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The Symbol of the Wheel of Life (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 10 Nov, 2025 - 11:00

Maitreyi’s visit to the Mid Essex Buddhist Centre, talking about communicating through symbols, this time round through the hub of the wheel of life. Excerpted from the talk entitled Communicating Through Symbols: The Hub of the Wheel of Life given at Mid Essex Buddhist Centre, 2020.

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Revisiting the Romantics by Vishvapani

From Community Highlights on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:51
  • A drawing of Alfoxden Park in Somerset, UK, from 1920 | Image courtesy Wikipedia

Revisiting the Romantics by Vishvapani

From Community Highlights on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:51

Vishvapani in the recent edition of Tricycle:

Alfoxton Park in Somerset, southwest England, sits halfway up a long incline that rises from the Bristol Channel to the Quantock Hills. The main house, built in a neoclassical style in 1710, could be home to a Jane Austen heroine. But look more closely and you see crumbling plasterwork, decaying windows, and a tumbledown roof. I’ve come to know Alfoxton since 2020, when it became home to a community of Buddhists from the

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New Podcast: Portraits of Samadhi

From Buddhist Centre Features on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 21:38

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Samādhi is the Sanskrit word for a state of peaceful, integrated absorption the mind can reach through meditation.

And people’s faces in meditation have been a source of fascination (and distraction) for documentary filmmaker Hartley Woolf since he began his own Buddhist practice. “I can’t help but enjoy taking in all the different expressions around me in the shrine room,” he says, “and wondering what’s going on inside the mind behind.”

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Three Beasts and Two Paths (FBA Podcasts)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 8 Nov, 2025 - 11:00

Suddhayu introduces the Wheel of Life beginning with an exploration of the three poisons and how our actions form our lives. From ‘The Wheel of Life: A User’s Manual for Samsara. Talk given at Portsmouth Buddhist Center, Portsmouth, NH (USA), 2025.

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A Golden Thread

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 7 Nov, 2025 - 05:00

A Golden Thread

From Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration on Fri, 7 Nov, 2025 - 05:00

This is the eleventh talk to be produced and released by the Triratna Video Library this year as the 100th birth anniversary celebrations continue.

Sangharakshita visited the Edinburgh FWBO (Triratna) Buddhist Centre in September 2007 as his book ‘Precious Teachers’ was published. He offered this special talk, in which he chose to focus on his friend and teacher, Dhardo Rinpoche.

He invited the audience to picture the unlikely friendship of two young men, one a Tibetan tulku and the other an English bhikkhu,...
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Taming Spirits and Demons (Dharmabytes Podcast)

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 6 Nov, 2025 - 11:00

Vishvapani talks here about the Buddha’s response to society’s need for protection from demons the spirit world. Excerpted from the talk The Buddha and Society, part of the series Gautama Buddha, Birmingham, 2011. This series marked the launch of Vishvapani’s book: ‘Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of the Awakened One’ (Quercus, 2011).

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Letters of Compassion with Yashobodhi

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:59

Letters of Compassion with Yashobodhi

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:59

🧘 ✍️ Saturday December 20: Join us for a reflective end to 2025!

As 2025 draws to a close, we invite you to join us in tuning into compassion for ourselves and others. After all, it’s been quite a year!

We will meditate together, write, reflect and gently turn towards what did and didn’t go well in the past twelve months. Recalling that we are on this weird and wonderful journey together and can only do our best! Things can get overwhelming at...
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Letters of Compassion with Yashobodhi

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:59

Letters of Compassion with Yashobodhi

From Buddhist Centre Features on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:59

🧘 ✍️ Saturday December 20: Join us for a reflective end to 2025!

As 2025 draws to a close, we invite you to join us in tuning into compassion for ourselves and others. After all, it’s been quite a year!

We will meditate together, write, reflect and gently turn towards what did and didn’t go well in the past twelve months. Recalling that we are on this weird and wonderful journey together and can only do our best! Things can get overwhelming at...
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College Forum: A Crisis for Young People

From Community Highlights on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:42

College Forum: A Crisis for Young People

From Community Highlights on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:42

This event is open to everyone, so do invite your sangha friends to come along!

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Dear friend,

Many of us in the College have been concerned about the lack of young people involved in our movement and entering the Order. Certainly, when I got started going to the London Buddhist Centre in the 1980s, pretty much everyone was young: the Chair was 35 and, like most people getting involved at that...
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College Forum: A Crisis for Young People

From Community Highlights on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:42

College Forum: A Crisis for Young People

From Community Highlights on Wed, 5 Nov, 2025 - 21:42

This event is open to everyone, so do invite your sangha friends to come along!

🖥️ Connect on Zoom

Dear friend,

Many of us in the College have been concerned about the lack of young people involved in our movement and entering the Order. Certainly, when I got started going to the London Buddhist Centre in the 1980s, pretty much everyone was young: the Chair was 35 and, like most people getting involved at that...

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