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Posted by Viriyalila

Creating Spiritual Friendship

May 21st, 2012

Free Buddhist Audio In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, Paramabandhu offers us ways of “Creating Spiritual Friendship.” Includes a reading of the lovely poem on compassion titled The Unseen Flower by Sangharakshita.

Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, May 2001

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Posted in Blogroll, Dharmabytes, Free Buddhist Audio | Tags: Compassion, friendship
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