From Triratna News on Sun, 4 May, 2014 - 13:00Seen the “What meditation isn’t” animation on our homepage this week? It’s the work of Stephen Heppell, a mitra training for ordination at the London Buddhist Centre.
“I’ve always been passionate about Team Based Right Livelihood”, he says, “and have always loved creativity so I thought I’d try and bring these interests together in the form of Moving Vision Motion Graphics, a video production company. I’ve set it up with two aims:
From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 3 May, 2014 - 12:37In this week’s FBA Podcast Dhammarati delivers “A System of Training.” Here Dhammarati explores the Triratna system of practice itself - its background in practice, its relationship to tradition, and its implications for the very nature of spiritual life. An encouraging, grounded, flexible take on the rigorous, meaningful, and rewarding challenges of a lifetime of working with the mind and the heart.
Talk given at the national Order weekend, February 2008
From Triratna News on Sat, 3 May, 2014 - 00:07There are still some places left on the biggest open Sangha gathering of the Triratna year - the Triratna International Retreat. Many preparations are afoot for this year’s retreat, happening for the first time in the green and lovely setting of Adhisthana, UK, the new heartland of the Order and Bhante Sangharakshita’s home.
From London Buddhist Centre on Fri, 2 May, 2014 - 12:58Great new piece made for our Breathing Space project as we kick off a new venture taking Minfulness into London Schools.
From Triratna News on Fri, 2 May, 2014 - 06:14BAM 2014 - Buddhist Action Month 2014 - begins in just one month’s time, with Buddhist groups across the country encouraged to spend June engaged in collective actions for the benefit of others, especially ones benefiting the environment or society. This year there is a special emphasis on addressing climate change and our many habits and patterns that perpetuate it.
Anyone planning an event is invited to post it on The Buddhist Centre Online’s ‘BAM’...
From Western Buddhist Review on Thu, 1 May, 2014 - 16:17Y. Karunadasa, Early Buddhist Teachings: The Middle Position in Theory and Practice, Centre of Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong, 2013, $30, 205pp hback.
Review by Dhivan Thomas Jones
The term ‘early Buddhism’ refers to the teaching of the Buddha and to the Buddhism of his followers up until the time of the second council and the first schism, about one hundred years after the death of the Buddha, when various geographically and doctrinally distinct schools...
In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Aspiration and Joining the Order”, Saddhanandi takes us through a set of very thought-provoking reflections. She is forthright indeed about the difficulties and joys of cultivating faith in the Dharma and makes very plain the consequences we can expect in our life as and when that faith arises. The full talk, entitled, “Enlightenment as Heart, Life as Whole” is peppered with examples from her own practice...
From Adhisthana on Thu, 1 May, 2014 - 10:35In February this year, 8 young women from different parts of the UK and the globe arrived at Adhisthana to start the 5 month Young Women’s Dharma Life Course. They are now about half way through and this is what they’ve been up to.
A similar course for young men is due to start in September, so if you are a young man, practising in the Triratna Community you can contact Vidyaruchi (matt.notmatt [at] yahoo.co.uk...
Here are some download versions of Subhuti’s new paper for specific devices, to go with the online reading version.
How does an international spiritual community, crossing cultures and language barriers, ensure a coherent, consistent set of practices is in place? What is it to experiment with new approaches? How does a community face both the death of its founder and its own future in a healthy way?
Subhuti’s new paper (written as reference material...
