From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 18 Feb, 2014 - 10:58 Recently in our Dharma study group Michael did something spectacular. He gave away a bunch of books from his Dharma library. Not only did he do that but he had thought carefully about the recipient of each book and matched the gifts to the individual.
Acts of generosity and kindness ………. So beautiful and inspiring……………
I received a copy of ‘The Art of Meditation’ by Matthieu Ricard; a French monk who gave up a promising career in...
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is a short talk by Ratnaguna about the metta bhavana, or development of loving kindness, given at the Manchester Buddhist Centre in February 2012.
From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 15 Feb, 2014 - 21:06We aim to express themes in our weekly FBA Podcasts and twice-weekly Dharmabytes. This month we’ve moved from the depths of consciousness, to reflections on Bhante as friend, from the Bodhicitta, to the Karyaniya Metta Sutta and the power of love. This theme may not be obvious to most, but for our podcast compiler, Viriyalila, this progression is all about faith, perhaps more personal than most of our themes, but a theme none the less. ...
From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 15 Feb, 2014 - 20:11As promised, we are delighted to bring you“The Power of Love” in this week’s FBA Podcast. Padmavajra begins this talk with the chanting of The Karaniya Metta Sutta, in order to invoke ‘the blessing power of loving kindness’, which according to the sutta needs to be wielded at all times. He explores all of the stages of the metta bhavana (development of loving-kindness practice), as well as showing how metta can lead...
From Windhorse Evolution on Fri, 14 Feb, 2014 - 16:02New View Residential is a Buddhist inspired residential letting and property management company based in Cambridge UK. Founded in 2010 the vision of the business is to raise money for Triratna projects and local charities, promote Buddhist values through ethical business practices and to provide Team Based Right Livelihood employment.
This is a key role in a new and expanding Buddhist business and offers opportunities for taking responsibility and could develop into a senior management position...
Our drop-in classes on Buddhism and meditation are now being held at Adhisthana, Coddington Court, Coddington, HR81JL every week from 7.15pm to 9.30pm - and no matter whether you’ve been meditating for years or have never meditated at all, you’re very welcome to join us!
From Triratna News on Thu, 13 Feb, 2014 - 17:13Ecodharma, a Triratna retreat centre in the Catalan Pyrenees, has established a new bursary fund to enable young people to take part in nature connection retreats. Awards are available from April this year to attend both the Ecodharma Wildcamp and the Meeting the Wild retreat.
The Centre’s nature-based practice series is a core strand of its work. “Ecodharma is all about connection,” explains Centre Director Guhyapati. “Living in times characterised by alienation, we...
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, takes us deep into the Pali Suttas as practice. Here, Padmavajra chants Karaniya Metta Suttaas the opening to his talk, “The Power of Love”, which will be podcast in full this weekend.
It is our pleasure to share that the pilgrims from Canada, UK, USA and Japan visited to our BH boys hostel at Gorewada, Nagpur. They all were very happy & enjoyed to see and meet children. All the children of the hostel project were so happy to see overseas guests and to share them. On this ocassion our student...
PTP would like to share you all that recently Dhammachari Tejadhamma spoken about his life and the work including projects run by People to People with the pilgrims organized by Virdhamma and Manidhamma. He specially mentioned about the project run for the Vadaar Community who are known as wanderer or DNT or tribes or Adivasi. This event happened at...
