Posted by Viriyalila
May 20th, 2013
Our FBA Dharmabyte today takes into the heart of The Diamond Sutra. In “As Stars…”, Padmavajra gives us the last teaching: as stars; a fault of vision; a lamp; a mock show or magician’s illusion. Here, the sutra becomes poetry, the world is illuminated differently, for a time. And we cannot help but be moved by the vision of ourselves made luminous.
From tenth and final talk in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive series by Padmavajra on ‘The Diamond Sutra: Taking the Mind to it’s Limits – Talk 10′.
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May 18th, 2013
Our FBA Podcast today is a wonderfully entertaining talk on Perfect Vision titled: “Welsh Bats, A Vajrasattva Drugs Mule and Spanish Insight.” Here Vajrin tells a story of a wide ranging journey, including his early days at the Bristol Buddhist Centre in Long Ashton; his time as a junior doctor working in Africa; travels through India and Tibet; a visit to an Everest base camp and finally to ordination at a retreat centre high in the Spanish sierras. Along the way he manages to acquire a splendid Vajrasattva rupa and overcoming considerable obstacles, brings it home, thereby establishing a life-long association with this powerful bodhisattva of purification.
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May 16th, 2013
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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May 13th, 2013
The Eightfold Path is divided into Paths of Vision and of Transformation. In our FBA Dharmabyte today “The Context of Perfect Vision” Sangharakshita illustrates how perfect vision can arise, and concludes by showing how Buddhists have communicated their vision of reality in conceptual and imaginative terms.
Talk given in 1968.
This talk is part of the series “The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path.”
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June 30th, 2012
Today’s FBA Podcast, “The Jewel in the Lotus,” by Sraddhagita, is a beautiful down-to-earth exploration of the great central images of Mahayana Buddhism, usually associated with the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshavara.
This talk was given in 2007.
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