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Summer Teaching 2009: Morality of Spirit, vs Codified Ethics.

Listen to Dharmavidya talking about how codes of ethics relate to the alivness of morality, and the problems of transmitting the spirit of morals, rather than simply a list of rules. Moralsandethics.mp3 (55mins 22mb) Continue

Added by Amida Podcasts on July 25, 2009 at 10:26am — No Comments

Summer Teaching 2009: Pureland Buddhism, Insight, and Ethics.

Dharamvidya presents the third in the series of five lectures on ethics, a response to Prasada's model of Sila, Samadhi and Prajna. Purelandethics.mp3 (22mb 55mins) Continue

Added by Amida Podcasts on July 22, 2009 at 3:14pm — No Comments

Summer Teaching 2009: The Three Pillars; Sila, Samadhi and Prajna

Prasada talks about the three pillars in relation to Theravada, Mahayana and Pureland and also about the contamination of Buddhist ethics from western frameworks. threepillars.mp3 ( 23mb 55mins) Continue

Added by Amida Podcasts on July 22, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Summer Teachings 2009: Faith and Ethics

The first Audio file from the Summer teachings is now available - Dharamvidya speaking about Faith and Ethics. FaithandEthics.mp3 (24mb) Coming soon - Prasada speaking about the three pillars, Sila, Samadhi and Prajna and Dharamvidya responding with a talk about ethics flowing from insight. Continue

Added by Amida Podcasts on July 22, 2009 at 1:52pm — No Comments

Podcast: Basic Buddhism (September Introductory Retreat)

This talk by Dharmavidya was given at our introductory retreat this weekend, it introduces the basic concepts of Buddhism, begining with the story of The Buddha, and his enlightenment to Other Power. Listen to the .mp3 (53 minutes 7mb) Continue

Added by Amida Podcasts on September 21, 2008 at 8:29pm — No Comments

Podcast: Exile and Return - fixed

Please accept my apologies, the link in the previous post here was to an eariler file. I've now uploaded the correct file, below. Namo Amida Bu This next in the series of Amida's Podcast's is a Dharma talk from our annual November Exile and Return retreat, in which we remember the journey of Honen and his disiples after thier exile from Kyoto, for promoting nembutsu, and refelect of the themes of exile and return in our own lives. This talk was given by Dharmavidya at the begning of the retreat… Continue

Added by Amida Podcasts on July 8, 2008 at 9:35am — 1 Comment

Podcast: Vow Mind of Buddha & Serene Faith of Devotee

Here's the next talk in this first of our series of Amida Podcasts, a little later than expected, please accept my apologies - circumstances of life conspiring to keep me away from my laptop, another reminder that I'm not really in control at all. Remeber you can subscribe to the rss and recieve the latest podcasts as soon as they are published. Today's Podcast is a Dharma talk by Dharmavidya, about the… Continue

Added by Amida Podcasts on June 6, 2008 at 10:42am — 2 Comments

Amida Podcast: Dharma as Practice

Welcome to the first in a series of Podcasts from Amida Trust. Subscribe to the .rss feed with your reader to make sure you recieve the latest teachings. We begin with a Dharma talk, given by Dharmavidya, as part of our autumn training period in The Buddhist House last year, in which he talks about Dharma as Practice. The unfolding drama of our lives, and of the Buddhas lives. Buddhism must be so… Continue

Added by Amida Podcasts on May 25, 2008 at 11:30am — 3 Comments