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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Vajrasattva is Connected With Death
Here Sangharakshita shares two personal stories from his time in Kalimpong and how he came to learn that Vajrasattva is connected with death. This lec...
In Praise of Ananda
The Buddha's time has come and his companion, Ananda, is completely grief-stricken for the teacher whom he loves so deeply. Vadanya shares the Buddha'...
The Journey to Kushinara
Stories are powerful - they speak to parts of ourselves that respond to symbols, patterns and truths about human life that are deeper and far beyond o...
King Ajatasattu
Here, Amarachandra recounts a few themes from the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, beginning with a problematic character named King Ajatasattu, a disciple of t...
Attending Closely to the Transient Nature of Things
Punyamala explores the Buddhist teachings of impermanence and shares reflections on how to live with the fact of death, using her recent experience of...
What Legacy Will You Leave?
Bodhidasa poetically explores the image of the reclining Buddha - at his physical passing, the Buddha did not stop being a force for good, did not mee...
What happens to the Buddha when he dies?
A Sangharakshita lecture celebrating the anniversary of the Parinirvana or 'death' of the Buddha. It outlines six basic meditation practices crucial t...
Exemplification in the Aryasangha
Here, Sraddhagita reflects on a poem by Rumi entitled On Being Woven as she explores the path of
spiritual friendship. Excerpted from the talk...
A Sense of Solidarity with Others
Here, Vishangka explores what it means to live a full buddhist life, and the place of meditation and community within it. Excerpted from the talk enti...
What Kind of Buddha Will You Become?
Here Ratnaghosha explores various ways of contemplating the qualities and virtues of a Buddha. This fifth talk in the series on the Five Stages of Spi...
Nothing is Random
Here, Khemasuri talks about Milarepa, the consequences of his actions and the law of karma. His understanding deeply affected his life, can it do the...
Karma and the Six Realms
Nagapriya offers a good, pithy introduction (not to say quirky - check out the football references!) to the traditionally thorny and rather misunderst...
To Be A Human Being
Here, Akasaraja reflects on the question of why the Buddha apparently left this suffering world rather than returning to lead all beings to freedom, a...
An Upward Spiraling Trend
Here, Dharmaprabha explores conditioned co-production through her personal experience of living with a chronic illness. She traces the early formula...
Glimpses of The Beyond
Suryadarshini interweaves her personal experience of turning away from suffering and towards joy, with the teaching of the spiral path. Excerpted fro...
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...