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Dharmabytes from Free Buddhist Audio

Mar 31, 2014

Free Buddhist AudioIn todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte and#8220;Introduction to Tonglen Retreatand#8221; Saddhanandi beautifully and skilfully presents her vision for the Tonglen retreat held in March 2014 at Taraloka. Weand#8217;ve been posting all week from this Triratna Order Retreat and are pleased to share this and#8216;offering to the...


Mar 27, 2014

Free Buddhist AudioFor our FBA Dharmabyte today we chose an excerpt titled and#8220;Defining Imaginationand#8221; by Subhuti from the Rambles Around the Imagination 1 and#8211; Defining Imagination. Following on from a recent set of conversations with Sangharakshita, Subhuti gives the first in a series of Rambles on the important subject of...


Mar 24, 2014

Free Buddhist AudioIn our FBA Dharmabyte today, and#8220;Illumined Imagination,and#8221; Maitreyabandhu shares anecdotes from his experience to draw out spiritual principles coming through ordinary experience. The full talk is about Avalokitesvara and was given on the LBCand#8217;s Winter Retreat at Sibford, Oxfordshire in December...


Mar 20, 2014

Free Buddhist AudioOur FBA Dharmabyte today, and#8220;Blending Reason and Reverenceand#8221; is an excerpt from The Diamond Sutra and#8211; Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 1, by Padmavajra. Blending the intellectual and the devotional, here Padmavajra describes the setting of the sutra exploring simplicity and awareness.

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Mar 17, 2014

Free Buddhist AudioOur FBA Dharmabyte today is a short talk by Taranita entitled: and#8220;The Heart Sutra and#8211; Sunyata.and#8221; Sunyata is central to the Heart Sutra, and here Taranita discusses this subtle Buddhist teaching and#8211; often translated as Empitness or Voidness. In doing so, amongst other things, he compares...