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FBA Podcast: Four Noble Truths - Satipatthana Sutta

By Centre Team on Sat, 6 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

Vajradevi ends a series of talks on the Satipatthana Sutta, looking at the Four Noble Truths, and focusing on the first two. Talk given at Shrewsbury Triratna Buddhist Centre, 2018.

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Getting Curious About Your Experience

By Centre Team on Mon, 25 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Getting Curious About Your Experience

By Centre Team on Mon, 25 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Yashobodhi talks about the relationship between thinking and insight. As long as we have a brain, we will have thoughts. Some of these thoughts are helpful. Some not so much. Becoming aware of thoughts is a good start. Whatever next?

Excerpted from the talk entitled Inquisitive Mind, Thinking and Awakening given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2015.

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Mindfulness and Imagination

By Centre Team on Sat, 5 Aug, 2023 - 15:15

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, we would see the world as it really is – infinite.” William Blake

If you enjoy this conversation, come explore the theme online on our Home Retreat with Vishvapani and Vidyamala! Join Entering the Mandala: Mindfulness and Imagination, September 1-7

This week we’re opening portals to awareness and the wonders that can arise when we really start to pay attention to everything that’s going on in the world around us. What would it be like...

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FBA Podcast: A Body of Practice

By Centre Team on Sat, 29 Jul, 2023 - 11:00

Drawing upon the myths in the life of the Buddha Satyapara explores the role the body plays when we take up Buddhist practice. She describes the Buddha as a child under a rose apple tree being deeply in touch with his surrounding and when calling upon the earth he gains confidence in his practice and overcomes his doubts. With these stories Satyapara invites us to trust our body. Given in Cambridge, UK, in...

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Dharmabytes: Closer to Truth Through Silence

By Zac on Thu, 25 May, 2023 - 06:00

On a Silent Retreat at Taraloka, Samantabhadri honours silence as significant spiritual practice where we dwell more deeply with ourselves, with others, with nature and the objective world, and within a developing atmosphere. All this opens a vision of experiencing ‘Reality as it is’ (Sangharakshita). From the talk Silence: Practice and Vision given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2022.

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Dharmabytes: Awareness Wisdom

By Zac on Mon, 20 Mar, 2023 - 06:00

Vajradevi speaks to a large gathering of Order Members and Mitras Training for Ordination under a big marque at the annual Great Gathering on the theme of the Satipatthana Sutta.

Reflecting on the theme of the weekend Vajradevi said: “When we’re mindful and present to what’s happening – both ‘internally’ and ‘externally’ – our responses become steady, wise, and confident. Whatever we’re doing, whether we’re meditating, working, communicating, or singing, becomes a vehicle to ‘grow’ awareness. Mindfulness becomes panoramic and...

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FBA Podcast: Becoming Real - Meditation as a Gateway to Wisdom

By Zac on Sat, 18 Mar, 2023 - 06:00

This is a fine talk by Dayanandi on the essential relationship between meditation and the proper seeing of Reality, here described as an opening into the beauty and truth and reality of life itself.

Given at the Taraloka/Tiratanaloka Great Gathering, 2000.

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Forces for Good - Challenging Emotions as Portals to Liberation (The Buddhist Centre Podcast, Episode 439)

By Centre Team on Thu, 16 Mar, 2023 - 12:26

A wonderful conversation highlighting the themes of a brand new Home Retreat – the latest addition to our growing archive of in-depth, beautifully resourced online spaces to help take your practice of meditation and Buddhism deeper.

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Balajit, Singhashri and Viveka join us to discuss the opportunities and challenges of engaging with the gnarlier bits of our emotional lives, amid so much pressure of so many kinds in the world. A sparkling exchange about ways into integrating embodied practice...

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Dharmabytes: Savoring Experience

By Zac on Tue, 7 Mar, 2023 - 15:33

Nagabodhi speaks about the process of developing awareness throughout the day and how this relates to vedanā – or hedonic tone. He explores how if we can notice the raw experience and whether it’s pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, then we have freedom not to act in the usual habitual ways. 

From the talk Developing Awareness as part of the series The Two Arrows: Dukkha to Insight given at Adhisthana, 2020.

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Dharmabytes: Wisdom Aspect of Enlightenment

By Zac on Mon, 9 Jan, 2023 - 06:00

Santavajri explores the Perfection of Wisdom as a practice of uniting awareness through meditation. 

From the talk Approaches to the Perfection of Wisdom given at the London Buddhist Centre, 2011.

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