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Fear is the great modern disease. Helping to create the conditions of fearlessness is one of the greatest gifts we can give. Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte podcast is entitled and#8220;Knowing the Dangers, Seeking the Nobleand#8221; by Dhivan. Here, Dhivan draws out some of the continuing significance of the story of the noble quest, as a kind of blueprint for the model of the Dharma life as heroi...

Fear is the great modern disease. Helping to create the conditions of fearlessness is one of the greatest gifts we can give. Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte podcast is entitled and#8220;The Gift of Fearlessnessand#8221; by Sangharakshita from the talk Altruism and Individualism in the Spiritual Life Talk given in 1969 as part of the series Aspects of the Bodhisattva Ideal .

Todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast is aptly named and#8220;It's Not Fair!and#8221; by Kalyanaprabha. Lifeand#8217;s unfair, what can we do about it? We can practice the Dharma and follow the Buddhaand#8217;s teachings. Kalyanaprabhaand#8217;s sober yet uplifting talk encourages us to do just that. Excerpt from the talk: What to Do In An Unfair World .

In todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast entitled, and#8220;Karma with a Twistand#8221; , Subhuti clearly describes how unwholesome mental states influence how we interpret our experience. This is why we begin with sila (ethics) on the path. From the talk, Rambles Around the Yogachara: Talk 1 , part of the series Rambles Around the Yogachara by Subhuti. the Yogachara school of Buddhist philosophy, wh...

In todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast entitled, and#8220;Breaking Through with Awarenessand#8221; , we are reminded that awareness is the great dissolver of negative emotions. At times in the spiritual life we may need considerable energy to overcome obstacles, such as negative emotions, psychological conditionings, rational thinking, and even the sense of and#8216;timeand#8217; itself. How, when,...

Todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast is a short talk by Nityabodha given as part of the LBCand#8217;s Urban Retreat in June 2009 entitled and#8220;Glimpses of Visionand#8221; .

Weand#8217;ve titled todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte podcast , and#8220;Fluidity in Our Nature: The Seaand#8221; . In this gentle talk, Arthabandhu gives us the image of the sea and the raft. We hold onto our raft, but this brings suffering and#8211; can we let go, enter the sea and become spiritually reborn? This is the question Arthabandhu asks us. Spiritual death does not only mean esoteric medi...

In todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast , and#8220;A Conversation About Poetry and#8220; , from Maitreyabandhuand#8217;s Book Launch of his two new books: The Journey and the Guide; and Yarn, a new collection of poems. In conversation with Visuddhimati, he discusses his life, his writing, and stresses the importance of making time to do nothing. At the North London Buddhist Centre, 28th September 20...

Weand#8217;ve titled todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte podcast and#8220;A Darkness Was Ripped From My Eyesand#8221; , a line from the poem, Singapore, by Mary Oliver, recited with commentary offered by Ratnaguna. As our eyes open to the lives of others, we try to run away from what we do not like. We think there is nothing we can do, or is there? From the talk, The Tender Gravity of Kindness , by Rat...

Todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast is called and#8220;The Tree is Teaching Usand#8221; by Suchitta. The birth of a tree is no different from our own and#8211; dependent on conditions and the elements. Every part of the body changes according to it's nature, no different from the tree. From the talk The Defects of Samsara and Cultivating the Desire For Enlightenment .

In todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast Vadanya gives us and#8220;Tangled Up in Sorrowand#8221; , an excerpt from the talk Wisdom In The World . It's through not knowing the truth about the way things are that we create all sorts of destruction, unhappiness and sorrow for ourselves and those around us.

In todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast , and#8220;What is Insight?and#8221; Dayajoti and Saddhanandi talk about Metta as an ungraspable co-arising, inseparable from mindfulness, which expresses itself in different ways. What is Metta, What is Insight is the final talk in a series from a 12 day meditation retreat on metta as a path to insight from May 2015.

In todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast , and#8220;What is Metta?and#8221; Dayajoti and Saddhanandi talk about Metta as an ungraspable co-arising, inseparable from mindfulness, which expresses itself in different ways. What is Metta, What is Insight is the final talk in a series from a 12 day meditation retreat on metta as a path to insight from May 2015.

Our FBA Dharmabyte podcast today is entitled and#8220;Awareness of Selfand#8221; by Sangharakshita. Forgetfulness and distraction are the rule in ordinary life, but awareness and a and#8216;fullness of mindand#8217; is at the heart of human growth and development. Sangharakshita distinguishes four dimensions of awareness, each with its own qualities: awareness of things, self, others, and reality....

In todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast Sangharakshita reminds us that real transformation begins with the dawn of insight or clear vision. In this excerpt entitled and#8220;The Process of Transformationand#8221; Sangharakshita describes the opening of the Dharma Eye in terms of seeing things as they really are and#8211; upturning the four topsy turvy views. From the talk The Transcendental Eightfol...

In todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast , Parami gives us and#8220;and#8216;Knowingand#8217; as a Lived Experienceand#8221; from the talk Living In The Greater Mandala . A bodhisattva is a being intent upon awakening for the sake of all beings. Most of us, most of the time, are not as awake as we could be. We create suffering by trying to fit reality into our picture of how we think things should be...

In todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast entitled and#8220;Metta as Quite Ordinary and Everydayand#8221; , Jvalamalini gives a very personal and helpful take on the metta bhavana (loving kindness) practice, recounting her history with it and the kinds of areas she has worked with over the years in order to learn to love herself and others as deeply as she can, specifically here how metta is very simp...

Drawing out concepts from the Dhammapadaand#8217;s verses, Padmavajra explores the qualities of faith (or shraddha) in this Dharmabyte podcast entitled and#8220;Shraddha and#8211; A Curious Intuitionand#8221; . From the talk and#8220;Changing Hatred into Love and#8211; Dhammapada Verses 3 to 6and#8243; given in 2007, and part of a larger series and#8220;The Dhammapada and#8211; The Buddhaand#8217;...

In todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte podcast from Vajrapriya entitled To Make the Imperfect Perfect is Enough to Love it , he discusses the fact of suffering or dukkha as part of being human. What are we to do? We can love what is, and in doing so make the imperfect perfect. From the talk entitled, and#8220;Loving What Isand#8221; given in January 2008.

Sangharakshita reflects on William Blakeand#8217;s concept of the and#8220;devouringand#8221; aspect of mind and how it relates to the chain of conditionality in todayand#8217;s FBA Podcast entitled Blakeand#8217;s Idea of the and#8216;Devouringand#8217; Aspect of Mind . From the talk entitled, and#8220;Fields of Creativityand#8221; given in 2001.

Dayajoti gives us todayand#8217;s FBA Podcast entitled Dukkha to Compassion . From the talk entitled, and#8220;Bodies of Earth and#8211; Beyond Me and Mine and#8211; Dukkhaand#8221; given on a two-week womenand#8217;s retreat at Eco-Dharma in May of 2012.

In todayand#8217;s FBA Podcast we hear more vintage Sangharakshita in Understanding Anatta (and#8216;No Self') . Everything we know about the self is in constant change and flux. You cannot understand what is meant by anatta until you know this truth. From the talk and#8220;Individuality, True and Falseand#8221; that tackles such terms as self, I, individual, and ego, reveals that each can have bo...

In todayand#8217;s FBA Podcast Nothing Is Standing Still Sangharakshita describes the characteristic of anitta as the whole universe is one vast set of processes, all interrelated. From the talk, and#8220;The Texture of Reality,and#8221; given in 1966, a lecture dealing with the three marks (lakshanas) of conditioned existence and their transcendence via the three liberations (vimokshas).

In todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, we hear from Parami, our international Order Convenor, about how dukkha is not living in harmony with truth of conditioned existence and how it is metta that is the volitional response to interconnectedness. Living in Harmony With Truth is an excerpt from the talk Living in Harmony With Truth is from the talk and#8220;The Awakening Heart,and#8221; the first talk...

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, All Conditioned Thingsand#8230; is an excerpt from the talk Seeing with Insight and#8211; Dhammapada Verses 277 to 279 by Padmavajra. All of the Buddhaand#8217;s core teachings are here and#8211; held in heart and mind thereand#8217;s more than enough in the Dhammapada to take us as far in our practice as we can imagine, and then on beyondand#8230; Talk recorded at...