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Pleasure and Pain Gain and Loss Praise and Blame Fame and Infamy Today we look forward to the start of our first Home Retreat of these coronavirus times in the company of Dassini and Vajragupta, sailing through our human relationship to the Worldly Winds (lokadhammas), a lesser known gem of a Buddhist teaching we think will be a useful tool for anyone living through our current shared crisis. Vajr...

A crucial and rather beautiful conversation about how we relate to our bodies in relative isolation. Some down-to-earth, open-hearted sharing of experience about things physical: the signs and symptoms and weathers of our bodies; the beneficial effect on our mental health of imaginative connection with other embodied beings; and the kindly wisdom in learning to see and name our actual physical exp...

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See https://thebuddhistcentre.com/translations/suomen for the texts, and more...

See https://thebuddhistcentre.com/translations/suomen for the texts, and more...

Santaka recites Triratna's Buddhist ceremonies in Polish: Ceremonia Dedykacji, Trzyczęściowa Pudża, Trzy Schronienia

Santaka recites Triratna's Buddhist ceremonies in Polish: Ceremonia Dedykacji, Trzyczęściowa Pudża, Trzy Schronienia

Santaka recites Triratna's Buddhist ceremonies in Polish: Ceremonia Dedykacji, Trzyczęściowa Pudża, Trzy Schronienia

Standing in the idyllic gardens of Chintamani Buddhist Retreat Center in México and Manjupriya from São Paolo, via Dublin, is telling us, "Time is poetry in Brazil." Listen to the birdsong, close your eyes and you can almost smell the blossom. Tom Jobim used to say "Brazil is not for beginners". Manjupriya attests to this in the best of ways, describing frankly what it's like to change culture and...

The Internet doesn't always make things better! What do you do in the face of 24 hour news media that is just not going to stop? Join us for a conversation about how to guard the gates of our senses when it matters in order to stay sane. Inspiring words about the practice of beauty, being rooted in the body and the senses, staying centred in a storm of input and opinion and views. And a practical...

"What went before — let go of that! All that's to come — have none of it! Don't hold on to what's in between, And you'll wander fully at peace." The Buddha Today we look a key aspect of this most strange of times: fear itself. Whether it's the virus, other people, or your own mind that sometimes gets to you. Whether you're oddly calm, having to work with mild anxiety, or find yourself in the throe...

A perfectly formed wee diamond of an episode featuring response and analysis from someone who knows what it's like at the sharp end of working with viruses in a laboratory setting. Danabhadri is our guest today, helping us move past the clinical language of "quarantines" and "isolation" towards a practical experience of interconnectedness. Evoking beautifully why that matters, she says: "The virus...

Today's episode brings friends together from Ireland, England and the USA to look at the very technology that connect us for use in things like this. Come and get meta with us about Zoom! With the launch of our daily meditations we discuss how better versions of the Internet and its underlying technologies mean an evolution – and possibly a revolution – in how we conceive of Buddhist practice (and...

Welcome to The Dharma Toolkit Daily, our new podcast from The Buddhist Centre to keep you company through the weeks or months ahead in these extraordinary coronavirus times. We'll be with you every week day with a diverse range of guests and voices to renew your sense of a wider Dharma community standing with you. What better way to stay connected than to hear the voices of friends and strangers w...

A poem and haiku by Ryokan set to music by Suryagita. Sung by Suryagita, Jasmine and Trish at the Wellington Buddhist Centre Presidential Handover on 25th February 2020.

A composition by Suryagita for the Australasian Great Gathering in 2018. Sung by Suryagita, Jasmine and Trish at the Wellington Buddhist Centre Presidential Handover on 25th February 2020.

A song composed by Suryagita using the words of Kukai’s poem “To a Nobleman in Kyoto”. Sung by Suryagita, Jasmine and Trish at the Wellington Buddhist Centre Presidential Handover on 25th February 2020.

Here are two wonderfully passionate members of the Order talking across generations about the need to open up effective pathways of commitment for young people as they connect and engage with the possibilities in a Buddhist life. Subhadramati has pioneered such pathways for women for many years at the London Buddhist Centre, one of the biggest Centres in Europe. She discusses her plans for 2020 to...

A great conversation with the quietly brilliant Abhayadana about her Buddhist work and practice in India. Her name means 'Giver of Fearlessness' - and this is something she has dedicated her life to, helping support and free women in her community from the stigma of social caste and the violence that often goes with it. We hear about her personal approach via meditation and reflection on the Buddh...

Amalavajra from Future Dharma Fund - which supports Triratna projects around the world - invites two young people to share their stories of transformation. We hear from Deepak, a young man from India, whose life has been changed utterly since coming across Triratna when he was seventeen. He movingly shares his story of growing up in the caste system and how practising the Dharma allowed him to 're...

The final evening of the 2019 Triratna International Gathering culminated in a rousing Padmasambhava puja led by Singhamati. Invoking Padmasambhava, himself a master magician, was a fitting end to the "Alchemy of the Dharma". Here are two of the mantras from this final puja: firstly, an energetic version, with drums and harmony, and then concluding with the 'longing' Padmasambhava mantra as the ev...

The final evening of the 2019 Triratna International Gathering culminated in a rousing Padmasambhava puja led by Singhamati. Invoking Padmasambhava, himself a master magician, was a fitting end to the "Alchemy of the Dharma". Here are two of the mantras from this final puja: firstly, an energetic version, with drums and harmony, and then concluding with the 'longing' Padmasambhava mantra as the ev...

And now... Celebrating Internationality in Triratna: Latin America edition! Vanaraji in conversation with Gleysa from Venezuela and Salvador from Mexico, on how the Dharma has changed their lives as young Buddhists in the Triratna community. Recorded at Adhisthana, August 2019. More at thebuddhistcentre.com/internationalretreat

A conversation with two of the most experienced members of the Order in India, the pioneering Amoghasiddhi And Amritasiddhi from Nagpur. Mahamati explores with them the history of Triratna in India - and how a new generation of Indian Buddhists adopted a radical Dharma life in the name of freedom from oppression and liberation for all. Recorded at Adhisthana in August 2019. More at https://thebudd...

A sevenfold puja with all the trimmings, including an extended reading of Pingiya's Praises of the Way to the Beyond. We also have the ethical precepts and the Heart Sutra recited in many languages, a gorgeous violin introduction and some lovely mantra chanting to stir the heart to practice. Recorded at Adhisthana, August 2019.