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		<title>The Diamond Sutra&#8217;s Fundamental Insight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although innumerable beings have been led to nirvana, no being at all has been led to nirvana. Sangharakshita eloquently delivers today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte &#8220;The Diamond Sutra&#8217;s Fundamental Insight&#8221; from the talk &#8220;The Diamond Sutra&#8221; given in 1969.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/02/09/the-diamond-sutras-fundamental-insight/</link>
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		<title>Seeing with Insight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seeing is a good word to describe the dawning of insight. Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte &#8220;Seeing with Insight&#8221; is from the fourth talk in Padmavjara&#8217;s wonderful series on the Dhammapada, the most popular of early Buddhist texts. All of the Buddha&#8217;s core teachings are here &#8211; held in heart and mind there&#8217;s more than enough in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/02/06/seeing-with-insight/</link>
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		<title>The Heart Sutra, Sangha and Spiritual Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our FBA Podcast today brings us to the core of our practice: &#8220;The Heart Sutra, Sangha and Spiritual Death&#8221; by Kamalashila. Beginning with a shared understanding of spiritual practice that is Sangha, we are led through a revisioning of our practice that includes the deeper, darker more mysterious perspectives of insight and wisdom. This talk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/02/04/the-heart-sutra-sangha-and-spiritual-death/</link>
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		<title>In Response to the Buddha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte titled &#8220;In response to the Buddha&#8221; Sangharakshita explores how we come into contact with the Buddha through our intellect, emotion and our will. From the talk &#8220;Intellect, Emotion and Will&#8221; given at the opening of the Manchester Buddhist Centre in 1996.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/02/02/in-response-to-the-buddha/</link>
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		<title>Integration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring the first of the four &#8216;superconscious states&#8217; today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte titled &#8220;Integration&#8221; by Sangharakshita takes us in for a closer look at the energies of both the conscious and unconscious mind and how the process of integration leads to greater harmony and ease. Excerpted from the talk, &#8220;A Method of Personal Development,&#8221; given in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/30/integration/</link>
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		<title>The Buddha, Hakuin, Birth and Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Podcast, &#8220;The Buddha, Hakuin, Birth and Death&#8221;, is the second in an excellent 8-talk sequence by Padmavajra on Zen Buddhism. The series is full of colourful stories and challenging insights from the lives of the great Masters of China and Japan. In this talk, Padmavajra takes us into the strong experience of Going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/28/the-buddha-hakuin-birth-and-death/</link>
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		<title>The Clouded Dragon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;The Clouded Dragon&#8221;, is an excerpt from a gem of a talk from Abhaya. With his customary dry wit and sharp eye he leads us on the crazy paving path through the Diamond Sutra &#8211; a text guaranteed to turn your world upside-down. Sharing his love for one of Sangharakshita&#8217;s poems titled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/26/the-clouded-dragon/</link>
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		<title>Life Gone Forth is Wide Open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Life Gone Forth is Wide Open&#8221;, Padmavajra takes us into the strong experience of Going Forth into homelessness. Sometimes life presents us with extremely difficult choices that seem to set us apart from those we love. Through personal reminiscence and classic Zen poetry that evokes a truly rich awareness, we see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/23/life-gone-forth-is-wide-open/</link>
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		<title>Spiritual Death and Rebirth, a New Perspective On the Dharma Niyama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weeks FBA Podcast, &#8220;Spiritual Death and Rebirth, a New Perspective On the Dharma Niyama&#8221;, takes us deeply into the stages of spiritual death and rebirth that are key to the system of meditation, representing the culimination and fulfilment of the Buddhas vision. During this talk given at Padmaloka Subhuti explains some new elements of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/21/spiritual-death-and-rebirth-a-new-perspective-on-the-dharma-niyama/</link>
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		<title>Four Reasons Why We Fear Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Four Reasons Why We Fear Death &#8220;, Kulaprabha explores the Abhaya Sutta on the theme of spiritual death. The death of our fixed, bounded self, the self that is made up of bundled habits and preferences and views &#8211; especially views about existence and non-existence. So don&#8217;t be surprised if, when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/19/four-reasons-why-we-fear-death/</link>
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		<title>The Third Great Stage of the Path</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;The Third Great Stage of the Path&#8221;, Sangharakshita talks about the process of spiritual death as the cultivation of unselfishness. This talk, titled, &#8220;The Path of Spiritual Development&#8221; is a book launch for &#8216;The Essential Sangharakshita&#8217; published by Wisdom Publications. Recorded 2009 at Essen, Germany. Talk translated in German.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/16/the-third-great-stage-of-the-path/</link>
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		<title>The Transitoriness of Life and the Certainty of Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Podcast, &#8220;The Transitoriness of Life and the Certainty of Death&#8221;, is by Vajradharshini who brings us a beautiful piece on the hardest of subjects. The third talk in a five-part series from Tiratanaloka&#8217;s retreat on the &#8216;Four Mind Turnings&#8217; of the Tibetan tradition. Using zen poetry and a happily wide-ranging series of quotations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/14/the-transitoriness-of-life-and-the-certainty-of-death/</link>
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		<title>What is Gratitude?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;What is Gratitude?&#8221;, Sangharakshita reflects on the Buddha&#8217;s achievement of Enlightenment, drawing our attention to an often overlooked feature of this great event &#8211; the Buddha&#8217;s expression of gratitude to the tree that sheltered him. A timely look at ways to cultivate this essential positive emotion. This is an excerpt from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/12/what-is-gratitude/</link>
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		<title>Death &amp; Clarity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Death &#038; Clarity&#8221;, by Vajradharshini brings us a beautiful piece on the hardest of subjects. Using zen poetry and a happily wide-ranging series of quotations (from Tibetan lamas to Ezra Pound), Vajradarshini explores her own father&#8217;s death as a way to approach attitudes to death and dying. This excerpt, from the talk: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/09/death-clarity/</link>
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		<title>Mending the Broken Ladder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s we introduce Atula in our weekly FBA Podcast with &#8220;Mending the Broken Ladder&#8221; a very thoughtful talk long-time by this practising Buddhist and psychotherapist. The nature of the &#8216;psyche&#8217; and our sense of self-view is explored with reference to the Fourfold Vision of William Blake, T.S. Eliot, Charles Bukowski, Edward Conze, and Humpty Dumpty! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/07/mending-the-broken-ladder-2/</link>
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		<title>The Dharma is Everywhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;The Dharma is Everywhere, is a beautiful short talk by Aryashila of the Croydon Buddhist Centre exploring impermanence. She uses the challenging poetry of Leonard Cohen and others, as well as her own deep life experience, to show that reality does not conform to ordinary wishes, but yet facing it squarely can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/05/the-dharma-is-everywhere/</link>
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		<title>What Can We Be Sure Of?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;What Can We Be Sure Of?&#8221; is a taste of Jnanavaca&#8217;s fabulous take on Einstein, Schroedinger, and all that stuff you wished you understood about quantum physics but despaired of ever knowing so as to impress at parties&#8230; Well, now you can learn all about it — as well as how it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2012/01/02/what-can-we-be-sure-of/</link>
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		<title>Fields of Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to this weeks FBA Podcast, &#8220;Fields of Creativity&#8221;, a sparkling talk by Sangharakshita on a theme close to his heart. Full of warmth, wit and stimulating ideas. Talk given in 2001.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/31/fields-of-creativity/</link>
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		<title>Enlightenment is Different for Each of Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More listening joy from Vajradharshini in today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Enlightenment is Different for Each of Us.&#8221; From the talk &#8220;We Have a Huge Barrel of Wine But No Cups&#8221;, this is another splendid journey around the idea of Enlightenment, using the languages of surrender and discipline from the Sufi context. It’s as heady as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/29/enlightenment-is-different-for-each-of-us/</link>
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		<title>On Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;On Creativity&#8221;, is from a sparkling talk by Sangharakshita titled &#8220;Fields of Creativity&#8221; on a theme close to his heart. Full of warmth, wit and stimulating ideas. Talk given in 2001.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/26/on-creativity/</link>
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		<title>In the Bleak Midwinter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Podcast, &#8220;In the Bleak Midwinter&#8221;, Parami delivers a gem of a talk, with a wintery theme. With a song to open followed by metaphors on bleakness, with the earth as hard as iron and water like a stone, times when we struggle and it seems as if no growth is possible. She talks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/24/in-the-bleak-midwinter/</link>
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		<title>Positive Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Positive Change&#8221; is brought to us by Sangharakshita himself, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community. In Buddhist practice, the traditional method of choice for effecting positive change in one&#8217;s life is meditation. Here Sangharakshita takes a closer look, focussing on the &#8216;superconscious states&#8217; (characterised in turn by integration, inspiration, permeation, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/22/positive-change/</link>
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		<title>The Greatest Tragedy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;The Greatest Tragedy&#8221;, Subhuti invites us to look into the tragedy of not knowing what we want. He shares his thoughts on the nature of Samsara, contact with the Dharma and realisation as the deepest happiness. This is &#8216;Eight Verses for Training the Mind&#8217;: Talk 1 from the four-part series on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/19/the-greatest-tragedy/</link>
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		<title>The Life of Milarepa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Podcast, we are taken deep into the mythical magical world of Milarepa, Tibet&#8217;s great yogi saint, in &#8220;The Life of Milarepa,&#8221; by Paramartha. First talk in a series of 4 talks on &#8216;Milarepa&#8217;. Talks given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, Winter Retreat 2010.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/17/the-life-of-milarepa/</link>
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		<title>Everyone Needs the Dharma &#8211; Milarepa&#8217;s Song</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Everyone Needs the Dharma &#8211; Milarepa&#8217;s Song&#8221; has Sanghrakshita delightfully reciting words from the song. The Dharma is defined as whatever contributes to the development of the individual. In the full talk, &#8220;Western Buddhists and Eastern Buddhism&#8221; Sangharakshita emphasizes the importance of distinguishing Buddhism as a universally applicable path of development from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/15/everyone-needs-the-dharma-milarepas-song/</link>
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		<title>Buddhism and the Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, is titled &#8220;Buddhism and the Mind&#8221; is an excerpt from the talk &#8220;Meditation: the Expanding Consciousness&#8221; by Sangharakshita. A traditional exposition of Buddhist meditation looking at why we meditate; preparation for meditation; the five meditation practices designed to counteract the five mental poisons; and the three stages of meditation. Talk given in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/12/buddhism-and-the-mind-2/</link>
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		<title>Renunciation &#8211; Tasting Freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Podcast, &#8220;Renunciation &#8211; Tasting Freedom,&#8221; Saddhanandi says at the beginning of this talk that she&#8217;s concerned she won&#8217;t fully convey the depth of inspiration she feels about her theme &#8211; she shouldn&#8217;t have worried, she does it full justice. Her various approaches to her subject include renunciation as giving up unreal expectations, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/10/renunciation-tasting-freedom/</link>
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		<title>Pratitya Samutpada (Conditioned Co-production)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Pratitya Samutpada (Conditioned Co-production),&#8221; takes us right to the heart of the matter: How the Buddha sees things. Subhuti, with his sharp clarity and clear vision, explores one of the central teachings of the Buddha &#8211; that things arise and pass away in dependence upon conditions. Talk given at the Western Buddhist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/08/pratitya-samutpada-conditioned-co-production/</link>
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		<title>What is the Middle Way?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, titled &#8220;What is the Middle Way?&#8221; is extracted from the talk &#8220;Twenty Years on the Middle Way&#8221; by Sangharakshita. The Middle Way can be explored through three levels of application: ethics, psychology and metaphysics. Sagharakshita explores the extreme views associated with each as he points the way towards the Middle Way. Talk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/05/what-is-the-middle-way/</link>
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		<title>Getting It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Podcast is titled: &#8220;Getting It,&#8221; by Vidyadevi. Her brief here is &#8216;study as a way to Wisdom&#8217;, and she comes to it with a delightfully playful straightforwardness. As a means of exploring the &#8216;Middle Way&#8217;, she speaks of the various dualities and juxtapositions she has encountered in her own engagement with Dharma study [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/03/getting-it/</link>
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		<title>What is the Spiritual Community?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;What is the Spiritual Community,&#8221; is an extract from the well-loved talk &#8220;The Individual, the Group, and the Spiritual Community&#8221; by Sangharakshita. Posing the questions: What is individuality? What is the difference between a group and a spiritual community? How can an ordinary group support our efforts to transcend the group? Talk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/12/01/what-is-the-spiritual-community/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Leave Your Values at Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Leave Your Values at Home,&#8221; Khemasuri passionately shares the case for embracing personal responsibility and community engagement as a way of effecting social change in our troubled world. This track from the talk, &#8220;Building an Ethical Underworld &#8211; Lessons from the Mafia&#8221;, given at the Buddhafield Festival, Devon, 2007.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/28/dont-leave-your-values-at-home/</link>
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		<title>Great Doubt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Padmavajra delivers some crazy stuff as we hit koan country! Today&#8217;s FBA Podcast titled &#8220;Great Doubt&#8221; is the seventh in an excellent 8-talk sequence by Padmavajra on Zen Buddhism. The series is full of colourful stories and challenging insights from the lives of the great Masters of China and Japan. A fascinating look at doubt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/26/visibility/</link>
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		<title>Doubt from Faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Doubt from Faith,&#8221; takes us into some crazy stuff as we hit koan country! In this track, Padmavajra explores materialist versus religious world views, spiritual life without God and the dialectic between Great Faith and Great Doubt. Uncompromising stuff towards a more profound level of awareness &#8211; steer to the deep! FBA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/24/doubt-from-faith/</link>
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		<title>Rememberance of Freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Rememberance of Freedom,&#8221; by Kulaprabha, is from a meditation &#8211; a led reflection from the recording titled &#8220;Reflection on the Eight Freedoms&#8221;. Let yourself be led through this reflection and take up the challenge of seeing just what positive circumstances we already have to do&#8230; Well, to do what with them? Therein [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/21/rememberance-of-freedom/</link>
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		<title>Tara &#8211; Virya Buddha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Podcast takes us into the mysterious world of &#8220;Tara &#8211; Virya Buddha&#8221;. Dharmacharini Vanaraji gave this talk to the Women&#8217;s Class at the London Buddhist Centre, June 2011.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/19/tara-virya-buddha/</link>
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		<title>The Establishment of Taraloka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;The Establishment of Taraloka,&#8221; Sangharakshita shares his rejoicings of the opening of the new retreat centre for women, Taraloka. This track is from the talk, &#8220;Buddhist Dawn in the West,&#8221; in which Sangharakshita outlines what led him to found the Triratna [FWBO] Community. In addition to sharing his thoughts about Taraloka, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/17/the-establishment-of-taraloka/</link>
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		<title>Tara as Embodiment of Practice for Others</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Tara as Embodiment of Practice for Others,&#8221; is an excerpt from the talk, &#8220;Chetul Sangye Dorje&#8221; by Vajratara given at the Sheffield Buddhist Centre, 2007]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/14/tara-as-embodiment-of-practice-for-others/</link>
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		<title>The Dharma Tape History Detectives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FBA Volunteers In Search of Dharma This summer, Mary Salome and a group of volunteers from the San Francisco Buddhist Center started up a DIY fundraiser with a dual purpose: raising funds is one, the other is to make more talks from the FBA archives available online. As an avid user of Free Buddhist Audio [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/12/the-dharma-tape-history-detectives/</link>
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		<title>Chetul Sangye Dorje</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Podcast is titled &#8220;Chetul Sangye Dorje&#8221; by Vajratara. A forthright and passionate talk, taking as its starting point the great contemporary Tibetan teacher (sometimes also written &#8216;Chatral Sangye Dorje&#8217;) and his relationship to practice in the Triratna [FWBO] Community via his giving of the Green Tara practice to Sangharakshita. The main focus, however, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/12/chetul-sangye-dorje-2/</link>
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		<title>The Nearness of Tara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;The Nearness of Tara,&#8221; is an excerpt from the talk, &#8220;Contemplating the Qualities of the Tathagatas&#8221; by Samantabhadri, given at Taraloka in February, 2010.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/10/the-nearness-of-tara/</link>
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		<title>Dayanandi on Sharing our Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spreading the Dharma Sharing our Practice Connecting our Community Worldwide This summer Viriyalila caught up with Dayanandi, one of the early community members at Taraloka Retreat Centre, to talk about preparing and giving Dharma talks, creating supportive conditions for women to practise, and sharing our stories. Dayanandi lived and worked at Taraloka for 16 years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/09/dayanandi-on-sharing-our-stories/</link>
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		<title>Interconnectedness and the Awakening Heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Interconnectedness and the Awakening Heart&#8221; Parami explores the theme of the Buddha&#8217;s compassionate action and how ultimately it came from beyond self, beyond other &#8211; it emerged from his realisation of &#8216;Emptiness&#8217;. The Buddha realised full well how hard it was going to be to communicate what he had discovered to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/07/interconnectedness-and-the-awakening-heart/</link>
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		<title>Visibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Podcast titled &#8220;Visibility&#8221; Kuladharini explores what it&#8217;s like to be an example of the fourth sight in the world, to be a visible embodiment of Dharma practice. Using the metaphors of the begging bowl, robes and shaved head she shares three ways in which she has gone forth as a visible example [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/05/visibility-2/</link>
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		<title>The Three Characteristics of Conditioned Existence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;The Three Characteristics of Conditioned Existence&#8221; Sangharakshita illustrates how perfect vision can arise, and concludes by showing how Buddhists have communicated their vision of reality in conceptual and imaginative terms. FBA Dharmabyte from the full talk, &#8220;The Nature of Existence: Right Understanding,&#8221; given in 1968 as part of the series &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/11/03/the-three-characteristics-of-conditioned-existence/</link>
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		<title>Fear and Dread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Fear and Dread&#8221;Kulaprabha explores spiritual death &#8211; death of our fixed, bounded self, the self that is made up of bundled habits and preferences and views, especially views about existence and non-existence &#8211; with reference to the first of two Pali Canon suttas. From the talk: &#8220;Spiritual Death, Fear and Fearlessness&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/10/31/fear-and-dread/</link>
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		<title>Sagaramati on Free Buddhist Audio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spreading the Dharma Sharing our Practice Connecting our Community Worldwide]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/10/30/sagaramati-on-free-buddhist-audio/</link>
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		<title>Dhammarati on FBA&#8217;s Growing Online Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spreading the Dharma Sharing our Practice Connecting our Community Worldwide Dhammarati on Free Buddhist Audio from free buddhist audio on Vimeo.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/10/30/dhammarati-on-fbas-growing-online-community/</link>
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		<title>Beyond Hope and Hopelessness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s FBA Podcast, &#8220;Beyond Hope and Hopelessness Dancing In the Ruins of Time,&#8221; takes us into the world seen through the eyes of EcoDharma, a Triratna retreat centre in the Catalan Pyrenees. Guhyapati offers a sober analysis of the environmental problems facing humanity and issues a clarion call for action &#8211; including from the Buddhist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/10/29/beyond-hope-and-hopelessness-dancing-in-the-ruins-of-time/</link>
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		<title>Indra&#8217;s Net &amp; The Web of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, &#8220;Indra&#8217;s Net &#38; The Web of Life,&#8221; Akuppa traces positive lessons to be learned from simply observing and engaging with nature&#8217;s patterns and processes &#8211; and invites us all to prepare to be awestruck as a necessary first step. From the talk: &#8220;Buddhism and Ecology&#8221; given at the Triratna [Western Buddhist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/community/2011/10/27/indras-net-the-web-of-life/</link>
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