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What’s Love Got To Do With It?

May 16th, 2013

Free Buddhist Audio 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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Beauty as a Gateway to Wisdom

March 7th, 2013

Free Buddhist AudioIn today’s FBA Dharmabyte,Beauty as a Gateway to Wisdom” Srivati talks on creativity as a way of life, especially when that life is in flux and the ground of our being is shifting. Through her own poetry and reflections on writing and art, Srivati evokes an aesthetic path into the very heart of Reality.

Talk given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, Great Gathering 2000

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Dew in Zen Poetry

October 1st, 2012

Free Buddhist AudioToday’s FBA Dharmabyte is by the lovely Vajradarhini speaking again on poetry in the Buddhist tradition. “Dew in Zen Poetry” is a beautiful exploration of this well-loved image of impermanence.

From the talk “The Transitoriness of Life and the Certainty of Death” given as part of a series on the ‘Four Mind Turnings‘ of the Tibetan tradition given at Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre, 2005.

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Sadness and Awakening

September 10th, 2012

Free Buddhist AudioToday’s FBA Dharmabyte is from the talk “The Transitoriness of Life and the Certainty of Death” by Vajradarshini titled Sadness and Awakening.” This is a beautiful piece on the hardest of subjects. Using zen poetry and a happily wide-ranging series of quotations (from Tibetan lamas to Ezra Pound), Vajradarshini explores her own father’s death as a way to approach attitudes to death and dying.

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Songs of the Elder Sisters

July 14th, 2012

Free Buddhist AudioThis weeks FBA Podcast, “Songs of the Elder Sisters” is one of a series of talks on the Therigatha, the songs or poems of the nuns at the time of the Buddha. Here, Gunasiddhi gently explores the three themes of Going Forth, Friendship and Impermanence through these tender yet powerful stories.