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Vajra Bell - Winter 2014

From Vajra Bell on Wed, 8 Jan, 2014 - 01:25

The Vajra Bell Winter 2014 issue is here!

The focus of this issue is: “Round and Round We Go: The Wheel of Karma”.

You can download and view the PDF version of this issue of Vajra Bell by clicking on the link at the bottom of this post.

In this issue:

“Karma: Round and Round We Go, Where it Stops, the Buddha Knows” – by Amala
“Impermanence with Appreciation” – by Narottama
“The Stupa: A Most Auspicious Project” – A history and update on the Stupa Project at Aryaloka Buddhist Center, and how

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The Divine Eye as Vertical Imagination

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 7 Jan, 2014 - 17:34

In the Pali scriptures, do we have a word for ‘imagination?” In Monday’s FBA Dharmabyte, Sangharakshita offers his thoughts in “The Divine Eye as Vertical Imagination.” Vertical imagination is a creative force, enabling us to rise above ourselves. Quoting William Blake seeing the host of heavenly spirits in the sun, we are called to evoke the power of our imaginative faculty. This is an excerpt from the book launch of Living Ethically, available at ...

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The Five Niyamas - This Weeks FBA Podcast

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 7 Jan, 2014 - 17:24

The Five Niyamas - This Weeks FBA Podcast

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 7 Jan, 2014 - 17:24In this week’s FBA Podcast we picked one of Subhuti’s “Rambles Around Reality – The 5 Niyamas.” Here Subhuti talks about the fundamental basis of Buddhism’s conception of reality; Pratitya Samutpada. He introduces it in the form of the 5 niyamas, in the course of his ramble he emphasises that these are forces, or the way things are rather than ‘laws’. The talk culminates in the Karma and Dharma niyamas and particularly emphasising the importance...

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Our Mind - The Determining Factor

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 7 Jan, 2014 - 05:13

Our Mind - The Determining Factor

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Tue, 7 Jan, 2014 - 05:13
‘Mind is the great determining factor in Buddhism. The state of our mind from moment to moment – its happiness or unhappiness, wisdom or ignorance, compassion or cruelty – is the key influence on our development. According to one of the earliest recorded sayings of the Buddha, our whole life is the creation of our mind – If we act with a pure mind, joy follows; if we act with an impure mind, suffering follows.’

Meditation

Kamalashila
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Celebrating with the Buddhas & Bodhisattvas

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 2 Jan, 2014 - 17:47

Celebrating with the Buddhas & Bodhisattvas

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 2 Jan, 2014 - 17:47As Free Buddhist Audio celebrates their 7th Birthday, we are delighted to keep bringing you more and more Dharma. Our December FBA Podcasts and Dharmabytes dive deep into the realm of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

From the Lotus Realm, where the fires that can consume our old selves also release a new potential, the image of the phoenix evokes a transformation. In our mid-month FBA Podcast Amitabha and the Phoenix, Vessantara explores Amitabha’s emphasis on...

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The Mystery of the Dhamma Niyama

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 2 Jan, 2014 - 15:16

In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “The Mystery of the Dhamma Niyama,” Subhuti concludes the first talk in one of his Rambles Around Reality series. Here he describes the Dhamma Niyama as having it’s own conditioned laws which are potentially working within us. Using the metaphor of the stream, our effort, our karma puts us in the current, but the current itself is the Dharma Niyama – mysterious patterns in conditionality that take us well beyond ourselves.

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Triratna hosts first residential retreat in Odisha, India

From Triratna News on Thu, 2 Jan, 2014 - 05:48

Triratna hosts first residential retreat in Odisha, India

From Triratna News on Thu, 2 Jan, 2014 - 05:48The Indian state of Odisha is located in the remote north-east of the country, many miles beyond the usual Westerners’ ‘tourist trail’ and in many ways cut off from the rest of India. However young men and women from Odisha have for some years now been making the long journey south to study Buddhism and social work at the Nagarjuna Training Institute (NTI), Triratna’s training campus in Nagpur, and the first graduates have now begun returning home to begin...

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Triratna Translations project now 30 languages and counting

From Triratna News on Tue, 31 Dec, 2013 - 14:02

Triratna Translations project now 30 languages and counting

From Triratna News on Tue, 31 Dec, 2013 - 14:02The Buddhist Centre Online now hosts well over 100 spaces featuring one or another aspect of life and practice in the Triratna Buddhist community. One that has been quietly growing throughout 2013 is the Triratna Translations project - now featuring 30 languages and counting.

The project aims to translate the main texts and ceremonies used in the Triratna Buddhist Community into as many of the world’s languages as possible. It recently celebrated its 30th language with...

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Triratna Translations - project update, December 2013

From Triratna Translations on Tue, 31 Dec, 2013 - 13:20

Triratna Translations - project update, December 2013

From Triratna Translations on Tue, 31 Dec, 2013 - 13:20The Triratna Translations project aims to translate the main texts and ceremonies used in the Triratna Buddhist Community into as many of the world’s languages as possible. It recently celebrated its 30th language with the addition of Malayalam, principlal language of Kerala in southern India. Here’s what we’ve got so far - the

Afrikaans | Amharic | Arabic | Aramaic | Armenian | Balinese | Bantu | Basque | Bengali | Breton |...

Dhammalata

Happy New Year!

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 30 Dec, 2013 - 22:56

Happy New Year!

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Mon, 30 Dec, 2013 - 22:56A Good Meditation Night

It’s a pretty natural human habit to evaluate a meditation evening in terms of ‘a good one’ or a ‘not so good one’. Some of the criteria I operate with are how many attended, how many regulars came, how I felt on the night and the quality of the questions and discussion afterwards etcetera.

And yet I think this is somewhat misguided and not particularly useful.

What’s important is that some...

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