Dharmakarunya gives a talk for Triratna Night at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 4th May 2015

In this 35 – minute talk, Dharmakarunya asks how we can express compassion to others if we are not compassionate to ourselves.

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Combining extracts from the Buddhist scriptures with accounts of his own experience, Mokshajyoti explores the theme of doubt and the role it can play in the spiritual life

Talk given at Manchester Buddhist Centre on Buddha Day, 3rd May 2015

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Vidyamala gives a talk on socially engaged Buddhism, how we can help bring about global transformation, starting with our own minds!

Recorded at Manchester Buddhist Centre at Triratna Night, 13th April 2015, as she prepared to leave the Manchester Sangha for new horizons near Adhisthana in Herefordshire, the spiritual home of the Triratna Buddhist Community.

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Taravandana gives a talk on compassion for Triratna Night at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 30th March 2015

How can we bring more compassion into this world of suffering?

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A talk given by Amitasuri at Manchester Buddhist Centre on 23rd March 2015 at Triratna Night

Amitasuri explores with us what can happen when faced with well-being, illness, age­ing and death, and looks at how the Dharma might influence our response.

Amitasuri takes her Dharma practice to her work as a Buddhist Hospital Chaplain, where she supports health and well-being through pastoral, religious and spiritual care for staff, patients and their families in a number of hospitals in Greater Manchester.

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Maniraja explores some reflections from the past few years, including how Yogachara Buddhism speaks of a consciousness of four selves called manas

Given at Triratna Night at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 16th March 2015.

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Mahabodhi gives a talk on how the Dhyanas are a path to skilful action of body, speech and mind

Given at Triratna Night at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 9th March 2015

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A talk given by Parami at Manchester Buddhist Centre on Triratna Night, 2nd March 2015

Parami is a leading Triratna Order member and her talk reflects the depth of her practice and experience.

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The fourth and last in our series on the Sukhavati or Pure Land Sutras with Ratnaguna, given at Triratna Night on 23rd February 2015 at Manchester Buddhist Centre

For the past year Ratnaguna has been writing a book about the three Pure Land Sutras – the texts that describe the myth of Amitabha and his Pure Land Sukhavati, or the Land of Bliss.

The Sutras ask us to trust the nat­ural pro­cess of the spir­itual life and give ourselves up to it. In this talk he explores the path as a pro­cess of sur­render to the way things are.

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Third in a four-week series on the Sukhavati Sutras with Ratnaguna, given at Triratna Night on 16th February 2015 at Manchester Buddhist Centre

For the past year Ratnaguna has been writing a book about the three Pure Land Sutras – the texts that describe the myth of Amitabha and his Pure Land Sukhavati, or the Land of Bliss.

In this talk he asks what the myth of Sukhavati actually means, and proposes an answer – the living of the spiritual life is natural and results in what the eleventh century Pure Land teacher Shinran called jinen – naturalness.

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