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Dharmabyte: Defining Imagination

By Rijupatha on Thu, 27 Mar, 2014 - 15:25
For our FBA Dharmabyte today we chose an excerpt titled “Defining Imagination” by Subhuti from “Rambles Around the Imagination 1 – Defining Imagination”. Following on from a recent set of conversations with Sangharakshita, Subhuti gives the first in a series of Rambles on the important subject of Imagination. What is imagination and why is it important not just in our spiritual lives but in terms of what it means to...
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Dharmabyte: Illumined Imagination

By Rijupatha on Wed, 26 Mar, 2014 - 12:38
In our FBA Dharmabyte today, “Illumined Imagination,” Maitreyabandhu shares anecdotes from his experience to draw out spiritual principles coming through ordinary experience. The full talk is about Avalokitesvara and was given on the LBC’s Winter Retreat at Sibford, Oxfordshire in December 2010.

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Vajra Bell - Winter 2013

Vajra Bell - Winter 2013

By Rijupatha on Wed, 19 Jun, 2013 - 19:15In this issue:

* Embracing Myth & Imagination: A recovering Catholic learns to trust intuition, imagination, and Buddhas in all colors
* Aryaloka Council December meeting and Year in Review
* Sangha updates from Aryaloka, Nagaloka, Portsmouth, and Vancouver
* Movie Review: Children of the Pyre
* Buddhism and the Environmental Movement: How two efforts - inner and outer - to benefit all beings could benefit each other
* Three perspectives on the first Pan-American Womens’ GFR...
Aryaloka Buddhist Center
Aryaloka Buddhist Center

Vajra Bell - Winter 2013

Vajra Bell - Winter 2013

By Rijupatha on Mon, 31 Dec, 2012 - 15:10In this issue:

* Embracing Myth & Imagination: A recovering Catholic learns to trust intuition, imagination, and Buddhas in all colors

* Aryaloka Council December meeting and Year in Review

* Sangha updates from Aryaloka, Nagaloka, Portsmouth, and Vancouver

* Movie Review: Children of the Pyre

* Buddhism and the Environmental Movement: How two efforts - inner and outer - to benefit all beings could benefit each other

* Three perspectives on the first...
Dharmagiri Retreatcenter
Dharmagiri Retreatcenter

Mindfulness and the illumined imagination

By Viryabodhi on Mon, 3 Sep, 2012 - 21:47

retreat med Maitreyabandhu
9 – 13 March 2011
Dharmagiri retreatcenter

Här är ljudfilerna till Maitreyabandhus föredrag på retreaten. Tack till Johan (Bodhisakta) för den första, om Honeyball-suttan och naturen. 

1. Mindfulness and Nature

2. Imagination and the aesthetic

3. Questions and answers – the aesthetic dimension

4. Mindfulness and imagining the Truth

5. Mindfulness and the...

The 2012 Triratna International Retreat
Triratna International Gathering 2017 - What The World Needs Now

Seeking The Buddha In History by Vishvapani

Seeking The Buddha In History by Vishvapani

By Candradasa on Sat, 2 Jun, 2012 - 16:18In this talk given to the Triratna Buddhist Order International Convention, 2011, Vishvapani explores and re-imagines the life and teachings of the Buddha as they have come to us through stories about him and the ancient texts that enshrine his teaching.

If you think you know the Buddha, think again!
The 2012 Triratna International Retreat
The 2012 Triratna International Retreat

Re-imagining the Buddha by Subhuti (with Sangharakshita)

By Candradasa on Sat, 2 Jun, 2012 - 14:38
Here’s the original pdf version of the paper by Subhuti following his conversations with Sangharakshita.
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Re-imagining the Buddha334.84 KB
The 2012 Triratna International Retreat
The 2012 Triratna International Retreat

How do YOU imagine the Buddha...?

By Candradasa on Thu, 31 May, 2012 - 20:13
Lokabandhu (“pretending to be a journalist”) wandering amongst the 70 or so folk who have arrived early to help set up the retreat. The first of many such forays one suspects…!

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