Munisha's picture
Munisha

Triratna Shrewsbury's wonderful new centre

From Triratna News on Tue, 16 Dec, 2014 - 18:50

Triratna Shrewsbury's wonderful new centre

From Triratna News on Tue, 16 Dec, 2014 - 18:50Shrewsbury is a UK town close to the border with Wales, and to Taraloka, Triratna’s retreat centre for women. Its sangha is now large enough to buy a building, having started over a decade ago with classes run by Order members visiting from Birmingham Buddhist Centre and from Taraloka.

Watch a 3-minute video about this great little building and its potential.

Akasaraja writes: “Efforts to find a building in Shrewsbury to use as a Buddhist...
akasajoti's picture
akasajoti

Eros and Beauty II - Talks Available Now

From Adhisthana on Tue, 16 Dec, 2014 - 17:29

Eros and Beauty II - Talks Available Now

From Adhisthana on Tue, 16 Dec, 2014 - 17:29Subhuti and Padmavajra returned to Adhisthana in November, for ‘Eros and Beauty II’. Over four days of talks they explored beauty and the dharma life; covering themes such as the ecstatic nature of the aesthetic moment, and the relationship of eros and beauty with spiritual death and the bodhicitta.

The talks are available here on Free Buddhist Audio
Rijupatha's picture
Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: Life is a Gift

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 16 Dec, 2014 - 15:07
Subscribe to the Dharmabytes podcast

Support FBA today!

In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, Amalasiri gives a lovely talk entitled “Life is a Gift – Triratna in Barcelona”, beginning a series of podcasts from now to the end of the year exploring the topic of insight. This talk was given at the European Combined Order Convention, the theme of which was “The Bodhisattva’s Reply: Triratna Paths to Insight”.
Rijupatha's picture
Rijupatha

FBA Podcast: Meeting the Suffering of the World

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 16 Dec, 2014 - 13:46

FBA Podcast: Meeting the Suffering of the World

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 16 Dec, 2014 - 13:46Subscribe to the FBA Podcast

Support FBA today!

This week’s FBA Podcast entitled “Meeting the Suffering of the World”, by Maitrisara, was the last in a series of talks at Dharmapala College celebrating “40 Years of the New Society”. Here Maitrisara takes on the topic of compassion in action.
Candradasa's picture
Candradasa

Mindfulness All Flavours! Week 4: Breadth And Focus

From Online Meditators on Mon, 15 Dec, 2014 - 21:08

Mindfulness All Flavours! Week 4: Breadth And Focus

From Online Meditators on Mon, 15 Dec, 2014 - 21:08Here we are in our final week of the current session of online meditation! Over the past month of the Tuesday course we’ve explored sati, sampajanna, and appamada as different flavours of mindfulness - or as complementary camera angles of reflection on the practice, if you like. This time we’re going to look at how to hold all three aspects using an awareness of breadth and focus in our meditation. And as usual we’ll be doing this in the context...
Munisha's picture
Munisha

Tiratanaloka is 20!

From Triratna News on Sat, 13 Dec, 2014 - 18:44
  • Navachitta

Tiratanaloka is 20!

From Triratna News on Sat, 13 Dec, 2014 - 18:44Tiratanaloka is Triratna’s UK retreat centre for women training for ordination. It’s 20 years since its foundation in a country house in a beautiful valley in the Brecon Beacons, south Wales.

Current team member Amritamati writes: “To mark the occasion, the current team invited all the current and previous trustees and resident team members for the first weekend of November: over 30 women from around the world. Of these, an impressive 26 attended, including all the original team:...
libbydavy's picture
libbydavy

#EthicalChristmas: Metta Eggs – Collect Moments Not Things...

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 12 Dec, 2014 - 19:42

#EthicalChristmas: Metta Eggs – Collect Moments Not Things...

From Buddhist Centre Features on Fri, 12 Dec, 2014 - 19:42Imagine being given a box of hand-crafted eggs
Filled with heartfelt messages
From people who really care about you

Christmas stirs up mixed feelings for most people. Life is busy enough without adding pressure to spend time and money we might not have, to connect with all our nearest, dearest – and perhaps those we feel we “should” be close to, even if they leave us gasping for air.

Who do we really care about and want to...
Munisha's picture
Munisha

Preceptors' College video features a message from Bhante

From Community Highlights on Fri, 12 Dec, 2014 - 17:43

Preceptors' College video features a message from Bhante

From Community Highlights on Fri, 12 Dec, 2014 - 17:43An idiosyncratic and rich 15-minute video about the latest meeting of the Preceptors’ College and their consideration of current issues in Triratna, made by College member Moksananda, featuring a remarkable Skype conversation between them and Vajragita - who couldn’t attend because, as she said, she was dying. “It’s not too bad, dying!” she laughs.

And, to start and end, an interview with Sangharakshita. Well worth watching.
Rijupatha's picture
Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: The Buddha Prevents a War

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 11 Dec, 2014 - 13:16
Subscribe to the Dharmabytes podcast

Support FBA today!

Sangharakshita recounts for us in today’s FBA Dharmabyte the Rohini incident in which “The Buddha Prevents a War”. The Buddha’s lone voice of sanity in this story is a wonderful template for us to work from when considering realistic courses of action in the modern world to promote peace and end warfare. Excerpted from the talk ...

Pages