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#EthicalChristmas: Wildmind - An Online Meditation Center, And More!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 4 Dec, 2014 - 15:01

#EthicalChristmas: Wildmind - An Online Meditation Center, And More!

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 4 Dec, 2014 - 15:01Wildmind is an online meditation center, a blog, an online meditation supplies store, and a publisher of guided meditation CDs.

These varied activities are run by a small team of three people working from an office in a former cotton mill on the Lamprey River in Newmarket, New Hampshire, just down the road from Aryaloka Buddhist Center.

As an online meditation center, Wildmind has a global, reach. In the past twelve...

Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: Sangha as Alternative Culture

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 3 Dec, 2014 - 20:06

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In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, we present an excellent talk from Young Peoples Facilitator Kara Moses entitled “Sangha as Alternative Culture”. Kara talks about why industrialised Capitalist society presents us with particularly challenging conditions for Buddhist practise, and how the Sangha provides a radical positive alternative.

Rijupatha

FBA Podcast: Why We Need the New Society

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 3 Dec, 2014 - 19:49

FBA Podcast: Why We Need the New Society

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Grounding his talk in the Kosambiya and Anuruddha suttas in this week’s FBA Podcast entitled “Why We Need the New Society”, Vajragupta guides us through how we can create the conditions for the seeds of selflessness to grow and develop in the framework of the New Society as described by Sangharakshita: communities, centres and working together.

Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: Lalitaratna Rejoices in Bhante

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 3 Dec, 2014 - 19:41

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In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, we complete our series on Sangharakshita, his life and his friendships with “Lalitaratna Rejoices in Bhante”. This talk is another in a set recorded during a celebration of Sangharakshita’s birthday in 2010, featuring the lively and humorous reminiscences of Lalitaratna.

Munisha

Gypsy Buddhists in Hungary; and a job opportunity

From Triratna News on Wed, 3 Dec, 2014 - 14:25

Gypsy Buddhists in Hungary; and a job opportunity

From Triratna News on Wed, 3 Dec, 2014 - 14:25Subhuti leaves the UK for India once again this week – but this time with three mitras from Hungary: Janos, Tibor and Kubu. Here he writes about Hungary’s new gypsy Buddhist movement and its Jai Bhim Network – and the opportunity to apply for the post of manager of its Dr BR Ambedkar High School in Hungary. (“Gypsy” is their preferred term.)

“Janos Orsos comes from a very poor gypsy settlement; Tibor Derdák...

Windhorse Evolution

Evolution's Communications Manager puts his money where his mouth is!

From Windhorse Evolution on Wed, 3 Dec, 2014 - 11:57

Evolution's Communications Manager puts his money where his mouth is!

From Windhorse Evolution on Wed, 3 Dec, 2014 - 11:57Yesterday for Giving Tuesday my wife Mel and myself visited the Sheffield Evolution Store to try and do as much of our Christmas present shopping there as possible.

My wife has already spent about £20 in the last month or so and we managed to do another £60 of Christmas gifts shopping on this trip.

I really wanted to put my money where my mouth was as I have written...

Vidyatara

The November 2014 College Meeting - a summary video

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 2 Dec, 2014 - 17:32

The November 2014 College Meeting - a summary video

From College of Public Preceptors on Tue, 2 Dec, 2014 - 17:32An overview of the 2014 Preceptors’ College meeting featuring a message from Bhante, a Skype between Vajragita and the other preceptors which took place just over a week before her death and some insights into discussions about Direct Pointing, Discipleship and the Commonality process.

The video was shot, edited and produced by Moksananda

Candradasa

The London Buddhist, No. 2 - The 'Views' Issue

From Community Highlights on Tue, 2 Dec, 2014 - 17:00The spring 2015 issue of the London Buddhist Centre’s new combined magazine and program is out now. It’s got some great, in-depth articles about why ‘views’ matter in a Buddhist life…

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Views Matter
2 Editorial
3 The Religion of the Elite -...

Dhammalata

Have you ever been in one of those situations when?

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 2 Dec, 2014 - 11:41

Have you ever been in one of those situations when?

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 2 Dec, 2014 - 11:41Kindness and Ethical Giving This Christmas

You ever have those experiences where you interact with someone randomly, treat them carelessly or as a utility and then suddenly they come into your life in a more immediate, tangible way? And you realise that it would have been a whole lot better if you’d really met them as a human being to begin with: you’d really been kind and available to them?

Happens to me from time to time and...

Windhorse Evolution

Making Global Connections

From Windhorse Evolution on Tue, 2 Dec, 2014 - 10:51

Making Global Connections

From Windhorse Evolution on Tue, 2 Dec, 2014 - 10:51We are now into the last four weeks of the 100 Days of Ethical Giving Campaign and in the run up to Christmas. Christmas is when we do over 40% of our total year trade and this year this has extra poignancy, as the business struggles to survive.

This week which includes #GivingTuesday we are thinking about all the connections that bring us together. From our suppliers, to the ...

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