Dharmabytes From Free Buddhist Audio

Sangharakshita explores the ways in which we are all connected with Reality, directly and indirectly, in particular through our friendships with those just a little further along the path. From the talk entitled The Bodhisattva Hierarchy as part of the series Aspects of the Bodhisattva Ideal, 1969. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Saddhanandi paints a picture of how radical and different it was to encounter Buddhism in the mid 1960s. She explores a verse of Zen poetry taking her lead from Sangharakshita's 1965 lectures on the Essence of Zen.  Excerpted from the talk entitled The Essence of Zen at Adhisthana, 2019. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Bodhivajra talks about Enlightenment in a direct and very down-to-earth way, making the whole notion of Enlightenment more accessible, approachable, and relevant.  From the talk entitled Energy for Enlightenment given at Norwich Buddhist Centre, 2015. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Tantric Buddhism developed outside the monasteries in small groups gathered around magical, shamanic gurus. In this talk Vadanya explores what magic is and how we can bring mystery into the forefront of life as an act of 'war against the ordinary'.   Excerpted from the talk entitled Making Life Magic recorded at Sheffield Buddhist Centre, 2019, as part of the series Tantra Now! *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Saccanama explores shraddha, often translated as ‘faith’, as the emotional counterpoint of wisdom. It’s not a foundation for insight to arise, but rather it’s the equivalent of perceptual, cognitive insight experienced through reverence, worship and devotion. From the talk entitled The Roots of Faith recorded at the Swedish Summer Retreat at Dharmagiri, July 2019. This talk is part of the series ‘To Place the Heart Upon’ - Exploring Faith in Buddhism. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

How do we make this Buddhist path available now and into the future? Vidyamala is committed to bringing the Dharma out into the world in a way that they can hear it, practice it, live it. From the talk entitled What the World Needs - Looking Ahead 50 Years given at the 2017 International Retreat at Adhisthana. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Sraddhagita shares her experience as part of Lama's Pyjamas, a Team Based Right Livelihood that’s part of the London Buddhist Centre. This talk is full of passion and insight into a practice Sraddhagita has been involved in for over 16 years. From the talk entitled Spreading the Mushrooms given as part of a series on the Six Distinctive Emphasis of Triratna, at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2016. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Buddhism stands for the creation of an ideal society as well as ideal individuals; a society based on spiritual and ethical principles. Sangharakshita considers the substantial effect our work has on us, and applies the Buddha's teaching to work today. From the talk entitled The Ideal Society: Right Livelihood, part of the series The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path, 1968. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Is work just a necessity or a source of fulfillment? Is a career a hindrance or a support to our happiness and unfoldment as individuals? Should we be aiming at getting the ‘right work/life balance’ or moving beyond such distinctions? Keturaja, calling on decades of experience working in Buddhist businesses, explores Buddhist teachings on right livelihood and reflects on their relevance for us today. From the talk entitled Why Right Livelihood? Given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 2018. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Mokshalila is in conversation with Samantabhadri about her work as a massage therapist on a palliative care unit, being alongside those who are nearing the end of their life. From the talk entitled Meetings At the Edge given at Taraloka Retreat Centre on a retreat called Facing Death, Embracing Life, 2015. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Suddhaka highlights how the thing we spend the most time doing in our lives, our livelihood, impacts our mental states and is therefore an integral part of the path. How can we make our work an expression of our practice? How can our livelihood be the doorway to true happiness? From the talk entitled Perfect Livelihood given at Brixton Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Parami offers an enthusiastic exploration of the earthy and ethereal details of everyday spiritual practice, especially within the framework of a sense of the 'collective'. Some great and pretty funny stories from early, would-be-revolutionary experiments with co-operative working ("The opiate of the masses has arrived!"), and some wise words from her subsequent experience of trying to square the circle of dealing with one's own individuality within a working sangha. From the talk entitled Being an Individual Within a Collective Practice given at Windhorse:Evolution, once a large Buddhist team-based 'right livelihood' business based in the UK, 2003 *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook

In a clear talk based on her experiences of work in the civil service, as a mindfulness teacher and in the Buddhist world, Taramani introduces tips on working ethically, meaningfully and in a way that supports spiritual practice. She explains livelihood as a limb of the Eightfold Path, using ideas from Sangharakshita, Steve Jobs, and others. From the talk entitled Work, Inner Work, and the Search For Meaning given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

How can our livelihood and our networks be a doorway to leading our lives in a way in which our eyes can be wide open rather than our eyes being wide shut? Pasannamati points out that there is more to Perfect Livelihood than the work we do. Outside of our work we have a whole load of choices on how we spend our time and money which impacts other people’s livelihood. From the talk entitled Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy…reflections of Livelihood and the Networks That Sustain Us given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2021. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week:  Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud  

Ratnaprabha describes the qualities of mindfulness in a talk about the fifth precept, intoxication and mindfulness.  Excerpted from the talk entitled The Fifth Precept given at the West London Buddhist Centre, 2013. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Introducing the speech precepts, Bodhilila explains the Buddha's advice on how to communicate effectively. How do you decide when and how to speak, using criteria of helpfulness, truthfulness, and whether or not it is pleasant to hear? From the talk entitled The Buddha’s Speech given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud  

Marking the 50th anniversary of his own 'Going Forth' in India, Sangharakshita offers us his thoughts on the significance this adventure had for him and reflects on its relation to the Buddha's search for Truth - with particular regard to actions of body, speech, and mind. From the talk Reflections on Going Forth, 1997. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Here Candradasa explores the third precept and the Buddha's moral code generally and we get some sense of where we might look to find ways to work effectively with our strongest desires in ways that lessen attachment and help us see reality more clearly. From the talk entitled Sex and Morality, Going Beyond Puritanism given in Portsmouth, NH, October 2012. This talk is part of the series Religion Without God. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

Drawing on sources from Russell Brand to Tenzin Palmo, Suryadarshini navigates the third precept. Covering sex, relationships, confessional writing, and social media, she offers suggestions for how to start a shift from attention and attachment into stillness, simplicity and contentment. From the talk entitled Sex and Social Media: From Attention and Attachment to Contentment given at Norwich Buddhist Centre, 2019. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud

What’s in it for me? Our natural human tendency is to take, to grasp, to cling. If you can give though, there is hope, spiritually speaking. Generosity is an attitude of heart and of mind, an attitude of one’s whole being. Sangharakshita describes the altruistic aspect of the Bodhisattva and the reconciliation of the apparent antithesis between the interests of others and of self by practising the first two of the six Perfections: dana (giving) and shila (ethics or 'uprightness'). From the talk entitled Altruism and Individualism in the Spiritual Life given as part of the series Aspects of the Bodhisattva Ideal, 1969. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! Follow our blog for news and new Dharma FBA on Twitter FBA on Facebook FBA on Soundcloud