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Resignation of Shrijnana

From Order Connection on Tue, 20 Jul, 2021 - 07:17

Resignation of Shrijnana

From Order Connection on Tue, 20 Jul, 2021 - 07:17

Dear Order Members,

Shrijnana has written to me as her Public and Private Preceptor to let me know that she wishes to resign from the Order and I have accepted her resignation.

She was ordained in 2001 in Tuscany, and lives in New Hampshire. She explains why she wishes to resign in her letter, but in her initial letters to me she says she does want to stay in touch with all of her...

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Love, Life and Death - Working On Mental Health's Frontline During the Covid-19 Pandemic

From Birmingham Buddhist Centre on Tue, 20 Jul, 2021 - 00:00

Karunavajra gives a Sangha night talk exploring the relationship between his Buddhist practice and its impact on working on the mental health frontline during the pandemic.

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Ratnadharini

An Invitation to a Forum with Members of the Preceptors’ College

From Order Connection on Mon, 19 Jul, 2021 - 07:38

An Invitation to a Forum with Members of the Preceptors’ College

From Order Connection on Mon, 19 Jul, 2021 - 07:38

Dear Order Members

We’re writing with an invitation to you to join us for a forum with members of the Preceptors’ College.
Much care and concern has been expressed in response to the recent case of expulsion, and following our College meeting two weeks ago, we wanted to organise a context to include as many Order members as possible in this important discussion about how we respond to ethical issues in the Order.

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Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Stillness, Simplicity and Contentment

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 19 Jul, 2021 - 06:00

Here Candradasa explores the third precept and the Buddha’s moral code generally and we get some sense of where we might look to find ways to work effectively with our strongest desires in ways that lessen attachment and help us see reality more clearly.

From the talk entitled Sex and Morality, Going Beyond Puritanism given in Portsmouth, NH, October 2012.

This talk is part of the series Religion Without God.

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suryanaga

Triratna Ordination in the New Statesman

From Triratna News on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 11:29

Triratna Ordination in the New Statesman

From Triratna News on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 11:29

Last week, I and 3 other new order members were welcomed back to the LBC as our new selves. As is tradition at the London Buddhist Centre, we invited many of our friends and family and gave short talks - trying to explain to the Buddhist and non-Buddhist audience (as well as to ourselves) what we’d just committed our lives to. I found it a hugely moving event, integrating different strands of my life together - old and new; public...

Karunadevi

Forthcoming Ordination in Montana, USA

From Order Connection on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 10:54

Forthcoming Ordination in Montana, USA

From Order Connection on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 10:54

Dear Order Members,

Leslie McCormick from Tucson, Arizona will be ordained on a small ordination retreat near Missoula, Montana. The private ordination will take place on July 25th and the public ceremony will be held in Missoula on Wednesday, July 28th at 6 pm MDT.
Members of the Missoula sangha and friends have been invited to attend the public ordination.

The private and public preceptor is Karunadevi.

With metta,
Karunadevi

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Maitreyi

Resignation of Ambaravajri

From Order Connection on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 10:47

Resignation of Ambaravajri

From Order Connection on Sun, 18 Jul, 2021 - 10:47

Dear Order Members,

Ambaravajri has written to me as her Public Preceptor to let me know that she wishes to resign from the Order and I have accepted her resignation. I have been in touch with Ambaravajri, and also with Dhammadassin her Private Preceptor, with whom she has been in dialogue for some time about this process, and with whom she has explored her concerns.

She is now clear that she wishes to resign,...

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Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: The Third Precept

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 17 Jul, 2021 - 06:00

Vimalasara gives a thorough talk on the third precept, exploring some of the issues we all need to reflect on if we are to live life more fully with simplicity, contentment and stillness. Relevant to modern day living, this talk also signposts some of the issues that women and queer people have to contend with when reflecting on this precept.

Talk given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2013.

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Centre Team

Beauty and Environmental Action (The Dharma Toolkit Podcast, Episode 41)

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 17 Jul, 2021 - 17:05

Join us for a deep dive into the relationship between art, aesthetics, the environment, and the inner life of people, objects and houses! In this episode we discuss the current ecological and biodiversity crises with an artist and a poet, asking how an appreciation and fuller understanding of beauty itself can help us take action in our own lives.

Be prepared to have your notions of “the beautiful” challenged and, hopefully, also affirmed as we range with our guests Padmacandra and Vilokini...