Buddhistisches Tor Berlin Podcast

Dust and lotus blossoms In this talk, Padmasagara will dive into these two images.We’ll see if we they can help us understand Buddhism more deeply……understand ourselves more deeply……and discover what we need to do to see more clearly and fulfil our deepest potential.

In this talk, Padmavajra explores how to approach the nature of the Buddha through the Five Jinas.

In diesem Vortrag, gehalten am Buddha- Fest 2025, teilt Dharmasara seine Vision für das Buddhistische Tor Berlin mit.

A few weeks ago, Padmasagara gave a talk on the Buddha’s encounter with a hateful dragon or ‘naga’ inside a fire chamber in a woodland camp. Throughout the night they both produced smoke and flames, and it looked like nobody would get out alive.The naga wanted to destroy the Buddha!But the Buddha tamed its fury through the power of loving-kindness.In the morning, he coolly stepped out of the fire chamber with the naga curled up asleep inside his begging bowl. The end.But actually that’s not the end of the story! It’s merely the beginning…This week, Padmasagara will be continuing this tale from the life of the Buddha, which introduces us to other characters, strange lights in the sky, miraculous events, near-death experiences, and much more.

If you ever feel that things get too hot to handle, or that events and experiences have a tendency to burn, or that you find yourself confronted by ‘Dragons’ (whether externally or internally) then this might be a helpful talk for you!Padmasagara will be drawing on eastern and western imaginative traditions and telling stories from the life of the Buddha to illustrate how it’s the power of Love that can help us find fulfillment in a burning world.

The first couple of meetings the Buddha had on the road after attaining Enlightenment might not be what you were expecting at all. And the fact that they have been kept at the forefront of the tradition can gives one confidence in Buddhism somehow…In this talk, Tarapalita follows the Buddha from the Bodhi Tree to the Deer Park where the Buddha first successfully managed to communicate what he had discovered.

Imagination is perhaps the most powerful and important aspect of human consciousness. It allows us to ‘become’ another and experience their life like our own. This is the real foundation of love. And can we love and be loved by chat gpt? Join Tarapalita this week to find out.

"Befriend your mind" is an invitation to explore how meditation can serve our life on and off the cushion, and especially during challenging times. By Prasadavati

Why do people worship the Buddha if he is not a god? What might Enlightenment actually look and feel like? How do we free ourselves from the suffering caused by clinging?Tarapalita takes us on a journey through all this and more.

I will look at these 3 words and draw out how they relate to 3 sets of Buddhist teachings.Talk by Arthaketu