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Order Metta and Anniversary Digest

From Order Connection on Mon, 8 Apr, 2019 - 09:32

Order Metta and Anniversary Digest

From Order Connection on Mon, 8 Apr, 2019 - 09:32

A Wave of Metta Around the Globe:
First Sunday of the month Order Metta 08.00 (local time)

“If the potential for Buddhahood is within all of us, then the potential for metta certainly is.” ~ Sangharakshita from What is the Dharma? (1998) p. 192

In April our new Sunday morning Order Metta practice rather wonderfully coincides with the anniversary of the Order coming into existence. Sunday the 7th April marks fifty-one years since the first ordinations. Whether collectively or individually,...

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gunabhadri

Buddhist Action Month Handbook 2019

From Buddhist Action on Sat, 6 Apr, 2019 - 16:27

The BAM Handbook 2019 is now available.

Kaspalita Thompson from the NBO (Network of Buddhist Organisations) writes:

The handbook explains the theme: Climate Action - Personal Action. It suggests Buddhist ways of engaging with the theme and thinking about climate change, including avoiding polarisation. There are suggestions of personal and group actions, and other groups that you can join with.

You can download it here: BAM 2019 Handbook

Or as an attachment below.

File Name	Size
2019-bam-handbook.pdf	2.03 MB

Development Team

Buddhist Action Month Handbook 2019

From European Chairs' Assembly on Sat, 6 Apr, 2019 - 16:21

The BAM Handbook 2019 is now available.

Kaspalita Thompson from the NBO (Network of Buddhist Organisations) writes:

File Name	Size
2019-bam-handbook.pdf	2.03 MB

Sudaka

200 hours Certification Mindfulness Yoga Teacher Training course with Bodhiyoga International

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Sat, 6 Apr, 2019 - 15:47

200 hours Certification Mindfulness Yoga Teacher Training course with Bodhiyoga International

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Sat, 6 Apr, 2019 - 15:47

Bodhiyoga ran by Sadhita and Sudaka organise several of their events through Suryavana Retreat Centre.

Yoga without Awareness cannot be Yoga.

Our teachers gain a clear understanding of how to present a full range of yoga postures and sequencing formats both fast and slow, (vinyasa flow, Yin, a more therapeutic approach) incorporating modern and ancient methods.

We emphasise intelligent, sensitive, anatomy-based alignment principles rather than a dogmatic one-alignment-fits-all-approach. Distinctively, we teach how to apply Mindfulness to...

Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: The Lion's Roar Of Doctor Ambedkar

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 6 Apr, 2019 - 14:00

Our FBA Podcast this week is a rousing, uncompromisingly radical talk from Maitriveer-Nagarjuna entitled The Lion’s Roar Of Doctor Ambedkar (with translation in Hindi).

Taking up the theme of the Convention, the great “Lion’s Roar” of the Buddha, Maitriveer-Nagarjuna evokes the fire that drove Doctor Bhimrao Ambedkar to work tirelessly on behalf of the so-called Dalit “Untouchable” people in order to free them from the evils of the Hindu caste system. He reframes Doctor Ambedkar as a...

Sudaka

a few moments from our Fundamentals of Mindfulness yoga retreat (with Bodhiyoga International) in Suryavana last year, strengthening the core from "satangasana" - 6 point pose.....

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Fri, 5 Apr, 2019 - 09:35

a few moments from our Fundamentals of Mindfulness yoga retreat (with Bodhiyoga International) in Suryavana last year, strengthening the core from "satangasana" - 6 point pose.....

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Fri, 5 Apr, 2019 - 09:35

Retreats with Bodhiyoga in Surayvana, Spain

Our retreats at Suryavana unfold in two phases. A new development has been to invite locally based practitioners both English and Spanish to join us over the weekend. After Sunday lunch the Spanish group leaves and the retreat moves into a second phase with the smaller group emphasising more silence and contemplation. We offer two groups with meditation and Yoga classes in English and Spanish. This format has proved very satisfactory intercultural event. Places will be...

Vajrapriya

UK & Ireland Area Convention - bookings open

From Order Connection on Wed, 3 Apr, 2019 - 13:05

UK & Ireland Area Convention - bookings open

From Order Connection on Wed, 3 Apr, 2019 - 13:05

A Mandala of Awakening
Area Convention 6-11 August
Wymondham College, Norfolk, UK

Booking now open - book here

While this is a UK and Ireland Area Convention, there is an open invitation for any Order member around the world who would like to come.

As you may already know from our previous post about the convention, we have asked Prakasha to give four talks, the four main sadhanas that Bhante practised while living in Kalimpong will...

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Sadayasihi

Future Dharma Fund's First Published Annual Report

From Triratna News on Wed, 3 Apr, 2019 - 12:23

Future Dharma Fund's First Published Annual Report

From Triratna News on Wed, 3 Apr, 2019 - 12:23

FutureDharma Fund has published their first annual report detailing all the projects worldwide - from India, mainland Europe, Americas and into Australia and New Zealand - that they are making possible. FutureDharma Fund was established in 2016 to raise funds to help the Triratna Buddhist Community reach more and more people as we move into our next 50 years.

Last year some 500 people gave £274,000 to support 35 projects around the world - projects such as supporting a ...

Satyalila

50 Years, 50 Voices: Dharmashalin

From Buddhist Voices on Fri, 29 Mar, 2019 - 17:45

This is living a Dharma life. This is actually applying it. This is mess in progress.

Dharmashalin

Dharmashalin’s Annals
In 1968 I was not even a glint in my father’s eye. My parents first met on the 5th of September 1969 when my Mum showed my Dad where the canteen was on his first day of work.

In 1978 I was born on the 16th of June.

In 1988 I was 10 years old, totally absorbed in the world of Dungeons and Dragons....

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Make a Difference - Women in India

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 28 Mar, 2019 - 13:00

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, Make a Difference - Women in India, is excerpted from the talk Triratna Sangha In India and the Work of the India Dharma Trust by Tarahridaya.

This talk was given as part of Manchester Buddhist Centre’s celebration of Dr Ambedkar’s 60th anniversary of his conversion to Buddhism. She provides a personal recount of the transformative nature of the Dharma and the Triratna Buddhist movement witnessed in India.

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