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New Order faces at Adhisthana

From Triratna News on Wed, 25 Nov, 2015 - 12:50

New Order faces at Adhisthana

From Triratna News on Wed, 25 Nov, 2015 - 12:50

The Adhisthana community is growing. We introduce three Order members who arrived during the course of the summer.

Sanghadarshini moved from Germany to be retreat centre manager; Vimalamati (British) is assistant to the international Order Convenors, Lokeshvara and Parami; Sthanashraddha is Bhante’s new secretary, also British.

I interviewed them amid the preparations for Sangharakshita’s 90th birthday Order weekend in August. What a great time to come here, thought Sanghadarshini: “It’s great to jump in and work with all these fantastic...

Candradasa

Maitreyabandhu - Poetry and Receptivity

From Community Highlights on Tue, 24 Nov, 2015 - 18:47

Maitreyabandhu - Poetry and Receptivity

From Community Highlights on Tue, 24 Nov, 2015 - 18:47

It’s not too late to join the Urban Retreat!

A lovely short talk by Maitreyabandhu, illuminating why poetry is itself an act of receptivity and requires that of us as readers and, in the context of an Urban Retreat, Buddhist practitioners. Taking as his source Kay Ryan’s poem ‘The Niagara River’ we get a simple but encouraging close reading of how poetry can help us slow down, take things in, and...

Saccanama

Paramachitta becomes a public preceptor

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 24 Nov, 2015 - 15:16

Paramachitta becomes a public preceptor

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 24 Nov, 2015 - 15:16

Paramachitta was appointed as a public preceptor in October and attended the recent College meeting at Adhisthana in November.

She introduces herself below.

I was ordained in 1990 at Taraloka, privately by Sanghadevi and publicly by Ratnasuri. In 1992 I left the London Buddhist Centre for Spain and along with Parami and Moksananda helped establish the Order in Valencia. I have been actively...

Saccanama

Women's Ordinations in India August 2015 - a little late!

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 24 Nov, 2015 - 15:03

Women's Ordinations in India August 2015 - a little late!

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 24 Nov, 2015 - 15:03

Better late than never, we’re happy to announce that at the public ordination held on 30 August, 2015 at Ven. Hsuen Tsang Retreat Centre, Bor-Dharan Maharashtra, India, the following women were ordained:

Private Preceptor Vijaya:

Anita Thool (South West Nagpur) becomes Amritanandi
Asha Nakhale (North Nagpur) becomes Shwetchitta
Shila Walke (North Nagpur) becomes Shubhrachitta ...

Candradasa

Tejopala - Nature and the Greater Mandala

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 23 Nov, 2015 - 21:50

Tejopala - Nature and the Greater Mandala

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 23 Nov, 2015 - 21:50

If you want to know wheat you’re missing on our Urban Retreat… There’s still time to sign up (it’s free)!

www.thebuddhistcentre.com/urbanretreat

As part of the Triratna’s International Urban Retreat for 2015, Tejopala from Melbourne, Australia, gives a beautiful talk about the relationship between a Dharma perspective on life and the urgency of the need to care for nature. Some great questions asked here, all amidst an urban natural space…

Candradasa

Munisha Introducing the Urban Retreat - Via Bach and Poetry...

From Community Highlights on Mon, 23 Nov, 2015 - 17:47

If you haven’t joined in with the Urban Retreat online, there’s still time! Already a wonderful, inspiring event - some great retreat teaching (only the introductory posts are visible if you aren’t taking part), and the chance to witness moving practice going on around the world…

Here’s Munisha’s lovely introduction from the Stockholm sangha in Sweden.

The music is “Erbarme Dich”, from the St Matthew Passion by JS Bach, with mezzo soprano Janet Baker. The poem is ‘A High Blue Day...

Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: The White Calf

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 23 Nov, 2015 - 11:00

We’ve been moved to share an abundant handful of Sangharakshita’s poems over the next few weeks. Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is a poem entitled “The White Calf”. Selected from “An Autobiographical Sequence of Poems”, read by the author and recorded at FWBO celebrations in London, September 1990.

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Dhammalata

Party as Practice

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 23 Nov, 2015 - 01:46

Party as Practice

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 23 Nov, 2015 - 01:46

It’s my birthday on Wednesday this week

I’ve been wondering what I’ll do to celebrate it. Weeks ago I went to the lady who runs our Black Watch Cafe at Scots (okay so that’s what we offer as a tuck-shop) and ordered a gluten free, chocolate cake - she makes the most awesome cakes!! It should be fairly large ………. and I was vaguely thinking I’d share it with my family and Buddhist Community.

Then I read a section from...

Rijupatha

FBA Podcast: An Ever Widening Circle

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 22 Nov, 2015 - 22:39

This week’s FBA Podcast features Ratnaghosha in a talk entitled “An Ever Widening Circle”. Given as the key note talk at Sangha Day at the Cambridge Buddhist Center, launching the Year of Spiritual Community for 2014 and laying out a vision for the Sangha.

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Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: A Dharmic Framework for Total Transformation

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 22 Nov, 2015 - 22:32

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is entitled “A Dharmic Framework for Total Transformation”, an excerpt from the talk “Karma and the Consequences of Our Actions” by Ratnadharini.

There is nothing wrong with our experience, it’s how we interpret it. The Five Niyamas help us understand that total transformation is possible by shifting our habitual means of seeing things. Is it random? Is it fate? Why do the conditions that arise in our lives, arise? Where...

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