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Free Buddhist Audio

What Is a True Individual (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 - 11:00

Mahasraddha speaks about becoming a true individual to the Oslo Sangha. He starts with the importance of being in touch with the bodhisattva ideal and the dangers of losing this connection. He then explores the relationship between the true individual, the positive group and the unhealthy group. This leads to an awareness of values and the importance of forgiving both ourselves and others when we don’t manage to live up to the ideal. He also...

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Sheffield Buddhist Centre
Sheffield Buddhist Centre

Sangha As Goal

By Free Buddhist Audio on Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 - 00:00
What if the goal of practice is not an individual achievement, but the awakening of the Sangha itself? As our series on the Wheel of Life comes to an end, this week we turn to the Sangha as the goal of the spiritual life. Through the image of Avalokitesvara’s thousand compassionate hands, we’ll explore how our community can become a single Bodhisattva—responsive, open-hearted, and alive to suffering in the world. During this theme we'll be looking at The Wheel of Life, a living symbol that encompasses the entirety of existence. We'll learn how to escape from the prison and sufferings of Samsara, towards ever increasing positive and expansive states of being, towards the ultimate goal of Awakening. We'll be taking a contemporary look at this ancient symbol, visiting its realms and their beings from the depths of the hell realm to the heights of the heavenly abodes, and asking what do these realms look like in our modern society and world? Expect support for home practice, practical ideas of how to bring these traditional teachings into your everyday life, and reflections on how to make your Great Escape!
Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

The Spirit that Comes Through Us (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Tue, 9 Dec, 2025 - 12:15

On this special Dharma night, Subhadramati interviewed local Buddhist artist Amitajyoti about her work and practice. Excerpted from The Artist As True Individual - Interview with Amitajyoti, 2016. More on Amiyajyoti’s work: https://www.cbarton-harvey.co.uk/

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Stockholms buddhistcenter
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De Tre Farkosterna - Del 1

By Free Buddhist Audio on Tue, 9 Dec, 2025 - 00:00
Genom sin över 2 500 år långa historia har buddhismen utvecklats i tre stora faser: Theravada, mahayana och vajrayana. Under två kvällar kommer vi utifrån dessa tre stora grenar fördjupa oss i hur buddhismens idéer, texter, praktiker och kulturella uttryck har förändrats genom tiderna. Samt hur dessa möts och utövas inom Buddhistiska gemenskapen Triratna.
Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Blake, Bhante and the True Individual (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 6 Dec, 2025 - 11:00

How do we listen to the ‘voice within’? How do we become an individual? How can imagination free us? Satyalila weaves together Sangharakshita’s teachings on the True Individual with Blake to show us how to follow our golden thread towards greater clarity, receptivity and awareness. Talk given on a retreat for women who have asked for ordination as part of a series on ‘The Group, the Individual and The Spiritual Community’ given at Tiratanaloka...

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Everyone Needs the Dharma - Milarepa’s Song (Dharmabytes Podcasts)

By Centre Team on Fri, 5 Dec, 2025 - 13:32

Here, Sangharakshita emphasises the importance of distinguishing Buddhism as a universally applicable path of development from the specifically Eastern cultural forms it has been associated with in the past, and explains why an authentic, non-sectarian Buddhist movement is needed in the West. Excerpted from the talk entitled Western Buddhists and Eastern Buddhism, part of the series A New Buddhist Movement - the Meaning of the FWBO, 1979.

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Conditions that Nourish Oneself (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 4 Dec, 2025 - 11:55

Rijumati explores the place of meditation in the bigger context of the growth of oneself as an individual, exploring how we can develop a coherent answer to the question “Who am I and where am I going in my life?” Excerpted from the talk Growing into Real Individuality given at Centro Budista Triratna de Barcelona, 2025.

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Stockholms buddhistcenter
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Döden Som Praktik

By Free Buddhist Audio on Mon, 1 Dec, 2025 - 00:00
2025 firade vi Sanghadagen och vår andliga gemenskap med särskilt fokus på döden. Var och en av oss förenas av att vi en dag kommer att dö. Sangha/gemenskap ger oss ett sammanhang inom vilket vi kan utforska vad detta faktum väcker i oss samt reflektera djupare över hur vi kan förbereda oss för snarare än undvika det ofrånkomliga.
Taraloka Retreat Centre
Taraloka Retreat Centre

What Taraloka REALLY Is: 40 Years of 'A Buddhist Retreat Centre For Women'

By Free Buddhist Audio on Sun, 30 Nov, 2025 - 00:00
In this 40th anniversary celebration, hear Maitrisiddhi evoke what Taraloka really is - beyond mere converted barns. Then hear from all five past and present Chairs of Taraloka, who witnessed between them the whole history of this women's Buddhist retreat centre. Each Chair is rejoiced in, then each one - Sanghadevi, Dayanandi, Saddhanandi, Samantabhadri and Maitridevi - speaks about what happened for Taraloka during her guardianship. This was all part of an Order 'Tara's Realm' celebration puja on the 40th Anniversary Tara Sadhana meditation retreat led by Vijayamala
Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

The Rise of the Asuras and the Sword of Wisdom (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 29 Nov, 2025 - 11:00

Vajragupta offers a Buddhist reflection on the social and political times we are living through. The talk takes the myth of the asuras (the Titan realm on the Wheel of Life) as a way of seeing and understanding the kind of world we are creating. In that myth, the Buddha appears in the realm of the asuras holding a sword. What does that symbolise? Vajragupta suggests it can be seen as a sword of fearlessness, a sword...

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