Episodes
Monday May 01, 2017
The Art of Listening | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Monday May 01, 2017
Monday May 01, 2017
Ajahn Brahm’s opinion is sought on a proposal to limit religious vilification or a proposal against the freedom of speech. Ajahn Brahm offers a different perspective and instead of looking at how vilification occurs by our speech and how to speak properly, he looks at how we let vilification happen by listening in the wrong way. So Ajahn gives a teaching on how to listen with wisdom and compassion.
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Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 29-04-17
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Ajahn Brahm starts off by talking about how to find happiness and joy in your meditation. The instructions according to one of Ajahn's favourite monks ‘Ajahn Ganhah’, are breath in "sabah", breath out "sabah" (meaning nice and easy).
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Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Ajahn Cittapalo suggested we count, 1 to 10, or select and visualise our favourite colour to meditate. Most of us focus on our breathing or bodies when we start or first learn to meditate. So counting or visualising a colour makes for a welcome change of pace. For beginners [and aren't we all] this is often a much easier way to start meditating. Ajahn explains how to do it and what will happen to most of us when we count or visualise our favourite colour.
Ajahn then gave us a very enlightened Dharma talk, so much so that the group lost track of time with no-one in a hurry to stop or go home.
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Learning the Skill of Merit Making | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Ajahn Brahm explains what this making merit business is all about and its essentiality not only for the path towards enlightenment but for a happy, peaceful life. Ajahn also describes how through the beautiful service of making merit you learn to love, care and laugh and create a beautiful pure mind.
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Saturday Apr 29, 2017
Am I Good Enough? | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Saturday Apr 29, 2017
Saturday Apr 29, 2017
Ajahn Brahm reflects deeply on the idea “I am not good enough”. Are you good enough? Why is it that we always think it’s not good enough?
Ajahn talks about how you can never satisfy the reach of what other people ask of you and to stop worrying about what other people think of you and trying to please others.
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Friday Apr 28, 2017
Unresolved Issues | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Friday Apr 28, 2017
Friday Apr 28, 2017
Uncertainty and not knowing are part of human existence. Ajahn Brahm describes human beings tenuous hold on life or safety or happiness or health and offers advice on how to live with such uncertainty and still enjoy life, such as love, kindness happiness, good friends and so on.
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Thursday Apr 27, 2017
The Authenticity of the Early Buddhist Text | Ajahn Sujato
Thursday Apr 27, 2017
Thursday Apr 27, 2017
Ajahn Sujato uses this opportunity to describe his recently published book entitled ‘The Authenticity of the Early Buddhist Text’, written by himself and Ajahn Brahmali. Ajahn explains what the book’s about and why they produced it.
Ajahn talks about the benefits of reading and discussing the suttas, but points out that the most important thing is your own experience of the Dhamma, understanding suffering and practising the eight fold path to overcome suffering.
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Wednesday Apr 26, 2017
Generosity | Ajahn Brahmali
Wednesday Apr 26, 2017
Wednesday Apr 26, 2017
Ajahn Brahmali discusses the importance placed on generosity by the Buddha, how we can develop generosity and how this quality of mind supports our meditation practice.
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Tuesday Apr 25, 2017
Overcoming Phobias | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Tuesday Apr 25, 2017
Tuesday Apr 25, 2017
Ajahn Brahm offers many great ways of overcoming phobias, such as using awareness, compassion, kindness, catching it early, relaxing the body and so on. Ajahn reveals that some phobias can be traced to previous lives and finding out the reason behind your phobia can take away a lot of the fear, which takes away a lot of the problems.
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Monday Apr 24, 2017
Breaking Out Of Prison | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Monday Apr 24, 2017
Monday Apr 24, 2017
After visiting Singapore where Ajahn Brahm met many Buddhists working in the prisons to care for and help the prisoners. Ajahn Brahm decides to give a talk about the prisons of the mind and how to break free. In this talk Ajahn also recollects his visits to the prisons.
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Sunday Apr 23, 2017
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahmali | 22-04-2017
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
Ajahn Brahmali teaches that when you keep the 5 or 8 precepts, you are following in the footsteps of the Buddha and his great disciples. Ajahn instructs us to give ourselves a sense of uplift by reminding ourselves we are doing something very good with our life. Doing this gives rise to joy in your meditation.
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Sunday Apr 23, 2017
Buddhist Freedom Of Choice | Ajahn Brahmali
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
Ajahn Brahmali explores the Buddhist idea of freedom of choice and will. Ajahn looks closely at the connection between the Buddhist idea of freedom that is freedom from suffering or problems in life, compared to freedom of choice or will. Ajahn also looks at how our choices and intentions affect us.
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Saturday Apr 22, 2017
No Worries | Venerable Hasapanna
Saturday Apr 22, 2017
Saturday Apr 22, 2017
Venerable Hasapanna expands on the first noble truth, that life is inherently unsatisfactory.
Venerable talks about how life is beyond our control, things happen according to causes and conditions and therefore all we can do is make the causes we want and let them unfold.
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Friday Apr 21, 2017
A Buddhist's Valentine | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Friday Apr 21, 2017
Friday Apr 21, 2017
Responding to a request to talk on the Buddhist idea of the art of love for Valentine’s Day. Ajahn Brahm gives a teaching on what romance or love actually is and how it works.
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Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Secular Buddhism | Ajahn Brahmali
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Ajahn Brahmali reflects on the meaning of Secular Buddhism, the need for it and whether Buddhism’s really a religion in the first place. Ajahn takes a look at how Buddhism has changed and adapted in western culture and the risks of Buddhism changing too much.
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Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Understanding Mindfulness | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Ajahn Brahm offers a deeper and broader understanding of mindfulness. Ajahn talks about the development and benefits of mindfulness and meditation, how it actually works and its role in the path of practice.
Tuesday Apr 18, 2017
Venerable Mudito | Lift Your Self Confidence - Armadale Meditation Group
Tuesday Apr 18, 2017
Tuesday Apr 18, 2017
Venerable Mudito encouraged us to lift our self confidence by looking within, asking if we respect ourselves. Be kind to ourselves and in so doing lift our self confidence.
Venerable then guided us through a 30 minute meditation using our bodies as the focus, totally relaxing us in the process. The mediation was well suited to beginners and intermediates. He then gave a Dharma talk to further encourage us to look inward and boost our self confidence.
During Q&A he explained how he came to be a Monk and why it is so important for us to be kind and respectful to our selves. We look forward to Venerable returning to The Armadale Meditation Group.
Tuesday Apr 18, 2017
Every Breath is Climate Change | Bhante Sujato
Tuesday Apr 18, 2017
Tuesday Apr 18, 2017
Ajahn Sujato talks about the relationship or connection between our environment, climate change and the Dhamma, Buddhism. Ajahn takes a close look at how our existence is interdependent with our environment and everything going on around us and reflects upon how to deal with our emotions about climate change such as despair, depression and fear of the future.
Monday Apr 17, 2017
Changing Climate Change | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Monday Apr 17, 2017
Monday Apr 17, 2017
Ajahn Brahm offers a Buddhist attitude and perspective towards climate change and the environment.
Ajahn gives this talk to help relieve people’s underlying fears about climate change and generate some solutions. Ajahn begins by talking about an interesting metaphor in the Jataka tales (suttas) about climate change. And Ajahn also talks about reincarnation being a good reason to care for the land we live on.
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
Singles Dhamma | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
Ajahn Brahm dedicates this talk to those of us living alone or without a relationship, however he says this talk is also relevant to those in relationships.
Ajahn elaborates on the Buddhist principle or the basic law of karma that what you are experiencing right now is the result of your karma from the past and you can’t do anything with it. The most important thing is not what you have to deal with in life, but how you deal with it. In other words what are you making out of what you have.
Ajahn advises us to love and appreciate ourselves and others and stop trying to change and improve ourselves and others.