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Eric, FBA Team
Nagabodhi, London, UK
Sravaniya, Boston, USA
Ratnaghosha, FBA Chairman
Candradasa, FBA Team
Kalyanavaca, London, UK
Kuladharini, Glasgow, UK
Viveka, San Francisco, USA
July 23rd, 2012
Faith is longing for what is possible, lucidity to what has value, and conviction as to what is real. Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Faith as Surrender, Faith as Emergence“, is a little gem from the talk: ‘We Know What You’ve Studied, But What Have You Seen?‘ by Kulaprabha.
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May 28th, 2012
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Tension Between Self and Other,” by Kavyasiddhi is from the accessible talk, “Learning the Metta Bhavana” given on a retreat open to people of all levels of meditation experience. Here she shares a personal account working with the tension arising between focusing on one’s self and focusing on the needs of others.
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May 19th, 2012
In today’s FBA Podcast, “The Defects and Dangers of Samsara,” Dharmacharini 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 as part of the series “The Four Mind-Turning Reflections.”
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May 12th, 2012
This week’s FBA Podcast , “Tibetan Book the Dead: Talk 1 – The Six Bardos“, is an extraordinary talk by Padmavajra exploring the great text that reveals the realms between death and new life, where anything is possible in the Bardo – the ‘intermediate state’. From the first talk in the series “Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol).”
Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, winter retreat, 2005
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February 20th, 2012
In today’s FBA Dharmabyte titled “What Karma Is” Nagapriya offers a good, pithy introduction to the traditionally thorny and rather misunderstood area of karma and rebirth, teasing out its relationship to Buddhist ethics in general. This excerpt is from the talk “Understanding Karma and Buddhist Ethics” given in Manchester, 2003
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