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FBA Podcast No.246: Dreams and Rebirth by Sangharakshita

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 14 Sep, 2014 - 16:08
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FBA Podcast No.246: Dreams and Rebirth by Sangharakshita

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 14 Sep, 2014 - 16:08Subscribe to the FBA Podcast

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This week’s FBA Podcast is a quite unusual and unexpectedly intimate talk from Sangharakshita, ‘Dreams and Rebirth’. Given at the wonderful old converted church that is now the resplendent Sheffield Buddhist Centre in the UK. Some lovely, evocative accounts from his personal dreamlife – tales of mediaeval monks! - and a significant and highly personal exploration of...
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Get your picture on Triratna News

From Triratna News on Sun, 14 Sep, 2014 - 00:50
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Get your picture on Triratna News

From Triratna News on Sun, 14 Sep, 2014 - 00:50We need great header images from all over the world for the top of Triratna News. Click on the image to the left to see the whole of one we used earlier this year, taken by Shraddhasiddhi at the London Buddhist Centre.

We’d like to feature a new image every month - something from around the world of Triratna in particular, or Buddhism in general. It just has to relate to the Buddha, Dharma or Sangha and be
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Ordinations at Akashavana, Spain

From Triratna News on Sat, 13 Sep, 2014 - 16:30
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Ordinations at Akashavana, Spain

From Triratna News on Sat, 13 Sep, 2014 - 16:30The following women were publicly ordained during a bilingual Spanish-English retreat at Akashavana yesterday, 12th September 2014:

Public preceptor Dayanandi:
Ursula Tidd becomes Dharmakarunya, a Sanskrit name meaning “She Whose Compassion is from the Dharma”. (Long third and final ‘a’; dot under the ‘n’.)
Westernised spelling: Dharmakarunya
Private preceptor Samantabhadri

Sarah Bedworth becomes Sraddhagupta, a Sanskrit name meaning “She who is protected by Faith”. (Accent over the ‘s’; long second and final ‘a’s.)
Westernised spelling: Shraddhagupta
Private preceptor...
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“Pride: The Movie” - the Triratna factor

From Triratna News on Fri, 12 Sep, 2014 - 00:20
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“Pride: The Movie” - the Triratna factor

From Triratna News on Fri, 12 Sep, 2014 - 00:20

A new British comedy film opens today in the UK. One of the conditions for the arising of this moving and hilarious film is a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order: Upekshapriya, member of the Manchester sangha and longtime film-maker at Clear Vision.

Starring leading British actors Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton, Pride: The Movie is an account of a little-known episode in recent British history. In the 1980s, under Margaret Thatcher’s government, a group of...
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Dharmabytes Podcast - The Bardo of Dream by Sangharakshita

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 10 Sep, 2014 - 15:25
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According to Tibetan tradition, in the bardo, an ‘intermediate state’ in the endless round of birth and death, we are free for an instant from that round. The Tibetan book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) describes six of these opportunities for escape from reactivity. In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “The Bardo of Dream,” Sangharakshita describes the second of the six bardos, the bardo of dreams. From the talk “Psycho-Spiritual Symbolism...
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Cultivating Dhyana

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 9 Sep, 2014 - 17:44

Cultivating Dhyana

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 9 Sep, 2014 - 17:44The experiences of steady concentration and profound bliss that are cultivated in meditation are accessible to anyone who makes the effort. In this workshop we will look at the factors that constitute what we in the West have come to call “higher consciousness”. We will discuss how to recognize these factors, and how to make a place for them in our lives.

Led by Suddhayu with 20+ years of meditation experience, a most excellent teacher! Offered by donation, $40-20 suggested.
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Equanimity

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 9 Sep, 2014 - 01:26

Equanimity

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 9 Sep, 2014 - 01:26This week’s inspiration come from Nicholas who recently emailed me a collection of Zen anecdotes

Traveler: “What kind of weather are we going to have today?”

Shepherd: “The kind of weather I like.”

Traveler: “How do you know it will be the kind of weather you like?”

Shepherd: “Having found out, sir, that I cannot always get what I like, I have learned to always like what I get. So I am quite sure...
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3rd International Council - Executive Summary

From Triratna International Council on Fri, 5 Sep, 2014 - 17:28
From 5-13 August this year, 28 members of the Triratna Order from 9 countries met at Adhisthana to discuss a range of issues that are currently alive in the Triratna Community. This is an Executive Summary of the meeting - the 3rd International Council.

Full day-by-day Minutes are also being prepared and will be uploaded on this webspace. In the meantime, you can get a sense of the meeting and the people involved in the meeting by reading the...
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3rd International Council - Executive Summary (print PDF version)8.03 MB
3rd International Council - Executive Summary (web PDF version)2.8 MB
3rd International Council - Executive Summary (B&W printable version)1.37 MB
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Dharmabyte: The Moon and Flowers

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 4 Sep, 2014 - 13:10
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In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “The Moon and Flowers,” Ratnadharini beautifully explores the concepts of karma – our effect on others, and on the world. Includes a quote from Ryokan on the moon and flowers. From the talk “Karma and the Consequences of Our Actions,” given at Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre, 2005, the fourth talk in a five-part series from Tiratanaloka’s retreat on...
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Making a Living

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 2 Sep, 2014 - 08:14

Making a Living

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 2 Sep, 2014 - 08:14The Buddha thought the way we make our livelihood so important that it is number five in his noble eightfold path; the non-linear series of steps that one needs to take in order to get enlightened.

Our Dharma study group discussed ‘perfect livelihood’ at our most recent Sunday morning study and I was challenged by just how fundamental this truth is. It gets right to the core of our being in the sense that so much of our...

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