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We Don't Believe the Evidence
April 04, 2024 04:00 - 3 minutes - 2.91 MBAkashamitra takes a look at one of the most difficult trainings offered in this approach. How can we find an opportunity for growth in that most upsetting situation - when someone we've trusted lets us down? Excerpted from the talk entitled Training the Mind: Learning From Betrayal, the sixth talk in a series of eight, given at the London Buddhist Centre as part of the 8-part series Training the Mind, 2021. "Even when someone I have helped, Or in whom I have placed great hopes ...
A Positive Longing
April 02, 2024 11:06 - 3 minutes - 3.57 MBPadmavajra first met Sangharakshita when he was 17 and in this talk he shares some of his own most cherished memories of Bhante, including his experiences of being with him in India when he returned there in the 1970's to found the Order there. Urgyen Sangharakshita - Bhante - who died in 2018, is not only the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community, but also teacher and spiritual friend to Padmavajra. Excerpted from the talk entitled Urgyen Sangharakshita: The Bodhisattva's Re...
The Conversion of King Pasenadi
March 28, 2024 04:00 - 3 minutes - 3.58 MBDhivan recounts the conversion of King Pasenadi by the Buddha. Excerpted from the talk A Courtesan, a Killer and a King given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2016 *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and ...
Lesser and Greater Happiness
March 25, 2024 04:00 - 3 minutes - 3.02 MBSaraha draws out examples of the Buddha’s wisdom from the Pali Canon highlighting how pleasure and bliss are not obstacles to the spiritual path, craving and attachment is the problem leading to suffering.. Excerpted from the talk entitled Wisdom In the Pali Canon given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2010. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist A...
The Buddha’s Instant Response
March 21, 2024 04:00 - 2 minutes - 1.25 MBThe Buddha and Ananda once tended a sick monk, neglected by his companions because of his 'uselessness'. Sangharakshita shows that people cannot be treated as 'things' in the spiritual community. From the talk A Case of Dysentry given in 1982 as part of the series Incidents from the Pali Canon. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio ...
An Unfamiliar Landscape
March 18, 2024 04:00 - 5 minutes - 3.08 MBMahamani shares some experiences around guilt, faith, losing the way and finding it. From the personal talk entitled The Way to the Top of the Hill from ‘The Way to the Beyond’ Womens AOWE held at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2021. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts A full,...
Friend to Friend
March 14, 2024 04:00 - 3 minutes - 3.12 MBRatnaprabha tells the story of Meghiya, his frustrating attempt to meditate, and the advice the Buddha gives him on the necessity of mentorship, or kalyana mitrata. From the talk Meghiya, Meditation and Mentorship given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify |...
Longing to Illuminate Truth
March 11, 2024 05:00 - 3 minutes - 2.35 MBVishangka explores the joys and challenges that arise in a spiritual community. He explores several suttas and what we can learn from them. Excerpted from the talk Blending like Milk and Water: Sangha In the Buddha's Time given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spo...
The Beauty of the Buddha
March 07, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes - 1.77 MBDayanandi contemplates the words of the Tiratana Vandana and the qualities of the Buddha that it evokes. She says: "I reflect on the words as they seem to bring out the reality of his Enlightened being for me; what it might be like to really be the Enlightened One." Excerpted from the talk Reflecting on the Buddha in the Forest given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized insp...
Sharing the Love of Solitude
March 04, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes - 2.11 MBAkashadevi and readers tell some of the delightful stories of the Buddha's meetings with elephants, including this one when the Buddha needs a bit of space from the noisiness of his followers. From the talk Elephants and the Buddha, part of a "Tales and Teachings of Early Buddhism" given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to...
A Galaxy of Being
February 29, 2024 05:00 - 3 minutes - 4.01 MBIn this talk about generosity, Sona evokes some very beautiful imagery of a cosmos full of stars as he describes how in our practice of Buddhist ethics, that of caring for others, being scrupulously honest, and so on, makes us more open, more malleable, more receptive. Excerpted from the talk entitled Abundance given at the Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2016. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration thre...
True to Something Deeper
February 26, 2024 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3.48 MBPadmavajra delves into the true nature of conflict and harmony by exploring two significant episodes in the life of the Buddha, one of which features disharmony from within the Sangha of monks itself. Excerpted from the talk The Quarrelsome Monks of Kosambi which was streamed from the Padmaloka shrine room to around 30 people tuning in via Zoom to the Mid Essex Buddhist Centre, 2020. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts B...
A Kind and Intelligent Way
February 22, 2024 05:00 - 4 minutes - 5.56 MBDhammarati introduces the fourth tetrad: Inquiry into the Experience of Wisdom given on retreat as part of the series Anapanasati Sutta: Instructions for Awakening, Adhisthana, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3...
Imagine We Are Enough
February 19, 2024 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3.82 MBViveka introduces the spirit and context of the Anapanasati Sutta, beginning with the first tetrad: Inquiry Into the Experience of Body given on retreat as part of the series Anapanasati Sutta: Instructions for Awakening, Adhisthana, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcas...
Overcoming Self-Centeredness
February 15, 2024 05:00 - 5 minutes - 4.65 MBSagaraghosa, critiquing structural elements of our society from a Buddhist standpoint, and exploring what we can do to bring about a society more in line with Reality. Excerpted from the talk A Challenge to the Modern World, the last of three talks in the series 'Reality and What to Do About It' given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2010. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week...
The Values in Society
February 12, 2024 15:10 - 3 minutes - 3.88 MBAkuppa examines the relationship between the notion of self and society. He asks how we engage with the collective life of the society we are part of. He asks how do we engage with the collective life of the society we are part of. Using the examples of the Buddha, Dr Ambedkar, and Sangharakshita as to how we might do that. Excerpted from the talk Transforming Self and World Part 2: Buddhist Politics given on an online gathering of the Triratna Buddhist Community in Scotland, 2020. ...
The Juxtaposition of Disharmony and Harmony
February 08, 2024 05:00 - 5 minutes - 5.45 MBSaddhaloka shares two early stories from the Buddhist tradition to illustrate disharmony and harmony in the sangha. From the talk entitled The Four Ordination Vows - In Harmony with Friends and Bretheren given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2009. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google P...
A Courageous Undertaking
February 05, 2024 05:00 - 3 minutes - 4.14 MBVajradevi explores the poisons of craving and aversion which fuel emotions. She shares the story of David Attenborough meeting the gorillas in Africa as an example of how to meet potentially scary, overwhelming mind states with a simple awareness, in touch with whatever feelings there are and a willingness to meet and connect with that. Excerpted from the talk entitled Working Mindfully with Craving and Aversion, part of the series Pathways to the Beautiful Mind, given at Bristol Buddhis...
Harmony and tolerance
February 01, 2024 05:00 - 5 minutes - 5.21 MBTaking the Buddha's 'Seven points for the Stability of the Sangha' as his text, Sangharakshita explores their meaning and continuing relevance for 21st century Buddhists. Excerpted from the talk entitled Growing the Spiritual Community given on the FWBO International Retreat, 2008. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: O...
The Present Moment is our Joy
January 29, 2024 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MBDhivan moves through an exploration of joy, in both its mundane and grander manifestations. As he does so, he recalls the Buddha’s realization that joy and happiness arise when our life coalesces around our deepest values, often connected with relaxing in meditation. This is what may lead to Awakening for any and all of us… From the talk In the Cool Shade of the Tree: Planting the Seed of Joy In Our Meditation Practice given at Buddhafield, 2022. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabyt...
Seeing Through Our Views
January 25, 2024 05:00 - 2 minutes - 2.58 MBFirst in a series of talks on the wisdom of the middle way. Here Bhadra uses the Triratna mandala of practice to find the middle way between the Psychological and spiritual that opens us towards liberation. Excerpted from the talk Finding the Middle Way Between the Psychological and the Spiritual given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2022. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. ...
Taking Impermanence to Heart
January 22, 2024 05:00 - 3 minutes - 2.85 MBTrue wisdom in the Buddhist sense is not book knowledge, but understanding how things really are. The Buddha was always pragmatic in his approach and sought to get straight to the root of suffering. His vision was embedded in conditioned co-production: awareness that things are always coming into being and passing away, and that there are many conditions in play together. Satyajyoti uses the metaphor of the ocean, with many waves arising and passing away, as a starting point for her refl...
An Integrated Ideal
January 18, 2024 05:00 - 3 minutes - 2.87 MBAkasajoti talks about the hero's journey as a middle way, referring to the Buddha's life story. She describes practising with three creative dynamics in the spiritual life between 'will and receptivity', 'inner calm and outer activity', and 'vision and transformation', suggesting their resolution in the six perfections. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Hero's Journey given at Adhisthana, 2022. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google ...
What is Perfect Vision?
January 15, 2024 05:00 - 4 minutes - 3.73 MBThe Eightfold Path is divided into Paths of Vision and of Transformation. Sangharakshita illustrates how perfect vision can arise, and concludes by showing how Buddhists have communicated their vision of reality in conceptual and imaginative terms. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Nature of Existence: Right Understanding, as part of the series The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path given in 1968. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Goo...
There’s Seeing, And Then There’s Really Seeing
January 11, 2024 05:00 - 4 minutes - 4.64 MBAkashamitra introduces the Eight Ways of the Noble Ones with a talk on vision. Why does it start the path? Have we already had a path of vision experiences? Excerpted from the talk Perfect Vision - How Far Can You Go? given at North London Buddhist Centre, 2020. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Sp...
Our Inner World
January 08, 2024 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3.44 MBVajrapriya takes the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path - rebranding it as the Meaningful Eightfold Path - and considers how its eight areas contribute to a meaningful life, and how following it eventually eliminates the whole problem of meaninglessness. Excerpted from the talk entitled Living a Meaningful Life, part of the series Reality and what to do about it given at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2010. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | ...
A Noble Mind
January 04, 2024 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3.72 MBMunisha gave this Buddha Day talk to the Swedish sangha, via Zoom, in May 2020, in the early months of the Covid 19 pandemic. The talk is in English with occasional brief translation of terms into Swedish. Excerpted from the talk entitled Becoming Noble, for Stockholm Buddhist Centre, 2020. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: ...
Getting on the Path
January 01, 2024 05:00 - 1 minute - 2.1 MBHridayagita encourages reflection on the Four Noble Truths and particularly the first one as a way to quit running from or trying to fix samsara. Excerpted from the talk The First Noble Truth and The Space to Choose given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2016. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | ...
Powerful Energies
December 28, 2023 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3.24 MBMoksatara introduces the dakini, the tantric embodiment of what's possible when all of our energy is completely engaged, alive and flowing. These beings of limitless space have complete freedom of mind, fierce energy and a full emotional engagement with life. In order to meet the dakinis we must travel to where they dwell: the cremation grounds, where bodies are taken to be burnt. The deepest, darkest energies to be transformed are associated with fear. By deliberately plunging into crucia...
Unknown Terrains
December 25, 2023 05:00 - 2 minutes - 2.37 MBColour has an important place in Buddhism, for example as a way to express different aspects of the Enlightened mind in the Five Jinas. This symbolism can open the imagination to new depths of understanding. As an artist and former art teacher, Ahimsaka has studied colour extensively and helps us explore the deeper significance of colour in Buddhist practice. Excerpted from the talk Tantric Path - The Symbolism of Colour given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Subscribe to our ...
The Clinging is the Self
December 21, 2023 05:00 - 2 minutes - 2.23 MBDrawing on her experience as a poet, Varasahaya discusses creativity, imagination, and the writing process as a spiritual practice. She reads some of her poems, and explains the process by which they came to birth, and what she learnt about letting go of self as she grappled with writing. Excerpted from the talk Writing As Spiritual Practice given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts ...
Opening Up
December 18, 2023 05:00 - 2 minutes - 2.28 MBParamananda explore the relevance of alchemical thinking to meditation practice. Excerpted from the talk Opening Up the Imagination, the eighth in a series called The Alchemical Heart given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2018. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts A full...
Looking for the Historical Buddha
December 14, 2023 05:00 - 4 minutes - 4.82 MBVishvapani traces his own relationship to the Buddha, from early family connections arising out of the turmoil of war to his experience of writing the book itself. In doing so he explores the tricky work of trying to engage with the imagination constrained and disciplined by the historical evidence. What emerges from his work with the Pali texts is a portrait of the Buddha and his world where it's impossible to miss the vital sense of a man questing for a coherent vision of reality. From t...
Essentialness of Right View
December 11, 2023 05:00 - 2 minutes - 2.37 MBVidyamala shares ways to bring an imaginative approach to mindfulness practice. Excerpted from the talk entitled Mindfulness and the Imagination given at Rivendell as part of the series An Exploration of the Satipatthana Sutta, 2018. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting! Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts |...
The Whole Person Growing in All Directions
December 07, 2023 05:00 - 2 minutes - 2.5 MBMaitreyabandhu shares his reflections on the role of the imagination in the spiritual life. Drawing on his experience as an artist, poet and Buddhist practitioner. Excerpted from the talk A Further Reach - Imagination and the Radical given at Croydon Buddhist Centre, 2011. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts...
A Sense of Values to Transform Our Lives
December 04, 2023 05:00 - 3 minutes - 2.39 MB"Art is the organisation of sensuous impressions that express the artist's sensibility and communicate to his audience a sense of values that can transform their lives." Using his own definition, Sangharakshita investigates the relevance of art and the artist to higher evolution. Excerpted from the talk entitled Art and the Spiritual Life given in 1969 as part of the series The Higher Evolution. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On G...
Seeing the Beauty in Each Other
November 30, 2023 05:00 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MBKulanandi reflects on different qualities of beauty in the spiritual life, here exploring the wisdom of seeing the beauty in each other through spiritual friendship. Excerpted from the talk Beauty and the Dharma Life given at the Stockholm Buddhist Centre, 2014. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On...
Traveling the Path with Friends
November 27, 2023 05:00 - 2 minutes - 2.58 MBJvalamalini introduces the importance of spiritual friendship within the Triratna Buddhist Community. From the talk What Is Spiritual Friendship given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2015, part of a series on The Six Distinctive Emphases of Triratna. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Googl...
Surrendering to Uncertainty
November 23, 2023 05:00 - 3 minutes - 2.96 MBSatyaraja explores what it means to 'cherish' or treasure the Dharma in all its aspects, and as both the teaching of the Buddha and his Enlightenment experience. The talk concludes with the importance of seeing the Dharma as beautiful if we are to truly cherish it. Excerpted from the talk entitled Cherish the Doctrine given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2919, as part of the series A Living Bodhisattva. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | O...
Forebearance in Friendship
November 20, 2023 05:00 - 2 minutes - 2.29 MBIn this talk, Maitrisiddhi shows us the importance and value in holding the Ideal of spiritual friendship alongside the reality of life in the Sangha. Excerpted from the talk Spiritual Friendship: Ideal Versus Real given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2018. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | ...
Embodying the Teachings
November 16, 2023 04:00 - 3 minutes - 1.9 MBVishangka explores the joys and challenges that arise in a spiritual community. He explores several suttas and what we can learn from them. He also reflects on his own personal experience of friendship and sangha. Excerpted from the talk Blending like Milk and Water: Sangha In the Buddha's Time given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. S...
The Great Love
November 13, 2023 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MBOur teacher Sangharakshita has said: "It is in friendship (maitri) that we may find the emotional equivalent of the intellectual understanding of the doctrine of ‘no self’”. The gift of these teachings can help us move beyond self-clinging into a deeper and far more mysterious connection with one another; a Greater Love. From the talk Spiritual Friendship and the Heart's Release by Maitreyi given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2018. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On ...
Embracing a Buddhafield
November 09, 2023 04:00 - 2 minutes - 1.26 MBSangharakshita shares a verse full of reverence, joy and insight by Rantakara who praises the Buddha in the Vimalakirti Nirdesa. Excerpted from the talk Building the Buddha Land, 1979, part of the series The Inconceivable Emancipation - Themes from the Vimalakirti Nirdesha. This lecture deals in depth with what a Buddha Land is, how and by whom it comes to be built, and what all of this has to do with us. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | O...
Devotion in the Course of Our Lives
November 06, 2023 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.64 MBAmaraghosha discusses the importance of the outward expression of our devotion, in both rituals and our daily lives, using quotations and personal examples. From the talk entitled Salutation given at Croydon Buddhist Centre, 2016. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts A ...
Statements of Collective Purpose
November 02, 2023 04:00 - 3 minutes - 1.66 MBDharmashalin offers a general overview of why chanting is part of Buddhism and why we chant collectively within the context of Triratna. Excerpted from the talk Why Chant the Tiratna Vandana given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts A ...
Skullcup as Symbol of Transformation
October 30, 2023 04:00 - 4 minutes - 4.5 MBBodhinaga explores the myth of Padmasambhava arriving in Tibet, at the invitation of the King, to establish the Dharma at Samye. When he meets the King of Tibet, Padmasambhava refuses to bow. Then he transforms the demons of Tibet, getting them to help rather than oppose the construction of Samye Monastery. Bodhinaga asks us: What do we serve in our life? What are our inner demons? And how can we use their energy for the Dharma? From the talk Naming and Taming - Padmasambhava and the Fea...
What is a Good Life?
October 26, 2023 04:00 - 4 minutes - 3.9 MBBalajit offers reflections on living a life focused on the transformational power of Buddhist practice. Excerpted from the talk Blessing In Everyday Life: The Power of Padmasambhava given at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2022. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts A full, c...
Radical Transformation
October 23, 2023 04:00 - 3 minutes - 3.26 MBReactive and creative energies that arise through spiritual practice play a significant role in the myth of Padmasambhava. From the talk Demons For Every Occasion by Ratnaghosha, given at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2013. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts A full, cur...
A Meaningful Compass
October 19, 2023 04:00 - 2 minutes - 1.65 MBThe imagination is a superpower. Sagaravajra shares perspectives on how Buddhism offers unique tools to harness this superpower for the benefit of all beings. From the talk Maps of the Imagination, part of the series The Dharma Parlour: Buddhafield 2023 - Liberation Through Imagination, given at Buddhafield Festival, 2023. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe...
A Stable Quality of Empathy
October 16, 2023 04:00 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MBDhammarati speaks from his understanding and experience about the stable notion of empathy. From the talk Dhyana Paramita: The Perfection of Meditation, part of a series of talks for Dawning Moon of the Mind: Summer Sanghas retreat on the Bodhicaryavatara, Adhisthana, 2023. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: On Apple Podcas...