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Kusalasara

Diary of a London Buddhist: Our spinning planet. By Kusalasara

From London Buddhist Centre on Wed, 3 Aug, 2016 - 17:18

Diary of a London Buddhist: Our spinning planet. By Kusalasara

From London Buddhist Centre on Wed, 3 Aug, 2016 - 17:18

Winter

A dead fox has been dredged from Regent’s Canal. I too might die like that, in the flush of health by some slight accident. Will death be like that? Humiliating, unexpected? Both, I suppose. It has been raining and there are two drunks up ahead. One calls out to me: ‘Watch out for the snails, Miss’. He is bending over, moving the snails off the path. Sympathy for the downtrodden.

Spring

Spring is hard: it is relentlessly blithe, and I am quite the...

LDNBuddhist

The New Vajrasana

From London Buddhist Centre on Wed, 3 Aug, 2016 - 17:15

Here’s the short booklet we made celebrating the opening of Vajrasana. It tells a wonderful story of how the new retreat centre has been developed over the years

Candradasa

Scenes From An Evening (And A Day)

From Triratna International Council on Tue, 2 Aug, 2016 - 23:01

Scenes From An Evening (And A Day)

From Triratna International Council on Tue, 2 Aug, 2016 - 23:01

This evening we heard inspiring tales from the Three Strands (Order, Movement, College) in India courtesy of some of the local representatives: Karmavajra, Ratnashri, Vijaya, and Yashosagar. We heard about the challenges, the changing roles and profiles of women, the astonishing numbers of people...

Dassini

Why Is There An International Council?

From Triratna International Council on Tue, 2 Aug, 2016 - 21:43

Dharmananda, Munisha and Bodhivamsa discuss the reasons for having an International Council and its evolving function within a global spiritual community.

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Dassini

The Three Strands and an Opening Ritual

From Triratna International Council on Tue, 2 Aug, 2016 - 21:37

Yashosagar from India and Sucimani from England talk about the College and Order strands of the International Council, and share their impressions of out opening ritual.

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Vajrasana Retreat Centre Reviewed in the Guardian

From London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 2 Aug, 2016 - 17:52

Vajrasana Retreat Centre Reviewed in the Guardian

From London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 2 Aug, 2016 - 17:52

Vajrasana retreat centre review – magnificent, modern Buddhist haven

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“My name is Maitrivajri,” says the lady waiting at the entrance to a smart black barn, deep in the Suffolk countryside. “It means a diamond thunderbolt of universal loving kindness.”

It’s not quite what you expect to encounter on the edge of the sleepy village of Walsham-le-Willows, but then this is no ordinary barn. Since 2000, Potash farm has been home to Vajrasana, the rural outpost of the...

Singhamanas

A week in the metropolis in this strange third millennium

From London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 2 Aug, 2016 - 17:33

A week in the metropolis in this strange third millennium

From London Buddhist Centre on Tue, 2 Aug, 2016 - 17:33

Here’s a recent diary piece i sent in to the London Buddhist Centre magazine…..

Tuesday night back at the soup kitchen. They’ve put me on laundry and showers, and give me the special turtle-skin gloves to protect my fingers from hypodermic needles. I hate needles. Youssef comes in keen and chirpy. He’s Syrian and we speak some French. Normally a laundry load (wash & dry) costs a pound but Youssef doesn’t have anything save a can of Carling, which he...

Candradasa

Sangharakshita's Seminars For The Digital Age - Cultivating the Heart of Patience

From Buddhist Centre Features on Mon, 1 Aug, 2016 - 12:11

*Updated* Now available for free (and DRM-free) for iPhone, iPad, ePub and Kindle! Download below, or from the included links to Apple and Amazon stores.

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For over 40 years, we have been producing transcriptions of full-length Dharma seminars by Urgyen Sangharakshita, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community. This previously unpublished week-long seminar on a key section of Shantideva’s classic text, ‘The Bodhicaryavatara’, is a radical digital re-imagining of...

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Maitreyabandhu

Some Divinity Shaping our Ends

From London Buddhist Centre on Mon, 1 Aug, 2016 - 12:33

Some Divinity Shaping our Ends

From London Buddhist Centre on Mon, 1 Aug, 2016 - 12:33

The poet Robert Frost had a sense that meaning was to be found neither in the supernatural (God) nor in the intimately psychological (the self), but transcended these distinctions. Maitreyabandhu investigates.

‘The interest, the pastime, was to learn if there had been any divinity shaping my ends and I had been building better than I knew.’
– Robert Frost in the preface to a selection of his poems, 1942

Other people’s confidence can astound me. They often seem to know who they are and what...