Free Buddhist Audio

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Free Buddhist Audio has been serving free recordings of high quality, full-length Dharma talks since 2006. Over 3 million downloads and counting... Get our free weekly Dharma talk podcast with inspiri... more

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April 23, 2012 Bahiya – In the Seen Only the Seen…
This weeks FBA Dharmabyte,"Bahiya - In the Seen Only the Seen" is a reading from the book 'Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of the Awakened One' (Quercus, 2011) by Vishvapani. The original talk, Imagining Gautama, is part of series launching the book from February 2011.
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8min
April 21, 2012 The Significance of the Buddha's Enlightenment
This weeks FBA Podcast, "The Significance of the Buddha's Enlightenment" is a talk by Sona given at Manchester Buddhist Centre on Buddha Day, 9th May 2009.
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1h 10min
April 19, 2012 What is Enlightenment?
This weeks FBA Dharmabyte titled: "What is Enlightenment?", from the talk, "Enlightenment as Experience and as Non-Experience" by Sangharakshita exposes a modern disease of frustrated craving for experience. Sangharakshita suggests that spiritual life is better seen in more concrete ways; as growth, work, and duty.
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10min
April 16, 2012 Practising Purely
Today's FBA Dharmabyte, "Practising Purely," by Varjadarshini, is from the third talk in a five-part series from Tiratanaloka's retreat on the "Four Mind Turnings" of the Tibetan tradition titled: "The Transitoriness of Life and the Certainty of Death."
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6min
April 14, 2012 On the Threshold of Enlightenment
This weeks FBA Podcast, "On the Threshold of Enlightenment" is part of the pivotal by "Aspects of the Bodhisattva Ideal" series delivered by Sangharakshita in 1969. This lecture describes dhyana (meditation), and prajna (Wisdom), the fifth and sixth perfections.
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1h 35min
April 12, 2012 Trying to Make Samsara Work
Today's FBA Dharmabyte, is brought to us by Maitreyi titled: "Trying to Make Samsara Work". Another gem from the talk "The Defects and Dangers of Samsara" where Maitreyi looks at pleasure and suffering in the context of samsara - compassionate responses to self and other, and how to loosen the bonds... Talk given at Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre, 2005 This talk is part of the series "The Four Mind-Turning Reflections".
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6min
April 09, 2012 The Four Rivers of Samsara
Today's FBA Dharmabyte, "The Four Rivers of Samsara" is from the second talk from the 2009 UK Women's Order / Mitra Event titled "Generating Bodhi Mind" by Vajratara. She guides us through the second section of Tsongkhapa's short text on "The Three Principle Aspects of the Path". The verses contain some strong and striking images for what it feels like being caught in Samsara and they come to life in Vajratara's talk. She relates how she nearly came to death herself swept away by a Indonesian river and tha
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12min
April 07, 2012 An Evening with Sangharakshita
This weeks FBA Podcast, is a recording of a question and answer session with Sangharakshita at the Croydon Buddhist Centre in 2004. "An Evening with Sangharakshita" is a lovely introduction to the man who founded the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community (formally known as the Western Buddhist Order and FWBO).
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1h 18min
April 05, 2012 Cultural, Political and Social Change
Today's FBA Dharmabyte, "Cultural, Political and Social Change", is an extract from a question and answer session with Sangharakshita at the Croydon Buddhist Centre in November, 2004. The full recording can be found here: "An Evening with Sangharakshita."
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5min
April 02, 2012 Samsara and Nirvana
Today's FBA Dharmabyte, takes us right to the heart of the matter with "Samsara and Nirvana", by Maitreyi. From the talk "The Defects and Dangers of Samsara" where Maitreyi looks at pleasure and suffering in the context of samsara - compassionate responses to self and other, and how to loosen the bonds... Talk given at Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre, 2005 This talk is part of the series "The Four Mind-Turning Reflections".
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9min

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