Sangharakshita gives an enjoyable autobiographical account of his discovery of Buddhism, his time in India and his realisation in 1964 of the need to create a new Buddhist movement, including an explanation of some of the special features of the Western Buddhist Order.The talk continues with an exploration of the White Lotus Sutra, a sutra which has had a great influence on the development of far Eastern Buddhism.Sangharakshita concludes with an encouraging description of the five things needed for our spiritual growth, highlighting the “tremendous spiritual optimism of Buddhism” and inviting us to saturate ourselves in the pure rain of the Dharma.