Initiation From the Naga King
After the Buddha's Enlightenment, the Buddha sat in a grove of trees, absorbing what had happened, his experience unfolding in all direction...
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How to Change Your Mind, Meditative States and Indirect Methods
In this talk, Satyagosha explores "How to Change Your Mind" by looking at meditative states and the "indirect methods" that support them. He...
Me, the Buddhist Centre, and the State of the World
We live in a time ridden by crisis and difficulty. How should Buddhist's respond? This is a personal and very honest talk from Vajragupta ,...
A Vision of Human Existence
Revisiting the original series by Sangharakshita, entitled Buddhism for Today – and Tomorrow , given in 1976, Jnanadhara slightly rearranges...
Sangharakshita: The Mystic and the Poet
Karunadhi explores the mythic and spiritual dimension of Bhante Sangharakshita's life and what the emotional significance of Going for Refug...
How Do You Navigate Yourself On the Buddhist Path
How do you navigate yourself on the Buddhist Path? How do you choose the right direction of travel if you don't know where you're going or w...
The Story of Bahia
Back in the Buddha's time, it's thought that there were lots of people who were looking for meaning, going from teacher to teacher. Sometime...
Dying Into Freedom: Spiritual Death In the Triratna System of Practice
As part of the series on Personal Development (system of practice) Parami helps us understand how important spiritual death is in our lives....
The Cremation Ground is Everywhere
Padmavajra explores the symbolism of Padmasambhava's famous exile in the eight great cremation grounds. And explores the important teaching...
The Lineage of Practice
In this imaginative talk, which begins with an evocation of how unbelievably fortunate we are to be able to practice together in community,...
May Our Communication Wit Hone Another Be Sangha
Padmavajra explores the profound lines from Sangharakshita's Dedication Ceremony: "Here seated, here practising My our mind become Buddha, M...
Wisdom's Gathering: the Difference That Makes a Difference
Dhammamegha speaks about Sangha as Dharma practice and how spiritual community and friendship with the admirable are part of our heritage in...
A Blueprint for a New World
Is it possible to create a society in which all social, economic, and political arrangements will support the development of true individual...
"This Is Truth! This Is Not Truth!": Beyond Outrage
The Dharma meets androcentricity and culture wars. Maitrisiddhi explores how we can relate to views on gender without polarising. She asks,...
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...
Awakening As Gratitude
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...
Absorption - After the Enlightenment
How do you get used to being Enlightened? What happened to the Buddha in the weeks after his breakthrough experience? Kamalashila explores t...
Our Biggest Hindrance
When we Go for Refuge, we can only Go for Refuge to that which is lokuttara - 'beyond the world'. In the third talk in this series, Satyaraj...
Enlightenment As Experience and Non-Experience
Here, Saddhanandi speaks about the nature of enlightenment, as experience and as non-experience, based on Bhante's lecture of the same name,...