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May 03, 2012 Flowers from the Dhammapada
Today's Dharmabyte is a closer look into the chapter titled "Flowers" from the "Dhammapada", by Padmavajra. The ideal student masters the realm of death by entering the transcendental path while discerning the Verses of Truth.
8 min
April 30, 2012 How to Hold a Vision
Today's FBA Dharmabyte is brought to us by the delightful Saddhanandi "How to Hold a Vision" from the talk "Enlightenment as Heart, Life as Whole." Are we nourished or are we burdened by our ideals? Ideals need to be well-rooted in our hearts... beyond the worldly winds... not an abstraction, our vision is our direction and our orientation that guides us along the way.
13 min
April 28, 2012 Enlightenment as Heart, Life as Whole
In this week's FBA Podcast,"Enlightenment as Heart, Life as Whole," Saddhanandi takes us through a set of very thought-provoking reflections. She is forthright about the difficulties and joys of cultivating faith in the Dharma and makes very plain the consequences we can expect in our life as and when that faith arises. The talk is peppered with examples from her own practice. The audience clearly appreciates her sense of humour – which is often at her own expense.

The event was recorded in a very large marquee on a rainy day and despite that the sound quality is still OK!

Given at Taraloka, May 2005. The companion talk to this one is Vajradarshini's "We Have a Huge Barrel of Wine, But No Cups"
59 min
April 26, 2012 The Buddha’s Gratitude
Today's Dharmabyte is on "The Buddha's Gratitude" discussing the importance of gratitude for the spiritual life, even for the Buddha following his Enlightenment. The talk, "Looking at the Bodhi Tree," given in 1975 by Sangharakshita, is as relevant today as it was then.
12 min
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.
8 min
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.
1 hr 10 min
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.
10 min
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."
6 min
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.
1 hr 35 min
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".
6 min

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