Tag: Interview

Vidyamala On Opening to Pain with Mindfulness

By Centre Team on Fri, 11 Mar, 2016 - 22:40

Vidyamala Burch, the founder and co-director of Breathworks (an organization dedicated to helping others through the teaching of mindfulness), is an ordained member of the Triratna Buddhist Order, and has authored three books. Her story is an inspiring example of how working through life-changing trauma has a strong impact in benefiting others. In this interview with Giulietta Spudich from Windhorse Publications, she explores her incredible life journey and how her exploration of Buddhist Dharma and mindfulness helps many...

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Triratna News

Sangharakshita@90 - A Life In Objects (Coming Soon!)

By Centre Team on Thu, 30 Jul, 2015 - 19:07

Urgyen Sangharakshita turns 90 in August 2015 - and his birthday wish is that his legacy of written Dharma be secure and continue to reach people all over the world. To celebrate the campaign to raise the funds required for his Complete Works we’ll be bringing you a brand new series of 9 interviews with Sangharakshita - one for each decade of his life.

In these very personal conversations with Saddhanandi, Bhante chooses objects from each period of...

Buddhist Centre Features

Kamalashila's Quarterly No.2 - On Landscape and Experiment

By Candradasa on Wed, 12 Nov, 2014 - 20:28

Our second extensive conversation with Kamalashila comes a little late in the ‘quarterly’ cycle but is well worth waiting for as we plunge deep into some rich, sparkling pools of conversation that yield much to delight, challenge, refresh, and stimulate…

We have three main connected topics this time: landscape itself and its effect on individuals within a particular culture of practice; experimental practice as a spiritual movement changes and grows; and what we have to learn from the wider...

Buddhist Centre Features

Kamalashila's Quarterly No.1

By Candradasa on Wed, 4 Dec, 2013 - 17:25

A delightful conversation with Kamalashila, one of the most experienced meditation teachers in the Triratna Buddhist Order. This first interview of a proposed quarterly series was recorded in summer 2012 and affords some lovely insights into Kamalashila’s own history of practice as it interweaves with that of the Triratna Community since the early 1970s. A thought-provoking look back at the roots of our community, and an optimistic look forward in the light of many changes and new kinds of realities…
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Resource Pack for Sangharakshita's Skype Q & A

By Candradasa on Tue, 17 Jul, 2012 - 21:09

Here’s a wee commemorative resource pack for Sangharakshita’s first ever Skype Q & A… :)

File Name	Size
Twitter transcript of Sangharakshita Skype Q & A at Aryaloka (PDF version)	242 KB
Bhante on the Sciences (Movie Extract)	35.31 MB
Twitter Pics	157.17 KB

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Transcript of Sangharakshita's Skype Q & A at Aryaloka

By Candradasa on Tue, 17 Jul, 2012 - 20:24An experimental transcript of an experimental conversation! Here’s a faithful Twitter transcription of Sangharakshita’s live Q & A session with the sangha at Aryaloka Retreat Center in New Hampshire, USA. Topics include cross-cultural affairs, meditation, old age, the Sciences, and many more! We included a few re-tweets and direct messages from those listening in too…