404: The River Under the River (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 27)
Let's start with this image: there's a river under the river. The wolf is there too. Alive and real and, sometimes, scary. But this is the true place of greater safety, and of a deeper freedom too. Join us for another inspiring conversation!
40m May 26, 2020
40m
403: Turning Arrows Into Flowers (The Dharma Toolkit, Episode 26)
A great, practical conversation with Yashobodhi about the meditative, reflective work of the Seven-Point Mind Training tradition in Buddhism. How do we face up to difficult emotions? Find the opportunities inherent when there are obstacles in our lives? Learn how we might all turn our straw into gold...
26m May 14, 2020
26m
402: Ironic Points of Light (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 25)
A conversation amongst friends about images, opening up to wider vistas of perspective and relationship: with our kids, with ourselves, with all our fellow beings. All reflected in each other like jewels in a great net thrown across the universe.
40m May 08, 2020
40m
401: Edición en español! (El podcast diario de Dharma Toolkit, 24)
Cuatro amigos budistas se reunion en zoom y exploran como su practica budista les ayuda en tiempos de pandemia y tambien como el mundo cambiando ha cambiado su practica.
43m May 06, 2020
43m
400: Reflections on Love (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 23)
A beautiful, poetic set of reflections from Ratnavandana on the Brahma Viharas - a set of meditations on love and hoe to change your life in its light. Plus a gorgeous wee song to bring our week to a close!
27m May 01, 2020
27m
399: Hyperavailability (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 22)
There's so much Buddhist "stuff" online already it can be hard to know where to start - and how to handle the sheer amount of quality resources out there. Join friends from Berlin, Glasgow and Oxford to reflect on the pitfalls, pleasures and immense possibilities of Dharma on the web.
40m Apr 30, 2020
40m
398: Make Room For Fun (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 21)
How we can meet the deep and urgently serious aspects of life and of the current times without jettisoning a similarly vital human sense of fun, pleasure, play, spontaneity, creativity – even joy? Join us and explore the myriad ways of touching in with deep pools of creative life, even in the hardest times.
33m Apr 28, 2020
33m
397: Being Divine Online: Q & A with Ratnavandana on the Brahma Viharas (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 20)
Join us for this Q & A with Ratnavandana on a series of root Buddhist meditation practices that, even in the face of pandemic, can nourish us with love and wisdom.
44m Apr 28, 2020
44m
396: The Making of 'Hair On Fire' with Mary Salome (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 19)
'Hair on Fire': The Director's Commentary! Join us with Mary Salome, for a 'making of' special about our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts: "Hair On Fire: Using the Threefold Way of Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom to Turn Toward Climate Change".
35m Apr 24, 2020
35m
395: Hair On Fire, Episode 3 - Wisdom (Earth Week 2020)
Third in a series of three special podcasts for Earth Day 2020. Episode 3: Buddhist responses to climate change from the perspective of wisdom. This week on The Buddhist Centre Online and the Dharma Toolkit we are marking Earth Day - all week long! Here's the first episode in our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts to be released through the week: "Hair On Fire: Using the Threefol...
32m Apr 23, 2020
32m
394: Hair On Fire, Episode 2 - Meditation (Earth Week 2020)
Second in a series of three special podcasts for Earth Day 2020. Episode 2: Buddhist responses to climate change from the perspective of meditation. This week on The Buddhist Centre Online and the Dharma Toolkit we are marking Earth Day - all week long! Here's the first episode in our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts to be released through the week: "Hair On Fire: Using the Thr...
18m Apr 22, 2020
18m
394: Hair On Fire, Episode 1 - Ethics (Earth Week 2020)
First in a series of three special podcasts for Earth Day 2020. Episode 1: Buddhist responses to climate change from the perspective of ethics. This week on The Buddhist Centre Online and the Dharma Toolkit we are marking Earth Day - all week long! Here's the first episode in our specially commissioned mini-series of podcasts to be released through the week: "Hair On Fire: Using the Threefol...
28m Apr 21, 2020
28m
393: Earth Day, Earth Week! Return to Nature on the Inside (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 18)
For Earth Day, a mythic and personally practical journey, against a backdrop of glacial time that challenges all our notions of 'activism'. We are both ghosts and voyagers in the underworld of our own life as our guests explore what it might be like for a largely urban community to make awareness of nature and the land part of how we communicate the Dharma. And what sort of ancestors we may yet...
41m Apr 21, 2020
41m
392: The Hero's Journey to the Food Bank (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 17)
Two great friends from Australia and New Zealand evoke a mythic vision of beautiful community, founded on, knit together by stories.
41m Apr 18, 2020
41m
391: Emergent Community Online (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 16)
How has the early promise of the Internet held up when it comes to new forms of global community and ways of Buddhist practice? Join us for some wonderful sharing around what community means – at least for today!
31m Apr 15, 2020
31m
390: Global Community India! (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 15)
The wonderful collaboration bringing a vision of social justice to bear on educating girls and boys in English, and in Buddhist principles that support local community leadership. A moving testament to how, even in the midst of crisis, worlds can be changed through consistent, simple generous acts, one person at a time.
36m Apr 13, 2020
36m
389: Painting Into Reality (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 14)
How do we meet the stresses of the times with our deepest sources of inspiration? Abhayavajra loves painting. He loves paint itself. And sees himself more like an archaeologist, revealing something urgent and crucial about the human condition by adding rather than scraping away layers. A wonderful conversation about art and beauty itself.
30m Apr 11, 2020
30m
389: The Money Issue (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 13)
Meet two former investment bankers, now working hard to support Buddhist communities in their hour of need! How to turn a financial crisis into an opportunity for generosity.
35m Apr 09, 2020
35m
388: The Ministry Of Presence (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 12)
A great, encouraging conversation from New York City and San Francisco. The mythic sense of things is never far away in today's conversation: at the most intimate levels of close, personal friendship; and also culturally, historically, politically, and spiritually as we try to meet the moment of crisis to which we are all witnesses.
41m Apr 08, 2020
41m
37: A Buddhist Way Through the Ups and Downs of Life: Live Q & A (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 11)
Live online Q & A with Vajragupta, author and Dharma teacher. A great, wide-ranging and practical discussion about what this classic Buddhist teaching has to say to us about caring for ourselves and each other during the current coronavirus / Covid-19 pandemic. And what communities can do to try and make sure the world does not simply forget all that's being learned when the crisis is finally o...
46m Apr 06, 2020
46m
387: Covid Emergency In India (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 10)
An emergency appeal from us to you, dear friends. Will you help? 300-400 million day-labourers are left without work or money after the sudden lockdown in India. You can support some amazing work happening on the ground right now, wherever you are! Witness how we can all make a difference, even when things are as tough as they are.
34m Apr 03, 2020
34m
384: Breathing Space (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 9)
Meeting Dr. Paramabandhu Groves, pioneer in the area of effective kindness-based therapies for people suffering from long-term issues with depression and addiction. Tune in for a great conversation about some quietly heroic, compassionate work! Join us for a new podcast each week day - the best of community in strange times!
18m Apr 01, 2020
18m
386: Sailing The Worldly Winds (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 8)
Pleasure and Pain, Gain and Loss, Praise and Blame, Fame and Infamy... The plan is, there is no plan! The message is: give yourself to the flow of life as lovingly as you can in any given moment. Join us for another great conversation - and for some serious practice at home. Get a new podcast each week day - the best of community in strange times!
35m Mar 31, 2020
35m
385: The Blue Sky at the Heart of the Body (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 7)
A crucial and rather beautiful conversation about how we relate to our bodies in relative isolation. Some down-to-earth, open-hearted sharing of experience about things physical... Join us for a new podcast each week day - the best of community in strange times!
43m Mar 31, 2020
43m
383: Podcast Brasileiro! (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 6)
Standing in the idyllic gardens of Chintamani Buddhist Retreat Center in México and Manjupriya from São Paolo, via Dublin, is telling us, "Time is poetry in Brazil." Listen to the birdsong, close your eyes and you can almost smell the blossom. Join us for a new podcast each week day - the best of community in strange times!
31m Mar 27, 2020
31m
382: Guarding The Gates (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 5)
The Internet doesn't always make things better! What do you do in the face of 24 hour news media that is just not going to stop? Join us for a conversation about how to guard the gates of our senses when it matters in order to stay sane.
36m Mar 27, 2020
36m
381: The Fear Issue (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 4)
Join us for a good look at what scares and also at the hope that lies beyond fear's false horizon. "What went before — let go of that! All that's to come — have none of it! Don't hold on to what's in between, And you'll wander fully at peace." The Buddha
30m Mar 26, 2020
30m
380: A Scientist's Tale (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 3)
"The virus is not the monster from the deep. It evolved on this planet the same way we did." A new podcast from The Buddhist Centre, with good company to help you through the weeks or months ahead in these extraordinary coronavirus times. Dharma inspiration when you need it most!
15m Mar 24, 2020
15m
379: The Unexpected Intimacy Of Online (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 2)
Today: technology and its capacity for depth of connection in community. Come and get meta with us about Zoom! A new podcast from The Buddhist Centre, with good company to help you through the weeks or months ahead in these extraordinary coronavirus times. Dharma inspiration when you need it most!
35m Mar 24, 2020
35m
378: Turning Towards Uncertain Times (The Dharma Toolkit Daily, Episode 1)
A new podcast from The Buddhist Centre, with good company to help you through the weeks or months ahead in these extraordinary coronavirus times. Dharma inspiration when you need it most!
28m Mar 21, 2020
28m
377: Voices from Venezuela / Voces de Venezuela
"In a crisis you have to find new ways to be, you can't just carry on with the old ways...Buddhism gives you something new...a way of finding happiness, that comes from a different place." "I think the world, at the moment, is giving us lessons in the need for spirituality" On a recent visit to Venezuela, Parami speaks with Abhayasara (ordained in October) and Maria Elena, Wilman and Arsenio wh...
22m Mar 16, 2020
22m
376: Exploring Buddhist Modernism
"I see philosophy as not only part of the great modernist, or western project of understanding, but feeding into the Buddhist project of bringing awakened values into the world" - Dhivan Sanghadhara chats to Dhivan, Silavadin and Dr Matt Drage who recently led a philosophy symposium at Adhisthana called 'Exploring Buddhist Modernism'.  The premise of this symposium being that western Buddhism h...
30m Feb 06, 2020
30m
375: Encouraging Young People on the Path - Prajnaketu & Subhadramati
How can young people be freed up to take initiative as they explore the Buddhist path? An encouraging, inspiring conversation across generations.
25m Jan 20, 2020
25m
374: Podcast - European Chairs Assembly Winter 2020: Agreeing New Strategic Priorities
Here's a short conversation with Akuppa (Newcastle, UK), Parina (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Dhammapitika (Metta Vihara Retreat Centre, The Netherlands) on the morning of the last full day at the Winter ECA - European Chairs assembly meeting, talking through the some of the new priorities that have been agreed on. We also hear about the fledgling plans underway to bring these to life in the...
13m Jan 10, 2020
13m
373: TBCO Magazine Podcast #2
Our second episode of our 'audio magazine' includes some of the highlights from the past six months: we hear about a land project in Hawaii, the revival of the Urgyen tulip, what's going on 'Down Under', what it's like working on an online Buddhist team and much more besides!
1hr 1m Dec 23, 2019
1hr 1m
372: Working in an Online Team: A Buddhist Perspective
This podcast features the Dharmachakra team - who bring you The Buddhist Centre Online (https://thebuddhistcentre.com/) website and platform, Free Buddhist Audio (https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/) , podcasts like this one, event coverage, technical support and more besides! As part of an online practice week in August some of this team gathered to talk about the Dharma and how they practice i...
39m Oct 30, 2019
39m
371: Las Sietas Magníficas (en español)
Ya transcurrieron un par de días desde que inició la Convención Panamericana. En el comedor se pueden oír conversaciones en inglés y en español, incluso hay quien sirve de traductor para aquel que lo necesita. En este espacio, donde flores y el canto de los pájaros enmarcan las actividades de la convención, tuvieron la oportunidad de reunirse una vez mas. Hace poco mas de dos años tomaba lugar ...
32m Oct 27, 2019
32m
370: Triratna Young Buddhists: Transforming Through Sangha
"When I went on those first Young Buddhist retreats I saw a future for Buddhism in my life.." "I don't think I've ever put my phone away for an entire weekend since I was about fifteen so coming away and doing that was incredible - I didn't realise the effect it'd had until I left..." Suzie from Manchester and Dharmasara from Berlin talk about their involvement in the Young Buddhist project. Fr...
14m Oct 26, 2019
14m
369: Triratna International Council 2019 - New Zealand & Australia Edition
The 6th Triratna International Council is in full swing in England this week. Folk from around the world converging on beautiful rural Herefordshire to explore the work of making sure our community is united and available to all in the years ahead. We're joined by our friends from New Zealand and Australia for a check-in around their take on the week and the relevance of international perspecti...
27m Sep 06, 2019
27m
368: Creating a Heaven on Earth: Day 3 of the 2019 Triratna International Gathering
"...[the International Gathering is] quite intentionally like a mix of a retreat and a festival...but it's a whole retreat and a whole festival happening at the same time!" On the final full day of the 2019 Triratna International Gathering we tune in with Sanghamani, who gave one of the keynote talks, Sanjay from London and David, who is on the current men's Dharma Life course at Adhisthana, ab...
10m Aug 25, 2019
10m
367: A Reunion: Day 2 of the 2019 Triratna International Gathering
Sadayasihi is reunited with Gina Plant Cabrita and Christine Thuring who all first met on the 2014 Triratna International Gathering. They recall that Gathering and how, for each of them, it marked a pivotal moment in their lives - and what they did afterwards. The conversation then turns to day 2 of the 2019 Triratna International Gathering and what's been happening. We hear more about the sign...
15m Aug 24, 2019
15m
366: Myth and Magic: Day 1 of the 2019 Triratna International Gathering
It's the first full day of the Triratna International Gathering and Adhisthana is basking in summer sunshine!  In this short podcast we get a flavour of the 'Alchemy of the Dharma'. A couple of people share their highlights from the International Gathering so far - from the first talk by Ratnaguna on 'Transforming Self', a classic music concert after lunch, workshops on tai chi, yoga, the activ...
7m Aug 23, 2019
7m
365: A Mandala of Awakening - UK & Ireland Area Order Convention 2019
Dassini talks to the International Order Convenors, Aryajaya and Lokeshvara, and Vimalamati and Vajrapriya from the International Order Office on day 2 of the UK & Ireland Area Order Convention at Wymondham, UK. The inspiration for this particular Convention has been to make the programme more retreat-like as well as also having forum spaces to facilitate Order debate and dialogue and we get a ...
15m Aug 08, 2019
15m
364: Concluding thoughts at the End of the ECA, Summer 2019
"To be a chair is not to be a particular kind of person...they are very different. But what they do have in common, is a love of Triratna, a love of the Dharma and a longing to help..." The 2019 Summer ECA - European Chairs' Assembly - took place at Padmaloka in the UK.  We are joined by Aryanita from Paris, Vanaraji from Mid-Essex, Jayaraja from Buddhafield and Amrutasiddhi from Nagpur, India,...
18m Jul 30, 2019
18m
363: Singhamati - A Gathering of Hearts and Minds
"It's more than the talks and the meditation and the puja - amazing as I'm sure they'll all be - it's also the gathering of hearts and minds, the chatting over cups of tea, the workshops...and just being together in that space" The 2019 Triratna International Gathering is fast approaching - it's a wonderful opportunity for those in our community to come together to share their practice and insp...
6m Jul 02, 2019
6m
362: The Gen-X 2019 Podcast
Gen-X 2019! Great conversation AND marimba dance music! What more could you want?
36m Jun 28, 2019
36m
360: Kiranada - Readings from 'A Year of Silence'
What is it like to spend a year alone and in silence out in the wild? Find out, with Kiranada's wonderful readings and reflections on her time of deep solitude and peace.
35m Jun 06, 2019
35m
359: The Order Practice Survey
One of the Sikkha Project's key aims is to support spiritual practice in our community and the Order Practice survey is a tool to help this come about. The purpose of the Order Practice survey is threefold: - to gather information about how Order members are practising (and how that can be supported); - to provide an opportunity for Order members to reflect on their own practice; - to start mor...
12m May 30, 2019
12m
358: Community - With Your Own Front Door
"So it's community - but with our own front door" - Tejasvini The Suvana (meaning ‘happy realm’) project aims to develop Buddhist co-housing in Cambridge, UK. It will be newly built, sustainable, low carbon footprint development, with the community inspired by Buddhist values.   Here's a conversation with Tejasvini and Jeremy Peters, both involved in the project, discussing co-housing as a resp...
16m May 27, 2019
16m
357: Dhammamegha - An Update from The Sikkha Project
"The idea is that, at some point, it won't be a project; it'll just be more like how we do things" The Sikkha Project aims to support the development of training within Triratna for every level of experience, to discover and share how the different elements of our system of practice are taught and practiced most effectively, and to create resources and training to fill any gaps. Here's a conv...
20m Apr 19, 2019
20m