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Dharmabyte: Choosing Our Path

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 30 May, 2018 - 16:25

This Dharmabyte podcast is an excerpt called ‘Choosing Our Path’ from a delightful talk from Vajragupta drawing a lot of significance from a simple image for the connection between Sangha and Commitment.

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Dharmabyte: Going Beyond Self

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 30 May, 2018 - 16:17

This Dharmabyte podcast is called ‘Going Beyond Self in Sangha’ and is an excerpt from the talk Being and Building a Sangha Heart.

In 2017 Birmingham Buddhist Centre turned their energies towards being and building a vibrant Sangha heart for their community. This short talk, given by Singhamati Chair of the Birmingham Buddhist Centre at the launch of this project, explores how the practice of Sangha is essential for insight on the journey...

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Dharmabyte: The Importance of Intention

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 30 May, 2018 - 16:11

This Dharmabyte podcast is delivered by Subhuti entitled ‘The Importance of Intention In the Stage of Positive Emotion’. This excerpt from the talk of the same name was given during a retreat on the system of meditation.

Subhuti emphasises the importance of intention in the metta bhavana; it is not a practice about feeling good, but transforming our responses; a karmic action which then has a result of feeling happier and more positive.

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Dharmabyte: Patience

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 30 May, 2018 - 16:05

This Dharmabyte podcast is called Patience by Bodhilila. A clear, practical and accessible talk on the third of the Bodhisattva perfections, Ksanti (patience or forbearance).

Talk given at the West London Buddhist Centre Sangha evening, March 2012.

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Our Regular Sunday Morning Sangha for June 3rd is Cancelled...

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 29 May, 2018 - 20:45

Our Regular Sunday Morning Sangha for June 3rd is Cancelled...

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 29 May, 2018 - 20:45

Our regular Sangha Gathering this week, Sunday, June 3, will be cancelled as there will be a memorial service at 11 am that morning for Bodhana, a local Order Member who passed away a few weeks ago. All who knew Bodhana are invited to attend. Written remembrances will be collected and compiled into a memory book. Details on this and the service are available here:

https://mailchi.mp/aryaloka/you-are-invited-to-a-celebration-of-dh-bodhanas-life?e=ec9bcc1193

We send our condolences to Bodhana’s family and friends.

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Lewes Triratna Buddhist Group

From on Tue, 29 May, 2018 - 14:06

Lewes Triratna Buddhist Group

From on Tue, 29 May, 2018 - 14:06

Welcome to Triratna Meditation Lewes

The Triratna Lewes Buddhist Group has been meeting regularly since 2010. We offer classes in five- or six-week blocks throughout the year apart from a break during the summer. Newcomers are welcome to join us.

Classes cover various aspects of meditation practice and Buddhist teaching and encourage the building of friendship among members of the group.

For full details of all our activities, see our website:
www.triratnameditationlewes.co.uk

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Dharmabyte: We All Want to be Happy

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 17:38

This Dharmabyte podcast is brought to you by Maitreyabandhu. We yearn to be happy, yet we don’t know where to find happiness. The central problem of human life - we try all sorts of things, it’s like a koan we are all born with.

From the talk The Happiness Problem by Maitreyabandhu given as part of the LBC’s Urban Retreat in June 2009.

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Dharmabyte: Living Sangha

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 17:15

This Dharmabyte podcast is called Living Sangha from Abhayanandi, in an excerpt from a talk of the same name.

Imagine being part of a community marked by autonomy and connection, abundant with supportive love and friendship. The Buddha famously said that fellowship is the whole of the spiritual life. Is that really true?!

Abhayanandi has been following this teaching notably by living in a residential Buddhist community and working in...

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Dharmabyte: Broken Images

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 17:07

This Dharmabyte podcast is from Sangharakshita, entitled: Broken Images, an excerpt from the talk The Journey to Il Convento.

The journey symbolises a pilgrimage through the ruins and broken images of Christian civilisation and culture, progressing through a world of archetypal forms, and potentially taking us to the very threshold of Enlightenment.

N.B. A few words missing. Talk given in 1984.

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Dharmabyte: Emotion in the Spiritual Life

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 17:02

This Dharmabyte podcast is from our Triratna Buddhist Community founder, Sangharakshita, entitled: Emotion in the Spiritual Life.

The central problem of spiritual life is the mobilisation of our emotional energies, so that what we know can be put into practice. Energies may be blocked, wasted or too coarse, and the Buddhist puja takes us through a series of devotional moods to help liberate them.

The full talk, Poetry...

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