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Angulimala & Amoghasiddhi - Facebook Live 1.04.20

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 15:15

Angulimala & Amoghasiddhi - Facebook Live 1.04.20

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 15:15

Kalyananara hosted our class on Wednesday 1st April. We hear about the Buddha’s meeting with a murderer and thief named Angulimala and explored fearlessness and compassionate action with the figure Amoghasiddhi.  Kalyananara led us in a Metta Bhavana meditation.
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Sadayasihi

Dharmabytes Podcast: Live Like a River Flows

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 14:00

Ratnavandana offers a personal sharing of her reflections on a six month solitary retreat where she was focussing on the Heart Sutra. 

With Avalokitesvara as her guide, she was hoping to deepen her understanding of the emptiness of the five skandhas as well as exploring how to bring all the ordinary everyday activities of life into the realm of the sacred.

This excerpt includes a reading evocation on the Five Buddha Mandala.

From the talk Glimpses of...
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Overview of Financial Help for UK Centres - pdf's OM

From Triratna Resources on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 10:41

Here are some pdf’s of documents for Chairs to share with their Trustees and other relevant people:

  • Triratna Money groups response to Centres
  • an example of a Furlough notification for Triratna employees which you could edit to suit
  • working from home self-assessment form, for health & safety

And here’s a link with information that may well be of interest too:
https://www.charitytaxgroup.org.uk/news-post/2020/coronavirus-information-hub-charity-tax-finance-professionals/

File NameSize
tmg_response_for_centres.pdf5.17 MB
example_furlough_notification_for_buddhist_centre_use.pdf82.89 KB
working_from_home_hs-dse_assessment_updated_may2018.pdf110.74 KB
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The Bodhicitta Practice

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 00:00
Towards the end of 2018 Satyaraja led the Padmaloka Winter Retreat, 'The Awakening of the Bodhi Heart'. This was a two-week intensive meditation retreat for men training for ordination and Order members. The retreat was centred around the 'Bodhicitta practice', also known as 'tonglen', a weighty meditation practice that, through contemplating emptiness and arousing great compassion, aims at nothing less than giving rise to the Bodhicitta, or 'will to Enlightenment' for the benefit of all. During this talk Satyaraja introduces us to the principles and form of this profound practice.
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Dharma Wondrous Strange: 1. Wonder

From Manchester Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 00:00
In this first talk in a series of eight, Ratnaguna looks at the importance of wonder in the spiritual life. The talk was given on 27th March 2020 via Zoom, following the temporary closure of Manchester Buddhist Centre due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Free Buddhist Audio

The Bodhicitta Practice

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 00:00
Towards the end of 2018 Satyaraja led the Padmaloka Winter Retreat, 'The Awakening of the Bodhi Heart'. This was a two-week intensive meditation retreat for men training for ordination and Order members. The retreat was centred around the 'Bodhicitta practice', also known as 'tonglen', a weighty meditation practice that, through contemplating emptiness and arousing great compassion, aims at nothing less than giving rise to the Bodhicitta, or 'will to Enlightenment' for the benefit of all. During this talk Satyaraja introduces us to the principles and form of this profound practice.
playdownload and donate
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Free Buddhist Audio

Dharma Wondrous Strange: 1. Wonder

From Manchester Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 00:00
In this first talk in a series of eight, Ratnaguna looks at the importance of wonder in the spiritual life. The talk was given on 27th March 2020 via Zoom, following the temporary closure of Manchester Buddhist Centre due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
playdownload and donate
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Sadayasihi

Coronavirus Grants for Triratna Order Members

From Abhayaratna Trust on Wed, 1 Apr, 2020 - 18:21

Coronavirus Grants for Triratna Order Members

From Abhayaratna Trust on Wed, 1 Apr, 2020 - 18:21

The Abhayaratna Trust is responding to the financial hardship resulting from the spread of Covid-19 by offering short term relief through cash grants of up to £500 per Order member as support at this time.

Many Order members are self-employed and the sudden loss of income has left some of them without the resources to pay food and utility bills and with rent shortfalls. Access to state benefits can be too slow or not available in many...
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FB-Jay

Day 4: Spiritual Rebirth - Bristol Rains Retreat 2020: 'The Dynamic Mandala'

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Wed, 1 Apr, 2020 - 18:08

Day 4: Spiritual Rebirth - Bristol Rains Retreat 2020: 'The Dynamic Mandala'

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Wed, 1 Apr, 2020 - 18:08

Day Four of our Virtual Rains Retreat in Bristol with Tejananda and there were still about 50 of us logging on, this time to explore the aspect of Spiritual Rebirth in the ‘Dynamic Mandala’ presentation of the System of Practice.  Tejananda began with some reflections on the benefits of the ‘principial’ nature of the system of practice - especially the flexibility of application which it offers.  This retreat is working with these principles in a somatic way, ie with the...
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Cancellation of the International Convention

From Order Connection on Wed, 1 Apr, 2020 - 17:58

Cancellation of the International Convention

From Order Connection on Wed, 1 Apr, 2020 - 17:58

Dear Order members,

Given the measures in place to protect health service provision and contain the spread of the Coronavirus worldwide, we have taken the decision to cancel the International Convention this year. 

It is hard to predict how long the necessary restrictions will last, but many of us would be planning our time now: booking travel and making arrangements, and this is simply not possible at the moment.  We are, of course, really...

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