Buddhistisches Tor Berlin Podcast

Can you have fun and be a Buddhist? Absolutely! The discussion reveals how spiritual practices often get misinterpreted as joyless. Historical critiques of physical pleasure and the Buddha's rejection of extreme asceticism pave the way for a balanced approach. Instead of denial or indulgence, the middle way allows for healthy enjoyment. Meditation can lead to wholesome pleasure through relaxed curiosity, alongside dhyana factors that encourage blissful experiences without attachment. Embracing joy enriches the journey of Dharma.

In this talk, Tarapalita explores the Buddhist word Guhya, which means “secret.”

Bending the truth? Acidic or cutting speech? Verbal diarrhoea? Back stabbing people who aren’t present? Put it all that rubbish in the bin, that is what the Buddha is recommending to his disciples. We create our world with our speech and we massively affect the world of others as well with it. Communication is a crucial area of life.This week Tarapalita takes us on personal journey though the difficult and liberating teachings of the speech precepts.

Arthaketu picks up where he left off a year ago and goes deeper into the Buddhist images of the mandala, entering their worlds and exploring the symbolism associated with them, one by one. Or as you will see on the talk two by two.

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.