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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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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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The Buddha’s Vision
Author: Vishvapani
Sat, Jun 11, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast, we give you “The Buddha’s Vision”, the last talk in the “Gautama Buddha” series launching Vishvapani’s new book “Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of the Awakened One”. (Quercus, 2011) When the Buddha finally sat down under the Bodhi tree and saw deeply into the nature of things, what had brought [...]
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The Buddha and Society
Author: Vishvapani
Sat, Jun 04, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast, we give you the fourth talk in the “Gautama Buddha” series titled: “The Buddha and Society”, from the launch of Vishvapani’s new book “Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of the Awakened One”. (Quercus, 2011) The Buddha as a radical, as a holy man, as pragmatist, as tamer of demons, as [...]
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The Buddha’s Personality
Author: Vishvapani
Sat, May 28, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast, Vishvapani delivers “The Buddha’s Personality”, the third talk in his dynamic new series from the launch of the book “Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of the Awakened One”. (Quercus, 2011) Great artists have tried and failed to grasp the essence of the Buddha’s character. Beyond the narrative and the drama, [...]
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Imagining Gautama
Author: Vishvapani
Sat, May 21, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast, is the second talk in a major new series of talks by Vishvapani to mark the launch of his new book: ‘Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of the Awakened One’ (Quercus, 2011). In “Imagining Gautama”, originally subtitled, ‘Approaching The Buddha As An Historical And As A Mythic Figure’, Vishvapani traces his [...]
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Searching for the Buddha – Launch of Gautama Buddha
Author: Vishvapani
Sat, May 14, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast, we present: “Searching for the Buddha”, the first in a major new series of talks by Vishvapani to mark the launch of his new book: ‘Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of the Awakened One’ (Quercus, 2011). Vishvapani is a well known figure in the Triratna Buddhist Community and is a [...]
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Enchantment to True Delight – Reflections On Stream Entry
Author: Vidyamala
Sat, May 07, 2011
In today’s FBA Dharmabyte, Punyamala delivers a rich, comprehensive talk: From Enchantment to True Delight – Reflections On Stream Entry. Here, she sets out the path from effective to Real Going For Refuge using the framework of breaking the first three fetters and gaining Stream-entry. Punyamala confidently asserts that Stream-entry is attainable in this lifetime. [...]
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This Way Up – Living the Spiral Path
Author: Saraha
Sat, Apr 30, 2011
In today’s FBA Podcast, “This Way Up – Living the Spiral Path” Saraha delivers a beautiful and engaging talk seeped in the Pali Canon. Leading with the Vatthupama, Simile of the Cloth, Sutta, Saraha gives us a very detailed look into the stages of spiritual development as described in the Lokuttara Paticcasamuppada Sutta – The [...]
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Why Read the Sutta Nipata?
Author: Suriyavamsa
Sat, Apr 23, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast, “Why Read the Sutta Nipata?”, by Suriyavamsa, is a thorough and engaging exploration of the why and what of suttas, how they were traditionally passed on through the ages and Kukai’s description of how a sutta works on the rational, imaginative and cosmic-mythological levels. Includes beautiful readings on the themes of: skillful [...]
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On the Hymn to Perfect Wisdom
Author: Kulaprabha
Sat, Apr 16, 2011
In the talk On the Hymn to Perfect Wisdom‘ Kulaprabha beautifully explores these verses of devotion from ‘The Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Lines’ and they apply to us, in our lives, in our world.
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Awake to the Cries of the World
Author: Subhuti
Sat, Apr 09, 2011
In celebration of the 43rd anniversary of the founding of the Triratna Buddhist Community, (formally the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order) we bring you an moving and engaging talk by Subhuti: “Awake to the Cries of the World” the keynote talk from the FWBO celebrations a decade ago. How do we respond to the [...]
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Karma and the Consequences of Our Actions
Author: Ratnadharini
Sat, Apr 02, 2011
Today’s FBA Podcast is titled “Karma and the Consequences of Action”. The fourth talk in a five-part series from Tiratanaloka’s retreat on the ‘Four Mind Turnings’ of the Tibetan tradition. Here Ratnadharini takes us a little closer into the often misunderstood area of karma in Buddhist thinking. She draws out the important details of the [...]
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Initation into The Alchemy of Love
Author: Padmavajra
Sat, Mar 26, 2011
In The Alchemy of Love Padmavajra explores the transformative magic that is Bodhichitta practice. A short introduction to the theme here – setting the context for the series and introducing us to Shantideva, whose treatise on Bodhichitta practice (the Bodhicharyavatara) forms the basis of the wonders to be explored Talk given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, [...]
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Enlightenment as Experience and as Non-Experience
Author: Sangharakshita
Sat, Mar 19, 2011
In Enlightenment as Experience and as Non-Experience, Sangharakshita exposes a modern disease of frustrated craving for experience. He suggests that spiritual life is better seen in more concrete ways; as growth, work, and duty. Talk given in 1975.
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This Precious Human Life
Author: Kulaprabha
Sat, Mar 12, 2011
In this talk “This Precious Human Life” Kulaprabha skillfully points out that it’s not every human life that is precious. Preciousness comes when our human life has arrived at the unique occasion of the ‘Eight Freedoms’ and at the right juncture of the ‘Ten Endowments’ – and when we have a faithful heart. Given at [...]
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The Meaning of Parinirvana
Author: Sangharakshita
Sat, Mar 05, 2011
In “The Meaning of Parinirvana”, Sangharakshita gives a lecture celebrating the anniversary of the Parinirvana or ‘death’ of the Buddha. It outlines six basic meditation practices crucial to the attainment of the ‘Deathless’: Enlightenment. N.B. Last few words missing. Talk given in 1972 by Urgyen Sangharakshita.
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