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Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 10:45

Adhisthana is hiring for two roles

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 10:45

Could you be our next cook or do our publicity?

Bhante Urgyen Sangharakshita envisioned Adhisthana as a place of blessings, where the worldwide Triratna Buddhist Community would gather and engage wholeheartedly with his radical vision of the Dharma in all its breadth, depth and clarity. As we move out of the 10th anniversary year of Adhisthana’s opening and into celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sangharakshita’s birth, our founder and teacher’s vision remains dynamic and alive.

Central to unfolding this vision are Adhisthana’s two single-sex...

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The Warrior Aspect of the Spiritual Life (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 10:00

Padmavajra’s wonderful series on the Dhammapada, the most popular of early Buddhist texts. All of the Buddha’s core teachings are here - held in heart and mind there’s more than enough in the Dhammapada to take us as far in our practice as we can imagine, and then on beyond…

Excerpted from the talk Mindfulness is the Way to the Deathless as part of the series The Dhammapada - the Buddha’s Way of Truth...

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Samadhi Paramita - The Perfection of Concentration

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 00:00

This week, Moksadhi takes us through the fifth paramita within the establishment aspect of the relative Bodhicitta; Samadhi. Given as part of GBC's 2025 Mandala Night series on the Bodhisattva Ideal

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The Ideal of Human Enlightenment

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 00:00

Padmavajra concludes the Spring Great Gathering 2025 with a talk that elucidates the mysterious experience of the Buddha's enlightenment. Following on from Tarapalita's talk.

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The Ideal of Human Enlightenment

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 00:00

Tarapalita opens up the spring Great Gathering 2025 by telling the life story of the Buddha up to his enlightenment, focussing on the 4 sights with honest and real equivalents in Tarapalita's own life.

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Buddhavagga (from the Dhammapada)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 - 13:07

Beautifully read by Sangharakshita, these readings are taken from the oldest scriptural texts and evoke the real spirit of early Buddhism - the struggles, the joys and the triumphs of ordinary people who followed the path to Truth. Appears in Readings from the Pali Canon recorded in 2000 to mark the Digital Legacy project to begin transferring Dharmachakra’s archive to digital format!

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Sila Paramita - The Perfection of Ethics

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 - 00:00

This week, Angela takes us through the second paramita within the establishment aspect of the relative Bodhicitta; Sila. Given as part of GBC's 2025 Mandala Night series on the Bodhisattva Ideal.

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Virya - The Energy of Awakening

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 - 00:00

This week, Parami takes us through the fourth paramita within the establishment aspect of the relative Bodhicitta; Virya (the Perfection of Energy). Given as part of GBC's 2025 Mandala Night series on the Bodhisattva Ideal.

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The Bodhisattva Vow

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 - 00:00

Following on from last week's talk on the Bodhicitta, Moksadhi dives into the first aspect of the relative Bodhicitta; the Bodhisattva Vow. Talk given as part of GBC's 2025 Mandala Night series on the Bodhisattva Ideal.

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Awakening the Bodhi Heart

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 - 00:00

As part of GBC's 2025 series on the Bodhisattva Ideal, this week Parami leads us through the conditions required for the arising of the Bodhicitta, or the "will to enlightenment".

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