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We Are All Looking for the Light (Dharmabytes Podcast)

Mar 09 2025 5 mins

Flowers naturally grow towards the light. The more we open to our true potential the more we open to the light of truth, of love, and of awareness. Our potential to grow is inherent in our very being. Here, Suryagupta shares reflections on verses from the Flowers chapter of the Dhammapada, or ‘Way of Truth’. Excerpted from the talk entitled How Flowers Teach the Way to Enlighte

Watching the Direction of our Mind (Dharmabytes Podcast)

Mar 05 2025 2 mins

Kusalasara explores the opening verses of the Dhammapada, or ‘Way of Truth’ showing a path of discovery of the pure mind and the impure mind. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Essential Revolution given at London Buddhist Centre as part of the series The Dhammapada, 2022. Subscribe to the podcast on freebuddhistaudio.com/podcasts

Letters of Gold (Dharmabytes Podcast)

Mar 02 2025 3 mins

This is an appropriately pithy talk by Surata on one of the most popular and regarded of the early Buddhist suttas, The 'Dhammapada'. The images of the verses and their direct relevance to our lives makes this sutta an indispensable aide memoire to practice – and Surata's consideration of it is a handy primer for newcomers to the text, as well as a refresher for those who've long

Everything of Worth Is Defenceless by Arthakusalin

Aug 26 2017 39 mins

Arthakusalin gave a poetic and uncompromising talk on the value of the Dharma jewel on the 2017 Triratna International Gathering at Adhisthana. https://thebuddhistcentre.com/internationalretreat

The Return of the Bodhisattva by Prajnaketu

Aug 26 2017 41 mins

Prajnaketu’s inspiring talk from the 2017 Triratna International Gathering at Adhisthana gave us a new take on the Bodhisattva path, with ‘Look up!’, ‘Grow up!’ and ‘Wake up!’ https://thebuddhistcentre.com/internationalretreat

01 The Buddha And Trees; Going On Retreat In Nature; Our Relation To The Elements

Jun 16 2015 4 mins

We asked Kamalashila to give a talk for Buddhist Action Month 2015 (www.thebuddhistcentre.com/BAM) with its themes around sustainability and caring for others. He responded with this beautifully focussed look at our whole relationship to nature and the elements: how the artificiality in our lives can get in the way of seeing what things are actually like - and what we might do abou

02 Nature As Support For Practice; Meditation Dissolving Artificiality; Qualities Of Elements

Jun 16 2015 4 mins

We asked Kamalashila to give a talk for Buddhist Action Month 2015 (www.thebuddhistcentre.com/BAM) with its themes around sustainability and caring for others. He responded with this beautifully focussed look at our whole relationship to nature and the elements: how the artificiality in our lives can get in the way of seeing what things are actually like - and what we might do abou

03 Our Relationship To The Qualities Of Earth, Water, Air; Spaciousness

Jun 16 2015 5 mins

We asked Kamalashila to give a talk for Buddhist Action Month 2015 (www.thebuddhistcentre.com/BAM) with its themes around sustainability and caring for others. He responded with this beautifully focussed look at our whole relationship to nature and the elements: how the artificiality in our lives can get in the way of seeing what things are actually like - and what we might do abou

04 Liberation & Suffering, Letting The Dharma In; Meditating On Natural State Of Things; Realisation

Jun 16 2015 5 mins

We asked Kamalashila to give a talk for Buddhist Action Month 2015 (www.thebuddhistcentre.com/BAM) with its themes around sustainability and caring for others. He responded with this beautifully focussed look at our whole relationship to nature and the elements: how the artificiality in our lives can get in the way of seeing what things are actually like - and what we might do abou

05 Ways Into Realisation; Noting Inconsistencies; Ways Of Seeing; Free Nature; Movements Of Thought

Jun 16 2015 4 mins

We asked Kamalashila to give a talk for Buddhist Action Month 2015 (www.thebuddhistcentre.com/BAM) with its themes around sustainability and caring for others. He responded with this beautifully focussed look at our whole relationship to nature and the elements: how the artificiality in our lives can get in the way of seeing what things are actually like - and what we might do abou