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Sometimes we can’t imagine an adult consciousness. What you are doing when you sit down to meditate to foster, to reveal to yourself a greater consciousness. Sometimes children have a sense of this greater consciousness, remembering back can help us tap into our aims as meditators. Your child consciousness naturally relates to the world as if it relates to you. Today's FBA Dharmabyte is entitled "Imagining a New Sort of Consciousness", an excerpt from the talk "Meditation Essentials - Week Five - Self Di

We hear how the practice relates to the theory of Buddhist meditation and are encouraged to choose and learn from our direct experience of how we respond to our breath in the moment. Today's FBA Dharmabyte is entitled "Practising the Breath with a Witness", from the talk "Meditation Workshop - Five Breaths" by Amaragita.

In the final installment of our long-running series on the Six Emphases of Triratna, this week's FBA Podcast features Padmakumara in a talk entitled "What is Triratna Buddhism?".

Padmakumara wraps it all up neatly with his own perspectives on what Triratna's approach to Buddhist principle and practice is.

Today's FBA Dharmabyte explores a topic deriving from one of the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled "Sangha as a Radical Alternative to Capitalism", from the talk "Sangha As a Radical Alternative to Capitalism and Modern Youth Culture". Young Peoples facilitator Kara Moses talks about why industrialised Capitalist society presents us with particularly challenging conditions for Buddhist practise, and how the Sangha provides a radical positive alternative. Talk given at the Birmingham Buddhist Cent

Today's FBA Dharmabyte begins a last week of topics deriving from our ongoing exploration of the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled "Triratna in the Context of Contemporary Buddhism", excerpted from the talk "Sangha in the Context of Contemporary Buddhism". Parami delivers an excellent talk that reflects on how Triratna's approach squares up with that of other traditions, and how we might continue to work on our practice of sangha as an integral part of our personal practice of the Dharma.

In his typical engaging speaking style, Padmavajra illuminates the Triratna emphasis on spiritual friendship in this week's FBA Podcast, with "Triratna Emphases – Spiritual Friendship".

Wrapping up the last of the Six Emphases of Triratna that we've been featuring over many weeks, Padmavajra gives a through overview of the importance of companions on the Buddhist path.

Viriyalila's appreciation of and gratitude for spiritual friendship shines through in today's FBA Dharmabyte entitled "Deepening the Practice of Spiritual Community". From the talk "Three Perspectives on the Practice of Spiritual Friendship", this talk continues our exploration of the last of the Six Emphases of Triratna. Talk given at Aryaloka Buddhist Center, November 2010

The FBA Dharmabyte podcast today introduces spiritual friendship, a particularly dominant feature of the Triratna Community, in a talk entitled "The Importance of Spiritual Friendship". From the talk "The Six Distinctive Emphases of the FWBO", here Sangharakshita concludes his talk on the Six Emphases with a beautiful reflection on his deep friendship with the great Tibetan Lama, Dhardo Rinpoche. Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2002.

In this week's FBA Podcast, Dayabhadra is the distinguished speaker with "Triratna Emphases – The Arts".

Dayabhadra gives us a comprehensive look at the importance of the arts in the spiritual life, one of the Six Emphases of the Triratna Buddhist Community.

Abhayavajra is the featured speaker in today's FBA Dharmabyte, the subject of an interview by Maitreyabandhu in a talk entitled "Painting the Void". He gives a lovely account of how his Buddhist practice and his creative life intersect and intermingle - giving us a window into why one of Triratna's Six Emphases is the importance of the arts in spiritual life.