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An Ethical Approach to Climate Science (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 12 Jun, 2025 - 16:03

How can Buddhists respond to the climate emergency? Vishvapani uses the Parable of the Burning House from the Lotus Sutra to suggest our responsibilities’ and finds the values we need to guide us in the Five Precepts. Excerpted from the talk Climate Precepts In The Burning House given in Cardiff, 2019.

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Revisioning Our Relation to the World (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 9 Jun, 2025 - 11:56

Bhadra gave this talk as part of BAM 2018. He references David Loy’s two icebergs and explores how we might revise the Triratana mandala of practice to strengthen our sense of interconnectedness with the world. Given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2018.

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Collective Delusion (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 5 Jun, 2025 - 10:50

Dayajoti offers a short talk on climate change, relating it to basic buddhist teachings, followed by a guided ‘climate’ meditation. From the talk entitled Consensus Trance - Climate given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2015.

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Haunted by a Sense of Lack (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 2 Jun, 2025 - 12:29

Vaddhaka introduces David Loy and his thoughts about how to bring our Buddhist practice out into the streets and engage with the world. In the full talk he also introduces Bhikkhu Bodhi, a prolific translator of the Pali Canon and respected teacher in the East, deeply rooted in the Buddha’s teachings, who returned to the USA and re-engaged with his activist roots challenging a self-oriented and withdrawn mode of Buddhist practice. From the talk entitled ...

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Our Ethical Sensitivity (Dharmabytes Podcasts)

By Centre Team on Mon, 2 Jun, 2025 - 12:10

How ethically sensitive are we? Could we rejoice in our ethical behaviour? Ratnaghosha gives a short talk reflecting on the practices described in the Dasadhamma Sutta: Discourse on the Ten Dhammas. Excerpted from the talk Going Forth, Going Beyond: Short Talks that was given at the Triratna Buddhist Order convention on the theme Going Forth, Going Beyond, 2022.

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The Water of Life (Parable of Herbs)

By Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 29 May, 2025 - 00:00
The Parable of the Herbs offers a vivid metaphor for how the Dharma nourishes all beings according to their unique capacities—like rain falling equally on grasses, shrubs, and trees. Sanghajiva will explore the profound meaning behind the parable: the Buddha’s wisdom flows impartially to all, yet each individual receives and grows according to their own nature and readiness. In this series we are exploring the profound teachings of the White Lotus Sutra, presented through a combination of poetry, drama, parables and what can seem like cosmic science fiction, and the way these have the potential to free us to take our practice of the Dharma to a new level.
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The Preciousness of Human Birth (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Tue, 27 May, 2025 - 12:31

How can we, in our busy, everyday lives, transform our awareness and turn our minds towards awakening? Paranita talks about the practice of the ‘Four Mind Turning Reflections’, the four reminders that work on our minds to turn them towards liberation. We will hear about how to reflect on the preciousness of our human life, the inevitability of death, the truth of karma and the dangers of samsara, to bring about a radical shift in awareness. Excerpted...

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An Ode to Joy (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Tue, 27 May, 2025 - 11:01

Smritiratna portrays rejoicing not as a mood but as a choice: a deliberate act. At least potentially we all have the power to rejoice, even when we are in the pits of despair. In this excerpt, he reflects on Beethoven who chose not to give in to deafness but to end his last symphony with an ode to joy. He sings the fifth section of the Sevenfold Puja ‘Rejoicing in Merits’ to Beethoven’s familiar tune. Excerpted the...

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He Who Was So Kind (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 24 May, 2025 - 11:00

Prajnahridaya explores Awareness of Reality, but not in a way you might expect. What if seeing the truth were less about ‘understanding’ reality, and more about coming into relation with and opening up to what we might experience as a living spiritual force? Through the course of the evening we will be becoming more aware of the Buddha, who is himself reality. Prajnahridaya will be speaking quite personally about his encounters with the Buddha whilst on pilgrimage...

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Coming Home

By Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 21 May, 2025 - 00:00
The Parable of The Return Journey tells the story of a son who becomes separated from his father and descends into a life of crime and poverty. Meanwhile his father becomes incredibly wealthy, so much so that when they happen upon each other many years later, the son is unable to recognise his father and is terrified by his riches and king-like status. Bodhinaga will explore what happens next, with the son's incredible journey of transformation, asking 'what does this tell us about our own Dharma journey?' In this series we are exploring the profound teachings of the White Lotus Sutra, presented through a combination of poetry, drama, parables and what can seem like cosmic science fiction, and the way these have the potential to free us to take our practice of the Dharma to a new level.