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Painting Into Reality (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 14)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sun, 12 Apr, 2020 - 01:05

Abhayavajra loves painting. He loves paint itself. And sees himself more like an archaeologist, revealing something urgent and crucial about the human condition by adding rather than scraping away layers.

A totally delightful conversation about the quest to integrate and unite Dharma practice with the steady, disciplined practice of an art form. We discuss how appreciating beauty itself is like a healing force at times of stress; and how art itself can be a properly adequate response to suffering in the kind...

aryaketu

Aryaloka Corona Relief Emergency Appeal

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 11 Apr, 2020 - 17:12

Aryaloka Corona Relief Emergency Appeal

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Sat, 11 Apr, 2020 - 17:12

The Covid19 pandemic affects all of us and highlights our global interconnectedness. We are all suffering but those suffering most are those with the fewest resources – the poorest and most vulnerable in our societies. Nowhere more so than in India where the rapid nation-wide lockdown on 22 March has resulted in untold misery and hardship for many millions of daily labourers unable now to leave their homes to work and feed their families. Even worse hit are the many...

Ratnaprabha

Saturday morning meditation

From North London Buddhist Centre on Fri, 10 Apr, 2020 - 21:20

Saturday morning meditation

From North London Buddhist Centre on Fri, 10 Apr, 2020 - 21:20

10:30 am meditation every Saturday, please log in at 10:15 for 10:30.

Suitable for new and experienced meditators. This week (11 April) with Karunagita, finish about 11:30.

Zoom login each week here. If you can, please donate £5 or more here.

kusaladevi

Personal Reflections from the Week - Sailing the Worldly Winds Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 10 Apr, 2020 - 19:21

Personal Reflections from the Week - Sailing the Worldly Winds Home Retreat

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 10 Apr, 2020 - 19:21

It’s been quite a busy week for me - I started two new jobs in the last three weeks and have had various deadlines this week. But despite that, I have still enjoyed and benefited greatly from the Home Retreat. Thinking about Vajragupta’s reflections has given me a very particular focus to my Dharma practice this week, and helped me...

Centre Team

Post-Retreat Resources - Sailing the Worldly Winds

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 10 Apr, 2020 - 17:29

Post-Retreat Resources - Sailing the Worldly Winds

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 10 Apr, 2020 - 17:29

We hope you have enjoyed Sailing the Worldly Winds with us this week! Whether you have had the time and space to engage in a full retreat, or you have just dipped in and appreciated a few lines of Dharma here and there, we hope the material has been inspiring and helpful while you are spending more time at home.

One of the highlights of the week was the...

Centre Team

The Money Issue (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 13)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 9 Apr, 2020 - 22:54

Communities of all kinds all over the world have been facing up to the huge economic impact of Covid-19 and the ongoing lockdown. In the Triratna Buddhist Community this has meant financial stress at Buddhist Centres and an urgent need for help navigating the next few months, which will be crucial to the survival of many Centres, large and small.

Enter our two guests! Amalavajra and Danayutta are two former investment bankers, now working hard with Future Dharma Fund to...

Centre Team

The Ministry of Presence (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 12)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Wed, 8 Apr, 2020 - 12:17

A mythic sense of things is never far away in today’s conversation about radical imagination: at the most intimate levels of close, personal friendship; and also culturally, historically, politically, and spiritually as we try to meet the moment of crisis to which we are all witnesses.

With Viveka and Upayadhi we discuss taking cues from anticipatory communities who deal with systemic suffering every day, and who have stored up effective responses to some of the issues we are all now facing. The...

Ujumani

La vie règne

From Espace Sangha de Paris on Tue, 7 Apr, 2020 - 19:21

La vie règne

From Espace Sangha de Paris on Tue, 7 Apr, 2020 - 19:21

Dans cette situation étrange et confinée je me pose des questions : Mais qu’est-ce que je fais là ? Ne serais-je pas mieux ailleurs ? Cela se terminera-t-il un jour ? …

Mais il ne sert à rien de résister ; aussi pour débuter la méditation d’hier midi par internet, j’ai choisi de nous inspirer avec le poème suivant de Sangharakshita ; outre le poème lui-même, je suis convaincu que rester en contact avec la beauté, sous quelque forme que ce soit, est une façon de trouver de...

Munisha

Triratna Model Safeguarding policies and Ethical Guidelines 2020

From European Chairs' Assembly on Tue, 7 Apr, 2020 - 15:51

Triratna Model Safeguarding policies and Ethical Guidelines 2020

From European Chairs' Assembly on Tue, 7 Apr, 2020 - 15:51

Members of Triratna’s European Chairs’ Assembly (ECA: the Chairs of Triratna centres, retreat centres and other initiatives in Europe) take seriously their responsibility to protect children and adults from harm in the course of Triratna activities.

The ECA employs an overall Safeguarding officer, Munisha, who works with the Safeguarding Adviser, Amaladipa, who is very senior in the criminal justice system in the UK.

Triratna has model Safeguarding policies and ethical guidelines, updated every year.
Read about the 2020 documents and find...

Munisha

Triratna Model Safeguarding policies and Ethical Guidelines 2020

From Triratna News on Tue, 7 Apr, 2020 - 15:06

Here are Triratna’s model Ethical guidelines and policies for Safeguarding children and adults, updated for 2020 by Triratna’s Safeguarding team, part of Triratna’s Ethics Kula.

(See below for more information on Safeguarding, the Safeguarding team, the Ethics Kula and the difference between Safeguarding matters and Matters of Order conduct.)

Safeguarding and ethical policies and procedures are a practical expression of ahimsa, non-harming, the value underlying Buddhist precepts and the Bodhisattva activity of protecting living beings from harm.

The model Ethical guidelines (first published in 2015 on the...

File Name	Size
Triratna Model Child protection policy 2020	174.67 KB
Triratna Model Child Protecction Code of Conduct 2020	51.34 KB
Triratna Model Safeguarding adults policy 2020	142.74 KB
Triratna model Ethical Guidelines 2020	86.92 KB

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