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Lalitaraja, Led meditation - metta bhavana with Ratnaghosa's prayer to Ratnasambhava, Lammas 2021 North London Buddhist Centre Sangha Night, 2 August, online

Kusala describes how the Buddha, in a past life, is said to have responded to ethical dilemmas with compassion. North London Buddhist Centre Sangha Night 12 July 21

Anandavajra's Sangha Day talk, North London Buddhist Centre, November 2020. Giving in the spiritual community, and giving as a social practice to transform the world.

Nandaraja On Perfect Samadhi, the last stage of the Eightfold Path.

A wonderful talk on the precious guru by Dhammamegha, Padmasambhava Day, North London Buddhist Centre, September 2020

NLBC Budcast Talk 10 October 2020, on the third mind turning reflections, the reality that we make a difference, and what karma means.

Completing the NLBC series on the four Mind Turning Reflections, Prajnadevi presents an uplifting but realistic presentation of the defects of life without a spiritual quest, the reason for urgency in one's practice.

Ratnaprabha On The Triple Training In Buddhism

In a talk for the North London Buddhist Centre on 24 August 2020, Visuddhimati shares her thoughts on 'Cherish the Doctrine’ from Dhardo Rimpoche's slogan for his school for Tibetan Refugee Children. She reflects on our longings for someone or something to hold dear and how this can be developed into a path to insight. We hear the inspiring story of Padmasambhava and a Tibetan Queen who asked the guru for a teaching to cherish within her heart. The talk concludes with concrete suggestions...

Buddhism Course Mind Reactive Mind Creative - Week 3 - Creativity Exercise By Aryadhara by Podcast from the North London Buddhist Centre

Buddhism Course Mind Reactive Mind Creative - Week 3 - Mindfulness Of Breathing By Maitrisambhava by Podcast from the North London Buddhist Centre

Buddhism Course Mind Reactive, Mind Creative - Week 4 - Reactivity Exercise By Maitrisambhava by Podcast from the North London Buddhist Centre

Buddhism Course Mind Reactive Mind Creative - Week 4 - Body Scan & Metta Bhavana By Aryadhara by Podcast from the North London Buddhist Centre

Buddhism Course Mind Reactive, Mind Creative - Week 2 - Body Insight Exercise By Aryadhara by Podcast from the North London Buddhist Centre

Buddhism Course Mind Reactive, Mind Creative - Week 2 - Body Scan & Metta Bhavana By Maitrisambhava by Podcast from the North London Buddhist Centre

Khemananda unpicks the meaning of meditation from his own 40 year experience, in a talk given at the NLBC Sangha Night on 7 September 2020.

Talk from the 8-fold path series by Kusala, given Saturday 9 May 2020. “We spend a huge part of our lives working. The work we do expresses our personality, but also shapes it in many different ways. Over the course of a lifetime our livelihood brings us into connection with thousands of other people. "For the Buddha, work was such an important part of the spiritual life that he made Right Livelihood the fifth limb of his Noble Eightfold Path. In recent years Buddhists have tried to apply...

Perfect Effort is limb six of the Buddha's 'Eight Ways of the Noble Ones', or Eightfold Path. Ratnaprabha highlights how contradictions and paradoxes give a subtlety to the Buddhist approach to spiritual practice. So how does the great Buddhist poet Shantideva justify desire, arrogance, relish, rest and even obsession as supports for skilful effort and joyous energy (virya)? They are ways of harnessing the compulsive power of the eight worldly winds for creativity and real progress.

Buddhism Course: Mind Reactive, Mind Creative - Week 1 - Mindfulness of senses by Maitrisambhava by Podcast from the North London Buddhist Centre

Buddhism Course: Mind Reactive, Mind Creative - Week 1 - Mindfulness of breathing by Aryadhara by Podcast from the North London Buddhist Centre