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Tag: Conscious Surrender

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabyte: Ways We Limit Ourselves

By Zac on Mon, 29 Aug, 2022 - 06:00

Abandoning Our Wrong Ideas About the Path

More poetry, more Rumi, more listening joy from Vajradarshini. And what a title! In fact, this is another splendid journey around the idea of Enlightenment, using the languages of surrender and discipline from the Sufi context. It’s as heady as a sumptuous wine, but also sobering and down to earth, whether we’re “following a railing in the dark” or “wandering inside the red world”. Drink up! From the talk entitled ...
Community Highlights
Community Highlights

Show, Don't Tell - Communicating the Dharma Through the Arts by Sarvananda (video)

By Candradasa on Fri, 18 Sep, 2015 - 19:40

Show, Don't Tell - Communicating the Dharma Through the Arts by Sarvananda (video)

By Candradasa on Fri, 18 Sep, 2015 - 19:40

As part of our recent coverage of the Arts event ‘Conscious Surrender to the Beautiful’, which took place at at Adhisthana, we brought you a recording of Sarvananda’s excellent and, at times, hilarious talk ‘Show, Don’t Tell - Communicating the Dharma Through the Arts’.

Usually audio recordings of talks are an ideal way to revisit them - and since Sarvananda is a great radio man (he writes plays for radio in...
Adhisthana
Adhisthana

Sangharakshita's 90th Birthday Celebrations

By akasajoti on Fri, 4 Sep, 2015 - 14:29

Sangharakshita's 90th Birthday Celebrations

By akasajoti on Fri, 4 Sep, 2015 - 14:29

The recent Order weekend in celebration of Sangharakshita’s 90th birthday was a great success - thank you all who came and participated and helped to create such a wonderful gathering. It has had a deeply positive effect on Adhisthana and on all of us here, and is an example of the magic of gathering together in large numbers as a spiritual community. We’re already looking forward to hosting many more large gatherings into the future! You can see posts, talks...
Sangharakshita@90
Sangharakshita@90

The Presentation (A Gallery)

By Candradasa on Sat, 29 Aug, 2015 - 16:10
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The Presentation (A Gallery)

By Candradasa on Sat, 29 Aug, 2015 - 16:10

At the end of last weekend’s ‘Conscious Surrender to the Beautiful’ weekend to celebrate Sangharakshita’s 90th birthday, Amalavajra was able to present Bhante with the money to fund his Complete Works! 

Listen to the full event and...
Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Sahajatara - Apparell'd In Celestial Light

By Candradasa on Sat, 29 Aug, 2015 - 07:34

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, 
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparell’d in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.

Appropriately enough, a talk in a rainstorm! Sahajatara offers a beautiful discourse to close the Conscious Surrender to the Beautiful Arts event. She opens with this short extract from Wordsworth’s ‘Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’ and a long reading from...

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Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Parami's Perspectives No. 3 - Surrendering to the Beautiful

By Candradasa on Wed, 26 Aug, 2015 - 12:17

Parami with Lokeshvara drawing to a close a great weekend’s coverage of the Buddhist Arts event “Conscious Surrender to the Beautiful”. Some reflections on the event, a lot of laughter, and looking ahead to what comes next…

See all the posts from the weekend

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Triratna News
Triratna News

Happy 90th birthday, Bhante!

By Munisha on Tue, 25 Aug, 2015 - 23:18

  • Sangharakshita in the...

    Sangharakshita in the Adhisthana marquee

  • Sangharakshita in the...

    Sangharakshita in the Adhisthana marquee

  • Sangharakshita (Dennis)...

    Sangharakshita (Dennis) aged 3

  • Sangharakshita with the...

    Sangharakshita with the Order

  • Birthday card

    Birthday card

  • Adhisthana landscape

    Adhisthana landscape

  • Shrine tent at night

    Shrine tent at night

  • Library presentation

    Library presentation

  • Early kesa

    Early kesa

  • The Words tent

    The Words tent

  • Welcoming new Order...

    Welcoming new Order members

  • Folk music by the fire

    Folk music by the fire

  • Silent dance with...

    Silent dance with headsets!
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Happy 90th birthday, Bhante!

By Munisha on Tue, 25 Aug, 2015 - 23:18

On this day, 26th August, in 1925, Dennis Philip Edward Lingwood was born in Tooting, south London, UK. His life has changed those of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.

We know him as Urgyen Sangharakshita, or, simply, “Bhante”: our teacher, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community; a leading figure in ‘western’ Buddhism and in Dr Ambedkar’s ’Peaceful revolution’ among some of India’s most disadvantaged people. The Order he founded now numbers over 1,900.

Birthday celebrations are taking place in Triratna...
Espace Sangha de Paris
Espace Sangha de Paris

Les 90 ans de Sangharakshita

By Ujumani on Tue, 25 Aug, 2015 - 22:01

  • Les tentes

    Les tentes

  • Dans la tente faisant...

    Dans la tente faisant office de salle de méditation et de rassemblement

  • Un objet de la 9ème...

    Un objet de la 9ème décade
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Les 90 ans de Sangharakshita

By Ujumani on Tue, 25 Aug, 2015 - 22:01

Aujourd’hui, Sangharakshita a 90 ans !

Pour célébrer cela, un rassemblement de quelque 400 membres de l’Ordre s’est tenu pendant 4 jours autour du week-end dernier à Adhisthana, le centre de retraite situé dans la campagne près de Birmingham, où vit aujourd’hui Sangharakshita - le fondateur de notre ordre et de notre communauté...
Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Sangharakshita's 90th Birthday Classical Recital

By Candradasa on Sun, 23 Aug, 2015 - 22:03

A beautiful, consistently very fine set of performances from members of the Triratna Buddhist Order to mark the 90th birthday of their teacher Urgyen Sangharakshita. The commitment and playing exemplifies the importance of the Arts in spiritual life, and in Triratna’s emphasis on this as part of a contemporary Buddhist path. Exquisite moments from the ‘Conscious Surrender to the Beautiful Weekend’.

See all posts from the weekend
Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Sarvanananda - Communicating the Dharma Through the Arts: Show Don't Tell

By Candradasa on Sun, 23 Aug, 2015 - 11:38

Be prepared for the unexpected in Sarvananda’s very funny - and by turns wrongfooting - personal exploration of why the Arts are vital to the development of a genuine Buddhist community. Sarvananda discusses as background his attempts to find a synthesis between the Arts and spiritual life, leading to his current work as a successful playwright. 

But it’s in the three departures from a traditional Dharma talk that we glimpse something else - the crucial show-don’t-tell aspect...

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