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The Subtle Elements (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 27 May, 2024 - 11:00

How do you get used to being Enlightened? What happened to the Buddha in the weeks after his breakthrough experience? Kamalashila uses the framework of the System of Meditation to shed light on the process that unfolded in the Bodhisattva’s mind and body as Enlightenment dawned by connecting us imaginatively with the symbolism and image of Muchalinda, the great serpent, coiling his body protectively round the meditating Buddha. Excerpted from the talk Absorption -...

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Buddhafield - At Home with the Elements - Voices of the Rain

By bethbuddhafield on Tue, 7 Nov, 2023 - 18:14

Buddhafield - At Home with the Elements - Voices of the Rain

By bethbuddhafield on Tue, 7 Nov, 2023 - 18:14

“Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them. Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, 2013

This year, At Home With the Elements invites us to open our hearts, minds, arms and all our senses to the voices of the rain: the wisdom and the nourishment of the rest of the natural world. What...

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Buddhafield 'At Home with the Elements': Be with the Trees - Online Retreat 2023

By Centre Team on Tue, 17 Jan, 2023 - 11:40

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Buddhafield 'At Home with the Elements': Be with the Trees - Online Retreat 2023

By Centre Team on Tue, 17 Jan, 2023 - 11:40

“The imagination is the rich ground into which the truth roots and out of which pours forth image, symbol and riches.”

- Maitridevi, Imagining the Earth - Free Buddhist Audio, 2022

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Our yearly journey with the elements takes us through the forest in 2023. Our relationship to the trees that we depend on and share our world with is special – and often unseen. Our exploration takes us from the soil and mycelium up to the leaves...

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Dharmabytes: Take Notice of Inconsistencies

By Zac on Wed, 13 Jul, 2022 - 06:00

Magical Aspects of Emptiness

Kamalashila looks at our whole relationship to nature and the elements: how the artificiality in our lives can get in the way of seeing what things are actually like - and what we might do about that in practice! Kamalashila uses these reflections as a way into evoking a more natural, deeply encouraging perspective, one that allows us to open up to the reality the Buddha pointed to under the tree and let the Dharma transform...

North London Buddhist Centre

The Pagoda of Consciousness: the Stupa

By Ratnaprabha on Thu, 21 May, 2020 - 22:45

The Pagoda of Consciousness: the Stupa

By Ratnaprabha on Thu, 21 May, 2020 - 22:45

Buddhist Symbols slideshow, Saturday 23 May 11:30 with Ratnaprabha.

The stupa started as a burial mound for the Buddha, but became a vast symbol, the architecture of enlightenment, with its special forms and meanings in the different Asian Buddhist cultures. The last of this series of slideshows.
Zoom login: https://zoom.us/j/630207959 Meeting ID: 630 207 959, or try YouTube live.

Recent talks and slideshows can be seen here on our YouTube channel. Last week’s on the Vajra, Can...

Portsmouth Buddhist Center

New Summer Series! Meditating on the Earth, Sitting with the Elements

By Candradasa on Wed, 4 Jul, 2018 - 16:41

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New Summer Series! Meditating on the Earth, Sitting with the Elements

By Candradasa on Wed, 4 Jul, 2018 - 16:41

Sundays, July 8-August 12, 9.30am-12pm.

Gather as usual at PPMTV, we’ll take cushions and chairs and make our way around 9.45am to Prescott Park to meditate by 10. Rain days, we’ll stay inside!

In Spring 2017 we lost our Buddhist Center to a fire. Thanks to the great generosity and hard work of lots of people, the community recovered, deepened and strengthened. And we’ve gone on together since, renewing the Portsmouth sangha in some beautiful ways here in town.

Practising Outside
One...

Buddhist Action Month 2015

Kamalashila - The Buddha In Nature (A Talk for Buddhist Action Month 2015)

By Candradasa on Tue, 16 Jun, 2015 - 18:16

We asked Kamalashila to give a talk for Buddhist Action Month 2015. He responded with this beautifully focussed look at our whole relationship to nature and the elements: how the artificiality in our lives can get in the way of seeing what things are actually like - and what we might do about that in practice!

Kamalashila uses these reflections as a way into evoking a more natural, deeply encouraging perspective, one that allows us to open up to the reality the...

Buddhist Action Month 2015

Join Us For An Elemental BAM Meditation!

By Centre Team on Mon, 15 Jun, 2015 - 21:49

Join Us For An Elemental BAM Meditation!

By Centre Team on Mon, 15 Jun, 2015 - 21:49

Following on from last week’s meditation on the Buddha in nature, this Tuesday (16th) we’ll be looking at the elements - earth, water, fire, air - in our experience as we follow the breath…

How to connect
Join us at 2.30pm EST/ 7.30pm UK via our Google + page (you will need a Google account of some kind and will have to add us to your circles. Click ‘hangouts’ in the event posting on our page each week).

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Meditation Tuesday for Buddhist Action Month - On the Elements

By Candradasa on Mon, 15 Jun, 2015 - 21:25

Meditation Tuesday for Buddhist Action Month - On the Elements

By Candradasa on Mon, 15 Jun, 2015 - 21:25

This month we’re exploring themes related to Buddhist Action Month (BAM!) and its central focus on sustainability and caring for others. Following on from last week’s meditation on the Buddha in nature, we’ll be looking at the elements - earth, water, fire, air - in our experience as we follow the breath…

How to connect
Join us at 2.30pm EST/ 7.30pm UK via our Google + page (you will need a Google account of some kind and will have...

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Dharmabyte: The World Is Unknown

By Rijupatha on Mon, 28 Jul, 2014 - 16:06

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is titled: “The World Is Unknown,” by Vajragupta. The world is unknown, we cannot possibly know what the world is in itself.

What we call the world is much more a relationship, and it’s all rather mysterious. Exploring Buddhist practices of non-separateness, the elements, change and transformation, Vajragupta beautifully unveils our connection with nature.

From the talk “We Live In a Beautiful World: Buddhism and...

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