Change your mind to change the world: in this 21st July 2012 public talk, Vidyamala speaks about the life-changing power of awareness

Vidyamala is passionate about the revolutionary potential of mind and heart training and has a sense of urgency about making the most of the life that we have, whatever our circumstances, to be as fully present and kind as possible.

Drawing on her own experience of many years’ mindfulness practice, she shares with us its importance and the role it can play in helping us lead a happy and fulfilled life.

Vidyamala says:

Do you want to be a revolutionary? Do you want to be a freedom fighter? Do you want to take on the ultimate challenge of letting go of a limited sense of yourself and others to gain freedom of heart and mind? Are you dying to 
live fully? Are you dying to love fully?

If you have a yes response to any of these questions, come to this talk and find out how to be fully awake and free – right here, right now in this modern world. Find out how to die to smallness and be born into greatness in each precious moment, following the guidance of the Buddha – the awakened one.

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Ratnaguna explores the meaning of Dharma – the Buddha’s discovery of the truth, law, or way

Dharma Day is one of the four main Buddhist fest­ivals in the year, on which we we cel­eb­rate the Buddha’s first teach­ing of the Dharma

Half hour talk given at Manchester Buddhist Centre on 30th June 2012

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A public talk given by Sona at Manchester Buddhist Centre on 28th April 2012

Sona spends much of his time teaching mindfulness. He teaches people how to work with difficulties such as pain – whether physical, mental or emotional – illness and stress.

By using mindfulness and positive emotion we can let go of the things we really don’t need, including fixed views, so we can experience a greater degree of liberation and freedom.

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Held by Ratnaguna and Arthaketu at Manchester Buddhist Centre on 19th April 2012 as part of the Rainy Season Retreat

The theme of this intensive urban retreat was the Five Stages of the Spiritual Path, and the participants were local Order members and Mitras within the Triratna Buddhist Community.

The audio version, but not the video, includes about twenty minutes of questions and answers from the retreatants.

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A talk given by Sona at Manchester Buddhist Centre on 18th April 2012 as part of the Rainy Season Retreat

The theme of this intensive urban retreat was the Five Stages of the Spiritual Path, and the participants were local Order members and mitras

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A talk given by Dayamala at Manchester Buddhist Centre on 18th April 2012 as part of the Rainy Season Retreat

The theme of this intensive urban retreat was the Five Stages of the Spiritual Path, and the participants were local Order members and mitras

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by with Chandana and Dayamala (approx 15 mins)

by led by Dayamala (approx 31 mins)

by Ratnaguna

Talks, discussion and led meditations from a 2012 course on the Four Brahma Viharas

The course was held at Manchester Buddhist Centre from February to March 2012, as a Sangha Night series exploring the three meditations that, with the metta bhavana, make up the Four Brahma Viharas:

by Dayamala and Chandana

by (approx 25 mins)

by Ratnaguna

by led by Ratnaguna (approx 33 mins)

by with Ratnaguna (approx 15 mins)

by led by Ratnaguna (approx 22 mins)

by with Chandana (approx 32 mins)

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Have you ever stopped, taken stock of your life, and wondered ‘what’s it all about?’

In this talk, given at the Manchester Buddhist Centre on 31st March 2012, Sona – a senior member of the Triratna Buddhist Order – describes his lifelong search for meaning. From his childhood dissatisfaction with the conventional answers society gave him, to his attempts to understand the true nature of reality, and finally his encounter with Buddhist teachings, Sona engages and provokes us into asking for ourselves – ‘what does it all mean?’

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Priyavadita shares some reflections on death including his experience of working as a nurse in a busy accident and emergency department at a local hospital

Talk given on 18th February 2012 at Manchester Buddhist Centre. Introduced by Arthaketu.

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