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Podcast: Community - With Your Own Front Door

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 27 May, 2019 - 15:26

“So it’s community - but with our own front door”

The Suvana (meaning ‘happy realm’) project aims to develop Buddhist co-housing in Cambridge, UK. It will be newly built, sustainable, low carbon footprint development, with the community inspired by Buddhist values.

Here’s a conversation with Tejasvini and Jeremy Peters, both involved in the project, discussing co-housing as a response to the housing crisis, their plans for sustainable features, affordability, Buddhist almhouses and more.

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Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Our Root Fear - Selflessness

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 27 May, 2019 - 14:00

Our FBA Dharmabyte today brings us face to face, as it were, with Our Root Fear, that of selflessness.

From the talk Ethics as Insight Practice by Guhyavajra.

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Art + Reflection for Buddha Day

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sat, 25 May, 2019 - 19:35

Art + Reflection for Buddha Day

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sat, 25 May, 2019 - 19:35

We celebrated the Buddha’s Enlightenment this year with the Aryaloka Sangha on their Tuesday Night Friends’ Gathering. To celebrate, we engaged in a practice of Arts and Reflection: Entering the Mountain by meeting in silence while gazing upon the beautiful woodblock prints of Matt Brown, currently on display at ...

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A Vision for the Future of PBC is Taking Shape - Be part of it!

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sat, 25 May, 2019 - 17:35

A Vision for the Future of PBC is Taking Shape - Be part of it!

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sat, 25 May, 2019 - 17:35

At our Vision Fest on March 31, a large segment of the Sunday sangha took inspiration from Triratna Buddhist centers around the world and began to envision what a new home for the Portsmouth Buddhist Center might look like. We brainstormed a wide range of features we would like to see in our own space as well as activities we’d like to have going on there. A beautiful shrine room and more opportunities to meditate, yoga, a library and bookstore,...

Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: Luminous Love

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 25 May, 2019 - 14:00

Enjoy our FBA Podcast this week: Luminous Love by Samantabhadri.

Speaking in a marquee on the June 2012 Women’s National Order Weekend at Taraloka and in a landscape dedicated to the Five Jinas, Samantabhadri explores positive emotion in our system of practice. Her themes are: pliancy and loosening boundaries; the imagination; insight; our collective life; the shade and the light of our spiritual lives.

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Dhammapattiya

Death of Dharmachari Sambhara

From Order Connection on Sat, 25 May, 2019 - 07:30

Death of Dharmachari Sambhara

From Order Connection on Sat, 25 May, 2019 - 07:30

Dear Brothers & Sisters in the Dharma,

It is with sadness that I write to let you know that Sambhara died on Friday 24th May, at 07.30 a.m. BST. After his admission to hospital on 28th April he had been eating and drinking less and eventually was refusing both food and drink. This meant that he lost a lot of weight. His dementia had been getting worse for some months. After his Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2017 he confirmed that if, at the end,...

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Punyamala

Upcoming Ordinations at Akashavana

From Order Connection on Fri, 24 May, 2019 - 12:06

Upcoming Ordinations at Akashavana

From Order Connection on Fri, 24 May, 2019 - 12:06

Dear Order Members,

I am delighted to let you know that the following 16 women who are currently attending the three month ordination course will be having their private ordinations at various times throughout the day and night, between the evening of Sunday 26th May and the afternoon of Tuesday 28th May.

They are Jayne Osgood, Jan Osborne, Lynne Thompson-Campbell, Ruth Rudd, Meg Hughes, Andrea Wuerdinger, Alex Suffolk, Hanka Dilley, Sarah Nixon, Hannah Leonie-Prinzler,...

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Saddhaloka

Triratna's Panel Process and Safeguarding - Questions and Answers (Part 2)

From Order Connection on Thu, 23 May, 2019 - 18:05

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Preface
Members of the Ethics Kula respond here to some of your questions about the Panel Process and Safeguarding. Please remember that the Ethics Kula, which includes the Safeguarding team, are Order members giving their time to try and resolve some very difficult situations that arise in our community, and the Kula certainly does not see itself as some sort of final authority on...

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A new special place

From Espace Sangha de Paris on Thu, 23 May, 2019 - 15:57

A new special place

From Espace Sangha de Paris on Thu, 23 May, 2019 - 15:57

Me voilà assise dans le petit parc à côté du nouveau Centre bouddhiste, ayant signé ce matin (accompagné de Pierrick) l’acte final de la vente du 25 rue Condorcet, et cette après-midi celui de l’achat du 49 avenue Edison.

Tout s’est bien passé, avec bon humeur et de l’amabilité.

Tout à l’heure, Aryanita va me joindre et nous allons nous préparer à conduire notre première soirée de la Sangha dans notre nouveau Centre bouddhiste et lundi, les travaux devraient commencer…

Malheureusement tous nos bons plans pour...

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Be More Than Your Culture

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 23 May, 2019 - 14:00

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called Be More Than Your Culture by Maitreyabandhu.

How do we make the most of life? Buddhism is a non-theistic, practical path of human growth and fulfilment. This series includes highlights from the eight-week course that leads participants step by step along the Buddhist path from mindfulness and emotional strength to receptivity, spiritual death and rebirth. And, as you can see from the talks, Maitreyabandhu always comes back to the here...

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