Padmavajra explores the profound lines from Sangharakshita's Dedication Ceremony:

"Here seated, here practising

My our mind become Buddha,

May our thought become Dharma

May our communication with one another be Sangha"

Recorded at the Autumn Going for Refuge weekend retreat, September 2024.

Padmavajra gives a personal account of the history of his going for refuge, interweaving his broad inspirations and laced with myth, stories of Bhante and Dr. Ambedkar, and from his own time in India.

This talk looks at the parable of the Jewel in the Garment from the White Lotus Sutra and explores jewel symbolism elsewhere in the Lotus Sutra and in Buddhism more broadly

Arthakusalin praises being in Padmaloka as the very right place to talk about a journey home. He shares one of his deepest samskaras, a deep engrained feeling of not being worth to live, he talks about revaluing myths in the context of meaning, about becoming more healed and wholesome through going into a personal relationship with a Buddha or Bodhisattva, about the effectiveness of the Dharma in growing into a happy, healthy, human being - something we nowadays maybe too often see as synonymous with therapy.