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Urban Retreat celebrates worldwide participation

By lokabandhu on Thu, 21 Nov, 2013 - 06:21

Urban Retreat celebrates worldwide participation

By lokabandhu on Thu, 21 Nov, 2013 - 06:21Triratna’s third International Urban Retreat, ‘Blazing like the Sun’, ended on Sunday, and feedback has been coming in from around the world: here’s a brief summary of what we’ve learned so far. First off, it was popular: some 570 people + 12 team took part via The Buddhist Centre Online, with many more at local Buddhist Centres and another 375 on a parallel Urban retreat over on Wildmind. Since the material was posted in multiple spaces, total participation is hard...

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Metta Wave souvenir photo-montage

By lokabandhu on Tue, 19 Nov, 2013 - 19:11

Metta Wave souvenir photo-montage

By lokabandhu on Tue, 19 Nov, 2013 - 19:11

Here’s a souvenir photo-montage for the Urban Retreat’s Metta Wave. It should fit nicely onto an A4 sheet if you want to print it out.

An amazing 570 people registered on the retreat from around the world, and we’ve loved reading all the messages of appreciation that have come in - thank you! We’ll be sending out a survey soon asking for any feedback...

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Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 7. Complete Texts

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 14:47

Unfortunately, we can’t embed the full sets of documents though you can read them online directly on our Issuu stack.

But you can download them all here!

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File Name	Size
Urban Retreat Complete Texts.zip	1.37 MB
Urban Retreat - Karaniya Metta Sutta.pdf	97.63 KB
Urban Retreat - The Program.pdf	109.58 KB
Urban Retreat - Guidance On Meditation Posture.pdf	97.85 KB
Urban Retreat - Establishing A Daily Meditation Practice.pdf	99.07 KB
Urban Retreat Day 1 - Introductory.pdf	115.35 KB
Urban Retreat Day 2 - Introductory.pdf	116.51 KB
Urban Retreat Day 1 - Exploring Further.pdf	113.95 KB
Urban Retreat Day 2 - Exploring Further.pdf	104.44 KB
Urban Retreat Day 3.pdf	110.73 KB
Urban Retreat Day 4.pdf	107.42 KB
Urban Retreat Day 5.pdf	108.07 KB
Urban Retreat Day 6.pdf	123.17 KB
Urban Retreat Day 7.pdf	114.5 KB
Urban Retreat Day 8.pdf	112.08 KB

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Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 6. Complete Audio Recordings

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 14:32

And here is a complete set of all the recordings from the Urban Retreat 2013, including all the introductory material by Vajragupta and others, the daily guided meditations, and Vessantara’s full series on the stages of the Metta Bhavana…

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Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 5. Complete Talks

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 14:23

Here is a set of all the talks given for the Urban Retreat 2013, including introductions by Vajragupta and others, as well as the full series on the stages of the Metta Bhavana by Vessantara.

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Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 4. Complete Guided Meditations

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 14:18

Here is a set of the complete guided meditations (with introductions) from the Urban Retreat 2013, led by Vajragupta.

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Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 3. Complete Daily Videos

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 13:51

Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 3. Complete Daily Videos

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 13:51

Here’s the complete playlist of all the videos from the Urban Retreat 2013 on Loving Kindness. This includes all the daily teachings on video from Vajragupta, daily reflections from Subhdaramati, all of our Metta Highlights news films from around the world, and introductory talks, as well as a posture guide for meditation.

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Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 2. Vajragupta's Daily Retreat Teaching

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 13:38

Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 2. Vajragupta's Daily Retreat Teaching

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 13:38

Here’s the complete playlist of daily teachings on video from Vajragupta.

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Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 1. Daily Reflections

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 13:23

Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 1. Daily Reflections

By Candradasa on Mon, 18 Nov, 2013 - 13:23

Here’s the complete playlist of reflections from Subhadramati’s excellent book ‘Not About Being Good’

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Follow Up on Your Urban Retreat! Five Next Steps...

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Nov, 2013 - 13:31

Follow Up on Your Urban Retreat! Five Next Steps...

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Nov, 2013 - 13:31Well folks, we’re drawing to a close here on the online space for this year’s Urban Retreat. It’s been a wonderful week and on the team we’ve loved being in touch with all those who took part here - as Vajragupta said, thanks so much for all of your efforts and engagement and the generally beautiful spirit in which this online retreat has been conducted.

We wanted to finish with a few posts that we hope will...

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