During the Ordination Trainig Weekend, September 2020, Padmavajra gave a talk on the Guru and the Dakini and the significance of the rich imagery in our lives as practitioners of the Dharma.
We're happy to announce that it's now available to watch on Youtube via this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmNqISyVuHQ&feature=youtu.be
In just over a week Padmaloka will be opening its gates to men coming on retreat here for the first time since March. In the past few weeks, we’ve been finalising our hygiene procedures, dusting off the dorms and hoovering down the carpets - heaving the great Padmaloka bellows and bringing the flames back up to retreat ready temperatures - so to speak.
The first retreat here will be an Ordination retreat, for five men who were due to be Ordained in April:
-Clive Fletcher
-Chris Petts
-Michael Procter
-Alex Stirling
-Mike Whittam
Ordination Training Weekends have been one of the great highlights of the Padmaloka programme since the late nineteen-eighties; the purpose of them being to give men who've asked for Ordination an opportunity to gather together, with the Ordination Team and to explore and take inspiration from the riches of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
We're happy to announce that the series of filmed talks on Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara given by Padmavajra in the Padmaloka shrine room during the time of the lockdown is now available as audio files on freebuddhistaudio.com.
The video recording of the series is found on Padmaloka's YouTube channel.
It's been almost 6 months since we had our last residential event here at Padmaloka, the Friends and Guest week, and since then it has just been the community occupying the halls and rooms of Padmaloka, keeping the atmosphere of the shrine room alive and the dust and dirt off the walls and floors.
We were delighted to announce that we will be opening for hybrid events, both residential and online. For the time being the residential aspects of these will be run on an invitation only basis, to enable us to test out our new hygiene measures.
We're on the cusp of another new phase beginning here at Padmaloka, that is the opening of a Hybrid Retreat Centre.
The Bodhisattva Ideal is one of the sublimest spiritual ideals that mankind has ever seen.
Spaces available on the Bodhisattva Ideal online study seminar.
Saturday, 18 July 2020 to Thursday, 23 July 2020
In this online study seminar we will explore the Bodhisattva Ideal and how it can be ever more fully and deeply lived out in our Order and community. The study material will be Sangharakshita's original lecture series 'Aspects of the Bodhisattva Ideal' given in 1969.
To celebrate Dharma Day Festival this year, on the full moon day of Sunday 5th July Padmaloka will be offering a full online festival programme including live streamed meditations and rituals from the Shrine Room and a live talk and Q&A by Padmavajra.
So that you can get a taste of this series of 49 ten-minute talks by Padmavajra that will be released gradually over the coming 108 days, the first video is now available for everyone to watch: https://bit.ly/GarlandPart1
Click here to learn more and subscribe to the entire series: https://bit.ly/RedLotusGarland
The next study seminar coming up this Saturday for men training for Ordination within Europe.
Urgyen Sangharakshita once said that the chanting of the Pali Tiratana Vandana – the Salutation to the Three Jewels – is the morning puja of the Triratna Community.
We will be live streaming from the Shrine Room at 7am every morning (including the first one), so you can join the Padmaloka community in the chanting of the Tiratana Vandana and for meditation. There will also be a live streamed puja from the Padmaloka Shrine Room on the second evening.
