Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabytes: The Beauty of the Buddha

By Centre Team on Thu, 7 Mar, 2024 - 11:00

Dayanandi contemplates the words of the Tiratana Vandana and the qualities of the Buddha that it evokes. She says: “I reflect on the words as they seem to bring out the reality of his Enlightened being for me; what it might be like to really be the Enlightened One.” Excerpted from the talk Reflecting on the Buddha in the Forest given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2019.

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Sheffield Buddhist Centre
Sheffield Buddhist Centre

Kindness Revolution - Meditation Night

By Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 6 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Shantideva speaks about the perfection of meditation in terms of a deep realisation of the sameness of self and other and so releasing boundless metta. It would be wonderful if we could sail straight into this transcendental love whenever we sit to do the metta bhavana, but you may have noticed that things are not usually that straightforward to say the least! This week we’ll be directly exploring and practising a fundamental principle of metta practice, whereby we learn to cultivate kindness and awareness in relation to whatever arises in our experience right here and now. This allows us to plant and nurture seeds of metta even when the practice seems to be far off what we think it should be.
Padmaloka Retreat Centre
Padmaloka Retreat Centre

The Burning House

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 5 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
In this talk given on the Great Gathering at Padmaloka in February 2024, Amalayodhin explores the parable of the burning house from the White Lotus Sutra. He provides some reflections on the intoxications that keep us in the burning house and what we can do to escape.
Padmaloka Retreat Centre
Padmaloka Retreat Centre

Building the Palace of Metta

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 5 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
In this talk given on the Men's Great Gathering on The Burning House, Padmavajra talks about escaping from the burning house of ourselves, as well as destroying the house of conditioned existence, but ends with the Buddha's teaching of the six memorable qualities that lead to love, respect, unity and concord between people, which lead to the creation of the palace of metta.
North London Buddhist Centre
North London Buddhist Centre

Sangha As a Path to Enlightenment

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 5 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Engagingly, sometimes hilariously, Ksantikara relates the story of Meghiya, assailed by distractions when meditating in his favourite mango grove. The Buddha explains to Meghiya five practices that conduce to 'the heart's release', all based in spiritual friendship, but taking you as far as awakening. Keynote talk at the North London Buddhist Centre Saturday class by our new chair, 10 February 2024.
London Buddhist Centre
London Buddhist Centre

The Doorway of Emptiness

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 5 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Amalayodhin discusses The Doorway of Emptiness (Talk 4/4) on Dharma Night at the London Buddhist Centre.
Taraloka Retreat Centre
Taraloka Retreat Centre

Shinran: Re Imagining World

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 5 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Exploring self- and Other power in the Dharma life. How do we 'imagine' the Dharma life - and what would happen if we 'imagined' differently? Introduction to Shinran's life, world and perspective. Talk given to members of the Triratna Buddhist Order. Suitable for experienced practitioners only as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted.
Taraloka Retreat Centre
Taraloka Retreat Centre

Shinran: A Transcendental Critique of the Dharma Life As Ego Project (Talk 2 of 2)

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 5 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Exploring Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante. We’re all ‘bombu’ – conditioned, foolish, finite beings ‘forever drowning and wandering without ever knowing the path to liberation’ – and yet we are also always illumined by the golden light of Buddha – ‘grasped never to be abandoned’. What happens when we live in full awareness of these two aspects of our experience? Talk 2 of 2 given to members of the Triratna Buddhist Order. Suitable for experienced practitioners only as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted.
Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabytes: Sharing the Love of Solitude

By Centre Team on Mon, 4 Mar, 2024 - 11:00

Akashadevi and readers tell some of the delightful stories of the Buddha’s meetings with elephants, including this one when the Buddha needs a bit of space from the noisiness of his followers. From the talk Elephants and the Buddha, part of a “Tales and Teachings of Early Buddhism” given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2017.

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Padmaloka Retreat Centre
Padmaloka Retreat Centre

Breaking In and Breaking Out

By Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 3 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
In this talk given in March 2024 on the Fathers Retreat at Padmaloka, Padmavajra explores the place of Energy in living the Dharma life. He goes through Sangharaskshita's Tantric Version of the Five Precepts. The talk has personal reminiscence, references to the life of the Buddha, Tantric deities and Chan masters, as well as poems from Sangharakshita, D.H. Lawrence and William Blake.