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This week's FBA Podcast by Ratnaprabha explores "How Genuine Sangha Can Be Created" .

This week's FBA Podcast , is by Vidyamala titled "Can Buddhism Survive and Thrive In a Secular World?" . Based on her experience of teaching both 'hard core' Buddhism on the one hand and secular mindfulness on the other in various countries and cultural contexts, Vidyamala explores two opposite positions that can be taken in response to this question. One can be 'liberal' and try to change Buddhis...

In this week's FBA Podcast , we bring you "The Messengers of the Dharma" by Vajragupta. He offers us a very accurate look at our Order from the perspective of the first three fetters.

This week's FBA Podcast , "Padmasambhava: The Lost Talk" , previously unreleased and, rather famously, given off-the-cuff at the London Buddhist Centre, Sangharakshita gives us this enjoyable and stirring evocation of the great Tantric Guru of Tibet. Talk given in 1979.

In this week's FBA Podcast , "Change Is Overdue" , Maitrisara shares her thoughts on the theme of 'A Force for Good in the World', given in the Dharma Parlour at the 2010 Buddhafield Festival in Somerset, UK. Maitrisara lives in Oxford, UK, where she's active in a wide range of community projects – as well as Triratna's EcoDharma centre in the Pyrenees.

In this week's FBA Podcast , "Dealing with Change" , Saddharaja starts off with another story from his childhood in the 1960s about a forest fire and the effects of this upon his father, who was a forester. An example of sudden, dramatic change at work. He moves on to talk about smaller less dramatic changes in the work place which can create anxiety for Right Livelihood workers. Talk given at Win...

This week's FBA Podcast by Vadanya is called "Fighting the Fivefold Fear" . In this talk Vadanya explores how we can turn the tables on pointless anxiety and limiting fears, and use these as fuel for our practice. Talk given on Men's Event at Padmaloka, June 2013.

This week's FBA Podcast by Jnangarbha is called "The Hub of the Wheel" . This is Part 2 of a series of four talks on the Wheel of Life. This talk on The Hub was originally recorded in December 2003. It is available on Free Buddhist Audio thanks to the volunteer efforts of the Croydon Buddhist Centre Digital Archive Project.

This week's FBA Podcast "Buddhism, Modern Physics and the Nature of Reality" given by Jnanavaca at the London Buddhist Centre's Open Day in May 2010.

In this week's FBA Podcast , "Buddhism and Science" , Manjuvajra condenses the Evolution talks into one that puts the spiritual life into the context of evolution – an update of Bhante's Higher Evolution talks. Talk given at the Bristol Buddhist Centre, April 2013.

This week's FBA Podcast is a lovely talk by Vajrasakhi, current chair of Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre in Wales. In "Reality As A Way Of Life" Vajrasakhi shares her thoughts on Enlightenment as a way of living, a way of being conscious, a way of being aware, even creatively aware.

This week's FBA Podcast is the third talk in the LBC Buddhophany series by Subhuti titled: "Meeting the Buddha In Reality" . Subhuti concludes with a rousing call to take the Buddha's invitation to meet him in reality. To do this we need to engage with the Buddha on the level of history and myth.

This week's FBA Podcast , comes from Vidyamala, speaking at Manchester Buddhist Center in 2012. Entitled "Awareness is Revolutionary" , she encourages us to change our minds to change the world, speaking about the life-changing power of awareness.

This week's FBA Podcast , comes from Lokabandhu at Buddhafield's Green Earth Awakening event in May of 2013. Entitled "A Buddhist Approach to Changing the World" , Lokabandhu explores how Buddhists might take on the heroic task of affecting the world for the better. After reviewing the Buddhist concept of conditionality, he draws on examples such as Dr. Ambedkar and Triratna's paradigm of the 'New...

This week's FBA Podcast , by Padmavajra, was given during the 2013 Young men's retreat at Padmaloka. Entitled "The Way of the Dharma Warrior" , Padmavajra describes the qualities of the Dharma Warrior and how Dharma Warriors are fighting in the great battle between the spiritual community and the group – fighting for the liberation of the truly human individual against the forces of mediocrity and...

This week's FBA Podcast , by Vajratara, is a tour-de-force of a talk entitled "Young People, the Bodhisattva Ideal, and Padmasambhava" . Vajratara weaves together her first contact with meditation and the Dharma (being forced to go by her best-friend's Mum!), early explorations with drugs, her love of teaching, how to build a spiritual community, Padmasambhava, and the Bodhisattva Ideal.

This week's FBA Podcast , by Dhammagita, is entitled "Dads and Mums, Truth and Lies" . Given at a Dharma Day festival talk at the West London Buddhist Centre in July 2011, here Dhammagita celebrates the Dharma – emphasising the importance of truth and authenticity – and ends with a heartfelt expression of gratitude to her own teachers.

This week's FBA Podcast , by Sanghamani, and given during the Buddhafield East "Buddhism and the Natural World" retreat, is entitled "May All Your Weeds Be Wildflowers" . Sanghamani draws inspiration from the use of images in nature linked to the Buddhas Enlightenment, Maras assault, and calling the earth goddess to witness and how we can use them to help us contact our own fearlessness and confid...

This week's FBA Podcast , by Sangharakshita explores the Sutra of Golden Light and is entitled "Nature, Man and Enlightenment." . We seek happiness, but often we find that our desires and aspirations are in conflict. This struggle and its resolution are symbolically portrayed in the sutra by the figures of the Monk and Drdha, the Earth-Goddess. Talk given in 1976.

In the face of global climate crisis what can we do? How can we change the ways we think and respond to the seemingly insurmountable problems the planet faces? This week's FBA Podcast , by Akuppa, explores the relationships and connections between "Buddhism and Ecology." Akuppa's thoughtful introduction to the worlds of scientific and deep ecology asks us the hard questions and offers some hope fo...

Inspiration is present because of how we live – it is not something that comes from inside of us or outside of us. This week's FBA Podcast , by Vidhuma, looks at: "Maintaining Inspiration." In his usual humble, poetic, and beautifully spoken way, Vidhuma weaves his way through The Three Refuges, bringing in his favorite American poets and writers, including Walt Whitman, as he explores the theme o...

This week's FBA Podcast , "Going for Refuge," by Viveka, is a personable and wide-ranging look at one of the most important aspects of Buddhist practice, whose significance is upheld in every tradition. What is it to look to the 'Three Jewels' as a response to our dissatisfaction? A thoughtful exploration, taking in traditional Dharma approaches and contemporary counter-cultural art forms and ways...

To appreciate the significance of the 25th Anniversary of the Triratna's sole retreat center in America, Nagabodhi takes us back 2500 years to the time of the Buddha through the early years of the movement right up to the present day and onwards into the future. This week's FBA Podcast, "Reflections on Aryaloka" is an inspiring and well thought out talk including stories about Sangharakshita and A...

In this week's FBA Podcast , "Love, Sangha and Amitabha" , Amitasuri introduces us to Amitabha: Buddha of love and compassion, looking at the love and sangha aspects of the red Buddha of the western realm. From this perspective Amitasuri reflects on our relationships and the preciousness of human life. She considers whether, with body speech and mind, there can be any more appropriate response to...