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Dhyāna and Insight with Tejananda

By dayaketu on Tue, 23 Dec, 2025 - 02:18

Dhyāna and Insight with Tejananda

By dayaketu on Tue, 23 Dec, 2025 - 02:18

🧘☸️ Join us exploring the depth of calm and clarity

On this retreat, I will be offering embodied approaches to dhyāna (jhāna) that people have found to be helpful and effective. This may well involve questioning both our own views and approaches, as well as some of what the tradition has to say about dhyāna.

Dhyāna is far more than samatha, or mental calm. Recognising the liberative potential of the first dhyāna was the key to the Buddha’s own awakening and he...

Jobs, Volunteering & Communities

Wild Swimmers Wanted!

By Subhanaya on Tue, 9 Dec, 2025 - 17:30

Wild Swimmers Wanted!

By Subhanaya on Tue, 9 Dec, 2025 - 17:30

Dhanakosa is looking for GFR Mitras or Order Members who would like to train as Open Water Lifeguards and support our popular Wild Swimming, Embodied Movement and Meditation retreats. We run two retreats each summer - usually led by Nayaka, Subhanaya or Padmadarshini plus 3-4 other team members and we are keen to expand our supporting team group.

The retreats teach an embodied approach to Dharma and meditation, using the elemental experience of water plus movement practices, to support exploration of meditation...

Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Fields of Creativity

By mokshapriya on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 21:36

Fields of Creativity

By mokshapriya on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 21:36

The final Unseen Sangharakshita video talk has just been released by the Triratna Video Library

Over the past twelve months the Triratna Video Library has celebrated Sangharakshita’s 100th birth anniversary with the video releases of twelve talks by Sangharakshita which have never edited or seen. Each talk has been presented with English subtitles and some with additional Spanish subtitles. These talks covering various topics, locations and years have hopefully enriched your connection with, and appreciation of, Bhante as well as...

Forum för klimat och miljö

Hur kan vi möta utmaningar? – tredje träffen

By Viryabodhi on Wed, 3 Dec, 2025 - 13:49

Hur kan vi möta utmaningar? – tredje träffen

By Viryabodhi on Wed, 3 Dec, 2025 - 13:49

Här kommer en rapport från tredje träffen i EkoDharma Forum 25 november 2025.
Kvällens tema var: Hur kan vi på skickliga sätt möta de utmaningar som klimat- och miljökrisen ställer oss inför?
Hur kan vi bidra till en positiv förändring?

Kvällen började med att vi samlades och stillade våra sinnen genom en kort meditation som hölls av Corre.

Därefter inledde Magdalena i kvällens tema (se länken längre ner).
Hon presenterade fyra former för engagemang:
1. Confront (konfrontera) – Att stoppa...