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Hello again! Well, that was a longer break than we imagined… We’ve had a good few weeks off now - much needed after the big push to get the site launched. And since we got back from Christmas festivities, etc., we’ve been looking at ways to improve things, analysing statistics, and responding to feedback from our beloved users… So, a few tweaks under the hood, as it were - notably the new ‘browse’ section on the main menu. This streamlines access to our talks grouped by theme, speaker, title, or year - so you can find general areas of interest at a glance.

We haven’t been entirely lax with the archive itself though! We’ve been preparing lots of new talks in the background for release over the next month or so - including an extensive new archive from Taraloka Retreat Centre on meditation. We also have a whole bunch of new texts coming - and look out for our new podcast too!

But we do have two new audio talks for you immediately:

Grabbing a Firebrand by Ratnaprabha.

And The Dharma of Denial by Manjuka.

This is a pair of talks taking as their lead-off point the often controversial aphorisms of Sangharakshita. Almost guaranteed to stir you up one way or the other!

So, lots more soon - but, in the meantime, enjoy!

This wonderful talk by Ratnaguna looks at the Pureland tradition of Shinran, comparing some of his approaches to those of the contemporary teacher John Kabat-Zinn, pioneer of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. The nature of ‘problems’ versus ‘difficulties’ is explored - notions of ‘acceptance’, ‘development’, and awareness itself are considered from new angles that can shed light on our experience of failure and suffering. A lovely, sympathetic and good-natured look at the foolishness of human beings which can, when held in the heart, begin to approach wisdom itself.

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