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Buddhist VoicesManjuvajra - Deepening Confidence in The Three Jewels (Full 50voices Interview)As part of the Fifty Years, Fifty Voices project, celebrating 50 years of the Triratna Buddhist Order; In this episode of the Buddhist Voices podcast, we hear from Manjuvajra, a member of the Order for over 45 years, who shares their experience of reassessing their relationship with the order after withdrawing from their previous institutional roles. Manjuvajra notes that the order they joined many years ago was very different from the current manifestation, making it harder to identify with the practicalities of the order.
Reflecting over many decades of practice, Manjuvajra describes an ever-deepening confidence in the existence of the...
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The Buddhist Centre06 Manjuvajra - A Time of ExperimentationSeason Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.
“If I go back to the time when I first met Bhante, I had this vague feeling of something, but I didn’t know what it was. I could very easily have put it aside and grown up, got a job, got married, settled down… Done all the rest of that stuff. Just lost confidence in it. But what’s happened over the years is I’ve got more and more confident in the existence of the Buddha, the...
2022-08-2001 minThe Buddhist Centre05 Manjuvajra - A Crisis with The GroupSeason Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.
“If I go back to the time when I first met Bhante, I had this vague feeling of something, but I didn’t know what it was. I could very easily have put it aside and grown up, got a job, got married, settled down… Done all the rest of that stuff. Just lost confidence in it. But what’s happened over the years is I’ve got more and more confident in the existence of the Buddha, the...
2022-08-2003 minThe Buddhist Centre04 Manjuvajra - No Higher TeachingsSeason Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.
“If I go back to the time when I first met Bhante, I had this vague feeling of something, but I didn’t know what it was. I could very easily have put it aside and grown up, got a job, got married, settled down… Done all the rest of that stuff. Just lost confidence in it. But what’s happened over the years is I’ve got more and more confident in the existence of the Buddha, the...
2022-08-2001 minThe Buddhist Centre03 Manjuvajra - Faith and ConfidenceSeason Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.
“If I go back to the time when I first met Bhante, I had this vague feeling of something, but I didn’t know what it was. I could very easily have put it aside and grown up, got a job, got married, settled down… Done all the rest of that stuff. Just lost confidence in it. But what’s happened over the years is I’ve got more and more confident in the existence of the Buddha, the...
2022-08-2001 minThe Buddhist Centre02 Manjuvajra - What Does Going for Refuge Mean to You?Season Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.
“If I go back to the time when I first met Bhante, I had this vague feeling of something, but I didn’t know what it was. I could very easily have put it aside and grown up, got a job, got married, settled down… Done all the rest of that stuff. Just lost confidence in it. But what’s happened over the years is I’ve got more and more confident in the existence of the Buddha, the...
2022-08-2003 minThe Buddhist Centre01 Manjuvajra - My Relationship to the OrderSeason Two of our online project to document 50+ years of people’s commitment and practice within the Triratna Buddhist Order around the world.
“If I go back to the time when I first met Bhante, I had this vague feeling of something, but I didn’t know what it was. I could very easily have put it aside and grown up, got a job, got married, settled down… Done all the rest of that stuff. Just lost confidence in it. But what’s happened over the years is I’ve got more and more confident in the existence of the Buddha, the...
2022-08-2001 min
Free Buddhist AudioThe Triratna Emphasis on a Unified Order This week's FBA Podcast features a talk by Manjuvajra on one of the Six Emphases of the Triratna Buddhist Community - "The Triratna Emphasis on a Unified Order". Here, Manjuvajra highlights the fact that involvement and membership of the Triratna Buddhist Order is open to all, irrespective of gender, colour, sexual orientation, lifestyle, or any other personal characteristic.
2015-10-0329 min
The Buddhist CentrePreceptors' College - Transitions 2Vidyatara is joined on the sofa by Sanghadevi & Moksananda to talk about the highlights of the College meeting so far - rejoicing in Manjuvajra and Padmasuri, study with Subhuti and reflections on Dhammarati's time as Chair and Saddhaloka's poetry...
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2015-03-1214 minFree Buddhist AudioForces That Shape the MindIn our FBA Podcast today, "Forces That Shape the Mind,", Manjuvajra continues with his thoughts on 'Evolution and the meaning of life'. Individuals enter this path of a higher evolution by consciously cooperating with the evolutionary process to refine their self consciousness: to purifying the mind as a basis for the next evolutionary step. To purify the mind we must know the mind, so in this talk we explore an analysis of the mind that sheds light on the practical needs of the purification process which is itself achieved through the practice of ethics, mindfulness and meditation. This is...
2014-06-1448 min
The Buddhist CentreAnagarika Convention with Parami No.3 - Goodbye from AdhisthanaThe final installment of Parami's in-depth reporting from the first convention of men and women in the Triratna Buddhist Order who have adopted a life of deep simplicity, stillness and contentment, supporting that with the practice of celibacy.
Today we hear from Amitamati, Tarachitta, Muditasri, Atapani, Yashodeva, Dhammadinna and Manjuvajra about their own experiences and their journeys towards this way of life.
Muditasri talks movingly about her own practice of 'homelessness', Yashodeva talks about community, and we even get a wee greeting in Welsh... The podcast closes with a team discussion amongst Dhammadinna, Manjuvajra and...
2013-12-1728 minFree Buddhist AudioBuddhism and Science In this week's FBA Podcast, "Buddhism and Science", Manjuvajra condenses the Evolution talks into one that puts the spiritual life into the context of evolution – an update of Bhante's Higher Evolution talks. Talk given at the Bristol Buddhist Centre, April 2013.
2013-09-1459 minFree Buddhist AudioSpontaneous Universal CompassionIn this week's FBA Podcast, Manjuvajraa offers us insight into "Spontaneous Universal Compassion." The last of eight talks in the series 'Evolution and the meaning of life', here Manjuvajra shows us the next evolutionary step – purifying the mind.
2013-05-1155 minFree Buddhist AudioEthics In today's, FBA Podcast, simply titled "Ethics," Manjuvajra takes a look at the complex area of ethics from a Buddhist perspective. The nature of 'self', the place of feeling and emotion, the role of intention and action – these are fertile grounds for digging deeper into our own ethical practice and considering our lives in the light of the Buddha's teaching of 'non-harm'. Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2000
2011-10-0855 min