Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.

To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.

To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Our beautiful new online project to document 50 years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.

To read more about this conversation and the project itself visit: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/50Voices

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year's Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

Here is a short guided tonglen meditation you can use all week to support going deeper with the seven-point mind training work Yashobodhi is exploring. A great, practical way to ground yourself and get an experience of why this kind of practice matters and how it works.

This meditation is particularly referenced in point 2 when looking at the Bodhichitta as a frame of reference.

Follow and connect with others at the online space for this year's retreat:

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/international-practice-week

With thanks to West London Buddhist Centre.

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year's Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

Day 4, point 4 of our practice week looks at what it means to integrate this kind of mind training work into every area of our lives using reflection on 5 forces (or “powers”). Yashobodhi also movingly evokes the relevance of such deep Dharma activity to the process of our own (and other people's) death...

Follow and connect with others at the online space for this year's retreat:

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/international-practice-week

With thanks to West London Buddhist Centre.

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year's Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

The big questions keep coming as we move deep into our week of shared practice around the seven point mind-training. What are we "bonded" to? How do we see our ethical path? How do we envision making commitments to ourselves and the promises we make? Yashobodhi offers some lojong ("teaching slogans") that can help us clarify what it is, exactly, we are up to!

Follow and connect with others at the online space for this year's retreat:

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/international-practice-week

With thanks to West London Buddhist Centre.

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year's Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

We've come to the end of our week together looking at training the mind to greater happiness using new ways of engaging with our experience in the world. To gather the threads of the practice together Yashobodhi reflects on some key, pithy "lojong" reminders that capture the great efficacy and delight of this work - and which we can carry with us well beyond these days with confidence.

"Set your goal - make use

of every day and night to achieve it!"

Follow and connect with others at the online space for this year's retreat:

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/international-practice-week

With thanks to West London Buddhist Centre.

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year's Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

Here we get an encouraging introduction to what the seven-point mind training has to offer anyone interested in learning to work more effectively to lessen suffering (our own and other people's). Yashobodhi's experience with this material shines through - as does the practical joy of engaging in this way. A lovely, down-to-earth guide to helping us get started - with a look at the preliminary practices and the "Four Reminders"as the first point to consider.

Follow and connect with others at the online space for this year's retreat:

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/international-practice-week

With thanks to West London Buddhist Centre.

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year's Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

For Day 2, the first of three teachings giving us a great 360º overview of the Bodhichitta in Buddhist tradition and, more importantly, its relevance to everyday practice in the crucial work of learning to work with our minds and becoming a happier person.

Follow and connect with others at the online space for this year's retreat:

thebuddhistcentre.com/international-practice-week

With thanks to West London Buddhist Centre.

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year's Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week.

Point 2 of the lojong mind training being explored this week as to do with how to practise 'Bodhichitta' (the deep, realised wish for all to attain liberation of heart and mind), introduced in the first of today's three talks. Here Yashobodhi draws out the "absolute" aspect of this work, examining how reflection on insubstantiality – that nothing can be truly said to have an irreducible essence – is a gateway to freedom when undertaken in the right conditions.

Follow and connect with others at the online space for this year's retreat:

thebuddhistcentre.com/international-practice-week

With thanks to West London Buddhist Centre.