Tag: right livelihood

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Meaningful Work (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 17 Apr, 2025 - 11:04

Pasannamati gives a Sangha night talk exploring Perfect Livelihood. How can our livelihood and our networks be a doorway to leading our lives in a way in which our eyes can be wide open rather than our eyes being wide shut? Excerpted from the talk Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy…reflections of Livelihood and the Networks That Sustain Us given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2021.

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Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

New Podcast: Hinterland Sober Bar

By Candradasa on Sat, 18 Jan, 2025 - 16:51

Enter Hinterland sober bar, “the realm beyond what’s known”… And meet founders Sanghadhara and Stephen Jeffreys in their cosy, cool, poetic, liminal space for a cocktail and meaningful conversation about how Buddhism and the Dharma can inform modern culture—and people’s social lives—in new ways. 

Hinterland has been a passion project from the start. And on this busy Friday evening on one of the busiest nights of the year in one of the hippest areas of Manchester, UK, we hear...

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College of Public Preceptors

The Preceptors' College is recruiting!

By akasajoti on Fri, 30 Aug, 2024 - 14:43

The Preceptors' College is recruiting!

By akasajoti on Fri, 30 Aug, 2024 - 14:43

The Preceptors’ College is recruiting…

We are looking for an Order Member to join us some time between December – February to replace Akasajoti who has been the College Assistant for the last five years. This first role we are recruiting is full-time and will hold primary responsibility for the Preceptors’ College and play a supporting role with the International Council. 

We’re also keen to hear from anyone who might be interested in joining the team in the future. We intend to recruit a...

College of Public Preceptors
College of Public Preceptors

Chair's Letter – May 2024

By ratnadharini on Sat, 1 Jun, 2024 - 17:46

Chair's Letter – May 2024

By ratnadharini on Sat, 1 Jun, 2024 - 17:46

Dear Order Members and friends,

Thanks to Purna for his evocative letter last month from Sudarshanaloka, the ‘land of beautiful vision’, in New Zealand; I’m very much looking forward to being there for the first time in a few months. 

A few weeks ago I was at another of our retreat centres: Akashavana, ‘the forest retreat of luminous space’, in Spain. It was an informal visit as I hadn’t been there for many years and wanted to connect with...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities
Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Vajraloka Retreat Centre is seeking new team members

By Kavaradhi on Fri, 31 May, 2024 - 10:32

Vajraloka Retreat Centre is seeking new team members

By Kavaradhi on Fri, 31 May, 2024 - 10:32

Exciting opportunities to join the Vajraloka Retreat Centre Team

Closing date for expressions of interest: 1st August 2024

Vajraloka Retreat Centre is set on a hillside in the beautiful, wild landscape of North Wales. We have been running meditation retreats here for over forty years, in the context of Triratna Buddhist Community.

We welcome people of any gender onto our retreats, and to join our team, which has been mixed since 2022. We are now keen to expand our team, and encourage expressions of interest from...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

Introducing Liz, our new Operations Manager

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 13 Dec, 2023 - 11:00

Introducing Liz, our new Operations Manager

By Windhorse Publi... on Wed, 13 Dec, 2023 - 11:00

We’re delighted to welcome Liz Evers to the Windhorse Publications team as our new Operations Manager. Liz will have responsibility for the core operations of the charity and business, and manage the backlist of published titles.

A GFR mitra from Ireland, Liz discovered the dharma through the Dublin Buddhist Centre.

Prior to joining us, she worked in communications management for various charities and more recently in publishing, on the editorial side, and is herself the author of several non-fiction books.

Coming onboard Liz said: ‘Joining...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

The Tale of Tipu's Tiger

By Candradasa on Sun, 19 Nov, 2023 - 12:02

Join us for a ‘90s story of inspired Buddhist practice in Missoula, Montana - of great friendship, fierce love, burnout and life lessons learned in the fire of idealism and spiritual adventure. There’s nothing quite like going through a big experience together - and Tipu’s was a very big one for so many people as a new Buddhist community took root in the United States. 

Founders Buddhapalita and Varada witness to the joys, trials, sacrifices and lasting...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities
Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Opportunity to become Men's Mitra Convenor at the Nottingham Buddhist Centre, UK

By kusaladevi on Thu, 7 Sep, 2023 - 12:33

Opportunity to become Men's Mitra Convenor at the Nottingham Buddhist Centre, UK

By kusaladevi on Thu, 7 Sep, 2023 - 12:33

Here’s a great opportunity to work with a harmonious team in a thriving sangha at the Nottingham Buddhist Centre.  

With a men’s Sangha of around 17 mitras, and 7 ordination requests, there’s plenty of scope to bring in your own unique vision and ideas to create ever better conditions for the Sangha to grow and flourish in the Dharma. There are 13 Order members in a harmonious and engaged order sangha...

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

Windhorse Publications is recruiting!

By dhammamegha on Mon, 4 Sep, 2023 - 13:06

Windhorse Publications is recruiting!

By dhammamegha on Mon, 4 Sep, 2023 - 13:06

There is an opportunity to join the small vibrant team at Windhorse Publications, and contribute to making life changing books on Buddhism, mindfulness and meditation available around the world.

We are a vital part of the Triratna Buddhist community and respected within the wider world of Buddhist publishing. With a rich history of nearly 50 years of producing insightful and life changing books, we publish books by Sangharakshita, Triratna Order members and other authors on Buddhism, meditation and mindfulness. 

The new Operations manager will have oversight...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities
Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Join the Windhorse Publications team!

By dhammamegha on Mon, 4 Sep, 2023 - 12:46

Join the Windhorse Publications team!

By dhammamegha on Mon, 4 Sep, 2023 - 12:46

There is an opportunity to join the small vibrant team at Windhorse Publications, and contribute to making life changing books on Buddhism, mindfulness and meditation available around the world.

We are a vital part of the Triratna Buddhist community and respected within the wider world of Buddhist publishing. With a rich history of nearly 50 years of producing insightful and life changing books, we publish books by Sangharakshita, Triratna Order members and other authors on Buddhism, meditation and mindfulness. 

The new Operations manager...

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