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Buddhist Centre Features

Emptiness and the Nature of Mind: Meditation Intensive Online Led by Tejananda with Upekshanandi

By Centre Team on Sat, 27 May, 2023 - 12:35

Emptiness and the Nature of Mind: Meditation Intensive Online Led by Tejananda with Upekshanandi

By Centre Team on Sat, 27 May, 2023 - 12:35

A Home Retreat: 24 – 28 November, 2023

Reserve your space on Emptiness and the Nature of Mind

Our deepest and truest nature, right now, is the Dharma. We can imagine – and ultimately experience – this as the total openness of the ‘Dharma body’, which is pure emptiness: empty of any divided-ness whatsoever.

Our world is literally made up from this total openness, together with the illuminating clarity of awareness and unlimited, spontaneous ‘compassionate energy’. Traditionally, the union of these is referred to as...
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FBA Podcast: Order Approaches to Insight

By Zac on Sat, 27 May, 2023 - 06:00

Vijayamala addresses the 2022 UK & IE Triratna Buddhist Order convention, exploring what breaking through and seeing the nature of reality means for us as an Order. The Buddha went forth to seek an end to suffering, to go beyond what binds us to the samsaric world. The theme of this event also encompasses ‘going beyond’ and the ways in which we are approaching that as an Order.

Part of the series Going Forth,...
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Adhisthana

Online Course: Breathing into Liberation | Register before 4 June

By Caroline I P on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 16:02

Online Course: Breathing into Liberation | Register before 4 June

By Caroline I P on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 16:02

Six weeks exploring Anapanasati: Dhammarati will take us from the simplest possible experience of breathing right through to exploring the nature of liberation. The course is on a dana basis.

Week 1 | The ‘Preliminary Practices’ | 5 June

Week 2 | Breathing with the Body | 12 June

Week 3 | Breathing with feelings | 19 June

Week 4 | Breathing with the mind | 26 June

Week 5 | Live Q&A with Dhammarati | 3 July

Week 6 | Breathing with wisdom | 10 July

REGISTER BEFORE 4 ...
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Young Women+ Dharma Life Course

By Caroline I P on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 12:14

Young Women+ Dharma Life Course

By Caroline I P on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 12:14

The next Dharma Life course at Adhisthana will run 11 March – 28 June 2024.

A four-month residential course providing you with an opportunity to live an intensive dharma life: living, practising, studying, and working together within the context of Adhisthana. 

Over 16 weeks you’ll receive a grounding in the principles and practice of Triratna Buddhism through retreats, study with experienced teachers and communal living. You’ll also participate in the life of the wider Adhisthana sangha: meditating together, performing ritual, developing kalyana mitrata and joining...
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Adhisthana

Looking back on Adhisthana's 2022 International Course: A film by Prasadachitta

By Caroline I P on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 12:10

Looking back on Adhisthana's 2022 International Course: A film by Prasadachitta

By Caroline I P on Fri, 26 May, 2023 - 12:10

Last year, we had the privilege of hosting a one-month international course for Order Members from around the world, aiming to provide training, support, and the opportunity to forge deep friendships and connections within the international sangha.

Led by a team of Order members who live and work at Adhisthana, participants delved into the four lineages - inspiration, teachings, practices, and responsibility. There was also training in leading study groups and creating a culture of feedback; hopefully giving participants the confidence and...
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Adhisthana

Help Maitripa bring Amitabha to Adhisthana

By Caroline I P on Thu, 25 May, 2023 - 16:00

Help Maitripa bring Amitabha to Adhisthana

By Caroline I P on Thu, 25 May, 2023 - 16:00

Suvajra, Vimaladasa and Maitripa have asked Chintamani to make a painting of Bhante’s vision in the cave. They need 4000 pounds and need your help in raising that money. Do you want to contribute 25, 50 or 250 pounds? Do you want to share this project with your friends in the order and movement? That would be fantastic!

Give and share through this link: Honouring Bhante
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Dharmabytes: Closer to Truth Through Silence

By Zac on Thu, 25 May, 2023 - 06:00

On a Silent Retreat at Taraloka, Samantabhadri honours silence as significant spiritual practice where we dwell more deeply with ourselves, with others, with nature and the objective world, and within a developing atmosphere. All this opens a vision of experiencing ‘Reality as it is’ (Sangharakshita). From the talk Silence: Practice and Vision given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2022.

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