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Advayasiddhi, Denmark
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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.
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)
'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)
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)
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)
The Higher Evolution (series) 
Aspects of the Higher Evolution of the Individual (series) 
The Four Gifts (series) 
Parables, Myths and Symbols of Mahayana Buddhism in the White Lotus Sutra (series) 
Buddhism for Today and Tomorrow (series) 
Incidents from the Pali Canon (series) 
The Inconceivable Emancipation - Themes from the Vimalakirti Nirdesha (series) 
Two Lectures to a Conference on the Nature of Reality – Buddhism as Transformation (series) 
Three Lectures to the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (series) 
The Burning House - an Image from the White Lotus Sutra (series) 
Bhante Classics (series) 
A Supra-Personal Force (series) 
Bhaja Order Weekend - A Supra-Personal Force (series) 
Consciousness Unfolds (series) 
Placing Ourselves at the Feet of the Buddha (series) 
Buddhism and Ecology 
What is Enlightenment? 
Akshobya 
Love Your Enemy 
The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 8 
A System of Training 
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 
Building an Ethical Underworld - Lessons from the Mafia 
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 
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? 
Vergänglichkeit - Gedanken zum (eigenen) Altern 
Buddhismus und Sexualität 
Ethics in the Order, A Good Place to Start 
La Bataille Pour L'Eveil 
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 
The Archetype of the Divine Healer 
The Meaning of Parinirvana 
A System of Meditation 
Reason and Emotion in the Spiritual Life: Right Resolve 
The Bodhisattva Hierarchy 
The Symbolism of the Tibetan Wheel of Life 
The Buddha’s Philosophy of Personal Relations 
Communicating the Dharma 
Why Buddhism? 
Karma and Rebirth 
Padmasambhava: Tantric Guru of Tibet 
The Symbolism of the Sacred Thunderbolt or Diamond Sceptre of the Lamas 
The Pattern of Buddhist Life and Work 
The Question of Psychological Types 
The Meaning of the Dharma 
The Symbolism of the Cosmic Refuge Tree and the Archetypal Guru 
The Symbolism of the Five Buddhas, ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ 
The Symbolism of Offerings and Self-Sacrifice 
