Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio
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Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio
Dharmabytes features bite-sized dharma, three times a week, from the Free Buddhist Audio archives. Themed in conjunction with our weekly full length talk podcast, these are inspiring short extracts from over 5,000 talks on Buddhism, meditation and mindfulness! Tune in, be inspired!
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The Story of Bahiya
Ordinary experience is governed by the endless round of the Wheel of Life, which can be gradually halted by treading the spiral path to Enlightenment...
Taking Responsibility for Our Mental States
An alive and dynamic spiritual community is vital to the individual flourishing of those that participate in it. In this keynote talk Paramabandhu...
Living in the Present
A thoughtful, sympathetic talk by Srivatii on the most delicate of tasks in any life - how to live in the present moment. Exploring the subtle aspect...
Think Deeply, Stand Up and Celebrate
In this talk, given at a sangha retreat for the Oslo Sangha, Gunaketu gives an inspiring talk about creating spiritual community. He starts with t...
Context is Everything
This talk delves into the concept of 'Sangha' and its deep connections with truth and relationships. Sanghadhara shares personal reflections and exp...
We Are Deeply Connected to Each Other
Suryagupta explores how war, destruction and conflict are on the increase in the world, as are conflicted and destructive individual lives. How do we...
Collectively and Individually Spreading the Dharma
Maitrivajri explores gender and leadership under the five aspects of Sangharakshita's teaching of the true individual. Excerpted from the talk Gende...
The Spirit that Comes Through Us
On this special Dharma night, Subhadramati interviewed local Buddhist artist Amitajyoti about her work and practice. Excerpted from The Artist As T...
Everyone Needs the Dharma- Milarepa's Song
Here, Sangharakshita emphasises the importance of distinguishing Buddhism as a universally applicable path of development from the specifically East...
Grow Into Real Individuality
Rijumati explores the place of meditation in the bigger context of the growth of oneself as an individual, exploring how we can develop a coherent an...
Bringing Mindfulness More Into Our Lives
In this talk Vadanya explores how paying attention to reality - rather than mental or media noise - can bring our life alive and give us a vivid exp...
People Just Want to Be Happy
Peace, happiness, contentment we all want it, but where and how to find it. The Buddhist tradition would say that it is in how we relate to our experi...
Three Points of Transition
In this masterly lecture to an American conference audience, Sangharakshita reminds us of the basic conceptual formulation of the Buddha's enlighten...
The Human Realm
What does it mean to be human? Dhammadinna's gently balanced and encouraging talk explores various perspectives on one of the fundamental questions,...
The Music of Impermanence in the Six Realms
Bhadra describes the six realms as a mirror in which to fully know the particulars of our own self created universe. Here, we learn how the presence...
The Symbol of the Wheel of Life
Maitreyi's visit to the Mid Essex Buddhist Centre, talking about communicating through symbols, this time round through the hub of the wheel of life....
Taming Spirits and Demons
Vishvapani talks here about the Buddha's response to society's need for protection from demons the spirit world. Excerpted from the talk The Buddha...
Mara the Mischief Maker
Dharmacharini Vidyajyoti, who passed away in 2010, offers a sparkling talk on a key part of the Buddha's legendary life story - his encounter with Ma...
Conquering Mara
The full moon in May is celebrated as the anniversary of the Buddha's Enlightenment and his victory over the demon Mara. Sangharakshita explains wha...
We Cannot Live in Isolation
Khemasuri explores the message of Transforming the World in The Sutra of Golden Light at Sangha Night, Sheffield Buddhist Centre 2008. Excerpted from...
Let the Sutra Come Through Like a Dream
Here Vajratara encourages her audience to enter a Mahayana text like one would reflect on a dream. Excerpted from the talk The Sutra of Golden Ligh...
Destroy All Your Ideas of Reality
Taranita explores the historic and mythic origins of the Heart Sutra, the emergence of the Mahayana in the context of a Buddhist orthodoxy, emptiness...
The Emptiness of Sunyata
Chandana talks about the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, a category of Sutras in the Mahayana tradition. Exerted from the talk A Hitchhiker's Guide to t...
Spontaneous Expression of Creativity
With his customary dry wit and sharp eye, Abhaya leads us on the crazy paving path through the Diamond Sutra - a text guaranteed to turn your world...
Active Energy in Pursuit of the Good
The Bodhisattvas descend, the Bodhichitta is called down, and Parami is off and rolling on her favourite subject... With a thoughtful look at Padmas...
May I Be a Protector
Bodhilila speaks to verses from the Dana (Generosity) chapter from the Bodhicaryavatara. Excerpted from the talk Dana Paramita and the Bodhicharyava...
Reflections of the Moon
Jvalamalini offers suggestions to bear in mind when reading the Bodhicaryavatara, followed by a selection of guided reflections. She begins by explor...
Hatred and Mirror-Like Wisdom
Padmavajra plunges fearlessly down into the lower realms of the wheel of life to meet the beings who inhabit - and the Buddhas who come to meet them....
Akshobya’s Appearance in the Bardo Thodol
Saddharaja describes the qualities of Akshobya, the great blue Buddha of the eastern quarter of the mandala - the Unshakeable One, the Imperturbable...
The Clear Light of Reality
According to Tibetan tradition, in the bardo, an 'intermediate state' in the endless round of birth and death, we are free for an instant from that ro...
Life and Death are Calling
Here Candradasa shares Ted Hughes' rendering of the Bardo Thodol, Tibetan Book of the Dead. He uses Buddhist scripture, vision literature, and poetr...
Relaxing Into What Is
Bhadra takes us through the myth of Persephone and an experiential exploration of awareness to celebrate the vital contribution the bardo; the in-bet...
In the Light of Awareness
Vidyamala offers ways to approach higher states of concentration in meditation and how they bloom out of paying attention to pleasant vedana that has...
A Vision Bigger Than Life
Here, Jnanavaca explores the Bardo of Life. Excerpted from the talk entitled Root Verses of the Six Bardos: Life given at Vajrasana Retreat Cent...
The Eight Freedoms and The Ten Endowments
Vijayasri describes the Eight Freedoms and the Ten Endowments described in Gampopas teachings in the The Jewel Ornament of Liberation on the importan...
Treasure Revealers
Arthaketu reflects on the Bardo Thodol, or Tibetan Book of the Dead, Here, he describes the hidden teachings, or termas, of Padmasambhava and how the...
Love Puts Us Back Together
Parami describes Avalokiteshvara; her relationship to the figure, his origins and mythology. In this talk, she helps listeners connect with his compa...
Sangharakshita’s Poetry
Vishvapani has been studying, reflecting upon, and living out the Dharma life as presented by Urgyen Sangharakshita, Triratna’s founding teacher, for...
A Whole Context for Our Lives
Saddhanandi offers reflections on creating sangha through meaningful, authentic friendships and communication. The talk includes references to her in...
Three Summers and Three Autumns Have I Seen
An exploration of Sangharakshita's poem 'Padmaloka' in which he looks forward to his own death. It's a poem about death, rebirth and nature, and Vish...