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The Warrior Aspect of the Spiritual Life (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 - 10:00

Padmavajra’s wonderful series on the Dhammapada, the most popular of early Buddhist texts. All of the Buddha’s core teachings are here - held in heart and mind there’s more than enough in the Dhammapada to take us as far in our practice as we can imagine, and then on beyond…

Excerpted from the talk Mindfulness is the Way to the Deathless as part of the series The Dhammapada - the Buddha’s Way of Truth...

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Buddhavagga (from the Dhammapada)

By Centre Team on Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 - 13:07

Beautifully read by Sangharakshita, these readings are taken from the oldest scriptural texts and evoke the real spirit of early Buddhism - the struggles, the joys and the triumphs of ordinary people who followed the path to Truth. Appears in Readings from the Pali Canon recorded in 2000 to mark the Digital Legacy project to begin transferring Dharmachakra’s archive to digital format!

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Happy Indeed We Live (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 15 Mar, 2025 - 10:00

Ratnaghosha explores the Buddha’s vision of spiritual community as it is expressed in verses 197, 198 and 199 of the Dhammapada. This is a comprehensive survey of the Buddha’s teaching but is also replete with practical advice about how we might apply this to our lives today - and finishes on a very encouraging note. Recorded at the Dublin Buddhist Centre, 2024.

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We Are All Looking for the Light (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 13 Mar, 2025 - 10:00

Flowers naturally grow towards the light. The more we open to our true potential the more we open to the light of truth, of love, and of awareness. Our potential to grow is inherent in our very being. Here, Suryagupta shares reflections on verses from the Flowers chapter of the Dhammapada, or ‘Way of Truth’. Excerpted from the talk entitled How Flowers Teach the Way to Enlightenment given at London Buddhist Centre as part...

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Fearless Creativity (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 8 Mar, 2025 - 11:00

In this talk Padmavajra explores the first two verses of the Dhammapada and their far-reaching implications. He explores how we create not only our own happiness or suffering through our actions but also how we create worlds, worlds of suffering or worlds conducive to human growth and even freedom. He then describes how the Bodhisattva works tirelessly and heroically to create a Buddhafield for the benefit of all beings. Talk given during the February Great Gathering weekend...

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Watching the Direction of our Mind (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 6 Mar, 2025 - 11:00

Kusalasara explores the opening verses of the Dhammapada, or ‘Way of Truth’ showing a path of discovery of the pure mind and the impure mind. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Essential Revolution given at  London Buddhist Centre as part of the series The Dhammapada, 2022.

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Letters of Gold (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 3 Mar, 2025 - 14:55

This is an appropriately pithy talk by Surata on one of the most popular and regarded of the early Buddhist suttas, The ‘Dhammapada’. The images of the verses and their direct relevance to our lives makes this sutta an indispensable aide memoire to practice – and Surata’s consideration of it is a handy primer for newcomers to the text, as well as a refresher for those who’ve long enjoyed its simple message about our living and dying in...

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Happy Indeed We Live (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 22 Jun, 2024 - 14:05

“Happy indeed we live, friendly amid the haters. Among those who hate we dwell free from hate. Happy indeed we live, healthy amid the sick. Among those who are sick we dwell free from sickness. Happy indeed we live, content amid the greedy. Among those who are greedy, we dwell free from greed.” (The Dhammapada, chapter 14, ‘Happiness’, verses 197-199). Ratnaghosha explores the Buddha’s vision of spiritual community as it is expressed in three verses of the...

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Launch of The Buddhist Vision and the Dhammapada (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Tue, 9 Apr, 2024 - 10:45

Here is a recently re-discovered little lost delight - Sangharakshita and Subhuti launching each other’s books and clearly enjoying themselves. Sangharakshita’s in fine humour - and it’s great to hear him read and quote from the bible! Is that a twinkle in his voice? 

Talk given at Triratna [FWBO] Day celebrations in 2001.

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FBA Podcast: Meeting the Buddha Through Imagination

By Centre Team on Sat, 9 Dec, 2023 - 11:00

The Buddha lived 2,500 years ago, so how can we meet him and open ourselves to the inspiration and resources that come from him?  Through imagination we can cultivate the capacity to meet the Buddha on an archetypal level.  This can have a powerful effect, karmically speaking.  We all have - and use - our imagination all the time, even if we don’t realise it!  We just need to learn how to ‘use it’ rather than having it ‘use us’...

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