Maitrisiddhi evokes the three protective circles surrounding the mandala of practice, then leads a meditation.
From 2024 Taraloka retreat ‘Vajra Energy’, exploring themes from Sangharakshita’s ‘Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism’
What is a symbol? How does something – anything – become symbolic? Maitrisiddhi explores how to engage with both personal and traditional symbols of enlightenment. Faith and the imaginal faculty can open us into a world where everything is significant – everything is telling us of the path to awakening.
Talk 2 of 4 given on 2024 Taraloka retreat ‘Vajra Energy’, exploring themes from Sangharakshita’s ‘Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism’
The naked red sky dancer, embodying the liberated energy of the Awakened mind – playing, living, practising in the fearful Cremation Ground. Heartfelt and searingly honest, Sahajatara talks about how to recognise ‘cremation grounds’ in our own lives – situations that push us beyond our limits – and invites us to recognise the transformative potential of difficulty. Extreme difficulty can be the conditions where the dakini can arise for us.
Talk 3 of 4 given on 2024 Taraloka retreat ‘Vajra Energy’, exploring themes from Sangharakshita’s ‘Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism’
The naked red sky dancer, embodying the liberated energy of the Awakened mind – playing, living, practising in the fearful Cremation Ground. Heartfelt and searingly honest, Sahajatara talks about how to recognise ‘cremation grounds’ in our own lives – situations that push us beyond our limits – and invites us to recognise the transformative potential of difficulty. Extreme difficulty can be the conditions where the dakini can arise for us.
Talk 3 of 4 given on 2024 Taraloka retreat ‘Vajra Energy’, exploring themes from Sangharakshita’s ‘Creative Symbols of Tantric Buddhism’
An alive and dynamic spiritual community is vital to the individual flourishing of those that participate in it. In this keynote talk Paramabandhu gives his reflections on over 30 years of practising within the LBC Sangha.
Is it pessimistic to focus on the painful aspects of life, or can we find a way to something better by trying to understand it? An exploration of Dukkha - the teaching on suffering at the heart of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths.
Saraha draws out examples of the Buddha’s wisdom from the Pali Canon highlighting how pleasure and bliss are not obstacles to the spiritual path, craving and attachment is the problem leading to suffering.. Excerpted from the talk entitled Wisdom In the Pali Canon given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2010.
What does the practice of the Dharma look like in the face of the particular problems that we face in our lives and in society today? And what can the mysterious figure of the Vajra Guru offer us as we attempt to overcome them? Subhuti gave this talk on Padmasambhava Day 2021 at the LBC.
