Today’s FBA Dharmabyte titled “The Eight Worldly Winds” is from the forth talk “Eight Verses for Training the Mind” by Dharmachari Subhuti.

“May none of this ever be sullied
By thoughts of the eight worldly concerns.
May I see all things as illusions
And, without attachment, gain freedom from bondage.”

Talk given at Madhyamaloka, Birmingham, 2004

This Dharmabyte excerpt is part of the series “Eight Verses for Training the Mind.”

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

In today’s talk, “Anatta Made Simple”, Locana provides an excellent introduction to the most subtle and complex part of the Buddha’s teaching on impermanence: that all things in conditioned existence are empty of any innate self-nature. Insubstantiality might never be really ‘simple’ to understand – but this is a good place to start and Locana an ever-intelligent guide along the way…

Locana (Elizabeth English) is the author of ‘Vajrayogini: Her Visualization, Rituals, and Forms’

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

In ‘Everything Matters – Turning Consumerism on its Head’, Vajradarshini points out that we live in a world of things and there’s a world of practice in things. As consumerism is defined as ‘to destroy’, we are challenged to find ways to turn consumerism on its head and find the Truth in our relationship to Things. Accompanied by Kavyasiddhi reading both poetry and prose, this beautiful Dharma gem is worth hearing again and again.

Talk given at the 2010 International Sangha Retreat.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download