Episodes
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Friday Night Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 7 July 2006
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately half an hour.
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Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Contentment | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Ajahn Brahm offers advice on how to find contentment in this difficult, challenging and busy modern life.
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Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Friday Night Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahmali | 30 June 2006
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Ajahn Brahmali guides a meditation for approximately half an hour.
To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.
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Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Ajahn Jhanarato - The Silence Of The Mind - The Armadale Meditation Group
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Ajahn Jhanarato, started the evening by relaxing us with an explanation of the quiet moments that we experience between thoughts. These quiet moments are what we need to focus on but how do we do that without effort, without tripping our “self” into a thought process. Don't, that's it, don't. When a thought arises, just let it pass, don't engage, gently pull yourself back to your meditation. We will do this many times and eventually [with lots of practice] we start to notice that the gaps, or quiet moments, become longer. After a while they will become more frequent than the random thoughts. Ajahn recommended to us all that we read Ajahn Brahms booklet on "The Basic Method of Meditation" before we attempt to move onto more advanced states of meditation.
Ajahn then led us through a very relaxed and easy 30 minute meditation, asking us to just notice the quiet moments of our mind. He reminded us to use our breath as an anchor to return us when we strayed into random thoughts.
After meditation Ajahn opened to Q&A with explanations on some of the more difficult concepts to grasp for beginners.
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Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Friday Night Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 3 March 2017
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately half an hour.
To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.
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Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahmali | 26 January 2019
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Ajahn Brahmali offers two simple pieces of mediation advice. Firstly, have patience and allow your mind to calm down. Secondly, value your meditation time. Ajahn explains that the many things we think are really important in our life will dissipate, when we carefully inspect them from a Buddha Dhamma perspective. This then helps us to let go of our thinking and allows us to find some peace in our meditation.
To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.
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Monday Jan 28, 2019
How to Find Inspiration in Buddhism | Ajahn Brahmali | 25 January 2019
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Monday Jan 28, 2019
The Buddha said that all conditioned phenomena will eventually come to an end. Ajahn Brahmali explains that because our world is impermanent, it’s an unreliable source of happiness and therefore we need to find our happiness and inspiration from within.
To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.
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Monday Jan 28, 2019
Friday Night Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahmali | 25 January 2019
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Ajahn Brahmali guides a meditation for approximately half an hour. We applogise that the beginning of the recording is missing.
To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.
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Sunday Jan 27, 2019
A Short Talk on the Benefits of Being Virtuous | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Sunday Jan 27, 2019
Sunday Jan 27, 2019
Ajahn Brahm gives a short Dhamma talk on the benefits of being virtuous at the Buddhist Society of Victoria (BSV).
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Teaching retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSxsBdF5Nb8&index=17&list=PLwPICjq7jNeqDGMNhd04IemkUBGPnFSBy (YouTube Channel: BSV Dhamma Talks)
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Sunday Jan 27, 2019
Venerable's Speaking on Mindfulness at Berkeley Buddhist Temple
Sunday Jan 27, 2019
Sunday Jan 27, 2019
From February 15th to 24th 2015, Ajahn Brahm offered a San Francisco Bay Area speaking tour in support of the Dhammadharini's sangha new bhikkhuni monastery. Founded by Ayya Tathaaloka, the Dhammadharini women's monastic community was the first bhikkhuni sangha of the Theravadan forest tradition in North America, and one of the few places in the West that women can become fully ordained Buddhist monastics.
Ajahn Brahm is one of the Venerable’s speaking on Mindfulness. Ajahn Brahm starts by reading from his book "Don't Worry, Be Grumpy" and then engages in a discussion about mindfulness.
Teaching retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaTK78FfG7k (YouTube Channel: Ajahn Brahm's Benefit Talks for Dhammadharini)
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Saturday Jan 26, 2019
Why on earth would we want to meditate? - Venerable Mudu - Armadale Meditation Group
Saturday Jan 26, 2019
Saturday Jan 26, 2019
It was Venerable Mudu's first of, hopefully, many, visits to the Armadale Meditation Group's Tuesday evening session. Venerable opened the evening by introducing himself to us all and relating a shortened version of his life as a monastic. After his introduction he posed the question of "Why on earth would we want to meditate". Is it because it's cool, hip and popular? Well, yes it is cool, hip and popular, but that isn't enough of a reason to do it. Venerable related a story of a visit Ajahn Chah had from an American scientist. The scientist, wishing to know what, if anything, was going on when we meditate, brought along all manner of instruments to try to measure any results he might find. Before he commenced, he asked Ajahn Chah “Why do you meditate”. To which Ajahn Chah responded "To have a healthy body, you must eat right and exercise". "To have a healthy mind, you must meditate".
With that in mind, Venerable then gave an explanation easily understood by inexperienced and experienced meditators alike on the simplest way to start meditating and gently gaining experience with practice. Venerable then led us through meditation beginning with a body sweep and progressing to breath meditation.
After meditation Venerable opened to Q&A before continuing his talk on monastic life and life in general.
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Saturday Jan 26, 2019
Calm And Insight In Meditation | Ayya Vayama
Saturday Jan 26, 2019
Saturday Jan 26, 2019
Ayye Vayama talks about the two strains of Buddhist meditation – calm (samatha) and insight (vipassana) – and how we need to use these in tandem to develop the mind.
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Friday Jan 25, 2019
Friday Night Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 23 June 2006
Friday Jan 25, 2019
Friday Jan 25, 2019
Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately half an hour.
To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.
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Friday Jan 25, 2019
Anger and Forgiveness | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Friday Jan 25, 2019
Friday Jan 25, 2019
Ajahn Brahm talks about the power of anger, and how it can be quenched and released through the power of forgiveness.
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Thursday Jan 24, 2019
The Five Aggregates | Ajahn Brahmavamso
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Ever wondered who and what you really are? Ajahn Brahm answers the question from a Buddhist perspective pointing out that all we really are, are the five aggregates of consciousness, feeling, perception, thoughts (mental formations) and the body.
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Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Friday Night Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahmavamso | 24 February 2017
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately half an hour.
To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.
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Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 19 January 2019
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Ajahn Appichato encourages us to practice meditation daily because ongoing regular meditation increases our good qualities, such as tolerance, patience, kindness and decreases & removes our unwholesome qualities such as anger.
To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.
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Monday Jan 21, 2019
Increasing the Quality of One's Life | Ajahn Appichato | 18 January 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.
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Monday Jan 21, 2019
Friday Night Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 18 January 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Ajahn Appichato guides a meditation for approximately thirty minutes.
To find and download more Guided Meditations on Podcast, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the meditation you want and then type the date into the Podcast search box e.g. 01-09-2018 or try 1 September 2018.
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Sunday Jan 20, 2019
A Fast Happy Path | Ajahn Brahmali | 30 June 2018
Sunday Jan 20, 2019
Sunday Jan 20, 2019
A talk given on a short day retreat at Thames Buddhist Vihara as part of Ajahn Brahmali's tour in the UK in support of Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project.
Ajahn Brahmali supports Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project, of which Ajahn Brahmavamso is Spiritual Adviser. Donations towards Anukampa's aim to develop a nuns' monastery in England are extremely welcome. Please visit: https://anukampaproject.org/donate/
Teaching retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLZZCgUNiws&t=4066s (YouTube Channel: Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project). Video courtesy of Cristo Nobel, LLP Management.
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