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Dharmabyte: Extending the Refuges

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 27 Dec, 2021 - 06:00

Ratnaprabha describes Nagarjuna’s Five Great Stages of Spiritual Development as expounded in ‘The Precious Garland’ on leading the spiritual life. Recollection, Positivity, Openness, Renewing, and Spontaneous Compassionate Action ultimately lead us to making the Dharma available to others, the greatest gift we can give.

Excerpted from the talk A System of Spiritual Development given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2002.

The companion talk referenced is called Creating Sangha and Changing the World by Saddhaloka.

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The Buddhist Centre Online Highlights from 2021

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 26 Dec, 2021 - 12:58

The Buddhist Centre Online Highlights from 2021

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 26 Dec, 2021 - 12:58

2021 has been another rollercoaster of a year: with the three of the traditional ‘four sights’ of old age, sickness and death an ever present backdrop. But 2021 has also been interspersed with moments of beauty, generosity, connectedness and hope.

Our team has been busy this year keeping the fourth sight—the Dharma—alive; fostering community—sangha—at a time of continued uncertainty.

Looking back over the year, here are some of our highlights from the year that was 2021:

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The Buddhist Centre Online Highlights from 2021

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 26 Dec, 2021 - 12:58

The Buddhist Centre Online Highlights from 2021

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 26 Dec, 2021 - 12:58

Our team has been busy this year keeping the fourth sight—the Dharma—alive; fostering community—sangha—at a time of continued uncertainty.

Looking back over the year, here are some of our highlights from the year that was 2021:

Support The Buddhist Centre Online in 2022—and beyond!...

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Could you be the new Centre Manager for Brixton?

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Sun, 26 Dec, 2021 - 07:23

This is a rare opportunity to join a warm, friendly and spiritually vibrant situation in a full-time financially supported role. This role is at the very heart of our Brixton community, and is a key one in terms of supporting the increasing breadth, depth and unity of our sangha.

We are particularly keen to attract an Order Member from outside our immediate sangha to this role, however we would also consider a committed GFR Mitra, especially where they have existing connections...

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Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: Perfecting Generosity, Ethics and Patience

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 25 Dec, 2021 - 06:00

Here Padmavajra explores a great classic of Tibetan Buddhism – Gampopa’s ‘Jewel Ornament of Liberation’. The work, inspired by devotion to Manjusri, is one of the key texts in the development of the Tibetan Lam Rim teachings. And Gampopa, being one of the two principle disciples of the yogi Milarepa, presents both the monastic Lam Rim approach of Atisha and the Mahamudra meditation teachings of Milarepa himself.

This is the seventh talk in an eight part series entitled ...

Alana Terry

Join the team at the North London Buddhist Centre

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Fri, 24 Dec, 2021 - 17:00

Join the team at the North London Buddhist Centre

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Fri, 24 Dec, 2021 - 17:00

Are you dynamic? Versatile? A team player? Wanting to work in Team Based Right Livelihood?

The North London Buddhist Centre is looking for two Triratna Order Members or Mitras to join our small, friendly and dedicated Centre Team, helping the Three Jewels to flourish and grow in North London.

This an excellent opportunity to integrate your work with your practice in a supportive context. We are looking for people who are keen to work for the movement, who value being part of a team...

Sadayasihi

The Myth of Meditation: A Home Retreat with Paramananda and Friends

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 23 Dec, 2021 - 13:58

The Myth of Meditation: A Home Retreat with Paramananda and Friends

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 23 Dec, 2021 - 13:58

Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a safe space to go deeper into experience and practice.

Friday 25th February - Thursday 3rd March 2022

Reserve a space now!

About the retreat
With his deeply grounded approach to Buddhist meditation and practice, Paramananda offers an approach that is a challenge both to the way we experience ourselves, and the way in which we see and ‘be’ in the world.

He guides us in rooting meditative experience in the body,...

Sadayasihi

Book Launch - Entertaining Cancer: The Buddhist Way

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 23 Dec, 2021 - 11:50

Book Launch - Entertaining Cancer: The Buddhist Way

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 23 Dec, 2021 - 11:50

Windhorse Publications will be holding an online book launch to mark the publication of Entertaining Cancer: The Buddhist Way by Devamitra.

In Entertaining Cancer, Devamitra chronicles his years of treatment for prostate cancer. He describes the fatigue, the heightened sense of being alive, and the discomforts and indignities of treatment. He also draws on the deep well of his Buddhist...

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Dharmabyte: Sangha as Ideal Way of Human Relating

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 23 Dec, 2021 - 06:00

Padmakumara tells the story of three monks living together in harmony like milk and water.

Excerpted from the talk I Read the News Today, Oh Boy given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2007.

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The Diamond Sutra, Non-Duality and Patience

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 23 Dec, 2021 - 00:00

In this talk given during the Winter Retreat at Padmaloka, Padmavajra explores the profound truth of the Diamond Sutra, Bhante Sangharakshita's relationship with the text, as well as providing us with inspiration and instructions for practicing patience in our daily life.

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