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June 25, 2016 Reverencing the Buddha – I Bow to No One Dead Or Alive
In this week's FBA Podcast entitled Reverencing the Buddha – I Bow to No One Dead Or Alive Mahamani gives an incredibly passionate talk on reverencing the Buddha. Drawing on her own experiences of struggling to understand the place of ritual in Buddhism, Mahamani guides us on her own path to finally bowing before the Buddha.
48 min
June 23, 2016 The Gift of Fearlessness
Fear is the great modern disease. Helping to create the conditions of fearlessness is one of the greatest gifts we can give. Today's FBA Dharmabyte podcast is entitled"The Gift of Fearlessness" by Sangharakshita from the talk Altruism and Individualism in the Spiritual Life Talk given in 1969 as part of the series Aspects of the Bodhisattva Ideal.
6 min
June 20, 2016 It’s Not Fair!
Today's Dharmabyte podcast is aptly named"It’s Not Fair!" by Kalyanaprabha. Life's unfair, what can we do about it? We can practice the Dharma and follow the Buddha's teachings. Kalyanaprabha's sober yet uplifting talk encourages us to do just that. Excerpt from the talk: What to Do In An Unfair World.
11 min
June 18, 2016 Creating Love, Respect and Unity
In this week's FBA Podcast Padmavajra describes how we practice the Dharma so as to create Love, respect and unity within our community and the wider world. Creating Love, Respect and Unity given at the Mens Event titled Beyond Isolation, Building the Buddha Land.
1 hr 3 min
June 16, 2016 Karma with a Twist
In today's Dharmabyte podcast entitled, "Karma with a Twist", Subhuti clearly describes how unwholesome mental states influence how we interpret our experience. This is why we begin with sila (ethics) on the path. From the talk, Rambles Around the Yogachara: Talk 1, part of the series Rambles Around the Yogachara by Subhuti. the Yogachara school of Buddhist philosophy, which provides a comprehensive psychological overview of the workings of 'consciousness'. This talk introduces the whole (complex!) subject
10 min
June 13, 2016 Breaking Through with Awareness
In today's Dharmabyte podcast entitled, "Breaking Through with Awareness", we are reminded that awareness is the great dissolver of negative emotions. At times in the spiritual life we may need considerable energy to overcome obstacles, such as negative emotions, psychological conditionings, rational thinking, and even the sense of 'time' itself. How, when, and where can we break through? From the talk Breaking Through into Buddhahood by Sangharakshita given in 1969.
7 min
June 11, 2016 Seven Point Mind Training
The wonderful Dhammadinna brings us this week's FBA Podcast entitled Seven Point Mind Training. This is the first of seven talks in a series based on Atisha's famous 'The Seven Points of Mind Training', and influenced both by Chekawa's commentary and Langri Tangpa's 'Eight Verses for Training the Mind'. This talk was given on April 7th, 2008 and is part of the series Seven Point Mind Training.
1 hr 10 min
June 09, 2016 Glimpses of Vision
Today's Dharmabyte podcast is a short talk by Nityabodha given as part of the LBC's Urban Retreat in June 2009 entitled "Glimpses of Vision".
15 min
June 06, 2016 Fluidity in Our Nature: The Sea
We've titled today's FBA Dharmabyte podcast, "Fluidity in Our Nature: The Sea". In this gentle talk, Arthabandhu gives us the image of the sea and the raft. We hold onto our raft, but this brings suffering - can we let go, enter the sea and become spiritually reborn? This is the question Arthabandhu asks us. Spiritual death does not only mean esoteric meditation practices, it means confronting the vagaries and difficulties of life with honesty and courage and seeing what we can learn from them. By opening
8 min
June 04, 2016 Spiritual Death and Radical Transformation
This week's FBA Podcast is a talk by Maitreyabandhu entitledSpiritual Death and Radical Transformation. In this rousing talk Maitreyabandhu goes into where Buddhism begins: with ourselves as we are and with the awake Buddha. But we don't really know either ourselves or the Buddha. He emphasises that we don't know because we so easily assume we know, or fix or lessen the goal. So what do we do? There are three approaches we need to balance and four things we have to do, to close the gap between the awake Buddha and us who are as yet unawake. Given at LBC Sangha Night, 13 May 2013.
1 hr 4 min

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