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Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "When I was still at school, boarding school, I heard a lecture by Lokamitra." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "When I was still at school, boarding school, I heard a lecture by Lokamitra." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "When I was still at school, boarding school, I heard a lecture by Lokamitra." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "School runs every day, tantrums, tears (from me as well!)… Family life is a messy life. " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "School runs every day, tantrums, tears (from me as well!)… Family life is a messy life. " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "School runs every day, tantrums, tears (from me as well!)… Family life is a messy life. " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "School runs every day, tantrums, tears (from me as well!)… Family life is a messy life. " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "School runs every day, tantrums, tears (from me as well!)… Family life is a messy life. " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "School runs every day, tantrums, tears (from me as well!)… Family life is a messy life. " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

We're on the road this week with a festive episode of the podcast to celebrate Vidyamala: the extraordinary inspiration behind Breathworks who has just been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Birthday 2022 Honours List. She has been honoured for her Services to Wellbeing and Pain Management as Co-founder of Breathworks, an organisation which teaches mindfulness...

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. Shraddhavajri: "I say to ‘Padmasambhava, ‘You don’t have a body—I have a body... Use my body, and I'll use your energy." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. Shraddhavajri: "I say to ‘Padmasambhava, ‘You don’t have a body—I have a body... Use my body, and I'll use your energy." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. Shraddhavajri: "I say to ‘Padmasambhava, ‘You don’t have a body—I have a body... Use my body, and I'll use your energy." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

When tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees began to cross the border with Poland, the Triratna community at Krakow Buddhist Centre got involved with the same great generosity that has marked the Polish people's response to war flaring up uncomfortably close to home. In this episode we hear from Saddhajala and Nityabandhu on the ground in Krakow—not just about the war in Ukraine but about how Bud...

Some of the team at the Urgyen Sangharakshita Trust join us for a deep dive into the art of digital storytelling and biographical work online, as we hear about the ongoing creative challenges involved in helping a spiritual community hold the legacy of their teacher across generations. Sangharakshita was a brilliant, complex, sometimes provocative and controversial figure. He was also a friend, a...

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "I think it began for me when I was 8 years old… " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "I think it began for me when I was 8 years old… " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "I think it began for me when I was 8 years old… " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "I think it began for me when I was 8 years old… " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "I think it began for me when I was 8 years old… " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "I think it began for me when I was 8 years old… " To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

This week's episode is a wonderful conversation from our archive of live events here on The Buddhist Centre Online, featuring our host Paramananda and his guest Maitridevi, Chair of Taraloka Buddhist Retreat Centre for Women in Wales. Starting from a poem by W.S. Merwin, an initial conversation about gratitude for life despite all our knowledge of sorrows blooms into a shared set of reflections on...

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "I have a very definite sense of something which is above and beyond mundane living, and that’s what draws me. That’s what Going for Refuge is for me." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "I have a very definite sense of something which is above and beyond mundane living, and that’s what draws me. That’s what Going for Refuge is for me." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world. "I have a very definite sense of something which is above and beyond mundane living, and that’s what draws me. That’s what Going for Refuge is for me." To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices