Episodes
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Q&A - Untangling Buddhist History from Legend Based on Suttas | Ajahn Sujato
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Qustion and Answers Session folloing the Buddha Dhamma talk "Untangling Buddhist History from Legend Based on Suttas," given by Ajahn Sujato at the Royal College in Colombo during 2014.
What does the Dhamma mean for us here and now? Who was the Buddha and what relevance does he have in our spiritual practise? Ajahn Sujato reflects on how to make the Dhamma meaningful and real here and now in today’s rapidly changing world. Ajahn looks at the different texts from Buddhist traditions and distinguishes history from mythology within them.
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Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Untangling Buddhist History from Legend Based on Suttas | Ajahn Sujato
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
What does the Dhamma mean for us here and now?
Who was the Buddha and what relevance does he have in our spiritual practise?
Ajahn Sujato reflects on how to make the Dhamma meaningful and real here and now in today’s rapidly changing world. Ajahn looks at the different texts from Buddhist traditions and distinguishes history from mythology within them. This Buddha Dhamma talk was given at the Royal College in Colombo during 2014.
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Monday Jul 31, 2017
Our Beautiful Brokenness | Sol Hanna
Monday Jul 31, 2017
Monday Jul 31, 2017
Sol Hanna talks about how to appreciate imperfection, and how this attitude has influenced his life. Sol Hanna is the Vice President of the Buddhist Society of WA.
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Saturday Jul 29, 2017
Friday Night Guided Meditation | Ajahn Vayama | 16-12-2005
Saturday Jul 29, 2017
Saturday Jul 29, 2017
Ajahn Vayama guides a half an hour meditation.
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Saturday Jul 29, 2017
Faith | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Saturday Jul 29, 2017
Saturday Jul 29, 2017
Ajahn Brahm offers a talk on the development of faith and the benefit of having faith in goodness. Ajahn explains the meaning of faith by using a metaphor of a baby and child and points out how having faith, trust and confidence brings security, comfort, relaxation and peace. Ajahn also discusses how our lack of faith in different areas of our modern society causes us problems. We apologise for the quality of this audio, this Buddha Dhamma talk was given in 1999.
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Thursday Jul 27, 2017
Why are we here? Why are we born? | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Thursday Jul 27, 2017
Thursday Jul 27, 2017
This talk by Ajahn Brahm gets to the heart of the existential quest: What are we here for? What were we born for?
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Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
Annie Keating | Silence, Kindness and Meditation - The Armadale Meditation Group
Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
Annie Keating, a former nun in both Santi(NSW) and Dhammasara(WA) monasteries, now returned to lay life, speaks of preparing the mind throughout the day, with kindness and silence, for a better meditation. She then guides us through a body scan and breath meditation followed by a Q&A.
Tuesday Jul 25, 2017
Introduction to Meditation Series - Part 4 of 4 | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Tuesday Jul 25, 2017
Tuesday Jul 25, 2017
Ajahn Brahm gives us the means to practise the art which we call meditation. During these four ‘Introduction to Meditation’ sessions Ajahn expands on the different types of meditation, their purpose and the way to practise them.
Part 4 – Ajahn Brahm shares the story of his teacher Ajahn Chah’s answers to the four questions: What is meditation? How do you meditate? Why do you meditate? And what do you get out of meditation? Ajahn Brahm talks about training the mind to become clear and penetrating so that you can understand yourself and your world, which is called insight meditation.
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Monday Jul 24, 2017
Introduction to Meditation Series - Part 3 of 4 | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Ajahn Brahm gives us the means to practise the art which we call meditation. During these four ‘Introduction to Meditation’ sessions Ajahn expands on the different types of meditation, their purpose and the way to practise them.
Part 3 – Ajahn Brahm shares experiences of the benefits of meditation and explains how to let go of our problems and past and future. We apologise for the quality of this audio. Ajahn continues to talk about how to calm the mind and reduce stress.
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Sunday Jul 23, 2017
Introduction to Meditation Series - Part 2 of 4 | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
Ajahn Brahm gives us the means to practise the art which we call meditation. During these four ‘Introduction to Meditation’ sessions Ajahn expands on the different types of meditation, their purpose and the way to practise them.
Part 2 –In this session Ajahn Brahm talks about some of the difficulties you might encounter in mediation, such as the wandering mind. We apologise for the quality of this audio.
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Saturday Jul 22, 2017
Introduction to Meditation Series - Part 1 of 4 | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Saturday Jul 22, 2017
Saturday Jul 22, 2017
Ajahn Brahm gives us the means to practise the art which we call meditation. During these four ‘Introduction to Meditation’ sessions Ajahn expands on the different types of meditation, their purpose and the way to practise them.
Part 1 - Ajahn Brahm begins by teaching us to meditate on the breath which he says is used to carry people into very relaxed, peaceful and clear states of mind and is a very old type of meditation used by the Buddha himself.
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Friday Jul 21, 2017
Outer Space and Inner Space | by Ajahn Brahmavamso
Friday Jul 21, 2017
Friday Jul 21, 2017
In Ajahn Brahm's first talk for 2015 he talks about both outer space and inner space and what it all means.
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Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
Stillness | Dennis Sheppard
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017
Dennis Sheppard, former president of BSWA, shares his experience of stillness. He also shares the teaching of several teachers including, Ajahn Brahm, Ajahn Chah and the Buddha.
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Monday Jul 17, 2017
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 08-07-17
Monday Jul 17, 2017
Monday Jul 17, 2017
Believe it or not the mind is naturally still, says Ajahn Brahm. It only moves because we want something or want to get rid of something. Ajahn teaches us how to relax and be kind in order to still the mind.
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Saturday Jul 15, 2017
Friday Night Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 07-07-17
Saturday Jul 15, 2017
Saturday Jul 15, 2017
Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately 30 minutes.
Saturday Jul 15, 2017
Living Simply | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Saturday Jul 15, 2017
Saturday Jul 15, 2017
Ajahn Brahm talks about the reasons why the monks live simply and do simplistic retreats and how hard it is in religious life to keep things simple. Ajahn points out this is similar in our world culture, in that we can’t allow things to be, just simplicity and instead we complicate things. Ajahn talks about how we are afraid of simplicity and how we complicate things because we think it will solve our problems.
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Wednesday Jul 12, 2017
Sol Hanna | How Not To Meditate - Armadale Meditation Group
Wednesday Jul 12, 2017
Wednesday Jul 12, 2017
Sol spoke to us on meditation by relating his own experience over many years. He explains meditation in a way that is different to what we normally hear from our regular Monks. His experience ranges from a rock star to a monk and now a high school teacher. He has dealt with his own health issues as well as the issues we all face throughout our lives. He explains how he used meditation to simply accept those circumstances and issues for what they are, then move on.
Sol then led us through a very relaxing 30 minute meditation after which he gave a dharma talk. At the end of the talk, he opened the floor to questions.
Relax, it's all out of control. It's ok. It doesn't matter so much what happens to us, it matters how we react to it and how we accept it.
Tuesday Jul 11, 2017
Harmony In A Divided World | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Tuesday Jul 11, 2017
Tuesday Jul 11, 2017
Ajahn Brahm offers a talk on finding ways of creating harmony in this world. Ajahn describes how all we need for harmony in our divided world is to see some commonality which we have, because when we see what we share together and what is in our interest then harmony flows very easily. Ajahn points out that competition is one of the greatest causes of disharmony and offers advice on how we can create a balance between competition and cooperation in order to have a more peaceful and prosperous world.
This Buddha Dhamma talk and question and answers session was given in Malaysia during 2005.
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Monday Jul 10, 2017
The Dhamma Of Impermanence | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Change is inherent in all things, but we take stability instead as the truth. Ajahn Brahm explains how if we fully understood the Dhamma, the truth, and the nature of impermanence we would become enlightened. Ajahn says because we don’t want to see it or we think it’s so apparent, we take it for granted and we don’t notice it. Ajahn Brahm looks at the element of impermanence or change in all levels of our experience such as our internal and external world. This Buddha Dhamma talk was given in 1994.
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Sunday Jul 09, 2017
Not To Judge Yourself | Venerable Hasapanna
Sunday Jul 09, 2017
Sunday Jul 09, 2017
You can never know another person, so how can you judge? What’s important is how you relate to others and to know that the only person you can change is yourself. All that matters is what you do now, such as showing kindness, compassion and forgiveness to yourself and others. Venerable Hasapanna explains how Buddhist practise is continual day to day training of the mind through practising; keeping the precepts, living in the moment, mindfulness, stillness, meditation and so on and it doesn’t just happen overnight.
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