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Dhamma In a Time of Climate Crisis (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 21 Jun, 2025 - 11:00

Tejopala likens the current global climate crisis to a village with a fire that threatens everyone in it and asks what a community of monks living in such a village might do in such circumstances. He also draws on the advice given by Urgyen Sangharakshita in his talk given in 1984 called ‘Buddhism, World Peace and Nuclear War’ as to how Buddhists should act to address an overwhelming existential threat, in which Bhante urges civil resistance. This...

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The Lion’s Roar of Sangharakshita (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 14 Jun, 2025 - 11:00

Referencing Sangharakshita’s teaching on personal responsibility, Khemasuri shows how, through self-development and sangha, we can make a radical difference in the world. This talk was part of a two talk series entitled The Lion’s Roar by Shakyapada and Khemasuri given at Triratna Buddhist Community York, 2019.

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Revisioning Our Relation to the World (FBA Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 7 Jun, 2025 - 11:00

Bhadra gave this talk as part of BAM 2018. He references David Loy’s two icebergs and explores how we might revise the Triratana mandala of practice to strengthen our sense of interconnectedness with the world. Given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2018.

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Film Festival! Saving Mother Earth and Her Beings, One Acre at a Time

From San Francisco Buddhist Center on Wed, 31 May, 2023 - 00:56

Film Festival! Saving Mother Earth and Her Beings, One Acre at a Time

From San Francisco Buddhist Center on Wed, 31 May, 2023 - 00:56

In honor of Buddhist Action Month, please join us for the opening night of our Film Festival! We are raising funds for Karuna-USA to help reduce the suffering of many thousands of beings. One hundred percent of funds raised will go to Karuna USA’s climate change projects in three countries: India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

We have four inspiring, highly rated and fascinating films on the theme of climate justice and recovery and adaptation efforts happening now.

Friday, June 23, 2023

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Buddhist Action Month 2023: BAM!

From Triratna News on Tue, 23 May, 2023 - 17:28

Buddhist Action Month 2023: BAM!

From Triratna News on Tue, 23 May, 2023 - 17:28

Buddhist Action Month (BAM) has been a feature at Triratna Centres over the past decade or so. And now we have news of BAM 2023 from the organising team at the Network of Buddhist Organizations.

Get involved with BAM 2023!

What will you do for BAM 2023?
Perhaps you’ll take stock of the compassionate action that we are already doing. Perhaps you’ll ask how can we refine or supercharge those actions. Perhaps you’ll try something new.

We...

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Buddhist Action Month 2023

Wed, 17 May, 2023 - 12:38

Just in case you are wondering if there is a theme for BAM this year, this is what the Network of Buddhist organisations writes:

https://www.nbo.org.uk/bam-2022/

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Joanna Macy

Sun, 11 Dec, 2022 - 22:32

Joanna Macy

Sun, 11 Dec, 2022 - 22:32

Hi all,

I thought you would want to know that Joanna Macy, who I know is a great inspiration for many of us, is in hospital with pneumonia. She is 95 now but apparently is fighting the infection.

Please think of her in your meditation, prayers, metta.

Parami

Zac

FBA Podcast: Only Connect

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 10 Dec, 2022 - 06:00

From communist to Buddhist…. Vimalavajri talks of her personal involvement in the spheres of politics, feminism and Buddhism. Using Indra’s net as a classic Buddhist image of interconnectedness, the talk explores what the dharma might have to say about social or political action, and asks what helps when we feel overwhelmed or stuck in ill-will. If we really see Indra’s net, we will connect more deeply with life at all levels and our action will be more...

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Dharmabyte: The Ethics of Love

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 Nov, 2022 - 06:00

Buddhist ethics is practical, it’s to do with engagement with the world. Parami is an ideal guide for this sort of material, steeped as she is in study and practice engaged within the light of the ‘Bodhichitta’, and the Bodhisattva Ideal itself.

From the talk entitled The Awakening Heart given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2006.

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