Portsmouth Buddhist Center
Portsmouth Buddhist Center

Sunday Community Gathering - Exploring the Spiritual Path

By shraddhavani on Sat, 30 Jul, 2016 - 23:28

Sunday Community Gathering - Exploring the Spiritual Path

By shraddhavani on Sat, 30 Jul, 2016 - 23:28

How do you envision your spiritual path? How do you know you are following it?  We will meditate together, then explore these questions and more as we look at the Buddhist Threefold Path of Ethics, Meditation and Wisdom, starting this Sunday, July 31, at 10AM and continuing each Sunday through August 21.  

Join our community gathering.  No prior experience with meditation or Buddhism is required to participate.

Offered by donation.  Suggested donation $10-$5.

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Jobs, Volunteering & Communities
Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Invitation To Join A New Women’s Community In West London

By abhayadevi on Fri, 22 Jan, 2016 - 11:16

Invitation To Join A New Women’s Community In West London

By abhayadevi on Fri, 22 Jan, 2016 - 11:16

Bodhilila, Abhayadevi and Akashadevi would like to let you know that we are in the process of setting up a new London Women’s Community. We are now very actively in the process of looking for a suitable house, most likely in the Ealing / Acton area, and have already seen some very promising examples over the past week. The rent per person is likely to be around £600 per calendar month. So our parallel active search now is for two...

European Chairs' Assembly
European Chairs' Assembly

Ratnaguna - Three Talks On The Pureland

By Centre Team on Wed, 13 Jan, 2016 - 00:09

Ratnaguna - Three Talks On The Pureland

By Centre Team on Wed, 13 Jan, 2016 - 00:09

A new three-part series from Ratnaguna introduces the Pureland texts as a practice in themselves, and discusses their relationship to Sangharakshita’s core teachings. 

In the first talk Ratnaguna takes us on an excellent exploration of imagination itself, essential for understanding the sutras on their own terms. The second talk discusses how the texts hint at what Sangharakshita calls the supra-personal force of the Bodhichitta. The third talk is on the importance of sangha in the sutras and its relevance...

Portsmouth Buddhist Center
Portsmouth Buddhist Center

Vitality and Meaning: Practicing Dharma in the Modern World

By viriyalila on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 22:07

Vitality and Meaning: Practicing Dharma in the Modern World

By viriyalila on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 22:07

Vitality and Meaning:  Practicing Dharma in the Modern World

Monday Nights at the Portsmouth Buddhist Center

In this series of engaging discussions, we’ll explore the practice of Buddhist ethics, meditation, and wisdom in relation to various aspects of modern life. How do our modern conditions compare with those at the time of the Buddha, 2500 years ago? How do the principles of Buddhist teaching apply to the particulars of modern life? How can we transform our lives to fully embody our highest ideals?

Feel free to...

Portsmouth Buddhist Center
Portsmouth Buddhist Center

Friends' Sunday Gatherings

By viriyalila on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 22:04

Friends' Sunday Gatherings

By viriyalila on Mon, 28 Dec, 2015 - 22:04

All are welcome to our weekly Sunday gathering! Meditation starts at 10 am - simple instruction is given for beginners. After the sit, there is a tea break followed by an activity as listed below. Feel free to just come for the meditation, or the whole program. Offered by donation.

Jan 3: an introduction to the tiratna vandana (an ancient Buddhist chant)
Jan 10th: sutra discussion
Jan 17th: meditation discussion
Jan 24th: social tea and...

Adhisthana
Adhisthana

The Adhisthana community 'at home'

By akasajoti on Mon, 6 Jul, 2015 - 13:01

The Adhisthana community 'at home'

By akasajoti on Mon, 6 Jul, 2015 - 13:01

Last week the resident community at Adhisthana spent a few days ‘at home’ together. There was some study led by Parami on the Dasadhamma Sutta - the ten points to be reflected on by one who has ‘gone forth’; we had couple of inspiring and energising sessions facilitated by Saddhanandi, evoking the vision of Adhisthana and imagining what it will become in five years time; and a day spent exploring how we live together as a community to serve that...

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

FBA Podcast: An Introduction to the Triratna Community

By Rijupatha on Sat, 18 Apr, 2015 - 11:00

FBA Podcast: An Introduction to the Triratna Community

By Rijupatha on Sat, 18 Apr, 2015 - 11:00

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Dharmashalin brings us this week’s FBA Podcast“An Introduction to the Triratna Community.” A broad overview of the conditions and history behind the Triratna Buddhist Community, comes with a healthy side order of questions about narrative and how we tell stories.

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Free Buddhist Audio Needs Your Support!

By Rijupatha on Wed, 17 Dec, 2014 - 13:02

Free Buddhist Audio Needs Your Support!

By Rijupatha on Wed, 17 Dec, 2014 - 13:02

a gift of the dharma is the greatest of all gifts…

As a member of the worldwide Free Buddhist Audio Community you already know how important it is to have access to quality Buddhist teachings for study, meditation, exploration and inspiration.

If you stream audio talks for enjoyment, download our weekly podcasts, follow along with the study course for mitras, or prepare for classes by searching our archives, Free Buddhist Audio is likely...

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

FBA Podcast: Why We Need the New Society

By Rijupatha on Wed, 3 Dec, 2014 - 19:49

FBA Podcast: Why We Need the New Society

By Rijupatha on Wed, 3 Dec, 2014 - 19:49Subscribe to the FBA Podcast

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Grounding his talk in the Kosambiya and Anuruddha suttas in this week’s FBA Podcast entitled “Why We Need the New Society”, Vajragupta guides us through how we can create the conditions for the seeds of selflessness to grow and develop in the framework of the New Society as described by Sangharakshita: communities, centres and working together.

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