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Tag: Solitary Retreat

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Bit by Bit Freedom Emerges (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 13 Feb, 2025 - 11:00

Fresh off a three-week solitary retreat, Vajragupta (m) shares, in a very personal and heart-felt way, what it was like, and what happened during that time. Coming to terms with his mother’s slide into dementia, evoking the strangeness of dreams and memories, describing the sheer vividness of experience on retreat, and reflecting on both the joy and the fear that can result: this is a moving and inspiring talk about the potential richness of solitude. Excerpted from...

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

A Moment of Deeper Authenticity (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Tue, 12 Nov, 2024 - 10:59

As part of Adhisthana’s Triratna Day celebrations, Saddhanandi speaks to us about the ‘existential communication’ that can arise between a more, and a less, experienced practitioner. A communication that can take you to the limits of your own being and encourage you to stretch beyond them. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Electric Charge of Communication, 2023, as part of the series Triratna Day Weekend: Is a Guru...

College of Public Preceptors
College of Public Preceptors

The Eight Guidelines | Meditation and Mind Training (Spanish with English Subtitles)

By akasajoti on Tue, 31 May, 2022 - 10:39

The Eight Guidelines | Meditation and Mind Training (Spanish with English Subtitles)

By akasajoti on Tue, 31 May, 2022 - 10:39

Parami, from Glasgow, Scotland, and Paramachitta, from Valencia, Spain, discuss their meditation practice and it’s value in their dharma life, in the seventh in a series of informal, personal, conversations between Public Preceptors about the Eight Guidelines for Ordination Training.

The Eight Guidelines offer a framework through which Order Members and Mitras can reflect on and communicate about their going for refuge and process of training for Ordination into the Triratna Buddhist Order. In this series, members of the Preceptors’ College from...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Podcast: Kiranada - Readings from 'A Year of Silence'

By Candradasa on Thu, 6 Jun, 2019 - 21:30

Kiranada is an ordained Buddhist, a traveler, a renowned artist in (cruelty-free) silk, a teacher, an author and a Mom. Here she is at the Portsmouth Public Library in June 2019, reading from her book ‘A Year Of Silence’, an account of her year-long silent, solitary retreat in the New Zealand bush. 

As one of her last engagements before heading off to Kentucky and Missouri to begin a further 3-year solitary, silent retreat, this is a wonderful opportunity to hear what it...

Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center
Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center

Dh. Anantvirya 110 days Solitary Experience

By Saddhammapradip on Fri, 24 Feb, 2017 - 16:57

Dh. Anantvirya 110 days Solitary Experience

By Saddhammapradip on Fri, 24 Feb, 2017 - 16:57

Dhammachari Anantvirya is doing solitary retreat at Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat center since 2011. Up till now he has done three one months solitary. But this year he as done solitary for almost for four months ie is 110 days Started from 6th Nov 2016 and end on 24th Feb 2017.. Even though condition was not favorable but because of determination able to complete his solitary.

Dh. Anantvirya is ordain on 25th Dec 1987. He is from camp center in Pune. Worked in Indian...

Community Highlights
Community Highlights

Dhammarati on Sabbatical, Solitary Retreat, and the International Council

By dhammamegha on Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 - 20:44

Dhammarati - in conversation here with Dhammamegha - is one of the most experienced members of the Triratna College of Public Preceptors having chaired it for over ten years. Here he talks about his long sabbatical after leaving that job - a rich, deep time that encompassed post-Impressionist galleries in New York and lengthy solitary retreats in California and in Wales.

We hear about his personal study and his practical exploration of the Triratna system of practice and...

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