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The Twelve Days of FBA! Day 1: 'Radical Kindness in a Violent World' by Viryajyoti

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 26 Dec, 2020 - 09:00

The Twelve Days of FBA! Day 1: 'Radical Kindness in a Violent World' by Viryajyoti

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 26 Dec, 2020 - 09:00

2020 has been a year in which our practice of the Dharma has been called upon time and time again. Witnessing this, our first talk (recommended by FBA’s podcast curator, Viriyalila) is called Radical Kindness in a Violent World by Viryajyoti, given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, UK.

This is a beautiful talk, exemplifying a spirit of engagement with life that knows how transforming the world must begin with each of us. The pandemic and its many challenges ask us to strengthen our practice of deep kindness, towards ourselves and all beings. Listen...

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FBA Podcast: The Buddha Vandana

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 26 Dec, 2020 - 06:00

A self-proclaimed ‘doctrine follower’, Nagasuri challenges herself to speak on the basis of her faith in the Buddha, and does so with moving eloquence. Personal, full of devotion, she shares over 30 years of being in contact with the Buddha and explains how the grace of the Buddha’s blessings has opened her heart time and time again.

Talk given at the Women’s International Order Convention 2011.

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The Twelve Days of FBA – 2020 Style!

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 26 Dec, 2020 - 02:35

The Twelve Days of FBA – 2020 Style!

From Free Buddhist Audio on Sat, 26 Dec, 2020 - 02:35

Warmest greetings and well wishes to you and your friends and family this festive season, from all of us at Free Buddhist Audio!

To rejoice in the turning of the year we are delighted to bring you our annual Twelve Days of FBA celebration! From December 26 - January 6, join us every day on InstagramFacebook and Twitter to hear some of the most inspiring Dharma talks around, recommended by our team and supporters around the world. Or click + follow above. Take part every day...

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The Abhayaratna Trust 200 Appeal

From Abhayaratna Trust on Thu, 24 Dec, 2020 - 12:51

The Abhayaratna Trust 200 Appeal

From Abhayaratna Trust on Thu, 24 Dec, 2020 - 12:51

Watch video here: https://youtu.be/xvYRasSOUAA
 
Why give regularly to The Abhayaratna Trust? 
 
Because we fill a gap that other charities don’t. We give modest grants to individual Order members, wherever they are in the world, for their personal support during times of financial difficulty. We cover heating bills, relocation costs, travel to Order Gatherings, help with dental and medical costs where there is no national health service or insurance, meeting unexpected emergencies such as during Covid-19, accessing therapies...

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Padmasambhava: A New Video From Urgyen House

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Thu, 24 Dec, 2020 - 12:12

Padmasambhava: A New Video From Urgyen House

From Sangharakshita Memorial Space on Thu, 24 Dec, 2020 - 12:12

Dharmachari Paramartha considers Urgyen Sangharakshita’s deep spiritual connection with Padmasambhava, the Lotus-born Guru and introduces the images of Guru Rimpoche at Urgyen House.

Urgyen House is a project dedicated to ensuring the long-term preservation of Sangharakshita’s collection of books, letters, papers, thangkas and artefacts as well as the building in which he spent the last years of his life.

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Dharmabyte: There’s A Lot of Potential Within Us

From Free Buddhist Audio on Thu, 24 Dec, 2020 - 06:00

Kamalashila takes us into the world of the Abhidharma to investigate how positive mind states emerge. He describes the types of Shraddha (confidence, faith or esteem), and their place in Buddhist practice.

Excerpted from the talk entitled Shraddha given for Sangha Night at the West London Buddhist Centre, 2016.

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Creating a Retreat at Home: Tips from Satyalila

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Tue, 22 Dec, 2020 - 11:21

Creating a Retreat at Home: Tips from Satyalila

From The Community Toolkit for Uncertain Times on Tue, 22 Dec, 2020 - 11:21

Satyalila shares her inspiration and passion for creating retreats at home by re-imagining our everyday space - an ideal practice for the winter holiday period, especially in 2020!

Exploring planning, preparing, starting, sustaining, concluding & celebrating that retreat time, she offers many practical tips for creating the conditions to deepen practice without leaving home.

There are some illustrations for the talk - including Sangharakshita with his teacher, Yogi Chen, who lived in a hermitage on...

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Dharmabyte: Where Does the Spiritual Path Begin?

From Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 21 Dec, 2020 - 06:00

Practising Buddhism (so much harder than understanding it) involves breaking the chain of the twelve negative links, or nidanas, by moving onto the spiral path, here described in its twelve stages. What is our usual reaction to things that are pleasant, things that are painful and things that are neutral? Sangharakshita gives us a clear description of the beginning of the Spiral Path, that of our response to Dukkha.

From the talk The Stages of the Spiritual Path...

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Transforming Our Poisons - Liberating Our Choices

From Aryaloka Buddhist Center on Mon, 21 Dec, 2020 - 00:00
In this meditation, Shraddhavani invites us, first, to engage with the facts about our contributions to climate change through basic activities such as eating, living in our homes and travel. She then asks us to get in touch with those seemingly simple, everyday feelings that tend to govern our choices in these areas –– the feelings of wanting, resistance and not knowing, which we as Buddhists can relate to the poisons of greed, hatred and delusion. Finally, she leads us through a process for transforming these poisons and creating the conditions for different choices through the wisdoms of the archetypal Buddhas Amitabha, Akshobya and Vairochana. This led meditation was part of a Touching Earth: Buddhist Approaches to Care of Nature retreat at Aryaloka Buddhist Center, Newmarket NH, (offered online) November 2020.
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Touching the Earth with Love

From Aryaloka Buddhist Center on Sun, 20 Dec, 2020 - 00:00
How might we respond, as Buddhists, to the emerging environmental crises facing the planet? Starting from where his earlier talk, "Saying Goodbye to the Earth," leaves off, Gunopeta explores the implications of what happens when we open our hearts to our deep emotional response to these crises. With the aid of guided meditation, poetry, ritual, and our felt connection to nature and the holiness of place, we can learn to "touch the Earth with love." From this, we enter into a relationship with the Earth out of which gratitude, a sense of responsibility, sympathetic joy, equanimity, and energy emerge in a positively reinforcing spiral, which in turn moves us to join with others in altruistic action on behalf of the Earth and all its beings. This talk was originally given as part of the on-line Touching the Earth retreat, sponsored by Aryaloka Buddhist Center and the Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Buddhist Center, Nov. 2020.

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