free buddhist audio :

Audio Search

“”

The activity of emptiness is compassion

Eric, FBA Team

It's a joy to work for such a noble cause as FBA, spreading the Dharma across the internet and into the 21st century...
Sravaniya, Boston, USA

To hear the author's voice is to add a new dimension of meaning to his words.
Padmavajri, East Sussex

My meditation practice is benefiting from access to the led meditations and reflections for those times when I need a helping hand.
Vidyamala, Manchester, UK

I love supporting FBA.I encourage you to support FBA as there is a massive amount of work behind the scenes and it all costs money. Every little bit helps.
Ratnachuda, South London, UK

What I value about Free Buddhist Audio is the range of talks and texts from the past, right up to the present day.
Padmavajri, East Sussex

How wonderful to be able to listen to such a wealth of deeply inspiring Dharma talks by Bhante and so many other experienced practitioners of the Dharma. I feel blessed.
Sangharakshita, Birmingham, UK

As the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community, I am very happy to have learned that by the end of this year more than a million talks will have been downloaded - that is a tremendous achievement.
Coleen, FBA Team

I don't know what to say to express the gratitude I feel to have been so privileged to be able to work on Dharma talks produced by the finest minds in the Triratna community.

Become a supporting friend

561 – 570 of 590 matches for sangha

Filter by:

Title

Speaker

Year

Four Dimensions of Awareness (series)

An insightful series of talks by experienced Dharma teachers from the Cambridge Sangha on the Four Dimensions …

2016

The Sangrahavastus (series)

'The Sangrahavastus' are the traditional 'Four Means of Unification of the Sangha', and …

Subhuti

2002

The Spiritual Community

The nature of the Buddhist spiritual community and why it is so essential to spiritual life...

Sangharakshita

1966

	02.	What is spiritual community (sangha)? How one becomes a Buddhist: the Three Refuges (8:26)
	04.	The Sangha Jewel; the Great Sangha (maha-sangha) (5:22)
	05.	The Monastic Order (bhikshu/bhikshuni-sangha) and the parajikas (rules which, if broken, exclude one from the Order) (7:58)
	06.	The Community of the Noble (arya-sangha); the four grades of Bodhisattvas (9:13)
	07.	Why have a Sangha? Spiritual friendship and clarifying one’s understanding (14:25)

Intellect, Emotion, and Will

At the opening of the Manchester Buddhist Centre, Sangharakshita presents some of his latest thinking. With his usual clarity …

Sangharakshita

1996

06.

Our response to the Sangha - the Arya-Sangha; the non-Aryas (7:32)

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

A talk on real practice in the sometimes painfully real world...

Padmakumara

2007

	01.	Introduction - the emergence of the topic of "sangha and the practice of human relating" (2:11)
	08.	The Buddha describes the qualities and interactions of an ideal sangha; sangha as the ideal of human relating (5:29)

Looking Ahead a Little Way

At the last Western Buddhist Order convention of the 20th Century, Sangharakshita reviews the road travelled thus far and …

Sangharakshita

1999

10.

Stream Entry: a radical transformation in the nature of Going for Refuge; four levels of the arising of the Bodhichitta; the real Bodhicitta as neither individualistic nor altruistic; manifesting Avalokiteshvara, becoming an Arya Sangha (7:50)

The Nucleus of a New Society

Sangharakshita describes the events of his life that led him to found the Western Buddhist Order, and explains how an individual …

Sangharakshita

1976

06.

The English Sangha Trust and the Hampstead Vihara (5:03)

Love and Desire

This is the last in a great three-part series on 'The Alchemy of Love', Padmavajra's exploration of the transformative …

Padmavajra

2005

10.

Imagination as magical ability - exercising imagination; identifying ourselves with others in metta bhavana; moving towards egolessness; the need for patience and support in developing love - Sangha as a good basis and example (6:18)

Death and Desire

This is the second in a great three-part series on 'The Alchemy of Love', Padmavajra's exploration of the transformative …

Padmavajra

2004

04.

Importance of the Bodhicharyavatara; Bodhisattva ideal as spirit of the WBO; a manual for spiritual practice; need for patience in the sangha (3:44)

The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 6

This is the sixth in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive ten talk series by Padmavajra on 'The Diamond …

Padmavajra

2005

07.

Using people and the development of metta (loving kindness); other people as shunyata - Cezanne's old man; Sangha - Alred of Riveaux (9:28)

Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 Next

Search Options

Audio Search