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FBA Dharma Story Hour Presents: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

By Zac on Wed, 29 Dec, 2021 - 18:20

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The Myth of Meditation: A Home Retreat with Paramananda and Friends

By Sadayasihi on Thu, 23 Dec, 2021 - 13:58

The Myth of Meditation: A Home Retreat with Paramananda and Friends

By Sadayasihi on Thu, 23 Dec, 2021 - 13:58

Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a safe space to go deeper into experience and practice.

Friday 25th February - Thursday 3rd March 2022

Reserve a space now!

About the retreat
With his deeply grounded approach to Buddhist meditation and practice, Paramananda offers an approach that is a challenge both to the way we experience ourselves, and the way in which we see and ‘be’ in the world. 

He guides us in rooting meditative experience in the body, turning towards...
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Dharmabyte: Building Spiritual Power Together

By Sadayasihi on Mon, 29 Nov, 2021 - 06:00

Viveka concludes this Anapanasati Sutta: Instructions for Awakening retreat with a final exploration of the wisdom tetrad, focusing on the experience of relinquishment and offers suggestions on bearing with confoundment through imagination and inquiry. 

Excerpted from the talk Where Is Self Arising Now? given at Adhisthana, May 2019.

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FBA Podcast: Inquiry Into the Experience of Wisdom

By Sadayasihi on Sat, 27 Nov, 2021 - 06:00

Viveka explores the fourth tetrad of the Anapanasati Sutta: “inquiry into the experience of wisdom” particularly applying the contemplations of impermanence, fading away, cessation and relinquishment to the experience of mind and awareness itself. 

This talk is part of the series Anapanasati Sutta: Instructions for Awakening given at Adhisthana, 2019.

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Dharmabyte: Starting to See Through

By Sadayasihi on Thu, 25 Nov, 2021 - 06:00

Dhammarati illuminates the process of conditionality that is put in motion when engaged in Anapanasati meditation. Here he is introducing the fourth tetrad focusing on the first instruction of contemplating impermanence.

Excerpted from the talk Inquiry Into the Experience of Wisdom, part of the series Anapanasati Sutta: Instructions for Awakening given on retreat at Adhisthana, May 2019.

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Invitation to our online Urban Retreat 2021

By Cardiffbuddhist... on Wed, 10 Nov, 2021 - 17:58

Invitation to our online Urban Retreat 2021

By Cardiffbuddhist... on Wed, 10 Nov, 2021 - 17:58


Here is an invitation from our chair Kamalagita Hughes to come find your light in the Sangha  💚


To book your place, please visit: https://cardiffbuddhistcentre.com/events/event/urban-retreat-2021/
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Still Breathing in the World: A Journey into the Heart of Tonglen with Yashobodhi

By kusaladevi on Fri, 29 Oct, 2021 - 12:49

Still Breathing in the World: A Journey into the Heart of Tonglen with Yashobodhi

By kusaladevi on Fri, 29 Oct, 2021 - 12:49

Still Breathing in the World: A Journey into the Heart of Tonglen with Yashobodhi

A solstice series exploring a beautiful meditation practice from the Tibetan tradition.

Sundays: December 5, 12, 19, 26 + every day in Christmas week (December 20-24 incl.)

Each Sunday session will be done twice to accommodate time zones. Daily sits in Christmas week once a...
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Online Urban Retreat 2021 - The Alchemy of the Sangha

By Cardiffbuddhist... on Thu, 7 Oct, 2021 - 16:11
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Online Urban Retreat 2021 - The Alchemy of the Sangha

By Cardiffbuddhist... on Thu, 7 Oct, 2021 - 16:11

Cardiff Buddhist Centre and Stroud Sangha proudly invite you to our online Urban Retreat!

With an alchemical mixture of talks, workshops, meditation, ritual, creativity and discussion, we will explore these four tantric rites in relation to Sangha. We will also explore how to bring this retreat into your everyday life and transform you, no matter what your living conditions are.

When...
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FBA Podcast: Insight, Meditation and Empathy

By Sadayasihi on Sat, 2 Oct, 2021 - 06:00

There is no insight without compassion, and no compassion without insight. Ratnaghosha elucidates the path of transformation as one of expanding more and more into embodying love in all its forms.

This talk was given at the Mid Essex Buddhist Centre, 2021.

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Uncontrived Mindfulness: ending suffering through attention, curiosity and wisdom

By Vajradevi on Thu, 22 Jul, 2021 - 10:30

Uncontrived Mindfulness: ending suffering through attention, curiosity and wisdom

By Vajradevi on Thu, 22 Jul, 2021 - 10:30

Led by Vajradevi

I’m running another online meditation retreat from Saturday 25th September to Friday 1st October 2021. The retreat is aimed at Order Members and Mitras and is offered on a Dana basis.

The emphasis will be on a relaxed, open, and attentive quality of ‘knowing’, receptive to whatever is happening within our experience. We will be cultivating mindfulness that is ‘uncontrived’ and natural and looking to bring ‘right view’ – a wisdom perspective - to each moment of awareness.

I’ll be drawing on...

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