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Day 3: Transforming Adversity into Awakening

Day 3: Transforming Adversity into Awakening

From International Practice Week 2018: 'Turning Arrows Into Flowers' on Mon, 24 Sep, 2018 - 04:00

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year’s Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week. 

Day 3 and point 3 brings us to the great challenge of what to do when things go wrong in life: how to respond in a way that supports greater peace of heart and mind; how to overcome suffering and use its energy for transformative good, particularly by moving away from a strategy of blaming ourselves or...

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Day 2, Part 3: Training in Relative Bodhichitta

Day 2, Part 3: Training in Relative Bodhichitta

From International Practice Week 2018: 'Turning Arrows Into Flowers' on Sun, 23 Sep, 2018 - 04:02

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year’s Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

Point 2 of the lojong mind training being explored this week as to do with how to practise ‘Bodhichitta’ (the deep, realised wish for all to attain liberation of heart and mind), introduced in the first of today’s three talks.

Having already touched on the area of “absolute” Bodhichitta, here...

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Day 2, Part 2 - Training in Absolute Bodhichitta

Day 2, Part 2 - Training in Absolute Bodhichitta

From International Practice Week 2018: 'Turning Arrows Into Flowers' on Sun, 23 Sep, 2018 - 04:01

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year’s Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week. 

Point 2 of the lojong mind training being explored this week has to do with how to practise ‘Bodhichitta’ (the deep, realised wish for all to attain liberation of heart and mind), introduced in the first of today’s three talks.

Here Yashobodhi draws out the “absolute” aspect of this work, examining how...

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Day 2, Part 1 - What is the Bodhichitta?

Day 2, Part 1 - What is the Bodhichitta?

From International Practice Week 2018: 'Turning Arrows Into Flowers' on Sun, 23 Sep, 2018 - 04:00

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year’s Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

For Day 2, the first of three teachings giving us a great 360º overview of the Bodhichitta in Buddhist tradition and, more importantly, its relevance to everyday practice in the crucial work of learning to work with our minds and becoming a happier person.

If you have any comments or questions about this point or the retreat itself, let...

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A mandala for teaching - reflections on teaching and learning for Triratna

From Dharma Articles on Sat, 22 Sep, 2018 - 06:44

How can we best assist people in our classes to engage with the Dharma?

Abstract
Teaching the Dharma is not an easy task, says the Buddha in the Udayin sutta. In this paper, the Buddha’s words of advice on how to teach are investigated and applied to examples of Dharma teaching within the Triratna Buddhist Community. This is further developed by making correlations between sutta source material and the Mandala of the Five Buddhas; arguing that in Dharma Teaching there are wider...

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Pride 2018 in the Dublin Buddhist Centre

From Triratna News on Fri, 21 Sep, 2018 - 17:14

Pride 2018 in the Dublin Buddhist Centre

From Triratna News on Fri, 21 Sep, 2018 - 17:14

To celebrate Dublin Pride 2018, and Buddhist Action Month (BAM), the Dublin Buddhist Centre hosted a special Pride celebration on the 25th June. Kasey Tobin, a GFR Mitra involved in the event gives us a flavour of the event.

“This event was facilitated by a number of us in the Dublin Sangha with LGBT+ experiences.  As LGBT+ people we have seen a lot of progress in securing our human rights in the last few...

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50 Years, 50 Voices: Megha (Highlights)

From Buddhist Voices on Thu, 20 Sep, 2018 - 03:17

I knew I needed to have people who could reflect back, if I neglected what it was that I might need, as well as what the situation needed.

Megha’s Annals

In 1968 I was 15 years old, at secondary school, sitting the first major exams at the end of that year. Living with my younger sister, parents and two pets in a valley-suburb 10 miles from Wellington, New Zealand.

In 1978 I was in the middle year of Occupational Therapy training in the Wellington area. I’d...

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Guide to Taking Part in the International Practice Week

Guide to Taking Part in the International Practice Week

From International Practice Week 2018: 'Turning Arrows Into Flowers' on Mon, 17 Sep, 2018 - 22:23

The International Practice Week - an Urban Retreat taking place across the Triratna world - kicks off on Saturday 22nd September. The International Practice Week is a great opportunity for Triratna centres and groups throughout the world to concurrently explore Dharmic themes in their local contexts.  But if your local Triratna Centre or group  is not taking part, you can still join in online!

The theme for the week is ‘turning arrows into flowers’ - exploring how...

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Opening to Amazement and Joy as a Condition for Insight

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Thu, 20 Sep, 2018 - 14:09

Opening to Amazement and Joy as a Condition for Insight

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Thu, 20 Sep, 2018 - 14:09

Week 4 of Our Fall Series: Being With Ourselves, Knowing Ourselves – How To Hold Our Experience In A Complicated World

Sunday, September 23, 9.30am-12pm
This week we will continue our exploration of Spiritual Receptivity as part of our new season for fall at the PBC. Shraddhavani is our host and guide this week as we approach the whole practice of spiritual openness from a different angle. So often we speak of...

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50 Years, 50 Voices: Megha (Highlights)

From Buddhist Voices on Thu, 20 Sep, 2018 - 03:17

I knew I needed to have people who could reflect back, if I neglected what it was that I might need, as well as what the situation needed.

Megha’s Annals

In 1968 I was 15 years old, at secondary school, sitting the first major exams at the end of that year. Living with my younger sister, parents and two pets in a valley-suburb 10 miles from Wellington, New Zealand.

In 1978 I was in the middle year of Occupational Therapy training in the Wellington area. I’d...

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