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Dharmabyte: Living Sangha

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 17:15

This Dharmabyte podcast is called Living Sangha from Abhayanandi, in an excerpt from a talk of the same name.

Imagine being part of a community marked by autonomy and connection, abundant with supportive love and friendship. The Buddha famously said that fellowship is the whole of the spiritual life. Is that really true?!

Abhayanandi has been following this teaching notably by living in a residential Buddhist community and working in...
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Dharmabyte: Broken Images

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 17:07

This Dharmabyte podcast is from Sangharakshita, entitled: Broken Images, an excerpt from the talk The Journey to Il Convento.

The journey symbolises a pilgrimage through the ruins and broken images of Christian civilisation and culture, progressing through a world of archetypal forms, and potentially taking us to the very threshold of Enlightenment.

N.B. A few words missing. Talk given in 1984. 

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Dharmabyte: Emotion in the Spiritual Life

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 17:02

This Dharmabyte podcast is from our Triratna Buddhist Community founder, Sangharakshita, entitled: Emotion in the Spiritual Life.

The central problem of spiritual life is the mobilisation of our emotional energies, so that what we know can be put into practice. Energies may be blocked, wasted or too coarse, and the Buddhist puja takes us through a series of devotional moods to help liberate them.

The full talk, Poetry...
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Dharmabyte: Metta as Dependent Arising

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 16:56

In this Dharmabyte podcast Dayajoti speaks on Metta As Dependent Arising. From a talk of the same title, given on a Metta as a Path to Insight Retreat in 2015.

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Dharmabyte: The Bodhisattva Vision

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 16:50

This Dharmabyte podcast is an excerpt from The Bodhisattva Vision.

Visuddhimati launches the Triratna Urban Retreat on the theme of the greater mandala of uselessness - a teaching Sangharakshita has given us in 1976 derived from the Ratnagunasamcayagatha Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. 

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Breaking the silence, changing the story: Buddhism versus neoliberalism

From Shabda Articles on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 08:43

(Open to all)

This is a very brief introduction to neoliberal ideas and some of the ways they affect the current global political and ecological situation.  It explores many ways Buddhism and Buddhists are already presenting profound challenges to the neoliberal story - and celebrates this range of responses.  There’s a great deal of excellent work already going on, a better world is certainly possible, and there are very many ways we can build transforming the world into our collective and personal...

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Buddhism versus neoliberalism1.53 MB
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BAM Handbooks - ideas and inspiration for June!

From Buddhist Action on Sun, 27 May, 2018 - 15:46

I’ve attached the Triratna version of the Buddhist Action Month Handbook which  I compiled in 2016 and is full of suggestions and ideas for Buddhist action ranging from litter picks over guerrilla gardening to a commitment to a month of ‘five minute interventions’. 

It also contains an Event Planning Guide, a template for an Energy Audit for your Buddhist Centre, supporting info on how to become a Sustainable Buddhist Centre and other helpful ideas. 

In addition and more up to date in terms of...

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buddhist_action_month_2016_handbook_final.pdf11.83 MB
2018_bam_handbook_nbo_version_.docx1.04 MB
bam_2017_handbook_nbo_version_.pdf7.29 MB
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New Research on Asoka's Dates (and thus the Buddha's)

From Shabda Articles on Sun, 27 May, 2018 - 13:41

New Research on Asoka's Dates (and thus the Buddha's)

From Shabda Articles on Sun, 27 May, 2018 - 13:41

I had the pleasure of meeting Joe Cribb on Friday evening (25 May 2018). Joe was keeper of coins at the British Museum and is an expert in early coins in the area of what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan. The gist of his lecture for the Ancient India and Iran Trust was a revised chronology of the Kushan period of Gandhāra, ca. 1-500 CE. The lecture covered much the same ground as a recent paper: Numismatic evidence...
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Resignation of Amaracitta

From Order Connection on Sat, 26 May, 2018 - 20:36

Resignation of Amaracitta

From Order Connection on Sat, 26 May, 2018 - 20:36

Dear Order Members,

Amaracitta from Minden, Germany, has resigned from the Order. I received her letter of resignation, translated by her private preceptor Prasadavati, two weeks ago and have since been in correspondence with both Amaracitta and Prasadavati. They are in good contact and have been so also during the last three years while Amaracitta chose to withdraw from Triratna activities to clarify her relationship to the Order. It has been clear from my communication with Amaracitta...
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Forthcoming Ordinations at Akashavana Retreat Centre

From Order Connection on Sat, 26 May, 2018 - 20:31

Forthcoming Ordinations at Akashavana Retreat Centre

From Order Connection on Sat, 26 May, 2018 - 20:31

Dear Order Members,

We are pleased to inform you that the following twenty one women are soon to be ordained here at Akashavana. The Private Ordinations will begin on May 26th. The Public Ordinations will take place on June 2nd, during a ceremony that starts at 11am Spanish time. 

  • Karen Liebenguth
  • Holly Murray
  • Michaela Bueschler
  • Eileen McCarney
  • Sarah Thorne
  • Tanja Stevanovic
  • Susanne Haynes
  • Savanna Luraschi
  • Ros Murphy
  • Elaine Jackson
  • Fiona Johnston
  • Rachel Green
  • Jolanda Acquoij
  • Jules Jackson
  • Nora Judd
  • Kerstin Gleim
  • Sue Yeo
  • Anne Lavergne
  • Bettye Pruitt
  • Annika Buchheister
  • Mary Schaefer

With metta,
The Akashavana Community

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