Episodes
Friday Dec 25, 2020
Ajahn Sannagui [Santaguy] | The Armadale Meditation Group
Friday Dec 25, 2020
Friday Dec 25, 2020
Ajahn Brahm joins us at the Armadale Meditation Group as Ajahn Sannagui [Santaguy] on-line live from Bodhinyana :-D
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Saturday Dec 19, 2020
Bhante Bodhidhaja | Holiday at Home | The Armadale Meditation Group
Saturday Dec 19, 2020
Saturday Dec 19, 2020
Bhante Bodhidhaja joins the Armadale Meditation Group on-line live.
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Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Bhante Cunda | Unconcerned With The World | The Armadale Meditation Group
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Bhante Cunda joins the Armadale Meditation Group on-line live.
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Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Ajahn Appichato | Look at Nothing | The Armadale Meditation Group
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Ajahn Appichato joins the Armadale Meditation Group on-line live.
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Sunday Nov 29, 2020
Venerable Sunyo | Piracy of the Mind | The Armadale Meditation Group
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
Venerable Sunyo joins the Armadale Meditation Group on-line live.
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Friday Nov 20, 2020
Venerable Kassapa | A Heart of Metta | The Armadale Meditation Group
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Venerable Kassapa joins the Armadale Meditation Group on-line live.
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Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Venerable Sampasadana joins the Armadale Meditation Group on-line live.
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Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Bhante Mudito - Softness and Kindness - The Armadale Meditation Group
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Bhante Mudito joins the Armadale Meditation Group on-line live.
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Friday Oct 30, 2020
Bhante Sangharatana - Just Metta - The Armadale Meditation Group
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Tuesday 27th October 2020
Bhante Sangharatana joins the Armadale Meditation Group on-line live.
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Friday Oct 23, 2020
Ajahn Brahmali | Making Progress | The Armadale Meditation Group
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
October 20, 2020
A rare visit to the Armadale Meditation Group by Ajahn Brahmali, though this time, on-line live.
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Friday Oct 23, 2020
Ajahn Appichato | Kindness | The Armadale Meditation Group
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
October 13, 2020
Ajahn Appi joined us this evening for his first on-line live meditation session and based his talk on simply being kind.
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Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Ajahn Appi begins by describing meditation as a process of enquiry many of us use to turn inward. In doing this we can increase our resistance to the habit of anger, anxiety and despair. Given the troubled times the world now finds it's self in, such practice is needed in us all. Ajahn continues to describe the practice of meditation before leading the group in a guided meditation.
After meditation Ajahn opened to questions from the audience.
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Friday Apr 03, 2020
Ajahn Jhanarato | Meditate In A Marketplace | Monday Night Meditation
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
March 2020
Ajahn Jhanarato talks to us tonight about our ability to meditate when the environment around us is noisy or less than ideal. Ajahn refers back to occasions in his own experience where noise was very much present. Ajahn equates this to our minds after a busy normal day. Our minds tend to be like a market place or even a snow globe. All we need do is sit and allow our minds to settle. Using this settling time to also adjust and relax our bodies, gives rise to our mind clearing, settling, leading to a much better more relaxed meditation.
Ajahn then lead the group in a thirty minute meditation encouraging us all to leave the busy day behind and just allow our mind to settle, becoming peacefully relaxed.
After meditation Ajahn opened to questions before continuing his talk.
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Thursday Mar 05, 2020
Ajahn Santutthi | Escape The World | Armadale Meditation Group
Thursday Mar 05, 2020
Thursday Mar 05, 2020
Ajahn Santutthi began the evening by asking us to use our free time during the day to meditate. Rather than social media or other activities. Ajahn suggests that rather than using our free time to do social media, we meditate and focus inward. If we focus our energy inward rather than outward we soon learn to cultivate the peace and quiet that is there for all of us. Leaving the world behind and turning inward, even for a short time, will allow us to become outwardly peaceful and quiet.
Ajahn then guided us in meditation asking us to get away from life by turning inward and watching our inner world rather than focusing on external things. When thoughts arise that seem to want to distract us from peace and stillness, just let them go. Watch them rather than engaging with them. Ajahn also asks us to look for the reward in our practice, the peace, the stillness. Over time this will increase. So rather than spending money to escape the world, we can turn inwards to find peace and stillness.
After meditation Ajahn touches briefly on the hindrances that plague most of us when we first begin to meditate. Ajahn then opened to questions before continuing to talk on meditation in general.
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Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Ajahn Cittapalo | Inner Happiness | Armadale Meditation Group
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Ajahn Cittapalo speaks to us tonight of finding inner happiness. Not so much the happiness we would normally think of such as laughter or pleasure at getting a new lounge. The inner happiness that can be enjoyed by our mind being at peace. Not searching nor assessing the past. Not planing nor analysing the future, just happy to be in the present moment. Achieving this inner happiness for most of us seems impossible, but it can be achieved with practise, patience, persistence and Buddhist Meditation. Ajahn used the life experience of his grand father's life after the second world war to demonstrate that such peace of mind, inner happiness can be achieved by anyone under the most arduous of circumstances.
Ajahn then lead the group in a thirty minute meditation well suited to beginners and experienced alike. Ajahn starts by encouraging us to focus on our physical comfort first then just allow our mind to rest. When thoughts arise, step aside and let them go.
After the meditation Ajahn reminds us to not make our meditation another burden or task. We have enough on our plates already.
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Thursday Feb 20, 2020
Thursday Feb 20, 2020
Bhante Bodhidhaja surprised us tonight by bringing a laptop computer, a projector, speakers and a well made presentation on meditation. Before becoming a Buddhist Monk, Bhante was a school teacher and continues to teach, but not ABC nor 123. Instead he employees his skills and training to teach Buddhist Meditation.
Bhante began his presentation by explaining that though the monks when teaching may seem to repeat previous instructions, if we look a little closer we find subtle variations. This is done because what suits one, may not suit another. With this firmly in-mind, Bhante began his presentation and it came as no surprise to all that no-one had previously been taught meditation this way. Bhante through his presentation explained what happens within our mind when we are triggered into a fight or flight mode. Bhante used humour often to make the point.
Bhante then guided the group in a thirty minute meditation first focusing on completely relaxing the body, then the mind. This meditation is well suited to beginners and experienced alike.
After meditation Bhante continued his presentation with a slight shift in topic to Metta. A subject appropriate given in the western world, Valentines day was so recent. Bhante also referenced and recommended we listen to a podcast on ABC Radio National that is right on topic called “All In The Mind”. In addition Bhante recommends we view and read the following. The first one is to a poem written by Bhante some years ago tittled "Love Means Letting Go". The second are quotes from Ayya Khema on the topic of love. Bhante then opened to Q&A.
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Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Venerable Cunda | Meditation, Calm Thoughts | The Armadale Meditation Group
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
This is Venerable Cunda's second visit this year to the Armadale Meditation Group. Venerable spoke tonight of our modern world, our busy lives and our constant contact with technology. The result of such activity is a monkey mind. We need to relax more, meditation is a very good way to do just that and let our busy lives go, if only for a brief period.
Venerable lead the group in a 30 minute meditation. Venerable likes to commence his meditation with a body sweep commencing with the face and working to the feet. Venerable reminds us to use our bodies as an anchor for our focus. This meditation is well suited to both experienced and new meditators alike.
After meditation, Venerable encouraged us to sit quietly for a few moments and carry the relaxed mind and boby as long as we could. Venerable then opened briefly to questions.
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Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Ajahn Jhanarato | Metta, Loving Kindness | The Armadale Meditation Group
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Ajahn Jhanarato based tonight's meditation on Metta and Loving Kindness. In his opening talk Ajahn also asks us to remember to be kind and loving to ourselves, give ourselves Metta. It is often difficult to be kind and loving to ourselves. Especially in western societies. Whilst we find it easy to think well of others, we all to often are less than kind to ourselves. We hold onto the past and we worry about the future. This is not being very kind nor loving to ourselves. We need to let it go.
Ajahn then lead the group in a thirty minute meditation focused on Metta.
After meditation Ajahn opened to Q&A. In answering a question he has been recently asked, “what is the most valuable lesson he has learned since becoming a monk”. Ajahn's answer was contentment.
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Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Ajahn Brahmavamso | Nature Therapy | The Armadale Meditation Group
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Ajahn Brahm arrived at Club Med early to the surprise and delight of us all.
Ajahn then explained to us that using nature, specifically a place of peace and beauty, helps us to shift our focus, relax both body and mind. The problems we face day to day don't seem quite as extreme when we face them relaxed.
Ajahn then related his recollection of the fires that destroyed Bodhinyana Monastery in the 1990's. Being Buddhist as he is, Ajahn realises that nothing is really permanent. So being upset and distraught about the monastery being destroyed would only affect him in a personal way. It wouldn't bring the monastery back nor rebuild it. Ajahn asks us to consider and realise that meditation can help us be content and easily satisfied.
Ajahn then guided the group through a body scan, within our own minds silently asking each area of our body, how it feels. When our bodies are “relaxed to the max”, it is much easier to relax the mind. Ajahn then moved us toward noticing our breathing, not controlling, just noticing. This meditation is well suited to beginners and experienced meditators alike.
After the guided meditation, Ajahn as always, uses his life experience and humour interspersed with jokes to convey his message.
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Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Venerable Sampasadana | Meditation Is Like Gardening | The Armadale Meditation Group
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Venerable Sampa first visited the Armadale Meditation Group a year or so ago. On that occasion he used the analogy of meditation and cooking. This time he asks us to use a visual approach and a garden. Our troubles are like weeds and good feelings and thoughts, like flowers. Venerable encouraged us to use our imaginations and make the garden a beautiful place, a comfortable place, a quiet and relaxing place.
Venerable then lead the group in a slightly longer than thirty minute meditation. Venerable begins by spending ten minutes getting comfortable in body and mind. This meditation is well suited to both experienced and new meditators alike.
After meditation Venerable opened to questions before continuing his talk.
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