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FBA Podcast: A Deeper Rhythm

By Centre Team on Sat, 28 Oct, 2023 - 11:00

Vishvapani explores the dynamic vision of Urgyen Sangharakshita in setting up a new Buddhist movement in the West, and asks how we might relate to him now. His central reference point in this provocative and moving talk is the Padmasambhava Abisheka - the initiation received by Sangharakshita in Kalimpong, India, in 1962 from the great Tibetan Lama, Kachu Rimpoche. The energy emanating from a simple shrine room–location of that significant meeting in Sangharakshita’s life–reverberates through everything that came...

Buddhist Centre Features
Buddhist Centre Features

Mindfulness and Imagination

By Centre Team on Sat, 5 Aug, 2023 - 15:15

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, we would see the world as it really is – infinite.” William Blake

If you enjoy this conversation, come explore the theme online on our Home Retreat with Vishvapani and Vidyamala! Join Entering the Mandala: Mindfulness and Imagination, September 1-7

This week we’re opening portals to awareness and the wonders that can arise when we really start to pay attention to everything that’s going on in the world around us. What would it be like...

Adhisthana
Adhisthana

Writing about Sangharakshita, by Vishvapani

By Oliviahinde on Mon, 1 May, 2023 - 10:30

Writing about Sangharakshita, by Vishvapani

By Oliviahinde on Mon, 1 May, 2023 - 10:30

Over the last few years I’ve been rereading and writing about Sangharakshita. I started thinking I had something to say about him that would integrate criticisms with appreciation and might be helpful to others in Triratna. But the more I tried to identify what I wanted to say, the deeper I found myself travelling into his writing and his life. I realised that, even though I have been absorbing Sangharakshita’s teachings for four decades and lived with him for six...

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Mindfulness and Imagination with Vidyamala and Vishvapani

By dayaketu on Thu, 20 Apr, 2023 - 00:10

Mindfulness and Imagination with Vidyamala and Vishvapani

By dayaketu on Thu, 20 Apr, 2023 - 00:10

Seven days of meditation, creativity and ritual in a spirit of mindfulness and inquiry.

Led by Vishvapani and Vidyamala

Reserve your space!

Friday September 1 -...

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FBA Podcast: A Deeper Rhythm

By Zac on Sat, 7 Jan, 2023 - 06:00

Vishvapani explores the dynamic vision of Urgyen Sangharakshita in setting up a new Buddhist movement in the West, and asks how we might relate to him now. Voices and stories, told and untold, come echoing through as Vishvapani makes the case that a deeper examination of Sangharakshita’s teaching and approach reveals a deeper rhythm to his life and work that is relevant to everyone practicing in Triratna today.

A talk given at Adhisthana on the men’s ...

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Buddhist Centre Features

The Organic Core of Sangharakshita's Teaching by Vishvapani

By Centre Team on Mon, 31 Oct, 2022 - 18:28

The Organic Core of Sangharakshita's Teaching by Vishvapani

By Centre Team on Mon, 31 Oct, 2022 - 18:28

Vishvapani has been studying, reflecting upon, and living out the Dharma life as presented by Urgyen Sangharakshita, Triratna’s founding teacher, for over 40 years. To mark the fourth anniversary of “Bhante” Sangharakshita’s death in 2018, this new talk delves deep into the heart of what Vishvapani calls a “unique and strange” intuitive approach to Buddhism that, at its best, seems to capture and...

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Dharmabyte: What is the Enlightened Mind?

By Zac on Mon, 19 Sep, 2022 - 06:00

Vishvapani looks behind the veils of history, legend and the texts themselves to conjur a vivid, felt image of the Buddha’s personality. In a series of beautifully observed close-up drawings from the Pali Canon we are left with a portrait of spiritual genius that is both enigmatically distant and thoroughly human.

From the talk The Buddha’s Personality, part of the series Gautama Buddha, given at London Buddhist...

Triratna News
Triratna News

Vishvapani's Thought for the Day, Weekend Word and other writings

By Sadayasihi on Tue, 25 Jan, 2022 - 15:35

Vishvapani's Thought for the Day, Weekend Word and other writings

By Sadayasihi on Tue, 25 Jan, 2022 - 15:35

Vishvapani regularly comments on the news from a Buddhist perspective in the Thought for the Day slot on BBC Radio 4, and in the Weekend Word slot on Radio Wales.

Here are some of his recent broadcasts: 

May 7, 2021: Solidarity with India in the Time of Covid

May 19, 2021: Animal Sentience and Compassion: A law recognising that animals are sentient will help protect them. But engaging compassionately with other beings is central to our true humanity

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Dharmabyte: Two Temperaments

By Sadayasihi on Thu, 23 Sep, 2021 - 06:00

Vishvapani outlines two approaches to Dharma practice: the ‘hedgehog’ – grounded in direct experience from the senses, and the ‘fox’ who steps outside and beyond, looking for the bigger picture.

From the talk entitled Feeding the Soul, part of the series The Two Arrows: Dukkha to Insight given at Adhisthana, 2020.

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Solidarity with India in the Time of Covid: Vishvapani's Thought for the Day, 7th May 2021

By Vishvapani on Fri, 14 May, 2021 - 14:36

Solidarity with India in the Time of Covid: Vishvapani's Thought for the Day, 7th May 2021

By Vishvapani on Fri, 14 May, 2021 - 14:36

It’s high spring in Britain as we move towards the end of lockdown. But in India it’s the hot season – 37 degrees in Delhi yesterday – and people are living through the fullest horror of the Covid nightmare.

It’s becoming impossible to ignore the gulf between what’s happening with Covid in the developed world and the developing world. According to the World Health Organisation eighty seven percent of vaccinations have been in wealthy countries, and in the...

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