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Appointment of Aryajaya as an International Order Convenor

From Order Connection on Sat, 23 Dec, 2017 - 21:38

Appointment of Aryajaya as an International Order Convenor

From Order Connection on Sat, 23 Dec, 2017 - 21:38

Dear friends,

We are delighted to let you know that Dharmacharini Aryajaya is now appointed as an International Order Convenor. The process of selection was outlined in an Order Information Service letter sent out on the 20th November and also put in the December issue of Shabda. In the letter we said

We would like to recommend Aryajaya and we are asking for your blessing. If you are happy with this no further action...

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Parami

Resignation of Dharmacharini Amrtaketu from New Zealand

From Order Connection on Sat, 23 Dec, 2017 - 21:22

Resignation of Dharmacharini Amrtaketu from New Zealand

From Order Connection on Sat, 23 Dec, 2017 - 21:22

Dear Order Members,

Dharmanandi has asked me to inform you of the resignation of Dharmacharini Amrtaketu. We wish Amrtaketu well.

With metta,
Parami

Dharmanandi writes:

Amrtaketu was ordained at Golden Bay in 2009. Varadevi is her Private Preceptor and I am her Public Preceptor.

Amrtaketu has spoken to Varadevi and I have had some useful correspondence with her. Amrtaketu has been considering resigning from the Order for some time now; the decision became firmer...

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Saccanama

Maitripala from Australia becomes a public preceptor

From College of Public Preceptors on Sat, 23 Dec, 2017 - 12:18

Maitripala from Australia becomes a public preceptor

From College of Public Preceptors on Sat, 23 Dec, 2017 - 12:18

Maitripala introduces herself -
I came across the Dharma in 1991 when I attended a weekend course led by Buddhadasa and Guhyavajra in Melbourne.
Both Buddhadasa and Dayamegha were my first main dharma teachers.
I was bringing up my three daughters in the lovely forest town of Emerald about an hour and half from Melbourne. I taught for many years at the local Primary School and was passionate...

Prajnamati

Bhante on Conditionality and the Three self-natures

From Shabda Articles on Fri, 22 Dec, 2017 - 19:11

This article is an unpacking of a section of Bhante’s teaching in the seminar on the nature of existence chapter in the three jewels in which Bhante talks about conditionalityin relation to the Yogācāra teaching of the three self-natures.

I think it is a significant aspect of Bhante’s teaching on conditionality in that it provides a perspective that can encompass both his teachings from the survey – that conditionality is “an all -inclusive formulation of reality” that encompasses both saṃsāra and nirvāṇa1–...

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Introducing our new Customer Service Assistant, Amanda Katz

From Windhorse Publications on Fri, 22 Dec, 2017 - 11:40

Introducing our new Customer Service Assistant, Amanda Katz

From Windhorse Publications on Fri, 22 Dec, 2017 - 11:40

We are pleased to announce a new staff member. Amanda Katz recently joined our small team as Customer Service Assistant. This is a new role, as our book production manager, Michelle, was covering these types of queries. As our sales and reach have grown, so has the customer service role.

Amanda brings a wealth of skills to us. Her previous jobs include working for Windhorse Publications and Urthona Journal as a freelance proofreader. She has helped out as a bookshop assistant at...

Saccanama

21 women's ordinations in India December 2017

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 22 Dec, 2017 - 09:01

21 women's ordinations in India December 2017

From College of Public Preceptors on Fri, 22 Dec, 2017 - 09:01

Dear friends

We are very happy to announce that on Sunday 17 December 2017 the following 21 women had their public ordination at Saddhamma Pradeep retreat centre Bhaja.

This is the largest number of Dhammacharinis to be ordained at one time in India.

Private Preceptor Karunamaya:

1) Sunanda Popatkar, Nagpur
becomes Shraddhakirti
Name meaning: ...

vajratara

Talk on Spiritual Death

From Tiratanaloka on Wed, 20 Dec, 2017 - 17:30

Vajratara has been looking up some talks from Tiratanaloka to put online. They come as part of a series. Though the others in the series were not necessarily recorded, the individual talks stand alone. This one was given on a retreat at Tiratanaloka for women training for Ordination. Vajratara gives an introduction to Spiritual death. Using poetry and drawing on her experience of the Sangha, she looks at what spiritual death is, what it isn’t and how to practice it.
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Anomaketu

Drinking the Mountain Stream

From Shabda Articles on Wed, 20 Dec, 2017 - 15:15

Drinking the Mountain Stream

From Shabda Articles on Wed, 20 Dec, 2017 - 15:15

„Things are naturally devoid of identity,
The concept of voidness itself naturally pure -
Free of concepts, no mental fixation at all -
This is the path of all buddhas.“

Reverberations from Milarepa‘s Songs

In the face of reality‘s illumination
There is neither self nor other,
No duality, no division – void of identity
And yet neither void
Nor not void,
There‘s no perceiver at all.
Until one has realised well the meaning...

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Saccanama

Ordination in Auckland New Zealand on 16th December 2017

From College of Public Preceptors on Wed, 20 Dec, 2017 - 12:06

Ordination in Auckland New Zealand on 16th December 2017

From College of Public Preceptors on Wed, 20 Dec, 2017 - 12:06

Saturday December 16th 2017 was a special day with a public ordination taking place at the Auckland Buddhist Centre. Geoff Walker became Dhiramuni, having been privately ordained by Ratnavyuha a week earlier at Sudarshanaloka, and then publicly ordained by Purna. About 80 Order members, mitras and friends were present.