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Kamalashila, Catalunya, Spain
Aileen, Shetland Islands
Suriyavamsa, Glasgow, UK
Eric, FBA Team
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Padmavajri, East Sussex
Advayasiddhi, Denmark
Colum, London, UK
May 2nd, 2013
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, ““Appreciating Silence,” is a little gem of an excerpt from the talk: “No Dependence on Words and Letters” by Sangharakshita, 1965. One of our earliest recordings in the FBA archive!
“Some things we know from experience, some things we apprehend only at second-hand. In confusing these two, we miss the essence of Zen.”
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April 13th, 2013
In this week’s FBA Podcast, Padmavajra takes us on an amazing journey into: “The Tiger’s Cave.” This is the first in an excellent 8-talk sequence by Padmavajra on Zen Buddhism. The series is full of colourful stories and challenging insights from the lives of the great Masters of China and Japan.
This talk introduces the basics and brings us face to face with the Great Emptiness at the heart of practice.
Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2004
This talk is part of the series “Tangling Eyebrows with Zen Masters.”
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October 4th, 2012
In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “The Zen Approach,” Sangharakshita describes the individual schools in Zen Buddhism and offers three misunderstandings about Zen. From the talk “A Special Transmission Outside the Scriptures” given in 1965.
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September 10th, 2012
Today’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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June 4th, 2012
Today’s FBA Dharmabyte is a lovely introduction to “Ryokan’s Poems” from the inspiring talk by Padmavajra titled “Bliss Bestowing Hands.” Packed with poetry and typically robust Zen reflections, this talk makes sure we are left with a heightened sense of the present moment as our only ground of being. From the not-to-be-missed series “Tangling Eyebrows with Zen Masters.”
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