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Welcome to Free Buddhist Audio from Dharmachakra.com, a new, free service for anyone interested in Buddhism and meditation in the modern world. Our talks (more than 1000!) are usually by westerners - but now we are expanding to include material from all the main Buddhist traditions. In time, our whole archive will be available to donwload for free. Check out our website for more. Enjoy!
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In Harmony with Friends and Brethren
Author: Srivati
Sat, May 26, 2012
This week’s FBA Podcast is one of our Dharma Tape Detectives findings from the FBA Archives. “In Harmony with Friends and Brethren” by Srivati. What does it mean to be part of a Sangha? What does true harmony mean alongside the inevitability of conflict? Srivati addresses these questions with help from the monks at Kosambi, [...]
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The Defects and Dangers of Samsara
Author: Maitreyi
Sat, May 19, 2012
In today’s FBA Podcast, “The Defects and Dangers of Samsara,” Dharmacharini Maitreyi looks at pleasure and suffering in the context of samsara – compassionate responses to self and other, and how to loosen the bonds… Talk given at Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre, 2005 as part of the series “The Four Mind-Turning Reflections.”
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Tibetan Book the Dead: Talk 1 – The Six Bardos
Author: Padmavajra
Sat, May 12, 2012
This week’s FBA Podcast , “Tibetan Book the Dead: Talk 1 – The Six Bardos“, is an extraordinary talk by Padmavajra exploring the great text that reveals the realms between death and new life, where anything is possible in the Bardo – the ‘intermediate state’. From the first talk in the series “Tibetan Book of [...]
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The Ideal of Human Enlightenment
Author: Sangharakshita
Sat, May 05, 2012
Today, on the full moon of May, we celebrate the Buddha’s Awakening, his full and perfect Enlightenment. Our FBA Podcast is a passionate look at our true nature and our deepest yearnings. “The Ideal of Human Enlightenment“, by Sangharakshita, was given in 1975 and is as relevant now as it was then.
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Enlightenment as Heart, Life as Whole
Author: Saddhanandi
Sat, Apr 28, 2012
In this week’s FBA Podcast,”Enlightenment as Heart, Life as Whole,” Saddhanandi takes us through a set of very thought-provoking reflections. She is forthright about the difficulties and joys of cultivating faith in the Dharma and makes very plain the consequences we can expect in our life as and when that faith arises. The talk is [...]
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The Significance of the Buddha’s Enlightenment
Author: Sona
Sat, Apr 21, 2012
This weeks FBA Podcast, “The Significance of the Buddha’s Enlightenment” is a talk by Sona given at Manchester Buddhist Centre on Buddha Day, 9th May 2009.
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On the Threshold of Enlightenment
Author: Sangharakshita
Sat, Apr 14, 2012
This weeks FBA Podcast, “On the Threshold of Enlightenment” is part of the pivotal by “Aspects of the Bodhisattva Ideal” series delivered by Sangharakshita in 1969. This lecture describes dhyana (meditation), and prajna (Wisdom), the fifth and sixth perfections.
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An Evening with Sangharakshita
Author: Sangharakshita
Sat, Apr 07, 2012
This weeks FBA Podcast, is a recording of a question and answer session with Sangharakshita at the Croydon Buddhist Centre in 2004. “An Evening with Sangharakshita” is a lovely introduction to the man who founded the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community (formally known as the Western Buddhist Order and FWBO).
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The Buddha’s Gift To The World
Author: Vajratara
Sat, Mar 31, 2012
This weeks FBA Podcast, “The Buddha’s Gift To The World” is brought to us by Vajratara. Vajratara condenses nearly 50 years of the Buddhas life, using stories from the Pali Canon to show how the Buddha built a spiritual community that lasts to this day. Transcending the conflict between the desire to withdraw and the [...]
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Brahma Viharas and the Key Moment
Author: Kulaprabha
Sat, Mar 24, 2012
This weeks FBA Podcast, “Brahma Viharas and the Key Moment“, is a distillation of Kulaprabha’s 15 years of co-leading retreats on the development of Loving Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity. This talk was given in September 2001, before and after the Twin Towers attack, while Kulaprabha was on a six week retreat in Italy. She [...]
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The Spiral Path – The Great Escape
Author: Khemasuri
Sat, Mar 17, 2012
This weeks FBA Podcast is a thoughtful, inspiring talk by Khemasuri titled “The Spiral Path – The Great Escape.” Faith, joy, and delight in the spiritual life. Sharing experiences from her own life, Khemasuri expounds on the importance of the Spiral Path, a fundamental teaching in the Triratna Buddhist Order.
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Faith Is Innate, Doubt Acquired
Author: Singhamati
Sat, Mar 10, 2012
This weeks FBA Podcast is a talk was given on a Young Women’ Weekend at Taraloka titled “Faith is Innate, Doubt Acquired.” In this talk Singhamati explores Sangharakshita’s aphorism: Faith is Innate, Doubt Acquired. It looks at questions such as: What is faith? How do you cultivate the three grounds of faith? How is doubt [...]
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Mind: Reactive and Creative
Author: Sangharakshita
Sat, Mar 03, 2012
Today’s FBA Podcast, is a classic talk given by Sangharakshita in 1967 titled “Mind: Reactive and Creative.” In this brilliant and accessible approach to the essence of Buddhism, Sangharakshita shows that Buddhism starts with the mind. Mind can be reactive, symbolised by the Tibetan Wheel of Life, or creative, as when one follows the Seven [...]
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The Selfless Mind
Author: Vajrapriya
Sat, Feb 25, 2012
Our FBA Podcast today is a talk by the delightfully clear Vajrapriya titled “The Selfless Mind.” What if all of our emotional and spiritual problems were caused by an incorrect understanding of our true nature? Vajrapriya explores the Buddha’s insight that our commonsense assumptions about ourselves are the source of our suffering. Unpicking those assumptions [...]
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras
Author: Chandana
Sat, Feb 18, 2012
Today’s FBA Podcast is another reading from The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. This one, “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras” Chandana talks about the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, a category of Sutras in the Mahayana tradition.
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The Diamond Sutra
Author: Sangharakshita
Sat, Feb 11, 2012
Our FBA Podcast today is “The Diamond Sutra” by Sangharakshita. If one does not want to ‘get caught in the grip of reality’, one should leave this great text alone! The Perfection of Wisdom Discourse that ‘Cuts Like a Diamond’… N.B. Reference for this lecture: Buddhist Wisdom Books, translated by E. Conze. (Allen & Unwin, [...]
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The Heart Sutra, Sangha and Spiritual Death
Author: Kamalashila
Sat, Feb 04, 2012
Our FBA Podcast today brings us to the core of our practice: “The Heart Sutra, Sangha and Spiritual Death” by Kamalashila. Beginning with a shared understanding of spiritual practice that is Sangha, we are led through a revisioning of our practice that includes the deeper, darker more mysterious perspectives of insight and wisdom. This talk [...]
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The Buddha, Hakuin, Birth and Death
Author: Padmavajra
Sat, Jan 28, 2012
Today’s FBA Podcast, “The Buddha, Hakuin, Birth and Death”, is the second in an excellent 8-talk sequence by Padmavajra on Zen Buddhism. The series is full of colourful stories and challenging insights from the lives of the great Masters of China and Japan. In this talk, Padmavajra takes us into the strong experience of Going [...]
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Spiritual Death and Rebirth, a New Perspective On the Dharma Niyama
Author: Subhuti
Sat, Jan 21, 2012
This weeks FBA Podcast, “Spiritual Death and Rebirth, a New Perspective On the Dharma Niyama”, takes us deeply into the stages of spiritual death and rebirth that are key to the system of meditation, representing the culimination and fulfilment of the Buddhas vision. During this talk given at Padmaloka Subhuti explains some new elements of [...]
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The Transitoriness of Life and the Certainty of Death
Author: Vajradarshini
Sat, Jan 14, 2012
Today’s FBA Podcast, “The Transitoriness of Life and the Certainty of Death”, is by Vajradharshini who brings us a beautiful piece on the hardest of subjects. The third talk in a five-part series from Tiratanaloka’s retreat on the ‘Four Mind Turnings’ of the Tibetan tradition. Using zen poetry and a happily wide-ranging series of quotations [...]
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Mending the Broken Ladder
Author: Atula
Sat, Jan 07, 2012
Today’s we introduce Atula in our weekly FBA Podcast with “Mending the Broken Ladder” a very thoughtful talk long-time by this practising Buddhist and psychotherapist. The nature of the ‘psyche’ and our sense of self-view is explored with reference to the Fourfold Vision of William Blake, T.S. Eliot, Charles Bukowski, Edward Conze, and Humpty Dumpty! [...]
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Fields of Creativity
Author: Sangharakshita
Sat, Dec 31, 2011
Welcome to this weeks FBA Podcast, “Fields of Creativity”, a sparkling talk by Sangharakshita on a theme close to his heart. Full of warmth, wit and stimulating ideas. Talk given in 2001.
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In the Bleak Midwinter
Author: Parami
Sat, Dec 24, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast, “In the Bleak Midwinter”, Parami delivers a gem of a talk, with a wintery theme. With a song to open followed by metaphors on bleakness, with the earth as hard as iron and water like a stone, times when we struggle and it seems as if no growth is possible. She talks [...]
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The Life of Milarepa
Author: Paramartha
Sat, Dec 17, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast, we are taken deep into the mythical magical world of Milarepa, Tibet’s great yogi saint, in “The Life of Milarepa,” by Paramartha. First talk in a series of 4 talks on ‘Milarepa’. Talks given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, Winter Retreat 2010.
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Renunciation – Tasting Freedom
Author: Saddhanandi
Sat, Dec 10, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast, “Renunciation – Tasting Freedom,” Saddhanandi says at the beginning of this talk that she’s concerned she won’t fully convey the depth of inspiration she feels about her theme – she shouldn’t have worried, she does it full justice. Her various approaches to her subject include renunciation as giving up unreal expectations, [...]
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Getting It
Author: Vidyadevi
Sat, Dec 03, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast is titled: “Getting It,” by Vidyadevi. Her brief here is ‘study as a way to Wisdom’, and she comes to it with a delightfully playful straightforwardness. As a means of exploring the ‘Middle Way’, she speaks of the various dualities and juxtapositions she has encountered in her own engagement with Dharma study [...]
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Great Doubt
Author: Padmavajra
Sat, Nov 26, 2011
Padmavajra delivers some crazy stuff as we hit koan country! Today’s FBA Podcast titled “Great Doubt” is the seventh in an excellent 8-talk sequence by Padmavajra on Zen Buddhism. The series is full of colourful stories and challenging insights from the lives of the great Masters of China and Japan. A fascinating look at doubt [...]
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Tara – Virya Buddha
Author: Vanaraji
Sat, Nov 19, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast takes us into the mysterious world of “Tara – Virya Buddha”. Dharmacharini Vanaraji gave this talk to the Women’s Class at the London Buddhist Centre, June 2011.
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Chetul Sangye Dorje
Author: Vajratara
Sat, Nov 12, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast is titled “Chetul Sangye Dorje” by Vajratara. A forthright and passionate talk, taking as its starting point the great contemporary Tibetan teacher (sometimes also written ‘Chatral Sangye Dorje’) and his relationship to practice in the Triratna [FWBO] Community via his giving of the Green Tara practice to Sangharakshita. The main focus, however, [...]
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Visibility
Author: Kuladharini
Sat, Nov 05, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast titled “Visibility” Kuladharini explores what it’s like to be an example of the fourth sight in the world, to be a visible embodiment of Dharma practice. Using the metaphors of the begging bowl, robes and shaved head she shares three ways in which she has gone forth as a visible example [...]
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Beyond Hope and Hopelessness
Author: Guhyapati
Sat, Oct 29, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast, “Beyond Hope and Hopelessness Dancing In the Ruins of Time,” takes us into the world seen through the eyes of EcoDharma, a Triratna retreat centre in the Catalan Pyrenees. Guhyapati offers a sober analysis of the environmental problems facing humanity and issues a clarion call for action – including from the Buddhist [...]
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Life for a Limited Time Only
Author: Suriyavamsa
Sat, Oct 22, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast Suriyavamsa begins “Life for a Limited Time Only” with the inevitability of death and some of our habitual attitudes to death and suffering, reading from contemporary poets. He brings out the Buddhist perspective that life and death are not separate, but parts of the same process. This talk was given on [...]
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Eight Verses for Training the Mind
Author: Subhuti
Sat, Oct 15, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast is the first talk in a brilliant series titled “Eight Verses for Training the Mind” by Dharmachari Subhuti. Based on the Tibetan text by Kadampa Geshe Langri Tangpa, Subhuti introduces the verses in the context of the development of Buddhism in Tibet and India. We then have a full treatment of the [...]
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Ethics
Author: Manjuvajra
Sat, Oct 08, 2011
In today’s, FBA Podcast, simply titled “Ethics,” Manjuvajra takes a look at the complex area of ethics from a Buddhist perspective. The nature of ‘self’, the place of feeling and emotion, the role of intention and action – these are fertile grounds for digging deeper into our own ethical practice and considering our lives in [...]
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The Taste of Freedom
Author: Sangharakshita
Fri, Sep 30, 2011
“Just as the mighty ocean has but one taste, the taste of salt, even so the Dharma-vinaya (Buddhism) has but one taste, the taste of Freedom”- The Udana. Today’s FBA Podcast, “The Taste of Freedom: is a brilliant and rousing tour-de-force on transcendental freedom, one of Sangharakshita’s best-loved lectures. Talk given in 1979.
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Tales of a Free Spirit – 45 Years of the Buddha’s Life
Author: Vajrasara
Sat, Sep 24, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast “Talks of a Free Spirit – 45 Years of the Buddha’s Life” explores the life and teachings of the Buddha as they’ve come down through the stories of the tradition. Vajrasara has a veritable genius for making clear the relevances for contemporary society, and this talk is a most engaging example as [...]
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Doubt as Path
Author: Amaraketu
Sat, Sep 17, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast “Doubt as Path” is a good and useful talk on the dangers of certainty in the spiritual life – individually and within a community. Amaraketu draws on his own experience of zen and of painting in order to evoke a sense of what it might be like to live and practice not [...]
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Life with Full Attention
Author: Maitreyabandhu
Sat, Sep 10, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast is titled “Life with Full Attention”. In this half-hour talk, Maitreyabandhu (a teacher at the London Buddhist Centre) gives you a witty, practical, real-life look at how mindfulness makes us more alive and free. His book ‘Life With Full Attention’ will be published by Windhorse Publications in July 2009. Click here for [...]
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Work As Spiritual Practice: Introducing Reginald Ray’s Threefold Model
Author: Mahabodhi
Sat, Sep 03, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast, Mahabodhi kicks off a series of talks on the theme of ‘Work As Spiritual Practice’ with “Work As Spiritual Practice: Introducing Reginald Ray’s Threefold Model”. Based on Ray’s book, ‘Buddhist Saints in India’, this is a framework for considering the spiritual benefits and challenges of three roles or life styles within [...]
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We Live In a Beautiful World: Buddhism and Nature
Author: Vajragupta
Sat, Aug 27, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast, is a magical exploration by Vajragupta titled: “We Live In a Beautiful World: Buddhism and Nature”. Sharing his very personal experiences on solitary retreats, Vajragupta asks, “How can human beings live with more love and appreciation of the natural world? What does Buddhism have to offer?” A talk in a series addressing [...]
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Compassionate Koans – The Heart of the Matter
Author: Vijayamala
Sat, Aug 20, 2011
Today’s Podcast “Compassionate Koans – The Heart of the Matter does in fact take us to the heart of the matter! An excellent, personal set of reflections by Vijayamala on the relationship between our longing and our pain. The Buddhist tradition posits compassion as the best response, but it isn’t always clear how that works. [...]
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Masculinity and Femininity in the Spiritual Life
Author: Sangharakshita
Sat, Aug 13, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast takes us back to the 1969 wholly inspiring Aspects of the Bodhisattva Ideal series by Sangharakshita. “Masculinity and Femininity in the Spiritual Life”is the fifth talk in the series. Here, the third and fourth Perfections are kshanti (forbearance, tolerance or spiritual receptivity) and virya (energy in pursuit of the good). So the [...]
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Learning from Tibetan Buddhism – A Personal Account
Author: Vessantara
Sat, Aug 06, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast, “Learning from Tibetan Buddhism – A Personal Account” Vessantara shares from his many years of engagement with Tibetan Buddhist approaches to meditation and general Buddhist practice. He carefully weighs up the different aspects of exploring a tradition outside of your own, and evokes Tibetan Buddhism itself through the story of his [...]
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Being Radical – 40 Years of the New Society
Author: Vajragupta
Sat, Jul 30, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast, is a brilliant retrospective on our Triratna Community developments titled: “Being Radical – 40 Years of the New Society” by Vajragupta. Do we still believe in the ability of the Dharma to transform self and society? Do we still want to make a distinctive Dharmic contribution to building a better world? Are [...]
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Transcending the Human Predicament
Author: Sangharakshita
Sat, Jul 23, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast, “Transcending the Human Predicament”, Sangharakshita investigates various symbolic elements in the Parable of the Burning House and we are reminded of the importance of responding to ‘the call of the Divine’. The general significance of the parable is then discussed under the headings of escapism, universalism and sectarianism. “The White Lotus Sutra [...]
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Anatta Made Simple
Author: Locana
Sat, Jul 16, 2011
In today’s talk, “Anatta Made Simple”, Locana provides an excellent introduction to the most subtle and complex part of the Buddha’s teaching on impermanence: that all things in conditioned existence are empty of any innate self-nature. Insubstantiality might never be really ‘simple’ to understand – but this is a good place to start and Locana [...]
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Abundant Treasures
Author: Suriyavamsa
Sat, Jul 09, 2011
Welcome to this week’s FBA Podcast, “Abundant Treasures,” by the wonderful story teller, Suriyavamsa. The first of a series on the parables of The White Lotus Sutra, this talk looks at the Sutra as a whole. Suriyavamsa explores the key themes as well as how best to approach a Mahayana Sutra. Please note that there [...]
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Standing on Emptiness
Author: Dhammadassin
Sat, Jul 02, 2011
In “Standing on Emptiness” Dhammadassin eloquently invites us into a lovely, thoughtful exploration of the traditional Buddhist path of ethics, meditation and wisdom, using poetry and the ideas of contemporary science to evoke the mystery that lies at the heart of practice. Dhammadassin’s beautifully weighted talk challenges us to look at how we think and [...]
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Absorption – After the Enlightenment
Author: Kamalashila
Sat, Jun 25, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast, Kamalashila delivers: ‘Absorption – After the Enlightenment’. How do you get used to being Enlightened? What happened to the Buddha in the weeks after his breakthrough experience? Kamalashila explores these questions in two ways – using the framework of the Western Buddhist Order’s system of meditation to shed light on the [...]
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Energy At Its Most Abundant
Author: Parami
Sat, Jun 18, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast, Parami delivers true to form: “Energy At Its Most Abundant” on the topic of ‘virya’ – ‘energy in pursuit of the good’. This talk was given as part of a three talk series at Windhorse:Evolution, a large and successful Buddhist team-based right livelihood business. A good, strong (sometimes even idealistic!) evocation [...]
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