Dharmabytes From Free Buddhist Audio

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is the beginning of a heartfelt conversation between Samantabhadri and Dharmakarunya entitled Metta, Contemplative Dialogue. The two good friends engage in a contemplative dialogue about metta. This dialogue, spontaneous and unscripted, unfolds as a significant exploration of metta. Metta as meditation practice, as an illumination of ordinary living and as a path to insight. Listen to the whole conversation on Free Buddhist Audio Metta, Contemplative Dialogue

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called We Are a Flow of Phenomena by Dassini from the talk The Therigatha and the Problem of Self. We then hear a verse about no-self from the nun Uttara. This leads on to reflections about how we subtly reinforce a sense of self through feeling embarrassed or irritable.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called Stepping Through The Portal by Nagapriya from the talk Cherish the Doctrine, Part 1 of a three part series based around the motto of the great Tibetan 20th Century teacher Dhardo Rimpoche and#8211; and#8220;Cherish the Doctrine, Live United, Radiate Loveand#8221;. Nagapriya takes an unusual angle and#8211; referencing the Spike Jonze movie and#8216;Being John Malkovichand#8217;, he speaks of the Dharma as a portal into the Buddhaand#8217;s mind itself. Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called Enlightenment Is Possible by Saddhanandi from the talk Reflecting On the Life of the Buddha. This is the first of four talks exploring Vasubandhuand#8217;s Four Factors. In his treatise Generating Bodhi Resolve, Vasubandhu describes them as able to generate the resolve to cultivate and accumulate the bases for the Arising of the Bodhicitta. You can find out more about them in Sangharakshitaand#8217;s books The Meaning of Conversion in Buddhism and The Bodhisattva Ideal. Saddhanandi gave this talk on a meditation retreat for women who have asked for ordination. The complete set of talks is as follows and each one finishes with a led reflection on the theme, given at Taraloka in February, 2010.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called Conditions For Generating Bodhi Resolve from the talk Vasubandhuand#8217;s Treatise on Generating Bodhi Resolve given at the London Buddhist Centre, September 2009. In this talk Kulaprabha introduces us to a work of his dealing with the conditions necessary for the arising of the Bodhicitta and#8211; here translated as Bodhi Resolve. In particular, she compares and contrasts Vasubandhuand#8217;s Four Factors as they are described in this text with Sangharakshitaand#8217;s description and evocation of them in his book and#8216;The Meaning of conversion in Buddhismand#8217;.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is from Visuddhimati called Grounded in Compassion from the talk The Bodhisattva Vision given during the Triratna Urban Retreat, 2015.

In our FBA Dharmabyte today, Seeing Through. Sanghadevi introduces us to Manjughosha who holds the Perfection of Wisdom near his heart and wields a sword that cuts through all the views and attitudes that we suffer from that arenand#8217;t in accordance with that truth. From the talk Manjughosha given on Sangha Night at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today catapults us into The Bodhisattvaand#8217;s Cosmic Context. Another excerpt from a classic Sangharakshita talk entitled The Cosmic Significance of the Bodhisattva Ideal from The Higher Evolution series given in 1969.

In todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte Sangharakshita illustrates the cosmic grandeur of The Bodhisattva Spirit . This is from the talk entitled The Cosmic Significance of the Bodhisattva Ideal from The Higher Evolution series given in 1969.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called Keeping Our Hearts Open, an excerpt from the talk on Avalokitesvara by Dharmasri. Speaking from the heart, Dharmasri evokes the wish to alleviate the suffering of all beings embodied by the figure Avalokitesvara. This talk continues the exploration of Transforming Self and World through looking at the seven-fold puja, by exploring the mantra of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Dharmasri introduces us to Bodhisattvas as aspects of the Enlightened mind. We discover the Myth of Avalokitesvara and how this encompasses the desire to end suffering and the understanding of our own limitations in this respect. We look at the symbolism of different visual forms of Avalokitesvara and consider how mantras are sound symbols which represent visual images that encourage the Bodhisattvas to manifest. Croydon Buddhist Centre, 2016

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called One Understands, an excerpt from the talk on Manjusri by Amaraghosha one of a series of talks about archetypal Bodhisattvas. In this excerpt Amaraghosha explores the importance of wisdom in the Buddhist tradition through teachings including the Noble eightfold Path and the Four Noble Truths. This talk was given at the Croydon Buddhist Centre in 2016 as part of their regular Saturday morning sangha class.

Our FBA Dharmabyte is called Our Pure Nature by Sanghanistha. From the talk entitled Peaceful Vajrapani. From the imaginative yet practical talk entitled Vajrapani given during the 2016 and#8216;Cosmic Going for Refuge Treeand#8217; retreat at Padmaloka.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called Our Pure Nature by Aryajaya. From the talk entitled Vajrasattva who is associated with Purity and with the time of death. Aryajaya helps us to engage more deeply with the meaning and symbolism of Vajrasattva.

Prepare to be inspired by this FBA Dharmabyte today by Tejasvini called Bringing Tara Into Being. From the talk entitled Green Tara from the Cambridge Buddhist Centre Sangha Night series on the imagination, exploring different Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is by Sagaraghosa called Mind States Make a Difference. From the talk What Do Buddhists Think and#8211; Physics.

In todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, entitled Changing Faith, Sangharakshita discusses how Faith (shraddha) arises in dependence on unsatisfactoriness (dukkha). From the talk The Dynamics of Being given in 1966 as part of the series Introducing Buddhism.

In todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, entitled Faith, Subhadramati explores what Buddhism means by faith, pointing us to what exactly we need to have faith in if we are to deepen into life. From the talk of the same name, Faith, given on the Urban Retreat 2016.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is entitled Confidence. Confidence in the three jewels is incredibly important for our spiritual lives. Excerpted from the talk of the same title, Confidence, which includes a led meditation.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is entitled Our Habitual Mind is Unaware by Ratnadhya, excerpted from Mind the Gap and#8211; Creating the Creative Space. Given at an introductory meditation weekend retreat in Worcestershire, Ratnadhya addresses the subject of Bardos and what they can teach us about our need to cultivate creative gaps in our lives in which we can just be rather than do. He talks about bardos of scale, from the traditional bardos of life and death, to the bardos that arise quite naturally within a single life, a single year, a single day, even the gaps which can be observable in our moment to moment experience, at least within meditation and#8211; all of them offering opportunities for glimpsing the true nature of our experience, and the possibility of moving from the reactive to the creative mind.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is an excerpt from a 1971 talk by Sangharakshita called A Mirror in the Wheel. The Wheel of Life, described here in all its wealth of detail, is not really a painting but a mirror, giving one successively more profound insights into yourself, and revealing the next step in escaping the endless round. From the talk The Symbolism of the Tibetan Wheel of Life from the series https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/series/details?ser=X13