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BAM in Oslo

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 8 Jun, 2017 - 15:54

BAM in Oslo

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 8 Jun, 2017 - 15:54

Just a short note on what we do.

Last week, 1st of June we opened our new temporary centre.

Tonight we will brainstorm how we might practice engaged buddhism in our everyday lives, and set targets for the next two weeks.

Next week we will explore an idea from a zen-inspired buddhist who wants to start an engaged buddhist group of sorts.

22.6 we will review our engaged practice.

29.6 we will close for the season and dedicate our merits after meditation and puja.

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Kamalavajri

Blackburn BAM

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 8 Jun, 2017 - 11:05

Blackburn BAM

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 8 Jun, 2017 - 11:05

In Blackburn we are:

Taking up the plastic challenge
Having a vegan shared meal with recipes
Showing Ratnaprabha’s interview and hearing from our practising vegans
Devising an online vegetarian and vegan recipe book for our website
Someone is coming to talk to us from our local Asylum and Refugee Community
Watching the film “Demain”
Switching our heating off at the Centre in June

Mokshini

BAM beyond Triratna

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 8 Jun, 2017 - 10:50

BAM beyond Triratna

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 8 Jun, 2017 - 10:50

Buddhist Action Month started as a project of the Network Of Buddhist Organisations UK five years ago, and there are several other Buddhist traditions and sanghas organising events and taking part:

Here is their facebook page BAM! Buddhist Action Month 2017 if you want to check out what other Buddhist Groups are doing!

Mokshini

Are you ready for BAM?! YES!

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 8 Jun, 2017 - 10:17

Thanks to Arthasiddhi and his choir at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre we now have our own Buddhist Action Month song! How excellent, and fun too, perhaps we can get friends in our situations to learn this song too :)

Thank you to Arthasiddhi, choir members, Dayasara who had the idea, and Yashodaka!

Here are the words - written by Yashodaka, so you can sing a long:

Help the world, forget yourself,

be a Bodhisattva,

this month of June, the month of June.

Generous hearts around the world,

we can make a difference,...

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dharmamodini

BAM is well underway, one week on ....

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 8 Jun, 2017 - 06:40

BAM is well underway, one week on ....

From Buddhist Action on Thu, 8 Jun, 2017 - 06:40

Greetings to all taking part in BAM and how wonderful it has been to read about what everyone is doing in support of Connecting With Others - Connecting For Change, Sadhu! Great too to learn about the action coming out of events that have been held so far. Here in Adelaide, inspired by our Sea Level Rise Coastal Walk, we have written a letter to local Council asking how they are responding to this issue, and how they are taking this and other effects...

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Imagination, the Buddha and Us

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Thu, 8 Jun, 2017 - 01:00

Satyalila gave this talk to the Hastings Sangha in April 2017. It's a 're-giving' of the first talk from the series she did in Bristol in January in 2017, entitled 'Imagination, the Buddhist tradition and us'. [The original recording failed.] It offers a practical and personal perspective on why Sangharakshita has taught that imagination is a vital ingredient in the spiritual life. Full of examples and poetry, the talk invites listeners to recognise - and harness - the great power of the imagination which is in all of us, whether or not we're aware of it.

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Let Your Poison Be Your Cure

From Bristol Buddhist Centre on Thu, 8 Jun, 2017 - 01:00

"Let your poison be your cure" is a talk by Satyalila from the Bristol Sangha Retreat at Adhisthana in May 2017. The title is a reference from a poem by Louis MacNiece, Thalassa. The talk is a clear and practical guide to how our spiritual journey can consist in transforming the 'poisons' (greed, hatred, delusion, pride and envy) with (and ultimately into) the five spiritual faculties (faith, wisdom, mindfulness, samadhi and energy-in-pursuit-of-the-good). It concludes with a look at how the five Buddha mandala offers an imaginative representation of the faculties as qualities of the Buddha's Enlightened mind.

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Triratna Chester BAM

From Buddhist Action on Wed, 7 Jun, 2017 - 22:08

Triratna Chester BAM

From Buddhist Action on Wed, 7 Jun, 2017 - 22:08

BAM! Thanks to Dave for talking to us this evening about fracking/anti-fracking and a film called The Bentley Effect https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnRD3neUFo
It stimulated questions and discussion and also turned us towards questions about what we can do locally and individually - buy local, alternative sources of power, cost v ethics, on-line activism. At the end of the session Dave suggested Lend With Care. He told us that Lendwithcare.org is a revolutionary way to help people in the developing world to...

dayasara

BAM for Bulgarians

From Buddhist Action on Wed, 7 Jun, 2017 - 14:18

BAM for Bulgarians

From Buddhist Action on Wed, 7 Jun, 2017 - 14:18

We’d agreed that BAM in Ipswich would include weekly outdoor meditations throughout June. Several Sangha people couldn’t make it, and on Sunday I arrived in Christchurch Park with two garden chairs, a portable shrine and no companions.

Undeterred I set up the shrine on a grassy area, put on my kesa and offered Centre leaflets to nearby people. The first man I approached smiled but shook his head in refusal. Others were more receptive, with someone talking about the Buddha figure...

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Waking Up - An Introduction to Buddhism In a Trumped Up World

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 7 Jun, 2017 - 01:00

This talk was given on an Open Introduction to Buddhism long weekend given at Taraloka in April. Dhammagita talks about how our modern, post-truth, echo-chambered world mirrors our internal world, and how the dharma reveals and deals with our own fake facts.

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