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Ajahn Brahm talks about the two type so of meditation - no, not samatha and vipassana - "making peace meditation" versus "making war meditation". If you make war in you meditation you will experience collateral damage. Ajahn talks about how to make peace with meditation and thereby find peace within ourselves.

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Ajahn tells us that change is inevitable in all things, in all matters.  Meditation helps us learn how to deal with the changes in our lives, our
circumstances and ourselves.  Such change is not always to our liking or such that we can prevent.   Change happens.  Deal with it.  Rather than
become angry, distressed or sad, we meditate and deal with it in a calm rational fashion.

We had no new meditators on this occasion so rather than a full guided 30 minute meditation, Ajahn and the fifty odd people in attendance simply focused on a breath meditation with occasional guidance from Ajahn.  The experienced meditators amongst the group were encouraged to do their own thing.

After meditation Ajahn opened to, and answered well, a number of questions very relevant to meditation.


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Ajahn Brahmali says "the deeper your meditation goes, the more relaxed and at ease you will become."  Therefore Ajahn encourages us to approach meditation as a relaxation process, instead of an exercise.

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Sensual pleasures can be difficult to let go. Ajahn Brahmali teaches us how to gradually reduce our craving in a sustainable way by living well, being kind and practicing meditation.

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In this talk, Ajahn Brahm questions what values are? What underlies the beliefs and values in our world? What is right and wrong? And what are the values of Buddhism? Ajahn Brahm says that Buddhist value systems come from the mindful, peaceful heart of each human being. Ajahn also looks at what values and religion children should be brought up in? And how our value systems in society change with time.

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This talk full of laughter and light is classic Ajahn Brahm, delivered to a youthful audience in a children's hospital in November 2005.

Ajahn Brahm offers advice to busy people.

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Ajahn gave a brief description of meditation and then guided us through a body sweep and relaxation meditation.

Although not totally suited to beginners this meditation was easy to follow and a pleasure to do.

After the meditation Ajahn opened to Q&A with some of his frank answers and descriptions making the entire audience laugh.  After the Q&A Ajahn gave a brief talk on how he became a monk and what life is like for a monk at Bodhinyana.  Again Ajahn had the audience laughing.

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It takes patience to develop meditation. Ajahn Brahm says that there are two ways to be patient, waiting in the future and waiting on the present moment. He teaches us how to practice the latter.

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Do you have a problem too difficult to overcome? Are you stuck in a difficult situation? Let Ajahn Brahm inspire you with four stories about life and holes.

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Ajahn Visuddhi offers a diverse Dhamma talk, discussing consciousness, awareness and volition. Along with sharing his own experiences and stories in practising Buddhism and emphasising the importance of being mindful, content and appreciating the present moment.

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Lazy Person's Guide to Making Good Karma | Ajahn Brahm

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Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately 30 minutes.

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This is a deeper talk from Ajahn Brahm about the powerful, blissful and serene states of mind known as the jhanas, that constitute the Eighth Factor - samma-samadhi - of the Noble Eightfold Path. He starts by referring to the Buddha's teaching on the jhanas and then goes on, speaking from experience, about the inner pathway into the super-natural world of the jhanas.

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Ajahn Nissarano explains how to practice the AFL Code - to acknowledge, forgive and learn - and how this can bring peace and understanding into our lives.

This talk was recorded by the Buddhist Society of Victoria. You can subscribe to their Youtube channel here.

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When it's done it's finished. Meditation allows us to leave the things that have happened in our busy lives and be peaceful, be calm. Forget about what's happened before and just be in this moment. Sit down, close your eyes and relax. Many of us don't give ourselves that opportunity to let it all go. We wake in the morning full of beans and by the end of the day we are mentally tired. We need to train our minds to let the day go. Meditation allows us to do this.

Ajahn guided us in a thirty minute meditation well suited to people learning to meditate.

After the meditation Ajahn related a story about the growth of a fire tree at Bodhinyana Monastery. He had watched the tree grow for many years and wondered why, given the care it received, that it hadn't seemed to grow. Ajahn continued his training in Wat Buddha Dhamma Buddhist Monastery in Wisemans Ferry, New South Wales for five years. On returning to Bodhinyana Monastery, he was quietly walking past the fire tree and wondered how it was faring. He was surprised to find that it was now an enormous mature tree. Just as Ajahn didn't notice the slight growth of the fire tree, when we begin to meditate, we often don't see or rather, notice any progress. Each time we meditate, be it for five minutes a day or half an hour each week, we are retraining our minds and this has a cumulative effect. One day we will sit down and realise that we can let it all go just as easily as sitting down.

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In our daily life we tend to find it difficult to practice present moment awareness, especially when another person has done us wrong. Venerable Hasapanna offers us a simple forgiveness exercise, to help us let go of our past. 

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