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FutureDharma launch Thrive Online Appeal

From Future Dharma on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 11:00

FutureDharma launch Thrive Online Appeal

From Future Dharma on Sat, 16 May, 2020 - 11:00

FutureDharma Fund and India Dhamma Trust are launching Triratna’s Thrive Online Appeal, and we need you to join us. 

Our world is in lockdown. COVID-19 is changing everything: nobody knows what our world will look like in a year’s time. For some, the challenge of lockdown is overwhelming, causing a tragic surge in depression, addictions, and domestic violence.

This distanced, suffering world needs the Three Jewels more than ever.

The problem is that our centres are closed. The core of what Triratna has offered the...
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The Refuges and Precepts in Esperanto

From Esperanto on Fri, 15 May, 2020 - 17:13

The Refuges and Precepts in Esperanto, translated and read by Paul Harry Barron.  For more languages, please visit the Triratna Translations pages at https://thebuddhistcentre.com/translations

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Carol Robertson

Radical Buddhism: Taking a New Perspective on Your Life An Introduction to Buddhism and Meditation

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Fri, 15 May, 2020 - 16:15

Radical Buddhism: Taking a New Perspective on Your Life An Introduction to Buddhism and Meditation

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Fri, 15 May, 2020 - 16:15

Tuesdays, 2nd June to 7th July (6 weeks), 7.30pm to 9.15pm.

This course considers what our life would look like seen from the perspective of three simple ideas: 1) we can change, 2) happiness is found inside, not from outside things, and 3) we are connected to everything around us. This is a new course, suitable for complete newcomers, or anyone who has done a previous introductory course and who wants to find out more about Buddhism and learn meditation.

The course will be...
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Turning Arrows Into Flowers (The Dharma Toolkit Podcast, Episode 26)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 14 May, 2020 - 16:17

To mark the start of our Home Retreat on the theme of turning towards difficulties and moving through them well, a great, practical conversation with Yashobodhi about the meditative, reflective work of the Seven-Point Mind Training tradition in Buddhism. 

A mythic image to sum up and symbolize this is that of the Buddha on the cusp of his Enlightenment. He is sitting still at the point when Mara attacks him with all the weapons he can muster. But, as the story...
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Centre Team

New Home Retreat: Turning Arrows Into Flowers - Starts Friday!

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 13 May, 2020 - 22:36

New Home Retreat: Turning Arrows Into Flowers - Starts Friday!

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 13 May, 2020 - 22:36

Turning Arrows Into Flowers
A Seven-Point Mind Training, May 15-22

A mythic image to sum up and symbolize the theme of this week is that of the Buddha on the cusp of his Enlightenment. He is sitting still at the point when Mara attacks him with all the weapons he can muster. But, as the story goes, even though the Buddha is attacked he does not react with anger, hatred or defensiveness. Instead he sits in complete peace and...
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Community members donate to get food to Indian families in lockdown

From Adhisthana on Wed, 13 May, 2020 - 13:04

  • Abhayanavita and her team

    Abhayanavita and her team

  • Distributing food...

    Distributing food parcels to families

  • Women outside the...

    Women outside the Bahujan Hitaya Society project

Community members donate to get food to Indian families in lockdown

From Adhisthana on Wed, 13 May, 2020 - 13:04

A few weeks ago, just after India had abruptly gone into lockdown, Aryajaya brought to the community the story of her friend Abhyanavita.

Abhayanavita did the Adhisthana International Course in 2018, and then returned to her home in Amravati, a city in Maharashtra. She runs a project there with a team of 4 Order Members and 6 Mitras running a hostel to enable vulnerable women and girls to step free of domestic and sexual violence and giving them the tools they need...
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dhammamegha

Free the Dharma eBook this week - Subhuti's 'Mind in Harmony'

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 11 May, 2020 - 13:16

  • Mind in Harmony

    Mind in Harmony

Free the Dharma eBook this week - Subhuti's 'Mind in Harmony'

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Mon, 11 May, 2020 - 13:16

This is the eighth week that we’ll be sharing a weekly e-book. When we started in March, it seemed likely that it would be something we’d do for a month or two at the most. Yet here we are, two months later, and this new future stretches before us. 

This week we’re giving away Subhuti’s Mind in Harmony: the psychology of Buddhist ethics. You can download it free here until 25 May. You can also buy a paper copy here. 

Mind in...
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A Rose-Apple Tree Experience – #buddhaday

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 10 May, 2020 - 10:04

A Rose-Apple Tree Experience – #buddhaday

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 10 May, 2020 - 10:04

And, a final #buddhaday treat for you all…

Sangharakshita tells us that the Enlightenment of the Buddha isn’t cold and detached, but sees everything as beautiful because it sees with a mind and heart of Metta.

For our International Buddha Day celebration, Subhadramati evokes this aspect of the Enlightenment by telling a story of a pivotal moment in the Buddha’s life, which precedes the dawning of his enlightenment experience, where he recollects a memory of sitting beneath a rose-apple tree in his youth. She...

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