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Dharmabytes: Lesser and Greater Happiness

By Centre Team on Mon, 25 Mar, 2024 - 10:00

Saraha draws out examples of the Buddha’s wisdom from the Pali Canon highlighting how pleasure and bliss are not obstacles to the spiritual path, craving and attachment is the problem leading to suffering.. Excerpted from the talk entitled Wisdom In the Pali Canon given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2010.

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London Buddhist Centre
London Buddhist Centre

World Teacher - The Buddha's Transcendental Message

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 25 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Carl Jung once said 'We have fallen from the roof of the medieval cathedral into the abyss of self'. After the 'death of god' how can we find a sense of the sacred, a transcendent vision of meaning and purpose that we can serve? The Buddha's communication is just that, albeit understood in a particular and mysterious way. Maitreyabandhu explores the mystery of the Buddha and his Dhamma in this keynote talk.
London Buddhist Centre
London Buddhist Centre

The Burning Monk

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 25 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
In June 2013, Devamitra toured several Triratna centres, including the LBC, giving talks in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the immolation in Saigon of Thich Quang Duc – better known as ‘the burning monk’. In this talk, he retells the story of Thich Quang Duc.
London Buddhist Centre
London Buddhist Centre

The Guru: Revealing Mind, Transforming World

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 25 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
What does the practice of the Dharma look like in the face of the particular problems that we face in our lives and in society today? And what can the mysterious figure of the Vajra Guru offer us as we attempt to overcome them? Subhuti gave this talk on Padmasambhava Day 2021 at the LBC.
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FBA Podcast: Celebrating the Buddha - Pingiya's Praises to the Way to the Beyond

By Centre Team on Sat, 23 Mar, 2024 - 10:00

In this talk Alokadhara explores these beautiful verses which evoke the Buddha, his qualities and the profundity of his teaching. This talk was given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2014.

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Dharmabytes: The Buddha’s Instant Response

By Centre Team on Thu, 21 Mar, 2024 - 10:00

The Buddha and Ananda once tended a sick monk, neglected by his companions because of his ‘uselessness’. Sangharakshita shows that people cannot be treated as ‘things’ in the spiritual community.

From the talk A Case of Dysentry given in 1982 as part of the series Incidents from the Pali Canon.

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Sheffield Buddhist Centre
Sheffield Buddhist Centre

A Limb of the Universe

By Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 20 Mar, 2024 - 00:00
Just as I love and cherish my body, which is divided into many limbs, so I should love and cherish this whole world, which is divided into many beings.’ So says Shantideva in his famous ‘Guide to the Path of Awakening’. In this talk Vadanya will explore what Shantideva tells us about the wisdom teaching of ‘anatman’ – often translated as ‘no-self’ – and look at how this apparently negative doctrine opens up a positive and inspiring vision of connectedness.
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Dharmabytes: An Unfamiliar Landscape

By Centre Team on Mon, 18 Mar, 2024 - 10:00

Mahamani  shares some experiences around guilt, faith, losing the way and finding it. From the personal talk entitled The Way to the Top of the Hill from ‘The Way to the Beyond’ Womens AOWE held at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2021.

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FBA Podcast: The Jataka Stories

By Centre Team on Sat, 16 Mar, 2024 - 10:00

In an excellent and thorough introduction to the Jataka tales, Akashadevi explains the value of stories of the Buddha’s past lives and how they originated. She tells the stories of the Hare in the Moon and the Monkey King. This talk was given at the West London Buddhist Centre, 2017.

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Dharmabytes: Friend to Friend

By Centre Team on Thu, 14 Mar, 2024 - 10:00

Ratnaprabha tells the story of Meghiya, his frustrating attempt to meditate, and the advice the Buddha gives him on the necessity of mentorship, or kalyana mitrata. From the talk Meghiya, Meditation and Mentorship given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2017.

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