In this talk, Arthaketu explores the figure of Padmasambhava and the dakini Suryachandrasiddhi - Sun, moon accomplished.

Unfortunately, due to an error in the recording, the last few minutes of the talk are missing.

In this talk, Tarapalita explores Padmasambhava by answering these three questions:

Who is Padmasambhava?

Why is he part of our tradition?

How can he be useful or important?

Padmavajra explores the idea of a portal, a gateway, passing from one space to another, and connects it with the concept of Bhardo.

If we wish to get a better understanding of the Buddha, it is good to look at his relationships with other people. Meghiya becomes the companion of the Buddha for a while, but as the text reveals, he is not one of the best companions.

Lalitaratna will talk about this relationship when the two of them are on the road together.

How do you navigate yourself on the Buddhist Path?

How do you choose the right direction of travel if you don’t know where you’re going or what the Goal is?

If the Goal is Enlightenment, do you understand what the Buddha means by Enlightenment?

Or is your understanding of it a bit vague and muddled?

The Buddha is specific.

Saddaloka will be looking at this whole area.

Yes. Is the short answer.

When we begin practising Buddhism, we can become a little too restrained, overly-”mindful”, even a bit stiff.

What is the place of fun, enjoyment, pleasure, in Buddhism?

And how can we make sure this element of enjoyment is present in our Buddhist practice?

By Padmasagara

In this talk, Tarapalita explores the Buddhist word Guhya, which means “secret.”

Bending the truth? Acidic or cutting speech? Verbal diarrhoea? Back stabbing people who aren’t present?

Put it all that rubbish in the bin, that is what the Buddha is recommending to his disciples.

We create our world with our speech and we massively affect the world of others as well with it.

Communication is a crucial area of life.

This week Tarapalita takes us on personal journey though the difficult and liberating teachings of the speech precepts.

Arthaketu picks up where he left off a year ago and goes deeper into the Buddhist images of the mandala, entering their worlds and exploring the symbolism associated with them, one by one. Or as you will see on the talk two by two.

Dust and lotus blossoms

In this talk, Padmasagara will dive into these two images.

We’ll see if we they can help us understand Buddhism more deeply…

…understand ourselves more deeply…

…and discover what we need to do to see more clearly and fulfil our deepest potential.