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"Pleasure is a thing that also needs accomplishing" from The Word​ by Tony Hoagland Today's episode of the Dharma Toolkit asks a collection of fabulous guests how we can meet the deep and urgently serious aspects of life and of the current times without jettisoning a similarly vital human sense of fun, pleasure, play, spontaneity, creativity – even joy. From painting with a beautiful thrash metal...

Loving Kindness (Metta) Compassion (Karuna) Joyful Resonance (Mudita) Equanimity (Upekkha) This week on the podcast we're in full-on love mode with our Home Retreat: Being Divine Online. Our guide to the series of meditations in focus - the Brahma Viharas - is Ratnavandana, and in this special episode recorded live online she's in discussion about a practice that has been one of the touchstones of...

Tomoko Bruce recites Triratna's Dedication Ceremony in Japanese. Part of the Triratna Translation project, see https://thebuddhistcentre.com/translations?display=groups for lots more!

This week on The Buddhist Centre Online and the Dharma Toolkit we are marking Earth Day - all week long! Check out our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts: "Hair On Fire: Using the Threefold Way of Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom to Turn Toward Climate Change": https://audioboom.com/playlists/4631424-hair-on-fire-using-the-threefold-way-of-ethics-meditation-and-wisdom-to-turn-toward-clim...

Triratna's Threefold Puja, translated and recited in Turkish by Dharmachari Nayadipa. For more, and for the text, see https://thebuddhistcentre.com/translations/t%C3%BCrk.

Triratna's Refuges and Precepts recited in Japanese. Translated by Shraddharocani. For more, and for the text, please see www.thebuddhistcentre.com/translations/japanese

Triratna's Threefold Puja recited in Japanese. Translated by Shraddharocani. For more, and for the text, please see www.thebuddhistcentre.com/translations/japanese

This week on The Buddhist Centre Online and the Dharma Toolkit we are marking Earth Day - all week long! Here's the third and final episode in our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts to be released through the week: "Hair On Fire: Using the Threefold Way of Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom to Turn Toward Climate Change". Episode 3 considers Buddhist responses to climate change from the pe...

Translated by Pádhraic Ó Ciardha and recorded by Dayasagara. For the text, see https://thebuddhistcentre.com/translations/gaelic

Translated by Pádhraic Ó Ciardha and recorded by Dayasagara. For the text, see https://thebuddhistcentre.com/translations/gaelic

Translated and recorded by Dayasagara. For the text, see https://thebuddhistcentre.com/translations/gaelic

Translated by Pádhraic Ó Ciardha and recorded by Dayasagara. For the text, see https://thebuddhistcentre.com/translations/gaelic

This week on The Buddhist Centre Online and the Dharma Toolkit we are marking Earth Day - all week long! Here's the first episode in our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts to be released through the week: "Hair On Fire: Using the Threefold Way of Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom to Turn Toward Climate Change". Episode 2 looks at Buddhist responses to climate change from the perspective o...

This week on The Buddhist Centre Online and the Dharma Toolkit we are marking Earth Day - all week long! Here's the first episode in our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts to be released through the week: "Hair On Fire: Using the Threefold Way of Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom to Turn Toward Climate Change". Episode 1 evokes Buddhist responses to climate change from the perspective of...

This week on The Buddhist Centre Online and the Dharma Toolkit we are celebrating Earth Day - all week long! Watch out for our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts released through the week: "Hair On Fire: Using the Threefold Way of Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom to Turn Toward Climate Change". We'll be book-ending these special episodes with some lively, thoughtful conversations around...

Two great friends from Australia and New Zealand evoke a mythic vision of beautiful community, founded on, knit together by stories. Stories from school, from war, from the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, from long, steady personal and communal Dharma practice. We look at how technology can make people - kids! - more courageous. And the everyday challenges when trying to develop kindness in the face...

How has the early promise of the Internet held up when it comes to new forms of global community and ways of Buddhist practice? Join us for some wonderful sharing around what community means – at least for today! We're several weeks into lockdown and, as we continue to explore the experience of global intentional community, today's star is the Internet itself. Our guests discuss the new online con...

This week we are celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Doctor B. R. Ambedkar, one of the great Buddhist leaders of modern times and the radical father of the Indian Constitution. Today's episode of the Toolkit Daily focusses on what it means to be a global community and explores Dr. Ambedkar's vision of common humanity based around the evolution of just societies. Our guests, Arun Bodh and D...

Abhayavajra loves painting. He loves paint itself. And sees himself more like an archaeologist, revealing something urgent and crucial about the human condition by adding rather than scraping away layers. A totally delightful conversation about the quest to integrate and unite Dharma practice with the steady, disciplined practice of an art form. We discuss how appreciating beauty itself is like a...

Communities of all kinds all over the world have been facing up to the huge economic impact of Covid-19 and the ongoing lockdown. In the Triratna Buddhist Community this has meant financial stress at Buddhist Centres and an urgent need for help navigating the next few months, which will be crucial to the survival of many Centres, large and small. Enter our two guests! Amalavajra and Danayutta are...

A mythic sense of things is never far away in today's conversation about radical imagination: at the most intimate levels of close, personal friendship; and also culturally, historically, politically, and spiritually as we try to meet the moment of crisis to which we are all witnesses. With Viveka and Upayadhi we discuss taking cues from anticipatory communities who deal with systemic suffering ev...

What has Buddhism got to say about the growing levels of inequality in many societies? What would a society based on Buddhist values look like? This talk is Vajragupta's personal response to "The Spirit Level", by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, a book about inequality that made a big impact when it was first published in 2009. This talk was given at the Croydon Buddhist Centre in February 202...

As part of our week-long Home Retreat on 'Sailing the Worldly Winds - A Buddhist Way Through the Ups and Downs of Life', we are delighted to host here for a live online Q & A, Vajragupta the author and Dharma teacher behind the retreat itself. A great, wide-ranging and practical discussion about what this classic Buddhist teaching has to say to us about caring for ourselves and each other during t...

An emergency appeal from us to you, dear friends. Will you help? The humanitarian crisis unfolding in India is of a scale that can seem overwhelming. It is understandable that, in the midst of our own undoubted trouble, we may wish to turn away. Perhaps we may even feel a sense of hopelessness. But when you listen to our guests from the Karuna Trust and the India Dhamma Trust, the moral force of t...

Dr. Paramabandhu Groves is the co-author with Dr. Jed Shamel of 'Mindful Emotion - A Short Course in Kindness', and the pioneering spirit behind the Breathing Space project in London. Using mindfulness-based cognitive therapy he specialises in recovery work with those suffering from long-term depression and addiction issues. As you might expect from someone who has lived for 30+ years in Dharma-ce...