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Gratitude for Life
February 01, 2021 05:00 - 13 minutes - 8.55 MBAmitasuri explores what can happen when faced with well-being, illness, ageing and death, and looks at how the Dharma might influence our response. Amitasuri takes her Dharma practice to her work as a Buddhist Hospital Chaplain, where she supports health and well-being through pastoral, religious and spiritual care for staff, patients and their families in a number of hospitals in Greater Manchester. Excerpted from the talk entitled Living What We Love: A Response to the Four Sights given ...
Bringing Together Parenting + Meditation
January 28, 2021 05:00 - 9 minutes - 5.25 MBUpayavira has been exploring, often through necessity, ways to meditate with children since 2000 when shortly after his ordination he became a parent. He takes the aim of demonstrating that practicing with your young children present is not just possible, there can be some huge benefits in this form of practice. Excerpted from the talk entitled Meditating with Your Child which includes a led meditation, 2015. Upayavira has led Meditation for Parents workshops at the Buddhafield Festival a...
Tiny Steps: Tiny Connections
January 25, 2021 05:00 - 17 minutes - 13.6 MBLilapa talks openly about how the Brahma Viharas inspired and challenged him as a father. Parenting can be very hard, a connection with the Brahma Viharas, also known as The Immeasurables, can support infinitely expansive and positive states of mind. Excerpted from the talk entitled Parenting and the Brahma Viharas, part of the series Talks from Adhisthana's Weekend Retreat for Parents, given at Adhisthana, 2018. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk ev...
Parenting as Practice
January 21, 2021 05:00 - 9 minutes - 7.17 MBWhat does an effective Buddhist practice look like as a parent amidst a family household life? How do we keep alive our values and bring them to the joys and challenges of parenting? In this talk Amaladhi gives us an inside view of life as an Order Member and parent of her young and energetic son, discussing how she engages with parenting as a practice. Whether you are a parent or not she offers a thought provoking exploration of the vast potential of parenting as a context for fully living ...
Uncertainty as Positive Emotion
January 18, 2021 05:00 - 7 minutes - 3.7 MBA Tibetan Story shared by Vessantara about a young boy and his family and the uncertainty of the course of our lives. Excerpted from the talk entitled Positive Emotion as part of the series The Mandala of Spiritual Practice: Positive Emotion Retreat given on a retreat called The Mandala of Spiritual Practice: Positive Emotion at Adhisthana, 2015. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Tw...
Self-Transformation Through Parenting
January 14, 2021 05:00 - 5 minutes - 4.66 MBWhat if our children are seen as aspects of our mind – this moment greed, this moment hatred. The Buddha advises us to ‘be with’ whatever arises, just allowing and then seeing what happens. Amaragita takes a look at Buddhist practice in the light of parenting. Excerpted from the talk entitled Staying at Home, Dancing with the Universe given at the Buddhafield Festival, 2006. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news a...
Beyond Ordinary Mind
January 11, 2021 05:00 - 9 minutes - 5.27 MBNagapriya talks via zoom on Buddhist practice as a path towards the transcendence of our egocentric tendencies and motivations, which are the cause of our suffering, and the obstacles to our compassionate response to others. Transcendence is what is beyond our self clinging will, and by connecting with it we can begin to live our lives on the basis of a new logic. One motivated by the aspiration to benefit all beings through everything we do. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Transcende...
Mind is Not the Enemy
January 07, 2021 05:00 - 10 minutes - 5.75 MBNagabodhi explores a common misconception about how we’re supposed to stop all thought in meditation. Thought more generally can be very useful and could even be said to be one of the things that makes us human, but it becomes a problem when it runs away with itself and we start living in a ‘secondary reality’ most of the time. From the talk entitled Direct Experience, part of the series The Two Arrows: Dukkha to Insight given at Adhisthana, 2020. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist A...
Nourishment and Encouragement
January 04, 2021 05:00 - 12 minutes - 7.01 MBIn the Dhaniya Sutta, the questions arise: ‘how do we move in this world with a freedom to be creative?’ and ‘how often do we follow the addictive tendency?’ Saddhanandi looks at vertical and horizontal nourishment as she explores these questions. Excerpted from the talk The Dhaniya Sutta - Freedom to be Creative, part of the series Evoking Shakyamuni given at Adhisthana, 2020. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for ne...
Embracing Darkness: Embracing Love
December 31, 2020 05:00 - 5 minutes - 4.5 MBSaddhaloka reflects on the first Buddhist book he read, The Way of the White Clouds, by Lama Govinda, sharing a verse to Amitabha, the red Buddha of the West who represents and inspires the highest love of all... From the fourth talk in a six-part series on the figures on the Wheel of Life entitled Amitabha, given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 1997. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twi...
Faith in the Path of Liberation
December 28, 2020 05:00 - 11 minutes - 5.72 MBPadmasambhava is a potent symbol of transformation. Here, as part of a Padmasambhava Day Festival, Maitreyi shows us how evoke the help, energy and vision we need to change our lives. From the talk entitled Heart Advice From the Lotus-Born: 'Never Be Apart From the Causes For Faith to Arise', given at the London Buddhist Centre, 2016. *** 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 F...
There’s A Lot of Potential Within Us
December 24, 2020 05:00 - 9 minutes - 5.17 MBKamalashila takes us into the world of the Abhidharma to investigate how positive mind states emerge. He describes the types of Shraddha (confidence, faith or esteem), and their place in Buddhist practice. Excerpted from the talk entitled Shraddha given for Sangha Night at the West London Buddhist Centre, 2016. *** 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 Soundcl...
Where Does the Spiritual Path Begin?
December 21, 2020 05:00 - 9 minutes - 5.48 MBPractising Buddhism (so much harder than understanding it) involves breaking the chain of the twelve negative links, or nidanas, by moving onto the spiral path, here described in its twelve stages. What is our usual reaction to things that are pleasant, things that are painful and things that are neutral? Sangharakshita gives us a clear description of the beginning of the Spiral Path, that of our response to Dukkha. From the talk The Stages of the Spiritual Path as part of the series Intro...
What is Truly Beautiful
December 17, 2020 05:00 - 8 minutes - 6.88 MBPunyamala describes the path of beauty and how we can move from contemplating mundane beauty to the beauty of the enlightened state and in so doing she leads us into an experience of beauty. From the talk entitled 'In Beauty May I Walk' - Beauty As the Fourth Laksana given during the Women's Area Order Weekend at Adhisthana, December 2019. *** 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...
Choosing Our Intentions
December 14, 2020 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.6 MBIs kindness possible here? How does clarity help us open up to love? Maitrisiddhi explores the active and receptive aspects of the Metta Bhavana as expressed through the symbolism of Akshobhya, the Buddha of the East. From the talk entitled Metta and Akshobhya's Mirrorlike Wisdom, the first of two talks given on "Living in the Mandala"; a retreat on the Brahma Viharas at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2018. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every wee...
A Man in Rags
December 10, 2020 05:00 - 9 minutes - 6.86 MBThis is a quietly passionate talk by Jinapriya on the quicksilver nature of the Enlightenment experience - impossible to pin down, utterly transformative. His main theme within the frame of such a big question - 'What is Enlightenment?' - is the struggle to live our lives in the present moment, especially in the face of pain. We are met with a thoughtful series of reflections, stories and images that all look to open up the gates of perception, and prepare the heart for the biggest change im...
Going Beyond Individual Effort
December 07, 2020 05:00 - 11 minutes - 5.55 MBHere Vijayasri looks at the culmination of the sevenfold puja by exploring the Transference of merit and self-surrender section. She considers the importance of breaking our individual self view, including the telling of the story of the 1000-armed Avalokitesvara, a symbol of the Triratna Buddhist Order. Excerpt from the talk entitled Transference of Merit and Self-Surrender from the series in our series on Transforming Self and World through looking at the Sevenfold Puja given at the Cro...
An Inexhaustible Treasure
December 03, 2020 05:00 - 11 minutes - 6.09 MBHow can we be helpful? Do we go beyond ourselves to do things for others? Are we inspired by the ways in which we are helpful? Taravandana explores the meaning of the final verses of the Sevenfold Puja as practiced in the Triratna Buddhist Community. The Transference of Merits verse is based on Chapter 3 of the Bodhicaryavatara, Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva. Excerpted from the ninth talk in the Sevenfold Puja series at the Manchester Buddhist Centre, on Transference of Merits an...
A Current That Carries Us
November 30, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutes - 11.3 MBSpiritual practice can be thought of in terms of developing positive qualities within ourselves. But in a very real sense it also consists in creating sufficiently beautiful conditions within our minds so that something from outside us may be invited in. From the talk entitled Inviting the Enlightened Mind given by Vadanya during the third Great Gathering of 2017 at Padmaloka Retreat Centre. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow ...
What's Actually Going On
November 26, 2020 05:00 - 9 minutes - 4.7 MBJayaratna shares his story of about a recent journey to track down his difficulties with the Sevenfold Puja, and what he learned about himself in the process. From the talk entitled Facing the Sevenfold Puja given at the Shrewsbury Sangha, 2018. *** 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
Bound or Free?
November 23, 2020 05:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBMost of our life strategies are to avoid pain. We can ask ourselves - Do I want to be bound by suffering, or free from suffering? Aryajaya describes the movement towards the Three Jewels as a development of faith and effective Going for Refuge. From the talk entitled Commitment Is Key given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2016. *** 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 ...
With the Lamp There is the Light
November 19, 2020 05:00 - 10 minutes - 5.82 MBHere Sangharakshita explores the Four Reliances as he distinguishes the meaning of vijnana (Discriminating Consciousness) and jnana (Transcendental Awareness) and then further distinguishes prajna-paramita (Perfection of Wisdom) from jnana. Launching his book entitled Wisdom Beyond Words, 1993. *** 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
Introduction to Talking Meditation
November 16, 2020 05:00 - 9 minutes - 6.79 MBVajradevi introduces the idea of 'talking meditation', where we carry the thread of awareness through verbal communication. This extends beyond awareness of the speech precepts to being aware of the texture or tone of our own and others' voices, using a 'settled back' stance and giving priority to the thread of awareness/knowing over the content of what's being said. She gives tips for the practice: staying aware of our own minds, aiming to let go of trying and focusing so as to aim for a mo...
Taking Delight in Friends
November 12, 2020 05:00 - 5 minutes - 4.09 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. Excerpted from the talk entitled A Case of Dysentry as part of the series Incidents from the Pali Canon, 1982. *** 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
Kalyana Mitrata
November 09, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutes - 7.29 MBHow do we go beyond the duality of subject and object, self and other, to experience the true nature of reality? There is no real Buddhism if it’s all about self liberation. We have to see other people as like ourselves. Jnanavaca, telling the story of Meghiya, unequivocally draws out the importance of sangha and kalyana mitrata as the means to bring the Dharma to life in the world. Excerpted from the talk What is Sangha & Kalyana Mitrata? From the series entitled The Bi-Tendential Valu...
Meeting the The Lotus Born
November 05, 2020 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.53 MBSilence all around the lake, the light of the sky reflecting on it’s surface, blushing in the colors of sunset. Dusk, twilight, a time of transformation, a time of meditation. Here, Dayanandi evokes the birth of Padmasambhava, the Lotus Born, who is a historical and mythological figure who established Buddhism in Tibet in the eighth century. Excerpted from the talk entitled Meeting Padmasambhava in the Cave of the Heart given during the Padmasabhava Day Festival at Manchester Buddhist Ce...
Meeting The Lotus Born
November 05, 2020 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.53 MBSilence all around the lake, the light of the sky reflecting on it’s surface, blushing in the colors of sunset. Dusk, twilight, a time of transformation, a time of meditation. Here, Dayanandi evokes the birth of Padmasambhava, the Lotus Born, who is a historical and mythological figure who established Buddhism in Tibet in the eighth century. Excerpted from the talk entitled Meeting Padmasambhava in the Cave of the Heart given during the Padmasabhava Day Festival at Manchester Buddhist Ce...
Hidden Spiritual Treasures
November 02, 2020 05:00 - 13 minutes - 6.59 MBVidyasaki introduces Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyal, his consort and disciple attributed with recording the story of the Great Guru’s establishing Buddhism in Tibet. Offering her perspective as a literary critic, Vidyasaki speaks from her heart about the mythical and historical dimensions of this significant bit of Buddhist history. Excerpted from the key note talk entitled Padmasambhava and the Naga King given on the Padmasambhava Festival Day, Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2018. *** S...
Principle of radical transformation
October 29, 2020 04:00 - 12 minutes - 7.44 MBPreviously unreleased and, rather famously, given off-the-cuff at the London Buddhist Centre, Sangharakshita gives an enjoyable and stirring evocation of the great Tantric Guru of Tibet. From the talk entitled Padmasambhava Talk given in 1979. *** 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
The Three Robes of Padmasambhava
October 26, 2020 04:00 - 17 minutes - 13.5 MBSubhadramati, with characteristic inspiration, shares a memory of Sangharakshita’s last public appearance before his death, and unfolds the significance this image for us as his disciples. She brings this into relationship with our practice of ethics, articulated through the three robes of Padmasambhava. From the talk The Archetypal Guru and the Ten Precepts given in the context of the 2020 retreat for women private preceptors at Adhisthana, 2020. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddh...
Ethics in their Ultimate Sense
October 22, 2020 04:00 - 15 minutes - 6.55 MBSeeing all beings with the potential for Buddhahood, we are moved to encourage and support that natural momentum towards growth and development. Every act of generosity, loving kindness, no matter how small, is acting in harmony with Reality and the growth of all beings. Vajratara gives us an inspiring glimpse into ethics in their ultimate sense which take their expression in the Bodhicitta. From a talk entitled The Lady of Tibet Yeshe Tsogyal given by Vajratara at Sangha Night, Sheffield ...
The Essence of Padmasambhava
October 19, 2020 04:00 - 8 minutes - 3.93 MBPrasannavira offers insight into the the essence of Padmasambhava – purity, love, skillful means. With a fearless embracing of experience, taking whatever appears as the Path, facing of inconvenience both personal and external deeper truths, we become the change we’d like to see in the world. From the talk entitled Who Is Padmasambhava? Given for Padmasambhava Day at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week!...
In the Company of Padmasambhava
October 15, 2020 04:00 - 16 minutes - 10.3 MBAccording to Tibetan tradition, in the bardo, an 'intermediate state' in the endless round of birth and death, we are free for an instant from that round. The Tibetan book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) describes six of these opportunities for escape from reactivity. Here Sangharakshita explores our resistance to facing death and the impact of the esoteric teachings of Padmasambhava. From the talk Psycho-Spiritual Symbolism in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. part of the series Aspects of Buddh...
Long Ago in Ancient India
October 12, 2020 04:00 - 14 minutes - 5.22 MBPadmavajra tells the tale of Bahiya of the Bark Cloth demonstrate his ability to instantly wake others up to Reality. The Buddha was the first of the Mahasiddhas, or Great Perfected Ones. In the sixth century a new kind of Buddhist practitioner appears, picking up on these aspects of the teachings of the Buddha and opening up a new universe of myth, symbol and imagination. From the talk entitled The Buddha and the Mahasiddhas, part of the eight-part series Crazy Wisdom of the Mahasiddhas, ...
How does Buddhism speak to us?
October 08, 2020 04:00 - 7 minutes - 4.54 MBHere Sangharakshita explores how Buddhism, being the most rational of religions, appeals no less to the heart than to the head, using the language of myth to do so. Examples are four 'myths' from the Buddha's biography, here correlated with four of Jung's archetypes. From the talk entitled Buddhism and the Language of Myth, part of the series Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism, 1967. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for ...
Tugging on the Net
October 05, 2020 04:00 - 7 minutes - 3.96 MBKulanandi focuses on the importance of drawing on myth and symbols in relating to the ideals of spiritual community. Excerpted from the talk The Spiritual Community As Myth given at Stockholm Buddhist Center, June 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
The Quest for Freedom
October 01, 2020 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.97 MBJnanavaca weaves magic and myth with the day to day practice of the Dharma in exploring vimukti, freedom, which arises just before full and perfect Enlightenment in the spiral path. Excerpted from the talk entitled Freedom Or Death given on Buddha Day 2019 at the London Buddhist Centre. *** 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
The Ultimate Treasure
September 28, 2020 04:00 - 11 minutes - 9.33 MBA Bodhisattva is the ultimate treasure-seeker, searching for the Chintamani, the wish-fulfilling jewel, which gives all beings that which they truly desire. But how does a Bodhisattva find this gem and what do they do once they have found it? Sadayasihi explores the nature of compassion and how generosity can be both a means of expressing, as well as cultivating, compassion. After all, a Bodhisattva would never keep the Chintamani for themselves… From the talk entitled What Do You ...
The Esoteric Refuges
September 24, 2020 04:00 - 15 minutes - 9.23 MBPreviously unreleased, this important lecture introduces and explores further Sangharakshita's distinctive and visionary ideas on the subject of Going For Refuge, drawing out the real meaning of this central act of the Buddhist life. Poor original recording. From the talk entitled Levels of Going for Refuge given in 1978. *** 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 FB...
Moving Towards Stars
September 21, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 3.87 MBMaitreyabandhu explores the path to insight in the context of Triratna's system of practice. He does this by exploring the three myths of self-development, self-surrender and self-discovery, as well as spiritual death and spiritual rebirth in the dharma life. From the talk Exploring Insight: Sadhana and the Goal of Life given in October 2019 during the Autumn Short Order retreat at Padmaloka Retreat Centre. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every ...
Expressing Gratitude
September 17, 2020 04:00 - 8 minutes - 4.13 MBThe Bodhicaryavatara culminates with verses of sublime beauty expressing a deep and profound desire for the alleviation of suffering. Maitrisara evokes these verses with tenderness and delight, whilst also turning back to that tricky topic of hell. From the talk entitled Dedication In the Bodhicaryavatara (6 of 6), part of the series The Bodhicaryavatara given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Foll...
Undermining Certainty
September 14, 2020 04:00 - 15 minutes - 7.34 MBThe whole of the Bodhicaryavatara builds to Shantideva's exposition on Wisdom. Yet often the commentaries skip it, with humbleness and strong sense of biting off more than he can chew Dharmashalin tries to explore how we can engage with this material. From the talk Wisdom In the Bodhicaryavatara (5 of 6), part of the series The Bodhicaryavatara given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blo...
The Abode of Security
September 10, 2020 04:00 - 13 minutes - 6.75 MBIn this talk Dharmasri helps us discover confession using extracts from pujas such as those from the Sutra of Golden Light and the Vajrasattva puja. Exploring what confession is and is not with an emphasis on self metta and the feeling of liberation that comes from having all of ourselves witnessed by others. From the talk Confession: Refining Our Ethical Sensitivities given at the Croydon Buddhist Centre in May 2016 as part of the series on Transforming Self and World through the Sevenfo...
Unconditional Surrender
September 07, 2020 04:00 - 13 minutes - 6.82 MBSaccanama explores the three myths of spiritual life and the crisis of the self - reason and will are no longer able to cope. In this excerpt we hear about Shinran’s life with readings on self-power and other-power. Dharmakara becomes Amida – the central myth of the Pure Land schools. From the talk Faith, the Crisis of the Self and Self-Surrender recorded at the Swedish Summer Retreat at Dharmagiri, July 2019 as part of the series ‘To Place the Heart Upon’ - Exploring Faith in Buddhism. ...
Receptivity and Transformation
September 03, 2020 04:00 - 9 minutes - 6.05 MBMahasraddha shares how his relationship with the Buddha has been central to his life. Are we open to the teachings of the Buddha? What impact does impermanence have on your life? What does transformation look like in your life? From the talk entitled Spiritual Death given at Manchester Buddhist Centre as part of the Urban Retreat, February 2020. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitte...
Hatred: A Dangerous Mental Poison
August 31, 2020 04:00 - 10 minutes - 4.63 MBKhemasuri explores the theme of Anger and Patience in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara at Sangha Night, Sheffield Buddhist Centre. From the talk entitled Gratitude to Everyone given April, 2008 as part of a series on Great Buddhist Texts. *** 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
Effort Characterized by Joy
August 27, 2020 04:00 - 9 minutes - 4.83 MBDhammadinna shares her thoughts on viriya/vigour as derived from Chapter 7 of the Bodhicaryavatara. The Bodhicaryavatara is an 8th century text written by Shantideva, a Buddhist monk from the monastic 'university' at Nalanda, India, and Dhammadinna presented this material over three sessions on an Order retreat called "Teaching the Bodhicaryavatara." She says at the beginning that she isn't giving a formal talk and, indeed, the title is her description of what she was doing.... sharing so...
Don't Wait Another Second to Practice
August 24, 2020 04:00 - 10 minutes - 8.81 MBSurata talks about the nature of Viriya, diligence to practice, to apply oneself, to engage in a steady practice, even when one doesn’t quite feel like it. Calling on Shraddha (faith) we call on diligence that does not lose heart! Excerpted from the third in a series of four talks on the Bodhisattva ideal entitled Plunging Into The Positive - Kshanti and Virya, given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, March 2011, for men training to join the Triratna Buddhist Order. *** Subscribe to our Fr...
Exploring the Movement of the Mind as Wind
August 20, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 2.58 MBKamalashila explores the nature of wind as energies moving around in the body as well as outside the body. Kamalashila has spent a lot of his adult life exploring meditation - and this talk is a lovely little foray into the whole subject as a crucial aspect in life and practice, with special consideration given to reflection on the six elements. From the talk entitled Simplicity given at Triratna (FWBO) Day, 2004. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma ...
Vision as Outpouring of the Dharma
August 17, 2020 04:00 - 12 minutes - 10.5 MBRijusiddha looks at how vision gives us the initial insight into truth, how that vision is a heart response and how that vision gives us energy, if maintained, through the ongoing work of transforming ourselves. From the talk entitled Vision - The Mind Thinks, the Heart Sees as part of two talks on vision and transformation at the 2018 East Anglian Men's Event at Padmaloka Retreat Centre. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our ...