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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)
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)
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)
Guru Stupa Ceremony (Part 2) - Sangharama 
Shining the Light of Tara - Inspiration From Dhardo Rimpoche For These Fearful Times 
The Ideal Society and the Ideal Individual 
Transforming Self and World Part 2: Buddhist Politics 
Nidana Chain Practice 
The True Nature of All Dharmas 
Silence: Practice and Vision 
An Overview of the Refuge Tree 
Transformation of Life and World in the Sutra of Golden Light (series) 
Introducing the Three Jewels of Buddhism (series) 
The Meaning of Conversion in Buddhism (series) 
Aspects of Buddhist Psychology (series) 
Initiation into a New Life (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) 
Buddhism for Today and Tomorrow (series) 
Incidents from the Pali Canon (series) 
The Inconceivable Emancipation - Themes from the Vimalakirti Nirdesha (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) 
The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path (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 and Ecology 
What is Enlightenment? 
Akshobya 
A System of Training 
Love Your Enemy 
The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 8 
What is the Sangha? 
Energy At Its Most Abundant 
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 
Imagining Gautama 
Ethics in the Order, A Good Place to Start 
La Bataille Pour L'Eveil 
The Buddha and Society 
