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Fundamentally Clear (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 26 Aug, 2024 - 11:00

Maitrisara explores the second fetter, doubt and indecision which Bhante calls vagueness. The antidote is clarity but also faith. This wide-ranging talk weaves together both theoretical and personal themes and differentiates between wholesome and unhelpful doubt. It explores why we might get stuck in doubt, and how to work with it. The talk draws on a sutta from the Samyuta Nikaya about what feeds doubt. And what therefore counteracts it. From the talk  Clarity: The Unobscured Mirror...

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Inspiration (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 8 Jun, 2024 - 11:00

Jnanadhara explores the meaning of inspiration and its importance in the Dharmalife. He makes some general observations about the nature of inspiration, discusses the three kinds of faith, and concludes by talking about The Buddha as a source of inspiration. This talk was given at Adhisthana as part of the series Changemakers Weekend: Passing on the Flame, 2024.

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Meeting Mara with Flowers (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 23 May, 2024 - 11:00

Sanghamani draws inspiration from the use of images in nature linked to the Buddha’s Enlightenment. Invoking Mara’s assault and calling the earth goddess to witness and how we can use them to help us contact our own fearlessness and confidence. From the talk May All Your Weeds Be Wildflowers given at Buddhafield East, 2011. Listen out for the creaking mast of the Rainbow Tent ship!

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FBA Podcast: Celebrating the Buddha - Pingiya's Praises to the Way to the Beyond

By Centre Team on Sat, 23 Mar, 2024 - 10:00

In this talk Alokadhara explores these beautiful verses which evoke the Buddha, his qualities and the profundity of his teaching. This talk was given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2014.

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Dharmabytes: An Unfamiliar Landscape

By Centre Team on Mon, 18 Mar, 2024 - 10:00

Mahamani  shares some experiences around guilt, faith, losing the way and finding it. From the personal talk entitled The Way to the Top of the Hill from ‘The Way to the Beyond’ Womens AOWE held at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2021.

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FBA Podcast: Shraddha

By Centre Team on Sat, 26 Aug, 2023 - 11:00

Kamalashila describes the types of Shraddha (confidence, faith or esteem), and their place in Buddhist practice. Talk for Sangha Night at the West London Buddhist Centre, 2016.

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Dharmabytes: Dukkha and The Arising of Faith

By Centre Team on Mon, 21 Aug, 2023 - 11:00

With inspiring candour, Devamitra speaks from his own experience on the importance of valuing and facing our adversities (duhkha), explaining how that naturally leads into faith, and into the joy of gratitude. He also briefly introduces his new book on his experience as a cross-dressing Buddhist. Excerpted from the talk From Adversity to Gratitude and Beyond given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2016.

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Dharmabytes: Noticing How We Are

By Centre Team on Mon, 7 Aug, 2023 - 11:00

Karunagita discusses confidence and faith  in our Dharma  practice. Excerpted from the talk entitled Confidence given at  North London Buddhist Centre, 2015.

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FBA Podcast: From Suffering to Shraddha

By Centre Team on Sat, 5 Aug, 2023 - 11:00

Vidyapala draws on various Pali suttas, and the Buddha’s own life, to suggest ways we might move from suffering to faith in this talk given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2023.

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Dharmabytes: Something Beyond Us

By Centre Team on Thu, 3 Aug, 2023 - 11:00

Shraddha or ‘confidence-faith’ as an indispensable basis for the cultivation of Wisdom. In this talk Satyajyoti explores the teachings of the Buddhist teacher Shinran, who developed a tradition of complete and true entrusting to this dimension, sometimes referred to as ‘other power’.

Excerpted from the talk entitled True Entrusting and the Wisdom of Shinran given at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, 2023.

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