Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio

In today's Dharmabyte, The Recollection of Death, Sangharakshita leads us with mindfulness into the practice of recollecting Death to overcome craving. From the lecture "The Meaning of Parinirvana," our next full length podcast feature. Talk given in 1972 by Urgyen Sangharakshita.

Today's Dharmabyte brings you a special reading of the story of Bahiya of the Bark Garment from the Pali Canon. Read to us by Srivati in the context of her talk "Becoming a Citizen of the Present." Talk given to the Western Buddhist Order national Order weekend, 2001

Our Dharmabyte today reminds us that Life is Too Short to Waste. Brought to us by the dynamic and passionate Padmavajra from the talk titled "Death and Desire" part II of a three-part series titled "The Alchemy of Love". Using Shantideva's 'Bodhicharyavatara' as a root text, he brings us face to face with the big questions implicit in any life that seeks to embrace change and impermanence as facts of Reality. Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2004

Today's Dharmabyte features the lovely Vajradharshini in an excerpt from her talk "The Transitoriness of Life and the Certainty of Death." In "Dying with Fearlessness" we are reminded that at the time of death only the Dharma is of benefit. Talk given at Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre 2005.

Today's Dharmabyte moves us into the theme of Death as the Buddha's Parinirvana is celebrated across the Buddhist world. "Death as Loss or Death as Gateway" is an extract from Vidyamala's talk "Dying to Live", which will be our next featured full length podcast. Confronted with impermanence and death the questions of who and what we are burn into us. Bereavements and losses of all kinds can be met with a kindness and awareness that gently ease the burden, allowing something of peace to enter our lives again. Talk given at the Western Buddhist Order Women's Convention 2003

Today's Dharmabyte: Reality as Change - Poetry and Impermanence is from a thoughtful and sympathetic talk by Srivati on the most delicate of tasks in any life - how to live in the present moment. Exploring the subtle aspects of past and present, of memory and expectation, we encounter impermanence as the touchstone of our experience through the practice of writing - especially poetry. Dharmabyte selected from the talk, "Becoming a Citizen of the Present." Talk given to the Western Buddhist Order national Order weekend, 2001

Today's Dharmabyte, "The Suffering of a Wasted Life" is a track from the inspiring talk "Generating Bodhi Mind" by the dynamic Vajratara of Sheffield Buddhist Centre. Our speaker beautifully guides us through the second section of Tsongkhapa's short text on The Three Principle Aspects of the Path as she challenges us to examine our own suffering created in not living fully to our potential. Talk given at Taraloka, May 2009.

Today's Dharmabyte, "The Six Perfections" is a reminder from our last podcast where Nagapriya beautifully and clearly led us through his understanding of "The Ideal of Universal Awakening". In this little golden Dharma-nugget we are reconnected with the Six Perfections, a reading from the Bodhicaryavatara by Shantideva, and the 10 Bhumis or stages of the Bodhisattva's Path. This is from the second talk in a five-part series called Visions of Mahayana Buddhism given at the Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2009.

Welcome to Dharmabytes! In "Buddhist Conversion & The Bodhichitta", Sangharakshita, the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community, introduces the talk "The Arising of the Bodhicitta". Here, in his classic form, Urgyen Sangharakshita describes the act of Conversion within Buddhist practice. Two contradictory trends that are discernible in the spiritual life: withdrawing from the world and compassion for it. The arising of the Bodhichitta or 'Will to Enlightenment' resolves this dichotomy. Talk given in 1965.

Welcome to the first installment of our new Dharmabytes podcast, where Free Buddhist Audio serves up a bite-sized portion of Dharma from the wealth of audio talks in our archives. In this excerpt from Sangharakshita's talk "The Buddha, God & Reality," he clarifies the gap between the clouded lenses of space and time through which we see the world and the 'clear vision' that comes with Enlightenment, as achieved by the Buddha. Talk given in 1966. Part of the series Introducing Buddhism.