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10 Reading - meditation experience and practice on the retreat

302

09 Question - power use and practical necessities

303

08 Question - silence and making art

304

07 Question - chanting and singing

305

06 Reading - supported retreat and falling in love with a leaf

306

05 Reading - space for reflection and forgiveness

307

04 Question - on talking and silence

308

03 First reading - Foreward to the book

309

02 Kiranada's introduction

310

01 Introducing Kiranada and 'A Year of Silence'

311

Sikkha - The Order Practice Survey

312

01 First encounter with the magic of the Dharma

313

02 Sangharakshita's character and its shaping effect on Triratna

314

03 Being given the name Dharmashalin

315

04 Playing games - the ethics of the private moment and breathing out ease

316

05 Passing on a culture of love and kindness

317

Extracts from a Puja for Urgyen Sangharakshita on the Evening of His Funeral and Burial

318

Starting to Say Goodbye to Sangharakshita

319

Ratnadharini and Shantigarbha on Restorative Process in Triratna

320

02 Discovering Stockholm Buddhist Centre and other young Buddhist practitioners

321

01 How Prasadacarin first came across the Dharma

322

03 Why Prasadacarin committed to Triratna as a sangha

323

04 On Padmapani, two-armed Avalokiteshvara, as a human form

324

05 A thread of faith in the Dharma

325

01 The meaning of Vijaya's name - working with depression and a shared experience of grief

326

02 Vijaya's first experience of the Dharma, of compassion and the spirit of the Order

327

03 Vijaya's first experience of ordaining someone else - being part of a chain back to the Buddha

328

04 Vijaya's first meeting with Bhante Sangharakshita and her devotion to the sangha he founded

329

03 Nuestros nombres como miembros de la Orden

330

01 Manjuguita leyendo, 'El espejo mas preciado', y comentando las metáforas en las que se deleita

331

02 Nuestras ordenaciones - su impacto en la Sangha mexicana y para los venezolanos

332

04 El encuentro de Aryavachin con Amoghasiddhi durante su curso de Ordenación

333

05 Reflexionando sobre los próximos 50 años de Triratna

334

Seven Point Mind Training - Guided Tonglen Practice

335

Seven-Point Mind Training, Day 4 - Making Our Whole Life a Life of Practice

336

Seven-Point Mind Training, Day 6 - What Are We Committed To?

337

Seven-Point Mind Training, Day 7 - Guides to What Actually Works (and Concluding Thoughts)

338

Seven-Point Mind Training, Day 1 - Introducing Seven-point Mind Training and The Four Reminders

339

Seven-Point Mind Training, Day 2 - What is the Bodhichitta?

340

Seven-Point Mind Training, Day 2 - Training in Absolute Bodhichitta

341

Seven-Point Mind Training, Day 2 - Training in Relative Bodhichitta

342

Seven-Point Mind Training, Day 3 - Transforming Adversity into Awakening

343

Seven-Point Mind Training, Day 5 - How Do We Know This is Working?

344

03 Childhood tragedy and discovering Buddhism

345

04 An encounter with Padmasambhava

346

03 Purna's dream of gratitude and connnection to his teacher

347

02 Working for the Dharma in India

348

01 Reading and listening to Sangharakshita

349

01 How Aryadhi got started as a Buddhist

350

02 A first friend in the Order

351

03 Working with alcoholism as a Dharma practitioner

352

04 Being diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome and finding support

353

03 Meeting with the Order as a practice in itself

354

02 Taking the Dharma through Latin America

355

01 A huge name for a huge continent

356

04 What makes your heart sing?

357

03 Taking on responsibility as a Preceptor

358

02 Community living in 1975

359

01 Come and see the Dharma for yourself

360

07 Generosity and imagination

361

06 Fundraising as a "tantric" Dharma practice

362

05 Saying the unsayable and successful fundraising

363

04 Manjusvara, poetry and manifesting the feminine

364

03 On competitivness and growing up

365

02 Being met and learning how to love

366

01 Amalavajra and Jayaraja - How we met

367

05 Looking back on Triratna's past with gratitude

368

04 Myths that attract - Avalokiteshvara and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

369

03 What draws you on in practice?

370

02 Vajratara's eureka moment

371

01 Early experiences around suffering and personal responsibility

372

07 Amitamati - Finding the Dharma with a dance

373

06 Ratnadeva - Buddhafield, myth and connection to nature

374

05 Amitamati - A silver god and conversion to Buddhism

375

04 Amitamati and Ratnadeva - Marxism, Ambedkar, and Buddhism

376

02 Amitamati and Ratnadeva - Is the Buddha's teaching scientific?

377

01 Amitamati and Ratnadeva - The scientific life and the Dharma life

378

01 Being named Amoghasiddhi

379

02 Early days of the Order in Nagpur - a visit from Sangharakshita

380

04 Asking for ordination and reading Sangharakshita

381

05 A breakthrough with a poem - finding the Bodhisattva spirit

382

03 Amitamati - Social science research into sewage workers' lives

383

Maitreyabandhu - Poetry Reading on Poetry Day Ireland 2018

384

Interview with Maitreyabandhu - Poetry Day Ireland 2018

385

Sikkha - Maitreyabandhu

386

Rijupatha Tbc

387

04 Vajrashura - Thoughts On Dharma Teaching and Training

388

03 Vadanya - Thoughts On Dharma Teaching and Training

389

02 Maitreyabandhu - Thoughts On Dharma Teaching and Training

390

01 Teaching and Training in the Dharma - Dhammamegha, Dhammarati and Ratnaguna In Conversation

391

50 Years, 50 Voices: Sucimani remembers Dhivati

392

Buddha Day Offerings From The Goddess of the Spring

393

01 Names: The Deathless

394

03 Buddhism, poetry and feelings

395

04 On 'energy'

396

03 Bhante's strengths in the early days of the Order

397

02 Receiving his name

398

01 Meeting Subhuti for the first time

399

02 What started you off as a Buddhist?

400

04 Personal change and social change