Seattle Buddhist Center - A Triratna Community

09/17/2025

06/06/2025

The Vajra Bell Spring/Summer 2025 Issue is Now Available!
Sangha as a Force for Good in the World

The Vajra Bell is back! This is the first of what we hope to be many future issues with insightful articles, art and activities from Triratna sanghas across the US and Canada.

Read this issue online and/or download a PDF version at this link https://thebuddhistcentre.com/vajra-bell/vajra-bell

In this issue:
- Sangha Connections
- Sangha as a Force for Good in the World by Suddhayu
- The Dharma & the Worldly Winds of Politics by Suryapala
- 100 Years: Celebrating Sangharaksh*ta by Viriyagita and friends
- Sangha Arts: Art as a Spiritual Practice

03/19/2025

Being truly mindful is like playing a musical instrument, with oneself as both instrument and player. A violinist doesn’t give a bit of attention to the score, then a bit of attention to her fingers on the strings, then a bit of attention to the conductor. To play well, she has to bring about a fusion between herself and what she is doing, a fusion almost between her awareness and its object. Everything must come together in a single, rich experience of energy and expressive skill. She is fully absorbed yet at the same time keenly aware of every movement she makes. This heightened state of awareness is what we need to aim for, body and mind fully engaged in a state of clarity and positivity that saturates and colours the whole of our experience. And it is surely a state much to be desired – not a duty, but a great pleasure. --Bhante Sangharaksh*ta

02/16/2025

This week we'll join Triratna communities around the world marking Parinirvana Day, commemorating the physical death and final Nirvana of the Buddha Shakyamuni.

Parinirvana Day is also a time to reflect on impermanence and death more broadly, remembering loved ones who have died and recalling what is most precious in our own lives.

You are welcome to bring a photograph or name of a loved one who passed in the last year to add to the Paranirvana Day shrine.

Entrance to the center is on 123rd street.

Email info-at-seattlebuddhistcenter-dot-org for Zoom link.

Hope to see you there!

02/09/2025

Entrance to the center is on 123rd street.

Email info-at-seattlebuddhistcenter-dot-org for Zoom link.

Hope to see you there!

01/26/2025

This week, following a simple puja (devotional ritual), we'll meditate for 40 minutes with minimal guidance, followed by time to share our experience.

Please note that the entrance to the center is on 123rd.

Email info-at-seattlebuddhistcenter-dot-org for Zoom link.