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Sadayasihi

FBA Podcast: Vajrapani - Energy Unlimited

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 3 Nov, 2018 - 12:00

Our FBA Podcast this week is a cracking and wonderfully detailed talk called Vajrapani - Energy Unlimited by Vessantara, author of ‘Meeting the Buddhas’. He is the ideal person to introduce us to the complex and fascinating Tantric figure of Vajrapani - ‘Lord of Secrets’, embodiment of ”virya’ (Energy in Pursuit of the Good). Vessantara’s style is familiar and well-earthed, and therefore eminently well suited to material that bristles with electricity and is...

akasajoti

Local Accommodation to Adhisthana

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Sat, 3 Nov, 2018 - 11:26

Local Accommodation to Adhisthana

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Sat, 3 Nov, 2018 - 11:26

Click on the images to find information about possible options for arranging your own accommodation nearby Adhisthana.

At the time of posting, there are lots of rooms available at Church Farm in Coddington for Friday 9th and Saturday 10th.

We also have a number of local Sangha members offering accommodation, some also with transport to the funeral. Please write to admin [at] adhisthana.org to arrange this.

Jnanacandra

The Essen Sangha honouring our teacher

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Sat, 3 Nov, 2018 - 09:59

The Essen Sangha honouring our teacher

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Sat, 3 Nov, 2018 - 09:59

In the Essen Buddhist Centre we have ceased most of our regular activities for this week, like study groups, and instead have been practising together every day remembering our precious teacher. Each day we have communal meditations in the morning and an hour of mantra chanting in the evening followed by a special programme devoted to Bhante with meditation, sharing of memories, poems and puja. On tuesday we held...

Ratnagarbha

The light of the Dharma

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Sat, 3 Nov, 2018 - 08:41

The light of the Dharma

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Sat, 3 Nov, 2018 - 08:41

I cannot believe that our beloved teacher has left us. The world seems darker and colder. But he has left us with so much light and hope. My greatest gratitude to Sangharakshita is simply for having founded the Triratna movement. I am one of those people who was never going to make it to have a happy life out in the world. I needed a community, a society within a society which was very different from what our ambitious, hyperactive...

Vajranatha

Goodbye to Bhante

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Sat, 3 Nov, 2018 - 01:33

Goodbye to Bhante

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Sat, 3 Nov, 2018 - 01:33

You prepared us so gently for your death. All those years ago constantly reminding us that one day you would be gone. Making sure we would know how to carry on. Always letting things go, handing things on. Just reaching out an occasional guiding finger to the tiller when the mists of samsara obscured the way.

All the same, even though I knew this day would come, it seems as if today the sun shines dull. The...

Amaradipa

We Are One

Fri, 2 Nov, 2018 - 22:29[edit]

As usual, I was getting ready for bed around 11pm on Tuesday night in Auckland. However, I found myself experiencing pain in my heart, as if it was being squeezed and I found my breathing shallowly. I wasn’t able to sleep, my mind turning to Bhante, I laid in bed chanting Green Tara mantra for quite some time. At 1am in the night it occurred to me that Bhante may have died, which was swiftly confirmed when I saw the sad news posted on Facebook.

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sujiva

Pujas at Auckland Buddhist Centre

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Fri, 2 Nov, 2018 - 22:03

Pujas at Auckland Buddhist Centre

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Fri, 2 Nov, 2018 - 22:03

Since we heard the news, we have been having pujas & meditations every evening at the Auckland centre remembering & rejoicing in Bhante. Malini led one for order members on Thursday. Last night I led an evening for order members & mitras. Before and during the 7-fold puja, we read out a passage from the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, ...

maitridasa

Vigil held at Sheffield Buddhist Centre for Urgyen Sangharakshita

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Fri, 2 Nov, 2018 - 21:55

Vigil held at Sheffield Buddhist Centre for Urgyen Sangharakshita

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Fri, 2 Nov, 2018 - 21:55

Order Members, mitras and friends took part in a 24 hour vigil from 2pm on Tuesday. Each one hour session included a reading, chanting of one of the 5 mantras and metta bhavana. It has been a very loving time.

People brought white flowers to offer. All the flowers have now been put in our smaller shrine room where people can come any time over the next few days to sit and continue paying respects...

Samachitta

Living Ethically editing work 2007

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Fri, 2 Nov, 2018 - 19:53

Living Ethically editing work 2007

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Fri, 2 Nov, 2018 - 19:53

Working on this manuscript with Bhante from 2007 to 2009 was the highlight of my life. It was an honour and a great joy to be in the presence of his mind at work. He was so methodical and focussed, completely present with the task in hand. At the same time there was no sense of straining or forcing. Occasionally if he felt tired or a little unwell, he would take a break for a few minutes and relax with eyes...