Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is a short talk on the theme of and#8216;Intensity of engagement with the Dharma lifeand#8217; by Singhamati titled: and#8220;Intensity At Taralokaand#8221;. Given on the European Order Gathering at Wymondham College, August 10 2013. The Theme of the gathering was and#8216;Karma niyama in the service of the Dharma niyamaand#8217;.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is a short talk on the theme of and#8216;Intensity of engagement with the Dharma lifeand#8217; by Amlanadhi titled: and#8220;Cherishing the Lotusand#8221;. Given on the European Order Gathering at Wymondham College, August 10 2013. The Theme of the gathering was and#8216;Karma niyama in the service of the Dharma niyamaand#8217;.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is an interesting blend of SciFi and Dharma Study titled and#8220;Stepping Through Dharma Portalsand#8221;. From the talk and#8220;Cherish the Doctrineand#8221; by Nagapriya, Part 1 of a three part series based around the motto of the great Tibetan 20th Century teacher Dhardo Rimpoche and#8211; and#8220;Cherish the Doctrine, Live United, Radiate Loveand#8221;. Here, Nagapriya reminds us that in order to appreciate the meaning of symbols, one needs to engage the imagination. Further, in trying to understand the Dharma one can only go so far with rational understanding and#8211; one must engage the imagination. Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, Men's Event January

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is titled: and#8220;Meditative Experienceand#8221; from the 1967 talk by Sangharakshita titled Meditation: the Expanding Consciousness. In this excerpt, Bhante explains the the three stages of meditation: samata, samapatti, and samadhi.

Samata is the experience of tranquility, calm and equanimity of mind as discursive mental activity recedes. Samapatti represents an immense variety of experiences. Described as attainments in meditation from changes in temperature and seeing multi-colored lights to flashes of insight. Samadhi is carefully described as a blissful state, translucent, free from the dichotomy of subject and object, as consciousness in expanded from the mundane to the transcendental.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is from Vajratara titled: and#8220;Imagination andamp; Dreaming Angelsand#8221;. Here Vajratara explores the fifth pillar of the Triratna Buddhist Order: Imagination as mystery, magic and myth. She describes how in the Sangha, in the Sangha we aspire to, the distinctions between each other are transcended and#8211; which is a mysterious and wonderful thing. From the talk: Dreaming Angels given on the December 2012 National Order Weekend for women.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today, and#8220;The Buddha andamp; Imagination,and#8221; is an excerpt from Kamalashilaand#8217;s talk and#8220;Tranquillity, Imagination and Insightand#8221;, a book relaunching of Buddhist Meditation. Here, Kamalashila explores the Buddhaand#8217;s emphasis on mind, and the presence of imagination. and#8220;All solutions and all problems come from the mind.and#8221; The full talk will be podcast next Saturday.

In the Pali scriptures, do we have a word for and#8216;imagination?and#8221; In todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, Sangharakshita offers his thoughts in and#8220;The Divine Eye as Vertical Imagination.and#8221; Vertical imagination is a creative force, enabling us to rise above ourselves. Quoting William Blake seeing the host of heavenly spirits in the sun, we are called to evoke the power of our imaginative faculty. This is an excerpt from the book launch of Living Ethically, available at Windhorse Publications.

In todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, and#8220;The Mystery of the Dhamma Niyamaand#8221; Subhuti concludes the first talk in one of his Rambles Around Reality series. Here he describes the Dhamma Niyama as having itand#8217;s own conditioned laws which are potentially working within us. Using the metaphor of the stream, our effort, our karma puts us in the current, but the current itself is the Dharma Niyama and#8211; mysterious patterns in conditionality that take us well beyond ourselves.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, and#8220;Beyond Ethicsand#8221; is the introduction to the first talk in a series exploring how our ethical practice can extend toward that which would be the natural responses of an Enlightened Being, taking into consideration the Niyamas. From the talk: Beyond Ethics, Part I By Subhadramati and Silapiya given at the London Buddhist Centre.

Sunyata, (Sanskrit, also shunyata; Pali: suññat), in Buddhism, translated into English as emptiness, voidness, openness, spaciousness, is a Buddhist concept which has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context. (Wikipedia)

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is simple. The and#8220;Sunyata Mantraand#8221; was recorded on retreat and is now being shared on Free Buddhist Audio. From the Anapanasati Web Extras provided by Viveka, from the retreat led in 2003.