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Buddhafield Total Immersion Meditation Retreat: Beloved on the Earth

By Centre Team on Sun, 7 Jul, 2013 - 19:46

Buddhafield Total Immersion Meditation Retreat: Beloved on the Earth

By Centre Team on Sun, 7 Jul, 2013 - 19:46

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Led by Paramananda, Padmadasi and Maitridevi
Easterbrook, near Yeoford, Devon, Friday 6 September-Friday 4 October

Our relationship with the modern world is highly complex but, at heart, our feeling of ease in the world is dependent on being present, open and fully ourselves, with simplicity...

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Triratna America - Total Immersion in California

By viveka on Mon, 17 Jun, 2013 - 16:02

Triratna America - Total Immersion in California

By viveka on Mon, 17 Jun, 2013 - 16:02One week from today, I’ll be packing my car and driving with Tejananda 1.5 hours south to the Santa Cruz Mountains to lead a one-month Total Immersion silent meditation retreat. 35 Order members and Mitras are ‘going forth’ from their daily lives in the US, Mexico, UK, Spain, Japan. For one month we will live as a close-knit community of the Buddha’s disciples. Our abode will be among redwood trees, mountain ridges with glimpses...

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New Time for Online Meditation (from June 11th)

By Candradasa on Tue, 4 Jun, 2013 - 17:04

New Time for Online Meditation (from June 11th)

By Candradasa on Tue, 4 Jun, 2013 - 17:04Hi all, after some consultation here and over on Facebook, we’re going to try a new day and time for our regular online meditation sessions. The new summer class will be on Tuesdays at 11.30am-12.30pm PST / 2.30-3.30pm EST / 7.30-8.30pm UK / 8.30-9.30pm Europe.

N.B. There won’t be a class this week on Thursday, and we’ll start the new schedule on Tuesday June 11th.

We’ll be online 15 minutes before...

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Tomorrow's Meditation - With Recollection of the Buddha

By Candradasa on Wed, 29 May, 2013 - 19:16

Tomorrow's Meditation - With Recollection of the Buddha

By Candradasa on Wed, 29 May, 2013 - 19:16As part of marking Buddha Week, tomorrow’s meditation will be the Metta Bhavana incorporating the traditional practice of ‘Recollection of the Buddha’. We’ll call to mind the Buddha and his qualities, with a particular focus on his compassion for all living beings.

The session will run at the new standard time of 8.30amPST/11.30amEST/4.30pm UK/ 9pm Maharashtra. Connect on Skype with user thebuddhistcentre.com and IM (Instant Message) to be added to the...

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Life with Full Attention Meditation Course - Stornoway, Isle of Lewis and Skype!

By dhanimisha on Mon, 8 Apr, 2013 - 12:38

Life with Full Attention Meditation Course - Stornoway, Isle of Lewis and Skype!

By dhanimisha on Mon, 8 Apr, 2013 - 12:38Beginning 17th April - 8:00pm to 9.30 every other week until 7th August (apart from 29th May), Animisha will be leading an 8-session course on mindfulness meditation based on Maitreyabandhu’s book “Life with Full Attention” in the Community Room of An Lanntair Arts Centre in Stornoway. This course will also be accessible on Skype for those who are too far away to attend in Stornoway or who are physically unable to attend. Suggested donations: £45 wages/£25 unwaged/concessions. Please contact Animisha...

New Ventures

Two new meditation stool-making ventures

By lokabandhu on Mon, 11 Mar, 2013 - 10:55

Two new meditation stool-making ventures

By lokabandhu on Mon, 11 Mar, 2013 - 10:55Two new UK-based meditation stool-making ventures have sprung up in Triratna almost simultanously - Dharmamodana’s simple but elegant Quiet Mind Meditation stools (www.quietmindmeditation.co.uk) and Viramitra’s Kindseat (www.kindseat.com) - a more ambitious creation offering full adjustment and a choice of postures.

Click here for Viramitra’s video introducing Kindseat.

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Meditation this week - with Animisha!

By Candradasa on Tue, 12 Feb, 2013 - 16:20

Meditation this week - with Animisha!

By Candradasa on Tue, 12 Feb, 2013 - 16:20I’ll be in India for the next few weeks (look out for reports on some great gatherings there across the site and social media!) so the wonderful Animisha has very kindly undertaken to organise our weekly sits from her home in the Outer Hebrides! Usual time of 11am EST, 4pm UK, 9.30pm Maharashtra. We’ll definitely be on Skype (user: thebuddhistcentre.com, IM to be added to the call) and possibly Google +...

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Meditation weekend for 18-35s this weekend at Rivendell

By Munisha on Tue, 5 Feb, 2013 - 17:22

Meditation weekend for 18-35s this weekend at Rivendell

By Munisha on Tue, 5 Feb, 2013 - 17:22How about meditating in a forest of stars? Triratna events for adults under 35 have really taken off in recent years. This Friday sees the latest: a young people’s meditation weekend at Rivendell Retreat Centre, UK.

The Five Stages of the Path weekend is for young men and women familiar with meditation and puja as taught within the Triratna Buddhist Community. Living and meditating together, you’ll explore your own experiences of moving...

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This week's sit...

By Candradasa on Tue, 29 Jan, 2013 - 19:57

This week's sit...

By Candradasa on Tue, 29 Jan, 2013 - 19:57This week we’ll be sitting again at the new earlier time of 11am EST, 4pm UK, 9.30pm Maharashtra. We’ll be doing the Mindfulness of Breathing meditation. A chance to stop and breathe in your morning, afternoon, or evening…

Well, last week was a mixed technological experience! We’ll have another go this week using both platforms… So, you can connect either on Skype by connecting with user thebuddhistcentre.com, or on Google +...

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Online meditation this week

By Candradasa on Wed, 23 Jan, 2013 - 12:55

Online meditation this week

By Candradasa on Wed, 23 Jan, 2013 - 12:55This week we’ll be sitting at the new earlier time of 11am EST, 4pm UK, 9.30pm Maharashtra. We’ll be doing the Metta Bhavana meditation - hope you can join us and help spread the love!

We’ll also be continuing our technology experiments - this week you can connect either on Google + (we’ll post the live Hangout link on the page 15 minutes or so before we start) or on ...

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