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Christmas recipes and food ideas

By jane.easton@blu... on Tue, 15 Dec, 2015 - 12:24

Christmas recipes and food ideas

By jane.easton@blu... on Tue, 15 Dec, 2015 - 12:24

Whether you’re eating with fellow vegans/veggies or sharing the holiday with meat eaters, why not offer some lovely, kind and inclusive food that everyone can eat? I cook vegan every year for ‘mixed’ friends and family, all of whom love the all vegan dinner, desserts and everything!

http://www.viva.org.uk/christmas

Triratna News

Colchester centre wins solar electricity from M&S

By Munisha on Mon, 14 Dec, 2015 - 14:03

Colchester centre wins solar electricity from M&S

By Munisha on Mon, 14 Dec, 2015 - 14:03

Completing our Triratna News mini-series marking the COP21 Climate change talks which finished in Paris at the weekend, Amalaketu writes from the UK to tell us about Colchester Buddhist Centre’s successful application to a fund run by major retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S) for money for solar PV (photovoltaic panels) to generate its own electricity.

Amalaketu is also responsible for Triratna’s Sustainable Buddhist Centre certification scheme. He writes: “We bought the...

Triratna News

This Sunday: 24 hours of meditation for the earth

By Munisha on Thu, 29 Oct, 2015 - 17:12

This Sunday: 24 hours of meditation for the earth

By Munisha on Thu, 29 Oct, 2015 - 17:12

Vassika is Chair of Le centre bouddhiste Triratna de Paris. She writes to let us know of an event this coming Sunday and Monday, 1st and 2nd November, in preparation for COP21.

“In Paris - and in France - we are preparing for the COP21 meeting on climate change this December. It is encouraging to see how much concern there is for this issue in France, and there are many things being planned to...

Community Highlights

Colchester Buddhist Centre Wins Huge Grant for Solar Panels

By Rijupatha on Wed, 14 Oct, 2015 - 13:22

Colchester Buddhist Centre Wins Huge Grant for Solar Panels

By Rijupatha on Wed, 14 Oct, 2015 - 13:22

Colchester Buddhist Centre - who helped pioneer the Sustainable Buddhist Centre Scheme - are absolutely delighted to announce that they have won funding for solar photovoltaic panels at their new Buddhist centre, thanks to you and your votes!

It was an amazing effort from all of the Triratna sangha, with votes cast from all over the world! It was a neck-and-neck race at the end as they were almost 100 votes behind in competition with a well-organized village hall for the...

Community Highlights

Your Support Needed! Click To Help Colchester Buddhists Go Solar...

By Candradasa on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 17:45

Your Support Needed! Click To Help Colchester Buddhists Go Solar...

By Candradasa on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 17:45

Hey, everyone! Can you help us with something very specific?

Our great friends in Colchester Buddhist Centre - who helped pioneer the Sustainable Buddhist Centre Scheme - just need about 200 of us to vote for them in their noble environmental quest to win funding for solar panels at their Buddhist Centre! There are 250 of us in this group alone…

It’s all based on most votes received and ends in two days on the 30th. Colchester were doing well and were in...

Triratna News

Buddhist Action Month 2015 was the best yet!

By Munisha on Thu, 2 Jul, 2015 - 23:17

Buddhist Action Month 2015 was the best yet!

By Munisha on Thu, 2 Jul, 2015 - 23:17

June was Buddhist Action Month (BAM) - and it’s over. A festival of pan-Buddhist social action started by the Network of Buddhist Organisations UK, it focuses largely on global warming and environmental sustainability; this year it’s gone increasingly international and in Triratna we had three themes, to inspire a wider range of activities: Sustainability; Awakening our Money Sense; and Caring for Others

2015 is BAM’s third year (having started in 2012 with a mere BAD – Buddhist Action Day!) It’s been the best year...

Buddhist Action Month 2015

10 tips to reduce our carbon footprint - part 2

By mokshini on Sun, 28 Jun, 2015 - 17:45

10 tips to reduce our carbon footprint - part 2

By mokshini on Sun, 28 Jun, 2015 - 17:45

Here is some more info is from the book called ‘How Bad are Bananas?‘ by Mike Berners-Lee. This book compares the relative amount of the carbon impact of a wide range of daily products and activities and gives an estimate of the actual carbon produced from each to help us make more informed choices. The carbon footprint figures for each product are estimates (Co2e) - but the book makes it very obvious and easy to see where we can make choices that would significantly...

Buddhist Action Month 2015

Is Western Buddhism the perfect ideological supplement to capitalism?!

By mokshini on Sat, 13 Jun, 2015 - 10:30

Is Western Buddhism the perfect ideological supplement to capitalism?!

By mokshini on Sat, 13 Jun, 2015 - 10:30

…at least this is what Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic who writes an occasional column for the Guardian newspaper in England, has suggested. Vaddhaka quotes him in his book ‘The Buddha On Wall Street’*:

“According to Zizek, what he calls ‘Western Buddhism’ is the ‘perfect ideological supplement’ to capitalism. He believes that the emphasis in ‘Western Buddhism’ on meditation encourages Buddhists to create an inner distance from the ‘mad dance’ of modern capitalism, to give up any attempt to...

Buddhist Action Month 2015

Species In Pieces

By Candradasa on Sat, 6 Jun, 2015 - 04:28

Species In Pieces

By Candradasa on Sat, 6 Jun, 2015 - 04:28

I found this beautiful website extraordinarily moving… Species In Pieces: 30 Species. 30 Pieces. 1 Fragmented Survival.

Buddhist Action Month 2015

Community Practice Day Metta for the Earth Sunday 14 June 10.00-4.30pm

By vidyakaya on Thu, 28 May, 2015 - 12:31

Community Practice Day Metta for the Earth Sunday 14 June 10.00-4.30pm

By vidyakaya on Thu, 28 May, 2015 - 12:31

A day at the Brighton Buddhist Centre to look at the Earth Metta Practice in more depth.

How can we relate it to the Six Realms of the Wheel of Life?

How do we practice Metta towards those living in Hell Realms where all they know is suffering – or towards those who live in a realm where all they can understand is Power?

And how do we become Bodhisattvas? How do we go about practicing the Perfections of Generosity, Ethics, Patience, Energy, Concentration and Wisdom?

Led by Vidyakaya...

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