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Sadayasihi

New series of Led Walking Meditations from Taraloka: A Walking Week

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 3 Jul, 2020 - 11:49

New series of Led Walking Meditations from Taraloka: A Walking Week

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Fri, 3 Jul, 2020 - 11:49

Would you like to take your meditation practice off the cushion and outdoors? Maitridevi from Taraloka Retreat centre has been recording a series of five walking meditations under the title ‘A Walking Week’ to help you do just that!

From next week you will be able to tune into these meditations, which will be released daily on Taraloka’s Youtube channel.

The five are as follows:
1. A simple walking meditation
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ratnadharini

Chairs' Letter – June 2020

From College of Public Preceptors on Wed, 1 Jul, 2020 - 12:25

Chairs' Letter – June 2020

From College of Public Preceptors on Wed, 1 Jul, 2020 - 12:25

Dear Order members and friends,

June was my last month of solitary lockdown in South Wales. In practice that meant spending even more time than usual on my computer, although I did manage one week offline. I also read Analayo’s Compassion and Emptiness and re-read The Glass Bead Game, and went for long walks along deserted lanes and footpaths in the national park.

I emerged from my week off to the deluge of discussion around...

gunabhadri

Opening Up Centres & Hybrid events

From Triratna Resources on Thu, 2 Jul, 2020 - 20:03

Opening Up Centres & Hybrid events

From Triratna Resources on Thu, 2 Jul, 2020 - 20:03

Here’s the video recording of our gathering on 2 July on opening Centres after lockdown - procedural and technical.

0-22 mins: overview of health/safety around opening Centres
22-58 mins: issues around running hybrid classes

gunabhadri

Opening Up Centres & Hybrid events

From Triratna Resources on Thu, 2 Jul, 2020 - 20:00

Following our gathering on 2 July on opening Centres after lockdown - procedural and technical, here is all the information flowing outof this meeting:

Video-recording
- 0-22 mins: overview of health/safety around opening Centres
- 22-58 mins: issues around running hybrid classes
Guidance for opening Centres after lockdown
Post in resources section on The Buddhist Centre Online
Hybrid classes - technical information
List of information extracted from the Zoom-chat

Feel free to post any more questions you may have in the comments below.

File Name	Size
guidance_for_opening_centres_after_lockdown.pdf	50.16 KB
hybrid_classes.pdf	55.25 KB
info_from_zoom_chat_2_july.pdf	26.34 KB

dhammamegha

This weeks eBook giveaway and an update

From Windhorse Publications on Tue, 30 Jun, 2020 - 09:26

This weeks eBook giveaway and an update

From Windhorse Publications on Tue, 30 Jun, 2020 - 09:26

This week we’re giving away The Heart by Vessantara. This short book offers a grounded and profound guide to the metta bhavana. You can download it here until July 13.

It’s a big week at Windhorse Publications. Since late March, more than 9,000 free eBooks have been downloaded for our website. It’s been a joy to share the dharma, and thanks to your donations and purchases we’ve had enough income to keep going. What you may not know is that we stopped all new book production, commissioning and reprints,...

Centre Team

Alive, Aware, Awake! Starts July 10

From Community Highlights on Thu, 2 Jul, 2020 - 15:30

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kusaladevi

For the Earth: The Environment and Social Justice

From Buddhist Action on Wed, 1 Jul, 2020 - 11:41

For the Earth: The Environment and Social Justice

From Buddhist Action on Wed, 1 Jul, 2020 - 11:41

For the Earth: The Environment and Social Justice, closing panel, Sunday 5th July

Join us for a closing panel of five great speakers to help us round off BAM 2020!

Joining all of our wonderful, previous guests from this month’s exploration of how Buddhist practice...

Centre Team

Dharma Day Live on Sunday from Padmaloka!

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 2 Jul, 2020 - 00:30

Dharma Day Live on Sunday from Padmaloka!

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Thu, 2 Jul, 2020 - 00:30

Listen: The Deathless Has Been Attained!
Dharma Day Live on Sunday

Come and celebrate Dharma Day from Padmaloka Retreat Centre – wherever you are in the world!

To celebrate Dharma Day this year, Padmaloka will be offering a full online festival programme including live streamed meditations and rituals from the Shrine Room, and a live talk and Q&A by Padmavajra. His talk will explore the story of the turning of the wheel of the Dharma...

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Letting the Words Drop In Deeply

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 2 Jul, 2020 - 14:00

The Perfection of Wisdom literature is filled with paradox. Santavajri shares her reflections on the rather baffling concepts presented in The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra. Both relevant and incomprehensible, the true meaning goes well beyond the words themselves.

Excerpted from the talk entitled Approaches to the Perfection of Wisdom given at the L ondon Buddhist Centre’s Women’s Class as part of their exploration of the Bodhisattva Ideal, 2011.

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Shantavira

Shabda July 2020

From Order Connection on Thu, 2 Jul, 2020 - 13:57

Here is the latest edition of Shabda in five digital formats:

eBook Shabda .EPUB – read on most other eBook readers (eg Nook or Kobo, etc) and most eReader apps on tablets, smartphones etc.
eBook Shabda .MOBI – read on any Kindle, and some eReader apps on tablets, smartphones, etc.
PDF Shabda – read with any PDF reader
HTML Shabda (zip file) – unzip, and then read with any web browser
Print Shabda: Print your own (and your friends’) Shabdas. Save time and postage costs.

Terms and...

File Name	Size
ePub (eBook Readers, Smartphones, and Tablets	1.35 MB
mobi (Kindles and eReaders)	1.12 MB
PDF for digital (Computers and eReaders)	1.18 MB
HTML (Web Browsers)	147.59 KB
PDF for printing	814.43 KB

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