Our FBA Dharmabyte today,”My Practice in Everyday Life,” is one of a series of short talks given for the Triratna [FWBO] International Urban Retreat of 2009, where Order Members from around the world speak about their life and practice.

Kamaladevi is an Order Member living and working in Auckland, New Zealand. Here she talks about doing the mindful “dance” of self and other in her work at a busy community library.

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In our FBA Dharmabyte today, “Writing as Spiritual Practice,” Srivati guides us through a beautiful path of poetry, love and awareness, following the golden thread to get out of the way and just let go.

From the talk “Becoming a Citizen of the Present,” a thoughtful, sympathetic talk by Srivati on the most delicate of tasks in any life – how to live in the present moment.

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

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Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Taking Awareness Deeper,” by Paramabandhu, is from the comprehensive and invaluable talk titled “Mindfulness For Just About Everything” given at the San Francisco Buddhist Center in 2006. Drawing on many years of experience as a consultant psychiatrist and Dharma teacher, he invites us to consider the lessons Buddhist techniques around meditation and mindfulness training can bring to the field of mental health – especially to problems with depression and addiction. The talk evokes the Buddha in the Satipatthana Sutta to explore the four traditional foundations of mindfulness and discuss their potential use in therapeutic contexts.

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This weeks FBA Dharmabyte,”Bahiya – In the Seen Only the Seen” is a reading from the book ‘Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of the Awakened One’ (Quercus, 2011) by Vishvapani. The original talk, Imagining Gautama, is part of series launching the book from February 2011.

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Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, simply titled “Mindfulness,” by Paramabandhu, is from the comprehensive and invaluable talk titled “Mindfulness For Just About Everything” given at the San Francisco Buddhist Center in 2006. Drawing on many years of experience as a consultant psychiatrist and Dharma teacher, he invites us to consider the lessons Buddhist techniques around meditation and mindfulness training can bring to the field of mental health – especially to problems with depression and addiction. The talk evokes the Buddha in the Satipatthana Sutta to explore the four traditional foundations of mindfulness and discuss their potential use in therapeutic contexts.

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