Our FBA Podcast today is a wonderfully entertaining talk on Perfect Vision titled: “Welsh Bats, A Vajrasattva Drugs Mule and Spanish Insight.” Here Vajrin tells a story of a wide ranging journey, including his early days at the Bristol Buddhist Centre in Long Ashton; his time as a junior doctor working in Africa; travels through India and Tibet; a visit to an Everest base camp and finally to ordination at a retreat centre high in the Spanish sierras. Along the way he manages to acquire a splendid Vajrasattva rupa and overcoming considerable obstacles, brings it home, thereby establishing a life-long association with this powerful bodhisattva of purification.

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In today’s FBA Dharmabyte today we present a short talk exploring impermanence and interconnectedness by Carunalaka titled: “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”

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The Eightfold Path is divided into Paths of Vision and of Transformation. In our FBA Dharmabyte today “The Context of Perfect Vision” Sangharakshita illustrates how perfect vision can arise, and concludes by showing how Buddhists have communicated their vision of reality in conceptual and imaginative terms.

Talk given in 1968.

This talk is part of the series “The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path.”

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In this week’s FBA Podcast, Manjuvajraa offers us insight into “Spontaneous Universal Compassion.” The last of eight talks in the series ‘Evolution and the meaning of life’, here Manjuvajra shows us the next evolutionary step – purifying the mind.

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A vision of emptiness is key to spiritual alchemy. Our FBA Dharmabyte today is an exploration of the transformative magic that is Bodhichitta practice. “Vision of Life”, by Padmavajra, is excerpted from the talk “Death and Desire” part of “The Alchemy of Love” series given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2004.

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