Dharmabytes From Free Buddhist Audio

Weand#8217;ve been moved to share an abundant handful of Sangharakshitaand#8217;s poems over the next few weeks. Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is a poem entitled and#8220;The Lotus of Compassionand#8221;. Selected from and#8220;Conquering New Worldsand#8221;, read by the author and published by Windhorse Publications, Glasgow, 1986.

Weand#8217;ve been moved to share an abundant handful of Sangharakshitaand#8217;s poems over the next few weeks. Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is a poem entitled and#8220;The Bodhisattvaand#8217;s Replyand#8221;. Selected from and#8220;Conquering New Worldsand#8221;, read by the author and published by Windhorse Publications, Glasgow, 1986.

Weand#8217;ve been moved to share an abundant handful of Sangharakshitaand#8217;s poems over the next few weeks. Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is a poem entitled and#8220;The Modern Bardand#8221;. Selected from and#8220;An Autobiographical Sequence of Poemsand#8221;, read by the author and recorded at FWBO celebrations in London, September 1990.

Weand#8217;ve been moved to share an abundant handful of Sangharakshitaand#8217;s poems over the next few weeks. Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is a poem entitled and#8220;The White Calfand#8221;. Selected from and#8220;An Autobiographical Sequence of Poemsand#8221;, read by the author and recorded at FWBO celebrations in London, September 1990.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is entitled and#8220;A Dharmic Framework for Total Transformationand#8221;, an excerpt from the talk and#8220;Karma and the Consequences of Our Actionsand#8221; by Ratnadharini. There is nothing wrong with our experience, it’s how we interpret it. The Five Niyamas help us understand that total transformation is possible by shifting our habitual means of seeing things. Is it random? Is it fate? Why do the conditions that arise in our lives, arise? Where does the possibility of change lay? What makes total transformation possible? A Dharmic framework gives us the key… The fourth talk in a five-part series from Tiratanalokaand#8217;s retreat on the and#8216;Four Mind Turningsand#8217; of the Tibetan tradition. Here Ratnadharini takes us a little closer into the whole, often misunderstood area of karma in Buddhist thinking. She draws out the important details of the process that we call and#8216;actions and consequencesand#8217; and#8211; but her emphasis is always on putting what

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is entitled and#8220;The Act of Making a Refugeand#8221;, an excerpt from the talk and#8220;The Search For Refugeand#8221; by Padmavajra. At the time of the Buddha, life was unsafe, people sought refuge in sacred groves, natural shrines and blessed trees to seek protection from the dangers in the world. Explaining the three levels of Dukkha, Padmavajra gives us a clear pathway to understanding the movement within us to make refuges, and what those true refuges really are. Second in a series of five talks given at Padmaloka, March 2009 on the study theme and#8216;Going for Refugeand#8217;.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is entitled and#8220;Seeing Both Sidesand#8221;, an excerpt from the talk and#8220;Lightening the Loadand#8221; by Karunagita. A great talk from Karunagita, author of A Path For Parents, with some key practical insights for anyone trying to figure out how to go deeper with their practice while raising children. We get a moving evocation of parenting as a distinct context for working with our conditioning, our views, and for learning to break our habits in order to cultivate ever deeper levels of awareness and love. And as you might expect, all the earned wisdom of this talk is actually applicable to everyone who wants to find the path to practice in every moment. A splendidly encouraging, properly challenging talk in that respect.

Transcendental insight is free of intellectual thought, but it doesn’t just arise out of nowhere. Nobody can tell you the difference between theory and direct experience and#8211; you just know it. Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, from Yashobodhi, is entitled and#8220;Concepts: A Map of Realityand#8221;, an excerpt from the talk and#8220;Inquisitive Mind, Thinking and Awakeningand#8221;.

Sometimes we can’t imagine an adult consciousness. What you are doing when you sit down to meditate to foster, to reveal to yourself a greater consciousness. Sometimes children have a sense of this greater consciousness, remembering back can help us tap into our aims as meditators. Your child consciousness naturally relates to the world as if it relates to you. Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is entitled and#8220;Imagining a New Sort of Consciousnessand#8221;, an excerpt from the talk and#8220;Meditation Essentials and#8211; Week Five and#8211; Self Dies to Lifeand#8221; by Maitreyabandhu.

We hear how the practice relates to the theory of Buddhist meditation and are encouraged to choose and learn from our direct experience of how we respond to our breath in the moment. Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is entitled and#8220;Practising the Breath with a Witnessand#8221;, from the talk and#8220;Meditation Workshop and#8211; Five Breathsand#8221; by Amaragita.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte explores a topic deriving from one of the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled and#8220;Sangha as a Radical Alternative to Capitalismand#8221;, from the talk and#8220;Sangha As a Radical Alternative to Capitalism and Modern Youth Cultureand#8221;. Young Peoples facilitator Kara Moses talks about why industrialised Capitalist society presents us with particularly challenging conditions for Buddhist practise, and how the Sangha provides a radical positive alternative. Talk given at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre on Triratna Day 2013.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte begins a last week of topics deriving from our ongoing exploration of the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled and#8220;Triratna in the Context of Contemporary Buddhismand#8221;, excerpted from the talk and#8220;Sangha in the Context of Contemporary Buddhismand#8221;. Parami delivers an excellent talk that reflects on how Triratnaand#8217;s approach squares up with that of other traditions, and how we might continue to work on our practice of sangha as an integral part of our personal practice of the Dharma.

Viriyalilaand#8217;s appreciation of and gratitude for spiritual friendship shines through in todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte entitled and#8220;Deepening the Practice of Spiritual Communityand#8221;. From the talk and#8220;Three Perspectives on the Practice of Spiritual Friendshipand#8221;, this talk continues our exploration of the last of the Six Emphases of Triratna. Talk given at Aryaloka Buddhist Center, November 2010

The FBA Dharmabyte podcast today introduces spiritual friendship, a particularly dominant feature of the Triratna Community, in a talk entitled and#8220;The Importance of Spiritual Friendshipand#8221;. From the talk and#8220;The Six Distinctive Emphases of the FWBOand#8221;, here Sangharakshita concludes his talk on the Six Emphases with a beautiful reflection on his deep friendship with the great Tibetan Lama, Dhardo Rinpoche. Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2002.

Abhayavajra is the featured speaker in todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, the subject of an interview by Maitreyabandhu in a talk entitled and#8220;Painting the Voidand#8221;. He gives a lovely account of how his Buddhist practice and his creative life intersect and intermingle and#8211; giving us a window into why one of Triratnaand#8217;s Six Emphases is the importance of the arts in spiritual life.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte introduces one of the more unique of the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled and#8220;The Spiritual Value of the Artsand#8221;. From the talk and#8220;The Six Distinctive Emphases of the FWBOand#8221;, Sangharakshita speaks about the importance that the arts have in cultivating sensitivity to beauty and inspiration in the spiritual life. Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2002.

Claudine Edwards tells us her story of Team-Based Right Livelihood in todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte entitled and#8220;Lamaand#8217;s Pyjamas: A Story of Right Livelihoodand#8221;. From the longer talk and#8220;New Society Weekend 2011and#8243;, this short excerpted talk presents a great example of the benefits and creativity of this way of working, as we continue our exploration of the Six Emphases of Triratna. Talk given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2011

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte continues our series on the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled and#8220;Team-Based Right Livelihoodand#8221;, from the talk and#8220;The Six Distinctive Emphases of the FWBOand#8221;. Here Sangharakshita draws out the central importance of Right Livelihood in the spiritual life, in particular the Triratna model of team-based Right Livelihood businesses, and what the features of these endeavors should look like. Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2002.

Sangharakshita speaks to one of the central emphases of the Triratna Buddhist Community in todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte podcast, expanding on the meaning of the phrase and#8220;Commitment is Primary, Lifestyle is Secondaryand#8221;. Excerpted from the talk and#8220;Twenty Years on the Middle Wayand#8221;, he explores our traditionand#8217;s principle of an Order that places its weight on genuine Going for Refuge rather than the conditions a person was born into or lifestyle. Talk given in 1987.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte continues our series of podcasts on the Six Emphases of Triratna in a talk entitled and#8220;Unified, not Unisexand#8221;. From the talk and#8220;The Six Distinctive Emphases of the FWBOand#8221;, here Sangharakshita outlines the Triratna principle of open ordination to men and women on equal terms, and an Order that accepts those of all lifestyles, races, class and sexual orientation and#8211; a quite revolutionary stance in the Buddhist world. Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2002.