Buddhist Society of Western Australia

Ayye Vayama explains the meaning behind some Buddhist traditions, and how reflecting upon the qualities of the Buddha can be a powerful and uplifting practice that strengthens confidence and energises the practice.

Ayye Vayama reflects upon how happiness is a frame of mind that can be developed through understanding the causes of happiness and actively cultivating the thoughts and habits of mind that lead to happiness. She then goes on to explain what these positive and wholesome states of mind are that lead to happiness.

Ayye Vayama offers advice on why and how to create a life of inner wealth.

Ajahn Sister Vayama advising on how to share our own experiences of suffering and happiness with others to help all of us.

Ayye Vayama talks about the place of meditation in the Buddhist path, and the benefits of a meditation practice.

 As it says in one of the Buddhist chants: "Though touched by worldly circumstances, never the mind is wavering." Ajahn Sister Vayama advising on how to keep the balance of ones mind through the ups and downs of life.

In response to the question, "In an impermanent world how can we have permanent relationships?" Ayye Vayama answers this and other questions from a pragmatic and wise Buddhist perspective, by distinguishing between conventional and absolute reality.

In response to questions asking how to bear with and get through acutely difficult times in life, Ayye Vayama gives advice on how to hang on through adversity.

Mind arises through contact through the external senses. However these external contacts are filtered through the mind's filter of perception, fundamentally changing our attitude to our experience. We use perception to make sense of the world, but it can also skew our perceptions and reactions to experience. Ayye Vayama explains how to understand the process of perception in our lives.

Having just returned from pilgrimage to the Buddhist Holy Sites in India and Nepal, Ajahn Vayama responds to a request from the audience to talk about how cause and effect operate in our daily lives.

What does it mean to be married? How does a couple develop a happy marriage? And what advice did the Buddha have for those wanting to get married, and those who are already married? Ayye Vayama discusses the topic of marriage from a Buddhist perspective.