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🎧 A guide to ritual in Buddhist practice with Bodhidasa

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 28 Aug, 2024 - 11:00

🎧 A guide to ritual in Buddhist practice with Bodhidasa

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 28 Aug, 2024 - 11:00

We are happy to announce the latest episode of our podcast, featuring an engaging conversation with Bodhidasa, a practitioner, teacher, and self-declared geek, who joins us from Sydney, Australia.

In this episode, Dhammamegha explores Bodhidasa’s rich and varied interests, from magic and games to popular culture and literature, and how these elements are intricately woven into his Buddhist practice and the essence of his new book. Bodhidasa shares how ritual, archetypes, and myth play a pivotal role in connecting with transpersonal and...

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The Visualisation of the Tantric Stupa

By Suvannavira on Thu, 3 Aug, 2023 - 14:50

The Tantric Stupa

The Visualisation of the Tantric Stupa

By Suvannavira on Thu, 3 Aug, 2023 - 14:50

A six week video course teaching Buddhist meditation, including the Visualisation of the Tantric Stupa, which gives us tools to reveal our true nature.

These tools include:

- Guided visualisations of the Tantric Stupa, focusing in turn on its different coloured forms and the elements which they symbolise; earth, water, fire, air and space. Each part of the stupa is further associated with one of the Five Buddha Mandala, whose mantras we’ll be introduced to, and a chakra.

- Supporting meditation practices for the Stupa Visualisation;...

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Polishing your Inner Jewel - An Online Course on the Six Perfections

By Ratnadeva on Tue, 16 Aug, 2022 - 06:46

Polishing your Inner Jewel - An Online Course on the Six Perfections

By Ratnadeva on Tue, 16 Aug, 2022 - 06:46

There are so many ways we can grow and change. Uncovering and polishing the six qualities of generosity, ethics, patience, energy, meditation and wisdom that we all have in us (a little or a lot) is one way of transforming. Whether we are just dusting them off or discovering them anew, investigating these ‘perfections’ will offer us more self-awareness, confidence and hints of freedom for our journey of life.

Through discussion, meditation, exploration and reflection, Bodhilila and Maitripushpa invite you to join...

Buddhist Centre Features

Marking the Change of Time: A Day of Reflective Writing and Meditation with Yashobodhi

By Centre Team on Fri, 15 Jul, 2022 - 10:37

Marking the Change of Time: A Day of Reflective Writing and Meditation with Yashobodhi

By Centre Team on Fri, 15 Jul, 2022 - 10:37

25 September 2022

This day involves two sessions. Feel free to attend one or both.

First session (4 hours): USA PST 05:00 | Mexico 07:00 | USA EST 08:00 | IE & UK...

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Doorway to the Deep: A day retreat on meditation with Singhashri

By Centre Team on Fri, 15 Jul, 2022 - 10:25

Doorway to the Deep: A day retreat on meditation with Singhashri

By Centre Team on Fri, 15 Jul, 2022 - 10:25

10th September 2022

This day involves two sessions to allow maximum participation internationally across time zones. Feel free to attend one or both.

First session (4 hrs): USA PST 04:00 | México 06:00 | USA EST 07:00 | IE...

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Dharmabytes: Our Mind Is Like A Great Ghost

By Zac on Mon, 20 Jun, 2022 - 06:00

Thoughts are like ghosts that haunt the mind, those thoughts become speech that become actions. Most of the terrible things that have happened in the world have had to do with views and ideologies spreading like a virus through a culture, driving a culture mad. Maitreyabandhu reminds us that Buddhism says again and again, what you think and what you do matters. Everything you do matters.
Excerpted from the Triratna Day talk ...

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FBA Podcast: After the Enlightenment

By Zac on Sat, 4 Jun, 2022 - 06:00

Parami focuses on the significance of the seven weeks after the Buddha’s enlightenment and draws out the relevance for us today. When we experience the freedom from something that has held us back the energy that is released is extraordinary and requires time for absorption.
This talk was given on Buddha Day at North London Buddhist Centre, May 2018.

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Dharmabyte: Rooted In Compassion

By Zac on Mon, 30 May, 2022 - 06:00

Dhivan brings us face to face with the rich and moving legacy of a brilliant and truly compassionate individual, changing the world he took part in, stepping out of history “with the walk of a lion, the walk of a swan.”

From the talk What Do We Really Know About the Buddha? given at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2008

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FBA Podcast: The Star Of Healing

By Zac on Sat, 28 May, 2022 - 06:00

In a talk for Buddha day, Ratnaprabha takes us through the realisations that came to the Buddha during his all night meditation under the Bodhi tree, culminating in the vision of the morning star, the Star of Healing. Its light was the first sight of the Awakened One, a light symbolising the illumination of awareness itself.

Talk given at the West London Buddhist Centre, 2014.

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Dharmabyte: Full Illumination Arose

By Zac on Thu, 26 May, 2022 - 06:00

Sangharakshita describes the moment of the Buddha’s Enlightenment.

From the talk Who is the Buddha?, part of the series Introducing the Three Jewels of Buddhism, 1968.

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