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Contributing to Shabda

From Order Connection on Fri, 27 Apr, 2018 - 11:18

The deadline for submissions is the end of the last day of the month preceding publication. All Shabda content is processed as a batch at the beginning of the month, which means that it is not normally possible to include (or edit or withdraw) any material after the deadline.

Please visit thebuddhistcentre.com/order/shabda and log into your Order account to submit your contribution.

If you can only correspond via email, please send it to the email address above. If...
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Advertising in Shabda

From Order Connection on Fri, 27 Apr, 2018 - 10:28

To minimise the admin overheads of Shabda, all payments for advertising (including notices of all retreats, events, appeals, job vacancies etc) need to be made at the time of submission, so please make payment when you submit your copy unless other arrangements have been made.
All such notices should be submitted as plain-text email messages with only your name in the subject line followed only by +N. Subject lines are machine-read and filtered, and invalid ones may not reach Shabda. (Display...
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Sadayasihi

5 Years Of The Buddhist Centre Online: #4 The Triratna Buddhist Order

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 26 Apr, 2018 - 17:35

5 Years Of The Buddhist Centre Online: #4 The Triratna Buddhist Order

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 26 Apr, 2018 - 17:35

“If the Order is spiritually united, if it is in harmony, then a truly wonderful thing will happen. The Order then will be the locus for the manifestation of the Bodhicitta…I need hardly say how much the world needs the Dharma, needs such an Order, such a movement as ours. I have done what I can. I have started the movement. The future of the Order, of the movement is in your hands.”

Sangharakshita, Looking Ahead...
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Searching for the Sublime

From Western Buddhist Review on Sun, 22 Apr, 2018 - 19:46

Searching for the Sublime

From Western Buddhist Review on Sun, 22 Apr, 2018 - 19:46

Here is a review by Ben Atmer of Vajragupta’s new book from Windhorse Publications:

Vajragupta, Wild Awake: Alone, Offline & Aware in Nature

Windhorse, Cambridge, 2018, £10 pb

review by Ben Atmer

Vajragupta, a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order and writer, has had published a new book based on his long and deep immersion in the practice of solitary retreat. He attempts, for the most part remarkably successfully, to convey his sense of intimacy with the natural world, and tries to suggest just what it...
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Sadayasihi

The Endlessly Fascinating Cry: Saddhanandi Interviews Sangharakshita

From Triratna News on Wed, 25 Apr, 2018 - 20:06

The Endlessly Fascinating Cry: Saddhanandi Interviews Sangharakshita

From Triratna News on Wed, 25 Apr, 2018 - 20:06

On the 7th April 2018 - exactly fifty years after the first public ordinations into the Triratna Buddhist Order - Saddhanandi interviews Sangharakshita, the founder of the Order and movement.  The interview took place during a seminar on the Bodhicaryavatara held in Adhisthana.   To mark the 50th anniversary of the Order, Saddhanandi and Manjuvajra re-visited the ‘Endlessly Fascinating Cry’ which was one of the first seminars that Sangharakshita led in 1973.

The interview covers a wide...
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Satyalila

50 Years, 50 Voices: Danayutta (Highlights)

From Buddhist Voices on Thu, 26 Apr, 2018 - 15:00

The moment she opened the door and I saw the Buddha… I felt fine.

Listen to the whole conversation with Danayutta—and subscribe to the Buddhist Voices podcast for more full-length recordings from Fifty Years, Fifty Voices.

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Danayutta’s Annals
In 1968… not alive.

In 1978… not alive.

In 1988… I was 6 years old, just about to start primary school in a convent in Malaysia. I lived in a big house that my grandfather built, with my father’s extended family (there were his 7 siblings, plus...
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Centre Manager Vacancy at Brighton Buddhist Centre

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 26 Apr, 2018 - 15:28
  • Brighton Buddhist Centre

Centre Manager Vacancy at Brighton Buddhist Centre

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 26 Apr, 2018 - 15:28

Centre Manager Vacancy at Brighton Buddhist Centre   

Our current centre manager is soon leaving after a very productive period of almost three years in post.

We are looking for someone to take the role on. 

The new centre manager would work closely with the Chair and Mitra convenors to support the further development of the Buddhist centre. 

They would also manage and support the centre team who, in addition to the centre manager themself, run the office and manage the Buddhist centre building.  

We are looking for...
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Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: We Are a Flow of Phenomena

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 26 Apr, 2018 - 12:24

This FBA Dharmabyte is called ‘We Are a Flow of Phenomena’ by Dassini from the talk The Therigatha and the Problem of Self.

We hear a verse about no-self from the nun Uttara. This leads on to reflections about how we subtly reinforce a sense of self through feeling embarrassed or irritable.

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The Endlessly Fascinating Cry: Saddhanandi Interviews Sangharakshita

From Triratna News on Wed, 25 Apr, 2018 - 20:06

The Endlessly Fascinating Cry: Saddhanandi Interviews Sangharakshita

From Triratna News on Wed, 25 Apr, 2018 - 20:06

On the 7th April 2018 - exactly fifty years after the first public ordinations into the Triratna Buddhist Order - Saddhanandi interviews Sangharakshita, the founder of the Order and movement.  The interview took place during a seminar on the Bodhicaryavatara held in Adhisthana.   To mark the 50th anniversary of the Order, Saddhanandi and Manjuvajra re-visited the ‘Endlessly Fascinating Cry’ which was one of the first seminars that Sangharakshita led in 1973.

The interview covers a wide...
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Disparities

From Shabda Articles on Wed, 25 Apr, 2018 - 13:53

Disparities

From Shabda Articles on Wed, 25 Apr, 2018 - 13:53

Open to all - see https://www.sangharakshita.org/writings.html

‘You cruel little devil!’ shouted our neighbour over the wire netting that separated her back garden from ours. The reason for her wrath was that I had just ‘shot’ a cat with my water pistol. It was not that I wanted to hurt the cat but only to stop it scratching up my father’s bulbs, and in any case, a few drops of water would do it no harm. 

Recollecting this incident years later, it occurred...

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