Episodes
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Tonight’s teacher was Ajahn Appi. Ajahn opened the night by explaining how our minds change over time through meditation. The basic methods of meditation are relatively easy, the hard part is sticking with it and practising. For beginners and experienced alike, finding those moments when we can meditate for minutes at a time can be difficult. Our modern world fills our heads with all manner of distractions and hindrances. Then our mind will throw up thoughts of the future, such as “is my super going to be enough”, or thoughts of the past “he said some horrible things to me”. So how do we stay in the present moment and avoid all this? We practice, as often as we can.
Ajahn then guided the group in meditation beginning with 5 minutes focusing on the darkness we see when we first close our eyes. The effect of this for beginners is to bring them into the present moment. Ajahn then continued the meditation focusing on the breath, this kept us in the present moment. This meditation would best suite beginners to intermediate meditators.
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Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Ajahn Appi started with an in-depth explanation of meditation for beginners. He outlined many of the benefits that can be gained from a regular meditation practice, such as peacefulness and a resistance to stress, anger, anxiety and many of the garden variety feelings that we as humans encounter in our daily lives. Ajahn continued his explanation until meditation time, touching on how each of us will be individually affected by a continued practice, with the main benefits being an improved wisdom and emotional outlook on life.
Ajahn then lead the group in three different techniques of meditation. The first meditation which is five minutes, is to use the darkness we have present in our minds when we close our eyes and begin to meditate. This is done to draw our attention away from thinking.
The second five minute meditation focuses our attention on our breath moving out of our bodies, then in, all the way to our abdomen, and then out again. This method of following a moving object is recommended for less experienced meditators as it is easier to follow a moving object than a stationary one.
The third meditation is twenty minutes and asks us to focus our attention on the very fine feelings, or rather sensations, that arise at the edges of our mouths and/or nostrils when we breath. Ajahn also recommends doing these meditations in a dull or darkened environment. This helps us turn our focus inward rather than be distracted by external events.
After meditation Ajahn opened to Q&A and then gave us a talk on the hindrances for beginners. Ajahn briefly touched on Karma, and how it can accumulate and affect our daily lives.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Wednesday Jan 09, 2019
Ajahn Appichato | Peace and Wisdom - The Armadale Meditation Group
Wednesday Jan 09, 2019
Wednesday Jan 09, 2019
The first session back after the end of year break and tonight we were attended by Ajahn Appichato, best known as Ajahn Appi. Ajahn started by describing several of the simpler methods of meditation such as using objects or a point of focus. Ajahn's favoured object is the blackness that we encounter when we close our eyes to meditate. It should be noted though that for some of us it will be white, like a light. In either case, it can be an interesting object to focus the mind on. This effectively shuts out the rest of our senses and allows our mind to slow down. For the beginners Ajahn also talked briefly on our breath and breathing as a focus object.
Ajahn then led the group through meditation with changes of focus from the blackness or white light, to breath and breathing meditation. An easy meditation for beginners and an interesting meditation for the more experienced meditator.
After meditation the room was so quiet and relaxed that you could easily have heard a pin hit the floor, and it's carpet.
Ajahn then opened to questions before giving a talk on resolution.
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Sunday Dec 09, 2018
The Ten Perfections | Ajahn Appichato | 24 April 2009
Sunday Dec 09, 2018
Sunday Dec 09, 2018
Venerable Appichato talks about the Ten Perfections (Paramis):
- Generosity
- Morality
- Renunciation
- Wisdom
- Energy
- Patience
- Truthfulness
- Determination
- Loving-Kindness
- Equanimity
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Friday Oct 19, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 13-06-2014
Friday Oct 19, 2018
Friday Oct 19, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate / advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 28-11-2014
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate / advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Friday Oct 05, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 27-12-2014
Friday Oct 05, 2018
Friday Oct 05, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate / advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 17-01-2015
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate / advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 07-07-2012
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate/ advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Friday Sep 28, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 09-06-2012
Friday Sep 28, 2018
Friday Sep 28, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate/ advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Monday Sep 24, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 28-04-2012
Monday Sep 24, 2018
Monday Sep 24, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate/ advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Saturday Sep 22, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 14-04-2012
Saturday Sep 22, 2018
Saturday Sep 22, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate/ advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Monday Sep 17, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 16-03-2012
Monday Sep 17, 2018
Monday Sep 17, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate/ advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 31-10-2015
Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate/advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 06-04-2013
Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate/ advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Friday Aug 24, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 26-12-2015
Friday Aug 24, 2018
Friday Aug 24, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate/ advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Saturday Aug 11, 2018
Guided Meditation | Ajahn Appichato | 06-07-2013
Saturday Aug 11, 2018
Saturday Aug 11, 2018
Ajahn Appichato conducts an intermediate/ advanced meditation class for approximately one hour. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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