Tag: Sangha

Our Irreplaceable Uniqueness (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Tue, 6 May, 2025 - 12:50

A Spiritual Community consists of Individuals; a group does not consist of Individuals. What is individuality? How can an ordinary group support our efforts to transcend the group?

Excerpted from the talk The Individual, the Group, and the Community by Sangharakshita given in 1971.

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Adhisthana

Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

By Maitriyogini on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 10:30

Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

By Maitriyogini on Mon, 24 Mar, 2025 - 10:30

Could you be our next cook or do our publicity?

Bhante Urgyen Sangharakshita envisioned Adhisthana as a place of blessings, where the worldwide Triratna Buddhist Community would gather and engage wholeheartedly with his radical vision of the Dharma in all its breadth, depth and clarity. As we move out of the 10th anniversary year of Adhisthana’s opening and into celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sangharakshita’s birth, our founder and teacher’s vision remains dynamic and alive.

Central to unfolding this vision are Adhisthana’s two single-sex...

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Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

By Maitriyogini on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 10:45

Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

By Maitriyogini on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 10:45

Could you be our next cook or do our publicity?

Central to unfolding this vision are Adhisthana’s two single-sex...

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Affirming One Another (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Fri, 29 Nov, 2024 - 11:56

The spiritual community is held as one of the three essential elements of the spiritual life. Paramananda talks about building Sangha and the importance of living and practising in relationship with other people. Excerpted from the talk The Sangha Jewel given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2014.

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New Podcast: The Three Body Solution

By Candradasa on Mon, 30 Sep, 2024 - 14:00

Home Retreats help us inject some of the powerful teachings of the Buddha directly into our everyday lives. This week we’re joined by Balajit, Singhashri and Viveka to talk about what lies behind their latest week-long collaborative venture with The Buddhist Centre [Live] - the enigmatically titled ‘The Three Bodies of Belonging’.

In this episode we dive into the the traditional Buddhist teaching / images / metaphors / experiences of the three kayas (‘bodies’): Dharmakaya, Samboghakaya and Nirmanakaya. These are correlated...

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Somatic Going for Refuge (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 3 Aug, 2024 - 11:00

Singhashri reminds us of Bhante’s emphasis on the development of the true individual, positive group and spiritual community. She then links an embodied and relational approach to our individual and collective going for refuge, encouraging us to explore how a direct experience of safety, dignity and belonging in the sangha might support collective awakening. She ends by sharing specific ways we may practice “somatic going for refuge” which she describes as not a new level of going...

Adhisthana

Open retreat at Adhisthana

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 24 Jul, 2024 - 10:16

Open retreat at Adhisthana

By Maitriyogini on Wed, 24 Jul, 2024 - 10:16

Friday 30 August - Friday 6 September

A retreat led by Saddhanandi, Jvalamalini, Manjuvajra + Ratnaghosha

The natural tendency of the mind is to set limits and settle down, but positive emotion goes against this tendency.

We have all been taught the Metta Bhavana, and it is tempting to imagine we know what we will get with a retreat on kindness. But do we consistently act to nurture the seeds of metta in our hearts and minds? It’s possible to live our everyday lives in a way...

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Happy Indeed We Live (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 22 Jun, 2024 - 14:05

“Happy indeed we live, friendly amid the haters. Among those who hate we dwell free from hate. Happy indeed we live, healthy amid the sick. Among those who are sick we dwell free from sickness. Happy indeed we live, content amid the greedy. Among those who are greedy, we dwell free from greed.” (The Dhammapada, chapter 14, ‘Happiness’, verses 197-199). Ratnaghosha explores the Buddha’s vision of spiritual community as it is expressed in three verses of the...

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Dharmabytes: Longing to Illuminate Truth

By Centre Team on Mon, 11 Mar, 2024 - 10:00

Vishangka explores the joys and challenges that arise in a spiritual community. He explores several suttas and what we can learn from them. Excerpted from the talk Blending like Milk and Water: Sangha In the Buddha’s Time given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2019.

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LA VUELTA AL MUNDO EN METTA | AROUND THE WORLD IN METTA

By Centre Team on Wed, 15 Nov, 2023 - 22:11

LA VUELTA AL MUNDO EN METTA | AROUND THE WORLD IN METTA

By Centre Team on Wed, 15 Nov, 2023 - 22:11

VER DE NUEVO Y MEDITAR | WATCH AGAIN AND MEDITATE

Una de las características únicas de nuestra Sangha Triratna es la naturaleza internacional de nuestra comunidad, una fuerza desde el principio. Este año, en el Día de la Sangha, se invitó a todo el mundo a unirse a Bodhikámala (de México) y Jnanadhara (de Irlanda/Nueva Zelanda) para un evento en línea para conocer a nuevos y viejos amigos de otros...

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