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Announcing our 'Stay at Home Sale' for April

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 1 Apr, 2020 - 17:00
  • The paperbacks in our 'Stay at Home Sale' for April

Announcing our 'Stay at Home Sale' for April

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 1 Apr, 2020 - 17:00

There’s never been a better time to read! 
 
We find ourselves in an unprecedented situation. There is a lot to respond to, to think about and to process. Staying at home, you might well be spending more time online than ever. Perhaps your thoughts and emotions have taken on the pace and tone of newsfeeds and daily data: quick, scattered, and emotionally overwhelming.
 
In this month’s Stay at Home Sale we’ve gathered five books...
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The Dynamic Mandala

Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 23:01
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Day 5: Spiritual Receptivity - Final Day - Bristol Rains Retreat 2020: 'The Dynamic Mandala'

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 18:51

Day 5: Spiritual Receptivity - Final Day - Bristol Rains Retreat 2020: 'The Dynamic Mandala'

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 18:51

The fifth, and concluding, day of our Virtual Rains Retreat with Tejananda saw us exploring the Receptivity or ‘just sitting’ aspect of the System of Practice, seen as a ‘Dynamic Mandala’.  Tejananda introduced this aspect of practice as a transition from a ‘fabricated’ to an ‘unfabricated’ approach. 

In a period of meditation practice we had an ‘experiential resume’ of the material from the previous four days. Questions and observations followed, including how to work creatively with a ‘frozen heart’ and working with...
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Daily Circumambulations

From Adhisthana on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 15:55

Daily Circumambulations

From Adhisthana on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 15:55

Bhante’s body lies at Adhisthana and Bhante’s spirit lies at the heart of what we do. During the lockdown the community is circumambulating every evening at 7am in an act of worship, devotion and rememberance.

Here’s a short snippet that was live-streamed last night.
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Angulimala & Amoghasiddhi - Facebook Live 1.04.20

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 15:15

Angulimala & Amoghasiddhi - Facebook Live 1.04.20

From Croydon Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 15:15

Kalyananara hosted our class on Wednesday 1st April. We hear about the Buddha’s meeting with a murderer and thief named Angulimala and explored fearlessness and compassionate action with the figure Amoghasiddhi.  Kalyananara led us in a Metta Bhavana meditation.
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Dharmabytes Podcast: Live Like a River Flows

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 14:00

Ratnavandana offers a personal sharing of her reflections on a six month solitary retreat where she was focussing on the Heart Sutra. 

With Avalokitesvara as her guide, she was hoping to deepen her understanding of the emptiness of the five skandhas as well as exploring how to bring all the ordinary everyday activities of life into the realm of the sacred.

This excerpt includes a reading evocation on the Five Buddha Mandala.

From the talk Glimpses of...
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Overview of Financial Help for UK Centres - pdf's OM

From Triratna Resources on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 10:41

Here are some pdf’s of documents for Chairs to share with their Trustees and other relevant people:

  • Triratna Money groups response to Centres
  • an example of a Furlough notification for Triratna employees which you could edit to suit
  • working from home self-assessment form, for health & safety

And here’s a link with information that may well be of interest too:
https://www.charitytaxgroup.org.uk/news-post/2020/coronavirus-information-hub-charity-tax-finance-professionals/

File NameSize
tmg_response_for_centres.pdf5.17 MB
example_furlough_notification_for_buddhist_centre_use.pdf82.89 KB
working_from_home_hs-dse_assessment_updated_may2018.pdf110.74 KB
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The Bodhicitta Practice

From Padmaloka Retreat Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 00:00
Towards the end of 2018 Satyaraja led the Padmaloka Winter Retreat, 'The Awakening of the Bodhi Heart'. This was a two-week intensive meditation retreat for men training for ordination and Order members. The retreat was centred around the 'Bodhicitta practice', also known as 'tonglen', a weighty meditation practice that, through contemplating emptiness and arousing great compassion, aims at nothing less than giving rise to the Bodhicitta, or 'will to Enlightenment' for the benefit of all. During this talk Satyaraja introduces us to the principles and form of this profound practice.
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Dharma Wondrous Strange: 1. Wonder

From Manchester Buddhist Centre on Thu, 2 Apr, 2020 - 00:00
In this first talk in a series of eight, Ratnaguna looks at the importance of wonder in the spiritual life. The talk was given on 27th March 2020 via Zoom, following the temporary closure of Manchester Buddhist Centre due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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