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FBA Podcast: Doubt as Hindrance

Sat, 30 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

This is a great introduction to the basic Buddhist methods of working with doubts based on unhelpful confusion, in meditation and in general practice. Padmadaka explores the relationship between doubt and suffering, and highlights the ways in which we can have and hold our genuine questionings, while working through the habits and tendencies that can hold us back in our lives.

Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2005.

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Lessen the Fabrication of Self

Thu, 28 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Lessen the Fabrication of Self

Thu, 28 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Maitreyabandhu  moves on to the anatta reflection in the context of the myth of self-surrender. Towards Insight: Three Myths, an online retreat led by Jnanavaca and Maitreyabandhu from Adhisthana.

From the talk entitled Anatta and Self-Surrender as part of the series Towards Insight: Three Myths given at Adhisthana, 2020.

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Getting Curious About Your Experience

Mon, 25 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Getting Curious About Your Experience

Mon, 25 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Yashobodhi talks about the relationship between thinking and insight. As long as we have a brain, we will have thoughts. Some of these thoughts are helpful. Some not so much. Becoming aware of thoughts is a good start. Whatever next?

Excerpted from the talk entitled Inquisitive Mind, Thinking and Awakening given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2015.

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The Discourse On the Not-Self Characteristic

Sat, 23 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

The Discourse On the Not-Self Characteristic

Sat, 23 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Dhivan discusses the Discourse on the Not-Self Characteristic or Anattalakkhana Sutta (also known as the Discourse to the Group of Five or Pañcavaggiya Sutta), believed to be the second discourse given by the Buddha. This talk was given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2017, as part of the series Discourses from the Pali Canon.

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Dharmabytes: Psychological Types from the East

Thu, 21 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Dharmabytes: Psychological Types from the East

Thu, 21 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Knowing yourself is an important step in self-development. Here, Sangharakshita describes the three psychological types enumerated in Buddhagosha’s Visuddhimagga, the Path of Purification. From the lecture entitled The Question of Psychological Types which introduces a number of Western and Eastern classifications of psychological types and discusses their implications in the choice of techniques of self-development. Talk given in 1970...
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Look Out for Craving

Mon, 18 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Look Out for Craving

Mon, 18 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Ratnaprabha explains why craving is such a fundamental issue for Buddhists, how it relates to both desire and clinging, why it causes us problems, and how to deal with it.

Excerpted from the talk entitled Needing Nothing given at North London Buddhist Centre, 2018.

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Breaking the Fetter of Superficiality

Sat, 16 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Breaking the Fetter of Superficiality

Sat, 16 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Superficiality is acting from the surface of ourselves without thoroughness or care. We act from the intellect but not from our emotional depths. In this talk Akashamitra looks at how superficiality arises from an internally divided state of mind. He points the way to a more wholesome practise of the Dharma through a focus on personal transformation as the goal of...
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No Bit of Us is Really Fixed

Thu, 14 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

No Bit of Us is Really Fixed

Thu, 14 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Here is an excellent introduction to the most subtle and complex part of the Buddha’s teaching on impermanence: that all things in conditioned existence are empty of any innate self-nature. Insubstantiality might never be really ‘simple’ to understand - but this is a good place to start and Locana an ever-intelligent guide along the way…

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Dharmabytes: Constantly Creating Ourselves

Mon, 11 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Hridayagita describes the 3 fetters as a useful tool for reflecting why we forget or do not fully believe that our actions of body, speech and mind truly have consequences. Excerpted from the talk Recollecting the Consequences of Ones Actions give at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2016.

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FBA Podcast: Entering the Sangha

Sat, 9 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Sangharakshita goes to Buddhafield! A first for him, and a first for the fabulous Buddhafield Festival that takes place each year at the height of the English summer. This talk was given in a tent in Devon - and the sounds of this great Dharma celebration are everywhere around as Sangharakshita marks his entry to the ‘Dharma Parlour’ with a rolling set of thoughts and reminiscences and encouragements to practice. We move from India at the time of...