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Speaker

Year

Three Perspectives On the Practice of Spiritual Friendship

Three short talks on the theme of spiritual friendship that flow beautifully into one another: …

Various

2010

	01.	Narottama - Say not so, Ananda, say not so, spiritual friendship is the whole of the spiritual life (8:34)
	03.	Viriyalila - The Third of Consciousness: Creating Contexts for Deepening the Practice of Spiritual Community (16:12)

Spiritual Friendship

Padmavajra explains the central importance of spiritual friendship as path to enlightenment.

Padmavajra

2011

01.

Spiritual Friendship (52:53)

With a Little Help From My Friends - Spiritual Friendship In the Context of Team Based Right Livelihood

The penultimate talk in the second series of 'Year of Kalyana Mitrata talks' from the Cambridge Buddhist Centre. …

Aryajaya

2013

01.

With a Little Help From My Friends - Spiritual Friendship In the Context of Team Based Right Livelihood (51:43)

What Is Spiritual Friendship

In the fourth talk in the series on The Six Distinctive Emphases of Triratna, Jvalamalini introduces the importance of spiritual …

Jvalamalini

2015

01.

What Is Spiritual Friendship (28:11)

The Meaning of Friendship in Buddhism (Die Bedeutung von Freundschaft im Buddhismus)

In the modern West, friendship is probably the most often neglected of all the primary relationships. During …

Sangharakshita

1992

	03.	The four ‘elements of conversion’ (Samgrahavastus); friendship as an expression of ‘the metta mode’ / Die vier “Elemente der Bekehrung” (Sangrahavastus); Freundschaft als Ausdruck des “Metta-Modus” (15:38)
	04.	The story of Meghiya - five things conducing to spiritual maturity; the need for spiritual friends / Die Geschichte von Meghiya – fünf Dinge, die zu spiritueller Reife führen; die Wichtigkeit von spirituellen Freunden (9:32)
	05.	’Spiritual friendship is the whole of the spiritual life’ / “spirituelle Freundschaft ist das ganze spirituelle Leben” (7:37)