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All conditioned things are impermanent... Not just a truism, but the central teaching of Buddhism upon which so much else follows. Jnanaketu starts off a three-part series on the lakshanas, or 'marks' of conditioned existence, by tackling this most crucial of insights that is easy to say but a great challenge to live by. Excerpted from the talk The Three Lakshanas: Anitya as part of the series The...

Silanatha reveals our collective blind spot of applying our awareness of change in the external world with change our inner experience.  From the talk entitled I mpermanence as part of a series on the Three Laksanas given at Colchester Buddhist Centre , 2019. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Au...

Locana  offers an excellent introduction to the most subtle and complex part of the Buddha's teaching on impermanence: that all things in conditioned existence are empty of any innate self-nature. Insubstantiality might never be really 'simple' to understand - but this is a good place to start. Excerpted from the talk Anatta Made Simple , 2001. Locana (Elizabeth English) is the author of 'Vajrayog...

Sangharakshita describes the three liberations (vimokshas) arising from transcending the three marks (lakshanas) of conditioned existence.  From the talk entitled The Texture of Reality as part of the series Introducing Buddhism , 1966. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dh...

Here Kulanandi reflects on different qualities of beauty in the spiritual life.  From the talk entitled Beauty and the Dharma Life given at Stockholm Buddhist Centre , 2014. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe using these RS...

Embodying our higher values gives life to our heart and gives heart to our life. Saddhanandi encourages us to get on with our life by gathering our life around our aspirations.  From the talk Enlightenment as Heart, Life as Whole given at Taraloka Retreat Centre , 2005. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free...

There's no true meditation without happiness. Sangharakshita describes Samadhi, often translated as 'concentration', as dependent upon the conditions of Sukha, that of happiness and bliss.  From the talk The Stages of the Spiritual Path , part of the series Introducing Buddhism , 1966. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscr...

Here we have Nagesvara discussing samadhi as collectedness, integration of our energies, wholeness, openness, rather than concentration as primary.   From the talk entitled What Is Samadhi part of the online series Body of Bliss: Ways into Samādhi , 2021 Buddhafield . *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Bu...

Dhivan talks about some ways in which Buddhists deny the self beginning with how the non-self teaching is presented in the Pali scriptures.  From the talk entitled Denying the Self as part of the series Symposium on the Non-Self given at Adhisthana , 2018. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio...

Yashobodhi recounts how the earliest Buddhist teachings arose in response to questions presented to the Buddha.  From the talk entitled The Alchemy of Wisdom , from a series on the Six Paramitas at a West London Buddhist Centre , 2012. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dha...

The mind is intrinsically pure. How do we realize the ever present purity of the mind? Tejananda offers his reflections on Buddha Nature through discussing the Myth of Self-Discovery, drawing from an article by Subhuti entitled The Three Myths (Madhamavani, 2003). Excerpted from the talk The Myth of Self-Discovery given at Mid Essex Buddhist Centre , 2021. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast...

Akashadevi expounds on the parable of the raft from the perspective of the hither and further shores. Excerpted from a talk entitled The Raft given at the W est London Buddhist Centre Christmas Retreat, December 2016. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every wee...

Maitrisiddhi explores the fourth great thunderclap from the Heart Sutra: All Buddhist teachings are simply Relative Truth; the Highest truth cannot be stated in words, using the simile of the raft. From the talk entitled The Highest Truth Cannot Be Stated In Words from retreat on the Heart Sutra at Taraloka Retreat Centre , 2019. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration th...

Bodhidasa explores the essence of what the Buddha said it was that he taught illustrated with a personal example of how the Dharma is based around one essential experience. From the talk entitled A Single Word of Truth given at Sydney Buddhist Center , 2020. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times every week! (Apple Podcasts) Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Aud...

Vishvapani outlines two approaches to Dharma practice: the 'hedgehog' – grounded in direct experience from the senses, and the 'fox' who steps outside and beyond, looking for the bigger picture. From the talk entitled Feeding the Soul , part of the series The Two Arrows: Dukkha to Insight given at Adhisthana , 2020. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast - bite-sized inspiration three times ever...

Vessantara offers a pithy look into the suffering of suffering and the myriad of strategies that pull us away from tending to what's happening in the present moment.   From the talk entitled Dukkha Dukkha , part of a series of talks and led meditation from a retreat at Adhisthana on Dukkha and the Unbiased , 2018. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks w...

Sangharakshita explores the ways in which we are all connected with Reality, directly and indirectly, in particular through our friendships with those just a little further along the path. From the talk entitled The Bodhisattva Hierarchy as part of the series Aspects of the Bodhisattva Ideal , 1969. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 200...

Saddhanandi paints a picture of how radical and different it was to encounter Buddhism in the mid 1960s. She explores a verse of Zen poetry taking her lead from Sangharakshita's 1965 lectures on the Essence of Zen.   Excerpted from the talk entitled The Essence of Zen at Adhisthana , 2019. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple P...

Bodhivajra talks about Enlightenment in a direct and very down-to-earth way, making the whole notion of Enlightenment more accessible, approachable, and relevant.   From the talk entitled Energy for Enlightenment given at Norwich Buddhist Centre , 2015. *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks weekly since 2006! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google  Subscribe...

Tantric Buddhism developed outside the monasteries in small groups gathered around magical, shamanic gurus. In this talk Vadanya explores what magic is and how we can bring mystery into the forefront of life as an act of 'war against the ordinary'.   Excerpted from the talk entitled Making Life Magic recorded at Sheffield Buddhist Centre , 2019, as part of the series Tantra Now! *** Follow the Fre...

Saccanama explores shraddha, often translated as 'faith', as the emotional counterpoint of wisdom. It's not a foundation for insight to arise, but rather it's the equivalent of perceptual, cognitive insight experienced through reverence, worship and devotion. From the talk entitled The Roots of Faith recorded at the Swedish Summer Retreat at Dharmagiri , July 2019. This talk is part of the series...

How do we make this Buddhist path available now and into the future? Vidyamala is committed to bringing the Dharma out into the world in a way that they can hear it, practice it, live it. From the talk entitled What the World Needs - Looking Ahead 50 Years given at the 2017 International Retreat at Adhisthana . *** Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast. High quality, full-length Dharma talks week...

Sraddhagita shares her experience as part of Lama's Pyjamas , a Team Based Right Livelihood that's part of the London Buddhist Centre. This talk is full of passion and insight into a practice Sraddhagita has been involved in for over 16 years. From the talk entitled Spreading the Mushrooms given as part of a series on the Six Distinctive Emphasis of Triratna, at Cambridge Buddhist Centre , 2016. *...

Buddhism stands for the creation of an ideal society as well as ideal individuals; a society based on spiritual and ethical principles. Sangharakshita considers the substantial effect our work has on us, and applies the Buddha's teaching to work today. From the talk entitled The Ideal Society: Right Livelihood , part of the series The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path , 1968. *** Follow the Free Buddh...

Is work just a necessity or a source of fulfillment? Is a career a hindrance or a support to our happiness and unfoldment as individuals? Should we be aiming at getting the 'right work/life balance' or moving beyond such distinctions? Keturaja , calling on decades of experience working in Buddhist businesses, explores Buddhist teachings on right livelihood and reflects on their relevance for us to...