Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is a recollection from Sangharakshita called An Encounter with Padmasambhava in Darjeeling. Padmasambhava, often known as the ‘Second Buddha’, is famous for converting the demons of Tibet. In this lecture we are given a brief biography of Padmasambhava and an outline of the progressive Nyingmapa practices attributed to him.
My meditation practice in that time was focussed on direct experience: I would sit for a while and then would look – and what was seen was fabrication! That was clearly seen: this fabrication making something out of direct experience that actually wasn’t in direct experience. Really clearly seeing that was liberating: it was liberating – the energy that went in to that – there was this visceral feeling of release and joy in that release of the energy that
This second revision of An Initiation into a New Life marks the culmination of a process in which we’ve sought a formula for the way in which meditation practices are taken on during the private ordination ceremony. We have wanted to do justice to a number of concerns, three of which were addressed in the first version of the paper:
1.To move decisively away from the context of Tantric Initiation, especially as found in the Tibetan tradition.
In this talk on Sangha Day at Manchester Buddhist Centre, Vishangka uses Sangharakshita's poem, The Sunflower's Farewell, as a starting point to reflect on the power and beauty of Sangha. This talk was given shortly after Sangharakshita's death.
In this talk on Sangha Day at Manchester Buddhist Centre, Vishangka uses Sangharakshita's poem, The Sunflower's Farewell, as a starting point to reflect on the power and beauty of Sangha. This talk was given shortly after Sangharakshita's death.
My parents gave me my life and raised me with love, thereby giving me a stable and healthy basis for my entire life, for which I feel deeply grateful to them.
But in my adult life, the greatest formative influence has been my teacher, Bhante Urgyen Sangharakshita.
I had met the Dharma and caught (some) fire before I met him or fwbo/Triratna. But would the Dharma ever have become the central focal point in my life that it did become, had I then embarked...
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is a recollection from Sangharakshita called An Encounter with Padmasambhava in Darjeeling. Padmasambhava, often known as the ‘Second Buddha’, is famous for converting the demons of Tibet. In this lecture we are given a brief biography of Padmasambhava and an outline of the progressive Nyingmapa practices attributed to him.
From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Tue, 27 Nov, 2018 - 13:51Gratitude to Bhante Urgyen Sangharakshita My parents gave me the precious gift of life, Bhante Urgyen Sangharakshita gave me the precious gift of a direction, a way for this human life to be fulfilled. He passed on the teachings of the Buddha that lead to the fulfilment of the deepest wish of the heart. As an adolescent I was desperate to find a way of life that would lead to such fulfilment and to the alleviation of suffering in the...
