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Amitasuri

Saranajaya's health

From Order Connection on Tue, 23 Jan, 2024 - 15:31

Saranajaya's health

From Order Connection on Tue, 23 Jan, 2024 - 15:31

Dear Friends in the Order,

I’m writing to let you know about the health of our dear friend in the Glasgow sangha, Saranajaya.

Saranajaya became seriously ill at the end of August last year. This was followed by a diagnosis of a brain tumour on 9th September, and she was offered a palliative care package at home, where she lives with her husband of 53 years, Suvarnamanas.

More recently, she was readmitted to hospital at the end of December. She was in hospital for two weeks and...

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Prajnamanas

Death of Akashabhadra

From Order Connection on Tue, 23 Jan, 2024 - 14:46

Death of Akashabhadra

From Order Connection on Tue, 23 Jan, 2024 - 14:46

Dear friends in the Order,

We are sad to inform you that on 21 January 2024, at approximately 9.30am, Dhammachari Anagarika Akashabhadra passed away. His funeral took place on the afternoon of the same day.

Akashabhadra was ordained on 25 March 1993, with Suvajra as his private preceptor and Subhuti as his public preceptor. He worked in Aurangabad as the superintendent of the Bahujan Hitaya Hostel, Hyderabad (Jetawan Buddha Vihar), and Agra (Maitriya Buddha Vihar), where he...

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Vajradaka

Community member wanted for N london mens community

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Mon, 22 Jan, 2024 - 16:45

Are interested in Joining a mens community in London?

Aryakaruna is a mens community in a large lovely house near to Clissold park in North London. We are looking for a mitra or GFR mitra to join us. There are two order members and a GFR mitra as a good basis for sangha in the house . We are a practice based and ‘training’ community with a stress on having a regular meditation practice and involvement with Triratna.

To express an interest...

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Maitrisiddhi

Life at Taraloka

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 22 Jan, 2024 - 12:35

Life at Taraloka

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 22 Jan, 2024 - 12:35

It’s a grey, damp morning with a chill in the air. But I walk over to the retreat centre thinking, as I often do: ‘How did I get so lucky, that this is my life?’ This isn’t publicity, it’s true. I arrived at Taraloka in 2009 as a not-very-together mitra. I got ordained through these conditions, I’ve personally changed so much, and I watch my friends in the community transforming too.

Still, fourteen years later, I never wonder why I get out of bed...

Centre Team

Dharmabytes: Taking Impermanence to Heart

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 22 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

True wisdom in the Buddhist sense is not book knowledge, but understanding how things really are. The Buddha was always pragmatic in his approach and sought to get straight to the root of suffering. His vision was embedded in conditioned co-production: awareness that things are always coming into being and passing away, and that there are many conditions in play together. Satyajyoti uses the metaphor of the ocean, with many waves arising and passing away, as a...

Centre Team

FBA Podcast: The Longing For Liberation

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 20 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

In this talk, Vajratara takes us on a vivid journey starting with the Buddha’s exploration of what is the noble quest, moving into personal examples of the ignoble and noble quests in her own life. Vajratara invites us to look at our own motivation, our own noble quest, how to establish a culture of the noble quest in such a way that invites more people to join us on that journey, both through our own practice and...

Centre Team

Dharmabytes: An Integrated Ideal

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 18 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

Akasajoti talks about the hero’s journey as a middle way, referring to the Buddha’s life story. She describes practising with three creative dynamics in the spiritual life between ‘will and receptivity’, ‘inner calm and outer activity’, and ‘vision and transformation’, suggesting their resolution in the six perfections. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Hero’s Journey given at Adhisthana, 2022.

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LDNBuddhist

Join the Team to work in the Mandala Café

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 16 Jan, 2024 - 17:08

Join the Team to work in the Mandala Café

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Tue, 16 Jan, 2024 - 17:08

The Mandala cafe (connected to the London Buddhist Centre) is looking for another full-time team member.

We’re also looking for expressions of interest in casual / part-time work, especially from those with prior cafe or kitchen experience. If that’s something you’re interested in instead of this role, please email info [at] mandalacafe.co.uk.

The team-based right livelihood culture of the LBC provides excellent conditions in which to practise the Dharma, deepen your relationship with the Order (though...

Centre Team

Dharmabytes: What is Perfect Vision?

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 15 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

The Eightfold Path is divided into Paths of Vision and of Transformation. Sangharakshita illustrates how perfect vision can arise, and concludes by showing how Buddhists have communicated their vision of reality in conceptual and imaginative terms.

Excerpted from the talk entitled The Nature of Existence: Right Understanding, as part of the series The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path given in 1968.

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