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The Urban Retreat 2015 - November 21-28

Welcome to the Metta Wave!

By mokshini on Sun, 25 Oct, 2015 - 14:57

Welcome to the Metta Wave!

By mokshini on Sun, 25 Oct, 2015 - 14:57

On Saturday November 21st many of the Triratna Centres and practice groups participating in the Urban Retreat will stop what they are doing around 4pm and take part in a metta wave - a wave of Metta Bhavana (Development of Loving Kindness meditation rolling around the planet. It will start in Australia and will spread across the globe over the course of the day: crossing Europe, reaching the East Coast of the USA, and finally ending...

The Urban Retreat 2015 - November 21-28

A Meditation For The Metta Wave

By mokshini on Sun, 25 Oct, 2015 - 14:56

A Meditation For The Metta Wave

By mokshini on Sun, 25 Oct, 2015 - 14:56

At 4pm on Saturday November 21 all participants of the International Urban retreat 2015 are invited to take part in a practice of the Metta Bhavana - the Development of Loving Kindness meditation.

We suggest you practice this traditional meditation practice a little differently to how it is normally done.

Stage 1: Start by getting in contact with a heartfelt wish for well being and happiness for yourself

Stage 2: Then extend your metta, your goodwill and wish for their happiness, to a good friend

Stage 3: In...

The Urban Retreat 2015 - November 21-28

Living In The Greater Mandala - More On The Theme

By mokshini on Sat, 24 Oct, 2015 - 15:21

Living In The Greater Mandala - More On The Theme

By mokshini on Sat, 24 Oct, 2015 - 15:21

How can we live with a greater sense of appreciation and more of a non-utilitarian attitude to life? How can we let our life be transformed by beauty, nature, friendship, appreciation and love? How can we learn to live a live that is more spacious and happy and engage our energies with what we value most – rather than swinging between a narrow and tense driven-ness and just collapsing on the sofa, blobbing out mindlessly with drink, facebook, or any other distraction,...

The Urban Retreat 2015 - November 21-28

How To Take Part In An Urban Retreat - Read This First...

By mokshini on Sat, 17 Oct, 2015 - 22:24

How To Take Part In An Urban Retreat - Read This First...

By mokshini on Sat, 17 Oct, 2015 - 22:24

There are about 45 Triratna Buddhist Centres around the world – from Adelaide in Australia to Moscow in Russia, Seattle in the USA to Glasgow in Scotland – running the Urban Retreat this year. They will all start with a day retreat that sets the scene on Saturday 21st November and end on Saturday 28th November. The day retreats give the participants the opportunity to clarify what they want to get out of the week and set their aims. Buddhist Centres might...

Community Highlights

Into New Year With The Buddhist Centre Online

By Rijupatha on Mon, 30 Dec, 2013 - 15:15

Into New Year With The Buddhist Centre Online

By Rijupatha on Mon, 30 Dec, 2013 - 15:15

The latest issue of the Triratna Highlights newsletter, taking us into the new year, is fresh off the digital presses! If you’re signed up to receive it via email, it should be in your inbox now. If you’re not signed up, you can find the web version here, or go to ‘my profile’ (top right of any page when you are logged in), choose ‘edit’ and check the ‘Newsletter sign up’ box.

The newsletter gathers together some of the best...

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Two weeks to go until International Urban Retreat starts

By lokabandhu on Sat, 26 Oct, 2013 - 05:56

Two weeks to go until International Urban Retreat starts

By lokabandhu on Sat, 26 Oct, 2013 - 05:56There’s only two weeks to go now till the start of Triratna’s third International Urban Retreat, which will start on Saturday November 9th. Many Triratna Buddhist Centres and groups across the world will be taking part, running meditations and events to encourage people to “go on retreat” for a week, but whilst staying at home and living their usual lives of work or family. The idea is to help create conditions to support people wanting to intensify their...

Portsmouth Buddhist Center

Blazing Like the Sun - Urban Retreat

By viriyalila on Tue, 22 Oct, 2013 - 23:57

Blazing Like the Sun - Urban Retreat

By viriyalila on Tue, 22 Oct, 2013 - 23:57Do you aspire to meditate, and be able to live with a more open heart and spacious mind? Join us for Triratna’s Urban Retreat: Blazing Like the Sun. We will be setting up daily meditations and two day retreats to create a supportive context for you to go deeper and experience retreat within the activities of daily life. There will be an online portion of the retreat with talks, teachings, led meditations, and other resources, all designed to help you...

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Registration opens for Triratna 2013 International Urban Retreat

By lokabandhu on Sat, 5 Oct, 2013 - 06:19

Registration opens for Triratna 2013 International Urban Retreat

By lokabandhu on Sat, 5 Oct, 2013 - 06:19Plans are advancing for Triratna’s second International Urban Retreat, which will take place worldwide from November 9th to 16th 2013. Online registration has just opened and preliminary retreat resources are starting to appear on the event’s webspace - soon to include a real-time map of who’s taking part around the globe .

To register:
Join the site or login then visit the urban retreat space and click +...

Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun

Three Ways To Participate!

By Candradasa on Tue, 10 Sep, 2013 - 17:14

Three Ways To Participate!

By Candradasa on Tue, 10 Sep, 2013 - 17:14There are three great ways to take part in the Urban Retreat this year!

1. Take part at a Buddhist Centre near you.
2. Take part in the Young Buddhists’ retreat (UK)
3. Take part online… right here!

If you take part at a Centre or go on the Young Buddhists’ retreat you can resource yourself using this space and connect with others taking part around the world…

Glasgow Buddhist Centre

Come and join in the Urban Retreat Meditations

By Dassini on Mon, 22 Jul, 2013 - 10:31

Come and join in the Urban Retreat Meditations

By Dassini on Mon, 22 Jul, 2013 - 10:31As part of the the Urban Retreat this week, we’re having meditation at 7.30am, followed by optional breakfast. These sessions are Monday to Friday and they’re open to the whole sangha.

We’re also having a half-hour sit at 12.30, Monday to Thursday, so feel free to come along to them as well.

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