I am thrilled and honoured to be a part of the FBA team. Working with other Buddhists provides an opportunity to build incredibly close relationships based on genuine trust, caring, and common values.
Mary, FBA Team
I love it when a deeply moving excerpt from a Dharma talk is randomly followed on my MP3 player by a piece of music, and then more Dharma comes randomly through. That pretty much rocks my world.
Padmatara, San Francisco, USA
Being in San Francisco, I value the easy access to talks from so many different people in the Triratna Buddhist Order - not just the famous ones! It makes me feel connected. A bit like Pirate Radio!
Ratnaghosha, FBA Chairman
As the Chair of the charity that runs Free Buddhist Audio, I am completely inspired to be making available Dharma talks and study materials to anyone who has access to the internet.
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.
Viveka, San Francisco, USA
When I visit FBA, time and space dissolve, I am in the company of a vast array of Buddhists from all around the world in what Vimalakirti calls the domain of the holy eightfold path of the Buddha.
Nagabodhi, London, UK
FBA's work means, among other things, that we are much less likely to turn into a galaxy of disconnected centres, and more able to evolve and develop as a unified and harmonious Dharma community.
Sangharakshita, Birmingham, UK
It gives me great pleasure and satisfaction to know FBA is benefiting so many people around the world. This is one of the most important developments within our new Buddhist community for many years.
Sangharakshita's complaint about non-Buddhists being considered authorities on Buddhism; a defence of animism; marigold garlands for the sacred; the destruction of trees in India (6:02)
The risk of the FWBO losing its edge; reactions to Sangharakshita himself and the unfathomable nature of human beings; his own practice - meditation, reflection, and intuitions about the nature of reality; dreams of his teachers and archetypal dreams (8:02)
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Deciding to have sexual relationships - what the word 'experiment' means to Sangharakshita; wearing robes while being sexually active - neither monk nor lay; on the subject of teachers being sexually active with disciples - two models; on women (9:33)
Sangharakshita - Celebrating the founding of the FWBO in 1967; looking back to 1985 - Subhuti's book 'The Buddhist Vision'; launching a new edition (4:24)
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Sangharakshita - Finding a good book title; reminiscing about early discussions on 'what Buddhism is' - religion, philosophy or science; quotes from the bible on vision - Proverbs 29, v 18, Habbakuk 2, v 2 (8:44)
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Subhuti - Sangharakshita's translation of 'The Dhammapada'; being a translator; all you need to know for Enlightenment (2:49)
Kamalashila - Introduction: what is Buddhafield? Links with the founding of the FWBO – the radical exploration of alternatives; Sangharakshita's name – 'protector of the Sangha', 'protected by the Sangha' (4:06)
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Sangharakshita - Sangharakshita's first time at Buddhafield; 'dharmapala' and 'dharma parlour' - the spider and the fly; Buddha, Dharma and Sangha together (3:43)
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'Untouchables' in the Hindu caste system; Dr Ambedkar and the mass conversion to Buddhism; Sangharakshita's time amongst the new Buddhists of India (5:13)
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'Vicikiccha' ('sceptical doubt') - not making up your mind; Sangharakshita's positive counterparts to the three fetters - being creative, committed and clear (4:10)
Visiting again, 3 years on; Dr. Ambedkar with arthritis; Sangharakshita as a little controversial himself; changing religion - the Dalits ('Untouchables') and Hindu caste discrimination (4:24)
Sangharakshita recounts his first visit to Essen; reflections on the 42nd anniversary of the FWBO / Sangharakshita erzahlt von seinem ersten Besuch in Essen; Gedanken zum 42 Jahrestag des FWBO (5:35)
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Growth of the FWBO globally; Sangharakshita's experiences in Germany / Wachstum des FWBO weltweit; Sangharakshitas Erfahrungen in Deutschland (3:18)
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Publishing the first spoken-word books; creation of the 'Essential Sangharakshita' around the many existing teachings / Die Herausgabe der ersten auf Vortragen basierenden Bucher; Zusammenstellung des ‘Essential Sangharakshita’ (5:25)
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Sangharakshita's own experience and advice from the last 42 years of devotion to the FWBO / Sangharakshitas eigene Erfahrung und Ratschlag auf der Grundlage von 42 Jahren mit dem FWBO (2:16)
Bringing Dinoo to life; London coincidences; the Kazini of Chakung; working with Sangharakshita on footnotes (3:20)
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Sangharakshita remembering - seeing people with appreciation; Dr Mehta; working on the notes (a Dickensian reverie); the book's audience, present and future (4:19)
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Writing the introduction; an overview of the correspondents' lives in 1956; the challenge of writing about Sangharakshita; breadth and depth - seeing and intuition (3:28)
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Two standout things about Sangharakshita; the ordinary and the extraordinary; kindness; a single stream of Dharma activity (2:32)
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Sangharakshita - Life in Kalimpong and on the Plains of India; Bombay in the 1950s; the Parsee (Parsi) community; Zoroastrianism (4:12)
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Letters of the Romantic poets; Byron's letters; Keats - 'a vale of soul making'; Coleridge's letters; Philip Larkin; Sangharakshita's own letter writing now (3:43)
On 'Is a Guru Necessary?' by Sangharakshita; what a guru is and is not; points of agreement - a required relationship (2:36)
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Sangharakshita on a threefold lineage in the FWBO - teaching, practice and inspiration; Stream Entry and freedom from the first three fetters (4:41)
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Sangharakshita on not needing new teachers and practices; taking deeper what you already know; Tenzin Palmo's teaching from the togdens (4:04)
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(N.B. Poor sound in places during this clip) Sangharakshita on going deeper into his own teachings; formal structures of practice in the FWBO compared to other traditions (4:37)
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Sangharakshita on finding your own inner guru; spiritual reference points and authority in your life; the collective Order as the 'vertical relationship' (3:40)
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Community and the future of Buddhism in the west; Joanna Macy and Thich Nhat Hanh on collective practice as a foundation of Awakening; Sangharakshita on the development of Buddhism through different cultures (3:27)
Introduction to Chetul Sangye Dorje; Sangharakshita's first meeting with him (3:44)
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A teaching to Paramartha; two mind-training slogans (lohjong); practising for yourself versus practising for others; a quote from Sangharakshita (5:51)
An Evening with Sangharakshita 
Sangharakshita in Conversation with Kathleen Raine 
In Retrospect: A Conversation With Sangharakshita 
Launch of The Essential Sangharakshita and Living Ethically 
Sangharakshita Launches The Essential Sangharakshita and Living Ethically 
Sangharakshita - Reading Poems About Friendship 
Glimpses of the Mythic Life of Sangharakshita 
Revering and Relying Upon the Dharma: Sangharakshita's Approach to Right View 
Sangharakshita's System of Training; 1. The System 
Sangharakshita - Traditionalist Oder Radikalist? 
The Refuge Tree: Sangharakshita 
Book Re-Launch of 'Sangharakshita: A New Voice' by Subhuti At the LBC 
Kalyana Mitrata - My Relationship with Sangharakshita 
Sangharakshita As Friend and Teacher 
Dr Ambedkar and Sangharakshita 
Sangharakshita and the Shadow of the Past 
Looking Back - and Forward, Sangharakshita Speaks to the European Order Weekend 
Order Puja Led by Bhante Sangharakshita 
Dilgo Khyentse Rimpoche 
The Nucleus of a New Society 
The Next Twenty Years 
Intellect, Emotion, and Will 
Launch of The Buddhist Vision and the Dhammapada 
Fields of Creativity 
Recollections and Reflections on My Going Forth 
My Relation to the Order 
The Larger Sukhavativyuha Sutra 
The Rain of the Dharma 
The Headship of the Order 
Growing the Spiritual Community 
Reflections on Going Forth 
Entering the Sangha 
Remembering Ambedkar 
Commitment and Spiritual Community 
Fifteen Points for Old and New Order Members 
Living with Ethics 
The FWBO and the Path of Spiritual Development 
Mingling Souls - Launching Dear Dinoo, Letters to a Friend 
Sangharakshita 
Living With Sangharakshita 2003 to 2008 
Sangharakshita, the Unenlightened Englishman 
Getting to Know Sangharakshita During the Infancy of the Triratna Buddhist Community 
Imagination, Bhante Sangharakshita & Us 
Spiritual Transmission and Lineage 
Duties of Friendship in Buddhism 
Our Work as Teachers and Practitioners 
Chetul Sangye Dorje 
Dhardo Rimpoche 
Buddhism and the Path of the Higher Evolution 
Who is the Buddha? 
The Four Great Reliances: Criteria for the Spiritual Life 
The Glory of the Literary World 
Looking Ahead a Little Way 
Fifteen Points for Buddhist Parents 
On Tara 
The Symbolism of the Cremation Ground and the Celestial Maidens 
The Analytical Psychology of the Abhidharma 
Looking at the Bodhi Tree 
Buddhism, Nietzsche, and the ‘Superman’ 
The Taste of Freedom 
Five Element Symbolism and the Stupa 
