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Amoghasiddhi: The Call of the Forest
09/28/2024
Amoghasiddhi: The Call of the Forest
delves us deeper into the mandala of the five Buddhas by. evoking the mystery, power and courage of the deep-green Buddha Amoghasiddhi. Ksantikara extols us to be brave enough to encounter the depths of our being. And from the depths to gather the power to act, to move towards enlightenment and set ourselves free. Given at as part of the series , 2019. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Amitabha's Infinite Light
09/21/2024
Amitabha's Infinite Light
gives a talk on the Buddha Amitabha, Avalokitesvara and the Bodhisattva vow. He shares three stories, each of them drawing out the boundless radiant love of Amitabha and the inconceivable nature of true compassion. Given at , 2019, as part of the series . *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Beauty As a Path to Freedom
09/14/2024
Beauty As a Path to Freedom
Allow life to flourish in the realm of Ratnasambhava. explores the symbols, wisdom and transformational power of the yellow Buddha in the southern realm of the Five Buddha Mandala. This talk was given on Winter Retreat, 2022. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Akshobhya: Transforming Hatred into the Mirror-like Wisdom
09/07/2024
Akshobhya: Transforming Hatred into the Mirror-like Wisdom
Akshobhya: Transforming Hatred Into the Mirror-Like Wisdom Under hatred lies fear, under fear there is compassion. shares something of the symbolism of Akshobhya and talks about how we bring the mirror-like wisdom into our daily lives. This talk was given at , 2019. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Moon of the Mind
08/31/2024
Moon of the Mind
A clear and passionate talk, looking at bodhicitta and its twin aspects of love and letting go: wisdom and compassion. explores the role of paradox and how we need to 'hold two necessary ideas together' without polarising between them. Given at as part of the Taraloka & Tiratanaloka online Great Gathering weekend, for women training for ordination and Order Members, 2021. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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The Highly Potent Elixir of Transformation
08/24/2024
The Highly Potent Elixir of Transformation
In his first talk on Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara speaks of Sangharakshita's evocation of the Bodhicitta. He goes on to talk about his discovery of the Bodhicarayavatara and what is known of the life of Shantideva. The main part of the talk is Padmavajra's discussion of some of the verses of the first chapter of the Bodhicaryavatara, especially of verse ten, in which the Bodhicitta is likened to the highly potent quicksilver elixir of the alchemist, capable of transforming the worst of things into the Bodhicitta. Talk given at as part of the series , 2020. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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The Origin of Bodhicitta in the Brahma Viharas
08/17/2024
The Origin of Bodhicitta in the Brahma Viharas
offers an introduction to the origin of the Bodhicitta in the brahma viharas, moves on from the blue sky to the refuges and an exploration of the view of scientific materialism. This talk was given in 2020 at Adhisthana as part of the series which includes many led meditation practices. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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A Body at Peace with Itself
08/10/2024
A Body at Peace with Itself
starts by exploring different perspectives on what is the body and how limited views can limit our practice. He shares his own journey of discovery around what the body is, particularly during his years living at Vajraloka Retreat Centre. The talk then looks at what it might mean for the body to be truly, profoundly and deeply at peace with itself. Given at Buddhist Centre, 2017. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Somatic Going for Refuge
08/03/2024
Somatic Going for Refuge
reminds us of Bhante's emphasis on the development of the true individual, positive group and spiritual community. She then links an embodied and relational approach to our individual and collective going for refuge, encouraging us to explore how a direct experience of safety, dignity and belonging in the sangha might support collective awakening. She ends by sharing specific ways we may practice "somatic going for refuge" which she describes as not a new level of going for refuge, but rather a way of practicing that we can "needle through" our lives from provisional to cosmic going forth. This talk was given at the June 2024 Women's Area Order Weekend themed “I am because we are.” *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Karma and the Consequences of Our Actions
07/27/2024
Karma and the Consequences of Our Actions
Here takes us a little closer into the whole, often misunderstood area of karma in Buddhist thinking. She draws out the important details of the process that we call 'actions and consequences' - but her emphasis is always on putting what we learn into practice in real life, with other real people. The fourth talk in a five-part series of the Tibetan tradition given at , 2005. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Recollection on Death
07/20/2024
Recollection on Death
Reflecting on her response to Bhante Sangharakshita’s death, celebrates the gratitude she feels for what she has learned in her Dharma practice, partciluarly the ability to open up and turn towards what is difficult in a very real way. This is a series of talks and practices from the at , November, 2018. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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This Precious Opportunity
07/13/2024
This Precious Opportunity
The first of a series on the 4 reminders, given live at the North London Buddhist Centre, 12 Sept 2020. 1. Our life as a human being is a precious opportunity. 2. Everything changes, and death is inevitable, so don’t lose your opportunities. 3. You do make a difference, the way you live and act now will change the future for yourself and for the world. 4. Ordinary habitual or self-centred life is a trial for everyone, so live a meaningful life, take your opportunities, make a difference! Everyone can liberate themselves. What is so special about human awareness, and what particular advantages make it 'precious'? shows how we can see the huge value of what life is offering right now, and take this opportunity to commit to practice. Talk given at , 2020. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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A Solid Foundation
07/06/2024
A Solid Foundation
The human body, at peace with itself, Is more precious than the rarest gem. Cherish your body - it is yours this time only. The human form is won with difficulty, It is easy to lose. All worldly things are brief, Like lightning in the sky; This life you must know As the tiny splash of a raindrop; A thing of beauty that disappears Even as it comes into being. Therefore set your goal; Make use of every day and night To achieve it. With these inspiring words as a starting point, explores the practice of The Four Reminders, the preliminary practice of the Mind Training. How would we act in every ordinary moment if we were Enlightened? How can we act to be more Enlightened? This powerful, pithy teaching tells us how to do just that. Talk given at , 2024. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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A Vision of Communication
06/29/2024
A Vision of Communication
What does it take to create a context which allows people to experience meaning? looks how sangha is created through meaningful, authentic friendships and communication. The talk includes references to her interviews about poetry with Sangharakshita. This talk was given at , 2023. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Happy Indeed We Live
06/22/2024
Happy Indeed We Live
“Happy indeed we live, friendly amid the haters. Among those who hate we dwell free from hate. Happy indeed we live, healthy amid the sick. Among those who are sick we dwell free from sickness. Happy indeed we live, content amid the greedy. Among those who are greedy we dwell free from greed.” (The Dhammapada, chapter 14, ‘Happiness’, verses 197-199). explores the Buddha’s vision of spiritual community as it is expressed in three verses of the Dhammapada. This is a comprehensive survey of the Buddha's teaching but is also replete with practical advice about how we might apply this to our lives today - and finishes on a very encouraging note. Talk given at the , 2024. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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A Life Well Spent and Beyond its End
06/15/2024
A Life Well Spent and Beyond its End
In a life well lived there is a conscious search for meaning. reflects on the Buddha’s (and our own!) Noble Quest. This talk was given as a part of the LBC Winter Retreat 2023, following the Buddha's This talk was given at as part of the series , 2023. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Inspiration
06/08/2024
Inspiration
explores the meaning of inspiration and its importance in the Dharmalife. He makes some general observations about the nature of inspiration, discusses the three kinds of faith, and concludes by talking about The Buddha as a source of inspiration. This talk was given at as part of the series , 2024. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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A Limb of the Universe
06/01/2024
A Limb of the Universe
‘Just as I love and cherish my body, which is divided into many limbs, so I should love and cherish this whole world, which is divided into many beings.’ So says Shantideva in his famous ‘Guide to the Path of Awakening’. In this talk will explore what Shantideva tells us about the wisdom teaching of ‘anatman’ – often translated as ‘no-self’ – and look at how this apparently negative doctrine opens up a positive and inspiring vision of connectedness. Given at , 2024. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Under the Bodhi Tree
05/25/2024
Under the Bodhi Tree
On a warm spring day, under the overhanging branches of the Sycamore tree in the Buddhist Centre garden, richly evokes Gautama's quest, realisation, and their relevance for today's world. This talk was given on Buddha Day at the , 2010. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Giving Up Asceticism and the Rose Apple Tree
05/18/2024
Giving Up Asceticism and the Rose Apple Tree
traces the period after the Buddha’s going forth: as he masters meditation then turns towards extreme asceticism in his quest to overcome dukkha. Having taken himself to the brink of death, the Buddha-to-be finally realises that he must find his own ‘middle way’ to liberation. This talk is part of the series given during a home retreat, 2021. This magical week-long retreat explores the images, myths and symbols of the Buddha’s journey to awakening using dharma talks, meditation, storytelling, puppetry and art. Visit 'In the Footsteps of the Buddha' for more resources from this retreat: *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Living what we Love
05/11/2024
Living what we Love
explores what can happen when faced with well-being, illness, ageing and death, and looks at how the Dharma might influence our response. Amitasuri takes her Dharma practice to her work as a Buddhist Hospital Chaplain, where she supports health and well-being through pastoral, religious and spiritual care for staff, patients and their families in a number of hospitals in Greater Manchester. This talk was given at , 2015. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Who is the Buddha?
05/04/2024
Who is the Buddha?
After an account of the Buddha's life, asks how, if at all, such a man can be defined or categorised. This talk was given in 1968 as part of the series *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Bhante, His "Gurus" and Us
04/27/2024
Bhante, His "Gurus" and Us
shares some of her own recollections of Bhante Sangharakshita going back to their first encounter in 1984, stories both humorous and serious, evoking some of his unique qualities. Drawing on an unpublished fragment, ‘What I learned from my gurus’, she reminds us of some of the fundamental aspects of his teaching. This talk was given as part of a series entitled Given at for the Triratna Day celebrations, 2023. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Is A Guru Necessary (Revisited)
04/19/2024
Is A Guru Necessary (Revisited)
revisits Sangharakshita's classic 1970 lecture. In this energetic and playful talk Ksantikara adds his own reflections to Sangharakshita's original list of what a Guru is not (not the head of a religious group, not a teacher, not a father/mother substitute, not a problem solver) and explores the important of having people in our life to look up to and be in contact with. Ksantikara implores us to find a situation of Kalayana Mitrata (beautiful friendship) and to stay receptive to those more evolved than us. This talk was given at as part of the series 2023. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Breaking the Bonds of Selfhood Through Serving the Dhamma
04/13/2024
Breaking the Bonds of Selfhood Through Serving the Dhamma
Here is a strong, beautiful talk by from the final day of the 's International Convention 2013 in India, bringing us back to the task in hand as members of the Order and as Buddhists: engaging with breaking the fetters and weakening the hold that self-clinging exerts upon our minds and our ways of seeing things. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Launch of The Buddhist Vision and the Dhammapada
04/09/2024
Launch of The Buddhist Vision and the Dhammapada
Here is a recently re-discovered little lost delight - launching each other's books and clearly enjoying themselves. Sangharakshita's in fine humour - and it's great to hear him read and quote from the bible! Is that a twinkle in his voice? Talk given at Triratna [FWBO] Day celebrations in 2001. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Lion's Roar - Why Integration = Love
03/30/2024
Lion's Roar - Why Integration = Love
explores integration as a process of meeting Mara in her life and in scenes in the life of the Buddha, and the fulfillment of integration during the Buddha's last days of exquisite love. This talk was given at , 2018. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Celebrating the Buddha: Pingiya's Praises to the Way to the Beyond
03/23/2024
Celebrating the Buddha: Pingiya's Praises to the Way to the Beyond
In this talk explores these beautiful verses which evoke the Buddha, his qualities and the profundity of his teaching. This talk was given at , 2014. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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The Jataka Stories
03/16/2024
The Jataka Stories
In an excellent and thorough introduction to the Jataka tales, explains the value of stories of the Buddha's past lives and how they originated. She tells the stories of the Hare in the Moon and the Monkey King. This talk was given at the , 2017. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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Kasyapa and the Flower
03/09/2024
Kasyapa and the Flower
In a striking and inspiring talk, tells the life story of the Buddha's disciple Kasyapa: the Buddha uniquely said that Kasyapa would have gained enlightenment even without his help. The crescendo is a mysterious transmission when the Buddha held up a lotus and Kasyapa smiled, regarded by Zen Buddhists as the start of their lineage. Paramananda discusses what 'transmission' could mean for us. This talk was given at , 2017. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: | | A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting!Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast: | | Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favorite podcast service! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: | | | |
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