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Common Right View (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 29 Aug, 2024 - 11:00

Dharmadipa speaks to how sangha is based on a common right view, even more so than kindness. Excerpted from the talk Wisdom and Ignorance, the last of six talks given during the ‘Mind in Harmony’ retreat at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2017.

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Careful Study (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 11 Jul, 2024 - 16:48

A lovely, thoughtful exploration of the traditional Buddhist path of ethics, meditation and wisdom, using poetry and the ideas of contemporary science to evoke the mystery that lies at the heart of practice. Dhammadassin’s beautifully weighted talk challenges us to look at how we think and how we act, and is rooted in a moving fidelity to experience as the ground of our inspiration. One to be treasured!

Excerpted from the talk Standing on Emptiness: View,...

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Dharmabytes: Essentialness of Right View

By Centre Team on Mon, 11 Dec, 2023 - 11:00

Vidyamala shares ways to bring an imaginative approach to mindfulness practice. Excerpted from the talk entitled Mindfulness and the Imagination given at Rivendell as part of the series An Exploration of the Satipatthana Sutta, 2018.

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No Bit of Us is Really Fixed

By Centre Team on Thu, 14 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

No Bit of Us is Really Fixed

By Centre Team on Thu, 14 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Here is an excellent introduction to the most subtle and complex part of the Buddha’s teaching on impermanence: that all things in conditioned existence are empty of any innate self-nature. Insubstantiality might never be really ‘simple’ to understand - but this is a good place to start and Locana an ever-intelligent guide along the way…

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FBA Podcast: What Is Nirvana and Do We Really Want to Get There

By Centre Team on Sat, 12 Aug, 2023 - 11:00

Vajragupta (m)  explores the power of ideas to shape us, our lives and world, and even human history. As Buddhism comes to the West, is it taken on in a way that seems to fit with certain prevailing ideas and assumptions in our culture? What ideas and world-views lead to Enlightenment and the fullest expression of human potential, and what ideas and world-views may hinder? A talk fizzing with ideas to make you think and wonder… Part...

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Dharmabytes: A Dharma Perspective

By Centre Team on Thu, 27 Jul, 2023 - 11:00

Vajradevi  explores wisdom, the ‘balancing factor’ to faith in the ‘mandala’ of the five spiritual faculties. ‘Clear-seeing’ is way of describing wisdom that can be practised through mindfulness. 

Excerpted from the talk Wisdom As a Spiritual Faculty In Relation to Mindfulness, part of the series Pathways to the Beautiful Mind: Bristol Rains Retreat, 2019.

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