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taking Buddhism to the east Norfolk coast

From Norwich Buddhist Centre on Wed, 17 Jul, 2013 - 10:00

taking Buddhism to the east Norfolk coast

From Norwich Buddhist Centre on Wed, 17 Jul, 2013 - 10:00Taking Buddhism to the coast

It’s been just over a year since the Norwich Buddhist Centre began working in the Great Yarmouth area and now this new and exciting outreach project is really beginning to feel established. The group, which has people coming from all over the borough of Great Yarmouth and from Lowestoft, meets in the beautiful old Quaker Meeting House, a site which was a cell of the Augustan Priory of Gorleston in the 14th century and...
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Dhivan

The Universe Is Waking Up

From Western Buddhist Review on Tue, 16 Jul, 2013 - 20:28

The Universe Is Waking Up

From Western Buddhist Review on Tue, 16 Jul, 2013 - 20:28Thomas Nagel Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
Oxford University Press, 2012, 130pp.

Review by Dhivan Thomas Jones

Thomas Nagel is an American professor of philosophy, perhaps best known for his 1974 article, ‘What is it like to be a bat?’, in which he argued that consciousness, as is occurs in creatures like bats and human beings, means having a point of view on things....
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Creating a Quiet and Friendly Place in our Experience

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 16 Jul, 2013 - 05:57

Creating a Quiet and Friendly Place in our Experience

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 16 Jul, 2013 - 05:57Trying to take the jargon out of meditation I think you can say that it’s consciously creating a quiet, friendly space in our life.

There is something deeply good for us in simply stepping out of the relentless whirl of existence and just experiencing stillness. This can take the form of going for a walk, taking time to watch the waves crash on the shore or going for a run.

All of these things allow us to stop...
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Shakyapada

Notes from an Appealing Buddhist

From Leeds Buddhist Centre on Mon, 15 Jul, 2013 - 15:11

Notes from an Appealing Buddhist

From Leeds Buddhist Centre on Mon, 15 Jul, 2013 - 15:11Life on a Karuna door-knocking appeal

Looking back
Working on a Karuna door-knocking appeal is said to be the ‘classic’ transformative team experience: learning to ask something meaningful of another human being in a way that is authentic and sensitive and, in doing so, helping others who are much less fortunate than oneself. Jenny Roberts has recently returned from one such appeal and now she looks back at how it was for her.

It’s a beautiful sunny day...
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Buddhafield Wednesday Welcome Workshops!

From Community Highlights on Mon, 15 Jul, 2013 - 14:07

Buddhafield Wednesday Welcome Workshops!

From Community Highlights on Mon, 15 Jul, 2013 - 14:07What a lot of treats on offer to welcome you to this year’s Festival! A great line-up to help you arrive and start the journey of Buddhafield 2013!

Buy full Festival, weekend and day tickets!

Wednesday Workshops

Workshop Space 1:
3.30 - 5.30pm ‘Acapella Singing’ with Bee Denning.

7.00 - 9.00pm, ‘Embodied Presence: Conscious Dance Space’ with Lee Bolton & Jamus Wood.

9.30 - 11.00pm, ‘Sound Journey’ with Sika Rose.

Workshop...
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tejadhamma

15 Street Children enrolled in School

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Sat, 13 Jul, 2013 - 18:42
  • New Generation with Confidence!
  • Change in cycle of generation
  • Meet with Parent and Children
  • A young mother with her children
  • 3 daughters and 1 son with father
  • Another mother with her daughters !

15 Street Children enrolled in School

From People to People, Nagpur, India. on Sat, 13 Jul, 2013 - 18:42
PTP is pleased to inform that the 15 nomadic tribes children of Street Children Project run by PTP started to go to school for primary education from urban slum of Nagpur. All the children are from migrated Vadaar community who are known as Nomadic tribes with whom we are working last 3 years.

Initially PTP encouraged to parent...
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Breathworks seeks Promotion and Publicity Co-ordinator

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Sat, 13 Jul, 2013 - 09:33
  • Breathworks: Mindfulness for Health

Breathworks seeks Promotion and Publicity Co-ordinator

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Sat, 13 Jul, 2013 - 09:33Breathworks works to help people living with pain, stress and illness to lead happier, healthier lives, through courses and teacher training in Mindfulness-Based Pain Management.

Job Vacancy: PROMOTION AND PUBLICITY CO-ORDINATOR
Interviewing September for start date early November

This is a new post to support the rapid expansion of Breathworks, including the launch of Vidyamala’s new book Mindfulness for Health in September 2013.

Responsibilities:
· Promoting the Breathworks vision...
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Windhorse: Evolution seek E-commerce Manager

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Sat, 13 Jul, 2013 - 09:29
  • The Windhorse building outside Cambridge, UK

Windhorse: Evolution seek E-commerce Manager

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Sat, 13 Jul, 2013 - 09:29E-commerce Manager

at Windhorse: Evolution Cambridge, UK
An exciting new opportunity is available at Windhorse:Evolution to help establish, manage and move forward online sales for the retail side of the business, Evolution.

If you are interested in working with other Buddhists, have excellent organisational and communication skills, as well as experience or an interest in online retail, then please contact our personnel department to receive the full Job Specification and /or apply: personneladmin [at] ...
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Candradasa

Retreat at Keffolds, 1972

From Community Highlights on Fri, 12 Jul, 2013 - 19:28

Retreat at Keffolds, 1972

From Community Highlights on Fri, 12 Jul, 2013 - 19:28Going around over on Facebook is this great video from the early ’70s featuring many of the early pioneers of the Triratna Buddhist Community. The film was made by Steven Burckhardt and Victress Hitchcock.

Here’s what Kamalashila, Buddhafield’s President, had to say about it:

“This is how it was - and in many ways, is still. 1972, the year I discovered Triratna. Beautifully made with fascinating clips of such luminaries as Subhuti, Dhammadinna, Graham...
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Candradasa

Amaragita On The Buddhafield Family Friendly Retreat

From Community Highlights on Thu, 11 Jul, 2013 - 14:42
A really great conversation with Amaragita, one of the pioneers of Buddhafield retreats that are family friendly, a radical re-imagining of community retreat that has been one of Buddhafield’s most successful projects for 14 years.

How do you maintain a deep practice of the Dharma when you have a family? How can householders bring the Buddha’s teachings to bear on their lives and also feed their own experience into the wider sangha?

A fascinating look at aspects of...

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