No Need For The H-Word
Select Featured Post: No Need for the H-wordSub title: Essays on the Bodhisattva IdealGroups audience: Triratna Features
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FBA Podcast: Remembering the Bodhichitta In Everyday Life
Our FBA Podcast this week, “Remembering the Bodhichitta In Everyday Life,” is a talk from the recent Tonglen Retreat for Triratna Order Members by Yashobodhi. In this dynamic talk, Yashobodhi shares...
View ArticleDharmabyte: Being Present to Experience
In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Being Present to Experience” we have Maitreyabandhu speaking in his usual playful, engaging way on vedana, success, being present to our experience, and recognizing the gap...
View ArticleBuddhist Action Month! June 2014
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Trustee's Meeting for the IDT
We have just had a fantastic trustee’s meeting. Headlines:☞ Subhuti has recently returned from a visit to India where he has been deepening Dhamma practice in the Order thereby broadening out the base...
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Spread Buddhism. Serve Mankind.
‘Time has come, what is wanted is will. If the countries which are Buddhist can develop the will to spread Buddhism the task of spreading Buddhism will not be difficult. They must realize that the duty...
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When and Where do you Meditate?
Where and When do you Meditate?I co-lead an introductory meditation retreat this weekend just past. We did our two foundation practices; The Mindfulness of Breathing and The Metta Bhavana and had quite...
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Shrine with nidanas
A shrine emerged based on the conditions on this retreat: Nayaka’s vison of a bowl and a robe, Dhivan and I talking about rupas resembling real human beings that inspire both of us, Khemaka and Carole...
View ArticleThis Being retreat day 1, The principle of conditionality
On the first day of the This Being That Becomes retreat, Dhivan talks about the Buddha's general formulation of conditionality, about the Four Noble Truths and about the three kinds of dukkha.The...
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Robe and bowl
And here’s a pic of the shrine with ‘robe and bowl’. Symbolic of a set of robes and begging bowl, but actually a blanket and a singing bowl. Things are often not what they seem.
View ArticleThis Being, led meditation 1
A led reflection by Dhivan on the first day of the retreat.http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC1967Tags: reflection, meditation
View Article'This Being, That Becomes' Online!
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View ArticleThis Being retreat day 2, The Application of Conditionality
We've moved into the territory of the creative and reactive mind, of the spiral path and samsara, and the pivotal role of feeling in the nidana chain. Here's Dhivan going into this and translating all...
View ArticleThis Being, led meditation 2
A meditation led by myself investigating body, the six senses, contact and feeling in our experience.http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC1969Tags: meditation, conditionality,...
View ArticleThis Being retreat day 3, The Structure of Experience
On the third day we went into the structure of experience using the nidana chain as a model.http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC1970Tags: conditionality, conditioned co-production
View ArticleThis Being, led meditation 3
In a led meditation Dhivan guides us along some aspects of the structure of our experience.http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC1971Tags: meditation, conditionality, conditioned...
View ArticleThis Being retreat day 4, How views and Emotions arise
Today we're exploring the underlying tendencies that give shape to our experience. We're also going into the psychology of conceptual and perceptual proliferation and are presented with a model that...
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London Buddhist Centre
Talk given at the Dharma class Monday 7th April 2014.Listen and download: http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC1975
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Shrine with nidanas, complete
Dhivan has put the remaining nidana links on the shrine. We’re onto the spiral path today. Swoosh.Tags: conditionality
View ArticleThis Being, led meditation 4
Yesterday afternoon, Nayaka led a beautiful reflection on the five kandhas (or skandhas in Sanskrit). I thought his exploration was very clear, interesting and insightful.. A particular interesting...
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