Karunagita On 'A Path for Parents'
I have a strong conviction, based on experience, that the context of motherhood offers many invaluable opportunities for insight, heart-opening and personal and spiritual growth. This includes...
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Vote for Colchester Buddhists to get Solar PV on our New CentreJUSTONEWEEKTOGO! The deadline for voting is 30 Sep so please vote for us to get PV!Colchester Buddhist Centre has been operating for over...
View ArticleUpayavira - Meditating With Your Child (Introduction and Guided Meditation)
As part of our weekend of resources for parents looking to practice Buddhism and meditation while caring for small children, we're very happy to offer this great guided meditation from Upayavira,...
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The Dedication Ceremony - A First Post To Set My Intention...
I have just read aloud the dedication ceremony sat on my cushion surrounded by the train track I have left out so I can meditate first thing tomorrow morning. I found it very moving to describe our...
View ArticleFBA Podcast: The Triratna Emphasis On Going For Refuge
In this week’s FBA Podcast, Dhammarati gives an excellent talk on one of the Six Emphases of the Triratna Buddhist Community with “The Triratna Emphasis on Going for Refuge”.In this talk Dhammarati...
View ArticleIntroduction and Dedication Ceremony
The retreat at Taraloka in Wales gets underway with a reassuring and encouraging message from Amaragita for all parents who need to stop from time to time, and then a lovely brief exercise led by...
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A Morning Puja - Four Reminders, Three Terrible Oaths
The Terrible Oaths bit is something that Dayaka added for Buddhafield North to Vessantara’s Morning Puja! It’s very helpful and bracing if I pay attention to it…The Four Reminders Life has inevitable...
View ArticleWhat have you brought with you?
When people at the start of the retreat were asked what questions or musings this they brought with them, the main themes that emerged were:finding more spaciousness in life that feels pressurised,...
View ArticleBhim Stuti
A Group from Mumbai visited retreat center and had puja in which they have sang harmoniously Bhim Stuti.Tags: Bhim Stuti
View ArticleKarunagita - Lightening the Load
A great talk from Karunagita, author of A Path For Parents, with some key practical insights for anyone trying to figure out how to go deeper with their practice while raising children. We get a moving...
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At the Close of the First Full Day
It is a privilege to be able to support mothers on a retreat and inspiring to see how much impact a relatively short space of time in a place such as Taraloka can have. There is a huge amount of...
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Stop, Look and See What Arises
I really loved hearing Amaragita’s welcome to the retreat. I also found it painful. I experienced envy and jealousy. A hunger to ‘intervene in [my] life as usual’ and ‘untangle [my] existential knots’....
View ArticleBuddhists On the Refugee Crisis
I’ve been at the European Buddhist Union AGM conference in Berlin representing Triratna this weekend. You can follow our coverage on Instagram and Facebook. Here I’m talking to Martin Schaurhofer...
View ArticleDharmabyte: Unified, not Unisex
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte continues our series of podcasts on the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled “Unified, not Unisex”. From the talk “The Six Distinctive Emphases of the FWBO”, here...
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European Buddhist Union calls for compassion for refugees
Last weekend I represented Triratna at the 40th Annual General Meeting of the European Buddhist Union. at the Rigpa Centre in Berlin.At the particular request of Hungarian and Austrian Buddhists, a...
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Your Support Needed! Click To Help Colchester Buddhists Go Solar...
Hey, everyone! Can you help us with something very specific?Our great friends in Colchester Buddhist Centre - who helped pioneer the Sustainable Buddhist Centre Scheme - just need about 200 of us to...
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Sitting Still in the Turning World - Online Meditation
As part of our five-week series (you don’t need to attend them all!) this week - Tuesday 29th September - we’ll be ‘just sitting’ still together - just trying to be with our experience, whatever that...
View ArticleThe Possibility Of Practice
If a talk could ever be described as beautifully bracing, this is it! Amaragita brings a sharp-edged mind and a long-term perspective to the whole question of what practice is. As you might expect, she...
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A story from India of what friendship can do
I’m thinking about the upcoming Order Retreat in Bodhgaya, and it reminded me to post some of my thoughts from my visit to India last year.It soon became evident that the Order retreat was powered by a...
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Two Special things this week
Just want to let you know about two things coming up:This Saturday night all are invited to our ‘Govinda’s at The Beach’Saturday October 3rd 6.30 pm BYO vegetarian tucker to share We’ll eat...
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