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Our Regular Sunday Morning Sangha for June 3rd is Cancelled...

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 29 May, 2018 - 20:45

Our Regular Sunday Morning Sangha for June 3rd is Cancelled...

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Tue, 29 May, 2018 - 20:45

Our regular Sangha Gathering this week, Sunday, June 3, will be cancelled as there will be a memorial service at 11 am that morning for Bodhana, a local Order Member who passed away a few weeks ago. All who knew Bodhana are invited to attend. Written remembrances will be collected and compiled into a memory book. Details on this and the service are available here:

https://mailchi.mp/aryaloka/you-are-invited-to-a-celebration-of-dh-bodhanas-life?e=ec9bcc1193

We send our condolences to Bodhana’s family and friends.

Dharmavajra

Lewes Triratna Buddhist Group

From on Tue, 29 May, 2018 - 14:06

Lewes Triratna Buddhist Group

From on Tue, 29 May, 2018 - 14:06

Welcome to Triratna Meditation Lewes

The Triratna Lewes Buddhist Group has been meeting regularly since 2010. We offer classes in five- or six-week blocks throughout the year apart from a break during the summer. Newcomers are welcome to join us.

Classes cover various aspects of meditation practice and Buddhist teaching and encourage the building of friendship among members of the group.

For full details of all our activities, see our website:
www.triratnameditationlewes.co.uk

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: We All Want to be Happy

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 17:38

This Dharmabyte podcast is brought to you by Maitreyabandhu. We yearn to be happy, yet we don’t know where to find happiness. The central problem of human life - we try all sorts of things, it’s like a koan we are all born with.

From the talk The Happiness Problem by Maitreyabandhu given as part of the LBC’s Urban Retreat in June 2009.

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Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Living Sangha

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 17:15

This Dharmabyte podcast is called Living Sangha from Abhayanandi, in an excerpt from a talk of the same name.

Imagine being part of a community marked by autonomy and connection, abundant with supportive love and friendship. The Buddha famously said that fellowship is the whole of the spiritual life. Is that really true?!

Abhayanandi has been following this teaching notably by living in a residential Buddhist community and working in...

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Broken Images

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 17:07

This Dharmabyte podcast is from Sangharakshita, entitled: Broken Images, an excerpt from the talk The Journey to Il Convento.

The journey symbolises a pilgrimage through the ruins and broken images of Christian civilisation and culture, progressing through a world of archetypal forms, and potentially taking us to the very threshold of Enlightenment.

N.B. A few words missing. Talk given in 1984.

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Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Emotion in the Spiritual Life

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 17:02

This Dharmabyte podcast is from our Triratna Buddhist Community founder, Sangharakshita, entitled: Emotion in the Spiritual Life.

The central problem of spiritual life is the mobilisation of our emotional energies, so that what we know can be put into practice. Energies may be blocked, wasted or too coarse, and the Buddhist puja takes us through a series of devotional moods to help liberate them.

The full talk, Poetry...

Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: Metta as Dependent Arising

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 16:56

In this Dharmabyte podcast Dayajoti speaks on Metta As Dependent Arising. From a talk of the same title, given on a Metta as a Path to Insight Retreat in 2015.

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Sadayasihi

Dharmabyte: The Bodhisattva Vision

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 16:50

This Dharmabyte podcast is an excerpt from The Bodhisattva Vision.

Visuddhimati launches the Triratna Urban Retreat on the theme of the greater mandala of uselessness - a teaching Sangharakshita has given us in 1976 derived from the Ratnagunasamcayagatha Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras.

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Yogaratna

Breaking the silence, changing the story: Buddhism versus neoliberalism

From Shabda Articles on Mon, 28 May, 2018 - 08:43

(Open to all)

This is a very brief introduction to neoliberal ideas and some of the ways they affect the current global political and ecological situation. It explores many ways Buddhism and Buddhists are already presenting profound challenges to the neoliberal story - and celebrates this range of responses. There’s a great deal of excellent work already going on, a better world is certainly possible, and there are very many ways we can build transforming the world into our collective and personal...

File Name	Size
Buddhism versus neoliberalism	1.53 MB

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Mokshini

BAM Handbooks - ideas and inspiration for June!

From Buddhist Action on Sun, 27 May, 2018 - 15:46

I’ve attached the Triratna version of the Buddhist Action Month Handbook which I compiled in 2016 and is full of suggestions and ideas for Buddhist action ranging from litter picks over guerrilla gardening to a commitment to a month of ‘five minute interventions’.

It also contains an Event Planning Guide, a template for an Energy Audit for your Buddhist Centre, supporting info on how to become a Sustainable Buddhist Centre and other helpful ideas.

In addition and more up to date in terms of...

File Name	Size
buddhist_action_month_2016_handbook_final.pdf	11.83 MB
2018_bam_handbook_nbo_version_.docx	1.04 MB
bam_2017_handbook_nbo_version_.pdf	7.29 MB

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