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Join Us For An Elemental BAM Meditation!

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Mon, 15 Jun, 2015 - 21:49

Join Us For An Elemental BAM Meditation!

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Mon, 15 Jun, 2015 - 21:49

Following on from last week’s meditation on the Buddha in nature, this Tuesday (16th) we’ll be looking at the elements - earth, water, fire, air - in our experience as we follow the breath…

How to connect
Join us at 2.30pm EST/ 7.30pm UK via our Google + page (you will need a Google account of some kind and will have to add us to your circles. Click ‘hangouts’ in the event posting on our page each week).

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Candradasa

Meditation Tuesday for Buddhist Action Month - On the Elements

From Online Meditators on Mon, 15 Jun, 2015 - 21:25

Meditation Tuesday for Buddhist Action Month - On the Elements

From Online Meditators on Mon, 15 Jun, 2015 - 21:25

This month we’re exploring themes related to Buddhist Action Month (BAM!) and its central focus on sustainability and caring for others. Following on from last week’s meditation on the Buddha in nature, we’ll be looking at the elements - earth, water, fire, air - in our experience as we follow the breath…

How to connect
Join us at 2.30pm EST/ 7.30pm UK via our Google + page (you will need a Google account of some kind and will have...

Vimalasara

The weight we need to lose is of our minds

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Sun, 14 Jun, 2015 - 05:06

The weight we need to lose is of our minds

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Sun, 14 Jun, 2015 - 05:06

I was asked to talk about weight loss - and I balked at the idea - and then I thought let me add to this dialogue - because as far as i am concerned The weight we need to lose is of our minds, we carry so much crap around in our thoughts, that they weigh us down and trigger us to eat. And how sugar can really affect our moods.If we lose weight of our minds, our bodies will...

Munisha

The “Triratna gender-diverse Buddhist group” on Facebook

From Triratna News on Sun, 14 Jun, 2015 - 00:38

The “Triratna gender-diverse Buddhist group” on Facebook

From Triratna News on Sun, 14 Jun, 2015 - 00:38

Triratna has many Facebook pages, personal and collective. Padmavyuha (UK) writes with news about one of the newest, with already nearly 90 members.

The Triratna gender-diverse Buddhist Facebook group is “open to anyone who experiences or identifies themselves as (for example) trans, intersex, genderqueer, gender-questioning or genderless. It’s open to our allies too; anyone who wants to support us better.”

Padmavyuha continues, “The Triratna community is a very nourishing environment for many women and men practising the Dharma, but not everybody experiences themselves simply...

Munisha

Form and emptiness: Triratna Stockholm holds first LGBTQ retreat

From Triratna News on Sat, 13 Jun, 2015 - 19:02

Form and emptiness: Triratna Stockholm holds first LGBTQ retreat

From Triratna News on Sat, 13 Jun, 2015 - 19:02

Vajradarshini is the new Chair of Triratna’s Stockholm Buddhist Centre.

She writes: “Last month the Stockholm sangha held its first LGBTQ (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer/questioning; known in Swedish as HBTQ) retreat, hoisting a rainbow flag at Dharmagiri, our retreat centre north of Stockholm. (Domestic flagpoles are standard in Sweden, flying a penant in the national colours of blue and yellow.) Fifteen Order members, mitras and friends gathered from Sweden, Finland and Norway to explore the way gender...

Mokshini

Is Western Buddhism the perfect ideological supplement to capitalism?!

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Sat, 13 Jun, 2015 - 10:30

Is Western Buddhism the perfect ideological supplement to capitalism?!

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Sat, 13 Jun, 2015 - 10:30

…at least this is what Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic who writes an occasional column for the Guardian newspaper in England, has suggested. Vaddhaka quotes him in his book ‘The Buddha On Wall Street’*:

“According to Zizek, what he calls ‘Western Buddhism’ is the ‘perfect ideological supplement’ to capitalism. He believes that the emphasis in ‘Western Buddhism’ on meditation encourages Buddhists to create an inner distance from the ‘mad dance’ of modern capitalism, to give up any attempt to...

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Kamalashila - Metta Bhavana for Buddhist Action Month (BAM) 2015

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Fri, 12 Jun, 2015 - 17:51

Kamalashila introduces an evening on ‘The Buddha In Nature’ with a Metta Bhavana meditation (‘Cultivation of Loving Kindness’) with an emphasis on letting the breath do the work and allowing a natural feeling of goodwill to flow.

Recorded in Portsmouth, NH, USA, as part of BAM 2015!

Candradasa

Parami - Radical Then Radical Now: The History Of Triratna’s Progressive Vision

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Thu, 11 Jun, 2015 - 17:56

Parami - Radical Then Radical Now: The History Of Triratna’s Progressive Vision

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Thu, 11 Jun, 2015 - 17:56

As part of Buddhist Action Month 2015 and the international Triratna Young Buddhists weekend, we present this archive version of a live streamed Dharma talk and conversation by Parami. The talk and discussion touch on many aspects of what it is to find the meeting place between our own highest values and the world in which we find ourselves practising.

One of the most experienced and pioneering members of our Order, Parami has helped build the Triratna...

Dhammalata

A Creative Space

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 10 Jun, 2015 - 12:35

A Creative Space

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 10 Jun, 2015 - 12:35

A simple way of capturing the benefits of meditation is to say that it is slowing down for long enough to take notice – stopping and seeing.

Meditation is a means of creating more creative space in our experience so that we can notice, reassess and make creative choices.

It is a simple yet profound tool to completely change the way we experience life.

I hope you can make it along to our meditation this week:

Thursday 7 – 8.30 pm

Sunday 8 –...

Singhamanas

Screening 'Planetary' at the LBC

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Wed, 10 Jun, 2015 - 10:23

Screening 'Planetary' at the LBC

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Wed, 10 Jun, 2015 - 10:23

This is a time when humanity has to grow up, cease its endless conflicts and set aside its foolish indulgences to deal with a changing world, to deal with the new world, to deal with a world their ancestors rarely ever had to content with, to face a new and arising set of circumstances that will challenge the intention, the integrity and the will to live.

I went to watch ‘Planetary’ at the LBC on Saturday night. It was made by...

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