Suvarnagarbha

Suvarnagarbha | Sheffield, UK

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When I think about FBA, inexhaustible lamps come to mind. With the internet the capacity for lamps to light other lamps never needs to stop.

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The Individual and the Spiritual Community
Part of the series Aspects of the Higher Evolution of the Individual
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  • 1 Buddhist ‘groups’ versus going it alone 10:47
  • 2 Four stages of the development of consciouness; alienated awareness 06:51
  • 3 Problems encountered in the Higher Evolution 05:20
  • 4 The importance of spiritual community 06:52
  • 5 The Three Jewels: the significance of the Sangha jewel 06:45
  • 6 Spiritual community – not a group or family 11:03
  • 7 Modern isolation; new Japanese cults 14:22
  • 8 Spiritual community is not a power structure 02:13
  • 9 Foundations of a Spiritual community 06:13
  • 10 Joining the spiritual community 07:32
  • 11 Spiritual community as a source of help in our evolution 03:55
  • 12 The danger of degenerating into a group 03:10
  • 13 The FWBO: helping people to grow 03:26

Talk Details

As one of the Three Jewels the Sangha, or Spiritual Community, is given a place of supreme importance in Buddhism. Why is it so crucial, and how does it differ from an ordinary group or a power structure? How do we join one?

Talk given in 1970.