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Mitra Ceremony & Celebration

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 4 Nov, 2013 - 22:01

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Mon, 4 Nov, 2013 - 22:01Join us on Wednesday November 13th, 7 pm, to witness and celebrate as Maryellen Burke engages in a simple ceremony to become a mitra, or ‘friend’ in a more formal sense to the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community. A mitra is someone who is actively involved in Triratna activities, and intends to continue practicing the Dharma in this community. Becoming a Mitra marks a deepening of commitment with specific retreats, study groups covering the key aspects of the Buddha’s teaching...

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A Single Stream of Dharma Activity

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 4 Nov, 2013 - 21:32

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is a lovely description of Sangharakshita we’re calling “A Single Stream of Dharma Activity” given by his editor Kalyanaprabha on the occasion of launching his recent book ‘Dear Dinoo: Letters to a Friend’. She shares two remarkable aspects about Sangharakshita: the ordinary and the extraordinary along with reflections on kindness and his embodiment of a single stream of Dharma activity.

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The Karaniya Metta Sutta Chanted by Joe Richardson

From Community Highlights on Mon, 4 Nov, 2013 - 17:21

And since we just posted Natalie Willmer’s excellent talk on the Karaniya Metta Sutta, here’s a beautiful recording of it! It’s the classic Buddhist source-text for Metta, or Loving-Kindness - and the theme of the upcoming Triratna Urban Retreat.

It was chanted in Pali by Joe Richardson at the end of Triratna’s 2012 International Retreat, as the Buddhafield team gathered under canvas at the end of the retreat. We’ve remastered it...

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On the Karaniya Metta Sutta

From Community Highlights on Mon, 4 Nov, 2013 - 17:17

Natalie Willmer (now Karunajoti), from the Auckland Buddhist Centre in New Zealand, with a short talk on the metta sutta – an ancient Pali text that contains some of the Buddha’s words and teaching on metta (loving-kindness). Karunajoti describes her response to first coming across these words of the Buddha; some of them inspired her, but some of them raised questions…

Listen to the sutta being chanted

This is the...

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Death is Certain, and Other Points of Freedom

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 3 Nov, 2013 - 02:22

Death is Certain, and Other Points of Freedom

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 3 Nov, 2013 - 02:22We rolled out some esoteric talks through the rest of October, giving space for reflection on Padmasambhava, the great guru of Tibet, including a ‘long-lost talk’ by Sangharakshita given at the London Buddhist Center in 1979 along with sprinkles of death, change and compassion.

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Check out these little Dharma nuggets in our twice weekly FBA Dharmabytes podcast:

In “Death is Certain” from the talk “The Transitoriness of Life and...

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Compassion: An Intrinsic Part of Reality

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 3 Nov, 2013 - 01:49

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Compassion: An Intrinsic Part of Reality,” by Vijayamala is an excerpt from an excellent, personal set of reflections entitled “Compassionate Koans – the Heart of the Matter”. Here she shares her thoughts on compassion as an intrinsic part of reality referring to Mandarava in ‘The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava’ and describing how Bodhisattvas, messengers of the Dharma and embodiments of compassion, continue to suffer for lifetimes.

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The Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali and English (PDF version)

From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Fri, 1 Nov, 2013 - 18:22

Here is the Karaniya Metta sutta (the Buddha’s words on loving-kindness) in Pali (an ancient Indian language for which I’m afraid I’ve lost some of the diacritics), followed by an English translation by Ratnaprabha. This is a version for easy printing - you can also read and listen along here!

Listen to Natalie’s talk about the sutta, and here’s Joe’s chanting of the Pali as a separate audio post.

File Name	Size
Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali and English (PDF print version)	97.63 KB

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A beautiful chant of the metta sutta

From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Fri, 1 Nov, 2013 - 17:59

Having just posted up Natalie’s talk on the metta sutta (the Buddha’s words on loving-kindness) we thought you’d love this… It’s a beautiful recording of the metta sutta, in Pali (an ancient Indian language), and chanted by Joe Richardson at the end of Triratna’s 2012 International Retreat.

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What the Buddha said about loving-kindness...

From Loving Kindness - Blazing Like The Sun on Fri, 1 Nov, 2013 - 16:54

Natalie Willmer, from the Auckland Buddhist Centre in New Zealand, with a short talk on the metta sutta – an ancient Pali text that contains some of the Buddha’s words and teaching on metta (loving-kindness). Natalie describes her response to first coming across these words of the Buddha; some of them inspired her, but some of them raised questions…

This is the first of a short series of 10-minute talks from different practitioners from around the world that we’ll...

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The Himalayas, 1950s - links to Triratna tradition

From Lights In The Sky on Thu, 31 Oct, 2013 - 17:28

http://www.vimeo.com/13896385

The Himalayas, 1950s - links to Triratna tradition

From Lights In The Sky on Thu, 31 Oct, 2013 - 17:28BACKGROUND is a 42 minute film I made with Ratnaketu in the style of a pilgrimage to the hermitages and monasteries of Kalimpong, Darjeeling and Sikkim assoiated with Urgyen Sangharakshita, the TBC’s founder, and his principal teachers, Tibetan, Indian and Chinese. A beautiful Himalayan peak, Khangchendzonga, overlooked a resurgence of Buddhism, rather ironically first in the ‘West’ and then the ‘East’.
Enjoyed the film? You can make a donation at http://tinyurl.com/pag4n6g The full cylce of...

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