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The Resurrection of FWBO Newsreel 2

From Community Highlights on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 10:53

The Resurrection of FWBO Newsreel 2

From Community Highlights on Wed, 4 Jun, 2014 - 10:53Continuing our re-release of Clear Vision’s FWBO Newsreels from the 1990s, we bring you Newsreel 2 (55 mins) released in spring 1992, with reports on

the FWBO in Australia (Melbourne and Sydney)
Order conventions
the launch of Facing Mount Kanchenjunga
major changes at the Croydon Buddhist Centre
Kalyanavaca’s ordination at Taraloka, and
a special feature on Sangharakshita’s January tour of India

Over 20 years ago, Clear Vision was founded by Mokshapriya to produce professional video for the FWBO, later to become Triratna. As well as videoing...

Munisha

Munisha explains BAM for non-Buddhists

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 18:46

Munisha explains BAM for non-Buddhists

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 18:46Hi! I’m co-Chair of the Network of Buddhist Organisations UK, which is running BAM in partnership with Triratna. Here’s what I wrote about BAM for the website of Together in Service, the multifaith social action project of which BAM is a part.

Buddhism generally has a very positive image in the UK, as a peaceful, meditative lifestyle. At the Network of Buddhist Organisations UK, we’d like to mess that up a...

Candradasa

Una guía acerca de hacerse mitra en la Comunidad Budista Triratna

From Bienvenido a las páginas en español on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 17:18La palabra sánscrita ‘mitra’ simplemente significa ‘amigo’. Hacerse mitra es profundizar tu relación de amistad con la Orden Budista Triratna, lo que puede ocurrir cuando tu compromiso con sus ideales, valores y prácticas ha alcanzado un cierto nivel. Un mitra es alguien que ha hecho lo que nosotros llamamos un compromiso ‘provisional’ de practicar el Dharma en el contexto de nuestra comunidad espiritual. Esto implica un compromiso con el budismo, de practicar el camino Budista como se enseña en nuestra...

Dhivan

Valuable New Perspectives on Mindfulness

From Western Buddhist Review on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 12:15

Valuable New Perspectives on Mindfulness

From Western Buddhist Review on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 12:15Here is a very thorough and appreciative review of Anālayo’s fine new book concerning mindfulness in early Buddhist teachings.

Anālayo, Perspectives on Satipaṭṭhāna
Windhorse Publications, Cambridge, 2013, 319pp., £15.99pb, also in ebook format

Review by Dh Ālokadhāra

It is now just over ten years since Windhorse published Anālayo’s book Satipaṭṭhāna: the direct path to realization, described at the time by Christopher Titmus as ‘an indispensable guide… surely destined to become the classic commentary on the...

Dhammalata

Take Hold of Your Life

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 07:30

Take Hold of Your Life

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 3 Jun, 2014 - 07:30Hi Fellow Coogee Meditators

The Buddha said that just as the oceans of the earth have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too his teachings have one taste; freedom!

So what does it mean for a human being to be free?

In my own experience quite of lot of this freedom has been finding a way out from the self-centred, narcissistic knot that I had tied myself into. A knot that was formed and...

Munisha

15 ordinations in Europe

From Triratna News on Mon, 2 Jun, 2014 - 18:06

15 ordinations in Europe

From Triratna News on Mon, 2 Jun, 2014 - 18:06Public Ordinations at Akashavana

We are delighted to announce that the following ordinations took place at Akashavana on 2nd June, 2014. All names are Sanskrit unless otherwise stated.

Public Preceptor: Parami
Terry Lockley becomes Sanghagita (long ‘i’, long final ‘a’) - She whose Song is of the Sangha. Westernised spelling: Sanghagita. Private Preceptor: Kalyanasri.

Jo Burbridge becomes Hridayagita (long ‘i’, long final ‘a’) - Song of the Heart. Westernised spelling: Hridayagita. Private Preceptor: Saddhanandi.

Carol Bloyce...

Rijupatha

Dharmabytes: Everyone Needs the Dharma - Milarepa's Song

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 2 Jun, 2014 - 14:48

Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Everyone Needs the Dharma”, is a lovely reading of one of Milarepa’s Songs by Sangharakshita. Talk given in 1979.

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Rijupatha

FBA Podcast: The Motive (Remixed)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 2 Jun, 2014 - 14:28

FBA Podcast: The Motive (Remixed)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 2 Jun, 2014 - 14:28In our FBA Podcast today, “The Motive (Remixed),”, Padmavajra explores a great classic of Tibetan Buddhism – Gampopa’s ‘Jewel Ornament of Liberation’. The work, inspired by devotion to Manjusri, is one of the key texts in the development of the Tibetan Lam Rim teachings. And Gampopa, being one of the two principle disciples of the yogi Milarepa, presents both the monastic Lam Rim approach of Atisha and the Mahamudra meditation teachings of Milarepa himself.
Talk...

Christine

BAM! 2014 at Sheffield Buddhist Centre

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Mon, 2 Jun, 2014 - 13:33

BAM! 2014 at Sheffield Buddhist Centre

From Buddhist Action Month 2014 on Mon, 2 Jun, 2014 - 13:33The Sheffield Buddhist Centre is pleased to be hosting events for BAM! 2014. Let’s join the maha-sangha in kind and honest exploration of how caring for the environment can become a clearer part of our lives as Buddhists.

Sun. June 15 (9:30-17:00) > Re-imagining the Future: day retreat based on The Work That Reconnects
Wed. June 18 (19:30-21:30) > Positive & Effective Activism: Dharmic discussion on how we can take steps, big and small, that will encourage...

Munisha

UK Buddhist Action Month begins

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Mon, 2 Jun, 2014 - 12:59

UK Buddhist Action Month begins

From Triratna Young Buddhists on Mon, 2 Jun, 2014 - 12:59The UK’s Buddhist Action Month (BAM) began yesterday, with Buddhist groups all over the UK - and even in Stockholm and Essen too - beginning a month of talks and activities celebrating Buddhist social action. The theme is the environment, but you can do anything that benefits others more generally beyond your Centre and sangha, inspired by the Dharma.

Some people are going vegan for a month, or changing their search engine to Ecosia ...

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