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Dharmabyte: Direct Pointing

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 10 Jun, 2014 - 14:48

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called: “Direct Pointing” by Sangharakshita. What is the mind? What is projection? What higher states of mind are accessible? Zen challenges us to look directly within our own minds to find out. From the talk, “A Direct Pointing to the Mind of Man” given in 1965 as part of the series The Essence of Zen.

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Rijupatha

FBA Podcast: Milarepa and the Yak Horn Story

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 10 Jun, 2014 - 14:44

FBA Podcast: Milarepa and the Yak Horn Story

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 10 Jun, 2014 - 14:44In our FBA Podcast today, “Milarepa and the Yak Horn Story,”, Yashobodhi tells the story of Milarepa’s attempt to tackle his disciple Rechungpa’s pride by singing to him from inside a Yak horn.

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Candradasa

Finding the Space To Live

From Online Meditators on Mon, 9 Jun, 2014 - 20:38

Finding the Space To Live

From Online Meditators on Mon, 9 Jun, 2014 - 20:38Online meditation for June 10th: Finding the Space To Live - Reflecting on how the mind works in practice
2.30-3.45pm EST/7.30-8.45pm UK

Part 2 of our three-week ‘mini-course’: The Hand That Closes, The Hand That Opens.

In the course we are exploring approaches within meditation and reflection that can help us move from reactive modes of response in our lives to more profoundly positive and constructive ways to engage with whatever the days bring...

sanghadhara

Opportunities at Windhorse:evolution

From Windhorse Evolution on Mon, 9 Jun, 2014 - 16:35

Opportunities at Windhorse:evolution

From Windhorse Evolution on Mon, 9 Jun, 2014 - 16:35Windhorse:evolution has opportunities for men and women who wish to deepen their Dharma practice in the context of a Triratna sangha workplace. Positions are available at our Cambridge headquarters and there are opportunities to live in a residential spiritual community if needed.

Windhorse:evolution aims to provide supportive conditions in which to practise Right Livelihood both in the workplace and also within the wider context of the Cambridge Buddhist Centre and local Buddhist Sangha.

Remuneration is available on a...

Windhorse Evolution

Windhorse:evolution - Keeping a Buddhist business on course when the going gets tough

From Windhorse Evolution on Mon, 9 Jun, 2014 - 10:36

This is a pdf of our latest magazine! In it we explore our practice of team based right livelihood at Windhorse:evolution, particularly at this time where we have to work hard to increase sales and stay in business, so that this precious context can survive.

Articles include an update on the state of the business from Keturaja, and a report from James about setting up our excellent new retail website. Our new head of wholesale, John, tells us his...

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Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: The Mind is Everywhere

From Free Buddhist Audio on Fri, 6 Jun, 2014 - 20:13

From the fabulous talk, “What is Mind?” we bring you a sparkling Dharmabyte entitled: “The Mind Is Everywhere”. Using Milarepa’s song, the Shepherd’s Search for Mind, Dhammadinna takes us on a wild, and very specific ride, in defining subjective versus objective mind. You cannot understand the mind, because that would be the mind knowing itself!

This is the first talk in a series of talks from the Order Convention in...

Yashobodhi

Plans for the new building for the WLBC and a message from Paramananda

From West London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 5 Jun, 2014 - 13:39

Plans for the new building for the WLBC and a message from Paramananda

From West London Buddhist Centre on Thu, 5 Jun, 2014 - 13:39

Here are some pics to give you an idea what the new premises will look like. We’ll have the ground floor and the lower ground floor…

Paramananda (our chair) writes:

Although many of you will have already heard, I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about our new centre. We have exchanged contracts, and are hoping that we will be moving in the autumn into the new...

Vimalasara

Eight Step Recovery Meetings

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Thu, 5 Jun, 2014 - 04:45

Eight Step Recovery Meetings

From Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings To Overcome Addiction on Thu, 5 Jun, 2014 - 04:45We have received several requests on a meeting format for Eight Step Recovery – Using The Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction. Already we have heard of groups setting up in the UK and Canada which are working the steps with a wide range of addictions. We hope groups will continue to spring up all over the globe. When the book goes into second edition we will include a meeting format as we can see that this was an aspect...

shraddhavani

What will go in the stupa?

From The Stupa Project on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 22:34

What will go in the stupa?

From The Stupa Project on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 22:34The most important items to be placed in the stupa will be three small containers (tsa-tsas) holding ashes of the late Dhardo Rinpoche, who died in 1990. It will also contain two relics – a bone of Tsongkhapa, founder of the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism, and the hair of a dakini. These two items were some of the late Dhardo’s most treasured personal belongings and were a gift of the current tulku (reincarnation) of Dhardo...

Munisha

West London Buddhist Centre in Vogue

From Triratna News on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 18:26

West London Buddhist Centre in Vogue

From Triratna News on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 18:26A member of Triratna’s West London sangha, in Britain, was flipping through the latest edition of British Vogue when her eye fell on a an advertisement for the new building to which the new West London Buddhist Centre is to move this autumn. Number 1, Westbourne Gardens, in London W2, features nine luxury apartments with underground car parking, starting at £1.65 million.

As the WLBC’s Yashobodhi wrote on Facebook, “We’ll only have the ground- and lower-ground floors,...

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