Buddhist Society of Western Australia

Recorded at Dhammayanaram Monastery, home of the Cambodian Buddhist Society of WA November 2019.

Ajahn Santutthi started our regular Monday night meditation with a brief talk on breath meditation and our habit of “monkey mind”. We start by looking at our breath and often find we are altering it just by looking at it. Or, we start by gently, softly watching out breathing then find we are off with the fairies, the days events, tomorrows shopping etc. It just takes practice. Ajahn prefers not to use such terms as focus, because it suggests we concentrate harder than needed. New meditators often get a headache when starting out by trying to hard. Ajahn reminds us that it’s not a task or chore. Just relax and give yourself time through practice to get there.

Ajahn then lead the group in a 30 minute meditation asking us to remind ourselves regularly, suggesting 5 minutes or so, to return to the breathing. Over time it will occur naturally with not having to focus or concentrate. This meditation is well suited to beginners and experienced alike.

After meditation Ajahn opened to Q&A.

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Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately thirty minutes.

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We all have to bear with difficult and challenging circumstances in life. Ajahn Brahm talks about the quality of endurance: the dumb sort of endurance, and the wise sort of endurance which is what we should cultivate.

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Many people struggle to keep their awareness on their breath. Ajahn Brahm says this is because we start to watch our breath far too soon. Ajahn advises us to prepare our body and mind first by relaxing and wait for the breath to come to our awareness.

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Ajahn Brahm has noticed many people all over the world suffer from stress and anxiety. As a result Ajahn talks about how to be resilient to stress and why it’s important to look after your physical and mental health.

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Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately thirty minutes.

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Date unknown. Teaching retrieved from Buddhist Society of Victoria - BSV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsUlELBzQLU&list=PLwPICjq7jNeqDGMNhd04IemkUBGPnFSBy&index=8

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The key to religion, to compassion and spirituality isn’t about focusing on just ourselves, nor just on focusing on others, but focusing on the space in between and how we relate to one another. Ajahn Brahm offers a fresh perspective on developing the spiritual path.

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Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately thirty minutes.

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Responding to a request, Ajahn Brahm talks about loneliness which for many people is a big problem. Ajahn Brahm talks about what loneliness is, what its causes are and how to overcome it.

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Ajahn Brahmali guides a meditation for approximately thirty minutes.

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Whilst the practice of meditation is very important, so too is the basics of how we relate to the people in our lives every day. The quality of the relationships that we develop with our family, work colleagues and the people we meet with every day is going to have a strong bearing on the quality of our minds and the quality of our lives, so it pays to give wise attention to this according to Ajahn Vayama.

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This was Venerable Kassapa’s first visit as a teacher to The Armadale Meditation Group and we hope to see more of him in the future. Venerable commenced his instruction by explaining why he meditates. Venerable used his own life experiences to highlight the benefits of meditating whilst asking us to have Positive Actions In Our Day. Whilst Venerable is referring to the Noble Eightfold Path, he used his own experience in lay life to demonstrate how right action and right speech actually work.

Venerable lead the group in a longer than usual meditation beginning with a body sweep. Towards the middle Venerable moved us gently towards a breath meditation. An easy meditation well suited to beginners and experienced meditators alike.

After the meditation Venerable continued his talk on positive actions and the benefits before opening to questions from the group.

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Ajahn Nyanadhammo gives a talk on speculation (in Pali ‘papanca’) and how it ties up so much of our mind’s effort, and yet so rarely correlates with reality – and so often gets us in to trouble!

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Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately thirty minutes.

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Sometimes, unpleasant feeling is too intense to be mindful of. Ajahn Hasapanna teaches us how to be aware of our unpleasant feelings. Firstly by noticing how unpleasant feelings arise in our body and then by breathing in peace and exhaling unpleasant feelings i.e. letting them go. The unpleasant feeling will eventually reduce or cease.

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We suffer unnecessary from thinking too much about problems in our life. These problems are never-ending. The only way to stop suffering is to stop our unwholesome thinking mind, because then we can develop the wisdom and clarity to solve our problems.

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Ajahn Hasapanna guides a meditation for approximately thirty minutes.

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Dhamma talk by Ajahn Brahmali given on the 31^st December 2018.               

Teaching retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvNJggGW6Jo (YouTube Channel: Buddhist Fellowship)

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Ajahn Vayama puts a Buddhist slant on the saying “Seeing is believing”, but drawing out the powerful role of perception in skewing what we sense and understand reality.

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