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!
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The Spiritual Community
Our FBA Dharmabyte today is from one of the founders of the San Francisco Buddhist Center. In this excerpt from "The Individual, the Group and the Spiritual Community" Karunadevi explores the dangers and benefits of practicing within a sangha using the..
Going for Refuge
This week's FBA Podcast, "Going for Refuge," by Viveka, is a personable and wide-ranging look at one of the most important aspects of Buddhist practice, whose significance is upheld in every tradition. - What is it to look to the 'Three Jewels' as a r...
Ethics and Speech: What Am I Trying to Say?
Our FBA Dharmabyte today is an interesting, down to earth talk from the Director of the San Francisco Buddhist Center. In "Ethics and Speech: What Am I Trying to Say?" Padmatara discusses the ethics of speech as well as authenticity,
Bodhicitta Arising With Collective Practice
In our FBA Dharmabyte today, Viriyalila conjures up the image of the rock tumbler to explore how the practice of sangha creates jewels. But it's the granite bottomed rivers in NH that gets evoked - in their crystal clarity and beauty may the Bodhicitta..
Reflections on Aryaloka
To appreciate the significance of the 25th Anniversary of the Triratna's sole retreat center in America, Nagabodhi takes us back 2500 years to the time of the Buddha through the early years of the movement right up to the present day and onwards into t...
Simile of the Heartwood
Our FBA Dharmabyte today is from the Chair of Aryaloka, Dayalocana. This excerpt "The Heartwood of Aryaloka," is from the full talk: "The Simile of the Heartwood." Here, Dayalocana asks: What is the heartwood of Aryaloka?
The Bodhisattva at Play
Our FBA Dharmabyte today is from the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community, Sangharakshita. In "The Bodhisattva at Play," he explores how a Bodhisattva's work is like the play of an elephant. Delightful and fun,
Love, Sangha and Amitabha
In this week's FBA Podcast,"Love, Sangha and Amitabha", Amitasuri introduces us to Amitabha: Buddha of love and compassion, looking at the love and sangha aspects of the red Buddha of the western realm. From this perspective Amitasuri reflects on our r...
Rebecoming
Our FBA Dharmabyte today titled: 'Rebecoming', by Ratnadharani, explores the distinction between skilful and unskilful as a process of re-becoming or rebirth. - From the fourth talk in a five-part series from Tiratanaloka's retreat on the 'Four Mind ...
What does it mean to be human?
"What does it mean to be human?" We have choices and possibilities, pleasure and pain. Our FBA Dharmabyte is an exploration of the balance of karma and karma vipaka. From the talk "The Preciousness and Rarity of Human Life" by Dhammadinna,