Dharmananda, Munisha and Bodhivamsa discuss the reasons for having an International Council and its evolving function within a global spiritual community.
Yashosagar from India and Sucimani from England talk about the College and Order strands of the International Council, and share their impressions of out opening ritual.
“My name is Maitrivajri,” says the lady waiting at the entrance to a smart black barn, deep in the Suffolk countryside. “It means a diamond thunderbolt of universal loving kindness.”
It’s not quite what you expect to encounter on the edge of the sleepy village of Walsham-le-Willows, but then this is no ordinary barn. Since 2000, Potash farm has been home to Vajrasana, the rural outpost of the...
Here’s a recent diary piece i sent in to the London Buddhist Centre magazine…..
Tuesday night back at the soup kitchen. They’ve put me on laundry and showers, and give me the special turtle-skin gloves to protect my fingers from hypodermic needles. I hate needles. Youssef comes in keen and chirpy. He’s Syrian and we speak some French. Normally a laundry load (wash & dry) costs a pound but Youssef doesn’t have anything save a can of Carling, which he...
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For over 40 years, we have been producing transcriptions of full-length Dharma seminars by Urgyen Sangharakshita, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community. This previously unpublished week-long seminar on a key section of Shantideva’s classic text, ‘The Bodhicaryavatara’, is a radical digital re-imagining of...
The poet Robert Frost had a sense that meaning was to be found neither in the supernatural (God) nor in the intimately psychological (the self), but transcended these distinctions. Maitreyabandhu investigates.
‘The interest, the pastime, was to learn if there had been any divinity shaping my ends and I had been building better than I knew.’
– Robert Frost in the preface to a selection of his poems, 1942
Other people’s confidence can astound me. They often seem to know who they are and what...
How do you envision your spiritual path? How do you know you are following it? We will meditate together, then explore these questions and more as we look at the Buddhist Threefold Path of Ethics, Meditation and Wisdom, starting this Sunday, July 31, at 10AM and continuing each Sunday through August 21.
Join our community gathering. No prior experience with meditation or Buddhism is required to participate.
If you’re a Mitra in the Triratna Buddhist Community, there’s a fair chance you may have done (or at least come across!) some of the four-year Dharma Training Course for Mitras - generally and affectionately known as “Mitra Study”… We’re delighted to announce the launch of a brand new revised version of the course - and a great new website for accessing the material and getting support as you go deeper into the practice...
