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Matthieu Ricard on vegetarianism and veganism

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Wed, 13 May, 2015 - 12:10

Matthieu Ricard on vegetarianism and veganism

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Wed, 13 May, 2015 - 12:10

French Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard, talks about vegetarianism and veganism as Buddhist practices. (He was closely associated with Sangharakshita’s teacher, the late Dilgo Khyentse Rimpoche.)

Video: 6.5 minutes

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Starting from where we are

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 13 May, 2015 - 02:34

Starting from where we are

From Coogee Buddhist Group on Wed, 13 May, 2015 - 02:34

To make real change in our life we need to start from where we are.

Meditation is one of the very best ways to stop, see what is really going on and start to establish new habits and behaviours that will serve us well.

Here’s a great quote from ‘Living Dreaming Dying’ that Steve lent me recently. It’s a synthesis of western psychology and Tibetan Buddhist doctrine and I am really digging it!

“One of the main lessons is to train ourselves to stay conscious, to...

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Meditation Tuesdays - Meditations In The Blue Sky

From Online Meditators on Mon, 11 May, 2015 - 17:26

Meditation Tuesdays - Meditations In The Blue Sky

From Online Meditators on Mon, 11 May, 2015 - 17:26

For the next four weeks (May 12th, 19th, 26th and June 2nd) we’ll have a four-week series of online meditations led by Rijupatha and Candradasa. We’ll be exploring just sitting with our experience in the light of a practice of mindfulness and of loving kindness, allowing the image of the great “blue sky” of reality to be the proper backdrop for our efforts and, indeed, a support for relaxing into a deeper seeing of the way things are…

We’ll be coming together each...

Rijupatha

FBA Podcast: Buddha Day Talk

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 9 May, 2015 - 11:00

FBA Podcast: Buddha Day Talk

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 9 May, 2015 - 11:00

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This week’s FBA Podcast is a talk from Parami on “Buddha Day (2012)”. Celebrating the Buddha’s Enlightenment on the full moon day in May, Parami delivers an inspiring talk marking this occasion at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre.

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BAM: Suggested actions guide

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Sat, 9 May, 2015 - 00:46

Wondering what to do in June?

Here’s your BAM Suggested actions guide, compiled by Lokabandhu.

You can find all BAM resoureces under ”Resources” section at the top of this page.

File Name	Size
BAM Suggested actions guide 2015	492 KB

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Mindfulness Based Addiciton Recovery (MBAR) Train the Trainer Course

From Ipswich Buddhist Centre on Fri, 8 May, 2015 - 17:46

Mindfulness Based Addiciton Recovery (MBAR) Train the Trainer Course

From Ipswich Buddhist Centre on Fri, 8 May, 2015 - 17:46

Delivered by the award winning author of Eight Step Recovery - Using The Buddha’s Teachings to overcome addiction Valerie Mason-John, this course will be held at the Ipswich Buddhist Centre on Sat 11th, Sun 12th & Mon 13th July 2015 between 10am and 5pm.

The training is for experienced meditation practitioners, people with an understanding of
mindfulness, and health care providers working in the field of addiction in its broadest definition.

Group skills and teaching skills preferred but not an...

Munisha

Dharmic reasons to take part in BAM: No. 1

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Fri, 8 May, 2015 - 00:51

Dharmic reasons to take part in BAM: No. 1

From Buddhist Action Month 2015 on Fri, 8 May, 2015 - 00:51

Buddhist Action Month, in June each year, is an opportunity for Buddhists of all traditions to take any action they wish for the benefit of others, especially actions to

benefit the environment
help us look at what we do with our money and
care for others.

Lots of people feel passionately about these things. Why might Buddhists take action in this way? With regard to the first and second BAM themes Buddhism understands:

that actions have consequences (karma)
that ever-increasing material consumption (=greed/loba) does not bring ever-increasing happiness
and that ignorance (moha) is wilful.

Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: Reality's Unfolded, What's Next?

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 7 May, 2015 - 18:14

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Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is brought to us by Vajratara, entitled “Reality’s Unfolded, What’s Next?.” Vajratara condenses nearly 50 years of the Buddha’s life, using stories from the Pali Canon to show how the Buddha built a spiritual community that lasts to this day. Transcending the conflict between the desire to withdraw and the desire to engage, the Buddha wanders northern India out...

Rijupatha

Dharmabyte: Myth Evoking Inner Reality

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 7 May, 2015 - 18:09

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Just how does one explain the taste of a mango? Vadanya gives us today’s FBA Dharmabyte entitled “Myth Evoking Inner Reality”. Here, Vadanya illustrates just how rich myth and symbols are to elucidate the inner reality of the Buddha’s experience. From the talk entitled, “Brahmas Request”, given as part of a series of talks on Stories and Symbols at Sheffield...

Rijupatha

FBA Podcast: The Voice of the Buddha

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 7 May, 2015 - 18:02

FBA Podcast: The Voice of the Buddha

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 7 May, 2015 - 18:02

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We’ve all read the words of the Buddha – but what did he SOUND like? What might it have been like to actually hear him…? In our FBA Podcast this week, Ratnaguna gives us a beautifully imaginative and well-researched evovation of the Buddha entitled “The Voice of the Buddha”.

Talk given on the 2012 Triratna International Retreat, under the overall theme ‘Imagining...

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