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Meditation for February

From Online Meditators on Tue, 4 Feb, 2014 - 02:40

From Online Meditators on Tue, 4 Feb, 2014 - 02:40Hi all, thanks for sitting with us through the start of the year. It’s been lovely connecting with some of you as we build our little gang of regular and occasional online meditators! Let’s keep it going now all those New Year’s resolutions have worn off… :)

We’ll be starting February meditations off Tuesday February 4th by continuing our voyage towards absorption and deepening stillness using the breath as an anchor and a reference. Join us for the ...

viriyalila

‘Development’ & Communicating Dharma

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 3 Feb, 2014 - 21:26

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte titled: “‘Development’ & Communicating Dharma” is an excerpt from the talk: “Psychology of Spiritual Development” by Sangharakshita given in 1967. Here, Bhante discusses the meaning of ‘development’ and the problem of communicating the Dharma.
This talk is part of the series Aspects of Buddhist Psychology.

Suryaprabha

A GLIMPSE OF ADHISTHANA IN HD IN FEBRUARY

From Lights In The Sky on Mon, 3 Feb, 2014 - 18:03

A GLIMPSE OF ADHISTHANA IN HD IN FEBRUARY

From Lights In The Sky on Mon, 3 Feb, 2014 - 18:03GLIMPSE of Adhisthana and two men on Order weekend - camera test when sun came out.

viriyalila

FBA Podcast: Consciousness Unfolds

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 1 Feb, 2014 - 13:57

FBA Podcast: Consciousness Unfolds

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 1 Feb, 2014 - 13:57This week for our FBA Podcast we offer a key in accessing the potentiality of consciousness in: “Consciousness Unfolds”. In this first talk from a series of three, Subhuti continues his well-known Rambles Around Reality at the LBC, this time enquiring into the nature of consciousness from the point of view of Urgyen Sangharakshita’s particular presentation of the Dharma

Candradasa

To The Hills

From Community Highlights on Fri, 31 Jan, 2014 - 14:07

To The Hills

From Community Highlights on Fri, 31 Jan, 2014 - 14:07A rather wonderful, beautifully shot film from Shantiketu of the Glasgow Buddhist Centre, detailing a trip some members of the Triratna Buddhist Order made in 2013 to visit places in north east India associated with their teacher Urgyen Sangharakshita, and some of his own main teachers.

Watch another film about pilgrimage to the hermitages and monasteries of Kalimpong, Darjeeling and Sikkim. (From Lights In The Sky.)

lokabandhu

Birmingham Buddhist Centre seeks Maintenance and Improvement Supervisor

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 30 Jan, 2014 - 11:44

Birmingham Buddhist Centre seeks Maintenance and Improvement Supervisor

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 30 Jan, 2014 - 11:44Job Vacancy at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre

Part-time
Maintenance and Improvement Supervisor
To start Spring 2014.

Modest financial support package available (based on a two-and-a-half day working week).

Deadline for completed applications 28 February 2014.

Following the departure of Siddhimala to Dhanakosa after three and a half years, we are looking for another Triratna Buddhist to join the mixed team of eight Order members and Mitras running our Centre here in Birmingham.

As members of...

Munisha

First national survey of Buddhist buildings in England

From Triratna News on Thu, 30 Jan, 2014 - 11:25

First national survey of Buddhist buildings in England

From Triratna News on Thu, 30 Jan, 2014 - 11:25For the first time, England’s Buddhist buildings are the subject of a national survey, as heritage conservation body English Heritage undertakes research in partnership with the Centre for Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds.

It’s heartening to see picture of Triratna’s London Buddhist Centre on the ‘Building Buddhism’ project blog, as well as a list of interesting questions the researchers are asking themselves, such as, “Do Buddhist buildings function in the same way as...

lokabandhu

BAM 2014 - Suggestions for Buddhist Centre or Sangha Actions

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Thu, 30 Jan, 2014 - 10:48

BAM 2014 - Suggestions for Buddhist Centre or Sangha Actions

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Thu, 30 Jan, 2014 - 10:48

Here’s a great list of 20 suggested actions Buddhist Centres and Sanghas can take if they want to be part of BAM 2014. More details for each are given in the notes at the end. Other suggestions welcome too of course!

We’ve divided the list into two parts - “Game-changing Actions” (which will make a real contribution, hopefully ongoingly) and “Symbolic Actions” (which are primarily awareness-raising - a crucial first step of course)

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lokabandhu

Dharmic Reasons to participate in BAM

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Thu, 30 Jan, 2014 - 10:37

Dharmic Reasons to participate in BAM

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Thu, 30 Jan, 2014 - 10:37Dharmic reasons to take part in BAM 2014
BAM is the UK’s Buddhist Action Month, happening nationally in June 2014. Triratna’s European Chairs Assembly adopted it in summer 2013, and in 2014 Triratna are in effect taking the lead in promoting BAM across the UK’s Buddhist Sanghas. The NBO (Network of Buddhist Organisations) will be participating, and it will form part of TiS (Together in Service), an English...

Ratnagarbha

Urthona 30 editorial - twenty one years of inspiration!

From Urthona - A Journal of Buddhism and the Arts on Wed, 29 Jan, 2014 - 12:08

Urthona 30 editorial - twenty one years of inspiration!

From Urthona - A Journal of Buddhism and the Arts on Wed, 29 Jan, 2014 - 12:08Twenty one years of fullness (& emptiness) and still going strong…

(Image left, shows Blake’s firey spirit of revolution Orc, as featured on the cover of Urthona issue one, and our latest 30th issue!)

An extract from the editorial in the current issue of Urthona Buddhist arts magazine, our 30^th issue, published twenty one years after the magazine was founded in 1992.

Twenty-one years seems like a long time! It’s a long time to have been running...

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