Chaplaincy : Faith and Fire

http://faithandfire.co.uk

http://faithandfire.co.uk/bewes-buddhists-engaged-with-emergency-services/

Chaplaincy : Faith and Fire new Website

Faith and Fire is a partnership between the CFOA Chief Fire Officers Association, FRS Fire and Rescue Services and faith communities to develop mutual respect. It also increases the awareness of faiths to FRS staff and volunteers.

East Sussex Fire Services (ESFRS)

http://www.multifaiths.com/public-services/east-sussex-fire-service

http://multifaiths.com/public-services/east-sussex-fire-service

It is also still at the old link

http://www.multifaiths.com/public-services/east-sussex-fire-service

Sakyadhita USA’s New eZine American Buddhist Women: Winter 2015

https://files.ctctcdn.com/6f75804e001/74ebbaee-5955-456e-8b41-ed30e908d671.pdf?utm_source=WINTER+2015+Issue+5%2C+American+Buddhist+Women&utm_campaign=Winter+2015+Issue+ABW&utm_medium=email

Sakyadhita USA’s New eZine American Buddhist Women: Winter 2015

In this issue: 

"Beauty: What's Buddhism got to do with it?" 

From Tibetan Pattern Book of Proportions

• Buddhaful: Beauty, Buddhism, and the Feminine/Feminist Predicament by Lisa J. Battaglia
• Lipstick and Enlightenment by Lulu Cook
• Three Contemporary American Women Artists: How Buddhism Influences Their Work by Karen Gelinas
• Pat Rogers: Capturing the Boldness of the Feminine by Charlotte Collins
• The Navatala Standard: A Model of Serenity by M. Jane McEwan
• Information on Buddhist Council of The Midwest's 10th Annual Women's Conference, Chicago, March 7, 2015
• Updates and Registration Information for the 14th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, June 23-30, 2015

BG 352: Buddhism Unbundled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZfmZ0TZAV8

BG 352: Buddhism Unbundled

Published on Feb 18, 2015

Vincent Horn is a mind hacker & Buddhist geek. In this keynote from the 2014 Buddhist Geeks Conference Vincent explores the unbundling of components like meditation and mindfulness from contemporary Buddhism. He then explores the process of re-bundling and what the future of both Buddhist and Buddhist-inspired models may look like as new combinations of knowledge come together in novel, and sometimes timeless, ways.

One Dharma by Joseph Goldstein

http://www.tricycle.com/feature/one-dharma

One Dharma

by Joseph Goldstein

This article appears in 20 Years, 20 Teachings: The Tricycle 20th Anniversary E-Book. It's free to all Supporting and Sustaining Members. Get the e-book.

As different Buddhist traditions take root in the West, is it possible to find an essential teaching that supports them all? In an adaptation from a talk given at Tricycle's recent Conference on Practice and Inquiry, Joseph Goldstein searches for the "One Dharma" of liberation.

THE MONK Buddhism documentary 720p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6KiwiwFijw

THE MONK Buddhism documentary 720p

Published on Feb 17, 2015

The film is about a holy camp holding in a temple in Fujian, China. More than 100 people around the world， who are at any ages，take part in this camp. Some of them are devout disciples, sincere teenagers， while some of them are lazy young monks. And there is also a German teenager who is curious about Chinese culture. Distinctively, by using peaceful lens language, it wants to tell us a special religious life in temple.

If the robes fit...

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/special-reports/475378/if-the-robes-fit

If the robes fit... 

The monkhood has long been off limits to women, but one 'bhikkhuni' is pushing for change, arguing the tradition is based on nothing more than a misguided technicality 

15 Feb 2015 at 06.35 

Newspaper section: Spectrum

Writer: Jeerawat Na Thalang 

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Buddhsim Now : Feb 2015

Buddhism Now

All sensory objects satisfy us temporarily, but then we have to find something else to be absorbed into Crashed out Buddhas, by Ajahn Sumedho.

Here's something worth learning. Try these First steps into Buddhist meditation, and learn to meditate right now.

'The absence of thought' is a method for the wise, but if the foolish were to cultivate it, they would no Longer be Foolish, by Shen Hui.

These manuscripts, found in the caves of Dunhuang, include the only surviving texts of a living 'Tibetan Chan' tradition. The Tibetan Chan Manuscripts

Try to enjoy your practice. Looking Deeply, by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Take a look at these old photos from Japan. There are some marvellous Buddhist pictures from 1865.

A short film What is Present? By the Dalai Lama. About 2 minutes.

No matter how much we think about the past, it isn’t possible to change it... Buddha is only a provisional name By Harada Sekkei Roshi.

Why should I be angry with him? By Acarya Shantideva. Translation by Stephen Batchelor

A very nice Kwan Yin. Nyoirin Kannon. The bodhisattva Kannon (Sanskrit: Avalokiteshvara) manifests in many forms...

Book review Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia.

We all secretly think we're immortal, don't we? Dark Side of Life, by John Snelling.

Imagine that one person wakes up from a dream. Tolerance (part three), by Acarya Shantideva. Translation by Stephen Batchelor

When I first read about walking meditation. The Mind and its Weather, by John Aske.

Suppose we are examining a situation. Intuitive Insight, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu. Plus PDF eBook

Foundations of Buddhism: Tathata or Suchness, by Ajahn Sumedho.

A bit of Buddhist History. Burmese scenes from the Life of the Buddha 

Exhibition at The Rubin Museum of Art The All-Knowing Buddha: A Secret Guide.

Meditation In Daily Life — Emotional States, by Bhante Bodhidhamma

Part 1: Zazenshin: Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, by Shohaku Okumura.

Part 2: Zazenshin: Part 2 Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, by Shohaku Okumura.

Brothers and sisters in suffering, old age, sickness and death, by Ajahn Sumedho.

A bit of Buddhist history: Tenth-century collection of two Tibetan works on Chan from Dunhuang.

What method must be practised? Birth and Death, by Shen Hui

In the moment of mindfulness, there is no suffering, by Ajahn Sumedho

Good Dose of Dhamma: For meditators when they are ill, by Upasika Kee Nanayon

Have a good read!
Yours in the dharma,

Richard

Buddhism Now
Buddhist Publishing Group