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Maitreyabandhu 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.

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Parami 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.

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All 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.

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Silanatha 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.

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Locana 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'.

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Sangharakshita 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.

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Here 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.

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Embodying 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.

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There'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.

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Here 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.

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