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Yoga for meditation with Maitripushpa, 12 midday today! Meditations at 13:00 daily

From North London Buddhist Centre on Wed, 25 Mar, 2020 - 11:12

Yoga for meditation with Maitripushpa, 12 midday today! Meditations at 13:00 daily

From North London Buddhist Centre on Wed, 25 Mar, 2020 - 11:12

Here’s a last-minute login to sign up and pay for this class, which you need to do by 11:45 AM today, 25 March. It’s followed by a lunchtime meditation

https://www.northlondonbuddhistcentre.com/?page=bodywork-yoga

Lunchtime meditation classes

Introduction to Meditation with Maitripushpa today, Wednesday 25 March at 13:00.
You will be guided in one of our two core meditation practices: the Mindfulness of Breathing or the Metta Bhavana (loving kindness). Before the meditation, Maitripushpa will teach a yoga for meditation class at 12:00, and after at 15:00 a...

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A Scientist's Tale (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 3)

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 - 23:26

A perfectly formed wee diamond of an episode featuring response and analysis from someone who knows what it’s like at the sharp end of working with viruses in a laboratory setting.

Danabhadri is our guest today, helping us move past the clinical language of “quarantines” and “isolation” towards a practical experience of interconnectedness. Evoking beautifully why that matters, she says:

“The virus is not the monster from the deep. It evolved on this planet the same way we did.” 

Hers is an urgent, challenging, ultimately empathetic...

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The Matrix of Mindfulness with Vajradaka

From North London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 - 16:52

The Matrix of Mindfulness with Vajradaka

From North London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 - 16:52

Tuesdays 24 & 31 March 7-9pm (also 7 April)

Vajradaka’s workshops continue online on the Zoom platform. This one is hosted by the West London Buddhist centre, but Vajradaka will follow up with the North London Centre on 7 April.

“In his characteristic workshop style, Vajradaka will explore how to apply mindfulness to mental and emotional well-being, everyday life as well as personal and spiritual development. Even more relevant than ever!”

You will need to install the Zoom app or programme on your...

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Online meditation this evening

From North London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 - 16:44

Online meditation this evening

From North London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 - 16:44

Our very own Singhashri will be hosting an online meditation tonight (24 March) from 6-7 pm, and every Tuesday and Friday from now on. The link to join is here

Or go to Singhashri’s website here

Our NLBC drop-in online classes in meditation and Buddhism will from now on be free, but can you make a donation of £5 via PayPal for each class you attend online, or more if you can? If you too are running...

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A Buddhist Perspective on the Pandemic: Maitreyabandhu + Jnanavaca

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 - 10:49

A Buddhist Perspective on the Pandemic: Maitreyabandhu + Jnanavaca

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 - 10:49

Jnanavaca and Maitreyabandhu, in the weekly Dharma night class at the LBC, offer their reflections on our current predicament. Together, in conversation, they explore some dharmic perspectives on our experience of our lives and the world in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. 

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Free the Dharma

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 23 Mar, 2020 - 15:47

Free the Dharma

From Windhorse Publications on Mon, 23 Mar, 2020 - 15:47

All our lives are affected by the coronavirus. At home or out helping, we can find ways to look after each other and ourselves. How we are with our minds during this time will impact our experience and relationships and the future we make together.

The Buddha taught how to let go of fear and self-clinging, be alone well, and train ourselves to encounter suffering without alienation or anxiety.

We’d like to do what we can to make the Buddha’s teachings and practices available...

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Free Buddhist video materials for children at home

From Community Highlights on Mon, 23 Mar, 2020 - 13:43

Free Buddhist video materials for children at home

From Community Highlights on Mon, 23 Mar, 2020 - 13:43

Children bored already? With schools closed in many countries around the world many of us are faced with the challenge of keeping our children and teenagers happily occupied, possibly for many weeks, while Coronavirus runs its course.

Clear Vision’s online interactive video materials (for PC) may provide some entertainment, stimulation and education. They’re prize-winning Buddhist materials made for Religious Education lessons in British schools, with activities and notes. Made for children of any faith or none, they are also available for home use free...

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Turning Towards Uncertain Times (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 1)

From Community Highlights on Sat, 21 Mar, 2020 - 00:51

Welcome to The Dharma Toolkit Daily, our new podcast from The Buddhist Centre to keep you company through the weeks or months ahead in these extraordinary coronavirus times. 

We’ll be with you every week day with a diverse range of guests to renew your sense of a wider Dharma community standing with you. What better way to stay connected than to hear the voices of friends and strangers who understand something of what you may be going through in your particular...

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Saturday morning meditation class online with Zoom

From North London Buddhist Centre on Fri, 20 Mar, 2020 - 16:52

Saturday morning meditation class online with Zoom

From North London Buddhist Centre on Fri, 20 Mar, 2020 - 16:52

Karunagita will lead a one hour class tomorrow morning (Saturday 21 March). Please click on the link below at about 10:15 am UK time, and the meditation will start at 10:30. For best results it is worth downloading Zoom for your computer, tablet or smartphone.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/862406988

Suitable for beginners or regular meditators.

Please donate about £5 for the class if you possibly can. The North London Buddhist Centre cannot last very long with it’s...

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Going for Refuge in a Time of Fear

Going for Refuge in a Time of Fear

From Bristol Women training for ordination & local dharmacharinis on Fri, 20 Mar, 2020 - 16:05

I was inspired and settled by this talk by Padmavajra on how to Go for Refuge in times of adversity and fear. Do watch!

The talk was recorded on the 18th March 2020 in the Padmaloka Shrine Room, with an audience of the Padmaloka community.

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