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Dharmabyte: Understanding Anatta

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 12 Mar, 2015 - 10:00

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Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is titled: Understanding Anatta. Tackling such terms as self, I, individual, and ego, reveals that each can have both a positive and a negative connotation. What is the self, and how can we cultivate true Individuality?
Talk given in 1970.

From the talk “Individuality, True and False”, by Sangharakshita, part...

Candradasa

Monasteries and the Rainy Season Retreat

From Community Highlights on Wed, 11 Mar, 2015 - 20:24

Take part in a Rainy Season Retreat with us and Bristol Buddhist Centre from March 13th-20th!

A track from the classic 1971 Dharma talk on ‘The Individual, the Group and the Community’ by Urgyen Sangharakshita, exploring how the Buddha and his early disciples practiced together.

Listen to the rest here | Login and join the Rainy Season Retreat Online

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Living In The Mandala - Rainy Season Retreat Online!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 11 Mar, 2015 - 19:30

Living In The Mandala - Rainy Season Retreat Online!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 11 Mar, 2015 - 19:30To mark the arrival of Spring in the northern hemisphere we enjoyed a great, unexpected opportunity to go a bit deeper with our practice together. Bristol Buddhist Centre in the UK took part in a ‘Rainy Season Retreat’ together on the subject of Living In The Mandala - looking at the Brahma Viharas. And they invited everyone to join in online!

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Living in the Mandala - Rainy Season Retreat

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Wed, 11 Mar, 2015 - 15:29

Living in the Mandala - Rainy Season Retreat

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Wed, 11 Mar, 2015 - 15:29From 13th - 21st March Bristol Buddhist Centre will host our second Rainy Season Retreat for Order Members and Mitras. This means suspending all regular Centre activities and classes and dedicating the building to providing as close as we can to retreat conditions for the week.

Last year this had a really positive effect on our Sangha, and was clearly part of us Building a Buddhaland together.

This year we’re fortunate to have Ratnavandana leading the retreat. She...

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Money Awakening

From Adhisthana on Wed, 11 Mar, 2015 - 12:29

Money Awakening

From Adhisthana on Wed, 11 Mar, 2015 - 12:29Led by Amalavajra and Vajragupta

Start Date: 3rd Apr 2015 6.30pm
End Date: 5th Apr 2015 3pm

£70 (Waged/Supported)
£50 (Unwaged/Unsupported)

This retreat is suitable for all who have experience of Triratna meditation practices.

Book Online Here

Is money the last taboo – the topic we don’t like to talk about, the area of our lives in which all sorts of emotions and attitudes lie unexamined? Well, this is a weekend all about...

Nandavajra

Walthamstow Women's Community

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Wed, 11 Mar, 2015 - 11:28

Walthamstow Women's Community

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Wed, 11 Mar, 2015 - 11:28Walthamstow Women’s Community

Would you like to join our women’s Triratna Buddhist community?

The existing community is made up of three women in our mid-twenties to early thirties and a tortoiseshell cat called Maggie. It is a friendly, open and supportive environment which we feel allows our Buddhist practice to really flourish.

In order to create a home that is supportive of our ethics and to allow for effective communication, the house is vegetarian and alcohol free,...

Munisha

"Action from Depth": Ecodharma links up with Gaia House

From Triratna News on Tue, 10 Mar, 2015 - 14:35

"Action from Depth": Ecodharma links up with Gaia House

From Triratna News on Tue, 10 Mar, 2015 - 14:35This summer Ecodharma, a Triratna project in Catalunya, Spain, will be joining forces with Gaia House teacher Rob Burbea and Freely Given Retreats to offer a new training in the UK.

Guhyapati writes: Action from Depth is a shorter remix of the Engaged Buddhist Training that Ecodharma have been developing since 2010. The UK version will be co-designed by Rob and Ecodharma’s Guhyapati, with a strong emphasis on ecological activism just...

Dhammalata

Something personal ......

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 10 Mar, 2015 - 02:58

Something personal ......

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 10 Mar, 2015 - 02:58Dharmalata – Public Ordination 2006 – end of a four month retreat in the Spanish mountains

Sometimes it feels important to share with you from my own practice of meditation: from my own efforts to go beyond where I currently am towards a self that is wiser, kinder and happier.

Whilst it can be inspiring and expansive to read the thoughts, practices and teachings of others it’s also good to just speak from our own heart and...

Candradasa

Tuesday Meditation - 10th March (Changed Time!)

From Online Meditators on Tue, 10 Mar, 2015 - 01:15

Tuesday Meditation - 10th March (Changed Time!)

From Online Meditators on Tue, 10 Mar, 2015 - 01:15N.B. For the next three weeks our Tuesday meditations will be an hour later in the U.S. (same time in the UK). Join us and spend some time sitting with others around the world!

How to connect
Join us on March 10th at 3.30pm 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...

Candradasa

An American Stupa - Gallery

From Community Highlights on Mon, 9 Mar, 2015 - 20:00

An American Stupa - Gallery

From Community Highlights on Mon, 9 Mar, 2015 - 20:00

The creation of this beautiful new stupa at Aryaloka Buddhist Center in the USA, made in classic style by Tibetan artisan builders, has been the work of several years and has turned into an inspiring community-funded project led with enormous energy by ...

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