Dharmabytes From Free Buddhist Audio

Our 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. This is an excerpt from the first in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive ten talk series by Padmavajra on and#8216;The Diamond Sutraand#8217;. We are taken through the work stage by stage, and here we begin with the opening scenes and the text itself as a revelation of Realityand#8230; Talks given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2004 This talk is part of the series The Diamond Sutra and#8211; Taking Mind to its Limits.

Our 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 Christian transubstantiation with Buddhist insubstantiality.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today, and#8220;Living by Cause and Effectand#8221; is an excerpt from the series Tangling Eyebrows with Zen Masters. Padmavajra here is looking at the nature of impermanence and how all living beings are without a fixed and permanent nature. From the talk Entering Through Your Practice given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2004.

In todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, Engaged Ethics, Parami gives us a perspective on the nature of Mahayana ethics and#8211; marked by compassion and wisdom and maximizing connectedness. The energizing effect of engaged ethics is a tool for living life fully for the benefit of others. From the talk The Awakening Heart.

Our FBA Dharmabyte, and#8220;Pointing to something Realand#8221; is the beginning of Launch of the LBC Year of Dharmic Receptivity by Jnanavaca. In true form, Jnanavaca delivers.

Our FBA Dharmabyte, and#8220;Ritual, Metaphor and Poetryand#8221; is a beautiful excerpt on communication as exchange of energy and experience. Happy is the mind that is steeped in totality, Dhammadassin reveals the ritual in the world through poetry and metaphor. The full talk Standing on Emptiness: View, Meditation, and Action was given at the Western Buddhist Order Women’s National Order weekend, August 2004.

Vessantara is back from his three year long retreat and has many insights to share. Our FBA Dharmabyte today is a preview for next Saturdayand#8217;s full-length FBA Podcast. In and#8220;The Buddhist View on Rebirthand#8221; Vessantara dives deep as he describes how awareness continues to arise after death and#8211; there is continued experience but no and#8216;Iand#8217; to have that experience. The full talk Karma, Rebirth and the Deep Boundless Dharma was given at the Triratna Buddhist Order UK and Ireland Menand#8217;s Order Weekend at Adhisthana on 1 February 2014.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is dedicated to Dhardo Rinpoche, and#8220;The Origins of the Stupa.and#8221; In this segment Sangharakshita explains the origins of the Buddhist stupa. From the talk, Five Element Symbolism and the Stupa, given in 1971, is part of the series Parables, Myths and Symbols of Mahayana Buddhism in the White Lotus Sutra. Weand#8217;ve dedicated this to Dhardo Rinpoche to help support a stupa being built in his honor at one of our Triratna Centres in America.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is a lovely reading, and reflection on, and#8220;The Buddhaand#8217;s Visions.and#8221; Here we have Candradasa reading to us, quite poetically, as the Buddha recalls his previous lives and the vision of the lotuses. He then reflects on faith and experience in practice. From the talk and#8220;Religion Without God, Part 3 and#8211; Death and the Biggest Questions of Alland#8221;, the third talk in a four-part series looking at how you can have a full spiritual life as a 21st Century person without recourse to blind faith or setting yourself against the rational world we find ourselves in.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte titled and#8220;Metta Bhavana: Letting Kindness Happenand#8221; is a short talk by Ratnaguna about the metta bhavana, or development of loving kindness. Talk given at the Manchester Buddhist Centre in February 2012.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, takes us deep into the Pali Suttas as practice. Here, Padmavajra chants and#8220;The Karaniya Metta Suttaand#8221; as the opening to his talk, and#8220;The Power of Loveand#8221;, which will be podcast in full this weekend.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, and#8220;Adhistana is ACEand#8221; is a short talk by Dharmashalin as part of the theme of and#8216;Adhisthana as Blessingand#8217; on the UK and Ireland Menand#8217;s Order Weekend held at Adhisthana, on 3 November 2013

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, and#8220;and#8216;Bhante and#8211; Teacher and Friendand#8221; a talk by Dhammadinna, first in a symposium of talks about Sangharakshita given at the UK and Ireland Area Order weekend at Adhisthana on 7th December 2013.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte titled: and#8220;and#8216;Developmentand#8217; andamp; Communicating Dharmaand#8221; is an excerpt from the talk: and#8220;Psychology of Spiritual Developmentand#8221; by Sangharakshita given in 1967. Here, Bhante discusses the The meaning of and#8216;developmentand#8217; and the problem of communicating the Dharma. This talk is part of the series Aspects of Buddhist Psychology.

Our FBA Dharmabyte , and#8220;Adhisthana, Emptiness and Butterflies,and#8221; is a talk by Saraha as part of the theme of and#8216;Adhisthana as Blessingand#8217; on the UK and Ireland Menand#8217;s Order Weekend held at Adhisthana, on 3 November 2013

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is a short talk on the theme of and#8216;Intensity of engagement with the Dharma lifeand#8217; by Singhamati titled: and#8220;Intensity At Taralokaand#8221;. Given on the European Order Gathering at Wymondham College, August 10 2013. The Theme of the gathering was and#8216;Karma niyama in the service of the Dharma niyamaand#8217;.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is a short talk on the theme of and#8216;Intensity of engagement with the Dharma lifeand#8217; by Amlanadhi titled: and#8220;Cherishing the Lotusand#8221;. Given on the European Order Gathering at Wymondham College, August 10 2013. The Theme of the gathering was and#8216;Karma niyama in the service of the Dharma niyamaand#8217;.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is an interesting blend of SciFi and Dharma Study titled and#8220;Stepping Through Dharma Portalsand#8221;. From the talk and#8220;Cherish the Doctrineand#8221; by Nagapriya, Part 1 of a three part series based around the motto of the great Tibetan 20th Century teacher Dhardo Rimpoche and#8211; and#8220;Cherish the Doctrine, Live United, Radiate Loveand#8221;. Here, Nagapriya reminds us that in order to appreciate the meaning of symbols, one needs to engage the imagination. Further, in trying to understand the Dharma one can only go so far with rational understanding and#8211; one must engage the imagination. Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, Men’s Event January

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is titled: and#8220;Meditative Experienceand#8221; from the 1967 talk by Sangharakshita titled Meditation: the Expanding Consciousness. In this excerpt, Bhante explains the the three stages of meditation: samata, samapatti, and samadhi. Samata is the experience of tranquility, calm and equanimity of mind as discursive mental activity recedes. Samapatti represents an immense variety of experiences. Described as attainments in meditation from changes in temperature and seeing multi-colored lights to flashes of insight. Samadhi is carefully described as a blissful state, translucent, free from the dichotomy of subject and object, as consciousness in expanded from the mundane to the transcendental.

Our FBA Dharmabyte today is from Vajratara titled: and#8220;Imagination andamp; Dreaming Angelsand#8221;. Here Vajratara explores the fifth pillar of the Triratna Buddhist Order: Imagination as mystery, magic and myth. She describes how in the Sangha, in the Sangha we aspire to, the distinctions between each other are transcended and#8211; which is a mysterious and wonderful thing. From the talk: Dreaming Angels given on the December 2012 National Order Weekend for women.