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Opening the Mystery of Friendship (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 17 Feb, 2025 - 11:00

Aryadasa discusses his experience of moving through fear in order to live a life more dedicated to love and friendship. He talks about the difficulties involved in this transition and the fruits that come from working through such difficulties. Excerpted from the talk Fearless Love - A Personal Talk by Aryadasa given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2019, as part of the Sub35 Men’s Fearless Love retreat.

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Cambridge Buddhist Centre

Steering For the Deep: The Awareness Aspect

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 17 Feb, 2025 - 00:00
In this short series given at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre in early 2016, Vessantara explores Sangharakshita's idea that fundamentally there is one spiritual experience, which has different aspects that we can unfold. All the talks are linked together not only through ideas but also through a thread of stories and imagery related to the Pacific Ocean. Steering for the Deep: the Awareness Aspect. This final one explores how to contact and influence deeper levels of mind, culminating in the turning about of the basis, the transformation of the deepest level of mind.
Cambridge Buddhist Centre
Cambridge Buddhist Centre

Ferrying Across: The Altruistic Aspect

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 17 Feb, 2025 - 00:00
In this short series given at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre in early 2016, Vessantara explores Sangharakshita's idea that fundamentally there is one spiritual experience, which has different aspects that we can unfold. All the talks are linked together not only through ideas but also through a thread of stories and imagery related to the Pacific Ocean. This third talk is all about love and compassion, and how it flowers in the arising of Bodhicitta.
Cambridge Buddhist Centre
Cambridge Buddhist Centre

The Empty Boat: The Insight Aspect

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 17 Feb, 2025 - 00:00
In this short series given at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre in early 2016, Vessantara explores Sangharakshitas idea that fundamentally there is one spiritual experience, which has different aspects that we can unfold. All the talks are linked together not only through ideas but also through a thread of stories and imagery related to the Pacific Ocean. This second talk covers deepening insight into the nature of things, from reflection to direct experience, stream entry and beyond.
Cambridge Buddhist Centre
Cambridge Buddhist Centre

Wayfinding: The Volitional Aspect

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 17 Feb, 2025 - 00:00
We've remastered this short series of talks given at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre in early 2016, where Vessantara explores Sangharakshita's idea that fundamentally there is one spiritual experience, which has different aspects that we can unfold. All the talks are linked together not only through ideas but also through a thread of stories and imagery related to the Pacific Ocean. This first talk looks at going for refuge to the Three Jewels, which is the central aspect.
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Free Buddhist Audio

Touching the Void, a Catastrophic Fall Into Heart (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 15 Feb, 2025 - 11:00

In early 2020, only weeks preceding the full onslaught of the pandemic, Vajrin survived a catastrophic fall from a bike deep within New Zealand bush. Paralysed from the chest down and stranded in Auckland for months of lockdown, he called upon the Dharma. Despite four decades of practice, it didn’t seem to help. Or did it? …in ways he hadn’t predicted. This talk was given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2024.

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Bit by Bit Freedom Emerges (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 13 Feb, 2025 - 11:00

Fresh off a three-week solitary retreat, Vajragupta (m) shares, in a very personal and heart-felt way, what it was like, and what happened during that time. Coming to terms with his mother’s slide into dementia, evoking the strangeness of dreams and memories, describing the sheer vividness of experience on retreat, and reflecting on both the joy and the fear that can result: this is a moving and inspiring talk about the potential richness of solitude. Excerpted from...

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Stockholms buddhistcenter

Medvetandets Tre Magiska Egenskaper

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 10 Feb, 2025 - 00:00
En introduktion till medvetandets tre egenskaper: öppenhet, klarhet och sensitivitet. Man kan se dem som inneboende kvaliteter men också som principer som vi kan få syn på och odla i meditationen.·Sedan en guidad uppmärksamhet på andningen, där vi utforskar de tre egenskaperna. Stockholms Buddhistcenter 10 februari 2025.
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A Life Well Spent and Beyond its End (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 8 Feb, 2025 - 11:00

Suryagupta shares personal reflections on death and dying, discovering patterns in the human condition, and relates this to the life of the Buddha. This talk was given as a part of the London Buddhist Centre’s Winter Retreat 2023, part of the series The Noble Quest, 2023.

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The Great Quality of Fearlessness (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 6 Feb, 2025 - 11:00

Fearlessness is courage in the face of fear, not the absence of fear. When we are with someone who is dying, we are confronted by our own death. Our sense of self is fundamentally brought into question as we face our core spiritual problem: the truth of insubstantiality and impermanence. Vidyamala gives a strong account of working with suffering and sorrow in life, and of transforming your experience into one characterized by contentment and a sense of...