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PLANETARY - special BAM screening at Sheffield Buddhist Centre (June 13th)

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Mon, 1 Jun, 2015 - 22:45

PLANETARY - special BAM screening at Sheffield Buddhist Centre (June 13th)

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Mon, 1 Jun, 2015 - 22:45

We’re very pleased to offer a special screening of “Planetary” on June 13th at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, courtesy of the director, Steve Kennedy. The film is concurrently being shown at Sheffield Doc Fest (June 5-10).

PLANETARY is a provocative and breathtaking wakeup call – a cinematic journey that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species. It is a poetic and humbling reminder that now is the time to shift our perspective, to reconsider our relationship with ourselves, with each other...

Munisha

Buddhist Action Month 2015 begins

From Triratna News on Mon, 1 Jun, 2015 - 07:35

Buddhist Action Month 2015 begins

From Triratna News on Mon, 1 Jun, 2015 - 07:35

Buddhist Action Month 2015 begins today - a festival of Buddhist-inspired social action. Triratna Buddhists are taking part in groups and centres all over the UK, as well as in our sanghas in Paris, New Hampshire, Dublin, Essen and at Eco Dharma in Spain.

Meanwhile Buddhists in other traditions are also involved in various ways, from the Amida Trust (Pure Land) and from SGI-UK.

This year’s themes for Triratna BAM are:

Sustainability
Awakening our money sense
Caring for others

Follow all the Triratna BAM...

Munisha

Buddhist Action Month 2015 starts today

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Mon, 1 Jun, 2015 - 07:23

Buddhist Action Month 2015 starts today

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Mon, 1 Jun, 2015 - 07:23

As BAM kicks off, it’s been great to see posts on this page from Triratna Buddhists all over the UK - and Paris, New Hampshire and Dublin too! Essen (Germany) and EcoDharma (Spain) are also taking part.

Meanwhile Buddhists in other traditions are also involved in various ways, from the Amida Trust (Pure Land) and from SGI-UK, one of the UK’s three largest Buddhist groups. (The other two are Triratna and the New Kadampa Tradition.) You’ll be able...

Rijupatha

Live Web Talk - Getting Radical, Then And Now

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Sun, 31 May, 2015 - 17:10

Live Web Talk - Getting Radical, Then And Now

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Sun, 31 May, 2015 - 17:10

Our new North American Young Buddhists sangha will be taking part with all our sisters and brothers around the world in the International Young Buddhists Weekend from June 5-7th. We’ll be running our first ever event over the Saturday and Sunday and we wanted to share something with everyone who has inspired us to come together in this way.

So we’ve arranged for Parami (who is visiting the U.S. at present) to offer a live web talk and conversation. One of the most experienced...

Momtaz

Engaging in 'Volunteer Action for Peace' at Taraloka 20th-3rd July

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Sun, 31 May, 2015 - 10:42

Engaging in 'Volunteer Action for Peace' at Taraloka 20th-3rd July

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Sun, 31 May, 2015 - 10:42

This year Taraloka is running a two-week project with the organisation ‘Volunteer Action for Peace’ or VAP. VAP is a UK-based charity promoting international peace by bringing together people from all over the world to work with partner organisations such as Taraloka. We will have 11 women coming to the project from a variety of different countries including Estonia, Germany, Spain and Italy. We will be working and living together as a community for the...

Momtaz

TRANSFORMING WORLD AND SELF - Tara and the Tears of Avalokitesvara

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Fri, 29 May, 2015 - 17:28

TRANSFORMING WORLD AND SELF - Tara and the Tears of Avalokitesvara

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Fri, 29 May, 2015 - 17:28

At Taraloka Women’s Retreat Centre 12th - 19th June

http://www.taraloka.org.uk/retreat-information/available-retreats/taraloka-retreat-calendar/transforming-world-and-self-tara-and-the-tears-of-avalokitesvara

Avalokitesvara weeps for the sufferings of the world and from his tears Tara is born.This retreat will have the mythic theme of Green Tara, who has one hand extended in a gesture of infinite giving, and with one leg steps down into the world to go to the aid of living beings. She is also much associated in our minds with the green of nature .

On this retreat we will look at the...

viriyalila

Mindfulness Meditation Workshop

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 29 May, 2015 - 14:33

Mindfulness Meditation Workshop

From Portsmouth Buddhist Center on Fri, 29 May, 2015 - 14:33

Saturday, June 20, 10-1 pm - Day Workshop introducing Mindfulness of Breathing

Come and learn a foundational mindfulness meditation practice that you can build on and deepen for years to come. Offered by donation, $40-20.

When you learn to meditate with us, we offer instruction in:

• finding an alert and comfortable meditation posture

• body awareness

• how to work with the mind in meditation

• how to maintain a regular and effective practice

• how to maintain mindfulness off the cushion

• higher states of consciousness

Register for this workshop

Munisha

90 to 90: the countdown begins!

From Triratna News on Thu, 28 May, 2015 - 17:46

90 to 90: the countdown begins!

From Triratna News on Thu, 28 May, 2015 - 17:46

It’s just 90 days till 26th August: Sangharakshita’s 90th birthday.

As the countdown proceeds, we’ll bring you news of the various ways in which we’ll be celebrating the day:

a new publication
an exhibition in the Sangharakshita Library at Adhisthana and
how you can help him with the one birthday present he really wants.

(This week Bhante is on holiday at Glastonbury in the west of England. See picture, left.)

Visit Sangharakshita’s website.
Follow Sangharakshita on Facebook.

Rijupatha

Sagaravajra's Garden of Complete Being

From Community Highlights on Thu, 28 May, 2015 - 15:29

Sagaravajra's Garden of Complete Being

From Community Highlights on Thu, 28 May, 2015 - 15:29

A talk given at the West London Buddhist Centre by Sagaravajra, from the perspective of his own life experiences as an artist, Buddhist, ecologist and horticulturalist.