Sangharakshita: The Mystic and the Poet
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explores the mythic and spiritual dimension of Bhante Sangharakshita’s life and what the emotional significance of Going for Refuge. Through stories, poetry, and the image of the refuge tree, she reflects on his love for the Three Jewels, his connection to his teachers, and his dedication to the Bodhisattva ideal. Talk given at as part of a series celebrating Sangharakshita's 100th birthday, 2025. *** Subscribe to the FBA podcast: A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. | |
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How Do You Navigate Yourself On the Buddhist Path
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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 what the Goal is? If the Goal is Enlightenment, do you understand what the Buddha means by Enlightenment? Or is your understanding of it a bit vague and muddled? The Buddha is specific. will be looking at this whole area. This talk was given at , 2025. *** Subscribe to the FBA podcast: A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. | |
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The Story of Bahia
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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. Sometimes they were householders, sometimes royalty, but they were all shopping around - shopping for wisdom. The Buddha met many people like this. He also met people who’d achieved quite a bit by following other teachers, or those who had themselves become teachers. There were those who worshiped fire and those who practised austerities. There were nihilists and eternalists. And then there was Bahiya – Bahiya of the Bark Garment, as he was known. Here,...
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Dying Into Freedom: Spiritual Death In the Triratna System of Practice
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As part of the series on Personal Development (system of practice) helps us understand how important spiritual death is in our lives. She explores the small moments of letting go which help us to break through ego clinging, allowing freedom and creativity to emerge. This talk was given at , 2026. *** Subscribe to the FBA podcast: A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. | |
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The Cremation Ground is Everywhere
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explores the symbolism of Padmasambhava's famous exile in the eight great cremation grounds. And explores the important teaching that (aṣṭa vijñānakāyāḥ) of the Yogacara are regarded in Tantric Buddhism as the eight great cremation grounds. So, we are always in the realm of decay and death. Yet the cremation ground is also the place of initiation, and in this masterful and fascinating talk, remembering his own teacher Sangharakshita's period of "exile" from respectable Buddhist circles in the 1960s in London, Padmavajra explores a significant series of initiations that...
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The Lineage of Practice
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In this imaginative talk, which begins with an evocation of how unbelievably fortunate we are to be able to practice together in community, speaks to one of the four lineages of our sangha as drawn out by Urgyen Sangharakshita, Triratna's founder. He evokes the lineage of practice as a continuous chain of human inspiration and curiosity – from ancient peoples around the fire, to Siddhartha on the cusp of personal failure under the bodhi tree, to Sangharakshita in India, and finally to the current generation of practitioners who must embody and transmit the Dharma. This talk was given in...
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May Our Communication With One Another Be Sangha
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explores the profound lines from Sangharakshita's Dedication Ceremony: "Here seated, here practising My our mind become Buddha, May our thought become Dharma May our communication with one another be Sangha" Recorded at the Autumn Going for Refuge weekend retreat at , 2024. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: Bite-sized clips - Buddhist inspiration three times a week. | |
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Wisdom's Gathering: the Difference That Makes a Difference
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speaks about Sangha as Dharma practice and how spiritual community and friendship with the admirable are part of our heritage in Triratna. A talk given on the International Gathering at Adhisthana, 2017. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: Bite-sized clips - Buddhist inspiration three times a week. | |
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A Blueprint for a New World
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Is it possible to create a society in which all social, economic, and political arrangements will support the development of true individuality? In this lecture, discusses a number of principles essential to the successful transformation of our current society. This talk is part of the series , given in 1976 and in 2026. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: Bite-sized clips - Buddhist inspiration three times a week. | |
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"This Is Truth! This Is Not Truth!": Beyond Outrage
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The Dharma meets androcentricity and culture wars. explores how we can relate to views on gender without polarising. She asks, how do we bring the Dharma to bear on our and others' deeply-held views? And how do we hold some of Sangharakshita's conditioned views? Honest, nuanced, sensitive. This talk was given at , as part of the series entitled , 2026. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: Bite-sized clips - Buddhist inspiration three times a week. | |
info_outlinePadmavajra delivers an enthralling account of the Buddha's passing into Paranirvana. Drawing on events in the Mahaparanibbana Sutta, he elucidates the perfumed chamber of the Buddha's unconditioned mind. Delivered on Parinirvana Day at the London Buddhist Centre, 2022.
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