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June 03, 2013 What does it mean to be human?
"What does it mean to be human?" We have choices and possibilities, pleasure and pain. Our FBA Dharmabyte is an exploration of the balance of karma and karma vipaka. From the talk "The Preciousness and Rarity of Human Life" by Dhammadinna, the second in a five-part series from Tiratanaloka's retreat on the "Four Mind Turnings" of the Tibetan tradition.
12 min
June 01, 2013 The Tale of Maha-Kassapa
In this week's FBA Podcast "The Tale of Maha-Kassapa" Amoghavajra asks us, what is it that gladdens your heart?

Taking us back 2,500 years to the Kingdom of Magadha in Northern India to the birth of a boy called Kassapa, Amoghavajra tells the story of how he grows up happily and as he gets older he becomes less and less worldly. Kassapa marries Bhadda who has equally renunciant tendancies. They both go forth together.

Kassapa meets the Buddha, becomes his disciple and gains Enlightenment. He is known as a superb meditator and was foremost among the bhikkus for practising austerities. According to Amoghavajra's story, one of the teachings that the Buddha gave to Kassapa was to attend to whatever gladdens the heart.
1 hr 3 min
May 30, 2013 The Knowledge of Suchness
Our FBA Dharmabyte today is a reading from the 'Perfection of Wisdom' titled: "The Knowledge of the Suchness of the Skandhas". From the guided "Reflection on the Five Skandhas" in the series "Night Lily Garden of the Midnight Way - Emptiness and the Great Compassion" by Kulaprabha.
5 min
May 27, 2013 The Dharma is Everywhere
Our FBA Dharmabyte today is a beautiful short talk by Aryashila of the Croydon Buddhist Centre. In "The Dharma is Everywhere" she uses the challenging poetry of Leonard Cohen and others, as well as her own deep life experience, to show that reality does not conform to ordinary wishes, but yet facing it squarely can be supremely uplifting, not sad. Talk given at the Sangha evening of the West London Buddhist Centre.
24 min
May 25, 2013 What Do We Really Know About the Buddha?
Be prepared for the odd surprise in our FBA Podcast today where Dhivan asks: "What Do We Really Know About the Buddha?"

A lovely talk here from the excellent Dhivan. As he sifts the information that's come down to us, we meet several different versions of a human being as he blurs with the archetypal presence he has also come to represent. Yet whichever manifestation we prefer, more than anything this talk brings us face to face with the rich and moving legacy of a brilliant and truly compassionate individual, changing the world he took part in, stepping out of history "with the walk of a lion, the walk of a swan."

Talk given at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2008
28 min
May 24, 2013 Love Sangha and Amitabha
1 hr 3 min
May 23, 2013 The Buddha As Bodhisattva
Our FBA Dharmabyte today is a preview for Saturday's Podcast. In "The Buddha As Bodhisattva" be prepared for the odd surprise as Dhivan considers the relationship between what we think we may know about the Buddha, and what the historical evidence suggests. In this excerpt he shares the traditional story of the Buddha as Bodhisattva including four biographies of the Buddha and a reading from the Lalitavistara Sutta. From the talk "What Do We Really Know About the Buddha?" given at the Cambridge Buddhist Ce
6 min
May 20, 2013 As Stars…
Our FBA Dharmabyte today takes into the heart of The Diamond Sutra. In "As Stars...", Padmavajra gives us the last teaching: as stars; a fault of vision; a lamp; a mock show or magician's illusion. Here, the sutra becomes poetry, the world is illuminated differently, for a time. And we cannot help but be moved by the vision of ourselves made luminous. From tenth and final talk in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive series by Padmavajra on 'The Diamond Sutra: Taking the Mind to it's Limits -
10 min
May 18, 2013 Welsh Bats, A Vajrasattva Drugs Mule and Spanish Insight
Our FBA Podcast today is a wonderfully entertaining talk on Perfect Vision titled: "Welsh Bats, A Vajrasattva Drugs Mule and Spanish Insight." Here Vajrin tells a story of a wide ranging journey, including his early days at the Bristol Buddhist Centre in Long Ashton; his time as a junior doctor working in Africa; travels through India and Tibet; a visit to an Everest base camp and finally to ordination at a retreat centre high in the Spanish sierras. Along the way he manages to acquire a splendid Vajrasattva rupa and overcoming considerable obstacles, brings it home, thereby establishing a life-long association with this powerful bodhisattva of purification.
37 min
May 16, 2013 What’s Love Got To Do With It?
In today's FBA Dharmabyte today we present a short talk exploring impermanence and interconnectedness by Carunalaka titled: "What's Love Got To Do With It?"
24 min

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