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Release Date: 06/08/2026
Befriend Your Mind
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invites us to explore how meditation can serve our lives on and off the cushion, and especially during challenging times. Excerpted from the talk entitled given at , 2025. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: Bite-sized clips - Buddhist inspiration three times a week. | |
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Seeing Metta as a Choice
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Equanimity is the deepest level of metta: metta imbued with seeing reality. brings in Kisa Gotami, Hiroshima and her own mother's death. Can we hold the paradox of loving, yet letting go? Can we drop the drama, and see the mettaful action that we could actually take? Excerpted from the talk entitled as part of the series , , 2025. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: Bite-sized clips - Buddhist inspiration three times a week. | |
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As Ordinary As Your Own Breath
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Image of the sea and the raft: we hold onto our raft, but this brings suffering - can we let go, enter the sea and become spiritually reborn? This is the question asks us. Spiritual death does not only mean esoteric meditation practices; it means confronting the vagaries and difficulties of life with honesty and courage and seeing what we can learn from them. By opening up to new experiences, life becomes more vivid and enjoyable - if we can just face the fear. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Sea As Spiritual Death given at Young Men Retreat, , 2012. *** Subscribe to our...
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Light as an Orientating Feature
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Orientation towards Enlightenment is a keynote talk by marking both the Buddha’s enlightenment over 2,500 years ago and the 30th anniversary of the Nottingham Buddhist Centre. Exploring themes of lineage, connection, and the symbolism of the Vajrasana as a point of orientation in a suffering world. Kusaladevi reflects on how Dharma practice and the life of a Buddhist Centre offer a bridge from disorientation towards the transcendental through the light of the Dharma. Excerpted from the talk entitled Orienting Towards Enlightenment given at the , 2026. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes...
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A Hot Debate
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delves into the Buddha's unanswered questions; questions that Vacchagotta, Malunkyaputta and others asked him. Among them: 'What happens to a Buddha after death?' And what happens at our own death; what did the Buddha really say; and why did the renowned Buddhist scholar Paul Williams convert from Buddhism to Roman Catholicism? Excerpted from the talk entitled Death and the Self, and the Buddha's Unanswered Questions given at , 2010. *** Subscribe to the FBA podcast: A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. | |
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Between the Heaves of Storm
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draws out the deeper meaning and finer detail of five different poems, each around the theme of death with the final poem focusing on spiritual rebirth. By discussing the background of the poems and poets, the intricacies of their structure, and bringing in a Buddhist interpretation of the themes raised in the poems, Maitreyabandhu shows us the importance and profundity of poetry and how it can help us to explore Dharmic themes more deeply. Here he discusses the poem “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died - by Emily Dickinson. Excerpted from the talk entitled given at , 2018. *** Subscribe...
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The Drum of the Deathless
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In this talk explores these beautiful verses which evoke the Buddha, his qualities and the profundity of his teaching. Excerpted from the talk entitled given at , 2014. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: Bite-sized clips - Buddhist inspiration three times a week. | |
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Angulimala
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relates tales of some of the colourful characters who visit the Buddha to receive teachings.Here, we here about a killer-bandit named Angulimala. Excerpted from the talk given at , 2016. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: Bite-sized clips - Buddhist inspiration three times a week. | |
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A Sense of Urgency
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What was the Buddha really like? explores this important question with particular emphasis on how this is related to our own lives and how we may follow in the footsteps of the Buddha ourselves. Excerpted from the talk entitled What the Buddha Was Really Like given at , 2017. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: Bite-sized clips - Buddhist inspiration three times a week. | |
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True Individuals and Spiritual Communities
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outlines his view of the historical background to current world problems (essentially, problems within and between groups), which can only be solved by people either withdrawing support from groups or influencing them positively through an experience of Spiritual Communities. Excerpted from the talk entitled Evolution or Extinction: Current World Problems given as part of the series , 1971. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: Bite-sized clips - Buddhist inspiration three times a week. | |
info_outlineNagavajri gracefully introduces some points one may find helpful before studying any Mahayana sutra, giving some context to this rich vein of the Dharma. Excerpted from the talk What Do I Need to Know Before Reading a Mahayana Sutra? Given as an introduction to the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa (The Inconceivable Emancipation) at a sub30 Adhisthana retreat, 2025.
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