Exploring Shinran, the Buddha and Bhante. We’re all ‘bombu’ – conditioned, foolish, finite beings ‘forever drowning and wandering without ever knowing the path to liberation’ – and yet we are also always illumined by the golden light of Buddha – ‘grasped never to be abandoned’. What happens when we live in full awareness of these two aspects of our experience? Talk 2 of 2 given to members of the Triratna Buddhist Order. Suitable for experienced practitioners only as a sound base of experience and Dharma knowledge is taken for granted.