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Here you can live free...

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Fri, 6 Mar, 2026 - 12:19
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Here you can live free...

From Jobs, Volunteering & Communities on Fri, 6 Mar, 2026 - 12:19

For forty years Rivendell has been a much loved retreat centre. From life-changing first encounters with the Dharma, to intensive meditation retreats for seasoned practitioners, Rivendell has been a precious spiritual home to hundreds of people. But it is now facing an existential challenge.

This audio (13 minutes) from Vajragupta, chair of Rivendell, explains the basic situation. The old era of Rivendell is over. It was based on a team living in woefully inadequate accommodation, cramped and with no...
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The Buddha as a Wise Friend (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 5 Mar, 2026 - 11:00

This is a quietly passionate talk by Jinapriya on the quicksilver nature of the Enlightenment experience - impossible to pin down, utterly transformative. His main theme within the frame of such a big question - ‘What is Enlightenment?’ - is the struggle to live our lives in the present moment, especially in the face of pain. Excerpted from the talk entitled What is Enlightenment? given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2003.

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Dying Into Freedom: Spiritual Death In the Triratna System of Practice

From Glasgow Buddhist Centre on Thu, 5 Mar, 2026 - 00:00
As part of the series on Personal Development (system of practice) Parami helps us understand how important spiritual death is in our lives. She explores the small moments of letting go which help us to breakthrough ego clinging, allowing freedom and creativity to emerge.
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Personal Talks On Gender

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 4 Mar, 2026 - 00:00
Everyone has their own relationship to sex and gender, based on so many causes and conditions.... here are the five of us on the team sharing a snapshot of ours. Satyakavi's drag king alter ego 'Truelove'makes an appearance (just in case you wonder what's going on!) Talks from day 3 of 'Daughters of the Buddha' retreat at Taraloka.
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How We Create Identity: Five Skandhas and Four Graspings

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 4 Mar, 2026 - 00:00
'Am I a man or a woman? Am I even something at all?' Using the teaching of the bhikkunis Khema and Soma, Maitrisiddhi draws out how we build a sense of fixed and separate identity. How can we do two things: integrate all that we are on a relative level, and yet recognise and let go of all the ways in which we 'grasp' and create fixed identities? Third talk from Taraloka mitra retreat 'Daughters of the Buddha'
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'A Retreat Centre For Women' - Uh? Why?

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 4 Mar, 2026 - 00:00
In 1985, at the height of the women's movement, the rationale behind single sex and single gender spaces didn't need unpacking. Now, it does. Maitrisiddhi unpacks reasons, downsides and questions about single gender spaces in Triratna - and takes in the teachings of Bhikkuni Upacala en route. Final talk from Taraloka mitra retreat 'Daughters of the Buddha'
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'A Writhing of Views, a Contortion of Views'

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 4 Mar, 2026 - 00:00
Views, ideologies and fixed positions - when are they helpful, a 'right view' - and when do they distort and limit our seeing? Talk unpacking Bhikkhuni Cala's teaching: 'All paths outside this teaching are entangled in views. Being bound by any view, one is always under Mara's power.' 5th talk from Taraloka mitra retreat 'Daughters of the Buddha'
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'I See You, Mara'

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Wed, 4 Mar, 2026 - 00:00
How can we work with our own inner voices that undermine our practice and limit our lives? Shubhavyuha draws this out, using the stories of early Buddhist women encountering 'Mara' - the embodiment of all that holds us back. Fourth talk from Taraloka mitra retreat 'Daughters of the Buddha'
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Going for Refuge to the Buddha (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 3 Mar, 2026 - 13:43

After an account of the Buddha’s life, Sangharakshita asks how, if at all, such a man can be defined or categorised. Excerpted from the talk entitled Who is the Buddha? given as part of the series Introducing the Three Jewels of Buddhism, 1968.

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Renunciation: 'The Endless Wandering of the Mind Will Be Conquered'

From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 2 Mar, 2026 - 00:00
Starting with words from Padmasambhava, and looking at the teachings of Dhammadinna, Satyakavi explores the challenging area of letting go. Triratna is a tradition without a 'rule-book' - so how do we relate to renunciation? Second talk from Taraloka mitra retreat 'Daughters of the Buddha'
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