The Buddha Broke my Heart... Buddhafield Festival videos now up
Here’s the first in a series of video talks from the 2013 Buddhafield Festival - a great talk by Dhivan entitled ‘The Buddha Broke my Heart…’. He introduces it thus: “The Buddha taught love as freedom...
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Urban Retreat 2013, Complete Retreat Materials: 7. Complete Texts
Unfortunately, we can’t embed the full sets of documents though you can read them online directly on our Issuu stack.But you can download them all here!Follow us on Issuu and ScribdFile NameSizeUrban...
View ArticleHappy Sangha Day! Puja With Devas Singing...
A Sangha Day puja from the Cambridge Buddhist Centre in the UK…Read more about our FestivalsTags: festivals, Sangha Day, Puja, ritual, chanting
View ArticleEight Step Recovery fundraising continues. Please help us reach our target!
There are just 5 days to go until the end of our Indiegogo fundraising campaign for Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction and we still need to raise just over $500 to...
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Talk by Achal (Newzealand) at Indiranagar Project
Dhammachari Achal (Newzealand) and Dhammachari Arthabandhu (UK) visited and given talk by Achal at Indiranagar Buddha Vihar where People’s Karate Branch is successfully run. People’s Karate Class...
View ArticleBuddhafield Working Weekend, 22-24 November 2013
We’d like to invite you to a Buddhafield Working Weekend at Trevince House, Hittesleigh, Devon.The weekend will include periods of work on Buddhafield equipment and may include cleaning, packing and...
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More Triratna texts in Hindi translation
Two more translations have been added to the Hindi collection of Triratna texts - The Dedication Ceremony in Hindi and English The Tiratana Vandana in Hindi, English and PaliPart of the Triratna...
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The Tiratana Vandana in Marathi, English and Pali
The Tiratana Vandana in Marathi, English and Pali.Part of the Triratna Translations project. For more, see www.thebuddhistcentre.com/translationsFile NameSizeThe Tiratana Vandana in Marathi, English...
View ArticleShakyamuni Mantra
Day 3 is the Shakyamuni mantra. Shakyamuni is the name of the historical Buddha, Gautama, who lived in northern India two and half thousand years ago. He was a human being, like us, who through his own...
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How Does Meditation Stack up in the Daily Rub?
Dear Coogee MeditatorsHow does meditation stack up when challenged by the daily rub of mundane life? Sometimes when I observe my own behaviour in daily interactions with my partner Gina, with...
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Melbourne Med-Mob meditation
Jodie writes from Triratna’s Melbourne Buddhist Centre where they’ve just celebrated their first meditation flash mob. She says - “The bad jokes came rolling in while we were organising our latest...
View ArticleThe Empathic Buddha... Buddhafield Festival video talk
here’s the second in a series of video talks from the 2013 Buddhafield Festival - a thoughtful talk by Shantigarbha exploring the notion of ‘The Empathic Buddha’. He asks “How did the Buddha embody...
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Buddhafield Festival 2013 Dharma talks and videos now online
Here’s some all the videos from the 2013 Buddhafield Festival’s Dharma Parlour: a rich and multi-facetted feast of Dharma exploring the overall Festival theme of ‘Fire in the Heart’. You’ll find more...
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Suffering and Joy - Compost For Love
A talk during the setup for Buddhafield Festival 2013 (theme 'Fire in the Heart') on the Four Brahma Viharas.Listen and download: http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC1852
View ArticleBreath
One of my favourite Buddhist teacher’s Thich Nhat Hanh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Nhat_Hanh) has generously given us permission to use one of his poetic verses on the breath. Day 5 is a...
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Urban Retreat celebrates worldwide participation
Triratna’s third International Urban Retreat, ‘Blazing like the Sun’, ended on Sunday, and feedback has been coming in from around the world: here’s a brief summary of what we’ve learned so far. First...
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Suffering and Joy - Compost For Love
A talk during the setup for Buddhafield Festival 2013 (theme 'Fire in the Heart') on the Four Brahma Viharas.Listen and download: http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC1851
View ArticleSangha: Not Mere Socialising
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is titled “Not Mere Socialising” by Sangharakshita from the talk "Intellect, Emotion, and Will” given at opening of the Manchester Buddhist Centre in 1996. In this excerpt...
View ArticleFour basic needs of the heart
Day 6 is a day filled with loving kindness. When we learn to cultivate the four basic needs of the heart; attention, affection, appreciation and acceptance towards ourselves, our whole world will begin...
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Dharmacharini Candrasri 1945-2013
With sadness we report the death of Candrasri, in Cambridge, UK, on Monday 18th November, aged 68.Candrasri’s funeral will take place at Cambridge Buddhist Centre on Monday, 2nd December at 12 noon,...
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