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Dharmabyte: Clinging to Aspects of Practice Separates Us

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 19 Dec, 2022 - 06:00

Whatever we’re doing, whether we’re meditating, working, communicating, or singing, becomes a vehicle to ‘grow’ awareness. Mindfulness becomes panoramic and we live with immediacy and creativity. How do we relate to different aspects of our practice? How do we relate to the practice of others? Vajradevi encourages us to be on the lookout for attachment to views regarding our Dharma practice and the tendency to compare ourselves, furthering the divide between self and other.

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FBA Podcast: The Buddha’s Conversations with Kings

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 17 Dec, 2022 - 06:00

The Buddha spoke to everybody, from homeless wanderers to kings. So when King Ajatassattu wants to go to war against the Vajjian people, he asks the Buddha’s advice! In this engaging talk, Vajratara unpacks the Buddha’s reply, as he explains the ‘seven things’ which should be in place in order for a society to prosper and not decline. How might this teaching be interpreted in modern day terms, and what can it tell us about how we can...
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Appointment of an International Movement Coordinator

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Dec, 2022 - 18:52

Appointment of an International Movement Coordinator

From Order Connection on Fri, 16 Dec, 2022 - 18:52

In August this year a new role of International Movement Coordinator was announced and expressions of interest were called for.   

We are pleased to inform the Order that after a full application and interview process, Jnanadhara - from Dublin, Ireland - has been appointed.

The work of the International Council has highlighted how little international coordination the Movement strand has in comparison with the more developed international structures of the Order and the College. This lack of coordination hampers the Movement’s capacity to share experience and agree common approaches to teaching and practice...
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The Beauty of Mantra and Harmony

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 16 Dec, 2022 - 16:23

The Beauty of Mantra and Harmony

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 16 Dec, 2022 - 16:23

Back in 2016, Vipulakirti led a few volenteers from the Birmingham Buddhist Centre Sangha in recording several beautiful mantras that he has composed over the years.

Inspired by the expansive qualities of Ancient Gregorian Chant these recordings are designed to help the listener learn both the mantra and the associated harmonies. In each recording you’ll hear the first and second parts sung separately, followed by both of them together. Here you’ll find a downloadable PDF featuring the musical scores.

The recordings...
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Weekly Bodhicitta Practice over Christmas

From Order Connection on Thu, 15 Dec, 2022 - 13:53

Weekly Bodhicitta Practice over Christmas

From Order Connection on Thu, 15 Dec, 2022 - 13:53

This year both Christmas Day and New Years Day fall on Sundays. 
You can still join a Bodhicitta session on these days, at 7:30am UK time.

There will however be no second session (2:30pm UK time).


Normal service of two sessions will resume on Sunday 8th January 2023.
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Dharmabytes: A Deeper Imaginative Experience

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 15 Dec, 2022 - 11:53

Samantabhadri explores our deeper imaginative experience of the physical world, of beauty and of the transcendental. This arises in ritual and devotion through more subtle experience of the body, speech and mind and thus within gesture and movement, words and mantra, atmosphere and transcendental presence.


Excerpted from the Being with the Transcendental through Imagination and Ritual as part of the series Ritual and Imagination Retreat 2022, recorded at Taraloka Retreat Centre...
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Triratna Valderrobres Appeal

From Triratna News on Thu, 15 Dec, 2022 - 09:56

Triratna Valderrobres Appeal

From Triratna News on Thu, 15 Dec, 2022 - 09:56

After many years of local people being curious; “who are these women dressed in blue going up the mountain to Akashavana Retreat Centre?”, Mumukshu and Karunavapi are now delighted to offer them the opportunity to find out. When around 100 local people attended the opening of Centro Mandala, where Triratna Valderrobres will have it’s home, it confirmed this interest.

Valderrobres is a small medieval town in rural Aragon, close to the border with Catalonia and Valencia regions, and the arrival...
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The first Order Sadhana Convention

From Order Connection on Thu, 15 Dec, 2022 - 09:07

The first Order Sadhana Convention

From Order Connection on Thu, 15 Dec, 2022 - 09:07

October 2022 saw the very first Triratna Order Sadhana Convention take place at Adhisthana. Around eighty Order members gathered in person and almost another eighty online to explore, deepen and share sadhana practice. Vijayamala – stepping in for Vessantara who was unwell – ably and expertly guided us through the rich world of sadhana, with Moksanandi and Paramatha leading beautiful rituals connecting us to aspects of the enlightened mind. We met in kula groups of folks with the same - or similar – yidam and...
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Dharmabyte: We Are Beautifully Flawed

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 15 Dec, 2022 - 06:00

Life is a delightful, complex, messy business. How do you respond to the existential human predicament? Do you wonder how best to balance your spiritual longings while honouring our ordinary human life? Here, Manjunaga offers reflections on the tendency to skip over the messy bits of ourselves (aka spiritual bypassing) as occupational hazard in the spiritual life.

Excerpted from the talk The Universe Is Expanding: Soulful Reflections On the Human Predicament given...
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Resignation of Tarodaya

From Order Connection on Wed, 14 Dec, 2022 - 13:14

Resignation of Tarodaya

From Order Connection on Wed, 14 Dec, 2022 - 13:14

Dear Friends,

I am very sorry to have to announce the resignation of Tarodaya.

Tarodaya is from the Netherlands and lived in the women’s community in Amsterdam for a couple of years. She drifted out of deeper contact with the Sangha gradually but especially during the Covid lockdown. She leaves with positivity and gratitude for her time in the Order and Movement but also feeling that the commitment of being an Order Member had been...

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