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Adhisthana Boo No. 1

From Community Highlights on Sun, 21 Apr, 2013 - 09:38
A wonderful impromptu visit to Adhisthana, Sangharakshita’s new home and a spiritual centre of the future for Triratna!

Right now building is underway - we climbed to the roof of the library with Vidyatara and Singhamanas to talk about the project and hear about the wonders of the Eco-friendly technology at the heart of the community sites…
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Meditating on Emptiness

From Free Buddhist Audio on Fri, 19 Apr, 2013 - 14:50
  • Parami
  • Dhammadassin
  • Saraha

Meditating on Emptiness

From Free Buddhist Audio on Fri, 19 Apr, 2013 - 14:50Our FBA Dharmabytes and Podcast this week bring us face to face with our views in light of the emptiness of all things - a pivot point for initiating deep, tranformative change in how we relate to self, others, and the world.

We started the week by revisitng an awesome talk in Monday’s FBA Dharmabyte “Self, Other and Emptiness.” Here, Parami speaks from her heart and wealth of experience. This excerpt is from...
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Metta Engine Boo

From Community Highlights on Thu, 18 Apr, 2013 - 23:03
A quick visit to Wales in the UK to check in with Will & Graham of Metta Engine, a new web development Right Livelihood business in Newport. An inspiring interview from right at the start of an exciting new Triratna venture…!
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Afrikaans Triratna Threefold Puja Read by Acalaraja

From Community Highlights on Mon, 15 Apr, 2013 - 12:43
There’s something about hearing a familiar text in a language other than your own that can be quite arresting. Words you can feel the meaning in even though you don’t, exactly, ‘understand’; words shared between people and also between peoples: across cultures, beyond language. Here’s Achalavajra with one of the first fruits of the Afrikaans translation initiative reading the Threefold Puja (the English version of the text can be found here). Wonderful sound, wonderful shared sense…
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The Tiger's Cave

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 13 Apr, 2013 - 15:19
  • Padmavajra

The Tiger's Cave

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 13 Apr, 2013 - 15:19Come face to face with the Great Emptiness at the heart of practice.

Our FBA Podcast this week, “The Tiger’s Cave,” is the first in an excellent 8-talk sequence by Padmavajra on Zen Buddhism. The series is full of colourful stories and challenging insights from the lives of the great Masters of China and Japan, called “Tangling Eyebrows with Zen Masters.”

Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2004
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The Making of Seven Papers by Subhuti with Sangharakshita

From Community Highlights on Fri, 12 Apr, 2013 - 22:27
  • Subhuti with Sangharakshita, at Maesgwyn
  • Sangharakshita
  • Subhuti in the hills
  • Lokabandhu
  • Print cover for Seven Papers

The Making of Seven Papers by Subhuti with Sangharakshita

From Community Highlights on Fri, 12 Apr, 2013 - 22:27If you haven’t seen it yet you can now get hold of a definitive collection of seven papers by Subhuti with Sangharakshita, outlining and reaffirming the approach to the Dharma that underpins the Triratna Buddhist Community. It’s a rather magisterial undertaking, even by Subhuti’s standards, and worth celebrating as both an important source text for Triratna and as a spur to conversation and debate within the community at large.

Quite apart from all the sustained work that...
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Seven Papers by Subhuti with Sangharakshita

Seven Papers by Subhuti with Sangharakshita

From Community Highlights on Fri, 12 Apr, 2013 - 21:52

To round off our ‘Triratna anniversaries’ week, here is the appropriately definitive complete set of seven papers by Subhuti and Sangharakshita, documenting their conversations over the past few years about the whole basis of our approach to the Dharma within the Triratna Buddhist Community.

In Subhuti’s words, each attempts to follow through the implications of Sangharakshita’s statement, in the first paper, What is the Western Buddhist Order?, that the Triratna Buddhist...
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Transcripts of Talks by Paramabandhu

From Practical Buddhism: Mindfulness and Skilful Living in the Modern Era on Fri, 12 Apr, 2013 - 18:30
Here are some pdf versions of my talks to download and read on whatever computer or portable device you favour!
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Mindfulness For Just About Everything341.89 KB
15 Points For Friendship233.63 KB
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2nd International Council meeting - Meeting Summary

From Triratna International Council on Fri, 12 Apr, 2013 - 16:34
This summary of the 2nd International Council meeting outlines the highlights of the 5-day programme, including participants and information on the major themes discussed plus a list of the actions identified over the course of the meeting together with the Priority Action Plans that were developed by each Strand.
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Meeting Summary2.03 MB

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