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1,209 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDharmabytes features bite-sized dharma, three times a week, from the Free Buddhist Audio archives. Themed in conjunction with our weekly full length talk podcast, these are inspiring short extracts from over 5,000 talks on Buddhism, meditation and mindfulness!
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A Weak Spot in Reality
November 18, 2021 05:00 - 2 minutes - 6.58 MBMaitreyabandhu reminds us that the Buddha was cautious to describe things that were best directly experienced. The Lakshanas are not a metaphysical description of reality. Impermanence, insubstantiality and suffering show us there is something wrong with our perception. From the talk Self-Surrender and the Laksana of Dukkha, part of the series Towards Insight: Three Myths given at Adhisthana, 2020. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every w...
Being in Connection with Other Beings
November 15, 2021 05:00 - 2 minutes - 6.05 MBParami touches on aspects of Sangharakshita's 'system of meditation', and most specifically the area of positive emotion. Parami is an ideal guide for this sort of material, steeped as she is in study and practice engaged within the light of the 'Bodhichitta', and the Bodhisattva Ideal itself. From the talk entitled The Awakening Heart given at Taraloka Buddhist Centre, 2006. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) ...
Why the Buddha Taught Impermanence
November 11, 2021 05:00 - 2 minutes - 6.39 MBAll conditioned things are impermanent... Not just a truism, but the central teaching of Buddhism upon which so much else follows. Jnanaketu starts off a three-part series on the lakshanas, or 'marks' of conditioned existence, by tackling this most crucial of insights that is easy to say but a great challenge to live by. Excerpted from the talk The Three Lakshanas: Anitya as part of the series The Three Lakshanas given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2006. *** Subscribe to our Dharmab...
There’s Nothing About Us That is Fixed
November 08, 2021 05:00 - 3 minutes - 8.27 MBSilanatha reveals our collective blind spot of applying our awareness of change in the external world with change our inner experience. From the talk entitled Impermanence as part of a series on the Three Laksanas given at Colchester Buddhist Centre, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe using these R...
There Really Isn’t a Me
November 04, 2021 04:00 - 2 minutes - 6.6 MBLocana offers an excellent introduction to the most subtle and complex part of the Buddha's teaching on impermanence: that all things in conditioned existence are empty of any innate self-nature. Insubstantiality might never be really 'simple' to understand - but this is a good place to start. Excerpted from the talk Anatta Made Simple, 2001. Locana (Elizabeth English) is the author of 'Vajrayogini: Her Visualization, Rituals, and Forms'. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - b...
The Three Liberations
November 01, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 10.2 MBSangharakshita describes the three liberations (vimokshas) arising from transcending the three marks (lakshanas) of conditioned existence. From the talk entitled The Texture of Reality as part of the series Introducing Buddhism, 1966. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for ...
Beauty: A Response to Life
October 28, 2021 04:00 - 2 minutes - 5.14 MBHere Kulanandi reflects on different qualities of beauty in the spiritual life. From the talk entitled Beauty and the Dharma Life given at Stockholm Buddhist Centre, 2014. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast s...
Aspirations Manifesting in Daily Life
October 25, 2021 04:00 - 2 minutes - 6.08 MBEmbodying our higher values gives life to our heart and gives heart to our life. Saddhanandi encourages us to get on with our life by gathering our life around our aspirations. From the talk Enlightenment as Heart, Life as Whole given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2005. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe u...
The Arising of Samadhi
October 21, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 12.2 MBThere’s no true meditation without happiness. Sangharakshita describes Samadhi, often translated as ‘concentration’, as dependent upon the conditions of Sukha, that of happiness and bliss. From the talk The Stages of the Spiritual Path, part of the series Introducing Buddhism, 1966. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! (Apple Podcasts)...
Shifting States of Being
October 18, 2021 04:00 - 3 minutes - 7.39 MBHere we have Nagesvara discussing samadhi as collectedness, integration of our energies, wholeness, openness, rather than concentration as primary. From the talk entitled What Is Samadhi part of the online series Body of Bliss: Ways into Samādhi, 2021 Buddhafield. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe using...
A Non-Existing Self
October 14, 2021 04:00 - 1 minute - 4.4 MBDhivan talks about some ways in which Buddhists deny the self beginning with how the non-self teaching is presented in the Pali scriptures. From the talk entitled Denying the Self as part of the series Symposium on the Non-Self given at Adhisthana, 2018. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe using these RSS fee...
Giving Shape to Our Ignorance
October 11, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 11.7 MBYashobodhi recounts how the earliest Buddhist teachings arose in response to questions presented to the Buddha. From the talk entitled The Alchemy of Wisdom, from a series on the Six Paramitas at a West London Buddhist Centre, 2012. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for F...
The Ultimate Self Surrender
October 07, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 11.6 MBThe mind is intrinsically pure. How do we realize the ever present purity of the mind? Tejananda offers his reflections on Buddha Nature through discussing the Myth of Self-Discovery, drawing from an article by Subhuti entitled The Three Myths (Madhamavani, 2003). Excerpted from the talk The Myth of Self-Discovery given at Mid Essex Buddhist Centre, 2021. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Fre...
Hither and Further Shores
October 04, 2021 04:00 - 3 minutes - 8.86 MBAkashadevi expounds on the parable of the raft from the perspective of the hither and further shores. Excerpted from a talk entitled The Raft given at the West London Buddhist Centre Christmas Retreat, December 2016. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Au...
Let Go, Even of the Dharma
September 30, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 12.7 MBMaitrisiddhi explores the fourth great thunderclap from the Heart Sutra: All Buddhist teachings are simply Relative Truth; the Highest truth cannot be stated in words, using the simile of the raft. From the talk entitled The Highest Truth Cannot Be Stated In Words from retreat on the Heart Sutra at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - ...
One Essential Embodied Existence
September 27, 2021 04:00 - 7 minutes - 17.1 MBBodhidasa explores the essence of what the Buddha said it was that he taught illustrated with a personal example of how the Dharma is based around one essential experience. From the talk entitled A Single Word of Truth given at Sydney Buddhist Center, 2020. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe using these RS...
Two Temperaments
September 23, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 12.7 MBVishvapani outlines two approaches to Dharma practice: the ‘hedgehog’ – grounded in direct experience from the senses, and the ‘fox’ who steps outside and beyond, looking for the bigger picture. From the talk entitled Feeding the Soul, part of the series The Two Arrows: Dukkha to Insight given at Adhisthana, 2020. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma ta...
Resisting Dukkha
September 20, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 9.22 MBVessantara offers a pithy look into the suffering of suffering and the myriad of strategies that pull us away from tending to what’s happening in the present moment. From the talk entitled Dukkha Dukkha, part of a series of talks and led meditation from a retreat at Adhisthana on Dukkha and the Unbiased, 2018. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Aud...
Reality Shines Through Us
September 16, 2021 04:00 - 7 minutes - 17.5 MBSangharakshita explores the ways in which we are all connected with Reality, directly and indirectly, in particular through our friendships with those just a little further along the path. From the talk entitled The Bodhisattva Hierarchy as part of the series Aspects of the Bodhisattva Ideal, 1969. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - ...
Words of Power
September 13, 2021 04:00 - 9 minutes - 22.8 MBSaddhanandi paints a picture of how radical and different it was to encounter Buddhism in the mid 1960s. She explores a verse of Zen poetry taking her lead from Sangharakshita's 1965 lectures on the Essence of Zen. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Essence of Zen at Adhisthana, 2019. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dhar...
A World Without Suffering
September 09, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 12.8 MBBodhivajra talks about Enlightenment in a direct and very down-to-earth way, making the whole notion of Enlightenment more accessible, approachable, and relevant. From the talk entitled Energy for Enlightenment given at Norwich Buddhist Centre, 2015. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week: Subscribe usin...
Powerful Positive Magic
September 06, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 14.1 MBTantric Buddhism developed outside the monasteries in small groups gathered around magical, shamanic gurus. In this talk Vadanya explores what magic is and how we can bring mystery into the forefront of life as an act of 'war against the ordinary'. Excerpted from the talk entitled Making Life Magic recorded at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, 2019, as part of the series Tantra Now! *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Appl...
Experiencing Wisdom Through Faith
September 02, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 9.46 MBSaccanama explores shraddha, often translated as ‘faith’, as the emotional counterpoint of wisdom. It’s not a foundation for insight to arise, but rather it’s the equivalent of perceptual, cognitive insight experienced through reverence, worship and devotion. From the talk entitled The Roots of Faith recorded at the Swedish Summer Retreat at Dharmagiri, July 2019. This talk is part of the series ‘To Place the Heart Upon’ - Exploring Faith in Buddhism. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audi...
Reaching Out Into the World
August 30, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 7.89 MBHow do we make this Buddhist path available now and into the future? Vidyamala is committed to bringing the Dharma out into the world in a way that they can hear it, practice it, live it. From the talk entitled What the World Needs - Looking Ahead 50 Years given at the 2017 International Retreat at Adhisthana. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Au...
Supporting a Simple Life
August 26, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 10.2 MBSraddhagita shares her experience as part of Lama's Pyjamas, a Team Based Right Livelihood that’s part of the London Buddhist Centre. This talk is full of passion and insight into a practice Sraddhagita has been involved in for over 16 years. From the talk entitled Spreading the Mushrooms given as part of a series on the Six Distinctive Emphasis of Triratna, at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2016. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly s...
Livelihood in the Modern World
August 23, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 8.09 MBBuddhism stands for the creation of an ideal society as well as ideal individuals; a society based on spiritual and ethical principles. Sangharakshita considers the substantial effect our work has on us, and applies the Buddha's teaching to work today. From the talk entitled The Ideal Society: Right Livelihood, part of the series The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path, 1968. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Pod...
Work Reflects Us Back Like a Mirror
August 19, 2021 04:00 - 2 minutes - 5.56 MBIs work just a necessity or a source of fulfillment? Is a career a hindrance or a support to our happiness and unfoldment as individuals? Should we be aiming at getting the ‘right work/life balance’ or moving beyond such distinctions? Keturaja, calling on decades of experience working in Buddhist businesses, explores Buddhist teachings on right livelihood and reflects on their relevance for us today. From the talk entitled Why Right Livelihood? Given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2018. ...
Being Present Matters
August 16, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 10.7 MBMokshalila is in conversation with Samantabhadri about her work as a massage therapist on a palliative care unit, being alongside those who are nearing the end of their life. From the talk entitled Meetings At the Edge given at Taraloka Retreat Centre on a retreat called Facing Death, Embracing Life, 2015. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio...
Our Work Has an Effect
August 12, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 9.95 MBSuddhaka highlights how the thing we spend the most time doing in our lives, our livelihood, impacts our mental states and is therefore an integral part of the path. How can we make our work an expression of our practice? How can our livelihood be the doorway to true happiness? From the talk entitled Perfect Livelihood given at Brixton Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spoti...
Shared Values
August 09, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 13.7 MBParami offers an enthusiastic exploration of the earthy and ethereal details of everyday spiritual practice, especially within the framework of a sense of the 'collective'. Some great and pretty funny stories from early, would-be-revolutionary experiments with co-operative working ("The opiate of the masses has arrived!"), and some wise words from her subsequent experience of trying to square the circle of dealing with one's own individuality within a working sangha. From the talk entitled...
Looking for the Detail
August 05, 2021 04:00 - 3 minutes - 6.33 MBIn a clear talk based on her experiences of work in the civil service, as a mindfulness teacher and in the Buddhist world, Taramani introduces tips on working ethically, meaningfully and in a way that supports spiritual practice. She explains livelihood as a limb of the Eightfold Path, using ideas from Sangharakshita, Steve Jobs, and others. From the talk entitled Work, Inner Work, and the Search For Meaning given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Aud...
Eyes Wide Open
August 02, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 4.77 MBHow can our livelihood and our networks be a doorway to leading our lives in a way in which our eyes can be wide open rather than our eyes being wide shut? Pasannamati points out that there is more to Perfect Livelihood than the work we do. Outside of our work we have a whole load of choices on how we spend our time and money which impacts other people’s livelihood. From the talk entitled Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy…reflections of Livelihood and the Networks That Sustain Us given at Bi...
Why Mindfulness?
July 29, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 5.34 MBRatnaprabha describes the qualities of mindfulness in a talk about the fifth precept, intoxication and mindfulness. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Fifth Precept given at the West London Buddhist Centre, 2013. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud
Reflecting on your Speech
July 26, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 3.26 MBIntroducing the speech precepts, Bodhilila explains the Buddha's advice on how to communicate effectively. How do you decide when and how to speak, using criteria of helpfulness, truthfulness, and whether or not it is pleasant to hear? From the talk entitled The Buddha’s Speech given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA ...
Going Forth in Speech
July 22, 2021 04:00 - 2 minutes - 1.5 MBMarking the 50th anniversary of his own 'Going Forth' in India, Sangharakshita offers us his thoughts on the significance this adventure had for him and reflects on its relation to the Buddha's search for Truth - with particular regard to actions of body, speech, and mind. From the talk Reflections on Going Forth, 1997. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on...
Stillness, Simplicity and Contentment
July 19, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 2.55 MBHere Candradasa explores the third precept and the Buddha's moral code generally and we get some sense of where we might look to find ways to work effectively with our strongest desires in ways that lessen attachment and help us see reality more clearly. From the talk entitled Sex and Morality, Going Beyond Puritanism given in Portsmouth, NH, October 2012. This talk is part of the series Religion Without God. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk ev...
Coming to Stillness
July 15, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 2.67 MBDrawing on sources from Russell Brand to Tenzin Palmo, Suryadarshini navigates the third precept. Covering sex, relationships, confessional writing, and social media, she offers suggestions for how to start a shift from attention and attachment into stillness, simplicity and contentment. From the talk entitled Sex and Social Media: From Attention and Attachment to Contentment given at Norwich Buddhist Centre, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk ...
The Altruistic Aspect of the Bodhisattva
July 12, 2021 04:00 - 9 minutes - 5.19 MBWhat’s in it for me? Our natural human tendency is to take, to grasp, to cling. If you can give though, there is hope, spiritually speaking. Generosity is an attitude of heart and of mind, an attitude of one’s whole being. Sangharakshita describes the altruistic aspect of the Bodhisattva and the reconciliation of the apparent antithesis between the interests of others and of self by practising the first two of the six Perfections: dana (giving) and shila (ethics or 'uprightness'). From ...
Letting Our Inner Riches Shine
July 08, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 5.97 MBDanapriya explores how our inner world reflects to the outer world. How do we want to live in the world? How do our views impact our practice of generosity? Where do we direct the energies of craving and desire? Excerpted from the talk entitled Giving Is Enjoyable given at Croydon Buddhist Centre, 2015. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud
Freedom from Oppression
July 05, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 4.72 MBDayapakshini explores the relevance of the First Precept to our lives with extracts from the Abhisanda sutta, especially that of freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings. Excerpted from the talk entitled The First Precept given at the Croydon Buddhist Centre, 2015. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud
Abstention from Violence – Love
July 01, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 3.44 MBHow can we decide between right and wrong? The Eastern criterion of ethics is psychological rather than theological: ethical behaviour is said to express higher orders of awareness. Here, Sangharakshita details the first precept, that of abstention from all forms of violence and harm towards other beings. Cultivating the positive aspect of this precept is the embodiment of maitri, love, as expressed through our deeds of loving-kindness. From the talk entitled The Principles of Ethics: R...
Awakening Through Collective Practices
June 28, 2021 04:00 - 10 minutes - 7.8 MBSiladevi reflects on an aspect of Buddhism that is often played down, but is nonetheless an organic part of Buddhism - that of working together with others to effect change in the world. Excerpted from the talk The Ideal Society and the Ideal Individual entitled given at Manchester Buddhist Centre during a day in commemoration of the death of Bhante Sangharakshita, 30 October 2019. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blo...
The Experience of Awakening
June 24, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 2.81 MBIs awakening near or far, is the path sudden or gradual? Dharmashalin presents Sangharakshita’s metaphor on Buddhahood being like an evolutionary process, this time with more emphasis on metta as both an essential basis and method for inviting a sudden shift towards awakening on the basis of a gradual approach. From the talk Metta As Method and Support For Breaking Through to Buddhahood given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2016. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a ful...
How Does a Bodhisattva Regard Living Beings?
June 21, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 3.03 MBKulaprabha recounts an episode from the Vimalakirti Nirdesa to draw out how one generates the great love in response to the suffering of beings. This is the third of four talks exploring Vasubandhu's Four Factors entitled Contemplating the Suffering of Beings given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2010. In his treatise Generating Bodhi Resolve, Vasubandhu describes them as able to generate the resolve to cultivate and accumulate the bases for the Arising of the Bodhicitta. You can find out m...
Moving Towards Timelessness
June 17, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 3.74 MBJnanavaca discusses metta as the foundation of samadhi, taking us back to basics and reminding us to dwell with patience and acceptance in the body. Excerpted from the talk entitled Metta as the Foundation of Samadhi given as part of the online retreat Towards Insight: Three Myths led by Jnanavaca and Maitreyabandhu at Adhisthana, 2020. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter F...
Early Sangha Buddhist Attitudes to Wealth
June 14, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 3.75 MBJvalamalini introduces us to Vasakha, a generous laywoman disciple of the Buddha. Her story from the early sangha is about the Buddhist attitude to wealth and about the effects of generosity on the donor. From the talk entitled As Garlands From a Heap of Flowers given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud
Faith is the Foundation: Virya is the Wall
June 10, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 2.95 MBThere is an unfolding process within us – in each moment we have a choice to move towards the painful and unskilful, or we can move towards liberation. Faith is the intuition that there is a way of responding to experience that moves us away from suffering and towards liberation. What most deeply matters to us? What conditions allow for the process of flourishing to happen? Dhammarati calls on the story of Milarepa to draw out the relationship between faith and virya in Dharma practice. Fr...
Views Reveal Themselves
June 07, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 5.03 MBIntelligent and thought provoking, Candraprabha shares personally about three views, or three attitudes, she's uncovered in the course of her many years of spiritual practice. A helpful exemplification of how we can investigate our underlying attitudes in relation to our ability to live a Dharma life. From the talk entitled Bodhicitta: a Personal Talk from the Moon of the Mind: Bodhicitta Great Gathering, an (online) retreat for women training for ordination and Order Members offered by ...
Bringing Kindness to Whatever Arises
June 03, 2021 04:00 - 3 minutes - 2.32 MBVajrasakhi leads a 'cherishing' metta bhavana based on the positive precepts. Here she introduces the practice emphasizing the crucial importance of a positive and loving relationship with ourselves. From the talk entitled Positive Precepts Metta Bhavana from the Moon of the Mind: Bodhicitta Great Gathering, an (online) retreat for women training for ordination and Order Members offered by Taraloka & Tiratanaloka Retreat Centres, 2021. Listen to the full meditation on Free Buddhist Audio...
Seeing Stars
May 31, 2021 04:00 - 14 minutes - 7.76 MBIn his truly creative and poetic way, Ananda explores how various life experiences have shaped his understanding of the Dharma-Niyama. Something is being shown to us when we are prepared to look. This short talk was given on the European Order Gathering at Wymondham College, 2013, on the theme of the gathering was 'Karma niyama in the service of the Dharma niyama'. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and ne...