The Urban Retreat Diary On November 21, at the beginning of your Urban Retreat, we suggest you take the time to reflect on what you specifically want to practice during the coming week. What supportive conditions do you want to set up? What practices do you want to do?
It really helps to make these aims as concrete as possible, and to write them down. Writing your practice aspirations down is an important ingredient of the event, and will help you implement your intentions.
In conversation with Saccanama, Punyamala shares her reflections on conducting her first public ordination at Akashavana in September this year, particularly high-lighting its significance for the Sangha jewel.
This week’sFBA Podcastfeatures Vajratara in a talk entitled “Buddhism and the Modern World”. Given on a retreat for young women training for Ordination, Vajratara describes the topical issues of the time and asks what the Buddhist response is. The refugee crisis, the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the effects of neo liberal capitalism and environmental denigration; all point to a change in the way we see each other and the world. We...
Join our regular Sunday morning meditation at 10 am, November 15, 2015. Following the meditation, you are invited to stay for the Sunday gathering, starting at 11 am. This week Viriyagita will lead us through a devotional practice, the sevenfold puja.
Come and experience it. You may come and just listen, enjoying it’s poetry and beauty or you can join in fully. There will be copies available of the practice for folks to follow along.This sevenfold puja is being recited all over the...
Parami interviews her good friends Paramachitta and Karunadevi about their recent time in Mexico for the Pan-American Order convention as well as their trips to Cuernavaca.
Here are the photo posters of nearly all of the Triratna Sanghas around the world which are taking part in the Urban Retreat 2015. Many thanks to Rijupatha from the team at Dharmachakra (who are behind The Buddhist Centre Online and Free Buddhist Audio) for creating it!
There are two versions as you will see - version one is a multi-sheet A4PDF that can be printed out on a home printer, and then stuck on some card to create...
Paramabandhu introduces a new ordination retreat at Guhyaloka which will run for one month in September next year. It will be a bilingual retreat in Spanish and English.
A great talk from Karunagita, author of “A Path For Parents”, with some key practical insights for anyone trying to figure out how to go deeper with their practice while raising children. We get a moving evocation of parenting as a distinct context for working with our conditioning, our views, and for learning to break...
The College of Public Preceptors arrived at Adhisthana on Monday for their 10 day bi-annual meeting, many having travelled from India, Australasia, Mainland Europe and North America.
+Follow the Triratna Preceptors’ College for the next 8 days at thebuddhistcentre.com/preceptors for a series of interviews with those attending, to hear more about them and their work and it’s relevance to Triratna and the world…
