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Ivan reporting from the Urban Retreat in valencia, Spain! En Inglés y Español. www.thebuddhistcentre.com/urbanretreat #urbanretreat #triratna #valencia #espana #espanol #Buddhism #Buddhist #Buddha #Budismo #Budista #Buda #Dharma

Munisha introduces the Urban Retreat on Sangha Day, Stockholm Buddhist Centre 21 November 2015. The music is "Erbarme Dich", from the St Matthew Passion by JS Bach, with mezzo soprano Janet Baker. The poem is A High Blue Day on Scalpay, by Kenneth White. Here it is, with Viryabodhi's translation into Swedish. *A High Blue Day on Scalpay* This is the summit of contemplation, and no art can touch it Blue, so blue, the far-out archipelago and the sea shimmering, shimmering No art can touch it, the mind can only try to become attuned to it To become quiet, and space itself out, to become open and still, unworlded Knowing itself in the diamond country, in the ultimate unlettered light. Kenneth White *En blåhimmelsdag på Scalpay* Det här är kontemplationens höjdpunkt, och ingen konst kan fånga den; blå, så blå, skärgården långt därute och det skimrande havet, skimrande, ingen konst kan fånga det, sinnet kan bara försöka stämma in med det: att bli stilla, vidga sig utåt, att bli öp

In the last interview from the November Preceptors' College meeting, Subhuti talks to Saccanama about how the College has developed over the last 25 years and how he sees it developing in the future. #Subhuti #Preceptors' College #Triratna

Varadevi and Dharmanandi, both over for the College meeting from New Zealand, share their reflections on ordination training for women in Australia and New Zealand. #Varadevi #Dharmanandi #Preceptors' College #Triratna #New Zealand

Jnanasuri, Chandrashil and Yashosagar reflect on their time at Adhisthana at the Preceptors' College meeting and their plans after they leave. #Preceptors' College #Jnanasuri #Chandrashil #Yashosagar

Parami y Moksananda hablan de la reunion del Colegio de Preceptores Publicos que se celebra estos dias en Adhisthana, Inglaterra. #Moksananda #Parami #Colegio de Preceptores Publicos #Mexico #Spain

In one of two interviews covering different areas, Moksananda and Parami talk about their work for the Preceptors' College in the Spanish-speaking world. In English! #Moksananda #Parami #Mexico #Spain #Triratna #Preceptors' College

In conversation with Saccanama, Punyamala shares her reflections on conducting her first public ordination at Akashavana in September this year. #Punyamala #Ordination #Akashavana #Triratna

Parami interviews her good friends Paramachitta and Karunadevi about their recent time in Mexico for the Pan-American Order convention as well as their trips to Cuernavaca. #Paramachitta #Karunadevi #Parami #Mexico #Cuernavaca #Triratna Order

Paramabandhu introduces a new ordination retreat at Guhyaloka which will run for one month in September next year. It will be a bilingual retreat in Spanish and English. #ordination #Guhyaloka #Paramabandhu #Preceptors' College #Triratna

Saddhaloka, in conversation with Saccanama, introduces the November meeting of the Public Preceptors' College; a gathering of public preceptors from all around the world - India, America, New Zealand, Spain and the UK. He talks about some of the themes and issues they will be exploring together this week, including Sadhana, the future of the College, and the work of the Ordination team in India. #Triratna #Buddhism #International

This is our final podcast from the 2015 Pan-American Convention here at Chintamani Retreat Centre in Mexico. We hear from Amala, Jnanadakini, Lokeshvara, Paramachitta, and Shantinayaka - 4 of whom are Order Conveners for the Triratna Buddhist Order - about how they they think it's gone and the highlights they'll be carrying back home. Con traducción en Español. Listen out for more mantras, Buddhist Voices, and interviews from the wider Triratna community in Mexico, coming soon. thebuddhistcentre.com/features #Mexico #Budismo #Budista #Buda #Dharma #communidad #community #Buddhist #Buddhism #amistad #friendship

Members of the Triratna Buddhist Order on their Pan-American Convention join with women training for ordination to chant the Bodhichitta mantra for the benefit of all beings. The 'Bodhichitta' is sometimes rendered as the 'will to Enlightenment' or the 'heart-mind of Enlightenment' - signifying the complete dedication of our efforts to cultivate wisdom and compassion, in line with the Buddha's teachings, making no distinction between our own well-being and that of others. In that sense the development of Bodhichitta is a truly communal practice, and might even be said to arise on a collective basis. The mantra captures a flavor of what that might mean and the joy implied. Recorded at Chintamani Buddhist Retreat Centre in Mexico during the 2015 Pan-American Triratna Buddhist Order Convention. For more: thebuddhistcentre.com/features #mantra #chanting #chant #ritual #Buddhism #Buddhist #Enlightenment #Dharma #community #harmonies

Viriyalila in conversation with the wonderful Saddhajoti, whose vision of a Buddhist retreat centre rising out of barren sugar cane plantation land has been fully realized here at Chintamani, near Cuernavaca in Mexico. It's a truly extraordinary achievement, and the great beauty and elegance of the place has been hugely enjoyed by all lucky enough o be attending the Triratna Buddhist Order's 2015 Pan-American Convention. We hear how Chintamani - named after the mythical wish-fulfilling jewel which is a symbol for the Dharma offered for all beings - came into existence; and also how it forms part of a growing network of Triratna Buddhist Centres in Mexico and, more importantly, supports the community to go deeper into practice together. For more: thebuddhistcentre.com/tags/pan-american-2015 #Mexico #retreat #Buddhist #Buddhism #Budismo #Budista #Cuernavaca #community #Dharma

As part of a meditation evoking the path of friendship and lineage, members of the Triratna Buddhist Order chant the 'kalyana mitrata' mantra in a rainstorm at Chintamani Retreat Centre in Mexico. Recorded as part of the 2015 Triratna Buddhist Order Pan-American Convention: https://thebuddhistcentre.com/tags/pan-american-2015 #mantra #chanting #harmonies #friendship #chant #singing #Buddhist #Buddhism #rain

We continue to celebrate the diversity of those attending the 2015 Triratna Buddhist Order Pan-American Convention in Mexico with two close friends from San Francisco. The theme of the Convention is friendship itself as a whole path of practice, and this is a pleasing ramble with two Californians taking in topics as diverse as the tech boom in San Francisco, the nature of interpretative understanding, and how beautiful it is to sit in a garden as part of a Buddhist Order and feel so well met, so kindly welcomed by strangers thousands of miles from home. Mexico is in all our hearts here and this is lovely witnessing of it between two brothers in the Dharma... Recorded at Chintamani Retreat Centre, Cuernavaca, Mexico. For more: https://thebuddhistcentre.com/tags/pan-american-2015 #Buddhism #Budismo #Buddhist #Budista #amistad #friendship #consciousness #SanFrancisco #tech #community

The 100-syllable mantra to Vajrasattva, the Buddhist Bodhisattva figure associated with purifying the heart and mind in the development of wosdom and compassion. Recorded at the 2015 Pan-American Triratna Buddhist Order Convention in Mexico. #mantra #Buddhist #Buddhism #bodhisattva #Vajrasattva #chanting #chant #ritual

As part of our Buddhist Voices series we're live at the 2015 Pan-American Triratna Buddhist Order Convention. Abhayagita - whose name means 'Song of Fearlessness' - tells us (in English y en español) about her project to take women on pilgrimage from Mexico to India in the footsteps of the Buddha. En route we hear about her home country's engagement with the Dharma, and end up in a fascinating space around Aztec and Mayan culture as fertile native soil for the Dharma to take root... Con la traducción española. For more from the Pan-American Convention: thebuddhistcentre.com/tags/pan-american-2015 #Mexico #India #pilgrimage #Aztec #Mayan #anthropology #Budismo #Buda #Budhista #Buddhism #Buddhist #Buddha #Dharma

Parami - on her first visit to Adelaide - chats to Dharmacharini Dharmamodini about Triratna Adelaide, about which she is most passionate! It's great to hear someone speak with such delight at sharing the Dharma and building community at home... Subscribe to hear more: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-buddhist-centre-online/id498033013 #Buddhism #Buddhist #Dharma #Adelaide #Australia #NewZealand #community #sangha

Parami is back, reporting from Australasia - or is it Oceania? - talking with two friends who have spent much of their adult lives reflecting on - and acting upon - climate change as an integral aspect of their Buddhist practice. A fascinating, sometimes sobering, but realistically positive conversation about what environmental issues have to do with the Dharma - and what we can do to get involved... Topics covered include 'transition towns'; Al Gore's initiative; thinking about our kids; how to deal with carbon that's already present in the atmosphere; why attending to this issue is crucial Dharma practice - individually and communally; divestment; what can we do to get involved in Triratna? Subscribe to hear more: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-buddhist-centre-online/id498033013 #Buddhism #Buddhist #Dharma #environment #ecology #green #Australia #NewZealand #community #climate #climatechange #sangha #divesttriratna #divestment