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UK & Ireland AOWE - Last bookings & more programme information

From Order Messenger on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 16:55

UK & Ireland AOWE - Last bookings & more programme information

From Order Messenger on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 16:55

There are moments when criticism of a particular kind – the only kind I care for – utterly absorbs me. I feel I am touching a mystery. There is a wall, as it were, of dense, warm darkness before me – a darkness that is secretly alive and thrilling to the sense. This, I like to believe, is the reflection in myself of the darkness which broods over the poet’s creative mind. It forms slowly and gradually gathers while I...

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karunadhi

Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka retreat centre came into being with the purchase of Aberclydach House at the end of 1994. This project was brought to fruition by five senior dharmacharinis - Samata, Dhammadinna, Anjali, Anoma and Sanghadevi - who in 1992 got together to develop a sustainable process for women who had asked for ordination.

Tiratanaloka as an ordination training centre has been a huge success, to the point where we have now outgrown our space. We are currently very limited in regard to...

karunadhi

Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Community Highlights on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:58

Tiratanaloka as an ordination training centre has been a huge success, to the point where we have now outgrown our space. We are currently very limited in regard to...

Amaradaya

Order Harmony Consultation

From Order Messenger on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:50

Order Harmony Consultation

From Order Messenger on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 13:50

Dear friends in the Order,

Thank you so much to those of you who participated in the Order harmony online consultation, whether through completing the survey, participating in one of the forums, or through having written to us directly.

A very special thank you needs to go to Sahamati who volunteered his skill and time in helping to craft the survey and in the data analysis. It’s been great to work with him on this.
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Karunadhi

Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Order Messenger on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 10:27

Tiratanaloka is on the market!

From Order Messenger on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 10:27

Tiratanaloka as an ordination training centre has been a huge success, to the point where we have now outgrown our space. We are currently very limited in regard to the number...

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Sudaka

The Set Up

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 07:47

The Set Up

From Suryavana Retreat Centre on Fri, 28 Jul, 2023 - 07:47

Preparing Suryavana for a large group of Guests.

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
...

Parami

Forthcoming Ordinations at the Mid-Essex Buddhist Centre

From Order Messenger on Thu, 27 Jul, 2023 - 15:25

Forthcoming Ordinations at the Mid-Essex Buddhist Centre

From Order Messenger on Thu, 27 Jul, 2023 - 15:25

Dear fellow Dharmafarers,

I am delighted to let you know that Marion Pidgeon of the Mid-Essex Sangha will be privately ordained by Vanaraji during a small bespoke retreat. The private ceremony will take place sometime on Friday 4th August and the public ceremony will take place on Sunday 6th August at 2pm in the new Mid-Essex Buddhist Centre.

With metta,

Parami

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Centre Team

Dharmabytes: A Dharma Perspective

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 27 Jul, 2023 - 11:00

Vajradevi explores wisdom, the ‘balancing factor’ to faith in the ‘mandala’ of the five spiritual faculties. ‘Clear-seeing’ is way of describing wisdom that can be practised through mindfulness.

Excerpted from the talk Wisdom As a Spiritual Faculty In Relation to Mindfulness, part of the series Pathways to the Beautiful Mind: Bristol Rains Retreat, 2019.

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Windhorse Publi...

Welcome back, Pasadanita, and thank you, Caroline!

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 26 Jul, 2023 - 15:00

Welcome back, Pasadanita, and thank you, Caroline!

From Windhorse Publications on Wed, 26 Jul, 2023 - 15:00

Last week she who used to be Helen returned to the Windhorse Publications team after three months on leave, most of which she spent on retreat in the remote mountains of eastern Spain. During the retreat she was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order and given a new name, Pasadanita, which means ‘she who is led by confidence and clarity’. We’re sure you’d like to join us in congratulating Pasadanita on her ordination. Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!

We’d also like to take this...

The Abhayaratna...

Kavyamani joins the Trust

From Abhayaratna Trust on Wed, 26 Jul, 2023 - 11:30

Kavyamani joins the Trust

From Abhayaratna Trust on Wed, 26 Jul, 2023 - 11:30

We are very pleased to have Kavyamani join us as a Trustee. Kavyamani brings valuable experience and skills to the work of the Trust.

She writes; ‘I have long been aware of and quietly impressed by the work of the Abhayaratna Trust. I was initially approached by my good friend Danayutta, herself a Trustee, to find out if I would be interested in getting involved. After initial conversations with members of the Trust and having attended the recent Trustee meeting, I instantly...

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