FBA is a great resource for women Triratna Buddhists to be able to share their Dharma teaching and practices with others around the world.
Mary, FBA Team
I've gained so much from listening to the talks on FBA that it's truly a pleasure to offer what I can in return to support the work. I can find a talk on pretty much any subject that interests me!
Viveka, San Francisco, USA
In a famous Sutra, the walls and doors of the enlightened Vimalakirti's house disappear to accommodate hundreds of thousands of beings accompanying Manjusri on a visit. FBA has that kind of magic.
Candradasa, FBA Team
Connecting with my own Buddhist friends and colleagues helps keep me inspired in my own life and practice, so it's very cool that I get to work on projects that help make this possible for others too.
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.
Jinamitra, Welwyn, UK
These recordings have been a key part of my life, especially as I don't live near a Buddhist Centre. With its excellent organisation and fast delivery, FBA is a unique resource. A pleasure to donate.
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.
Vajradarshini, Valderrobres, Spain
I live in Spain so have no Buddhist Centres or Libraries close at hand and FBA is like having an excellent Dharmic library right here. Listening to the Dharma is a whole practice in itself!
Making an individual connection; letting in the lessons - healing anxiety, guilt and alienation; quote from 'The Veil of Stars' by Sangharakshita (2:45)
Healing by forgiveness - you can't control events; forgiving life; Life is King by Sangharakshita - King Lear, "ripeness is all"; reading from John Middleton Murray on 'negative capability'; quote from Chekov "all things are forgiven" (8:59)
Old and new Order members; not liking Sangharakshita's (Bhante's) poetry; reading poems in the USA (4:37)
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'The Song of the Windhorse' - a poem by Sangharakshita (3:09)
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Sangharakshita on co-ops and right livelihood; the history of these in the FWBO; keeping that energy alive (3:48)
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Padmasambhava at work; ordaining someone - a channel to the transcendental; Parami's personal link with Sangharakshita; birth story of Padmasambhava; taking Buddhism to Tibet - the marriage of cognition, feeling and emotion; finding magic and ritual (7:40)
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Ratnsambhava - abundance; the thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara - will at its highest; Bodhisattva work; founding the Order - reading from Sangharakshita (7:00)
'Hakurai' - 'the calculating, determining, manipulating mind' - and self-power; Shan Tao - 'good acts mixed with poison'; why self-power doesn't work; Amitabha's hakurai; self-power as doubt; Sangharakshita's 'Life is King' - entrusting to life (5:32)
The Great Love - Maha Maitri; Sangharakshita's teaching of the metta bhavana being revolutionary; importance of metta bhavana (3:56)
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Quote from Sangharakshita on love and emptiness - love as a force affecting a miraculous transformation; quote from Rumi on love; seed of self-transcendence in friendly feeling (3:21)
Sangharakshita's book review on 'DH Lawrence and the Spiritual Community' - four principles of spiritual community; sexual relationships and community living (7:17)
'Evolution or extinction' by Sangharakshita (1971) - this talk as a response; the Buddha's basic teaching and experience; conceptual constructions of a specific time and culture - 'pratitya samutpada' ('dependent arising') and 'general systems theory' (3:22)
Ordination; recollection - quote by Sangharakshita; samprajana - mindfulness of purpose; in western China, eastern Tibet - reminders of compassion; beware of stagnation (4:55)
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A shared circle of engagement; exploring common values; Sangharakshita on the 'self'; a richness of selves (5:47)
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The tip of the iceberg; investment in the superficial; Sangharakshita on the non-rational; fear, the mind and the European colonial worldview (4:43)
NVC as enhancing one's understanding of the Dharma; personally inspired by the Western Buddhist Order, Marshall Rosenberg and Sangharakshita (9:22)
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Sangharakshita on Perfect Speech; awareness of feelings; valuing the form of NVC; connection between word and thought; two quotes from the Dhammapada on anger and ill-will (6:15)
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Sangharakshita on the 1st precept, from The Ten Pillars; judging people as right and wrong versus relating to needs; manasakara, where one places one's attention (7:54)
Lineage of material on Mind; Yeshe Gyaltsen's 'Necklace of Clear Understanding'; Sangharakshita's 'Know Your Mind'; Subhuti's talks on 'Mind and Mental Events' (3:31)
Outlining the influences on this talk including reflections on pratitya samutpada, paradigm shifts in science and Sangharakshita’s 1971 lecture ‘Evolution or extinction, a Buddhist view of world problems’. (4:54)
Question 3 – How has adopting an experiential approach affected Vishvapani’s own practice and interaction with others? Feeling as if he knows the Buddha as a good friend; comparison to spending time with a more experienced teacher, Sangharakshita (2:06)
A poem by Haifz; Wisdom Beyond Words by Sangharakshita; Triratna early history and teaching (01:55)
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Sangharakshita and his approach in the mid 1970s; a live tradition forming; building a Movement; a reading from the preface to Wisdom Beyond Words (01:55)
Enlightenment As Experience and Non-Experience 
Heart Sutra Chanting In Sanskrit 
Célébrer Bhante 
Passing On the Flame 
Sangha Day 2018 
Integration and Positive Emotion 
The Nature of Inner Peace 
That's What Bodhisattvas Do 
Skillful Action: "cease to Do Evil, Learn to Do Good, Purify the Heart" 
The Meaning of Conversion in Buddhism (series) 
Aspects of Buddhist Psychology (series) 
Three Lectures to the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (series) 
Two Lectures to a Conference on the Nature of Reality – Buddhism as Transformation (series) 
Buddhism for Today and Tomorrow (series) 
The Burning House - an Image from the White Lotus Sutra (series) 
The Inconceivable Emancipation - Themes from the Vimalakirti Nirdesha (series) 
The Higher Evolution (series) 
Aspects of the Higher Evolution of the Individual (series) 
Parables, Myths and Symbols of Mahayana Buddhism in the White Lotus Sutra (series) 
Transformation of Life and World in the Sutra of Golden Light (series) 
Introducing the Three Jewels of Buddhism (series) 
Incidents from the Pali Canon (series) 
The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path (series) 
A Supra-Personal Force (series) 
Bhante Classics (series) 
Bhaja Order Weekend - A Supra-Personal Force (series) 
Consciousness Unfolds (series) 
Initiation into a New Life (series) 
Placing Ourselves at the Feet of the Buddha (series) 
The Order as Practice: Shifting Paradigms (series) 
Buddhism and Ecology 
What is Enlightenment? 
Akshobya 
Love Your Enemy 
A System of Training 
The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 8 
Energy At Its Most Abundant 
What is the Sangha? 
The Diamond Sutra 
Shinran and Kabat-Zinn 
We Have a Huge Barrel of Wine But No Cups 
Amitabha 
Introducing the Great Love 
Buddhism and the Natural World: Deep Ecology, Deep Dharma 
Mahasattva Fu Expounds the Scripture 
The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 7 
Building an Ethical Underworld - Lessons from the Mafia 
Mindfulness as Sadhana 
Learning from Tibetan Buddhism - a Personal Account 
Becoming a Citizen of the Present 
Fifteen Points for Friendship 
Buddhism and Non-Violent Communication (NVC) 
What is Mind? 
Buddhismus und Sexualität 
Ethics in the Order, A Good Place to Start 
Vergänglichkeit - Gedanken zum (eigenen) Altern 
Imagining Gautama 
The Buddha and Society 
Religion Without God, Part 3 - Death and the Biggest Questions of All 
Lokamitra and Subhuti In Conversation 
Introduction to the Brahma Viharas (With Guided Meditation) 
Living In The Greater Mandala 
The Disappearing Buddha 
The Diamond Sutra 
The Path of Regular Steps and the Path of Irregular Steps 
The Journey to Il Convento 
The Myth of the Return Journey 
The Nature and Development of Buddhism 
The Transcendental Critique of Religion 
Transcending the Human Predicament 
Tibetan Buddhist Meditation 
The Jewel in the Lotus 
Altruism and Individualism in the Spiritual Life 
Symbols of Life and Growth 
The Ideal Society: Right Livelihood 
The Buddha and the Bodhisattva: Eternity and Time 
