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Triratna News

Mind In Harmony by Subhuti - Crowdfunded And Out Now!

By Candradasa on Fri, 13 Mar, 2015 - 14:41

Mind In Harmony by Subhuti - Crowdfunded And Out Now!

By Candradasa on Fri, 13 Mar, 2015 - 14:41

The team at Windhorse Publications have been in touch with the great news that a major new book from Subhuti has now been published thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign.

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Subhuti’s Mind in Harmony: A Psychology of Buddhist Ethics is now available on the Windhorse Publications website in both paperback and eBook format. It has...

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FBA Podcast: Ethics as Insight Practice

By Rijupatha on Tue, 30 Dec, 2014 - 14:48

FBA Podcast: Ethics as Insight Practice

By Rijupatha on Tue, 30 Dec, 2014 - 14:48Subscribe to the FBA Podcast

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In this week’s FBA Podcast Guhyavajra explores “Ethics as Insight Practice”. Ethics is as an important stage in the path leading to wisdom, but how are ethics and insight interrelated?

Buddhist Centre Features

#EthicalChristmas: Wildmind - What Kind of Society Are You Creating?

By bodhipaksa on Mon, 8 Dec, 2014 - 15:18

#EthicalChristmas: Wildmind - What Kind of Society Are You Creating?

By bodhipaksa on Mon, 8 Dec, 2014 - 15:18Recently I wanted to buy some herbal tea in bulk. I did my research on Amazon, found the brand I wanted, and then promptly headed over to the manufacturer’s website to make my purchase. This cost me a little more, but I was happy to pay the extra expense. Why, you may wonder?

Whether we consider it or not, every penny we spend has some effect on the direction our society takes. We can choose to spend our money...

Solihull

Talking about Ethics - it's not about being 'good'.

By Centre Team on Mon, 9 Jun, 2014 - 15:21

Talking about Ethics - it's not about being 'good'.

By Centre Team on Mon, 9 Jun, 2014 - 15:21

The word ethics can get a funny response; a sense of being told what to do and all that…

Buddhist based ethics is much simpler; it makes observations about how the world works and invites us to examine our own lives and see if they ring true.

Come along and see whether this simple approach to living a life that brings happiness to ourselves and others works for you.

We’ll be looking at the...

International Retreat 2014

Day 4: Monday reflections

By Munisha on Mon, 26 May, 2014 - 19:32

Day 4: Monday reflections

By Munisha on Mon, 26 May, 2014 - 19:32So, last day… and sunshine has poured down on us, and on the extraordinarily green and beautiful Herefordshire countryside around us. The mud is drying, but remains deep - and lethally slippery - in the dining tent.

The morning’s big events on the retreat “fringe”: a loud crash as the main crockery table sank into the mud, shedding its load, which all had to be rewashed; and a “wellie amnesty”, where everyone who’d lost their boots, or picked up...

Community Highlights

Vegan Life on the Vegan Buddhists Space

By Rijupatha on Mon, 24 Mar, 2014 - 13:18

Vegan Life on the Vegan Buddhists Space

By Rijupatha on Mon, 24 Mar, 2014 - 13:18We’ve had some rich discussions and informative postings on the Vegan Buddhists space on The Buddhist Centre Online this month! If you’re vegan, or vegan-curious, there’s lots of great material here to peruse. And you can +follow the Vegan Buddhists space to learn more as new updates arrive.

Early in the month there was a great back-and-forth chat between community members about cruelty-free eggs and ethics, followed by another...

Vegan Buddhist

Inside the Milk Machine

By Candradasa on Tue, 18 Mar, 2014 - 13:10

Inside the Milk Machine

By Candradasa on Tue, 18 Mar, 2014 - 13:10A great, in-depth article on Modern Farmer about the milk industry today…

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“At one time, milk was one of the more natural processes in farming.  A bull would impregnate a cow — an actual bull, before the age of artificial insemination . She was pregnant for  nine months and then a baby cow  was born.

Afterwards, from the calf’s birth to up to three months after it was weaned, the farmer would...

Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun

Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 1. Daily Reflections

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 13:23

Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 1. Daily Reflections

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 13:23

Here’s the complete playlist of reflections from Subhadramati’s excellent book ‘Not About Being Good’

Stockholms buddhistcenter

Violence and religion

By Viryabodhi on Tue, 9 Oct, 2012 - 07:26

Violence and religion

By Viryabodhi on Tue, 9 Oct, 2012 - 07:26Last night Ratnaguna gave this wonderful talk at the Stockholms Buddhistcenter. You can download it from fba.
http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC1400

The poem he ends with got a little cut off, right at the end. Here it is in full:

The Place Where We Are Right
by Yehuda Amichai

From the place where we are right
Flowers will never grow
In the spring.

The place where we are right
Is hard and...

Triratna News

Buddhism on a Plate: Food and the First Precept

By lokabandhu on Sat, 25 Feb, 2012 - 06:37

Buddhism on a Plate: Food and the First Precept

By lokabandhu on Sat, 25 Feb, 2012 - 06:37Buddhism on a Plate, published today, is another in our series of occasional feature articles. On the subject of veganism and, more generally, how Buddhists might best apply the precept of non-violence to their choice of food it’s written by Samacitta, chair of Triratna’s Birmingham Buddhist Centre and a vegan herself for many years.

Jane Easton, Food & Cookery Coordinator at Viva! and the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation and a Buddhist herself comments “… great...

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