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Candradasa

Letters of Compassion with Yashobodhi

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:59

Letters of Compassion with Yashobodhi

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:59

🧘 ✍️ Saturday December 20: Join us for a reflective end to 2025!

As 2025 draws to a close, we invite you to join us in tuning into compassion for ourselves and others. After all, it’s been quite a year!

We will meditate together, write, reflect and gently turn towards what did and didn’t go well in the past twelve months. Recalling that we are on this weird and wonderful journey together and can only do our best! Things can get overwhelming at...
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Maitreyabandhu

College Forum: A Crisis for Young People

From Community Highlights on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:42

College Forum: A Crisis for Young People

From Community Highlights on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:42

This event is open to everyone, so do invite your sangha friends to come along!

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Dear friend,

Many of us in the College have been concerned about the lack of young people involved in our movement and entering the Order. Certainly, when I got started going to the London Buddhist Centre in the 1980s, pretty much everyone was young: the Chair was 35 and, like most people getting involved at that...
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Maitreyabandhu

College Forum: A Crisis for Young People

From Community Highlights on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:42

College Forum: A Crisis for Young People

From Community Highlights on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:42

This event is open to everyone, so do invite your sangha friends to come along!

🖥️ Connect on Zoom

Dear friend,

Many of us in the College have been concerned about the lack of young people involved in our movement and entering the Order. Certainly, when I got started going to the London Buddhist Centre in the 1980s, pretty much everyone was young: the Chair was 35 and, like most people getting involved at that...
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The Abhayaratna...

October 2025 News

From Abhayaratna Trust on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 14:29

October 2025 News

From Abhayaratna Trust on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 14:29

Read about the success of our 65+ retreat and watch a video of Maitridarshini, a women’s Indian Order convenor, talking about the Dharmacharini Health project in India, initated by the AbhayaratnaTrust,  in our latest newsletter. Click here
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Shantiprabha

Memorial for Khemavira

From Order Connection on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 12:24

Memorial for Khemavira

From Order Connection on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 12:24

The memorial for Khemavira from Birmingham in the UK will take place at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre on Wednesday 3rd December 2025 starting promptly at 12.00pm. A vegetarian lunch will be provided afterwards.

If you would like to attend please let me know using this special email address: memorialreplies [at] gmail.com
Please also inform me if you have any special dietary requirements.

Shantiprabha
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Luke Penkett

Review: The Heart’s Awakening: 108 Steps to a Life of Love by Bodhipaksa

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 09:44
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Review: The Heart’s Awakening: 108 Steps to a Life of Love by Bodhipaksa

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 09:44

To assist us as we journey through The Heart’s Awakening we have four places of rest, four opportunities to take a step back and reflect, in turn, on kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. To help us reflect, Bodhipaksa – founder of Wildmind (an online meditation resource), publisher of guided meditations, and provider of online instruction – provides us with 108 points to ponder – the same number of beads as on a mala – 27 for each place of reflection, and...
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Free Buddhist Audio

The Space Where Freedom Lives

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 00:00
At Tuesday's Sangha Night, we'll be hearing from Paranita about 'The Space Where Freedom Lives'. We'll visit the final outer rim of the wheel, the chain of conditions that is our own life, and find the doorway from which we can make our Great Escape from the sufferings of samsara. We'll hear how it is in our everyday lives to practice in the famous gap, with examples and practices that can lead us to a greater sense of agency, confidence, freedom and ease. During this theme we'll be looking at The Wheel of Life, a living symbol that encompasses the entirety of existence. We'll learn how to escape from the prison and sufferings of Samsara, towards ever increasing positive and expansive states of being, towards the ultimate goal of Awakening. We'll be taking a contemporary look at this ancient symbol, visiting it's realms and their beings from the depths of the hell realm to the heights of the heavenly abodes, and asking what do these realms look like in our modern society and world? Expect support for home practice, practical ideas of how to bring these traditional teachings into your everyday life, and reflections on how to make your Great Escape!
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Free Buddhist Audio

Adventures of a 'young' Buddhist Working In India

From Birmingham Buddhist Centre on Tue, 4 Nov, 2025 - 00:00
As a young Mitra I was asked a question which would change the course of my life; 'would I come and work for Subhuti as his PA?' In that moment I saw the next few years flash before my eyes; sickness, stress, overwhelm - but I knew if I said no I'd spend the rest of my life wondering what could have happened. I did say yes and I did get stressed, overwhelmed and really quite sick - but the adventure, the opportunity to live and work alongside our friends in India was totally worth it.
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Centre Team

Mara the Mischief Maker (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 3 Nov, 2025 - 12:32

Dharmacharini Vidyajyoti, who passed away in 2010, offers a sparkling talk on a key part of the Buddha’s legendary life story - his encounter with Mara. She’s the ideal person to introduce the figure and the seriousness of her topic comes through well amidst the laughter and the key references to art and culture. 

Mara isn’t the devil but what he represents is a challenge for us all in everyday life. Let Vidyajyoti’s voice from the past bring him...
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Maitreyi

Resignation of Padmadrishti 

From Order Connection on Mon, 3 Nov, 2025 - 11:32

Resignation of Padmadrishti 

From Order Connection on Mon, 3 Nov, 2025 - 11:32

Dear Order Members, 

I have received a letter of resignation from Padmadrishti who has been connected with the Bristol Sangha in the UK for many years.

Padmadrishti was ordained at Akashavana in 2009 and I was her public preceptor. Her private preceptor was Ratnavandana.

Ratnavandana and I have been in touch with Padmadrishti since she let us know of her intention to resign from the Order and we both know...

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