The Sikkha Project
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Podcast #1 of 2 - Leading Dharma Study and Discussion Groups Effectively Online

By Vajrashura on Tue, 2 Jun, 2020 - 19:21

Podcast #1 of 2 - Leading Dharma Study and Discussion Groups Effectively Online

By Vajrashura on Tue, 2 Jun, 2020 - 19:21

Following up from the Sikkha Seminar on Leading Dharma Study and Discussion Groups Effectively Online, Ratnaguna and Danadasa, who led the seminar, have answered a number of questions from the seminar in the podcast below.

Here is eight different questions which they received from the seminar. If you are interested in a specific questions, the podcast timestamps are provide for each question. We hope you find this helpful!

(2:00 – 7:30) If there is the opportunity to choose, how many people would you have in a...

Centre Fundraising Forum
Centre Fundraising Forum

Triratna online Fundraising - Resources now live on Sikkha online!

By kusaladevi on Thu, 9 Apr, 2020 - 18:44

Triratna online Fundraising - Resources now live on Sikkha online!

By kusaladevi on Thu, 9 Apr, 2020 - 18:44

We have now gone live on Sikkha online with our Centre Fundraising Support Resources, including a Triratna Online Fundraising Toolkit, a video from Amalavajra, ”What, fundraise now?!” and a document comparing various giving platforms to receive your donations.

Head over to the...

The Sikkha Project
The Sikkha Project

Sikkha Project Event - Building a Contagious Buddhist Centre

By Vajrashura on Thu, 16 Jan, 2020 - 15:08

Sikkha Project Event - Building a Contagious Buddhist Centre

By Vajrashura on Thu, 16 Jan, 2020 - 15:08

Friday 24th - Sunday 26th April 2020, at Sheffield Buddhist Centre.
Accommodation provided. Free.

How do we create a culture in our centres that is attractive to people coming along, builds a generous community that feels part of a common project, and inspires the people who work within it?

Over this weekend we will be exploring this question drawing on the experience...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Podcast - The Order Practice Survey

By Sadayasihi on Thu, 30 May, 2019 - 19:10

Where do you feel confident? Where do you feel skilled? What supports your practice?”

The Order Practice survey, the latest development from the Sikkha project, will be launching next week! One of the Sikkha Project’s key aims is to support spiritual practice in our community and the Order Practice survey is a tool to help this come about.

The purpose of the Order Practice survey is threefold:

  • to gather information about how Order members
  • ...
Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Podcast - An Update from The Sikkha Project

By Sadayasihi on Fri, 19 Apr, 2019 - 09:20

“The idea is that, at some point, it won’t be a project; it’ll just be more like how we do things”

The Sikkha Project aims to support the development of training within Triratna for every level of experience, to discover and share how the different elements of our system of practice are taught and practiced most effectively, and to create resources and training to fill any gaps.

Here’s a conversation with Dhammamegha, currently co-ordinating this project, explaining its origins, who’s involved and the ‘shopping...

The Sikkha Project
The Sikkha Project

New Sikkha Course now online

By dhammamegha on Fri, 5 Apr, 2019 - 15:16

New Sikkha Course now online

By dhammamegha on Fri, 5 Apr, 2019 - 15:16

A second Sheffield-designed course is now available online for you to use at your centres. Called Vision and Transformation, this six-week course takes relative newcomers through the noble eightfold path through input, discussion, reflection and meditation. The course is designed to follow after the 8 week Radical Dharma course. 

Starting with an emphasis on Vision, it leads though the process of Transformation: emotion, imagination, speech, right livelihood, and effort and attention in meditation. Here you’ll find Vadanya’s introductory videos for each week along with...

The Sikkha Project
The Sikkha Project

Sikkha website is now up and running

By shubhavyuha on Thu, 30 Aug, 2018 - 16:23

Sikkha website is now up and running

By shubhavyuha on Thu, 30 Aug, 2018 - 16:23

We are happy to say that the Sikkha website is now up and running at www.sikkha.online. Here you will find our first offering of three introductory courses. For each course there are weekly teachers notes, a short video introducing the theme for the week and a talk as it was presented during a course. All of the course material has been produced in order to resource Order members who teach at centres with material to stimulate and support their...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

5 Years of the Buddhist Centre Online: #8 Wisdom Beyond Words

By Sadayasihi on Wed, 29 Aug, 2018 - 15:30

5 Years of the Buddhist Centre Online: #8 Wisdom Beyond Words

By Sadayasihi on Wed, 29 Aug, 2018 - 15:30

“The culmination of wisdom is freedom from all views. You have nothing to say. When all the answers are in your being, you have no need to keep them in your head.” - Sangharakshita (Seminar on The Door of Liberation)

The goal of Buddhism is the attainment of Enlightenment - but what is Enlightenment? One way of describing it is seeing the true nature of reality and living in accordance with that vision. An Enlightened being is...

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