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Your Support Needed! Click To Help Colchester Buddhists Go Solar...

From Community Highlights on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 17:45

Your Support Needed! Click To Help Colchester Buddhists Go Solar...

From Community Highlights on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 17:45

Hey, everyone! Can you help us with something very specific?

Our great friends in Colchester Buddhist Centre - who helped pioneer the Sustainable Buddhist Centre Scheme - just need about 200 of us to vote for them in their noble environmental quest to win funding for solar panels at their Buddhist Centre! There are 250 of us in this group alone…

It’s all based on most votes received and ends in two days on the 30th. Colchester were doing well and were in...

Munisha

European Buddhist Union calls for compassion for refugees

From Triratna News on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 13:42

European Buddhist Union calls for compassion for refugees

From Triratna News on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 13:42

Last weekend I represented Triratna at the 40th Annual General Meeting of the European Buddhist Union. at the Rigpa Centre in Berlin.

At the particular request of Hungarian and Austrian Buddhists, a subgroup including me drafted a statement to be published in the name of the EBU: ‘A compassionate response to the European refugee crisis’.

“[We] call upon the governments and peoples of all European countries to show compassion and generosity to those displaced through war and seeking a refuge in Europe, safe from violence.

“As...

Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: Unified, not Unisex

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 Sep, 2015 - 11:00

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte continues our series of podcasts on the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled “Unified, not Unisex”. From the talk “The Six Distinctive Emphases of the FWBO”, here Sangharakshita outlines the Triratna principle of open ordination to men and women on equal terms, and an Order that accepts those of all lifestyles, races, classes and sexual orientations – a quite revolutionary stance in the Buddhist world.

Talk given at Padmaloka...

Munisha

Buddhists On the Refugee Crisis

From Community Highlights on Sun, 27 Sep, 2015 - 16:41

I’ve been at the European Buddhist Union AGM conference in Berlin representing Triratna this weekend. You can follow our coverage on Instagram and Facebook.

Here I’m talking to Martin Schaurhofer (Austrian Buddhist Society) and Žarko Andrićević (Ch’an, Croatia) about the current refugee crisis - and a Buddhist response.

Here is the EBU’s public statement

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sheena

Stop, Look and See What Arises

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 27 Sep, 2015 - 15:30

Stop, Look and See What Arises

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 27 Sep, 2015 - 15:30

I really loved hearing Amaragita’s welcome to the retreat. I also found it painful. I experienced envy and jealousy. A hunger to ‘intervene in [my] life as usual’ and ‘untangle [my] existential knots’. I resonated with her description of a sense of needing to stop; of everything shouting ‘stop’!

I have stopped a few times today. I woke early to meditate and check in to the retreat. Instead both my children woke early too....

karunagita

At the Close of the First Full Day

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 27 Sep, 2015 - 15:04

At the Close of the First Full Day

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 27 Sep, 2015 - 15:04

It is a privilege to be able to support mothers on a retreat and inspiring to see how much impact a relatively short space of time in a place such as Taraloka can have. There is a huge amount of appreciation and the atmosphere on the retreat was warm and friendly from the Friday evening, as mothers connected easily with each other.

This afternoon people met in smaller groups to discuss whatever was arising for them at the time. One...

Free Buddhist Audio

Karunagita - Lightening the Load

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 27 Sep, 2015 - 00:39

Karunagita - Lightening the Load

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sun, 27 Sep, 2015 - 00:39

A great talk from Karunagita, author of A Path For Parents, with some key practical insights for anyone trying to figure out how to go deeper with their practice while raising children. We get a moving evocation of parenting as a distinct context for working with our conditioning, our views, and for learning to break our habits in order to cultivate ever deeper levels of awareness and love.

And as you might expect, all the earned wisdom of this talk...

karunagita

What have you brought with you?

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 26 Sep, 2015 - 14:11

What have you brought with you?

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 26 Sep, 2015 - 14:11

When people at the start of the retreat were asked what questions or musings this they brought with them, the main themes that emerged were:

finding more spaciousness in life that feels pressurised, busy or noisy
how to be more present and mindful with our children
how to share our spiritual life with our families
questioning whether we are good parents or doing okay, even if we sometimes loose our tempers…
Where do we end and our children begin
where are we, where are our hearts, within all that we

sheena

A Morning Puja - Four Reminders, Three Terrible Oaths

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 26 Sep, 2015 - 13:52

A Morning Puja - Four Reminders, Three Terrible Oaths

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 26 Sep, 2015 - 13:52

The Terrible Oaths bit is something that Dayaka added for Buddhafield North to Vessantara’s Morning Puja!

It’s very helpful and bracing if I pay attention to it…

The Four Reminders
Life has inevitable difficulties. No one can control it all.

This body is impermanent. Death is certain.

The karma I create shapes the course of my life.

This human birth is precious, an opportunity to awaken.
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Introduction and Dedication Ceremony

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 26 Sep, 2015 - 13:38

The retreat at Taraloka in Wales gets underway with a reassuring and encouraging message from Amaragita for all parents who need to stop from time to time, and then a lovely brief exercise led by Karunagita to ground everyone in the space. Dedicating the “sacred space” of the retreat follows, and we end with a beautiful chanting of the Green Tara mantra. A perfect way to begin…

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