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Accessing Play and the Imagination
Episode 1300
Vajragupta shares how her creativity and devotion flow to (and from) her collection of Barbies. Drawing on the imagery, chakras and mantras of the …
1 year, 3 months ago
Opening Your Imagination
Episode 1299
Ratnaprabha tells the story of Queen Vaidehi languishing in prison and longing for a better world. The Buddha teaches her to meditate on the land o…
1 year, 3 months ago
Giving Ourselves Completely
Episode 1298
In answering the question 'What is Buddhism?', Sangharakshita identifies higher evolution - the development of higher states of consciousness - wi…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Moonlight Disciple
Episode 1297
Here Paramartha shares a story illustrating Milarepa as teacher, master, vertical kalyana mitra, in relation to Rechungpa, known as his ‘moonlight…
1 year, 3 months ago
Purification as Path
Episode 1296
Faith is the sort of emotional response that you have when you are confronted by the embodiment of Enlightenment. Vajragupta shares a story from t…
1 year, 4 months ago
To Be in the Heart
Episode 1295
A lover of chocolate, trees and poetry, Jayaraja explores how to make the Buddha’s teaching real in our lives by looking at the connection between…
1 year, 4 months ago
When Faith is Strongest
Episode 1294
Suryadarshini retells the story from Sangharakshita's Know Your Mind about staying in contact with faith in the midst of a desert of suffering. She…
1 year, 4 months ago
Our Buddhist Practice Rests on Shraddha
Episode 1293
Here Akashamitra takes us through the first of the five spiritual faculties, shraddha, often translated as faith or confidence. Excerpted from the…
1 year, 4 months ago
An Intuition In Us
Episode 1292
Vajradevi explores aspects of faith, including faith and receptivity, the relationship of confidence and doubt in our own practice. She goes on to …
1 year, 4 months ago
The Deepest Part of Ourselves
Episode 1291
The jewel in Buddhism represents the deepest nature of our being. Punyamala explores the symbol of the jewel in the lotus as evoked in the White L…
1 year, 4 months ago