The Buddha as Spiritual Friend: Enlightenment to old age. Vajratara condenses nearly 50 years of the Buddhas life, using stories from the Pali Canon to show how the Buddha built a spiritual community that lasts to this day. Transcending the conflict between the desire to withdraw and the desire to engage, the Buddha wanders northern India out of compassion, teaching the Dharma by his presence and his words.

Going Forth: Khemasuri talks about the 'turning around' of the Buddha's Going forth, Sangharakshita's and her own.

In an evening at the North London Centre Subhuti talks about the Pali canon and one sutta in particular which provides a very practical list for reflection. The emphasis of the sutta is the facts of life; we will age, sicken and die - however Subhuti brings a very positive outlook to this by strongly expressing the values that lie behind a Buddhist life and that by facing these facts we can live truly human and fulfilled lives.

In his fourth talk on the theme of the Imagination Subhuti enters the world of art and aesthetics. Of course based on what Sangharakshita says in the 'Religion of Art' he is however keen to emphasis the natural and uncomplicated aspects of art - it doesn't need to be Shakespeare and Bach; Art can touch us on many levels, although the best does have a touch of transcendence.

A weekend of Study with the Cambridge Order. Subhuti introduced material from a recent conversation with Sangharakashita on the topic of Imagination. In this session Subhuti launches into a history of Imagination within Western Culture, of necessity it involves broad brush-strokes, but none the less conveys a significant point about the nature of Imagination and what the situation is that we, as modern global citizens find ourselves in, whilst also acknowledging the situation will be somewhat different depending on our specific cultural background.