A mythic Buddhist retreat centre in Ireland comes to life—in India!

In Triratna, learning to understand what is truly beautiful is seen as a path to Enlightenment itself. In this episode we find ourselves exploring this in an unexpected and extraordinary way at the seat of all Buddhist paths and myths, Bodh Gaya in India. Not far from the bodhi tree, where the Buddha’s great achievement is said to have taken place, you’ll find us deep in conversation with visitiing leaders from the Dublin Buddhist Centre about their vision of building a Buddhist retreat centre in Eire: a realm of beauty and a fitting home for distinctively Irish Dharma practice in the heart of County Clare.

We hear about the retreat centre’s name Shubha Vihara—The Place of Beauty—and how it sits alongside the legendary mythic names, spaces and stories of Ireland, before and after St. Patrick. We meet Brigid, Cuchulain (Setanta), and Fionn mac Cumhail as he catches the Salmon of Knowledge; and visit in our imagination Lough Derg, the ancient passage tomb of Newgrange, and the Hill of Tara—crowning place for the High Kings of Ireland. All while exploring aspects of Christianity’s impact on the country’s pagan spiritual history, and the role of positive warrior culture as it manifests and is transformed in both Buddhist and Irish contexts. 

It’s hard work building magic spaces and the team give us a glimpse into what’s involved on the ground trying to transmute spreadsheets and fundraising calls into the magic of genuine community, alive with deep possibilities, where practice is—somehow—palpably rooted in the native earth and energies of a specific land and a society ready for change.

Join us for an inspiring episode for the ages about a distinctively Buddhist contirbution to Irish culture. 

As a bonus, we close this conversation with a recitation of the traditional Buddhist ethical precepts rendered into Gaelic. Beautiful indeed!

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A Mythic Retreat Centre for Ireland - Shubha Vihara, The Place of Beauty

Out April 17th in digital formats. Get yours on Bandcamp: 
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Artist: RIOT CODE
Track Title: Gabh
EP Title: Éire
Label: RIOT
Catalogue: 001
Format: Digital
Genre: #Electronic
Style: Techno
Release date: 17.04.2025

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RIOT CODE returns with Éire EP, a potent homage to Irish heritage through the lens of raw, driving techno. Fusing tribal percussion, ambient grit, deep kick drums, and euphoric energy that hits you in the chest, this release marks the artist’s only full techno project of 2025. A bold and emotional statement before the arrival of their debut album.

Artist: RIOT CODE
Title: Éire
Label: RIOT
Catalogue: 001
Format: Digital
Genre: #Electronic
Style: Techno
Release date: 17.04.25

Tracklist:
Céad Míle Fáilte
Drumadóireacht
Gabh
Ealaín

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DOMAIN EXPANISON Hard Techno

Titre composé lors de mon semestre en Irlande (Eire) 

EIRE 521 (demo)

Sample of old Irish Song 'Boys of Barr na Sráide'. 
Originally a poem written by Sigerson Clifford
The poem recalls the life of the author's boyhood friends starting from when they were young children through to the Black and Tan period, and up to Civil War. 

Boys of Barr Demo

[Intro]
Yo, this one’s for the streets
For the lads with nothin’ but dreams and beats
Ireland ain’t all green fields and sheep
Sometimes it's pain that runs too deep

[Verse 1]
I come from the flats where the cold wind bites
No heat in the crib, just long, long nights
Council house walls hold secrets tight
Mam’s prayin’ hard while we scrap and fight

Jobs are gone, yeah the work dried up
So we hustle a bit just to fill our cup
Pubs full of ghosts, dreams in a rut
Young lads robbed of a future they cut

Needles in the lane, blood on the stone
You walk down wrong, you don’t come home
Gangs run wild with a blade or chrome
One bad word, and you’re on your own

[Chorus]
Life ain't easy in the land of green
Behind the hills, it's a darker scene
From Dublin down to Cork’s grey blocks
We’re fightin' storms in our torn old socks
Tryna live, try not to fall
But Éire's streets don’t hear your call
Hard to rise when the rent’s sky-high
But we still stand, aye - we still try

[Verse 2]
Midnight sirens, not lullabies
We don’t count sheep - we count alibis
Ballymun boys with that hungry gaze
Growin' up fast in them concrete maze

Coppers turn heads, don’t ask, don’t see
Kids in hoodies ain't trustin' the gardaí
School’s a joke if your belly’s not fed
So they chase a score ‘stead of books instead

Told we’re lazy, told we’re scum
By lads with yachts sippin' coke and rum
Politicians lie with a silver tongue
But we break our backs, still called the bums

[Bridge]
It’s hard here, mate, real talk, no cap
No fairy tale in this Irish trap
But we got pride, fire in our bones
And when we spit truth, it shakes the stones

[Chorus]
Life ain't easy in the land of green
Behind the hills, it's a darker scene
From Limerick lanes to Belfast blocks
We’re fightin' storms in our torn old socks
Tryna live, try not to fall
But Éire's streets don’t hear your call
Hard to rise when the rent’s sky-high
But we still stand, aye - we still try

[Outro]
So here’s to the lost, to the fighters, the bold
To the young growin’ old in the wind and cold
It’s hard, aye - but we still don’t fold
Ireland’s got heart, and it can't be sold

These Tricky Times - Streets of Éire

Scáthanna Karl le Patrick Levien KI Projeckt
Téigh isteach i scéal cumhachtach Karl, Comhaimseartha a rugadh i 1905, a throid ar son na n-oibrithe in aghaidh an chine daonna. Insíonn an t-amhrán seo a throid, a ghabháil faoi réimeas na Naitsithe, agus na cosúlachtaí le ham an lae inniu. Le fuaimeanna dorcha agus téacs rabhadhach, meabhraíonn "Scáthanna Karl" na híospartaigh an chos ar bolg agus glaonn sé ar shaoránaigh an tsaoirse a choimeád. Cruthaithe ag Patrick Levien KI Projeckt, spreagtha ag scéal fíor agus clúdach comic. Éist, smaoinigh, agus bígí buailte!  



Scáthanna Karl -Patrick Levien Projekt

Sceallóga na Daonnachta Jesus Christus Ki Generation
Amhrán nua-aimseartha, tógálach é seo a chomhcheanglaíonn fuinneamh damhsa an lae inniu le ceol agus anam na hÉireann. Le cláirseach, fidil, agus rithimí leictreonacha, canann "Sceallóga na Daonnachta" faoi phian an domhain – ó Gaza go dtí an Úcráin – agus faoin dóchas do shíocháin agus aontacht. Éist leis, damhsa leis, agus bailigh na sceallóga chun domhan níos fearr a chruthú



Sceallóga na Daonnachta Gälisch - Jesus Christus Ki Generation

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