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Dharmabyte: Team-Based Right Livelihood

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 5 Oct, 2015 - 11:00

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte continues our series on the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled “Team-Based Right Livelihood”, from the talk “The Six Distinctive Emphases of the FWBO”. Here Sangharakshita draws out the central importance of Right Livelihood in the spiritual life, in particular the Triratna model of team-based Right Livelihood businesses, and what the features of these endeavors should look like.

Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2002.

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Friends' Night - Now on Mondays!

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sun, 4 Oct, 2015 - 20:14

Friends' Night - Now on Mondays!

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Sun, 4 Oct, 2015 - 20:14

Friends’ Night will now be held on Mondays, starting October 5th. Come join us for meditation, a lively Dharma discussion and connecting with others. Come to any or all sessions; by donation – $10-$5 suggested.

October
5 The Spiral Path part I – Stepping Away from Suffering
12 The Spiral Path part II – Coursing in Bliss
19 The Spiral Path part III – The Liberation of Heart and Mind
26 The Five Spiritual Faculties part...

Christine

The Secret of Effective Collaboration, from Eco Dharma Centre

From Earth Metta Sangha on Sun, 4 Oct, 2015 - 16:51

…Kindness is a quality we can consciously develop, especially through the basic dharma trainings of ethics and meditation. If we want to step into effective action for social and ecological wellbeing, we will need to work with others. If we want to collaborate effectively with others we’d do well to make training in kindness our radical priority.

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FBA Podcast: The Triratna Emphasis on a Unified Order

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 3 Oct, 2015 - 11:00

This week’s FBA Podcast features a talk by Manjuvajra on one of the Six Emphases of the Triratna Buddhist Community - “The Triratna Emphasis on a Unified Order”.

Here, Manjuvajra highlights the fact that involvement and membership of the Triratna Buddhist Order is open to all, irrespective of gender, colour, sexual orientation, lifestyle, or any other personal characteristic.

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Meditation Workshop - Five Breaths

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 1 Oct, 2015 - 23:28

Meditation Workshop - Five Breaths

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 1 Oct, 2015 - 23:28

As a companion to her talk, The Possibility of Practice and her guided Meditation on the Three Bodies (physical, emotional, and mental) this workshop is indispensable. Amaragita explodes and expands notions around the practice of paying attention via awareness of the breath, using the deceptively simple exercise of taking just five breaths through the day.

We hear how the practice relates to the theory of Buddhist meditation and are encouraged to choose and learn from our direct experience...

Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: Commitment is Primary, Lifestyle is Secondary

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 1 Oct, 2015 - 11:00

Sangharakshita speaks to one of the central emphases of the Triratna Buddhist Community in today’s FBA Dharmabyte podcast, expanding on the meaning of the phrase “Commitment is Primary, Lifestyle is Secondary”. Excerpted from the talk “Twenty Years on the Middle Way”, he explores our tradition’s principle of an Order that places its weight on genuine Going for Refuge rather than the conditions a person was born into or lifestyle.

Talk given in 1987.

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Vajra Bell - Autumn 2015

From Vajra Bell on Wed, 30 Sep, 2015 - 22:53

The Vajra Bell Autumn 2015 issue is here!

The focus of this issue is: “Self-Compassion: Learning to Turn Lovingkindness Inwards”.

You can download and view the PDF version of this issue of Vajra Bell by clicking on the link at the bottom of this post.

In this issue:

“Lovingkindness Squared: Cultivating Self-Compassion” by Dh. Bodhipaksa
“Metta: A Gateway to Self-Compassion and Insight” by Dh. Vimalasara
“The Practice of Self-Compassion” by Dh. Varada
“A Life Lesson from Behind Prison Walls” by Susan DePietro
“Compassionate Presence” Retreat Review by Mike Mappes
Updates from the Spiritual Vitality Council and Board of Directors of Aryaloka

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Amaragita - A Meditation On Our Three Bodies

From Buddhist Centre Features on Tue, 29 Sep, 2015 - 17:56

A helpful introduction from Amaragita to the subtler reaches of body-based awareness meditation, bringing in a sense of our physical, emotional and mental ‘bodies’ as the basis for deep relaxation and resting in our experience.

Led as part of the 2015 Mothers Retreat at Taraloka Retreat Centre.

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akashavana summer highlight

From Akashavana on Tue, 29 Sep, 2015 - 16:31

akashavana summer highlight

From Akashavana on Tue, 29 Sep, 2015 - 16:31

It’s full on at Akasavana! This seems to be the theme for ’ the land of luminous space’.
The number of people living in the community has doubled, which is going amazingly well…Hooray! On top of that we came to the end of a very successful retreat with the biggest number of women to date. Late July twenty eight Dharmacharinis arrived by bus from Tortosa to take part in a three week long retreat with Viveka and Singhasri.
Of course,...