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The Nature of Mind: Sign Up for a Six Month Season of Events

From Community Highlights on Wed, 2 Mar, 2022 - 11:45

The Nature of Mind: Sign Up for a Six Month Season of Events

From Community Highlights on Wed, 2 Mar, 2022 - 11:45

https://adhisthana.org/natureofmind/

The Nature of Mind project is a 6-month season of events featuring prominent psychologists, neuroscientists, and meditators; including interactive seminars, meditation masterclasses, and retreats. Each month, we will release conversations with prominent thinkers on the nature of mind and reflect upon their ideas with a seminar. This will be followed by a week of meditation guidance, applying what we’ve learnt to our own mind. The project culminates with an immersive retreat in August...
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Mind and Cosmos: Towards a New Buddhist Cosmology (Part 2)

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Wed, 2 Mar, 2022 - 00:00
For almost its whole history, Buddhism has been not only presented teachings about the mind, but also about the whole cosmos. In this talk (the second in a series of three), Viryadeva attempts to show why an understanding of traditional Buddhist cosmology is key to an understanding of the Buddha's teachings. He also shows how it has direct, practical relevance to urgent contemporary problems.
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Peacock Plumes in Southampton - Introducing The Amitabha Project

From Triratna News on Tue, 1 Mar, 2022 - 12:00

Peacock Plumes in Southampton - Introducing The Amitabha Project

From Triratna News on Tue, 1 Mar, 2022 - 12:00

Since opening the centre in the converted premises of the old Plume of Feathers pub in the St Mary’s district four years ago, The Southampton Buddhist Center has been through a period of what feels like an incubation of new sangha lives. During the Covid pandemic, 20 people have had their mitra ceremonies. There have been two local ordinations and numerous ordination requests.

Now that the lockdowns have eased, these lives are interacting together in a range of endeavors that...
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A Notice About Saramati's Health

From Order Connection on Tue, 1 Mar, 2022 - 11:05

A Notice About Saramati's Health

From Order Connection on Tue, 1 Mar, 2022 - 11:05

Dear Friends,

I’m writing to let you know about Saramati’s health. As some of you may be aware, he was diagnosed in September 2020 with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and, unfortunately, struck with Covid-19 two months later. After a tense 3 week hospital stay, he recovered from covid and came home, but the virus had taken a further toll on his lungs and he has been on supplemental oxygen 24/7 since then.

Although...
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Slowing the Momentum of Delusion - talk

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Tue, 1 Mar, 2022 - 11:01

Slowing the Momentum of Delusion - talk

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Tue, 1 Mar, 2022 - 11:01

The six realms are created and perpetuated by our relation to our heart space. In this talk Bhadra describes the tendencies to push our life towards fantasies of growth to get the love we long for or to deny our experiences of unmet needs that often carry us into numbness, addiction and oblivion. He suggests the mirror of the wheel of life encourages us to look deeply into the felt experience of our hearts to find the life that wants...
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Slowing the Momentum of Delusion - meditation

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Tue, 1 Mar, 2022 - 10:59

Slowing the Momentum of Delusion - meditation

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Tue, 1 Mar, 2022 - 10:59

A guided reflection on the three levels of what is described as the ‘heart space’; the meeting point between self and world. Bhadra guides us into the experiences of the front facing heart, the deep heart and the heart of awareness itself.
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Forthcoming Ordination at the Thames Buddhist Centre (New Zealand)

From Order Connection on Mon, 28 Feb, 2022 - 20:22

Forthcoming Ordination at the Thames Buddhist Centre (New Zealand)

From Order Connection on Mon, 28 Feb, 2022 - 20:22

Dear friends,

I’m pleased to let you know that Brian Moreton from the Thames Sangha (New Zealand) and Guhyasiddhi (his private preceptor) will soon begin his ordination retreat in the solitary cabins at Sudarshanaloka Retreat Centre. During that retreat, Brian’s private ordination is planned for Sunday 13th March in Chetul cabin. And I plan to publicly ordain him at 2pm on Sunday 20th March (1am UK time) at the nearby Thames Buddhist Centre.

The...
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Cambridge Buddhist Centre (UK) is looking for a new Chair!

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Mon, 28 Feb, 2022 - 16:47

Cambridge Buddhist Centre (UK) is looking for a new Chair!

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Mon, 28 Feb, 2022 - 16:47

Based in the beautiful city of Cambridge, our Buddhist Centre is one of the largest in the Triratna movement with a vibrant mix of events run on a Dana economy, supported by an active Council and a strong Centre team.

Following the departure of our previous Chair at the beginning of the year, we are looking to find a new Chair with the energy and enthusiasm to continue moving the Centre forward. With a thriving Sangha, there are many opportunities to grow...
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Dharmabyte: Compulsively Trying to Fix Samsara

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 Feb, 2022 - 06:00

In this talk, Viryadevi describes how the development and sustenance of Virya, relies on a commitment to increasing integration and purity. A commitment that we strengthen through time. 


From the talk Vajrapani’s Gateway to Freedom given at Glasgow Buddhist Centre, 2020

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FBA Podcast: Confession as a Path to Transcendental Insight

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 26 Feb, 2022 - 06:00

Sanghadevi looks at the relationship between Buddhist confession and forgiveness and the ability to see into the nature of reality.

Talk given at the Triratna [Western] Buddhist Order Women’s Convention, 1999.

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