Changingness: All There Is
At the heart of the spiral path is conditioned co-production which at heart means "changingness". This "changingness" can be creative (leading to more...
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Dharmabytes features bite-sized dharma, three times a week, from the Free Buddhist Audio archives. Themed in conjunction with our weekly full length talk podcast, these are inspiring short extracts from over 5,000 talks on Buddhism, meditation and mindfulness! Tune in, be inspired!
Mindfulness of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha
Using metaphors from the Bodhicaryavatara, Bodhinaga draws out how mindfulness can transform our lives, both as a defence against negative, reactive p...
Another Dimension of Experience
Getting to a refuge is essential to liberation, and it needs to be something beyond our present understanding. Akashadevi describes the process of dee...
Seeing Our Teachers as Ordinary Human Beings
Vidyadaka talks about his spiritual teachers as offering the Dharma in an ordinary, straightforward way. Spiritual friendship is not an added-on part...
Building Spiritual Power Together
Viveka concludes this Anapanasati Sutta: Instructions for Awakening retreat with a final exploration of the wisdom tetrad, focusing on the experience ...
Starting to See Through
Dhammarati illuminating the process of conditionality that is put in motion when engaged in Anapanasati meditation. Here he is introducing the fourth ...
Ancestral Sense of Being
Dhivan, author of 'This Being, That Becomes', talks about some of the historical Buddha's ideas on how conscious awareness can influence unconscious p...
A Weak Spot in Reality
Maitreyabandhu reminds us that the Buddha was cautious to describe things that were best directly experienced. The Lakshanas are not a metaphysical de...
Being in Connection with Other Beings
Parami touches on aspects of Sangharakshita's 'system of meditation', and most specifically the area of positive emotion. Parami is an ideal guide for...
Why the Buddha Taught Impermanence
All conditioned things are impermanent... Not just a truism, but the central teaching of Buddhism upon which so much else follows. Jnanaketu starts of...