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Thursday Drop In Dharma Discussion - Oct. 15

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 14 Oct, 2015 - 15:00

Thursday Drop In Dharma Discussion - Oct. 15

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 14 Oct, 2015 - 15:00

We’re holding our weekly Dharma drop-in discussion hosted by Order member Khemavassika on Thursday, October 15 at 3pm ET / 8pm UK! The topics vary week to week and all are welcome to join in - from beginners to more advanced practitioners.

Click to join in the discussion on Google Hangout!

This week we will continue our discussion about the Six Emphases that detail central principles of the Triratna Community, marking what connects us and also what makes us different from other Buddhist traditions. We will look at the principle...
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Colchester Buddhist Centre Wins Huge Grant for Solar Panels

From Community Highlights on Wed, 14 Oct, 2015 - 13:22

Colchester Buddhist Centre Wins Huge Grant for Solar Panels

From Community Highlights on Wed, 14 Oct, 2015 - 13:22

Colchester Buddhist Centre - who helped pioneer the Sustainable Buddhist Centre Scheme - are absolutely delighted to announce that they have won funding for solar photovoltaic panels at their new Buddhist centre, thanks to you and your votes!

It was an amazing effort from all of the Triratna sangha, with votes cast from all over the world! It was a neck-and-neck race at the end as they were almost 100 votes behind in competition with a well-organized village hall for the...
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Jnanasuri's eye-witness account of Dr Ambedkar's conversion

From Triratna News on Wed, 14 Oct, 2015 - 11:21

Jnanasuri's eye-witness account of Dr Ambedkar's conversion

From Triratna News on Wed, 14 Oct, 2015 - 11:21

On this day, 14th October 1956, Dr BR Ambedkar publicly converted to Buddhism, followed by hundreds of thousands of his followers, fellow members of India’s Scheduled Castes, escaping their oppression as what were formerly termed “Untouchable” people. Such mass conversions continue to this day.

As a little girl, Jnanasuri was there at the ceremony in Nagpur. Today she is the most senior Dhammacharini in India; one of Triratna’s two Indian female public preceptors, responsible for the training of the 850 Indian women currently...
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Sitting in Stillness - Online Meditation

From Online Meditators on Tue, 13 Oct, 2015 - 12:28

Sitting in Stillness - Online Meditation

From Online Meditators on Tue, 13 Oct, 2015 - 12:28

As part of our five-week series (you don’t need to have attended previously) this week - Tuesday 13th October - we’ll continuing our exploration of just being with whatever arises in the context of a considered awareness of body, heart and mind; finding the opportunities for peace in the practice of stillness…

Tuesdays 2.30pm EST / 7.30pm UK

How to connect
Add us to your circles on Google + and join the Hangout. We’ll be online 10 minutes before and we’ll sit for...
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Breathworks: Job opportunity - Administrator

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 13 Oct, 2015 - 09:46

Breathworks: Job opportunity - Administrator

Join a vibrant and growing Right Livelihood business based at the West London Buddhist Centre

Breathworks is a growing and dynamic business in the mindfulness sector, offering courses to help people with pain,stress or illness.


We are excited to announce our expansion into the offices at the West London Buddhist Centre and are now looking for a friendly and enthusiastic person to support the Breathworks team member setting up this new venture.


Are you...

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Setting the SELF free

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 13 Oct, 2015 - 03:52

Setting the SELF free

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 13 Oct, 2015 - 03:52

Setting the SELF free

Buddhist teaching is clear that the best way to live is to keep our sense of who we are soft and pliable

Holding tightly to a notion of a fixed, permanent ‘I’ is problematic ……….

We will be most free and happy when we understand that this apparently solid, enduring entity we think of as ME is actually a very fluid, continually changing process and that this process is nothing to be feared or tightly grasped onto ….

Through meditation we can...
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Dharmabyte: The Spiritual Value of the Arts

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 12 Oct, 2015 - 11:00

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte introduces one of the more unique of the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled “The Spiritual Value of the Arts”. From the talk “The Six Distinctive Emphases of the FWBO”, Sangharakshita speaks about the importance that the arts have in cultivating sensitivity to beauty and inspiration in the spiritual life.

Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2002.

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Sacred activism: mindfulness and racial justice

From Earth Metta Sangha on Sun, 11 Oct, 2015 - 12:47

Sacred activism: mindfulness and racial justice

From Earth Metta Sangha on Sun, 11 Oct, 2015 - 12:47

“Sacred activism is available to all of us today and is as simple as taking a first breath in mindfulness, listening deeply to those around us, or fully seeing whatever is present before us. Mindfulness helps us heal from our personal fragmentation so that we can approach our community fragmentation with an open and courageous heart, effecting social change from a place of love and understanding of ourselves, of the communities we serve, and of those we are used to calling enemies.”

This ...
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Dharma talk: Reclamation of the sacred (Thanissara)

From Earth Metta Sangha on Sun, 11 Oct, 2015 - 12:28

This Dharma talk explores collective dislocation, naming colonial devastation and the movement towards tenderness. One of the resources from the Eco-Sattva Training course.

http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/178/talk/27138/

Thanissara, a practitioner since 1975, was a Theravada nun for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally the last 20 years. She is co-founder and director of Dharmagiri Hermitage and Outreach in South Africa and spends time between there and the US. She has an MA in Mindfulness Psychotherapy Practice from Karuna Institute...
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FBA Podcast: The History of and Value in Team-Based Right Livelihood

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 10 Oct, 2015 - 11:00

In this week’s FBA Podcast, Subhuti gives a very comprehensive introduction to one of the Six Emphases of the Triratna Buddhist Community with “The History of and Value in Team-Based Right Livelihood”.

Subhuti gives a rousing talk on some of the history behind team-based Right Livelihood within the Triratna Buddhist Movement. He then goes on to explain why it is so important; because it represents an opportunity to live a ‘full’ Buddhist life for...

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