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Dharmabytes from free buddhist audio

 Free Buddhist Audio

Dharmabytes features bite-sized dharma, three times a week, from the Free Buddhist Audio archives. Themed in conjunction with our weekly full length talk podcast, these are inspiring short extracts from over 5,000 talks on Buddhism, meditation and mindfulness!

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Update frequency
every 3 days
Average duration
7 minutes
Episodes
1356
Years Active
2011 - 2025
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As Long As Breath Lasts

As Long As Breath Lasts

Giving Yourself to the Three Jewels 

What is it to look to the 'Three Jewels' as a response to our dissatisfaction? Viveka takes a wide-ranging look at one of the most important aspects of Buddhist p…

00:02:37  |   Mon 08 Aug 2022
Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels

Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels

Subhadramati gives an introduction to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha as refuges and explores the practical implications of holding these values in one's life. From the talk The Endless Round and the…

00:02:46  |   Thu 04 Aug 2022
Interpreting Traditional Teachings

Interpreting Traditional Teachings

An Ecumenical Movement Taranita explores the tension between tradition and adaptation in an ever-changing world in discussing how the Triratna Buddhist Community came to have its distinctive ecumeni…

00:03:31  |   Mon 01 Aug 2022
Going Beyond Ourselves

Going Beyond Ourselves

Friendship in the Spiritual Life

Sudrishti celebrates sangha, community, spiritual friendship with this talk on Kalyana Mitrata. Enlightened beings exemplify unconditional, unlimited love – something…

00:02:52  |   Wed 27 Jul 2022
Community Sangha is Vital

Community Sangha is Vital

Going Beyond Duality

How do we go beyond the duality of subject and object, self and other, to experience the true nature of reality? Jnanavaca shares how the practice of sangha is vital in making sp…

00:01:42  |   Mon 25 Jul 2022
Viewing Each Other with Kindly Eyes

Viewing Each Other with Kindly Eyes

Culagosingha Sutta

Kalyanavaca shares the story of three monks living in harmony with each other, like milk and water blended together. From the talk entitled Kalyana Mitra given at London Buddhis…

00:07:13  |   Wed 20 Jul 2022
Contemplating Nature

Contemplating Nature

Appreciating Natural Beauty

We seek happiness, but often we find that our desires and aspirations are in conflict. Sangharakshita implores us to appreciate nature for her own sake. From the talk N…

00:03:38  |   Mon 18 Jul 2022
Take Notice of Inconsistencies

Take Notice of Inconsistencies

Magical Aspects of Emptiness

Kamalashila looks at our whole relationship to nature and the elements: how the artificiality in our lives can get in the way of seeing what things are actually like - a…

00:03:33  |   Wed 13 Jul 2022
Softening Into Letting Go

Softening Into Letting Go

Coming Into Your True Nature

A tender and moving talk by Paramananda. Transformation is basically allowing the protective shell of self to dissipate. This shell only falls away if you come into rela…

00:02:33  |   Mon 11 Jul 2022
Gestures of Metta

Gestures of Metta

Being Open to the Beautiful Saddhanandi shares observations on retreat of expressions of metta, kindness, and celebrates the simple beauty of such gestures. From the introduction to meditation enti…
00:02:30  |   Wed 06 Jul 2022
Reimagining the Significance of Breaking

Reimagining the Significance of Breaking

Allowing Sensitivity + Poignancy  Maitridevi explores how things that are broken can be given a fresh perspective through their repair and how, through this process, a greater beauty can be revealed.…

00:02:15  |   Mon 04 Jul 2022
Urban Gonzo Psycho-Geography

Urban Gonzo Psycho-Geography

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 - found…
00:06:00  |   Thu 30 Jun 2022
Relaxing Into What Is

Relaxing Into What Is

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.  Exc…
00:02:21  |   Mon 27 Jun 2022
Dukkha as Compost

Dukkha as Compost

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 -…
00:02:57  |   Thu 23 Jun 2022
Our Mind is Like a Great Ghost

Our Mind is Like a Great Ghost

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 sp…
00:02:43  |   Mon 20 Jun 2022
Things Break

Things Break

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…

00:02:19  |   Thu 16 Jun 2022
What's Calling?

What's Calling?

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 …
00:03:43  |   Mon 13 Jun 2022
Vision-Worlds Unveiled

Vision-Worlds Unveiled

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 participati…
00:02:29  |   Thu 09 Jun 2022
The Muchalinda Episode

The Muchalinda Episode

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 enlig…
00:04:36  |   Mon 06 Jun 2022
Keep the Doors Open to All Beings

Keep the Doors Open to All Beings

By keeping our heart open, we communicate our values to all beings, offering an opportunity to break down polarisation in our world. Parami  reminds us that a bodhisattva creates the conditions where…
00:03:33  |   Thu 02 Jun 2022
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