Here's the wonderful Parami celebrating the Buddha's Enlightenment with the Triratna community in Birmingham and in fellowship with Dharma farers all around the world from many different traditions...

Talk given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2010

In this talk, from 17th May at Sangha Night, Vaddhaka shares his reading and fascination of the meeting of modern neuro science and buddhism. He uses the five niyamas (five orders of conditionality) and Sangharakshita's system of spiritual practice as a framework for his exploration.

The second of two talks that Ratnaguna gave during a 12-day visit to Stockholm, in April 2010. He begins with a personal story and goes on to describe and explore the levels of happiness on the Buddhist Path, with the 12 positive nidanas as a frame work. A very engaging and rewarding talk.

Subhuti gives a concise and inspiring account of the Honeyball sutta. Starting with some background to his work in Hungary amongst the oppressed Gypsies there, he presents the Buddha's understanding on the basis for civil, in fact all kinds of, strife.

The Buddha's analysis takes the form of a nidana chain beginning with actual experience, that when we begin to proliferate or move away from facts to interpretations inevitably leads us into a secondary reality which easily leads to conflict with others, who have different versions of reality.

A brilliant talk, covering ground rapidly but concisely bringing together the Buddha's wisdom both in terms of transforming society and how we work within meditation, in fact we need to employ the same tools in both situations.

A talk followed by a questions and answers session at the Birmingham Centre. THis evening was for women and the topic was Karma.