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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...
Bodhidasa shares ways we can touch the transcendent in simple, everyday moments of devotion. Looking at the works and life of Milarepa for i...
Balajit explores how working with emotion can be a radical process for transformation. Excerpted from the talk entitled Perfect Emotion give...
A fascinating lecture, previously unreleased. It was given on WBO Day on the 20th anniversary of the Order's foundation and sees Sangharaksh...
Here, Sanghagita introduces Avalokitesvara, he who hears the cries of the world. This Bodhisattva is the embodiment of the myth of the Trira...
Here, Vishvapani focuses on the Buddha's experience before, during and after Enlightenment, bringing his nuanced, perceptive reading to the...
In this lecture Sangharakshita shows how the symbolism of ritual offerings originated in the Hinayana and Mahayana, and later flowered with...
Karunagita , author of A Path For Parents, offers some key practical insights for anyone trying to figure out how to go deeper with their pr...
Upayavira was ordained in 2000, and became a parent soon after. Since then he has been exploring, often through necessity, ways to meditate...
Amaragita takes a look at Buddhist practice in the light of parenting. Tranquillity is difficult to find when raising children, but it is po...
This is the first in a five part series by Padmavajra on all aspects of the Metta Bhavana practice and 'The Great Love' in Buddhist discours...
In this short talk, Sanghamani reflects on the magic of transformation, her mythic connection with her preceptors and with Sangharakshita as...
Vajratara explores discipleship as a living, relational practice rooted in faithfulness rather than idealism. Discipleship is presented as a...
There's a story about the Buddha bowing to the tree under which he has just gained Enlightenment. Inspired by this this story, Vajragupta se...
Suryadarshini gives an account of the Buddha's teaching of the three lakshanas, the marks of conditioned existence. He taught that all pheno...
Suddhayu discusses the importance of meditation as a refuge in chaotic times, both as a way to tend to our own hearts, and as a way to chang...
Aryajaya explores the first seven verses of the Cetokhila Sutta ('The Wilderness of the Heart'), looking at the conditions that make spiritu...
This is a quietly passionate talk by Jinapriya on the quicksilver nature of the Enlightenment experience - impossible to pin down, utterly t...
After an account of the Buddha's life, Sangharakshita asks how, if at all, such a man can be defined or categorised. Excerpted from the talk...
Here Sangharakshita shares two personal stories from his time in Kalimpong and how he came to learn that Vajrasattva is connected with death...
The Buddha's time has come and his companion, Ananda, is completely grief-stricken for the teacher whom he loves so deeply. Vadanya shares t...
Stories are powerful - they speak to parts of ourselves that respond to symbols, patterns and truths about human life that are deeper and fa...
Here, Amarachandra recounts a few themes from the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, beginning with a problematic character named King Ajatasattu, a dis...
Punyamala explores the Buddhist teachings of impermanence and shares reflections on how to live with the fact of death, using her recent exp...
Bodhidasa poetically explores the image of the reclining Buddha - at his physical passing, the Buddha did not stop being a force for good, d...
A Sangharakshita lecture celebrating the anniversary of the Parinirvana or 'death' of the Buddha. It outlines six basic meditation practices...
Here, Sraddhagita reflects on a poem by Rumi entitled On Being Woven as she explores the path of spiritual friendship. Excerpted from the ta...
Here, Vishangka explores what it means to live a full buddhist life, and the place of meditation and community within it. Excerpted from the...
Here Ratnaghosha explores various ways of contemplating the qualities and virtues of a Buddha. This fifth talk in the series on the Five Sta...
Here, Khemasuri talks about Milarepa, the consequences of his actions and the law of karma. His understanding deeply affected his life, can...
Nagapriya offers a good, pithy introduction (not to say quirky - check out the football references!) to the traditionally thorny and rather...
Here, Akasaraja reflects on the question of why the Buddha apparently left this suffering world rather than returning to lead all beings to...
Here, Dharmaprabha explores conditioned co-production through her personal experience of living with a chronic illness. She traces the early...
Suryadarshini interweaves her personal experience of turning away from suffering and towards joy, with the teaching of the spiral path. Exce...
Ordinary experience is governed by the endless round of the Wheel of Life, which can be gradually halted by treading the spiral path to Enli...
An alive and dynamic spiritual community is vital to the individual flourishing of those that participate in it. In this keynote talk Para...
A thoughtful, sympathetic talk by Srivati i on the most delicate of tasks in any life - how to live in the present moment. Exploring the sub...
In this talk, given at a sangha retreat for the Oslo Sangha, Gunaketu gives an inspiring talk about creating spiritual community. He starts...
This talk delves into the concept of 'Sangha' and its deep connections with truth and relationships. Sanghadhara shares personal reflections...
Suryagupta explores how war, destruction and conflict are on the increase in the world, as are conflicted and destructive individual lives....
Maitrivajri explores gender and leadership under the five aspects of Sangharakshita's teaching of the true individual. Excerpted from the ta...
On this special Dharma night, Subhadramati interviewed local Buddhist artist Amitajyoti about her work and practice. Excerpted from The Arti...
Here, Sangharakshita emphasises the importance of distinguishing Buddhism as a universally applicable path of development from the specifica...
Rijumati explores the place of meditation in the bigger context of the growth of oneself as an individual, exploring how we can develop a co...
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 v...
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...
In this masterly lecture to an American conference audience, Sangharakshita reminds us of the basic conceptual formulation of the Buddha's e...
What does it mean to be human? Dhammadinna 's gently balanced and encouraging talk explores various perspectives on one of the fundamental q...
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...
Maitreyi 's visit to the Mid Essex Buddhist Centre, talking about communicating through symbols, this time round through the hub of the whee...