This weeks FBA Podcast, “The Significance of the Buddha’s Enlightenment” is a talk by Sona given at Manchester Buddhist Centre on Buddha Day, 9th May 2009.

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This weeks FBA Dharmabyte titled: “What is Enlightenment?“, from the talk, “Enlightenment as Experience and as Non-Experience” by Sangharakshita exposes a modern disease of frustrated craving for experience. Sangharakshita suggests that spiritual life is better seen in more concrete ways; as growth, work, and duty.

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Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Practising Purely,” by Varjadarshini, is from the third talk in a five-part series from Tiratanaloka’s retreat on the “Four Mind Turnings” of the Tibetan tradition titled: “The Transitoriness of Life and the Certainty of Death.”

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This weeks FBA Podcast, “On the Threshold of Enlightenment” is part of the pivotal by “Aspects of the Bodhisattva Ideal” series delivered by Sangharakshita in 1969. This lecture describes dhyana (meditation), and prajna (Wisdom), the fifth and sixth perfections.

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Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, is brought to us by Maitreyi titled: “Trying to Make Samsara Work“. Another gem from the talk “The Defects and Dangers of Samsara” where Maitreyi looks at pleasure and suffering in the context of samsara – compassionate responses to self and other, and how to loosen the bonds…

Talk given at Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre, 2005

This talk is part of the series “The Four Mind-Turning Reflections“.

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