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Blake, Bhante and the True Individual (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 6 Dec, 2025 - 11:00

How do we listen to the ‘voice within’? How do we become an individual? How can imagination free us? Satyalila weaves together Sangharakshita’s teachings on the True Individual with Blake to show us how to follow our golden thread towards greater clarity, receptivity and awareness. Talk given on a retreat for women who have asked for ordination as part of a series on ‘The Group, the Individual and The Spiritual Community’ given at Tiratanaloka...

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Everyone Needs the Dharma - Milarepa’s Song (Dharmabytes Podcasts)

By Centre Team on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 13:32

Here, Sangharakshita emphasises the importance of distinguishing Buddhism as a universally applicable path of development from the specifically Eastern cultural forms it has been associated with in the past, and explains why an authentic, non-sectarian Buddhist movement is needed in the West. Excerpted from the talk entitled Western Buddhists and Eastern Buddhism, part of the series A New Buddhist Movement - the Meaning of the FWBO, 1979.

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Conditions that Nourish Oneself (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 4 Dec, 2025 - 11:55

Rijumati explores the place of meditation in the bigger context of the growth of oneself as an individual, exploring how we can develop a coherent answer to the question “Who am I and where am I going in my life?” Excerpted from the talk Growing into Real Individuality given at Centro Budista Triratna de Barcelona, 2025.

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Döden Som Praktik

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 1 Dec, 2025 - 00:00
2025 firade vi Sanghadagen och vår andliga gemenskap med särskilt fokus på döden. Var och en av oss förenas av att vi en dag kommer att dö. Sangha/gemenskap ger oss ett sammanhang inom vilket vi kan utforska vad detta faktum väcker i oss samt reflektera djupare över hur vi kan förbereda oss för snarare än undvika det ofrånkomliga.
Taraloka Retreat Centre
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What Taraloka REALLY Is: 40 Years of 'A Buddhist Retreat Centre For Women'

By Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 30 Nov, 2025 - 00:00
In this 40th anniversary celebration, hear Maitrisiddhi evoke what Taraloka really is - beyond mere converted barns. Then hear from all five past and present Chairs of Taraloka, who witnessed between them the whole history of this women's Buddhist retreat centre. Each Chair is rejoiced in, then each one - Sanghadevi, Dayanandi, Saddhanandi, Samantabhadri and Maitridevi - speaks about what happened for Taraloka during her guardianship. This was all part of an Order 'Tara's Realm' celebration puja on the 40th Anniversary Tara Sadhana meditation retreat led by Vijayamala
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The Rise of the Asuras and the Sword of Wisdom (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 29 Nov, 2025 - 11:00

Vajragupta offers a Buddhist reflection on the social and political times we are living through. The talk takes the myth of the asuras (the Titan realm on the Wheel of Life) as a way of seeing and understanding the kind of world we are creating. In that myth, the Buddha appears in the realm of the asuras holding a sword. What does that symbolise? Vajragupta suggests it can be seen as a sword of fearlessness, a sword...

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Bringing Mindfulness More Into Our Lives (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 14:15

In this talk Vadanya explores how paying attention to reality - rather than mental or media noise - can bring our life alive and give us a vivid experience of beauty. But is “being here now” enough to bring real happiness? Or do we need a deeper idea of the meaning of awareness? Excerpted from the talk The Aware Mind Is the Happy Mind given at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, 2025.
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People Just Want to Be Happy (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 12:59

Peace, happiness, contentment we all want it, but where and how to find it. The Buddhist tradition would say that it is in how we relate to our experience that either satisfaction or grasping can be found. Does this stand up, how do we do it, what difference does it make in the world. Dharmashalin talks here about the essential problem of life. Excerpted from the talk Finding Peace In a Frantic World given...

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Three Points of Transition (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 - 12:04

In this masterly lecture to an American conference audience, Sangharakshita reminds us of the basic conceptual formulation of the Buddha’s enlightenment experience. The twelve negative and twelve positive nidanas (‘links’) represent two trends - reactive and progressive - within the same conditionality. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Twenty-Four Nidanas given as part of the series Two Lectures to a Conference on the Nature of Reality: Buddhism as Transformation, 1994.

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From Spiral to Mandala

By Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 26 Nov, 2025 - 00:00
At this Tuesday's Sangha Night, Nagavajri will evoke the 5 Buddha Mandala and help us feel into how the culmination of the spiral path could open up for us. During this theme we'll be looking at The Wheel of Life, a living symbol that encompasses the entirety of existence. We'll learn how to escape from the prison and sufferings of Samsara, towards ever increasing positive and expansive states of being, towards the ultimate goal of Awakening. We'll be taking a contemporary look at this ancient symbol, visiting it's realms and their beings from the depths of the hell realm to the heights of the heavenly abodes, and asking what do these realms look like in our modern society and world? Expect support for home practice, practical ideas of how to bring these traditional teachings into your everyday life, and reflections on how to make your Great Escape!