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Pointing to the Moon of Non-Separation

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:00

Pointing to the Moon of Non-Separation

From Buddhist Centre Features on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:00

Pointing to the Moon of Non-Separation
A weekend exploring suññatā as non-separation with Tejananda
3-5 Oct

In our online retreat earlier in the year, the ‘moon’ to which I was pointing was the unfindability of a separate self. The kind of self that we think we are - persisting, potentially satisfactory and somehow ‘who and what I really am’ - is nothing but a mental fabrication. Our fabricating of this leads to suffering.

This weekend retreat explores the other ‘side’...

Kulanandi

First GFR retreat for Polish women

From Triratna News on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:00

First GFR retreat for Polish women

From Triratna News on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 15:00

In mid-August, we had the first GFR retreat for Polish women held in the Bodhidharma Zen Retreat Centre in Falenica near Warsaw. Eight women training for ordination attended together with Saddhajala and Kulanandi.

We enjoyed the time together with meditation, ritual, discussion in small groups and above all, doing the Going for Refuge and Prostration Practice, which some...

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Our new grants and care co-ordinator

From Abhayaratna Trust on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 13:01

Our new grants and care co-ordinator

From Abhayaratna Trust on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 13:01

Kshantika, has joined the Abhayaratna Trust team as our new grants and care co-ordinator. We are very happy to have Kshantika take the role and invited her to introduce herself. You can read what she had to say in our August newsletter here: August 2025 News — Abhayaratna trust

Centre Team

The Eight Freedoms and The Ten Endowments (Dharmabytes Podcasts)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 4 Sep, 2025 - 11:00

Vijayasri describes the Eight Freedoms and the Ten Endowments described in Gampopa’s teachings in the Jewel Ornament of Liberation on the importance of a human birth. Excerpted from the talk entitled This Precious Human Life given at Croydon Buddhist Centre, 2015.

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Dayaketu

The Heart's Awakening

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 21:57

The Heart's Awakening

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 21:57

The Heart’s Awakening
A meditation home retreat with Bodhipakṣa on the Brahma Viharas

26-30 September

Reserve your place here

“Taking care of myself, I take care of others. Taking care of others, I take care of myself.”
—The Buddha

More than ever, we need tools to help us connect with our innate capacity for kindness and compassion.

On this five-day home retreat, Bodhipaksa will offer fresh, radical, and above all practical perspectives on the four brahma-viharas. This is usually translated as “divine abidings,” but it could also be rendered...

Alexbeard

Join us - Work a Day for the Dharma - 8th Sept

From Future Dharma on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 15:32

Join us - Work a Day for the Dharma - 8th Sept

From Future Dharma on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 15:32

Friends, we are looking forward to practicing with you on Monday September 8th for our next Work a Day for the Dharma gathering where we how our livelihood can be “practice”!

You can join us for one or both online hour events,

At 7am BST Varabandhu will lead a ritual and meditation to dedicate our activities of the day to the Buddha Dharma - for the liberation of...

Kulanandi

Resignation of Maitrivirya

From Order Messenger on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 14:33

Resignation of Maitrivirya

From Order Messenger on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 14:33

Dear Friends,

I am writing to let you know that, as her Public Preceptor, I have accepted the resignation of Maitrivirya formerly from Ghent in Belgium, but now living in Bohan in the east of Belgium.

Maitrivirya was ordained at Metta Vihara in Holland in November 2020. Her Private Preceptor is Tarini.

Maitrivirya has had some meaningful conversations with both Tarini and myself and she wants to maintain contact with Tarini...

Read more about Resignation of Maitrivirya

Centre Team

Treasure Revealers (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 3 Sep, 2025 - 12:23

Arthaketu reflects on the Bardo Thodol, or Tibetan Book of the Dead, Here, he describes the hidden teachings, or termas, of Padmasambhava and how they are found. From the talk entitled Reflections on the Bardo Thodol given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2013.

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Gratitude for the Order

From Future Dharma on Tue, 2 Sep, 2025 - 12:43

Gratitude for the Order

From Future Dharma on Tue, 2 Sep, 2025 - 12:43

“Like many charities across the country, we are struggling financially and are looking at significant changes we will need to make. At the recent Combined Area Order Weekend we asked the Order for help - and you responded in waves of generosity and messages of gratitude and support.

Words can hardly express how I feel. And we did it as part of a collaborative event with four other amazing charities*...

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Medvetenhet aer Revolutionerande

From Stockholms buddhistcenter on Tue, 2 Sep, 2025 - 00:00

Viryabodhi beskriver att det finns två slags människor som praktiserar eller söker; de som är pådrivna av lidande, smärta, och de som lockas av och vet det finns mer, eller en kombination av dessa två. Hur uppstår eller vaknar medvetenhet i våra liv? Buddha använde tre olika ord eller begrepp när han talade och undervisade i medvetenhet: 1. sati, ren medvetenhet, eller uppmärksamhet; 2. sampajañña, medvetenhet om syfte eller klar förståelse; och 3. appamāda, vaksamhet eller varsamhet, eller samvete. Sangharakshita beskriver medvetenhetens fyra nivåer, som inbegriper de 4 grunderna till medvetenhet: a. medvetenhet om saker och ting, naturen, världen; b. medvetenhet om oss själva, som har tre aspekter, kroppen, känslor och tankar; 3. medvetenhet om andra; och slutligen 4. medvetenhet om verkligheten. Föredraget gavs på Stockholms Buddhistcenter, 1 september 2025.

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