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Dharmabytes from Free Buddhist AudioFear and Dread Sutta Kulaprabha explores death of our fixed, bounded self, the self that is made up of bundled habits and preferences and views - especially views about existence and non-existence. Excerpted from the talk System of Meditation Retreats - Spiritual Death, Fear and Fearlessness given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2008. *** Help us keep FBA Podcasts free for everyone! Donate now! https://freebuddhistaudio.com/donate Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/free-buddhist-audio-community/id75081757 Spotify: https://open.spotify...2025-03-3103 minDharmabytes from free buddhist audioFear and Dread Sutta Kulaprabha explores death of our fixed, bounded self, the self that is made up of bundled habits and preferences and views - especially views about existence and non-existence. Excerpted from the talk System of Meditation Retreats - Spiritual Death, Fear and Fearlessness given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2008. *** Help us keep FBA Podcasts free for everyone! Donate now! https://freebuddhistaudio.com/donate Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast: A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/free-buddhist-audio-community/id75081757 Spotify: https://open.spotify...2025-03-3103 min
Dharmabytes from Free Buddhist AudioHow Does a Bodhisattva Regard Living Beings?Kulaprabha recounts an episode from the Vimalakirti Nirdesa to draw out how one generates the great love in response to the suffering of beings. This is the third of four talks exploring Vasubandhu's Four Factors entitled Contemplating the Suffering of Beings given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2010. In his treatise Generating Bodhi Resolve, Vasubandhu describes them as able to generate the resolve to cultivate and accumulate the bases for the Arising of the Bodhicitta. You can find out more about them in Sangharakshita's books The Meaning of Conversion in Buddhism and The Bodhisattva Ideal. 2021-06-2105 minDharmabytes from free buddhist audioHow Does a Bodhisattva Regard Living Beings?Kulaprabha recounts an episode from the Vimalakirti Nirdesa to draw out how one generates the great love in response to the suffering of beings. This is the third of four talks exploring Vasubandhu's Four Factors entitled Contemplating the Suffering of Beings given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2010. In his treatise Generating Bodhi Resolve, Vasubandhu describes them as able to generate the resolve to cultivate and accumulate the bases for the Arising of the Bodhicitta. You can find out more about them in Sangharakshita's books The Meaning of Conversion in Buddhism and The Bodhisattva Ideal. 2021-06-2105 minDharmabytes from Free Buddhist AudioVasubandhu's Four Factors Vasubandhu lived in northern India and Nepal in the 4th century CE. He was a renowned teacher in the Sarvastivadin School of Buddhism but later converted to Mahayana Buddhism under the influence of his brother Asanga. In this talk Kulaprabha introduces us to a work of his dealing with the conditions necessary for the arising of the Bodhicitta - here translated as Bodhi Resolve. In particular, she compares and contrasts Vasubandhu's Four Factors as they are described in this text with Sangharakshita's description and evocation of them in his book 'The Meaning of Conversion in Bud...2019-09-2610 minDharmabytes from free buddhist audioVasubandhu's Four Factors Vasubandhu lived in northern India and Nepal in the 4th century CE. He was a renowned teacher in the Sarvastivadin School of Buddhism but later converted to Mahayana Buddhism under the influence of his brother Asanga. In this talk Kulaprabha introduces us to a work of his dealing with the conditions necessary for the arising of the Bodhicitta - here translated as Bodhi Resolve. In particular, she compares and contrasts Vasubandhu's Four Factors as they are described in this text with Sangharakshita's description and evocation of them in his book 'The Meaning of Conversion in Bud...2019-09-2610 min
Free Buddhist AudioHer Two Hands Are the Two TruthsOur FBA Podcast this week is by Kulaprabha entitled Her Two Hands Are the Two Truths. This is the second in a four-part series by Kulaprabha on Nagarjuna's 'Lines Written to Tara.’2018-11-1031 min
Free Buddhist AudioHer Two Hands Are the Two TruthsOur FBA Podcast this week is by Kulaprabha entitled Her Two Hands Are the Two Truths. This is the second in a four-part series by Kulaprabha on Nagarjuna’s ‘Lines Written to Tara.’2018-11-1031 minDharmabytes from free buddhist audioThe Fulcrum of Vedana Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is from a talk by Kulaprabha called The Alchemy of Happiness, a thoughtful take on the positive emotions cultivated in the and#8216;Brahma Viharaand#8217; meditations. This excerpt, called The Fulcrum of Vedana, takes a look at the relationship between mindfulness and positive emotion. Talk given at the Western Buddhist Order convention, 2007.2018-05-1005 minDharmabytes from Free Buddhist AudioThe Fulcrum of Vedana Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte is from a talk by Kulaprabha called The Alchemy of Happiness, a thoughtful take on the positive emotions cultivated in the and#8216;Brahma Viharaand#8217; meditations. This excerpt, called The Fulcrum of Vedana, takes a look at the relationship between mindfulness and positive emotion. Talk given at the Western Buddhist Order convention, 2007.2018-05-1005 minDharmabytes from free buddhist audioConditions For Generating Bodhi Resolve Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called Conditions For Generating Bodhi Resolve from the talk Vasubandhuand#8217;s Treatise on Generating Bodhi Resolve given at the London Buddhist Centre, September 2009. In this talk Kulaprabha introduces us to a work of his dealing with the conditions necessary for the arising of the Bodhicitta and#8211; here translated as Bodhi Resolve. In particular, she compares and contrasts Vasubandhuand#8217;s Four Factors as they are described in this text with Sangharakshitaand#8217;s description and evocation of them in his book and#8216;The Meaning of conversion in Buddhismand#8217;.2018-04-1207 minDharmabytes from Free Buddhist AudioConditions For Generating Bodhi Resolve Our FBA Dharmabyte today is called Conditions For Generating Bodhi Resolve from the talk Vasubandhuand#8217;s Treatise on Generating Bodhi Resolve given at the London Buddhist Centre, September 2009. In this talk Kulaprabha introduces us to a work of his dealing with the conditions necessary for the arising of the Bodhicitta and#8211; here translated as Bodhi Resolve. In particular, she compares and contrasts Vasubandhuand#8217;s Four Factors as they are described in this text with Sangharakshitaand#8217;s description and evocation of them in his book and#8216;The Meaning of conversion in Buddhismand#8217;.2018-04-1207 minDharmabytes from free buddhist audioWhy We Fear DeathTodayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte explores four reasons Why We Fear Death drawn by Kulaprabha from the Abhaya Sutta in the Pali Canon. Itand#8217;s a lovely segment from a larger talk looking at the roots of fear, how it relates to change and transformation in spiritual practice, and how we can live more fearlessly. From the talk System of Meditation Retreats and#8211; Spiritual Death, Fear and Fearlessness.2016-02-2910 minDharmabytes from Free Buddhist AudioWhy We Fear DeathTodayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte explores four reasons Why We Fear Death drawn by Kulaprabha from the Abhaya Sutta in the Pali Canon. Itand#8217;s a lovely segment from a larger talk looking at the roots of fear, how it relates to change and transformation in spiritual practice, and how we can live more fearlessly. From the talk System of Meditation Retreats and#8211; Spiritual Death, Fear and Fearlessness.2016-02-2910 minDharmabytes from free buddhist audioOur Reaction to SufferingIn todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, and#8220;Our Reaction to Sufferingand#8221;, Kulaprabha offers quite personal reflections on our responses to suffering. From the talk and#8220;Contemplating the Suffering of Beingsand#8221; given at Taraloka.2015-01-2605 minDharmabytes from Free Buddhist AudioOur Reaction to SufferingIn todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, and#8220;Our Reaction to Sufferingand#8221;, Kulaprabha offers quite personal reflections on our responses to suffering. From the talk and#8220;Contemplating the Suffering of Beingsand#8221; given at Taraloka.2015-01-2605 min
Free Buddhist AudioBrahma Viharas and the Key MomentThis 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 was one of only a few people on the retreat who knew what had happened and knew about the shock that had reverberated round the world. Some of her reflections from that time are2012-03-241h 06
Free Buddhist AudioBrahma Viharas and the Key MomentThis 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 was one of only a few people on the retreat who knew what had happened and knew about the shock that had reverberated round the world. Some of her reflections from that time are included in the talk.2012-03-241h 06
FBA HighlightsDharmabytes Podcast #103 - "Four Reasons Why We Fear Death" by KulaprabhaIn today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “Four Reasons Why We Fear Death “, Kulaprabha explores the Abhaya Sutta on the theme of spiritual death. The death of our fixed, bounded self, the self that is made up of bundled habits and preferences and views – especially views about existence and non-existence. So don’t be surprised if, when contemplating the impermanence and unreliability of that small self, you taste fear. It’s natural enough in the circumstances. This is an excerpt from the full talk “Spiritual Death, Fear and Fearlessness” (http://freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=LOC58) focussing on the Abhaya Sutta.
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Free Buddhist AudioOn the Hymn to Perfect WisdomIn 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.2011-04-161h 00Free Buddhist AudioOn the Hymn to Perfect WisdomIn 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.2011-04-161h 00
Free Buddhist AudioThis Precious Human LifeIn 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 Taraloka Retreat Center, February 2008 this talk is one of a series of talks on the Four Reminders or Four Mind-Turnings inspired by Gampopa's 'Jewel Ornament of Liberation'.2011-03-1242 minFree Buddhist AudioThis Precious Human LifeIn 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 Taraloka Retreat Center, February 2008 this talk is one of a series of talks on the Four Reminders or Four Mind-Turnings inspired by Gampopa’s ‘Jewel Ornament of Liberation’.2011-03-1242 min