Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “The Wisdom Hearer” is an extract from the richly rewarding talk The Sound of Reality exploring the place and function of sound in Buddhist practice and history, as well as within Padmavajra’s own spiritual life. Beginning with Hakuin’s verses of Awakening, Padmavajra very beautifully explores how hearing – really hearing – can lead us to Insight.

Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2004

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Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is a short talk by the lovely Jnanaketu titled “The Three Lakshanas: Anitya”, part of three part series of talks given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre in 2006.

All conditioned things are impermanent… Not just a truism, but the central teaching of Buddhism upon which so much else follows. Jnanaketu starts off a three-part series on the lakshanas, or ‘marks’ of conditioned existence, by tackling this most crucial of insights that is easy to say but a great challenge to live by.

This talk is part of the series “The Three Lakshanas.”

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What happens when mindfulness matures? We’re completely familiar with mindfulness, and we’ve hardly scratched the surface. What connects us to our own unfolding nature? Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, Maturing Mindfulness, is an intimate look into the Anapanasati Sutra with Dhammarati in the sparkling talk Breaking the Mould, an indispensable exploration of everyday practice of the Dharma in the beautiful light of the Tathagathagarbha Sutra.

Talk given at FWBO Day, London 2003

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Today’s Dharmabyte brings you a special reading of the story of Bahiya of the Bark Garment from the Pali Canon. Read to us by Srivati in the context of her talk “Becoming a Citizen of the Present.”

Talk given to the Western Buddhist Order national Order weekend, 2001

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In this thoughtful, sympathetic talk, “Becoming a Citizen of the Present”, Srivati expounds on the most delicate of tasks in any life – how to live in the present moment. Exploring the subtle aspects of past and present, of memory and expectation, we encounter impermanence as the touchstone of our experience through storytelling (Bahiya of the Bark Garment) and the practice of writing – especially poetry. A lovely set of challenges to become ‘citizens of the present’ and inhabit properly our own potential for change.

Talk given to the Triratna (Western) Buddhist Order National Order Weekend, 2001

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