Seeing is a good word to describe the dawning of insight. Today’s FBA Dharmabyte “Seeing with Insight” is from the fourth talk in Padmavjara’s wonderful series on the Dhammapada, the most popular of early Buddhist texts. All of the Buddha’s core teachings are here – held in heart and mind there’s more than enough in the Dhammapada to take us as far in our practice as we can imagine, and then on beyond…

This material is intended for use with the Dharma Training Course for Mitras (see our ‘Study’ section, year three).

Talk recorded at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2007

The full talk, also titled “Seeing with Insight“, is part of the series The Dhammapada – the Buddha’s Way of Truth.

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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 was given at the London Buddhist Centre’s Tuesday evening drop-in meditation class on 6th Dec 2011.

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In today’s FBA Dharmabyte titled “In response to the Buddha” Sangharakshita explores how we come into contact with the Buddha through our intellect, emotion and our will. From the talk “Intellect, Emotion and Will” given at the opening of the Manchester Buddhist Centre in 1996.

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Exploring the first of the four ‘superconscious states’ today’s FBA Dharmabyte titled “Integration” by Sangharakshita takes us in for a closer look at the energies of both the conscious and unconscious mind and how the process of integration leads to greater harmony and ease.

Excerpted from the talk, “A Method of Personal Development,” given in 1976 as part of the series “Buddhism for Today and Tomorrow.”

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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 Forth into homelessness. Through personal reminiscence and classic Zen poetry that evokes a truly rich awareness, we see the Buddha, Hakuin, Dogen and Ryokan as they struggle to make sense of this fleeting world of form.

This talk is part of the series “Tangling Eyebrows with Zen Masters.”

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