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Three Poets at City Gallery

From Wellington Buddhist Centre on Mon, 18 Feb, 2019 - 23:14

In December there was an enjoyable evening at Wellington City Gallery with Maitreyabandhu from the London Buddhist Centre. He was talking with two Wellington poets, Bill Manhire and Jenny Bornholdt, who were reading and talking about their poetry.

Click on the link below to listen.

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Opportunity to share the Dharma in Wellington

From Wellington Buddhist Centre on Mon, 18 Feb, 2019 - 20:05
  • cable car from city to botanical gardens
  • Makara hills and sea
  • Oriental Bay

Opportunity to share the Dharma in Wellington

From Wellington Buddhist Centre on Mon, 18 Feb, 2019 - 20:05

If you’re an enthusiastic younger Order member who’s looking for a change, please consider coming to Wellington for four months or longer. We can offer rent free accommodation and living expenses, plus the use of Achala’s car for the five months of 2019 that he’ll be away. As you’d be staying in Achala’s house, we’d prefer it if you can come before he leaves in early July. You’d be welcome to stay on after he returns (at the end of...
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The Wellington Buddhist centre is moving

From Wellington Buddhist Centre on Mon, 18 Feb, 2019 - 19:29
  • Walls coming into being

The Wellington Buddhist centre is moving

From Wellington Buddhist Centre on Mon, 18 Feb, 2019 - 19:29

The Wellington Buddhist Centre is moving, but not very far! Just across the hall from our old premises!

Our new premises will be twice the size, with a quiet, well insulated environment and more suitable for those who come to practise meditation and learn about Buddhism with all the courses, drop-in classes, and events we offer.

We have been in our current Centre for 6 years now, after a short period of homelessness from our previous premises. Over these 6 years we’ve gradually been...
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On Retreat with Vimalasara

From Wellington Buddhist Centre on Mon, 18 Feb, 2019 - 05:01

On Retreat with Vimalasara

From Wellington Buddhist Centre on Mon, 18 Feb, 2019 - 05:01

Last November while she visited Wellington Vimalasara lead a weekend retreat at Strathean Retreat Centre north of Wellington. Strathean was full to capacity and we had a great mix of Sangha, young and older, those who’d been around for ages and those quite new.

The retreat coincided with Bhante’s funeral. Strathean kindly provided a wifi password and a number of retreatants were up in the...
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FBA Podcast: Spiritual Friendship and the Heart's Release

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 16 Feb, 2019 - 14:00

Our FBA Podcast this week is by Maitreyi entitled Spiritual Friendship and the Heart’s Release. Our teacher Sangharakshita has said: “It is in friendship (maitri) that we may find the emotional equivalent of the intellectual understanding of the doctrine of ‘no self’”. The gift of these teachings can help us move beyond self-clinging into a deeper and far more mysterious connection with one another; a Greater Love.

This was the keynote talk given at Taraloka for the...
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Young Buddhist Coordinator in Australia and New Zealand

From Triratna News on Fri, 15 Feb, 2019 - 10:49
  • ‘Coming Home to Freedom’ retreat with the Melbourne Young Buddhists in November 2018
  • Dhammakumāra
  • Dhammakumāra (right) and Itir who co-led the ‘Coming Home to Freedom’ retreat with the Melbourne Young Buddhists in November
  • Meditating under a tree
  • Sudarshanaloka, New Zealand
  • The ‘Mettā as Insight’ retreat in Sudarshanaloka, New Zealand
  • The ‘Mettā as Insight’ retreat in Sudarshanaloka, New Zealand
  • The ‘Mettā as Insight’ retreat in Sudarshanaloka, New Zealand

Young Buddhist Coordinator in Australia and New Zealand

From Triratna News on Fri, 15 Feb, 2019 - 10:49

In order to build on the already vibrant Young Buddhist activities in Australia and New Zealand, Future Dharma are now supporting a Triratna Young Buddhist Coordinator for the entire Area for 2 days per week. Dhammakumāra, currently Triratna’s youngest Order member, moved from the UK to take up this role in August 2018.

Dhammakumāra is currently based in Sydney but travels to other centres in Australia and New Zealand quite often. Here he explains a bit about the role...
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Pujas with Altitude

From Triratna News on Thu, 14 Feb, 2019 - 17:21
  • Animisha on top of Marsco, one of the Red Cuillin on the Isle of Skye, Scotland
  • The space outside the shrine room in Taraloka - soon to be transformed into an Earth-sky garden!

Pujas with Altitude

From Triratna News on Thu, 14 Feb, 2019 - 17:21

Here’s an interesting initiative: Pujas with Altitude! It’s a chance to climb Snowdon, the highest mountain in the UK, take part in three pujas - on lake, hill and ancient woodland - as well as raise money for Taraloka, in particular, to help build an ‘Earth-Sky’ Garden.

Animisha is one person who has accepted this challenge! She writes: “Taraloka has been an important retreat centre for women to be able to come together to practice.  It...
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Dharmabyte: In the World, Not of the World

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 14 Feb, 2019 - 14:00

The new consciousness that emerges does so in stages. In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, we hear from Maitreyabandhu on the particular kind of effort needed in meditation entitled In the World, Not of the World.

From the talk Meditation Essentials: Stages.

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