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Dharmabytes: A Stable Quality of Empathy

By Centre Team on Mon, 16 Oct, 2023 - 11:00

Dhammarati speaks from his understanding and experience about the stable notion of empathy. From the talk Dhyana Paramita: The Perfection of Meditation, part of a series of talks for Dawning Moon of the Mind: Summer Sanghas retreat on the Bodhicaryavatara, Adhisthana, 2023.

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FBA Podcast: Dhyana Paramita, The Perfection of Meditation

By Zac on Sat, 11 Mar, 2023 - 06:00

Kamalashila, author of ‘Buddhist Meditation: Tranquillity, Imagination, Insight’, introduces the fifth perfection, dhyana, in a series at the West London Buddhist Centre, 2012.

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Dhyana: A Step-By-Step Approach

By bodhipaksa on Wed, 22 Apr, 2020 - 18:44

Dhyana: A Step-By-Step Approach

By bodhipaksa on Wed, 22 Apr, 2020 - 18:44

On Saturday I led a workshop for the Seattle and Vancouver sanghas (originally intended to be a weekend retreat) on cultivating dhyana. In it I present a three-fold approach to cultivating the dhyana factors (or a slightly modified form of that list) which seems quite reliably to help most regular meditators to get close to, or in to, first dhyana.

The feedback was very positive, and a lot of people who’d been meditating for a long time seemed to be making strides forward.

The...

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Triratna InHouse rediscovers long-lost seminar!

By lokabandhu on Tue, 2 Jul, 2019 - 14:22

Triratna InHouse rediscovers long-lost seminar!

By lokabandhu on Tue, 2 Jul, 2019 - 14:22

Some very exciting news here at Triratna InHouse Publications has been the rediscovery and republication of a long-lost but very important seminar by Sangharakshita, ‘Dhyana for Beginners’.  This was the principal inspiration for Vajraloka’s meditation teaching for many years.  You’ll find it in a new Volume VII of the Mahayana Texts, Sutras and Sadhanas series within the 17 volumes of Sangharakshita’s Collected Seminars - along with two other unpublished seminars, the Ratnagunasamcayagatha and some questions and answers on...