As Ordinary As Your Own Breath
Image of the sea and the raft: we hold onto our raft, but this brings suffering - can we let go, enter the sea and become spiritually reborn...
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Light as an Orientating Feature
Orientation towards Enlightenment is a keynote talk by Kusaladevi marking both the Buddha's enlightenment over 2,500 years ago and the 30th...
A Hot Debate
Vaddhaka delves into the Buddha's unanswered questions; questions that Vacchagotta, Malunkyaputta and others asked him. Among them: 'What ha...
Between the Heaves of Storm
Maitreyabandhu draws out the deeper meaning and finer detail of five different poems, each around the theme of death with the final poem foc...
The Drum of the Deathless
In this talk Alokadhara explores these beautiful verses which evoke the Buddha, his qualities and the profundity of his teaching. Excerpted...
Angulimala
Dhivan relates tales of some of the colourful characters who visit the Buddha to receive teachings.Here, we here about a killer-bandit named...
A Sense of Urgency
What was the Buddha really like? Jayabodhi explores this important question with particular emphasis on how this is related to our own lives...
True Individuals and Spiritual Communities
Sangharakshita outlines his view of the historical background to current world problems (essentially, problems within and between groups), w...
Dedicated to Peace
Partisan politics, hurricanes and earthquakes, mass shootings, nuclear threats … our world at times feels like a living nightmare. Sunada re...
Shared Going for Refuge
Here, Prajnamati describes how a range of dharma practices can be seen as a finding of the point of freedom where a more creative option bec...
A Case for Reverence
The Bodhisattva called 'Never Direct' saw the Buddha in everyone, yet his practice of bowing received a mixed response. Drawing on themes fr...
The Compassion Aspect of Wisdom
Khemasuri introduces the Bodhisattva Ideal, central to Mahayana Buddhism, by describing the training of the novice Bodhisattva and the arisi...
By the Sound of this Majestic Drum
Vijayasri explores confession's illuminating and transformational properties through the Mahayana sutra, The Sutra of Golden Light. Excerpte...
We Don't Really Know Anything About Anything
Nagavajri gracefully introduces some points one may find helpful before studying any Mahayana sutra, giving some context to this rich vein o...
Unlimited Spaciousness of the Buddha
Akasaraja explores the nature of presence and absence in encounters between people and concludes that we can only be truly present when we a...
Overcoming spiritual individualism
The full moon in May is celebrated as the anniversary of the Buddha's Enlightenment and his victory over the demon Mara. Sangharakshita expl...
A Multitude of Perspectives
Nagasiddhi invites us to experience the dharma imaginatively: through art and heart. He outlines the turning points or 'rites of passage' in...
At the Brink of Enlightenment
In this moving talk based on Sangharakshita's 1969 talk 'Breaking through to Buddhahood', Suddhaka shares some of his experience as an Order...
A Journey of Discovery
Dhivan considers what we can learn from the story of the noble quest of the Buddha. This story is recounted in the Discourse on the Noble Qu...
Confronting Mara
How can we work with our own inner voices that undermine our practice and limit our lives? Shubhavyuha draws this out, using the stories o...