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Death of Saranajaya

From Order Connection on Sat, 30 Mar, 2024 - 09:49

Death of Saranajaya

From Order Connection on Sat, 30 Mar, 2024 - 09:49

Dear fellow Order Members,

Sadly, we are letting you know that Saranajaya died peacefully at home yesterday, 29th March, at 1.55 pm GMT.  She was at home in Paisley near Glasgow and her husband Suvarnamanas was at her side chanting the Avalokitesvara mantra. 

Saranajaya was born in Burma in 1941 and lived there for the first year-and-a-half of her life. She then lived in South Africa during the war until the family came...
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Dharmabytes: The Conversion of King Pasenadi

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 28 Mar, 2024 - 10:00

Dhivan recounts the conversion of King Pasenadi by the Buddha.

Excerpted from the talk A Courtesan, a Killer and a King given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2016

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Ordinations at Sudarshanaloka in New Zealand

From Order Connection on Thu, 28 Mar, 2024 - 09:35

Ordinations at Sudarshanaloka in New Zealand

From Order Connection on Thu, 28 Mar, 2024 - 09:35

Dear Friends,

We are delighted to announce that the ordinations of the following six men took place at Sudarshanaloka Retreat Centre in New Zealand on 28th March 2024:

Public Preceptor Purna:

David Raubenheimer becomes Dharmaprakāśa (fourth ’a’ is long, acute accent over the ’s’), a Sanskrit name meaning “He who is bright and shining with and through the Dharma”
Registered spelling: Dharmaprakasha
Private preceptor: Guhyasiddhi

Public Preceptor Siladasa:

Glenn Cecil becomes Puṇyanāga (dot under the first ‘n’, second ‘a’ is long), a Sanskrit name meaning “Naga who displays the...
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(9 of 10) Led Meditation: Boundlessness and the Senses

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 28 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Letting go into our direct sense experiences – beyond concepts and labels. Meditation 4 of 4 from a retreat exploring the Ratnagunasamcayagatha ‘The Boundless Nature of Being’, held at Taraloka in October 2023.
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(10 of 10) 'Change and No Change': Going Beyond Opposites

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 28 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
How does the sword of wisdom cut through our deluded upside-down views? And how do we become a Bodhisattva who plays? Talk 6 of 6 from a retreat exploring the Ratnagunasamcayagatha ‘The Boundless Nature of Being’, held at Taraloka in October 2023.
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(3 of 10) Led Meditation: Exploring the Five Skandhas In Our Experience.

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 28 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Meditation 1 of 4 from a retreat exploring the Ratnagunasamcayagatha ‘The Boundless Nature of Being’, held at Taraloka in October 2023.
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(4 of 10) “All These Dharmas Are Entirely Empty”

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 28 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
What is really meant by ‘sunyata’ or emptiness? Prajnanita explores the heart of the Perfection of Wisdom. Talk 3 of 6 from a retreat exploring the Ratnagunasamcayagatha ‘The Boundless Nature of Being’, held at Taraloka in October 2023.
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(5 of 10) Led Meditation: Sitting, Standing, Lying

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 28 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Come closer to direct experience, with kindly awareness, in three different postures. Meditation 2 of 4 from a retreat exploring the Ratnagunasamcayagatha ‘The Boundless Nature of Being’, held at Taraloka in October 2023.
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(6 of 10) 'The Great Compassion, Free From Any Notion of a Being'

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 28 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Maitrisiddhi explores the emptiness or boundless nature of beings, and the question of ‘existence’ or ‘non-existence’. Talk 4 of 6 from a retreat exploring the Ratnagunasamcayagatha ‘The Boundless Nature of Being’, held at Taraloka in October 2023.
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(7 of 10) Led Meditation: Loving and Letting Go

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 28 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Meditation exploring our relationship to a being we love and care about. Retreatants have each been given a small rose – if you are following this meditation online, find a flower or other object to represent someone you care about, to have with you in the sit. Meditation 3 of 4 from a retreat exploring the Ratnagunasamcayagatha ‘The Boundless Nature of Being’, held at Taraloka in October 2023.
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