By keeping our heart open, we communicate our values to all beings, offering an opportunity to break down polarization in our world. Parami  reminds us that a bodhisattva creates the conditions where all beings can see through the causes of conditions and therefore create the conditions for future happiness.

Excerpted from the talk After the Enlightenment: Breaking Through to Freedom given on Buddha Day at North London Buddhist Centre, May 2018.

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Dharmabytes Podcast #1022 "Keep The Doors Open To All Beings"

Buddhism appeals no less to the heart than to the head, using the language of myth to do so.  Sangharakshita introduces the myth of Muchalinda, the serpent-king that appears after the Buddha’s enlightenment, representing the forces of the unconscious mind in their most positive aspect. 

From the talk Buddhism and the Language of Myth is part of the series Ritual and Devotion in Buddhism, 1967.

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Buddhism and the Language of Myth

Dharmabytes Podcast #1023 "The Muchalinda Episode"

Nagapriya encourages us to read Mahayana Sutras, when reading such a text, if we allow ourselves to really enter into it, we find ourselves transported into it. The scripture, through our participation in it, unveils a samadhi, a particular vision-world that a Bodhisattva dwells in. 

Excerpted from the talk Mahayana Buddhist Scriptures, part of the series Visions of Mahayana Buddhism, given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2009

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Mahayana Buddhist Scriptures

Dharmabytes Podcast #1024 "Vision - Worlds Unveiled"

Atula, a long-time practicing Buddhist and psychotherapist, offers stimulating words around the role of myth, metaphor and all our ways of cognizing, thinking about and expressing experience in what we call 'spiritual life' – and a clear encouragement to see that process as one that is profoundly relational. 

In this excerpt we hear about the tendency to polarize and project onto others. From the talk Mending the Broken Ladder, London Buddhist Centre, 2010.

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Mending the Broken Ladder

Dharmabytes Podcast #1025 "What's Calling"

Maitridevi explores looking at ways to re-vision breaking and brokenness in ourselves and in relationships so that we can hold them with love.

Excerpted from the talk A Love of Broken Things given at Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2018.

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A Love of Broken Things

Dharmabytes Podcast #1026 "Things Break"

Thoughts are like ghosts that haunt the mind, those thoughts become speech that become actions. Most of the terrible things that have happened in the world have had to do with views and ideologies spreading like a virus through a culture, driving a culture mad. Maitreyabandhu reminds us that Buddhism says again and again, what you think and what you do matters. Everything you do matters. 

Excerpted from the Triratna Day talk What the World Needs Now: Triratna’s Gift, live from Buddhistisches Tor Berlin, Triratna Day, April, 2022.

Triratna's Gift 2022

Dharmabytes Podcast #1027 "Our Mind Is Like A Great Ghost"

Dayajoti explores the metaphor of ‘sh*t happens’ - it’s what you do with it that matters! Turning towards your poo as a reflection on the process of transformation. 

From the talk Bodies of Earth - Beyond Me and Mine - Dukkha from a two-week women's retreat at Eco-Dharma Retreat Centre, 2012.

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Bodies of Earth - Beyond Me and Mine - Dukkha

Dharmabytes Podcast #1028 "Dukkha as Compost"

Bhadra takes us through the myth of Persephone and an experiential exploration of awareness to celebrate the vital contribution the bardo; the in-between state makes towards the spiritual life. 

Excerpted from the talk Celebrating the In-Between given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2016.

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Celebrating the In Between

Dharmabytes Podcast #1029 "Relaxing Into What Is"

Padmamati explores the spirit, or soul, of place, that of animating your physical context to experience it in an emotional and psychological way. The speaker is Padmamati - aka Stephen Coates - founder and frontman of cabaret band The Real Tuesday Weld, who have made so many contributions to London creative life.

Excerpted from the talk Urban Imagination given at West London Buddhist Centre, 2014.

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Urban Imagination

Dharmabytes Podcast #1030 "Urban Gonzo Psycho - Geography"

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