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	<description>Welcome to Free Buddhist Audio. Here you'll find all the latest news and updates on the site - as well as podcast posts and other related downloads.</description>
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		<title>Staying at Home, Dancing with the Universe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another excellent talk, from the Buddhafield project. Amaragita takes a look at Buddhist practice in the light of parenting, and has a lot of good things to say about the everyday business of staying with our experience, embracing the hard bits and releasing the joy.
As an added bonus, listen for some lovely singing throughout!
Talk given [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2008/05/02/staying-at-home-dancing-with-the-universe/</link>
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		<title>New Community site launched&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re absolutely delighted – and somewhat relieved – today to be able to announce the full launch of our new community site!
This represents a very big shift for our service: now any Fwbo centre or institution – anywhere in the world – can upload its own talks, and have its own pages on the site. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2008/05/02/new-community-site-launched/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re not really trying to hurt your computer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve searched for our site in Google you may have seen a message saying &#8216;this site may harm your computer&#8217;&#8230; So what happened?
Well, a hacker managed to modify one of the posts on our blog in such a way as to force the installation of some malware onto your computer when you viewed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2008/02/16/were-not-really-trying-to-harm-your-computer/</link>
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		<title>What Do We Really Know About the Buddha?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lovely talk this month, from the excellent Dhivan. Be prepared for the odd surprise as he considers the relationship between what we think we may know about the Buddha, and what the historical evidence suggests.
As Dhivan sifts the information that&#8217;s come down to us, we meet several different versions of a human being as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2008/01/30/what-do-we-really-know-about-the-buddha/</link>
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		<title>Is the Immanent Buddha a Fallacy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Holidays, Everyone! So, this is as close as we could get to a Christmas edition&#8230; You know, &#8216;Buddha Nature - easily confused for &#8216;incarnation&#8217;, all that&#8230;
No? Oh, well, what this most definitely is  is an absolute cracker of a talk from Sagaramati. A brilliant, scholarly-but-accessible, look at the origins and development of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/12/26/is-the-immanent-buddha-a-fallacy/</link>
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		<title>Padmasambhava</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, buckle up. &#8216;Padmasambhava&#8217; by Danavira is, as we&#8217;ve come to expect from the man, a rollicking ride of a talk. Actually, &#8216;talk&#8217; doesn&#8217;t really do it justice: try incantation, wrong-footing evocation, dramatic monologue and enactment through storytelling, with a good dose of chanting and singing thrown in - some planned, some spontaneous. Sprinkle in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/11/01/padmasambhava/</link>
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		<title>Design from the Archive - Readings from the Pali Canon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the story behind this is that around the year 2000 (which somehow still sounds really sci-fi), a study course some people do in our community was being revamped to include some basic Pali suttas. At the time, we were finishing a project to digitally remaster all of Sangharakshita&#8217;s main lectures, poetry recordings and sutra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/09/27/design-from-the-archive-readings-from-the-pali-canon/</link>
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		<title>Free Buddhist Audio Update (September, Part 2) - Mindfulness of Reality and Padmasambhava</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A prosaic enough subtitle for this week&#8217;s update - but one that belies the rather marvellous diversity of the new material we&#8217;re featuring today. The Western Buddhist Order is nothing if not diverse, and here we have two talks that, taken together, probably encapsulate that better than any plain old discourse ever could&#8230; 
Kulananda (Michael [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/09/20/free-buddhist-audio-update-september-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Free Buddhist Audio Update (September) - Sangharakshita and the Mafia</title>
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This week we have news of two recent talks by Urgyen Sangharakshita, which we&#8217;ve now posted to the site for your listening and downloading pleasure. The first is from the Buddhafield Festival 2007 - Entering the Sangha - and finds the man in splendid form in a summer field amongst the hot tubs and revellers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/09/07/free-buddhist-audio-update-september/</link>
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		<title>Building an Ethical Underworld - Lessons from the Mafia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over here, Clemenza! Ever wanted to know about &#8216;General Systems Theory&#8217; - one of those subjects you always hear vague things about yet never quite know what it actually is? Ever wondered why we seem to love a good gangster? Well, then this is for you! To tell the truth, we would have picked this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/09/04/building-an-ethical-underworld-lessons-from-the-mafia/</link>
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		<title>Launch of Audios Budistas Gratuitos</title>
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¡Hola! Chicas and Chicos. Now that we have the site up and running in German - Audio Buddhismus Kostenlos, French - Audio Bouddhiste Gratuit - and also in Chinese - 免费  佛教 录音 - isn&#8217;t it about time we launched in Spanish? Of course it is! Bueno, presentamos&#8230; Audios  Budistas Gratuitos. 
As ever, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/08/28/launch-of-audios-budistas-gratuitos/</link>
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		<title>Buddhist Parenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is another great talk from the &#8216;Dharma Warriors&#8217; series given at the Buddhafield Festival 2006. Karunagita is the author of &#8216;Growing as a Parent - What Buddhism Has to Offer&#8217;, and here she presents some of that material to an audience of summer loving practitioners under the blue skies of Devon. Settle back and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/07/24/buddhist-parenting/</link>
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		<title>Latest Talks List from the Dharmachakra Archive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the latest version (in glorious technicolour) of our catalogue of audio recordings (mainly talks) by members of the Western Buddhist Order and other Buddhist speakers. The whole archive is now over 1500 recordings strong, and growing all the time as people send us material from all over the world. Only about a third [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/07/18/latest-talks-list-from-dharmachakra/</link>
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		<title>Launch of Audio Bouddhiste Gratuit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some happy news this week, filles et garçons! Now that we have the site up and running in German - Audio  Buddhismus Kostenlos - and also in Chinese - 免费  佛教 录音 - we are delighted today to announce that we&#8217;re able to extend our service further still with the launch of our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/07/10/launch-of-audio-bouddhiste-gratuit/</link>
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		<title>Free Buddhist Audio Update (June 2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To receive our update information by email, you can always subscribe to our mailing list.
Hello again. We&#8217;ve a couple of treats for you today, you lucky things. First, we&#8217;re very pleased to announce the first talk on our site from a speaker who&#8217;s not a member of the Western Buddhist Order! That maybe doesn&#8217;t sound [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/06/22/free-buddhist-audio-update-june-2007/</link>
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		<title>Violence and Emptiness (re-posted)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please note, this is a re-posting of the previous podcast. If you&#8217;ve already downloaded it, please delete the previous file and use this one instead! The previous version has half missing&#8230; Sorry!
A short but sweet talk from San Francisco&#8217;s very own Suvarnaprabha, in which she explores the Buddhist vision of compassion through her own experience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/06/18/violence-and-emptiness-re-posted/</link>
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		<title>Violence and Emptiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short but sweet talk from San Francisco&#8217;s very own Suvarnaprabha, in which she explores the Buddhist vision of compassion through her own experience of meditation and contact with inmates within the U.S. prison system. Moving stuff. 
Talk given at the Western Buddhist Order convention, 2005
Contents
01 Survanaprabha - poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca; a personal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/06/04/violence-and-emptiness/</link>
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		<title>Launch of 免费 佛教 录音</title>
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Following on from last week&#8217;s launch of the site in German, we are delighted today to announce that we&#8217;re able to extend our service further with the launch of our new Chinese language site - 免费  佛教 录音
This is the product of many hours of effort by various folk connected with Free Buddhist Audio, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/05/25/launch-of-%e5%85%8d%e8%b4%b9-%e4%bd%9b%e6%95%99-%e5%bd%95%e9%9f%b3/</link>
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		<title>New Talk by Sangharakshita</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve now posted an initial version of Sangharakshita&#8217;s very latest talk: &#8216;Looking Back - and Forward&#8217;. With many thanks to our good friends at Clear Vision for all their help preparing this recording. If you&#8217;ve never heard him before - and just to put this in context - the first talk we have in our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/05/07/new-talk-by-sangharakshita/</link>
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		<title>Launch of Audio Buddhismus Kostenlos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we are officially launching the site in German - Audio  Buddhismus Kostenlos. It&#8217;s been a bit of a wait, but we are now ready and delighted to welcome all our German-speaking friends on board. As it happens, we have relatively few talks in German itself, so any ideas for contributions to the archive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/05/04/launch-of-audio-buddhismus-kostenlos/</link>
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		<title>Stats and Top 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Web statistics are fabulous. We now have a respectable 14,000 people a month visiting free buddhist audio, and about 7,500 subscribers to our podcast. Thank you everyone for making the launch of our service such a success! 
To celebrate, we thought we&#8217;d share with you our top 10 chart of most popular downloads from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/04/28/stats-and-top-10/</link>
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		<title>We Have a Huge Barrel of Wine But No Cups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time for another talk from Vajradarshini. More poetry, more Rumi, more listening joy. Actually, we just liked the title so much we had to go for it this month - but, in fact, it&#8217;s another splendid journey around the idea of Enlightenment, using the languages of surrender and discipline from the Sufi context. It&#8217;s as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/04/27/we-have-a-huge-barrel-of-wine-but-no-cups/</link>
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		<title>Mindfulness For Just About Everything (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the second part  of Paramabandhu&#8217;s excellent exploration of the lessons Buddhist techniques around meditation and mindfulness training can bring to the field of mental health - especially to problems with depression and addiction. Drawing on many years of experience as a consultant psychiatrist and Dharma teacher, here he takes questions on his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/02/27/mindfulness-for-just-about-everything-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Vishvapani&#8217;s Writings on Buddhism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A note to say we have just added to the transcription archive, Vishvavpani&#8217;s collection of thoughtful essays and articles on Buddhism in the West in general, and the FWBO in particular. These are worth some time - dealing, as they do, with many of the thorny issues that have arisen in these early phases of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/02/23/vishvapanis-writings-on-buddhism/</link>
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		<title>Mindfulness For Just About Everything (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a timely and invaluable talk from Paramabandhu. Drawing on many years of experience as a consultant psychiatrist and Dharma teacher, he invites us to consider the lessons Buddhist techniques around meditation and mindfulness training can bring to the field of mental health - especially to problems with depression and addiction. The talk evokes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/02/23/mindfulness-for-just-about-everything-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Dying to Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick note to let you know we&#8217;ve posted a newly indexed version of Vidyamala&#8217;s talk,  &#8216;Dying to Live&#8217;. Previously only available as one long file, this is now accessible as 12 separate, detailed tracks thanks to the sterling efforts of Hilary Saltburn, the first  volunteer to complete a talk on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/02/15/dying-to-live/</link>
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		<title>Blog maintenance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll be upgrading the blog software today. This may cause some disruption to our service, but we&#8217;ll do our best to get everything back to normal as soon as we can.
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		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/02/02/blog-maintenance/</link>
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		<title>Akshobya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Settle back and touch base with this very enjoyable and, at times, inspiring talk by Saddharaja on the great blue Buddha of the eastern quarter of the mandala - the Unshakeable One, the Imperturbable Akshobya. This is particularly good because it departs from standard fare on the figure. We get a great reading from Wordsworth, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/02/01/akshobya/</link>
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		<title>Second Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To receive our update information by email, you can always subscribe to our mailing list.
Hello again! Well, that was a longer break than we imagined&#8230; We&#8217;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&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/01/31/second-update/</link>
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		<title>Shinran and Kabat-Zinn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;problems&#8217; versus &#8216;difficulties&#8217; is explored - notions of &#8216;acceptance&#8217;, &#8216;development&#8217;, and awareness itself are considered from new angles that can shed light [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/blog/2007/01/05/shinran-and-kabat-zinn/</link>
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