Taraloka Retreat Centre
Taraloka Retreat Centre

(9 of 10) Led Meditation: Boundlessness and the Senses

By Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 28 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Letting go into our direct sense experiences – beyond concepts and labels. Meditation 4 of 4 from a retreat exploring the Ratnagunasamcayagatha ‘The Boundless Nature of Being’, held at Taraloka in October 2023.
Taraloka Retreat Centre
Taraloka Retreat Centre

Esoteric Refuges and Bodhisattva Vows

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
What prevents the Tantra from being ‘mere vulgar magic’ – or alternatively, exotic pop psychology? It’s Going for Refuge and the Bodhisattva aspiration. But how can we find and grow these deeper motivations in ourselves? The Tantra tells us to look in our everyday experience. Here’s how! Talk 4 of 4 given on 2024 Taraloka retreat ‘Vajra Energy’, exploring themes from Sangharakshita’s ‘Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism’
London Buddhist Centre
London Buddhist Centre

Why Practice the Dharma?

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
In this talk given on Dharma night at the LBC, Satyadasa explores the fundamental reasons and motivations for practicing the Dharma.
London Buddhist Centre
London Buddhist Centre

Where Buddhism Begins and Why It Begins There

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Is it pessimistic to focus on the painful aspects of life, or can we find a way to something better by trying to understand it? An exploration of Dukkha - the teaching on suffering at the heart of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths.
London Buddhist Centre
London Buddhist Centre

As Fire Tests Gold

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
An alive and dynamic spiritual community is vital to the individual flourishing of those that participate in it. In this keynote talk Paramabandhu gives his reflections on over 30 years of practising within the LBC Sangha.
Taraloka Retreat Centre
Taraloka Retreat Centre

The Dakini and the Cremation Ground

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
The naked red sky dancer, embodying the liberated energy of the Awakened mind – playing, living, practising in the fearful Cremation Ground. Heartfelt and searingly honest, Sahajatara talks about how to recognise ‘cremation grounds’ in our own lives – situations that push us beyond our limits – and invites us to recognise the transformative potential of difficulty. Extreme difficulty can be the conditions where the dakini can arise for us. Talk 3 of 4 given on 2024 Taraloka retreat ‘Vajra Energy’, exploring themes from Sangharakshita’s ‘Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism’
Taraloka Retreat Centre
Taraloka Retreat Centre

The Dakini and the Cremation Ground

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
The naked red sky dancer, embodying the liberated energy of the Awakened mind – playing, living, practising in the fearful Cremation Ground. Heartfelt and searingly honest, Sahajatara talks about how to recognise ‘cremation grounds’ in our own lives – situations that push us beyond our limits – and invites us to recognise the transformative potential of difficulty. Extreme difficulty can be the conditions where the dakini can arise for us. Talk 3 of 4 given on 2024 Taraloka retreat ‘Vajra Energy’, exploring themes from Sangharakshita’s ‘Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism’
Taraloka Retreat Centre
Taraloka Retreat Centre

Everything Becomes a Symbol of Reality

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
What is a symbol? How does something – anything – become symbolic? Maitrisiddhi explores how to engage with both personal and traditional symbols of enlightenment. Faith and the imaginal faculty can open us into a world where everything is significant – everything is telling us of the path to awakening. Talk 2 of 4 given on 2024 Taraloka retreat ‘Vajra Energy’, exploring themes from Sangharakshita’s ‘Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism’
Taraloka Retreat Centre
Taraloka Retreat Centre

Led Meditation: Energy Centres, Light and Colour

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Maitrisiddhi evokes the three protective circles surrounding the mandala of practice, then leads a meditation. From 2024 Taraloka retreat ‘Vajra Energy’, exploring themes from Sangharakshita’s ‘Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism’
Taraloka Retreat Centre
Taraloka Retreat Centre

Vajra Energy

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 26 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
The Vajrayana or the Tantra is the Dharma-path of mantra, magic and the transformation of all our energies, rejecting none. How can we undertake this transformation, using our everyday unenlightened experience to move us towards awakening? And how does the symbol of the vajra, the diamond thunderbolt, illumine this path of transforming all that we are? Talk 1 of 4 given on 2024 Taraloka retreat ‘Vajra Energy’, exploring themes from Sangharakshita’s ‘Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism’