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Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabyte: Stillness, Simplicity and Contentment

By Sadayasihi on Mon, 19 Jul, 2021 - 06:00

Here Candradasa explores the third precept and the Buddha’s moral code generally and we get some sense of where we might look to find ways to work effectively with our strongest desires in ways that lessen attachment and help us see reality more clearly.

From the talk entitled Sex and Morality, Going Beyond Puritanism given in Portsmouth, NH, October 2012.

This talk is part of the series Religion Without God.

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Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabyte: Diamond Thunderbolt Way

By Sadayasihi on Thu, 5 Mar, 2020 - 14:00

Candradasa takes a personal look at aspects of magic in the East and West, considering its place in Buddhist history and practice and also its meeting with Christianity at the time of the Renaissance. What emerges is a picture of how magic defined in various ways can be a powerful metaphor for the everyday work of Buddhist meditation and ethical practice - with the enchantment of love and wisdom fused the only one we need. The Buddha is the...

Triratna News
Triratna News

Triratna's first online mitra ceremony, broadcast live

By Munisha on Fri, 25 Nov, 2016 - 11:08

Triratna's first online mitra ceremony, broadcast live

By Munisha on Fri, 25 Nov, 2016 - 11:08

What is an online mitra and how on earth is that possible? In Clear Vision’s latest NewsByte video, Candradasa, director of The Buddhist Centre Online explains and conducts the mitra ceremony, broadcast live over the internet. (9 minutes)

Living in Italy, far from a Triratna centre, Brian Groves discovered Triratna through The Buddhist Centre Online’s virtual meditation classes. His eventual mitra ceremony took place at Brighton Buddhist Centre (UK) and it’s surprisingly moving to see in this video the Facebook comments coming in from viewers...

Clear Vision Trust
Clear Vision Trust

Online Mitra Ceremony

By Amaradaya on Thu, 10 Nov, 2016 - 16:06

Online Mitra Ceremony

By Amaradaya on Thu, 10 Nov, 2016 - 16:06

In September 2016, Candradasa led the first online Mitra Ceremony, broadcast live over the internet. In this video we hear from him and new Mitra Brian, about how and why this came to be.