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Adhisthana Public Ordination August 2014

From College of Public Preceptors on Mon, 1 Sep, 2014 - 16:49
  • Mokshapushpa (left) with her Public Preceptor Parami
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Adhisthana Public Ordination August 2014

From College of Public Preceptors on Mon, 1 Sep, 2014 - 16:49
On 25 August 2014 on the first day of the Women’s European Convention at Adhisthana Mokshapushpa was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order by Public Preceptor Parami. This was the first Public Ordination to be held at Adhisthana.
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FBA Podcast: Energy, the Tantric Precepts and Enlightenment

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 1 Sep, 2014 - 16:47

FBA Podcast: Energy, the Tantric Precepts and Enlightenment

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Vajratara delivers our FBA Podcast this week, “Energy, the Tantric Precepts and Enlightenment.” An exploration of what energy means in the spiritual life and how to work with it, especially referencing Sangharakshita’s ‘Tantric’ version of the Five Precepts. Given at the 2011 National Young Triratna Buddhists Weekend retreat exploring the theme of ‘Energy for Enlightenment’. See www.buddhismtoday.co.uk for more young Buddhists’ events.
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A new future for Vajrakuta?

From Triratna News on Sat, 30 Aug, 2014 - 18:30
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  • Vajrakuta shrine room

A new future for Vajrakuta?

From Triratna News on Sat, 30 Aug, 2014 - 18:30Once the FWBO’s main study centre, Vajrakuta is a short walk through woods and fields from Vajraloka Meditation Centre, near Corwen, North Wales (UK). It’s been a meditation and study community for the FWBO/Triratna since the 1980s, and Prakasha and Srisambhava led retreats there more recently. Now they plan to sell it and move to a cottage nearby.

Kamalashila wants to buy it for Triratna and find some men to form a monastic community. He’s looking...
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Puja pour Bhante

From Centre bouddhiste Triratna de Paris on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 22:22
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Puja pour Bhante

From Centre bouddhiste Triratna de Paris on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 22:22
Lors de la soirée de la Sangha, mercredi, nous avons fêté les 89 ans de Sangharakshita (avec un jour de retard), en faisant comme nombre de centres Triratna dans le monde une puja en son honneur.

Nous étions sept, et ce nombre était parfait puisque j’avais choisi pour thème la poésie de Bhante, et avais sélectionné sept de ses poèmes, chacun d’entre eux ayant une relation avec une...
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New phase for Adhisthana

From Triratna News on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 18:35
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New phase for Adhisthana

From Triratna News on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 18:35Vidyatara reports from Adhisthana.

Adhisthana - Triratna’s spiritual home - is about to enter an exciting new phase. Since the doors opened in August 2013, we have hosted more than 50 retreats, meetings and courses for over 1000 members of the Order and Community, from as far away as Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Canada.

Adhisthana is not just a building project! With building work on the Sangharakshita Library and Exhibition Centre moving towards completion,...
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New article on exploring the formless realms

From Western Buddhist Review on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 18:17
  • What really exists?

New article on exploring the formless realms

From Western Buddhist Review on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 18:17I am delighted to present a new article by Dharmacari Satyadhana for Western Buddhist Review. It is a translation and commentary on a discourse from the Middle-length sayings of the Buddha, ‘The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness’, in which the Buddha teaches Ananda about how to dwell in the realization of ´sūnyatā or emptiness, by dwelling successively in each of a series of increasingly refined realizations called ‘the formless realms’. But the article is more than this - it...
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Sun Sept 21 > Uniting Buddhist Voices with the People's Climate March and Earth Summit in NYC

From Earth Metta Sangha on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 10:38
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Sun Sept 21 > Uniting Buddhist Voices with the People's Climate March and Earth Summit in NYC

From Earth Metta Sangha on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 10:38On September 21st, thousands of people around the world will take to the streets in order to motivate the world’s leaders (at the Earth Summit in New York City) to take ambitious action on the climate crisis. Potentially the biggest united campaign of our time, Buddhist voices have much to add.

On this day, we’ll engage in ritual across both spiritual and worldly realms. Following a morning of meditation, discussion and puja at the Centre (yet to be determined),...
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New Name For Group: Karaniya Metta Kula

From Earth Metta Sangha on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 10:24

New Name For Group: Karaniya Metta Kula

From Earth Metta Sangha on Fri, 29 Aug, 2014 - 10:24At our first “Beyond BAM” meeting (Aug 14), one of the goals was to choose a new name for the group. Shining out for its inclusivity, simplicity, and straight-forwardness, those in attendance decided unanimously on “Karaniya Metta Kula”. This famous sutta, which literally means “beautiful metta”, elegantly summarizes all the ways by which we can have a positive influence on the world around us, whether through meditation:
And think of every living thing without exception:
the weak and the strong,...
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Dharmabyte: Unmindfulness Defined

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 28 Aug, 2014 - 19:25
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Forgetfulness and distraction are the rule in ordinary life, but awareness and a ‘fullness of mind’ is at the heart of human growth and development. Sangharakshita gives us today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Unmindfulness Defined,” from the 1968 talk “Levels of Awareness: Right Mindfulness”. This talk is part of the series “The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path”.

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