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Model Centre Policies (UK)

From Triratna Resources on Sat, 16 Jul, 2016 - 01:21

We’re developing a set of ‘model policies’ for consideration by Triratna Centres. They have been edited from policies used by Windhorse:Evolution, Karuna, the Birmingham and London Buddhist Centres, and others – we’re grateful to them for permission to reproduce them here. 

Please note that you will need to check for yourself that the policies suggested here will meet your needs and that they satisfy current legislation.

They have been developed using the recommendations on the Charity Commission website, and ‘tweaked’ to suit the way...

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Appointing Triratna Buddhist Centre Chairs (PDF)151.2 KB
Chairs responsibilities and criteria (docx)6.13 KB
Conflict of Interest draft model policy (PDF)67.4 KB
Disciplinary Process Model Policy (docx)14.93 KB
Financial controls model policy, 2009 (doc)116 KB
Genuine Occupational Requirement for Centre Chair (docx)15.12 KB
Living Will and Death Plan for Triratna Practitioners - Model Wording (docx)8.59 KB
Membership of Triratna Charities draft model policy (PDF)65.96 KB
Room Booking Conditions Checklist Form (docx)925.64 KB
Room booking conditions (doc)53.5 KB
Room hire checklist (doc)29.5 KB
Support Package and Ethos Statement in TBRL - Model Statement (docx)18.62 KB
Triratna Sample Contract for Employment (docx)9.61 KB
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Marriage, Civil Partnerships and Triratna (UK, 2010)

From Triratna Resources on Sat, 16 Jul, 2016 - 00:32

In the UK the law has recently changed to allow marriages to be celebrated in a much greater range of places. Click here for a general introduction. The change in the law has prompted some debate within UK Triratna centres. While each Centre is free to decide its own approach, the following are some notes from Vajratara who discussed this issue with Sangharakshita. At the end is a fuller discussion of the current state of (UK) law and how...

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Marriage, Civil Partnerships and Triratna39.3 KB
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Triratna Parents (2012)

From Triratna Resources on Sat, 16 Jul, 2016 - 00:27

This post contains resources for Triratna Parents, especially those seeking to form ‘parent sanghas’ to support one another in the work and practice of parenting.

Best place to start is probably the new Facebook ‘Triratna Buddhist Parents Network‘ page, created by Kamalanandi from Sheffield. There’s a printable A4 poster attached to this post (you can share a link to it here - it comes in two versions spread over two pages – choose your favourite!)

FreeBuddhistAudio have a small but useful ...
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Employers’ Responsibilities (UK, 2013)

From Triratna Resources on Sat, 16 Jul, 2016 - 00:08

All Triratna employers have a responsibility to ensure proper taxes are paid to their national government.  There has been an important recent change to the UK Govt’s PAYE reporting: 6 April 2013 sees an important change to the Government’s PAYE system. From then all employers will have to start reporting PAYE information to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in real time, a system known as RTI. If you use payroll software you’ll...

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General advice (updated 2019)70.55 KB
Draft contract for hourly paid staff (needs checking)118.77 KB
Draft contract for salaried staff (needs checking)86 KB
Draft form/letter for casual worker (needs checking)67.5 KB
Draft equal opportunities policy48.09 KB
Draft ethos statement (Windhorse)28.19 KB
Draft ethos statement (LBC)20.5 KB
Draft job advert for employing Buddhist only20.5 KB
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Money Awakening Retreat

From Future Dharma on Fri, 15 Jul, 2016 - 14:54
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Money Awakening Retreat

From Future Dharma on Fri, 15 Jul, 2016 - 14:54

In May Amalavajra ran a Money Awakening Retreat at Adhisthana.  Participants from the UK, Europe and Mexico spent a weekend together reflecting on their relationship with money.  Through meditation, puja and workshops they explored how we earn, spend, save and donate our money, and learnt how our relationship with money is part of our spiritual life.  Meditating on the Buddha Ratnasambhava, retreat participants were encouraged to focus on the 3rd and 2nd precepts: Live Simpler, Give More. 

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A Buddha Like No Other

From Cambridge Buddhist Centre on Fri, 15 Jul, 2016 - 00:00
This fifth talk in the series on the Five Stages of Spiritual Life goes into the theme of spiritual rebirth and what that means for us.
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Ask A Scholar!

From Order Dharma on Wed, 13 Jul, 2016 - 21:57

Ask A Scholar! (group)

From Order Dharma on Wed, 13 Jul, 2016 - 21:57

This is a space where you can ask a Triratna scholar any question you like about the Buddha’s teaching or about Bhante’s translation of it!

Click + follow and simply start a new thread by choosing + discussion from the posting bar. 

Alternatively, if you want to start a discussion using another kind of post (eg. video, talk, etc.) choose your post format and remember to tick ‘list this in discussions’.

You can view a list of all discussions...
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The Fourth Gift - A Garden Planted In a Wilderness

From Combined Order Convention 2016 on Wed, 13 Jul, 2016 - 16:42

A talk given in a symposium of talks based on Bhante’s poem ‘Four Gifts’ at the Combined European Order Weekend at Wymondham College.

Talk given on the 21st of August 2010.

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Four Gifts
I come to you with four gifts. The first gift is a lotus-flower. Do you understand?
My second gift

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A Blueprint for a New World

From Combined Order Convention 2016 on Wed, 13 Jul, 2016 - 15:48

Is it possible to create a society in which all social, economic, and political arrangements will support the development of true individuality? In this lecture a number of principles essential to the successful transformation of our current society are discussed.

Talk given in 1976.

This talk is part of the series Buddhism for Today and Tomorrow.

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The Nucleus of a New Society

From Combined Order Convention 2016 on Wed, 13 Jul, 2016 - 15:44

Sangharakshita describes the events of his life that led him to found the Western Buddhist Order, and explains how an individual can join it. He then discusses its relation to the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order and introduces the idea of the nucleus of a new society.

Talk given in 1976.

This talk is part of the series Buddhism for Today and Tomorrow.

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