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Dharmabytes: Dropping Our Defences

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 31 Jul, 2023 - 11:00

Ratnadharini gives us an inspiring, down-to-earth consideration of Verses 4-6 of the Eight Verses for Training the Mind by Langrithangpa.  Uncompromising, brilliant, long considered a classic of the Lojong mind training school, Langrithangpa’s pithy text bears daily reflection and can fuel a lifetime of Dharma inquiry and practice. 

Excerpted from a talk on Verses 4-6 from a series of talks on the Eight Verses for Training the Mind given at the ...
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FBA Podcast: A Body of Practice

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 29 Jul, 2023 - 11:00

Drawing upon the myths in the life of the Buddha Satyapara explores the role the body plays when we take up Buddhist practice. She describes the Buddha as a child under a rose apple tree being deeply in touch with his surrounding and when calling upon the earth he gains confidence in his practice and overcomes his doubts. With these stories Satyapara invites us to trust our body. Given in Cambridge, UK, in...
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UK & Ireland AOWE - Last bookings & more programme information

From Order Connection on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 16:55

UK & Ireland AOWE - Last bookings & more programme information

From Order Connection on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 16:55

There are moments when criticism of a particular kind – the only kind I care for – utterly absorbs me. I feel I am touching a mystery. There is a wall, as it were, of dense, warm darkness before me – a darkness that is secretly alive and thrilling to the sense. This, I like to believe, is the reflection in myself of the darkness which broods over the poet’s creative mind. It forms slowly and gradually gathers while I...
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Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka retreat centre came into being with the purchase of Aberclydach House at the end of 1994. This project was brought to fruition by five senior dharmacharinis -  Samata, Dhammadinna, Anjali, Anoma and Sanghadevi - who in 1992 got together to develop a sustainable process for women who had asked for ordination.

Tiratanaloka as an ordination training centre has been a huge success, to the point where we have now outgrown our space. We are currently very limited in regard to...
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Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka retreat centre came into being with the purchase of Aberclydach House at the end of 1994. This project was brought to fruition by five senior dharmacharinis -  Samata, Dhammadinna, Anjali, Anoma and Sanghadevi - who in 1992 got together to develop a sustainable process for women who had asked for ordination.

Tiratanaloka as an ordination training centre has been a huge success, to the point where we have now outgrown our space. We are currently very limited in regard to...
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Order Harmony Consultation

From Order Connection on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:50

Order Harmony Consultation

From Order Connection on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:50

Dear friends in the Order,

Thank you so much to those of you who participated in the Order harmony online consultation, whether through completing the survey, participating in one of the forums, or through having written to us directly.
 
A very special thank you needs to go to Sahamati who volunteered his skill and time in helping to craft the survey and in the data analysis. It’s been great to work with him on this. 
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Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Order Connection on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 10:27

Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Order Connection on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 10:27

Tiratanaloka retreat centre came into being with the purchase of Aberclydach House at the end of 1994. This project was brought to fruition by five senior dharmacharinis -  Samata, Dhammadinna, Anjali, Anoma and Sanghadevi - who in 1992 got together to develop a sustainable process for women who had asked for ordination.

Tiratanaloka as an ordination training centre has been a huge success, to the point where we have now outgrown our space. We are currently very limited in regard to the number...
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The Set Up

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 07:47

The Set Up

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 07:47

Preparing Suryavana for a large group of Guests. 
 

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
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Forthcoming Ordinations at the Mid-Essex Buddhist Centre

From Order Connection on Thu, 27 Jul, 2023 - 15:25

Forthcoming Ordinations at the Mid-Essex Buddhist Centre

From Order Connection on Thu, 27 Jul, 2023 - 15:25

Dear fellow Dharmafarers,

I am delighted to let you know that Marion Pidgeon of the Mid-Essex Sangha will be privately ordained by Vanaraji during a small bespoke retreat.  The private ceremony will take place sometime on Friday 4th August and the public ceremony will take place on Sunday 6th August at 2pm in the new Mid-Essex Buddhist Centre.

With metta,

Parami
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Dharmabytes: A Dharma Perspective

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 27 Jul, 2023 - 11:00

Vajradevi  explores wisdom, the ‘balancing factor’ to faith in the ‘mandala’ of the five spiritual faculties. ‘Clear-seeing’ is way of describing wisdom that can be practised through mindfulness. 

Excerpted from the talk Wisdom As a Spiritual Faculty In Relation to Mindfulness, part of the series Pathways to the Beautiful Mind: Bristol Rains Retreat, 2019.

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