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Tibetan Book of the Dead - The Six Bhardos (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 6 Sep, 2025 - 11:00

Padmavajra explores the great text that reveals the realms between death and new life, where anything is possible in the Bardo - the ‘intermediate state’. This is also an excellent introduction to the recent history of the text itself as it has come into the West and influenced practitioners and cultural figures in many significant ways. Overall, this is a challenging and insightful series looking at how a true classic of spiritual literature has relevance to our...

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Distracted From Distraction by Distraction

From Sheffield Buddhist Centre on Fri, 5 Sep, 2025 - 00:00

Mindfulness is at the very heart of Buddhist life, but how do we look after our minds? Do we even know when we’re being distracted! On Tuesday Vimaladasa will explore what it means to live a life compatible with developing a mind ‘clear and radiant’. How should we behave? What is ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’? And does that even matter anyway? In the 1960s, Sangharakshita and other early Western Buddhists asked questions like these. They critiqued society’s views about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ behaviour in the light of The Buddha’s teachings on ethics and karma from 2,500 years earlier in ancient India. However, the world we live in now is very different again from when Sangharakshita gave his lectures on ethics. So what are the current ethical issues that we need to think about as practicing Buddhists in our time, in our society?

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A Victorious Life: Retreat for Fathers

From Community Highlights on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:37

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A Victorious Life: Retreat for Fathers

From Community Highlights on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:37

A Victorious Life: Retreat for Fathers
Led by Saddhaloka, Ratnaghosha + the Triratna Fathers team

At Adhisthana
Start date: 17th Oct 2025
End date: 20th Oct 2025

Studying the Sigalovada Sutta and Sangharakshita’s ‘Being a Buddhist Parent’, we’ll explore what it means to go for refuge to the Three Jewels as a father, with all the demands that life places upon us.
How do we deepen our practice, understanding and friendships to make this a victorious life?

For: Order Members and Mitras – Men

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Pointing to the Moon of Non-Separation

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:00

Pointing to the Moon of Non-Separation

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:00

Pointing to the Moon of Non-Separation
A weekend exploring suññatā as non-separation with Tejananda
3-5 Oct

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In our online retreat earlier in the year, the ‘moon’ to which I was pointing was the unfindability of a separate self. The kind of self that we think we are - persisting, potentially satisfactory and somehow ‘who and what I really am’ - is nothing but a mental fabrication. Our fabricating of this leads to suffering.

This weekend retreat explores the other ‘side’...

Kulanandi

First GFR retreat for Polish women

From Triratna News on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:00

First GFR retreat for Polish women

From Triratna News on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:00

In mid-August, we had the first GFR retreat for Polish women held in the Bodhidharma Zen Retreat Centre in Falenica near Warsaw. Eight women training for ordination attended together with Saddhajala and Kulanandi.

We enjoyed the time together with meditation, ritual, discussion in small groups and above all, doing the Going for Refuge and Prostration Practice, which some...

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Our new grants and care co-ordinator

From Abhayaratna Trust on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 13:01

Our new grants and care co-ordinator

From Abhayaratna Trust on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 13:01

Kshantika, has joined the Abhayaratna Trust team as our new grants and care co-ordinator. We are very happy to have Kshantika take the role and invited her to introduce herself. You can read what she had to say in our August newsletter here: August 2025 News — Abhayaratna trust

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The Eight Freedoms and The Ten Endowments (Dharmabytes Podcasts)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 11:00

Vijayasri describes the Eight Freedoms and the Ten Endowments described in Gampopa’s teachings in the Jewel Ornament of Liberation on the importance of a human birth. Excerpted from the talk entitled This Precious Human Life given at Croydon Buddhist Centre, 2015.

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The Heart's Awakening

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 21:57

The Heart's Awakening

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 21:57

The Heart’s Awakening
A meditation home retreat with Bodhipakṣa on the Brahma Viharas

26-30 September

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“Taking care of myself, I take care of others. Taking care of others, I take care of myself.”
—The Buddha

More than ever, we need tools to help us connect with our innate capacity for kindness and compassion.

On this five-day home retreat, Bodhipaksa will offer fresh, radical, and above all practical perspectives on the four brahma-viharas. This is usually translated as “divine abidings,” but it could also be rendered...

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Join us - Work a Day for the Dharma - 8th Sept

From Future Dharma on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 15:32

Join us - Work a Day for the Dharma - 8th Sept

From Future Dharma on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 15:32

Friends, we are looking forward to practicing with you on Monday September 8th for our next Work a Day for the Dharma gathering where we how our livelihood can be “practice”!

You can join us for one or both online hour events,

At 7am BST Varabandhu will lead a ritual and meditation to dedicate our activities of the day to the Buddha Dharma - for the liberation of...

Kulanandi

Resignation of Maitrivirya

From Order Connection on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 14:33

Resignation of Maitrivirya

From Order Connection on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 14:33

Dear Friends,

I am writing to let you know that, as her Public Preceptor, I have accepted the resignation of Maitrivirya formerly from Ghent in Belgium, but now living in Bohan in the east of Belgium.

Maitrivirya was ordained at Metta Vihara in Holland in November 2020. Her Private Preceptor is Tarini.

Maitrivirya has had some meaningful conversations with both Tarini and myself and she wants to maintain contact with Tarini...

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