Buddhist Society of Western Australia

Dhamma talk given by Ayya Karunika Theri on the 8th March 2024, at Santi Forest (NSW). Ayya talks about practical and skilful ways to develop contentment in daily life as a way of dealing with difficult people and difficult situations. Describes how contentment has a cooling effect on you mind and leads you all the way to enlightenment.

Bhikkhuni Ayya Kārunikā is currently the senior resident monastic at Santi Forest Monastery, NSW, Australia and the spiritual director for New Zealand Bhikkhuni Sangha Trust, Hamilton. She has been in monastic life for over 14 years and she received her full ordination as a bhikkhunī in 2014 at Dhammasara Nuns monastery in Western Australia where she lived and trained for over a decade with Ajahn Hāsapaññā. She has been a student of Ajahn Brahm and Ajahn Brahmali for over 2 decades.

Ayya Kārunikā is able to articulate the Buddhist teachings in a way that is practical and comprehensible to people of all ages and has experience in conducting retreats for both adults and youth. While she has a PhD in Microbiology and worked as a scientist, she has also been the building project manager for the construction of the Dhammasara Nuns Monastery main building complex and has worked with many volunteers over the years. Ayya Kārunikā was born in Sri Lanka but has been living and working in Australia for over 2 decades.

She has a passion to share her experience and knowledge and loves working with people and also doing creative projects. She is dedicated to supporting the growth of Bhikkhunis around the world and is currently involved in projects to support the establishment of places for Bhikkhunis in Theravada forest tradition in Australia, New Zealand, Poland and Sri Lanka. 

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Ajahn Brahmali explains how Buddhism thinks and deals with war, how our karma puts us in difficult situations and how to handle this in a Buddhist way.

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A series of talks given by Ajahn Brahm during his visit to Sydney at the Western Sydney University on the 16th - 17th February 2024. Republished with permission by Santi Forest Monastery and Metta Centre, teaching retrieved from Santi Forest Monastery Australia Youtube Channel

Track 4/4: Day Of Practice with Ajahn Brahm Q&A session - 17th February 2024

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A series of talks given by Ajahn Brahm during his visit to Sydney at the Western Sydney University on the 16th - 17th February 2024. Republished with permission by Santi Forest Monastery and Metta Centre, teaching retrieved from Santi Forest Monastery Australia Youtube Channel

Track 3/4: Healing with stillness – empowering your mental well being - 17th February 2024

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A series of talks given by Ajahn Brahm during his visit to Sydney at the Western Sydney University on the 16th - 17th February 2024. Republished with permission by Santi Forest Monastery and Metta Centre, teaching retrieved from Santi Forest Monastery Australia Youtube Channel

Track 2/4: Stilling the busy mind - meditation for busy people - 17th February 2024

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A series of talks given by Ajahn Brahm during his visit to Sydney at the Western Sydney University on the 16th - 17th February 2024. Republished with permission by Santi Forest Monastery and Metta Centre, teaching retrieved from Santi Forest Monastery Australia Youtube Channel

Track 1/4: The Power of Stillness - 16th February 2024

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Ajahn Brahm explains how we can understand our mind, not by reading books but by observing it in meditation.

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An online Dhamma talk by Upāsikā Viveka facilitated by Piotr Planeta from Portal Sasana - https://m.youtube.com/user/sasanaPL.

Upāsikā Viveka said that she feels blessed that she had the opportunity to be close to the death journey of two very close people, so she can share her experience with others, so they can have potentially much more peaceful and wholesome death, when it eventually inevitably comes. The talk, guided meditation and Q&A session also touches on other dhamma topics, like progressive training, gratitude, cultivation of the mind etc.

0:00 - Introduction
3:03 - Ist half of the talk 
33:45 - Guided meditation
1:05:50 - 2nd half of the talk
1:27:33 - Q&A 

Upāsikā Viveka is a deeply practicing dhammacārinī, who was given her Pali name by Ajahn Brahm. She is accredited as an advanced Dhamma teacher by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. She has lived and practiced mostly in seclusion in Southeast Australia at Khemavara Sanctuary for over 20 years, and under the 8 precepts since 2009. Khemavara is in an isolated bush location surrounded by national parks and is a sanctuary for wild animals. Viveka is a very interesting figure because even though she is a lay person, not having had the opportunity to ordain, she practices with the dedication of a nun. Before renunciation she had a professional background in psychology, specializing in Mental Health, and was instrumental in introducing and spreading the Recovery Based Model throughout Australia.

Piotr Płaneta or Upāsaka Sunyanando is a lay follower on 5 precepts, basing his practice on Early Buddhist Texts and teachings of Ajahn Brahm, Ajahn Sona and Upāsikā Viveka. He is a P.hD student finishing his thesis on "Cognitive and Functional Aspects of Meditation in Theravada Buddhism". He's a lay dhamma and meditation teacher and organiser of retreats and various dhamma events, both with monastics and his own. Right now he's mostly focused on connecting Poland with Buddhist Society of Western Australia and tradition of Ajahn Brahm, organising many events with renunciates related to this project. Together with his kalyana-mittas, he's trying to establish the first Theravada Buddhist Monastery in Poland.

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Once as a novice monk in Thailand, Ajahn Brahm had a severe toothache and the only way he found he could alleviate the pain was by meditating. Ajahn shares stories about how meditation can lessen physical pains.

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Ajahn Brahm talks about the evidence of rebirth. Ajahn also mentions that t's possible to remember past life memories or early memories of this life after a deep meditation when our mind is very peaceful.

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An online Dhamma discussion with Ajahn Brahmali and Venerable Karunika facilitated by Piotr Planeta from Portal Sasana – https://m.youtube.com/user/sasanaPL.

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New Year's Eve with Ajahn Brahm on 31st December 2023. 11.15 pm start: Dhamma talk (50 minutes), meditation (15 minutes) & chanting to welcome in 2024. 

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Monday Night Meditation at the Cambodian Society of WA (CBSWA) with Venerable Patipada on 18 December 2023. These weekly teachings give an introduction into Meditation and some guidance and basics into the practice of the Buddhist Path. They usually consist of a short talk, thirty minute meditation and then questions & answers.

Venerable Patipada was born in Germany. His first contact with Buddhism happened in 2015, when a friend introduced him to one of Ajahn Brahm’s talks online. After a couple of stays as a guest at Bodhinyana monastery, he became an Anagarika in June 2021 and subsequently ordained as a novice in June 2022.

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Teaching retrieved from CBSWA please visit https://thecbswa.org to find out how to attend the monastery in person.

Ajahn Brahmali explains how having the right view reduces our suffering and leads us further along the Buddhist practice.

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Monday Night Meditation at Cambodian Society of WA (CBSWA) with Venerable Patipada on 11 December 2023. These weekly teachings give an introduction into Meditation and some guidance and basics into the practice of the Buddhist Path. They usually consist of a short talk, thirty minute meditation and then questions & answers.

Venerable Patipada was born in Germany. His first contact with Buddhism happened in 2015, when a friend introduced him to one of Ajahn Brahm’s talks online. After a couple of stays as a guest at Bodhinyana monastery, he became an Anagarika in June 2021 and subsequently ordained as a novice in June 2022.

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More dhamma teachings are available from:

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• BSWA YouTube Playlists
• Books and articles are available on our website.

Teaching retrieved from CBSWA please visit https://thecbswa.org to find out how to attend the monastery in person.

Tonight's talk was interrupted by a cat coming inside, which reminded Ajahn Brahm about a mysterious story of how a cat found its way to Dhammaloka Buddhist centre. Ajahn Brahm also shares stories about how powerful the mind is.

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Ajahn Hasapanna reminds us that calming our thinking mind is a gradual process that involves daily practice of present moment awareness.

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Ajahn Brahm talks about the happiness that comes from living a spiritual life and also reminds us about how important the present moment is.

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Dhamma talk by Bhante Bodhidhaja on the 28 May 2023, at the Buddhist Society of Victoria (BSV). 

This is part 1 of the talk, please find the entire series here.

Bhante Bodhidhaja, born in Switzerland as Nicolas Vrticka was introduced to Buddhism at an early age by a neighbour. After graduation Nicolas worked as a primary school teacher and chose social work as an alternative for compulsory military training in Switzerland.

At the age of 21, while on a visit to India in 2003 Nicolas took on a temporary ordination under the late Acharya Buddharakhita who gave him the monastic name Bodhidhaja and since kept the same name in memory of his Teacher.

From late 2006 Nicolas spent time living, practicing and serving as a lay person in different Monastic communities around the world. Upon returning to Perth BSWA in 2010 became an Anagarika followed by being a novice and higher ordination in 2012 under Ajahn Brahm. Bhante Bodhidhaja is part of the BSWA Monastic Community.

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Ajahn Brahm shares stories about end of life events.

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