A Buddhist Podcast

Practical Buddhism for living in the 21st Century.

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We are back with another show! On tonights show we ahve the wonderful William Woollard reading Chapter 13 from his best selling book, The Reluctant Buddhist. We also have experiences from Claudia Blaszynzky in Sacramento and Robert 'Skip' Williams in Hong Kong. 
We play three tracks tonight! We have Danko Jones with First Date, Robin Lukas with Smile and Beth Thornley with Mr Lovely! We would like to thank Robin Lukas for letting us play Smile and also express our thanks to Musicalley.com for making the music of Danko Jones and Beth Thornley available for us to play.
We have shoutouts, truly from all over the world. Also tonight we include some of the unedited audio from the live video, "Behind the Scenes with A Buddhist Podcast". In the show tonight we make reference to Xavier Picks Peace exhibition and the forthcoming meeting of the SGI-UK Education Division meeting.
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Direct download: A_Buddhist_Podcast_-_The_Reluctant_Buddhist_-_Chapter_13.mp3
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Welcome to another episode of A Buddhist Podcast! On tonights show we have a lecture on the letter that Nichiren Daishonin wrote to Sennichi-ama, its called The Drum at the Gate of Thunder. Subjects include:


Hope spreads like fire


Sennichi-ama the sincere disciple


What does it mean to make an offering to the Lotus Sutra?


Open the storehouse of your life


Blossom with hope


Even Devadatta attains Buddhahood


Women with the heart of a Lion King


Igniting the field of our unhappy karma


Did they die in the state of Buddhahood?


The Drum at the Gate of Thunder


Merely seeing my mentor . . . 


Thanks to the wonderful talent of the great Phil Campbell (follow him on twitter at @philcampbell) tonights show was streamed live on Bambuser and a recording of the unedited version of tonights show can be seen on our website.


Shoutouts run out to our friends from across the globe!


We play music from the very talented Jody Gnant, who sings her track, Great Day. We also play O'amanhecer (Dawn) by Paul Kouatchou, a beautiful song sung in Portuguese!


From the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for listening to the show tonight and for all your support. Have a truly amazing week.



 
Direct download: A_Buddhist_Podcast_-_The_Drum_at_the_Gate_of_Thunder.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:18pm PDT