Hello. This is the first update post for the site now that we’ve had a wee rest… We’ll be doing this regularly (about once a week), so if you want to stay up-to-date with the talks as we add them, bookmark the RSS feed for this blog, or subscribe to our email list.

This week, we have a few added texts for you:

Chatral Rinpoche’s classic Words of Advice, translated by Adam Pearcey,

and three talks by Vessantara:

Here Be Dragons: Disasters, Dilemmas and Dead Ends on the Spiritual Quest,

Patrul Rinpoche, an excellent talk (not available in audio),

and Walking into the Forest (another talk also unavailable as audio).

All splendid stuff, as ever…

We’ve also added four audio talks:

Remembering Ambedkar by Sangharakshita.

Getting It by Vidyadevi.

Opening the Great Gates – Doorways to Liberation by Kulaprabha.

And Going for Refuge by Viveka.

Enjoy!

To get us moving again now the new site is up and running, here’s a cracking and wonderfully detailed talk by Vessantara, author of ‘Meeting the Buddhas’. He is the ideal person to introduce us to the complex and fascinating Tantric figure of Vajrapani – ‘Lord of Secrets’, embodiment of ”virya’ (‘Energy in Pursuit of the Good’). Vessantara’s style is familiar and well-earthed, and therefore eminently suited to material that bristles with electricity and is not always so easy to communicate. We get the origin and development of the Tantra itself, as well as of this key figure who meets the impermanent nature of Reality head-on and embodies the tremendous possibilities of change. Look out too for a great introduction about darts…!

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