Sravaniya, Boston, USA
Candradasa, FBA Team
Sheila Groonell, Aryaloka, USA
Nagabodhi, London, UK
Viryaja, Toowoomba, Australia
Vajratara, Sheffield, UK
Ratnavyuha, Auckland, NZ
Coleen, FBA Team
December 5th, 2011
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, titled “What is the Middle Way?” is extracted from the talk “Twenty Years on the Middle Way” 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 given in 1987
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December 1st, 2011
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “What is the Spiritual Community,” is an extract from the well-loved talk “The Individual, the Group, and the Spiritual Community” 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 given in 1971.
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November 28th, 2011
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Don’t Leave Your Values at Home,” 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, “Building an Ethical Underworld – Lessons from the Mafia”, given at the Buddhafield Festival, Devon, 2007.
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November 17th, 2011
In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “The Establishment of Taraloka,” Sangharakshita shares his rejoicings of the opening of the new retreat centre for women, Taraloka. This track is from the talk, “Buddhist Dawn in the West,” in which Sangharakshita outlines what led him to found the Triratna [FWBO] Community. In addition to sharing his thoughts about Taraloka, he discusses developments in ordinations conducted by senior Order Members and a new Buddhist magazine.
Talk given in 1986.
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November 12th, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast is titled “Chetul Sangye Dorje” by Vajratara. A forthright and passionate talk, taking as its starting point the great contemporary Tibetan teacher (sometimes also written ‘Chatral Sangye Dorje’) and his relationship to practice in the Triratna [FWBO] Community via his giving of the Green Tara practice to Sangharakshita. The main focus, however, is the need to practice the Dharma for others as part of a meaningful community, and Vajratara argues her case with a balance of down-to-earth humour and uncompromising vision.
Talk given at the Sheffield Buddhist Centre, 2007
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