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Metta is the Active Dimension of Empathy (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 21 Nov, 2024 - 11:00

Samantabhadri explores positive emotion in our system of practice. Her themes are: pliancy and loosening boundaries; the imagination; insight; our collective life; the shade and the light of our spiritual lives. Excerpted from the talk entitled Luminous Love given at Taraloka Retreat Centre on the occasion of a Women’s National Order Weekend, 2012.

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The Heart of Imagination in Buddhism

By Candradasa on Mon, 2 Sep, 2024 - 14:00

The mind liberated from the pressure of the will is unfolded in symbols
W.B. Yeats

These days, mindfulness is everywhere. How can engaging with images - with imagination itself - take our awareness deeper and help us connect with something truly transformative? Join our guests Vishvapani and Amitajyoti to explore how a Buddhist perspective on consciousness can help move us towards a life touched more fully by a sense of creativity and freedom.

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Moving From Head to Heart (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 10 Jun, 2024 - 11:00

Vidyapala explores the imagination both from a Western cultural and philosophical point of view and then talks about its importance for us, as people trying to practice Buddhism in the West. He also suggests some ways of developing the imagination as a faculty of perception that helps us to understand reality more deeply. From the talk The Path of Imagination given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2021.

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Activating Kindness, Wisdom + Love (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 6 Jun, 2024 - 11:00

Dharmashalin offers thoughts on positive projection of qualities we want to develop in us via a short introduction to the why, what and how of the seven-fold puja. Excerpted from Why Do Puja given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2024.

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Imagining the Bodhicitta into Being (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 3 Jun, 2024 - 09:23

“A poetical invocation of real spiritual forces” is how Sangharakshita defined puja. Here, Sanghagita explores the “real” and “imagined” power we all have to bring a touch of transformative magic into our practice. From the talk A Touch of Magic given at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, 2024.

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Urgyen House: William Blake

By Centre Team on Tue, 28 May, 2024 - 16:30

Urgyen House: William Blake

By Centre Team on Tue, 28 May, 2024 - 16:30

William Blake had a profound and life-long influence on Sangharakshita’s thinking and imagination.

Our latest video, presented by Paramartha with contributions from Satyalila and Ratnaprabha, explores William Blake’s significance both for Sangharakshita personally and for the movement he founded.

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The Heart of Imagination: Home Retreat

By Centre Team on Wed, 17 Apr, 2024 - 11:04

The Heart of Imagination: Home Retreat

By Centre Team on Wed, 17 Apr, 2024 - 11:04

A home retreat to inspire and enrich your imagination

Led by Vishvapani and Amitajyoti

Friday Sept 13 to Thurs Sept 19

“The mind, freed from the pressure of the will, is...

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Freed from the Burning House

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 3 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

Freed from the Burning House

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 3 Jan, 2024 - 10:30

It can effect your dream life, it can effect your meditation, it can effect your life. If you really enter into the imaginative, dream world of the Lotus Sutra, it starts to affect how you experience the world around you.

Ratnaghosha on the White Lotus Sutra.

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Dharmabytes: The Clinging is the Self

By Centre Team on Thu, 21 Dec, 2023 - 11:00

Drawing on her experience as a poet, Varasahaya discusses creativity, imagination, and the writing process as a spiritual practice. She reads some of her poems, and explains the process by which they came to birth, and what she learnt about letting go of self as she grappled with writing. Excerpted from the talk Writing As Spiritual Practice given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2017.

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