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453: Hinterland Sober Bar - Brewing a New Society in 2025

18 januari 2025 | 50 min

Enter Hinterland sober bar, “the realm beyond what’s known”… And meet founders Sanghadhara and Stephen Jeffreys in their cosy, cool, poetic, liminal space for a cocktail and meaningful conversation about how Buddhism and the Dharma can inform modern culture—and people’s social lives—in new ways.

Hinterland has been a passion project from the start. And on this busy Friday evening on one of the busiest nights of the year in one of the hippest areas of Manchester, UK, we hear that passion come pouring through as we discuss ethical work in 2025; and how anyone can impact society by building an entrepreneurial business that is also a commercially counter-cultural social enterprise.

For any building makeover heads out there, we hear how transformative interior and graphic design can express some of our deepest values. And, of course in a sober bar, how the look and feel of a social space can also support recovery through helping us shift how we perceive and experience the world—with no alcohol required.

It’s clear talking with Stephen and Sanghadhara that working together can both challenge and enhance a personal friendship, taking it to the next level. And in terms of specifically Buddhist practice, what an amazing testing ground Hinterland has been for the work of attending to their mental states and trying to serve the happiness of others with their energies and their work.

Join us over sophisticated hemp and root spirits and delicious vegan food to explore how a bar that attempts to blend an industrial aesthetic with animist sensibilities (through the lens of Japanese minimalism) can be a ground for depth of connection, art and Dharma. And how a drink with friends or strangers can open up a way into new possibilities in our lives when we have that sense of wanting to change…

This celebratory tale of inspired Buddhist practice is the perfect podcast to help you rekindle your own new year’s resolutions. Cheers! 🍸🍹

Show Notes
Hinterland Bar (Instagram)

Wholesome Junkies (Instagram)

The Pathfinder (Non-Alcoholic Spirit)

The Tale of Tipus’ Tiger (podcast episode)

Dark Mountain Manifesto: “The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop. Together, we will find the hope beyond hope, the paths which lead to the unknown world ahead of us.”

Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction

Santa’s Slaay Cocktail
50ml Pathfinder Hemp and Root Non-Alcoholic Distilled Spirit

20ml Santa Syrup (apple and cinnamon syrup, make your own if you like!)

10ml Lemon juice

Top (75-100ml) with ginger beer

Optional splash of sparkling water

Fill a hurricane glass with ice

Add Pathfinder, Santa syrup, ginger beer and then sparkling water.

Garnish with mini candy cane…

See the Santa’s Slaay cocktail for presentation ideas… ✨

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452: The Three Body Solution - Healing and Belonging In Community

27 september 2024 | 59 min

Home Retreats help us inject some of the powerful teachings of the Buddha directly into our everyday lives. This week we’re joined by Balajit, Singhashri and Viveka to talk about what lies behind their latest week-long collaborative venture with The Buddhist Centre [Live] - the enigmatically titled ‘The Three Bodies of Belonging’.

In this episode we dive into the the traditional Buddhist teaching / images / metaphors / experiences of the three kayas (‘bodies’): Dharmakaya, Samboghakaya and Nirmanakaya. These are correlated respectively, via Urygyen Sangharakshita’s reading of the Tibetan yogi and mystic Milarepa, with human mind, speech and physical body. The discussion that arises out of this takes in not just what it means to belong - but also questions of longing: what the heart yearns for, how we conceive of liberation itself via an embodied and relational approach to Awakening.

We explore what individuality and collectivity look and feel like in the light of the trikaya - how the whole of the teaching is pointing to human potential where we have the same faculties, senses, heart, body and mind as the Buddha and everyone else who has ever trodden this path. In that sense, like Buddhism at its best, it’s a profoundly hopeful, healing conversation requiring honesty, vulnerability and a new perspective on ‘self’, ‘other’ and our relationships in the face of the universe.

How do we change our stories to allow for genuine and profoundly transformative connection in a suffering world? How might we resource ourselves to blow open wide our own “window of tolerance” for whatever arises in life and become beings with a boundless heart? Join us on the Home Retreat - live or after the fact - to discover with other seekers the luminous and boundless possibilities beyond trauma, fear, anxiety, heartbreak and all that holds us back from a true sense of belonging.

N.B. The audio quality in some parts of this recording were affected by a poor connection at times.

Show Notes

🧘 Join us live for ‘The Three Bodies of Belonging’ Home Retreat (October 25-31 2024)

👥 Staci Haines - Exploring Trauma and Resilience in the Body

👥 Prentis Hemphill - Embodiment and Community

📖 ‘Mending Wall’ by Robert Frost (‘Good fences make good neighbors.’)

🎧 ‘The Inconceivable Emancipation - Themes from the Vimalakirti Nirdesha’ (lecture series by Sangharakshita)

🎧 The Sangha or Buddhist Community by Sangharakshita

🧘 Forces for Good: Challenging Emotions as Portals to Liberation (Home Retreat to do anytime!)

🧘 Explore the archive of Home Retreat on The Buddhist Centre Online

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451: Animated by the Dharma

13 september 2024 | 53 min

451: The Heart of Imagination in Buddhism

30 augusti 2024 | 51 min

The mind liberated from the pressure of the will is unfolded in symbols
W.B. Yeats

These days, mindfulness is everywhere. How can engaging with images - with imagination itself - take our awareness deeper and help us connect with something truly transformative? Join our guests Vishvapani and Amitajyoti to explore how a Buddhist perspective on consciousness can help move us towards a life touched more fully by a sense of creativity and freedom.

In this episode, we look at imagination within the framework of Triratna’s system of practice, an approach to Buddhism that represents a naturally unfolding process of experience emerging from the dedicated cultivation of awareness and kindness:

Integration, meaning embodied awareness.
Positive emotion: an open, loving and empathic heart.
Spiritual Death: releasing limiting attitudes, and finding a more authentic way of being.
Spiritual Rebirth: the realm of imagination that brings an expanded experience of ourselves and opening to a sense of mystery
Spiritual Receptivity: resting in the freedom of open, spacious awareness and creative flow

Each stage here is a doorway to a more creative realm that we can access whatever our circumstances.

We also evoke the place of nature as intertwined with the life of the imagination. Resonance, empathy, connection with the world around us - with practice, these qualities in experience can be sustained as a flowing, organic, enriching state of being.

The hopeful, practical vision here - the efficacy of cultivating a heart of imagination - can give us the confidence to allow our images, symbols and myths to open us up to new ways of living.

Enlightenment is the state of irreversible creativity
Urgyen Sangharakshita

Show Notes

🧘 Join us live for the ‘Heart of Imagination’ Home Retreat (or catch up later!)

📖 W. B. Yeats, ‘The Symbolism of Poetry’

🎧 Listen to talks on the system of practice in Triratna

🖥️ Vishvapani is a writer, broadcaster and mindfulness teacher with over four decades’ years experience of Buddhist practice

🖥️ Amitajyoti is a visual artist and a teacher of art and mindfulness with over 30 years experience of Buddhist and art practice.

🧘 ’Mindfulness and Imagination' Home Retreat with Vidyamala and Vishvapani (2023)

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Podcast episode image by Amitajyoti

450: Taking Responsibility - Happiness and Transformation with Mahamati

16 augusti 2024 | 67 min

Prayer to Manjushri, Bodhisattva of Wisdom
May all beings experience happiness and its causes
Be free from suffering and its causes,
Never be parted from happiness
And dwell in the condition of equanimity

Ever since his introduction to Buddhism in 1976, Mahamati has been attracted to collective, collaborative contexts. He was, from the start, delighted to find a group of people with whom he could live his whole life, practising and working together with a vision for the transformation of both self and the world. This has long characterized his relationship with the Triratna Buddhist Order and with its founding teacher, Urgyen Sangharakshita, whose lecture The Meaning of Spiritual Community ignited something magic in Mahamati’s life that continues to find new expression today.

This vision of transformation is what Mahamati will be bringing to a major role in our community as Chair of the College of Public Preceptors, starting in November 2024. Mahamati speaks about Triratna’s primary mission - and his own spiritual life - in terms of responding to suffering in the world and a vision of ‘transcendent happiness’. Understanding what that might mean - and how that works, both at an individual level and at the level of serving a spiritual community - is key.

We hear about the many-layered role of the College of Public Preceptors: its central role in welcoming new members into the Order, upholding an established lineage of practice (particularly after the death of Sangharakshita in 2018), and addressing ethical issues. What shines through most is the deeply personal lifelong connection that marks ordination into our particular community; how people are transformed through a shared sense of common project ready to meet the challenges and sorrows of the world. Happiness and the potential for it is never far away throughout the conversation as Mahamati unfolds his own sense of how that initial act of commitment - choosing to become a Buddhist - blossoms and fruits over time into a path of service and of responsibility capable of changing a life in quite profound ways.

An encouraging, inspired evocation of the opportunities to serve that light up a life lived on the Buddhist path.

Show Notes

🖥️ The Triratna College of Public Preceptors (website)

🎧 Listen to more talks from Mahamati on Free Buddhist Audio

🎧 The Meaning of Spiritual Community

🎧 The Six Distinctive Emphases of the FWBO by Sangharakshita

🖥️ Addressing criticism of Triratna

🎧 Listen to talks on The Greater Mandala

🎧 Listen to evocations of Manushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom

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449: The Impermanence of Everyone: The Art of Hugh Mendes (Paramabodhi)

14 juni 2024 | 42 min

We are sitting in an East End art studio talking about death. The London tube rolls by outside, surfacing momentarily from tunnels dark as Hades, trundling its occupants inexorably on to somewhere. You can hear at intervals its soothing, almost womb-like background rumble and hush as a reminder of sorts - fitting sound as backdrop to this conversation with Buddhist artist Hugh Mendes, whose celebrated series ‘Obituaries’ we are exploring in a new online ‘Story’ space: ‘The Impermanence of Everyone’.

Explore the work of Hugh Mendes and watch the accompanying film about the Buddhist aspects of his work

Far from being grim or at all didactic, these canvases light us up when we see them: whether with recognition of a famous face; startled apprehension that this is the artist’s dead father not long after the moment of death; or fascination at the mysterious techniques of oil painting and how on earth it survives and thrives as a medium in the contemporary art world.

Mendes - ordained Buddhist name, Paramabodhi (“Supreme Enlightenment“) - loves painting, loves meditating, and loves teaching both. His practice - as artist and Buddhist - is fused in the ongoing contemplation of impermanence as a core aspect of whatever it is we mean when we say “reality”. Equally at ease immersing himself in the Satipatthana Sutta, with its exercises contemplating the decomposition of our own body as a corpse, or becoming deeply absorbed in the physical act of painting for hours on end every day, Mendes is usually in touch with something both intimate and detailed, vast and universal.

We hear about his time teaching art in in San Francisco, where he also co-founded the San Francisco Buddhist Center in the city’s Mission District. His years of training and counter-cultural experiment at Chelsea Art school in the 1970s, where he booked the Sex Pistols for one of their first ever gigs. And his return to London following the death of his father to focus on art practice and, latterly, public Buddhist teaching at the London Buddhist Centre.

We also discuss the challenges for both Buddhism and art of reaching a more diverse group of people - finding ways to cross class, racial, gender and financial boundaries. One of Mendes’ great heroes in this is the Indian Buddhist leader and author of the Indian Constitution, Dr. Bimrao Ambedkar. It’s fascinating to watch the artist very much at home in his studio, surrounded by inspirational figures mythic and human, all looking back at him as he tries to capture both their own versions of themselves and our culture’s gaze as they exit life and are being memorialized. We get to dwell with Mendes as he continues his decades-long meditation on the elusive nature of selfhood and identity that slips in and out of light and shadow yet may - sometimes - be beautifully and usefully reflected in the eye of the beholder.

Show Notes

The Impermanence of Everyone: In Studio With Buddhist Artist Hugh Mendes (Paramabodhi)

+ Follow Hugh Mendes on Instagram

Visit Hugh Mendes’ website

Satipatthana Sutta: The Foundations of Mindfulness

Find out more about Dr. Ambedkar

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448: Mindfulness of Death and Dying (Kamalashila in Conversation, with Guided Meditation)

8 juni 2024 | 86 min

Kamalashila is dying. So are we - we are dying. Really.

In this recent conversation with Kamalashila following his diagnosis of terminal cancer - and in the closing guided meditation reflecting on death - this is the core theme to which we keep returning: the value of familiarising ourselves with our impermanence: dying and death are going to happen to every single one of us. As Kamalashila says, “Taking it out of the taboo cupboard”.

We hear Kamalashila’s perspective starting out on what he refers to in his cancer blog as “A Voyage into the Unknown”. What it’s like to be in relationship to other people’s responses as he himself comes to terms with what’s happening. What he is carrying with him by way of reflections on a path of Buddhist practice, regrets in relationship to his own Dharma life and community, and thoughts on the nature of sangha itself. Exploring how, as Buddhists, as humans, we can work effectively with the intimations of our own mortality that are there if we only choose to look.

We revisit the themes of previous conversations: modes of Buddhist practice and ways of seeing community; the effect of landscape as a space of practice; the ongoing life of a particular spiritual context (the Triratna Buddhist Order) and his sense of sometimes being “a square peg in a round hole” within it. We hear Kamalashila’s sense of Triratna’s history, its up and downs, its many gifts, its changes for better or worse, its historical dynamics, its tensions and contradictions - all with a temperamental leaning towards personal agency in practice, trust in community, and finding unity through diversity.

The exchanges here are grounded in Kamalashila’s present experience - but his thoughts on the past are naturally part of it. And as anyone who knows him might expect, we are never too far from his sense of depth connection to the importance of playful, curious, committed meditation practice and teaching, one of the great loves of his 50+ years as a Buddhist. Whether he’s talking about life back in the London of his childhood or the nature of agnosticism in relation to the teaching of Padmasambhava, Kamalashila is always a good companion in attending to what matters.

This is a fascinating and generous hour of engaged conversation - followed by a beautiful 20 minute gently guided reflection on how our bodies and our consciousness (parsed by Kamalashila as “manifesting a world”) might, in time, come into relationship with our own dying and death.

Show Notes

Follow ‘A Voyage into the Unknown’: a blog by Kamalashila

Online classes and retreats with Kamalashila (with teaching archive)

Read Kamalashila’s thoughts on his diagnosis and upcoming meditation teaching

Some previous podcast conversations with Kamalashila:

Kamalashila's Quarterly No.1

Kamalashila's Quarterly No.2 - On Landscape And Experiment

Kamalashila's Quarterly No.3 - On Gonzo Psychogeography and New Beginnings

The Magic Of Meditation with Kamalashila

Parami & Kamalashila Talk About Meditation

Satyaraja and Kamalashila Talk About Meditation

Other links:

Read free digital editions of ‘Crap, I’ve Got Cancer’ by Suvarnaprabha

Amitasuri on her work as a Buddhist chaplain

Watch Seamus Heaney reading his poem ‘Mint’

Follow us on YouTube and Instagram

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447: A Luminous Emptiness - Meditating and Loving in Reality with Tejananda

16 februari 2024 | 43 min

446: The Tale of Tipu's Tiger

18 november 2023 | 50 min

445: Buddhism and Politics

3 september 2023 | 52 min

Our guests this week come together for a thoughtful, provocative conversation occasioned by Vishvapani‘s recent article for Tricycle Buddhist review looking at the arresting, perhaps astonishing, fact that one of the most powerful people in the UK – Home Secretary Suella Braverman - is also faithfully involved as a Buddhist practitioner within the context of the Triratna Buddhist Community.

Candradasa is joined by Lokabandhu, deputy mayor of Glastonbury, UK, Vajratara from Tiratanaloka Buddhist Retreat Centre for Women, and Vishvapani, writer and broadcaster, to explore the perspectives and frameworks within which we see and experience the world and discuss how Buddhism and politics relate.

Buddhism offers a deeply transformative path of ethical practice that does not engage at the level of specific politics. Instead it calls for the radical re-orientation of our being in light of a recognition of the roles impermanence, deeply complex conditionality, and interdependence play in our sense of personal and societal happiness. So how does such a broadly environmental approach to the mind and reality itself sit in relation to political views that often tend to individual and collective rigidity, polarization, and the fragmentation of community?

The panel evokes what we as Buddhists have to contribute in the face of diverse dangers that threaten society as we know it: challenges to liberal democracy, consequences of current responses to climate change, and a growing mental health crisis afflicting millions around the world.

We open up the idea of Buddhists as a potential force for good, an active body within the wider community made up of people who live and act as examples of compassion and sanity in the world. Members of a ‘new society’ who might take leading roles without being compromised by division and the application of personal or group-based power. Is it all a pipe dream, or is this a tantalising, achievable possibility? At the very least, how can Buddhist approaches to life that actively envision the wellbeing of people and communities influence our personal engagement with political culture in ways that are of broad benefit?

Join us for a podcast of ideas, values, and considered reflection on the most tricky of areas. This is how we can harmoniously talk about politics with each other - as full members of society spanning different cultures, perspectives and views.

Show notes
Suella Braverman Is the UK’s Buddhist Home Secretary and a Right-Wing Culture Warrior by Vishvapani (Tricycle Buddhist Review)

Vishvapani’s episodes of the BBC’s ‘Thought for the Day’

Mindful Cities Initiative

Buddhism, World Peace, and Nuclear War by Sangharakshita (Free Buddhist Audio)

The Nucleus of a New Society by Sangharakshita (Free Buddhist Audio)

What Is Buddhist Activism? (The Buddhist Centre Podcast)

Sangharakshita, Dr. Rewatta Dhamma, Sogyal Rimpoche, and Thich Nhat Hanh in conversation (Clear Vision Archive)

Doctor Bhimrao Ambedkar as a Buddhist social activist (The Buddhist Centre Online)

The Rest Is Politics podcast episodes with Yuval Noah Harari:

This week’s guests
Lokabandhu as Deputy Mayor of Glastonbury

Vajratara at Tiratanaloka Buddhist Retreat Centre for Women

Wise Attention by Vishvapani (website)

Mindfulness In Action (website)

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444: A Renovating Virtue – Hartley Woolf and His Alfoxton Film

18 augusti 2023 | 33 min

Alfoxton House in Somerset, England has a long and rich history stretching back over 1000 years. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is where the young William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their great friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped birth the radical new Romantic movement during a magical year there in 1797.

In June 2020, a new Triratna Buddhist community received the keys to this astonishing property set within 52 acres of ancient woodland complete with herds of red deer grazing the hillside. This week on the Buddhist Centre podcast we hear from that community - and particularly from film director and Alfoxton community member Hartley Woolf on his affecting and poetic documentary capturing a year in the life of the inspired band of souls who have taken on the ambitious task of renovating a once great estate.

Following the seasons, Hartley’s film reveals the changes in the land and the travails of this huge building project, weaving connections between the poetry of the Romantics, physical work and spiritual practice. We hear how in the midst of knocking down walls and rebuilding foundational structures, Hartley treaded the sometimes difficult path between being both a member of his community and a filmmaker. And catch a glimpse of the shared wonder that emerges as relationships are forged in a project based on the deepest values of awareness, love and a common quest for the truth of reality.

Triratna has long posited a deep connection between Buddhist spiritual life and the Arts, ever since Sangharakshita first began to articulate a fresh vision of contemporary western practice in the 1960s. In the spirit of that tradition, the Alfoxton community has been working to restore the house, tend to the land and provide opportunities to go deeper into both Buddhist practice and the practice of music, poetry and philosophy. Their inspiring program of retreats and events sees them welcome hundreds of volunteers and visitors each year, bringing the electric thrill of the great English Romantics back to life for new generations of seekers.

Join us in the great oak-panelled room at Alfoxton, where Coleridge first recited 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', for this wonderful conversation! We’ll be hosting the online premier of ‘A Renovating Virtue’ by Hartley Woolf on The Buddhist Centre Online in September 2023.

Show notes
Watch the trailer for ‘A Renovating Virtue’

Visit Alfoxton House!

Support the community and the restoration of Alfoxton

+ Follow the Alfoxton Diaries on YouTube

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (text of 1834) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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There are in our existence, spots of time,

That with distinct pre-eminence retain

A renovating virtue, whence – depressed

By false opinion and contentious thought,

Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight,

In trivial occupations, and the round

Of ordinary intercourse – our minds

Are nourished and invisibly repaired…

William Wordsworth, The Prelude

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443: Mindfulness and Imagination with Vidyamala and Vishvapani

5 augusti 2023 | 36 min

If you enjoy this conversation, come explore the theme online on our Home Retreat with Vidyamala and Vishvapani!

“Imagine an enormous subterranean chamber all lit up from within. We are living in a tiny chamber next to – indeed, part of – the larger one. We can see nothing at all of what’s going on in the large chamber. In fact, we have no idea that the large chamber is even there.”

Sangharakshita

This week we’re opening portals to awareness and the wonders that can arise when we really start to pay attention to everything that’s going on in the world around us. What would it be like to experience yourself without restrictive concepts? What dimensions might open up in your life as you engage with myths and symbols? Awareness, or mindfulness, is an essential foundation for all spiritual growth. And through knowing experience directly we can transform difficulties and become happier, calmer and more fulfilled. But awareness offers much more: it also provides a doorway to other dimensions in the large chamber of our being. Awareness of the body, heart and mind can blossom into awareness of boundlessness, love and mystery, as Buddhist teachers have taught down the millennia.

Imagination is a key to this opening. When our minds are clear and we’re alive to what’s within us and around us, our imaginations wake up to new possibilities. Kusaladevi joins Vidyamala and Vishvapani in a conversation exploring the theme of their upcoming Home Retreat, Entering the Mandala: Mindfulness and Imagination.

This Home Retreat is an opportunity to live for a week with mindfulness, kindness, poetry and creativity, even in the midst of our daily lives. An exploration of mindfulness and imagination through talks, meditation, creative activities, discussion and shared ritual, particularly focused on the richly evocative symbol of the mandala. Come join us in the vastness of the present moment!

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Show notes

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

Urgyen Sangharakshita
Dharma talks by Vidyamala | Dharma talks by Vishvapani

More about the Five Buddha mandala

Listen to 'Vidyamala, OBE! - A Platinum Jubilee Honour for Breathworks'

From Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 by William Wordsworth

—And I have felt

A presence that disturbs me with the joy

Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime

Of something far more deeply interfused,

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,

And the round ocean and the living air,

And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:

A motion and a spirit, that impels

All thinking things, all objects of all thought,

And rolls through all things.

William Wordsworth

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Vidyamala was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1995 and is co-founder of Breathworks, a leading mindfulness organisation and she focuses particularly on using awareness and kindness training to work with pain and illness. This draws on her own experience of managing spinal pain and disability. She is an award-winning author of three books and was awarded an OBE in 2022 for her services to pain management and well-being. She regularly leads retreats and workshops, and speaks at international summits, events and webinars.

Vidyamala has long had an interest in the creative mind and heart and how to access this through myth, ritual and non-conceptual approaches and looks forward to deepening this even more on this online retreat.

www.vidyamala-burch.com

www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk

Vishvapani has practised meditation and Buddhism for over 40 years. He’s a writer, best known for Gautama Buddha: the Life and Teachings of the Awakened One and as the Buddhist contributor to Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4. He’s a prominent figure in the UK’s mindfulness world and has taught over 150 mindfulness courses.

He loves to explore poetry, myth and imagination, along with Buddhism, in his writing, teaching and practice.

www.vishvapani.org

www.mindfulnessinaction.co.uk

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442: Buddhism and AI

21 juli 2023 | 52 min

441: The Race Conversation with Bodhilila and Eugene Ellis

20 maj 2023 | 41 min

The construct of race is an integral part of Western society’s DNA and if we are to address the social injustice of racism, we need to have the race conversation. Yet all too often, attempts at such a dialogue are met with silence, denial, anger or hate.

Is it possible to navigate diverse conversations about race without confusion? Can we authentically create a culture capable of responding to the pain and discomfort caused by racism for both people of colour and white people? These questions lie at the heart of this heartfelt conversation between Bodhilila, Chair of the West London Buddhist Centre and Eugene Ellis, acclaimed author of 'The Race Conversation: An essential guide to creating life-changing dialogue’.

Eugene’s work encompasses trauma theory and the vital need to resource inner conditions in engaging with others. Exploring the Buddhist perspective of conditionality, he emphasizes the significance of intention and working with discomfort within our conversations. As Bodhilila brings to bear her own profound experiences around race, intersectionality and Dharma practice, the discussion delves deep into the race construct, examining the profound impact of prejudice, colonialism, and slavery on individuals of all races.

The creation of safe environments where people can openly share their experiences is vital, allowing us to acknowledge the fear that can arise when engaging in these conversations. This, in turn, enables us to move past blame towards repairing relationships and alleviating the more negative forms of shame. What emerges is a passionate advocacy for personal introspection and doing the work to understand our own racial conditioning and perspectives. Only then can we take responsibility and actively seek avenues for redress and healing.

Recorded live in London, November 2022.

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Bodhilila has been meditating and practising mindfulness for over 25 years. She is a fully accredited Breathworks mindfulness trainer as well as a qualified counsellor, teacher and massage therapist. She also worked for many years as a classical musician and as a nursery manager. She is currently Chair of the West London Buddhist Centre, where she has been teaching meditation, mindfulness and Buddhism, as well as helping to run the Centre, since 2012. She regularly leads retreats for the WLBC and at Taraloka women’s retreat centre.

Eugene Ellis is an activist, writer and public speaker on issues of race, difference and intersectionality. He is also the founder and director of The Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN), a network of therapists committed, passionate and actively engaged in addressing the psychological needs of Black, African and South Asian people in the UK.

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Show notes

'The Race Conversation: An essential guide to creating life-changing dialogue’ by Eugene Eliis

The Black, African and Asian Therapy Network

Events in London and Online for People of Colour

More conversations about race in Triratna

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440: Roots in the Earth, Roots in the Sky - Triratna Day Special

31 mars 2023 | 48 min

We're delighted to share a special Triratna Day 2023 podcast episode with you, recorded earlier this week and hosted by our friend Jnanadhara. He's joined by Saddhanandi and Nagabodhi to discuss the upcoming online gathering of the Triratna Buddhist community on the 8th of April, which celebrates its founding in April 1967.

Saddhanandi and Nagabodhi reminisce about past Triratna Day celebrations, recalling the excitement of travelling in large groups from Glasgow to London or Birmingham for the day or weekend. These events were like big festivals, with talks, book stalls, and the opportunity to meet people from the wider movement who might only have known through their books. Whilst often the talks given at events such as these, shaped the discourse of our community as a whole. Sangharakshita, the founder of the Triratna Buddhist community, emphasized the importance of celebrating Buddhist festivals such as Buddha Day and Dharmachakra Day etc but also wanted the community to have its own traditions. Heeding the Buddha's famous call to come together in large numbers.

We also discuss Sangharakshita’s place within our tradition. Explored through the perspective of Is a Guru Necessary? A talk he gave in 1970.

The theme of the day and the podcast is "Roots in the Earth, Roots in the Sky." Since its founding, Triratna has become a truly international sangha, with special - even sacred - spaces. Collaborating in the creation of these spaces has been crucial to our individual and collective growth. This Triratna Day, we celebrate the significance of such spaces in our history and the work being done to establish roots in new places today.

From Bhante's early work in England to the current efforts of Order Members in countries as diverse as New Zealand, Finland, Poland, Mexico, India, and Brazil, our community recognizes the importance of establishing and nurturing new ground for practice. As Bhante once said, for our Sangha to thrive, we need really deep roots - roots in the sky! This way of speaking about bodhichitta is embodied in the image of the cosmic Refuge Tree.

Show notes:

View the full programme of events and Join us April 08 online for a truly international gathering

The day is a collaboration between Adhisthana, FutureDharma Fund, and The Buddhist Centre online.

Nagabodhi’s new book: Sangharakshita: The Boy, the Monk, the Man

Check out photos from the early days of the movement at Triratna Picture Library

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439: Forces for Good - Challenging Emotions as Portals to Liberation

15 mars 2023 | 44 min

A wonderful conversation highlighting the themes of a brand new Home Retreat – the latest addition to our growing archive of in-depth, beautifully resourced online spaces to help take your practice of meditation and Buddhism deeper.

Balajit, Singhashri and Viveka join us to discuss the opportunities and challenges of engaging with the gnarlier bits of our emotional lives, amid so much pressure of so many kinds in the world. A sparkling exchange about ways into integrating embodied practice where our guests collectively flip the script on how we might habitually relate to some emotions as more valuable than others in the process of getting to know ourselves. What if we could uncover the potential for integrity at the heart of emotions like fear, grief, and anger?

It’s a strong invitation, one to be met at your own pace. And a chance to get curious about where challenging emotions come from as parts of us–and what they might need to liberate the energy usually bound up in them in some direct relationship to the wish for a more liberated world.

We also get an excellent practical sense of this kind of heart work. How do you do an online retreat? Will I find a genuine sense of community? Will it be too hard to let difficult emotions in? These and other excellent questions are engaged with in a beautifully thoughtful way, from Dharma teachers holding the experience of many years of Buddhist practice, including online-first contexts.

The most important thing to know is: you are trusted, you are welcome! Come take part and be with whatever arises in a kindly, gracious space, looking at what it is to be simply a human being with a body and an emotional life.

This podcast ends with a short guided practice to help us imagine what it is like to be truly supported.

🧘‍♀️ 🧘‍♂️ Listen and join us for seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship!

Find out more: Forces for Good – Challenging Emotions as Portals to Liberation

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438: Dharmachakra and the Rebirth of Free Buddhist Audio

18 februari 2023 | 48 min

437: Forever Friends

10 februari 2023 | 31 min

436: Past, Present, and Future in American Buddhism - Live from GenX 2023

3 februari 2023 | 43 min

What do you get when you invite a set of experienced American Dharma teachers and friends from different Buddhist traditions to gather together post-Covid and share their practice and experience of American Buddhism? Well, something like this! The bright joy and sense of common tradition is palpable. Hear four Gen-X Triratna Order members with deep connections to our community, both in the UK and US, in a round-table conversation with other Dharma farers from Vajrayana, Vipassana, and Zen traditions.

We explore kaleidoscopic difference and beautiful sameness in our various approaches to Dharma practice – and are united in grappling with being the “middle generation” of Buddhists in some of the new lineages of the West. Perhaps the central image from this conversation is of people needing to make sure they are carrying their culture with them, which allows us to be truly radical and ensure the revolutionary change we strive for as Buddhists is a genuine possibility for everyone in future.

It’s genuinely inspiring to hear the voices of “future ancestors” openly embracing the reality that long, deep change may not happen in their own lifetime, yet persisting with delight in Dharma practice. Gratitude for what we have inherited is key to that, and shines through in this fascinating meeting recorded at the end of a long, hot summer near the Catskills in New York State.

Featuring Ananta, Candradasa, Claire Villareal, Tenzen David Zimmerman, Singhashri, Stephanie Tait, Vimalasara, Upayadhi, Lama Zangmo.

Recorded at the Won Dharma Center, NY, USA.

Show notes

Gen-x 2019 Podcast

Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists by Chenxing Han

Sankofa (pronounced SAHN-koh-fah): a word in the Twi language of Ghana meaning “go back and get"

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

The Wisdom of Uncertainty by Kurt Spellmeyer (Tricycle)

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435: How to Collaborate Around the World

31 december 2022 | 36 min

434: The Magic of Meditation with Kamalashila

9 december 2022 | 41 min

433: Love and Rage - Bodhilila with Lama Rod Owens

9 juni 2022 | 45 min

In this final episode of the current season of the podcast, Bodhilila, Chair of the West London Buddhist Centre, is in conversation with Lama Rod Owens, bestselling author of ‘Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger’.

Their exchange weaves across a number key Dharma threads, beginning with a sense of how being in the body can be a way to step out of systems that stop us reaching our full potential as human beings; a way to reclaim agency and autonomy; and a place for the aspiration to grow beyond our own sufferings and limited self-views.

Diversity in its fullest, most positively abundant sense, is never far away; nor is a sharp awareness of the need to turn aside from hatred towards empathy and compassion, always from a place of being well resourced. “It’s a hard thing to hear,” says Lama Rod. “When you think you’re normal but your normality comes at the expense of large groups of people, to the detriment of other people. But that’s not the same thing as hate.” We hear how vital it remains to continue to see that everyone deserves to be happy.

All this is particularly relevant to conversations about race, power and injustice, of course, but this episode keeps us clearly in the realm of Buddhist practice and the perspectives it has to offer a world both deeply familiar with suffering and simultaneously longing to escape it. Empathy is the key to humanizing people, and here two friends and respected Dharma teachers from different traditions open up the deepest possibilities of that empathy for all of us: liberation of the body, mind and heart.

Show Notes

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger by Lama Rod Owens

Watch the full event on YouTube–and subscribe!

West London Buddhist Centre

Lama Rod Owens also featured on 'The Gen-X 2019 Podcast' (Episode 362)

Conversations About Race - A series from The Buddhist Center Online, curated by Vimalasara

Visit Lama Rod Owens' personal website

Get the Buddhist Voices podcast

Follow the Free Buddhist Audio podcast

Follow the Dharmabytes podcast

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432: Vidyamala, OBE! - A Platinum Jubilee Honour for Breathworks

4 juni 2022 | 26 min

We're on the road this week with a festive episode of the podcast to celebrate Vidyamala: the extraordinary inspiration behind Breathworks who has just been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Birthday 2022 Honours List. She has been honoured for her Services to Wellbeing and Pain Management as Co-founder of Breathworks, an organisation which teaches mindfulness-based approaches to people coping with pain, illness and stress.

In a riot of birdsong, on a beautiful day in early summer, we were delighted to be able to join Vidyamala in her garden just after the news broke, along with her partner Sona, and her friend Aryajaya. As well as marking the occasion, we remember the very hard road travelled through pain that led to the foundation of Breathworks and its vital contribution to the welfare of so many people.

Having passed on her wisdom to over 600 accredited trainers in 35 countries, Vidyamala's work isn't "just mindfulness"—it's now a whole transformative movement capable of reaching deep into society. In Vidyamala's approach the simple application of awareness and kindness becomes an emotionally intelligent and deeply responsive re-imagining of the Buddhist path itself, ready to meet the huge challenges of suffering in the 21st Century. Vidyamala has brought this beautiful work to bear in her own life with great courage, grace and equanimity, opening up portals to freedom in hearts and minds all around the world.

Show notes
Visit Breathworks

See the Breathworks' course on Mindfulness for Managing Long Covid

Read more about Vidyamala's OBE

Listen to Vidyamala on this podcast back in March 2020: The Blue Sky at the Heart of the Body

Visit Vidyamala's personal website

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431: War and Peace: Living Buddhism in Poland

21 maj 2022 | 33 min

430: Telling the Story of Sangharakshita

14 maj 2022 | 46 min

429: The Earth as Source of Inspiration - Paramananda & Maitridevi in Conversation

6 maj 2022 | 32 min

This week's episode is a wonderful conversation from our archive of live events here on The Buddhist Centre Online, featuring our host Paramananda and his guest Maitridevi, Chair of Taraloka Buddhist Retreat Centre for Women in Wales.

Starting from a poem by W.S. Merwin, an initial conversation about gratitude for life despite all our knowledge of sorrows blooms into a shared set of reflections on impermanence, on our lack of centrality as a species, and on meditation as an exchange of gifts between us and the earth.

How do we activate a sense of everything being alive? Maitridevi evokes ideas of a 'Buddhist Animism', and of the personification of the earth as Green Tara, derived from Dridha, the ancient Indian earth goddess. She and Paramananda explore the shamanic, the punk, the Delphic and oracular; all in the service of uncovering how genuinely sacred wisdom and energy might be said to come up out of the earth. This is an intimate, ultimately encouraging exchange about the great conundrum and tension there to be experienced in anyone's spiritual practice: that the world is a mess, and yet the world is always awakening.

Join Paramananda and Maitridevi under the great tree of life, beneath the vast, open sky...

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Show notes
Download all the notes from 'Sources of Inspiration and watch the series on YouTube

W.S. Merwin, 'Thanks' (from ‘Migration: New and Selected Poems’)

W.S. Merwin, ‘Thanks’ (slightly different version)

‘The Blue Marble’ (the earth seen from Apollo 17, original photograph, 1972)

‘The Blue Marble’ (updated image, 2002)

The concept of ‘Viriditas’ or 'Greenness' (as employed by Hildegard von Bingen)

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

About Timothy Morton

‘A reckoning for our species’(on Timothy Morton)

Maitridevi and Taraloka on YouTube

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428: The Sound of One Hand

28 april 2022 | 46 min

427: What is Buddhist Activism?

23 april 2022 | 48 min

426: Karuna USA!

11 april 2022 | 71 min

425: It's Not Out There

25 mars 2022 | 35 min

424: Buddhism for Teens

12 mars 2022 | 58 min

423: FutureDharma Renewed!

16 oktober 2021 | 48 min

416: Beauty and Environmental Action (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 41)

17 juli 2021 | 43 min

415: Forging a Path for Women in India (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 40)

15 juni 2021 | 51 min

414: Alive in Nature! An Invitation (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 39)

3 maj 2021 | 22 min

413: In the Footsteps of the Buddha at Rivendell (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 38)

24 mars 2021 | 49 min

37: Sources of Inspiration with Paramananda - Atula, Working in the Depths (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 37)

15 februari 2021 | 43 min

37: Bringing Online Learning to the Slums of India (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 36)

4 februari 2021 | 37 min

412: The Alchemical Heart (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 35)

3 januari 2021 | 40 min

Happy New Year! May 2021 prove a kinder, more hopeful year for all.

In this first podcast of the year we turn to the magic of inner transformation, with a special episode to mark our forthcoming Home Retreat: 'The Alchemical Heart' with Paramananda.

In our conversation around the work involved with an "alchemical" approach to meditation Paramananda explores the relationship between Buddhist perspectives on life and the social, political and psychological realms. And most importantly, its connection to a sense of reality as fundamentally poetic in nature. All in service to figuring out how we can live from a genuine, authentic place in our own experience.

Aside from alchemy's place in various western wisdom traditions, if here it is all about internal change, then, says Paramananda, the body is the vessel: this is where the work happens - because it is the nearest bit of reality with which we can become intimate. And to do so we must engage with the language of the heart, which is the language of images.

To hear Paramananda speak about meditation as a way to truly experience "the poetics of the breath", we know we're in for something extraordinary. Come and join ups on the alchemical journey! In your own time and way on Home Retreat, bring your own body, longing and love.

Sign up for the 'The Alchemical Heart' Home Retreat

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Paramananda has been teaching meditation for over 35 years and is well known for his body-based, poetic approach. He has published a number of books on meditation including ‘Change Your Mind’ and, most recently, ‘The Myth of Meditation’.

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411: Buddhist Economics, Part 2 - Post-Pandemic (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 34)

21 oktober 2020 | 21 min

410: Buddhist Economics, Part 1 - Pre-Pandemic (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 33)

8 oktober 2020 | 43 min

409: These Are The Moments (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 32)

11 september 2020 | 34 min

Hello again! We're back for a new season of The Dharma Toolkit podcast from The Buddhist Centre Online. We've had a wee break, passed through fleeting summer, and are turning towards the first fall/autumn of these strange, pandemic times ready to renew our own sense of connection through community with you. Welcome aboard!

We begin again by following up and extending our previous mini-series 'The Many Jewels: Buddhism, Writing and the Arts' about the place of poetry and art in forming a response to sorrow, to challenge, to life itself. Once more our co-host is Padmacandra, helping bring together voices and experiences that can speak to why this is both urgent and profoundly hopeful: sounding and standing through the beauty and pain with the huge perspective of the Dharma as a backdrop, akin to the universe itself, whether starry or starless.

Today we're with Sahajatara, exploring creativity and meaning at the juncture between life and death. Encountering strange creatures at the edges, feeling for the depth of the blue sea and of the earth "Apparelled in celestial light". Waiting for something to arise in the light and dark of it all.

Ted Hughes looms large; Elizabeth Bishop comes in; William Stafford speaks with the Muses; and the mad woman at the shore is there with us as the conversation unwinds into personal myth, mundane magic and the practice of the 'soulful life'.

Featured this week
'Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood' by William Wordsworth

Elizabeth Bishop: 'The Moose' and 'At the Fishhouses'.

The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)

'Apparition of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary' by Janet Gyatso

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Cover art by Padmacandra, 'Mankind Owns Four Things At Sea'.

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408: Alive, Aware, Awake! (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 31)

3 juli 2020 | 38 min

407: Into the Dark Wood (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 30)

24 juni 2020 | 41 min

406: Meditating in the Mandala (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 29)

6 juni 2020 | 54 min

405: For Nothing Is Fixed - Getting Real with Viveka and Paramananda, Episode 1

2 juni 2020 | 38 min

For Nothing Is Fixed

For nothing is fixed,
forever, forever, forever,
it is not fixed;
the earth is always shifting,
the light is always changing,
the sea does not cease to grind down rock.
Generations do not cease to be born,
and we are responsible to them
because we are the only witnesses they have.
The sea rises, the light fails,
lovers cling to each other,
and children cling to us.
The moment we cease to hold each other,
the moment we break faith with one another,
the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

James Baldwin

N.B. This episode was originally recorded on May 18th, before George Floyd’s May 25th police encounter over a minor incident that ended tragically and unjustly in the loss of his life.

As we move into the next phase of pandemic and social crisis around the world, a changing shape for the podcast. We'll be trying some new things on for size, experimenting, hearing voices in different ways as we continue to try and bring you a sense of wider, supportive community and inspiration, whatever your context.

This episode was intended as an internal pilot for a new live series of the podcast we'll be announcing soon. But in a week of the most painful violence against black and other people of colour in the United States, it was so relevant and moving we decided to share it now...

Two good friends, Viveka and Paramananda, sparking off each other around this beautiful poem by James Baldwin, 'For Nothing Is Fixed'. Being each a deeply experienced and respected meditation teacher, their initial threads of exchange and sharing are how to live, practice and work in the body; perspectives on awakening; how to be with others energetically; matters of identity.

Soon enough, they draw each other on into a space of grace, where the amazingly complex felt experience of life as something sacred is palpable. Come and witness to something vital and affirming: a meeting of friends trying to move through the world with bliss-bestowing hands and minds and voices.

This podcast episode ends with a 2-minute meditation inspired by the space of Baldwin's poignant, resonant words.

James Baldwin's 1968 Q & A on Race in America

'I Am Not Your Negro': a film about James Baldwin

Watch James Baldwin debate William F. Buckley (1965)

James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero

Read more about 'For Nothing Is Fixed'

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Viveka is the former Chair of the San Francisco Buddhist Center, a dynamic and popular meditation teacher and retreat leader, with profound experience in the arena of social justice work.

Paramananda from London is the founder of the San Francisco Buddhist Center, a successful author and renowned meditation teacher.

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405: For the Earth - BAM! 2020 (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 28)

29 maj 2020 | 35 min

404: The River Under the River (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 27)

26 maj 2020 | 40 min

403: Turning Arrows Into Flowers (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 26)

14 maj 2020 | 26 min

402: Ironic Points of Light (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 25)

8 maj 2020 | 40 min

401: Edición en español! (El podcast diario de Dharma Toolkit, 24)

6 maj 2020 | 43 min

400: Reflections on Love (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 23)

1 maj 2020 | 27 min

399: Hyperavailability (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 22)

30 april 2020 | 40 min

398: Make Room For Fun (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 21)

28 april 2020 | 33 min

397: Being Divine Online: Q & A with Ratnavandana on the Brahma Viharas (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 20)

28 april 2020 | 44 min

396: The Making of 'Hair On Fire' with Mary Salome (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 19)

24 april 2020 | 35 min

395: Hair On Fire, Episode 3 - Wisdom (Earth Week 2020)

23 april 2020 | 32 min

This week on The Buddhist Centre Online and the Dharma Toolkit we are marking Earth Day - all week long! Here's the third and final episode in our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts to be released through the week: "Hair On Fire: Using the Threefold Way of Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom to Turn Toward Climate Change".

Episode 3 considers Buddhist responses to climate change from the perspective of wisdom.

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These podcasts were produced by our friend Mary Salome in San Francisco. She writes:

This series is not a debate about climate change. It's a reflection on practice in the context of climate change.

Unless you are isolated from world news, you are likely practicing in contexts where discourse around climate change is prevalent. Even those who do not believe in climate change, or don’t believe that human activity impacts climate, are in range of this discourse. This series offers reflections from sangha members who answered an appeal for interviews on how they engage with the topic in their practice. It is my hope that the framework of ethics, meditation and wisdom will provide something useful to people across a spectrum of beliefs.

As a kind of disclosure I will add that I do believe climate change is happening, that it is impacted by human activity, and that turning toward it is helpful on many levels. Every creative effort comes from a point of view, and that is mine. I am certain my beliefs have informed these pieces, as has everything else that has shaped my becoming.

I included the details presented in these interviews to provide context for how people understand the topic of climate and engage with it in their practice, rather than as fact. I encourage everyone to do their own research. I appreciate the work that many sangha members are doing to clarify their understanding and turn toward the issue (or not). I am deeply grateful to the people who allowed me to include their voices here.

In sangha,

Mary Salome

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Speakers:

Karunadevi
Aryadrishti
Frank Gallivan
Vimalamoksha
Hridayashri
Ben Ovshinksy
Ethan Davidson
Dayamudra
Nancy Artz
Danamaya

Music and sound effects via Splice. Produced by

Ramzoid Samples
Molly Moore
Big Room Sound
Alexandre Tannous
Capsun ProAudio
and Audio Imperia

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394: Hair On Fire, Episode 2 - Meditation (Earth Week 2020)

22 april 2020 | 18 min

This week on The Buddhist Centre Online and the Dharma Toolkit we are marking Earth Day - all week long! Here's the first episode in our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts to be released through the week: "Hair On Fire: Using the Threefold Way of Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom to Turn Toward Climate Change".

Episode 2 looks at Buddhist responses to climate change from the perspective of meditation.

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These podcasts were produced by our friend Mary Salome in San Francisco. She writes:

This series is not a debate about climate change. It's a reflection on practice in the context of climate change.

Unless you are isolated from world news, you are likely practicing in contexts where discourse around climate change is prevalent. Even those who do not believe in climate change, or don’t believe that human activity impacts climate, are in range of this discourse. This series offers reflections from sangha members who answered an appeal for interviews on how they engage with the topic in their practice. It is my hope that the framework of ethics, meditation and wisdom will provide something useful to people across a spectrum of beliefs.

As a kind of disclosure I will add that I do believe climate change is happening, that it is impacted by human activity, and that turning toward it is helpful on many levels. Every creative effort comes from a point of view, and that is mine. I am certain my beliefs have informed these pieces, as has everything else that has shaped my becoming.

I included the details presented in these interviews to provide context for how people understand the topic of climate and engage with it in their practice, rather than as fact. I encourage everyone to do their own research. I appreciate the work that many sangha members are doing to clarify their understanding and turn toward the issue (or not). I am deeply grateful to the people who allowed me to include their voices here.

In sangha,

Mary Salome

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Intro module voices in order

Karunadevi
Aryadrishti
Ben Ovshinsky
Danamaya
Dayamudra
Ethan Davidson
Frank Gallivan
Vimalamoksha
Gleysa Morales

With permission from David Whyte and Many Rivers Press.

Interviews in order

Ben Ovshinsky
Frank Gallavan
Danamaya

BOA Editions Ltd. Recorded with permission.

Vimalamoksha
Karunadevi

Music and sound effects

Capsun Pro Audio
Martin Wave
Producer Loops

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394: Hair On Fire, Episode 1 - Ethics (Earth Week 2020)

21 april 2020 | 28 min

This week on The Buddhist Centre Online and the Dharma Toolkit we are marking Earth Day - all week long! Here's the first episode in our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts to be released through the week: "Hair On Fire: Using the Threefold Way of Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom to Turn Toward Climate Change".

Episode 1 evokes Buddhist responses to climate change from the perspective of ethics.

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These podcasts were produced by our friend Mary Salome in San Francisco. She writes:

This series is not a debate about climate change. It's a reflection on practice in the context of climate change.

Unless you are isolated from world news, you are likely practicing in contexts where discourse around climate change is prevalent. Even those who do not believe in climate change, or don’t believe that human activity impacts climate, are in range of this discourse. This series offers reflections from sangha members who answered an appeal for interviews on how they engage with the topic in their practice. It is my hope that the framework of ethics, meditation and wisdom will provide something useful to people across a spectrum of beliefs.

As a kind of disclosure I will add that I do believe climate change is happening, that it is impacted by human activity, and that turning toward it is helpful on many levels. Every creative effort comes from a point of view, and that is mine. I am certain my beliefs have informed these pieces, as has everything else that has shaped my becoming.

I included the details presented in these interviews to provide context for how people understand the topic of climate and engage with it in their practice, rather than as fact. I encourage everyone to do their own research. I appreciate the work that many sangha members are doing to clarify their understanding and turn toward the issue (or not). I am deeply grateful to the people who allowed me to include their voices here.

In sangha,

Mary Salome

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Intro module voices in order

Nancy Artz
Ben Ovshinsky
Aryadrishti

Interviews

Aryadrishti
Nancy Artz
Hridayashri
Dayamudra
Ben Ovshinsky
Ethan Davidson
Hridayashri
Candradasa
Gleysa Morales

Music and sound effects via Splice. Produced by

Capsun Pro Audio
Oliver
Blast Wave FX
Producers on the Run
Alexander Tannous
The Love Experiment
World Tech

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393: Earth Day, Earth Week! Return to Nature on the Inside (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 18)

21 april 2020 | 41 min

392: The Hero's Journey to the Food Bank (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 17)

18 april 2020 | 41 min

391: Emergent Community Online (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 16)

15 april 2020 | 31 min

390: Global Community India! (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 15)

13 april 2020 | 36 min

389: Painting Into Reality (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 14)

11 april 2020 | 30 min

389: The Money Issue (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 13)

9 april 2020 | 35 min

388: The Ministry Of Presence (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 12)

8 april 2020 | 41 min

37: A Buddhist Way Through the Ups and Downs of Life: Live Q & A (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 11)

6 april 2020 | 46 min

As part of our week-long Home Retreat on 'Sailing the Worldly Winds - A Buddhist Way Through the Ups and Downs of Life', we are delighted to host here for a live online Q & A, Vajragupta the author and Dharma teacher behind the retreat itself.

A great, wide-ranging and practical discussion about what this classic Buddhist teaching has to say to us about caring for ourselves and each other during the current coronavirus / Covid-19 pandemic. And what communities can do to try and make sure the world does not simply forget all that's being learned when the crisis is finally over.

Topics discussed are:

Naming the worldly winds in your own way
Gain and loss at the heart of change
Where does fear come in?
What can you do when the winds are blowing strongly? Spaciousness and reflection
Considering pleasure and pain as the basis of all the winds; each of the pairs as possible root factors; fame and celebrity
Poem - 'This is the time to be slow' by John O'Donohue
The place of beauty in our response
The intimacy of care for others - engaging as fully as we can
Working with hyperactive thought processes (papanca) in meditation
No expectations, only possibilities - control and influence in relation to the worldly winds
Connections between the five hindrances in meditation and the worldly winds
Joy and pain are woven fine - potentially hopeful aspects around the consequences of the pandemic
Human beings forget very easily - the urgent value of commuinity and conditions as a context for remembering what matters
Final thoughts on keeping your practice going

Listen to our podcast special with Vajragupta from last week

Read John O'Donohue's poem, "This is the time to be slow"

Check out our Dharma Toolkit space for details of all we have on offer to help you make it through the weirdness and stay inspired.

Come meditate with us any week day!

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Theme music by Ackport! Used with kind permission.

#coronavirus #Covid19 #crisis #pandemic #Buddhism #Buddhist #Buddha #Dharma #Triratna #community #sangha #lokadhammas #meditation #mindfulness

387: Covid Emergency In India (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 10)

3 april 2020 | 34 min

384: Breathing Space (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 9)

1 april 2020 | 18 min

386: Sailing The Worldly Winds (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 8)

31 mars 2020 | 35 min

385: The Blue Sky at the Heart of the Body (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 7)

31 mars 2020 | 43 min

383: Podcast Brasileiro! (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 6)

27 mars 2020 | 31 min

382: Guarding The Gates (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 5)

27 mars 2020 | 36 min

381: The Fear Issue (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 4)

26 mars 2020 | 30 min

380: A Scientist's Tale (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 3)

24 mars 2020 | 15 min

379: The Unexpected Intimacy Of Online (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 2)

24 mars 2020 | 35 min

378: Turning Towards Uncertain Times (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 1)

21 mars 2020 | 28 min

377: Voices from Venezuela / Voces de Venezuela

16 mars 2020 | 22 min

376: Exploring Buddhist Modernism

6 februari 2020 | 31 min

375: Encouraging Young People on the Path - Prajnaketu & Subhadramati

20 januari 2020 | 25 min

374: Podcast - European Chairs Assembly Winter 2020: Agreeing New Strategic Priorities

10 januari 2020 | 13 min

373: TBCO Magazine Podcast #2

23 december 2019 | 61 min

372: Working in an Online Team: A Buddhist Perspective

30 oktober 2019 | 39 min

371: Las Sietas Magníficas (en español)

27 oktober 2019 | 32 min

370: Triratna Young Buddhists: Transforming Through Sangha

26 oktober 2019 | 14 min

369: Triratna International Council 2019 - New Zealand & Australia Edition

6 september 2019 | 27 min

368: Creating a Heaven on Earth: Day 3 of the 2019 Triratna International Gathering

25 augusti 2019 | 10 min

367: A Reunion: Day 2 of the 2019 Triratna International Gathering

24 augusti 2019 | 15 min

366: Myth and Magic: Day 1 of the 2019 Triratna International Gathering

23 augusti 2019 | 7 min

365: A Mandala of Awakening - UK & Ireland Area Order Convention 2019

8 augusti 2019 | 15 min

364: Concluding thoughts at the End of the ECA, Summer 2019

30 juli 2019 | 18 min

363: Singhamati - A Gathering of Hearts and Minds

2 juli 2019 | 6 min

362: The Gen-X 2019 Podcast

28 juni 2019 | 36 min

360: Kiranada - Readings from 'A Year of Silence'

6 juni 2019 | 35 min

359: The Order Practice Survey

30 maj 2019 | 12 min

358: Community - With Your Own Front Door

27 maj 2019 | 16 min

357: Dhammamegha - An Update from The Sikkha Project

19 april 2019 | 20 min

356: Vidyadevi on 'The Complete Works of Sangharakshita'

8 april 2019 | 21 min

355: TBCO Magazine Podcast #1

21 februari 2019 | 37 min

354: The Spirit of the Abhayaratna Trust

4 februari 2019 | 16 min

353: A Very Special Letter

29 januari 2019 | 13 min

352: The Wonderful Problem

18 december 2018 | 15 min

351: Extracts from a Puja for Urgyen Sangharakshita on the Evening of His Funeral and Burial

25 november 2018 | 20 min

350: The 'Big One': A Religious Life

15 november 2018 | 8 min

349: Starting to Say Goodbye to Sangharakshita

9 november 2018 | 33 min

348: The 'Big One': Day 2

27 oktober 2018 | 6 min

347: Shakyamuni Mantra

26 oktober 2018 | 10 min

346: Ratnadharini and Shantigarbha on Restorative Process in Triratna

24 oktober 2018 | 16 min

345: The Tara Sanctuary and Natural Burial Ground

26 september 2018 | 14 min

344: Sudaka on Buddhist Practice as a Parent

8 juli 2018 | 17 min

343: Conversación de la Convención Europea de Jóvenes Budistas

8 juli 2018 | 13 min

342: Voices from Ireland

25 juni 2018 | 12 min

341: Buddha Day Offerings From The Goddess of the Spring

2 juni 2018 | 21 min

340: Abhayanavita on Working With Women and Girls to Step Free of Discrimination and Sexual Violence in India

13 februari 2018 | 11 min

339: The Lion's Roar Down Under

7 februari 2018 | 27 min

339: Welcome to the Order Convention! Bodhgaya 2018

5 februari 2018 | 18 min

338: Sheffield Pilgrims

4 februari 2018 | 13 min

337: Karunamaya On An Indian Retreat Centre For Women

29 november 2017 | 12 min

336: Sikkha, A Conversation with Dhammamegha And Dhammarati

4 september 2017 | 21 min

335: The International Gathering choir

27 augusti 2017 | 3 min

334: Avalokiteshvara mantra

27 augusti 2017 | 12 min

333: What the world needs now: our three speakers

27 augusti 2017 | 14 min

332: Jnanadakini - Bringing The Dharma To Latin America

2 maj 2017 | 14 min

331: Las Venezolanas

27 april 2017 | 23 min

330: Upeksamati In Mexico - How To Start A Buddhist Centre

20 april 2017 | 45 min

329: Sounds From Triratna50 At Aryaloka, USA

12 april 2017 | 17 min

328: Triratna50 In The North!

10 april 2017 | 12 min

327: Subhuti - For the Welfare of the World (Celebrating 50 Years of Triratna)

8 april 2017 | 72 min

326: Maitreyi Interviews Subhuti on 'Women, Men And Angels'

5 april 2017 | 31 min

325: Parami, Lokeshvara and Saddhaloka In Conversation

18 mars 2017 | 17 min

324: Buddhist Voices From Mexico - Aurea, Pablo & Alejandra

10 mars 2017 | 19 min

323: A Conversation With The Adhisthana Kula - Responding To Controversy In Triratna

28 februari 2017 | 20 min

322: Safeguarding In The Triratna Buddhist Community

18 februari 2017 | 18 min

321: The Winter 2017 Triratna European Chairs Meeting Comes To An End

13 januari 2017 | 7 min

320: Subhadassi and Arthavavadin In Conversation at the Winter ECA 2017

10 januari 2017 | 13 min

319: Dassini and Mokshini In Conversation - European Chairs' Winter Assembly 2017

7 januari 2017 | 6 min

318: Buddhist Voices: Karunadevi - From Heartland to Heart-Mind

28 december 2016 | 47 min

317: Saddhaloka Reviews the November 2016 Preceptors' College Meeting

7 december 2016 | 19 min

316: Maitreyi talks about a recent 3-week retreat at Akashavana

15 november 2016 | 12 min

315: Jnanasuri and Karunamaya talk about women's ordinations in India

13 november 2016 | 13 min

314: Yashosagar and Amoghasiddhi talk about the 60th anniversary of Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism

11 november 2016 | 16 min

313: Amogharatna, the newest member of the College, talks about his life in Berlin

9 november 2016 | 16 min

312: Anādi (Without Origin) - An Interview with Binisa Colmenero Lira & David Prats Mira

5 november 2016 | 17 min

311: Lokamitra on the Nagaloka Institute, India

18 oktober 2016 | 13 min

310: Buddhist Voices - Subhuti On Doctor Ambedkar

18 oktober 2016 | 29 min

309: International Buddhist Youth Convention 2016 India

12 oktober 2016 | 17 min

308: Valencia Buddhist Centre - New Retreat Centre

19 september 2016 | 9 min

307: Conversación con Pi

19 september 2016 | 13 min

306: Centro Budista de Valencia

18 september 2016 | 9 min

305: A Beginner's Guide to Wills

8 september 2016 | 41 min

Satyadasa, in association with the Abhayaratna Trust, presents an introductory workshop on wills, will writing, and the issues that arise for anyone considering passing on their own legacy. If you've ever wondered how to navigate the sea of legal complexity that surrounds the process of what happens to our money and possessions after we die, this is a great starting point!

Much of the information given in this workshop is related primarily to the legal situation in the UK, though the general principles outlined may be relevant in other countries.

The information given in this workshop is is not intended as legal advice and should not be seen as a replacement for obtaining legal advice in your country of residence or anywhere else.

Satyadasa is a non-practising solicitor and will writer for Greengage Wills in the UK. Contact him at [email protected].

Support the Abhayaratna Trust: http://abhayaratnatrust.org

The details covered in this workshop are: 01 Introduction; Why you should write a will 02 Executors and trustees 03 Types of gifts given by will 04 Charities and families 05 Trusts and reasons to use them in wills; Inheritance tax (death duties) 06 Living wills or advanced medical directives; lasting power of attorney 07 Q & A - The proper storage of wills 08 Q & A - Solicitors holding wills and selling probate services 09 Q & A - Is it worth going to a solicitor for a will if you don't have much? 10 Q & A - What if I have assets in Europe or internationally? 11 Q & A - Life-interest trusts 12 Q & A - Leaving money to a charity; gift aid and inheritance tax 13 Q & A - Challenging wills 14 Q & A - Re-writing wills 15 Q & A - Issues with using informal processes of trust instead of wills 16 Q & A - Life-interest trusts and inheritance tax 17 Q & A - Wills between different legal systems (eg Scotland and England) 18 Q & A - More on inheritance tax and property 19 Q & A - Funeral arrangements in wills 20 Q & A - Workplace pensions and wills 21 Q & A - Arrranging lasting power of attorney

#wills #will #legacy #legacies #probate #amd #dying #death #inheritance #solicitor #lawyer

304: Dr Ambedkar, Sangharakshita and the Buddhist Revolution part 2

4 september 2016 | 7 min

303: Dr Ambedkar, Sangharakshita and the Buddhist Revolution part 1

4 september 2016 | 6 min

302: Using the internet on retreat - what's the problem?

2 september 2016 | 9 min

301: Dhammamegha and Mokshini in Conversation - The Sikkha Project (ECA 2016)

31 augusti 2016 | 5 min

300: Mokshini talks to Parina at the start of the 2016 summer European Chairs Assembly

31 augusti 2016 | 6 min

298: Highlights of the Women's International Order Convention 2016

27 augusti 2016 | 10 min

299: Avalokitesvara and the Internationality of the Order

26 augusti 2016 | 13 min

297: Rejoicings in Green Tara and the Body of Avalokitesvara

25 augusti 2016 | 14 min

296: The Golden Buddha

23 augusti 2016 | 15 min

295: Bodhicitta Mantra

18 augusti 2016 | 25 min

294: Young Order Members First Impressions of the 2016 International Order Convention

18 augusti 2016 | 10 min

293: International Men's Order Convention 2016 - Sadhanas and Study with Vishvapani and Lokabandhu

15 augusti 2016 | 11 min

292: International Men's Order Convention 2016 - India Present! With Yashosagar and Aryaketu

15 augusti 2016 | 16 min

291: Day 7 Summary - Imagining A Vision Into Being

9 augusti 2016 | 19 min

290: Day 6 Summary - In Our Time Machine

9 augusti 2016 | 21 min

289: Harmony and Conflict Resolution - Day 5 Summary

7 augusti 2016 | 14 min

288: Jnanadakini, Vajranatha y Viryakirti y en el Consejo Internacional 2016

6 augusti 2016 | 10 min

287: A Walk Around Adhisthana - Day 3 Summary

4 augusti 2016 | 11 min

286: Meeting the Needs of the World - A Summary

4 augusti 2016 | 15 min

285: Why Is There An International Council?

2 augusti 2016 | 15 min

284: The Three Strands and an Opening Ritual

2 augusti 2016 | 11 min

283: What's Coming Up At The 2016 Triratna International Council

1 augusti 2016 | 6 min

282: Kamalamani - Other Than Mother, Choosing Childlessness With Life In Mind

16 juni 2016 | 20 min

281: Dhammarati on Sikkha - A New Project to Review and Develop Training in a System of Buddhist Practice

1 juni 2016 | 16 min

280: Gender Diverse Sangha As Buddhists

14 maj 2016 | 35 min

279: Dhammarati on sabbatical, solitaries and the International Council

22 mars 2016 | 15 min

278: Satyaraja and Kamalashila talk about meditation

16 mars 2016 | 10 min

277: Introducing Purna

15 mars 2016 | 16 min

276: Padmavajra and Dhammadinna talk about the private preceptors' retreats

14 mars 2016 | 19 min

275: Introducing Ashokashri

13 mars 2016 | 14 min

274: Satyaraja and Maitreyabandhu on Developments in the Guhyaloka Ordination Course - Triratna Preceptors College

11 mars 2016 | 12 min

273: Introducing Subhadramati - Triratna Preceptors' College

10 mars 2016 | 9 min

272: Interview with Ratnaguna on his new book "Great Faith, Great Wisdom"

9 mars 2016 | 24 min

271: Saddhaloka, Ratnadharini and Paramabandhu introduce the March 2016 Preceptors' College Meeting

9 mars 2016 | 12 min

270: Self compassion for the sake of all beings

5 mars 2016 | 55 min

269: Vägen till stora medkänsla

4 mars 2016 | 58 min

268: Facilitators meeting 2016

28 februari 2016 | 11 min

267: The Complete Works Retreat Podcast

18 januari 2016 | 13 min

266: Preparing For A Buddhist Ritual

12 januari 2016 | 6 min

265: European Chairs Assembly, Winter 2016 - Concluding Thoughts

11 januari 2016 | 7 min

264: European Chairs Assembly, Winter 2016 - Ratnaghosha On 'One Sangha'

11 januari 2016 | 4 min

263: European Chairs Assembly, Winter 2016 - Amalavajra on 'Awakening Money'

7 januari 2016 | 3 min

262: European Chairs Assembly, Winter 2016 - Ratnaguna on the Pure Land Sutras

6 januari 2016 | 6 min

261: European Chairs Assembly, Winter 2016 - Introductory Chat with Dassini

5 januari 2016 | 6 min

260: New building for Cuernavaca Buddhist Centre

3 januari 2016 | 19 min

259: End of Urban Retreat with Mokshananda

29 november 2015 | 16 min

258: Day of practice and Mandala making in Valencia

28 november 2015 | 12 min

257: Tara, Beauty and Cosmos, chat with Abhayaka

27 november 2015 | 15 min

256: Valencia Urban Retreat with Silamani on Parami's Talk

25 november 2015 | 9 min

255: Valencia y El Retiro Urbano

23 november 2015 | 13 min

254: Living with Beauty: Sangha Day and the Urban Retreat

21 november 2015 | 39 min

253: Subhuti talks to Saccanama about the history and development of the Preceptors' College

20 november 2015 | 26 min

252: Parami talks to Varadevi and Dharmanandi about the women's ordination process in Australia and New Zealand

19 november 2015 | 18 min

251: Jnanasuri, Chandrashil and Yashosagar reflect on their time at Adhisthana

18 november 2015 | 13 min

250: Parami y Moksananda hablan de la reunion del Colegio de Preceptores Publicos que se celebra estos dias en Adhisthana, Inglaterra.

17 november 2015 | 13 min

249: Moksananda and Parami talk in English about the ordination process in the Spanish-speaking world

17 november 2015 | 15 min

248: Punyamala shares her reflections on conducting her first public ordination.

15 november 2015 | 12 min

247: Paramachitta and Karunadevi share reflections on the Pan-American Convention

13 november 2015 | 14 min

246: Paramabandhu on a new ordination retreat

12 november 2015 | 3 min

245: Saddhaloka introduces the Preceptors' College Meeting November 2015

11 november 2015 | 8 min

244: Goodbye From Mexico (Adios de México)

1 november 2015 | 19 min

243: Bodhichitta Mantra

30 oktober 2015 | 13 min

242: Buddhist Voices - Saddhajoti On Co-Creating Chintamani Retreat Centre in Mexico

30 oktober 2015 | 11 min

241: Kalyana Mitrata Mantra In The Rain

29 oktober 2015 | 3 min

240: Buddhist Voices - Danadasa & Prasadachitta on San Francisco, Consciousness and Friendship

28 oktober 2015 | 25 min

239: Vajrasattva Mantra

27 oktober 2015 | 14 min

238: Abhayagita On Pilgrimage and Native Ground for Buddhism in Mexico

27 oktober 2015 | 37 min

237: Parami's Perspectives No. 7 - Dharmamodini on Triratna Adelaide

20 oktober 2015 | 19 min

234: Parami's Perspectives No. 4 - Tejopala and Akasamati on Climate Change and Triratna

16 oktober 2015 | 28 min

235: Parami's Perspectives No. 5 - Rijumayi on Young Buddhists Australia

16 oktober 2015 | 11 min

236: Parami's Perspectives No. 6 - Maitripala on Women's Ordination and Her Australian Pilgrimage

15 oktober 2015 | 19 min

233: Parami's Perspectives No. 3 - South Pacific Retreat

2 oktober 2015 | 21 min

232: Buddhists on the refugee crisis

27 september 2015 | 7 min

231: Green Tara Mantra - Live From the Buddhist Mothers Retreat

26 september 2015 | 9 min

230: Buddhist Voices - Kalyanaprabha On Editing Sangharakshita

3 september 2015 | 29 min

229: Parami's Perspectives No. 3 - Surrendering to the Beautiful

25 augusti 2015 | 18 min

227: Conscious Surrender to the Beautiful - The Sangharakshita@90 Exhibition: Nine Decades

21 augusti 2015 | 7 min

228: Choir rehearsal, Order weekend

21 augusti 2015 | 2 min

226: Shubhavyuha and Sudaya: Australian visitors to the European Chairs' Assembly

19 augusti 2015 | 8 min

225: Vidyamala on mindfulness as Bodhisattva activity

18 augusti 2015 | 9 min

224: Vishvapani reports on mindfulness at the ECA

17 augusti 2015 | 6 min

223: Sanghadarshini, Vimalamati and Sthanashraddha

16 augusti 2015 | 5 min

222: Mahamati and Parina and the Six Distinctive Emphases

15 augusti 2015 | 11 min

221: Introducing the European Chairs' Assembly

14 augusti 2015 | 7 min

219: Mainland European Convention #3 - Los Españoles

27 juli 2015 | 17 min

220: Mainland European Convention #4 - An Historic Event

25 juli 2015 | 14 min

218: Mainland European Convention #2 - German/Nordic Sisters

22 juli 2015 | 16 min

217: Mainland European Convention #1: The Brothers Karuna

20 juli 2015 | 10 min

216: Writers Convention 2015 - Be Here Now by Ananda

20 juli 2015 | 2 min

215: Parami's Perspectives - Berlin #1

17 juli 2015 | 6 min

214: Writers Convention 2015 - Small Boy by Norman MacCaig

14 juli 2015 | 1 min

213: Writers Convention 2015 - Young Women Writing Their Way

14 juli 2015 | 3 min

212: Writers Convention 2015 - No. 4, Satyadaka on Sangharakshita's library, Richard Holmes and Samuel Johnson

13 juli 2015 | 5 min

211: Writers Convention 2015 - No. 3, Two Old Codgers!

9 juli 2015 | 2 min

210: Writers Convention 2015 - No. 2, What's It Like So Far?

9 juli 2015 | 2 min

209: Writers Convention 2015 - No. 1, Meet the Team

7 juli 2015 | 3 min

208: Suvajra's Seasonal - No 3, Winter: Meeting Dhardo Rimpoche

29 juni 2015 | 35 min

207: Parami's Perspectives No.2 - Shifting Paradigms

19 juni 2015 | 17 min

206: Parami's Perpectives No. 1 - Holding Harmony, Holding A Radical Vision For The World

16 juni 2015 | 11 min

205: Karuna Trust Women's Appeal

24 april 2015 | 17 min

204: Kamalashila's Quarterly No.3 - Gonzo Psychogeography And New Beginnings

18 april 2015 | 35 min

203: Preceptors' College - Transitions 8

18 mars 2015 | 21 min

202: Preceptors' College - Transitions 7

17 mars 2015 | 30 min

201: Preceptors' College - Transitions 6

16 mars 2015 | 32 min

200: Preceptors' College - Transitions 5

15 mars 2015 | 23 min

199: Preceptors' College - Transitions 4

15 mars 2015 | 7 min

198: Preceptors' College - Transitions 3

13 mars 2015 | 16 min

197: Preceptors' College - Transitions 2

12 mars 2015 | 14 min

196: Preceptors' College - Transitions 1

12 mars 2015 | 11 min

195: First reflections on the day

8 mars 2015 | 5 min

194: Tibetan verse chanting

8 mars 2015 | 2 min

193: Tibetan puja verses

8 mars 2015 | 1 min

192: Tibetan purification hymn

8 mars 2015 | 2 min

191: Introductory dedication verses

8 mars 2015 | 2 min

190: Arriving to dedicate a stupa

8 mars 2015 | 4 min

189: Centro de Cuernavaca, México

23 januari 2015 | 13 min

188: Cuernavaca Centre, Mexico

23 januari 2015 | 15 min

187: Vidyadevi On The Sangharakshita Library

14 januari 2015 | 11 min

186: Suvajra's Seasonal - No 2, Autumn: Facing Gods And Demons

31 december 2014 | 38 min

185: Buddhist Voices - Amalavajra, Banker to Buddhist

30 december 2014 | 41 min

184: Buddhist Voices - Amitasuri on Buddhist Chaplaincy

10 december 2014 | 28 min

183: Preceptors' College Summary: Dhammarati

20 november 2014 | 26 min

182: Preceptors' College Day 7: Karunadevi & Padmavajra

18 november 2014 | 21 min

181: Preceptors' College Day 6: Padmasuri & Saddhaloka

17 november 2014 | 21 min

180: Preceptors' College, Day 5 - Parami & Kamalashila

16 november 2014 | 15 min

179: Preceptors' College, Day 4 - Karunamaya & Nagabodhi

14 november 2014 | 18 min

178: Preceptors' College, Day 3 - Sanghadevi & Maitreyabandhu

13 november 2014 | 14 min

176: Moksananda en Español

12 november 2014 | 10 min

177: Preceptors' College Day 1: Dhammadinna and Moksananda

12 november 2014 | 15 min

175: Preceptors' College - Introduction

12 november 2014 | 11 min

174: Suvajra's Seasonal - No 1, Summer (Part 2)

11 november 2014 | 25 min

172: refuges and precepts

8 november 2014 | 9 min

173: mantras

8 november 2014 | 23 min

171: Suvajra's Seasonal - No 1, Summer (Part 1)

30 oktober 2014 | 24 min

170: Windhorse Publications - Small Buddhist Publishing In A Digital Age

23 oktober 2014 | 13 min

169: Buddhist Voices - Triratna America 2014

23 september 2014 | 28 min

168: Buddhist Voices - Suriyadhamma from Cambridge, Massachusetts

21 september 2014 | 26 min

167: Buddhist Voices - Aryadrishti from Portland, Oregon

20 september 2014 | 13 min

166: Buddhist Voices - Dayamati from New Mexico

19 september 2014 | 11 min

165: International Council 2014, Voices No. 8 - Jnanadakini (Latin America & Spain, Order Strand)

19 augusti 2014 | 10 min

164: International Council 2014, Voices No. 7 - Maitriratna and Vijaya (India, Order and College Strands)

14 augusti 2014 | 16 min

163: International Council 2014, Voices No. 6 - Dharmananda (South Pacific, Order Strand)

13 augusti 2014 | 13 min

162: Maitreya Mantra - Triratna International Council 2014

12 augusti 2014 | 8 min

161: International Council 2014, Voices No. 5 - Vajrajyoti (South Pacific, Movement Strand)

11 augusti 2014 | 10 min

160: International Council 2014, Voices No. 4 - Aryaketu (India, Order Strand)

10 augusti 2014 | 17 min

159: International Council 2014, Voices No. 3 - Amala (US & Canada, Order Strand)

9 augusti 2014 | 9 min

158: International Council 2014, Voices No. 2 - Chandramsu (Latin America & Spain, Movement Strand)

8 augusti 2014 | 7 min

157: International Council 2014, Voices No. 1 - Sucimani (UK & Ireland Order Strand)

7 augusti 2014 | 11 min

156: What is the Triratna International Council?

6 augusti 2014 | 13 min

155: Avalokiteshvara Mantra By Fire

30 juli 2014 | 7 min

154: Closing Ritual - Transferrence of Merits and Final Mantras

27 maj 2014 | 5 min

153: Chanting the Metta Sutta in Pali

27 maj 2014 | 6 min

152: Buddhist Harmonized Mantra Chanting

27 maj 2014 | 7 min

150: The very English sound of bell ringing, from Coddington parish church, close to Adhisthana

26 maj 2014 | 2 min

151: Impressions and highlights from the International Retreat

26 maj 2014 | 8 min

149: Chanting from the Dhammapada Puja on the International Retreat

25 maj 2014 | 9 min

148: An Interview with Sally, aged 3

25 maj 2014 | 3 min

147: Cuckoo!

25 maj 2014 | 1 min

146: Responses to Talk on Buddhist Economics and Capitalism

25 maj 2014 | 4 min

145: By the fire

24 maj 2014 | 4 min

143: Avalokitesvara and Padmasambhava mantras

24 maj 2014 | 4 min

144: And the retreat is going well

24 maj 2014 | 3 min

142: International Tea time. First morning

24 maj 2014 | 3 min

141: Dedicating this international retreat

23 maj 2014 | 5 min

139: First meal impressions

23 maj 2014 | 2 min

140: Vidyatara talks about the shrine at the International Retreat

23 maj 2014 | 2 min

138: Buddhafield Build the International Retreat

23 maj 2014 | 5 min

137: Triratna International Retreat Set Up

22 maj 2014 | 1 min

136: Happy Triratna Day from the USA

6 april 2014 | 7 min

135: Young Buddhists facilitators at Adhisthana

6 april 2014 | 7 min

134: Introducing BAM - Buddhist Action monthan interview with Lokabandhu, Amalaketu and Mokshini

24 februari 2014 | 7 min

133: European Puja!

10 februari 2014 | 28 min

132: South Pacific Dharmacharinis

18 januari 2014 | 30 min

131: Padmasambhava Mantra

10 januari 2014 | 6 min

130: Avalokitesvara Mantra

9 januari 2014 | 9 min

129: Anagarika Convention with Parami No.3 - Goodbye from Adhisthana

17 december 2013 | 29 min

128: Anagarika Convention with Parami No. 2 - Pramodya and Nirmala

15 december 2013 | 11 min

127: Anagarika Convention with Parami, Dhammadinna and Kuladharini

13 december 2013 | 28 min

126: women's buddhist order weekend no. 6

8 december 2013 | 23 min

125: women's buddhist order weekend no. 5

7 december 2013 | 30 min

124: Utpalavajri in Germany at the Order Forum

7 december 2013 | 2 min

123: women's buddhist order weekend no. 4

7 december 2013 | 11 min

122: women's buddhist order weekend no.3

6 december 2013 | 27 min

121: women's buddhist order weekend no. 2

6 december 2013 | 6 min

120: women's buddhist order weekend no. 1

6 december 2013 | 4 min

119: puja with devas singing

17 november 2013 | 22 min

118: Sangha Puja

17 november 2013 | 24 min

117: sangha oh sangha

16 november 2013 | 1 min

116: Portsmouth Podcast on Metta (Loving Kindness) - No. 5 (All Beings)

16 november 2013 | 26 min

115: Portsmouth Podcast on Metta (Loving Kindness) - No. 4 ('The Enemy'), Part 2

15 november 2013 | 21 min

114: Portsmouth Podcast on Metta (Loving Kindness) - No. 4 ('The Enemy')

14 november 2013 | 27 min

113: Portsmouth Podcast on Metta - No. 3

13 november 2013 | 29 min

112: Portsmouth Podcast on Metta (Loving Kindness) - No. 2

12 november 2013 | 17 min

111: Portsmouth Podcast On Metta - Day 1

11 november 2013 | 22 min

110: Transference of Merits & Padmasambhava Mantra

9 november 2013 | 30 min

109: Blazing like the sun. Dedication Young Buddhist retreat Adhisthana

8 november 2013 | 14 min

108: Upekshadaka - On Metta (Loving Kindness)

4 november 2013 | 9 min

107: The Karaniya Metta Sutta Chanted by Joe Richardson

4 november 2013 | 5 min

106: On the Metta Sutta

1 november 2013 | 13 min

105: Vajragupta - The Significance Of the Urban Retreat Being An International Event

31 oktober 2013 | 7 min

104: How the Online Urban Retreat Complements Local Buddhist Centre Events

30 oktober 2013 | 3 min

103: Introduction to the Urban Retreat (if you're familiar with meditation)

29 oktober 2013 | 2 min

102: How the Urban Retreat 2013 works if you are new to meditation...

28 oktober 2013 | 2 min

101: Buddhist Transference of Merits in Many Languages

7 oktober 2013 | 9 min

100: Suvarnaprabha On Becoming Celibate Towards The End of Her Life

25 september 2013 | 6 min

99: Friends of Suvarnaprabha Chanting In The Evening After Her Death

25 september 2013 | 1 min

98: 20 years of Triratna Newcastle UK

21 september 2013 | 6 min

97: White Tara mantra for Bhante Sangharakshita

4 augusti 2013 | 2 min

96: We dedicate this place

4 augusti 2013 | 4 min

95: Adhisthana's Dedication - two interviews

3 augusti 2013 | 9 min

94: Adhisthana Order Dedication Ceremony led by Parami

3 augusti 2013 | 18 min

93: Adhisthana order dedication

3 augusti 2013 | 3 min

92: Adhisthana Launch - Order Day

3 augusti 2013 | 2 min

91: Triratna America - Dharmasuri, Chair Nagaloka Buddhist Center, Portland, ME (skype interview)

22 juni 2013 | 5 min

90: Triratna America - Dayalocana, Chair of Aryaloka Buddhist Center

21 juni 2013 | 5 min

89: Green Earth Awakening - Buddhafield's new event

28 maj 2013 | 6 min

88: Buddhafield launch Green Earth Awakening - this weekend!

22 maj 2013 | 6 min

87: Adhisthana Boo No. 1

19 april 2013 | 11 min

86: Metta Engine Boo

18 april 2013 | 15 min

85: Bits of puja for Triratna day. Internationality at Windhorse

12 april 2013 | 7 min

83: Triratna Day Conversation in Manchester

7 april 2013 | 4 min

84: Celebrating the Order and Remembering the Bodhi Tree - in Bristol

7 april 2013 | 2 min

82: Bye Bye from America!

6 april 2013 | 5 min

81: Bye bye from Birmigham

6 april 2013 | 1 min

80: Sangharakshita's words before Padmasambhava mantra

6 april 2013 | 3 min

79: Grateful of puja

6 april 2013 | 2 min

78: Ivan's catching up tea break before puja

6 april 2013 | 2 min

76: Triratna Day USA No. 2 - Amala Boo Part 2

6 april 2013 | 3 min

77: Grateful of young Buddhist activities and introducing Kara

6 april 2013 | 2 min

75: Triratna Day USA No. 1

6 april 2013 | 3 min

74: With parami

6 april 2013 | 1 min

73: LUNCH TIME! grateful for the food

6 april 2013 | 1 min

72: Matt introducing and expressing what he's grateful for

6 april 2013 | 3 min

71: Sarah shares what's she's grateful for...

6 april 2013 | 3 min

70: Triratna day starts at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, UK

6 april 2013 | 2 min

69: Interview: The Making of FBA (teaser)

31 mars 2013 | 3 min

68: What's so Magic about Buddhafield!

17 mars 2013 | 5 min

67: Convention Boo No. 3 - Nissoka and Triratna in Bodh Gaya

27 februari 2013 | 17 min

66: Convention Boo No. 2 - Processing to the Mahabodhi Temple

25 februari 2013 | 10 min

65: Convention Boo No. 1 - An aural sampler of first night!

24 februari 2013 | 16 min

64: India Boo No. 9 - Closing Council Boo

22 februari 2013 | 11 min

63: India Boo # 8 - Boo Español!

22 februari 2013 | 20 min

62: India Boo No. 7 - Spanish Boo Part 1 (English)

21 februari 2013 | 16 min

61: India Boo No. 6 - Lokamitra on the future in India

20 februari 2013 | 18 min

60: India Boo No. 5 - Vajrajyoti from Auckland (The Golden Voice of Radio)

19 februari 2013 | 12 min

59: India Boo No. 4 - Dharmashuri and the other Nagaloka

18 februari 2013 | 6 min

58: India Boo No. 3 - Viradhamma from San Francisco

17 februari 2013 | 5 min

57: India Boo No. 2 - Wedding Band

16 februari 2013 | 2 min

56: India Boo No. 1 - To Nagpur!

15 februari 2013 | 5 min

55: Year-long retreat starts in Spain

9 januari 2013 | 5 min

53: Triratna New Ventures

11 november 2012 | 4 min

52: Devapriya's funeral

9 november 2012 | 2 min

54: Pan American women's retreat 1

2 november 2012 | 3 min

51: Listening to Radio 4 Boo

31 oktober 2012 | 8 min

50: Boo vuelvo enseguida

29 oktober 2012 | 9 min

49: Pan American convention 2012

28 oktober 2012 | 6 min

48: Padmasambhava Mantra from Triratna Young Buddhists weekend

13 oktober 2012 | 4 min

47: Shakyamuni Mantra from Triratna Young Buddhists weekend

13 oktober 2012 | 2 min

46: Young Buddhists gather

12 oktober 2012 | 2 min

45: Melbourne exchanges...

7 september 2012 | 5 min

44: Mitra Boo!

30 augusti 2012 | 2 min

43: Welcoming the new Order Members

25 augusti 2012 | 4 min

42: Devapriya on the 2012 Buddhafield Village Retreat

24 augusti 2012 | 4 min

41: Glastonbury Tor Boo

16 augusti 2012 | 4 min

40: Suriyavamsa Boo!

10 augusti 2012 | 10 min

39: Closing Boo

2 augusti 2012 | 12 min

38: Berlin Buddha boo

30 juli 2012 | 1 min

37: long day buddhist boo

28 juli 2012 | 4 min

36: Just Sitting Boo

27 juli 2012 | 17 min

34: Ritual Boo

26 juli 2012 | 12 min

35: Experimental chanting of the Shakyamuni mantra

26 juli 2012 | 4 min

33: ECA Boo No.1

25 juli 2012 | 7 min

32: Glasgow Buddhist Boo

22 juli 2012 | 2 min

31: Buddhafield Festival Opening Ceremony

12 juli 2012 | 2 min

30: First glance at the 2012 Buddhafield Festival program

10 juli 2012 | 4 min

29: Live from the Buddhafield Festival setup

9 juli 2012 | 2 min

28: Karaniya metta chant in Pali, end of Triratna International Retreat

5 juni 2012 | 5 min

27: Last night in the fire

4 juni 2012 | 3 min

26: Heart Sutra in Flemish & Mexican Spanish

4 juni 2012 | 7 min

25: Story telling bits

4 juni 2012 | 3 min

24: Next to the fire, yet again

4 juni 2012 | 2 min

23: Before supper

4 juni 2012 | 1 min

22: Just before the puja

3 juni 2012 | 1 min

21: Heart sutra in French

2 juni 2012 | 3 min

20: Before the workshops

2 juni 2012 | 2 min

19: Next to the fire

1 juni 2012 | 1 min

18: First evening at the the Triratna Buddhist Community International Retreat!

1 juni 2012 | 1 min

17: How do YOU imagine the Buddha...?

30 maj 2012 | 3 min

16: Buddha Shakyamuni mantra chanting on the International Retreat set-up

28 maj 2012 | 2 min

15: International Retreat setup starting at Taraloka

27 maj 2012 | 2 min

13: Buddha Day 2012 at Padmaloka

6 maj 2012 | 2 min

14: Vimoksadaka speaks about his 'Anybody Anywhere' Dharma project

6 maj 2012 | 1 min

12: Happy Triratna Day!

7 april 2012 | 2 min

11: Buddhafield Yatra Boo day 7

6 april 2012 | 4 min

10: Buddhafield Yatra Boo, Day 5

3 april 2012 | 2 min

9: Buddhafield Yatra Boo, Day 3

1 april 2012 | 2 min

8: Free Buddhist Audio UK Centre Tour

31 mars 2012 | 3 min

7: Buddhafield Yatra Boo - day 1

31 mars 2012 | 2 min

6: Buddhafield Yatra boo - the team gathers

29 mars 2012 | 3 min

5: Triratna Dharma books at Lulu.com

18 februari 2012 | 2 min

4: London Buddhist Centre fashion show

17 februari 2012 | 2 min

3: New Initiatives in Triratna

15 februari 2012 | 1 min

2: The Triratna International Retreat Shapes Up

10 februari 2012 | 2 min

1: OurFirstBuddhistBoo

25 januari 2012 | 1 min

The Buddhist Centre

News, event coverage, mantras and rituals, Dharma conversations among diverse voices from the Triratna Buddhist Community around the world, keeping you up-to-date with the latest in our sangha.

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453: Hinterland Sober Bar - Brewing a New Society in 2025

452: The Three Body Solution - Healing and Belonging In Community

451: Animated by the Dharma

451: The Heart of Imagination in Buddhism

450: Taking Responsibility - Happiness and Transformation with Mahamati

449: The Impermanence of Everyone: The Art of Hugh Mendes (Paramabodhi)

448: Mindfulness of Death and Dying (Kamalashila in Conversation, with Guided Meditation)

447: A Luminous Emptiness - Meditating and Loving in Reality with Tejananda

446: The Tale of Tipu's Tiger

445: Buddhism and Politics

444: A Renovating Virtue – Hartley Woolf and His Alfoxton Film

443: Mindfulness and Imagination with Vidyamala and Vishvapani

442: Buddhism and AI

441: The Race Conversation with Bodhilila and Eugene Ellis

440: Roots in the Earth, Roots in the Sky - Triratna Day Special

439: Forces for Good - Challenging Emotions as Portals to Liberation

438: Dharmachakra and the Rebirth of Free Buddhist Audio

437: Forever Friends

436: Past, Present, and Future in American Buddhism - Live from GenX 2023

435: How to Collaborate Around the World

434: The Magic of Meditation with Kamalashila

433: Love and Rage - Bodhilila with Lama Rod Owens

432: Vidyamala, OBE! - A Platinum Jubilee Honour for Breathworks

431: War and Peace: Living Buddhism in Poland

430: Telling the Story of Sangharakshita

429: The Earth as Source of Inspiration - Paramananda & Maitridevi in Conversation

428: The Sound of One Hand

427: What is Buddhist Activism?

426: Karuna USA!

425: It's Not Out There

424: Buddhism for Teens

423: FutureDharma Renewed!

416: Beauty and Environmental Action (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 41)

415: Forging a Path for Women in India (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 40)

414: Alive in Nature! An Invitation (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 39)

413: In the Footsteps of the Buddha at Rivendell (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 38)

37: Sources of Inspiration with Paramananda - Atula, Working in the Depths (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 37)

37: Bringing Online Learning to the Slums of India (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 36)

412: The Alchemical Heart (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 35)

411: Buddhist Economics, Part 2 - Post-Pandemic (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 34)

410: Buddhist Economics, Part 1 - Pre-Pandemic (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 33)

409: These Are The Moments (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 32)

408: Alive, Aware, Awake! (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 31)

407: Into the Dark Wood (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 30)

406: Meditating in the Mandala (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 29)

405: For Nothing Is Fixed - Getting Real with Viveka and Paramananda, Episode 1

405: For the Earth - BAM! 2020 (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 28)

404: The River Under the River (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 27)

403: Turning Arrows Into Flowers (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 26)

402: Ironic Points of Light (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 25)

401: Edición en español! (El podcast diario de Dharma Toolkit, 24)

400: Reflections on Love (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 23)

399: Hyperavailability (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 22)

398: Make Room For Fun (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 21)

397: Being Divine Online: Q & A with Ratnavandana on the Brahma Viharas (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 20)

396: The Making of 'Hair On Fire' with Mary Salome (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 19)

395: Hair On Fire, Episode 3 - Wisdom (Earth Week 2020)

394: Hair On Fire, Episode 2 - Meditation (Earth Week 2020)

394: Hair On Fire, Episode 1 - Ethics (Earth Week 2020)

393: Earth Day, Earth Week! Return to Nature on the Inside (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 18)

392: The Hero's Journey to the Food Bank (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 17)

391: Emergent Community Online (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 16)

390: Global Community India! (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 15)

389: Painting Into Reality (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 14)

389: The Money Issue (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 13)

388: The Ministry Of Presence (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 12)

37: A Buddhist Way Through the Ups and Downs of Life: Live Q & A (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 11)

387: Covid Emergency In India (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 10)

384: Breathing Space (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 9)

386: Sailing The Worldly Winds (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 8)

385: The Blue Sky at the Heart of the Body (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 7)

383: Podcast Brasileiro! (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 6)

382: Guarding The Gates (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 5)

381: The Fear Issue (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 4)

380: A Scientist's Tale (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 3)

379: The Unexpected Intimacy Of Online (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 2)