Buddhist Society of Western Australia

Ajahn NIssarano is a disciple of Ajahn Brahm having ordained with him over twenty years ago. In this talk Ajahn Nissarano asks us to give ourselves a reality check contrasted against the Buddha's teaching on Right View.

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Ajahn Nissarano gives a talk about two of the factors of the Eightfold Path - Right Action and Right Livelihood - framing this in the forming of developing goodness in one's daily life.

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Ajahn Nissarano reframes Right Speech not merely as a set of rules governing what we can't say, but as a positive gift that we can share with all the others we come in contact to, and inspires us to take to heart this factor of the Eightfold Path.

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Venerable Mudito tells us that "we come first". You can't give love and kindness [metta] to someone else if you don't give love and kindness [meta] to yourself first. If you don't have anything to give, you cannot give. So we must love ourselves first and foremost in our lives, then we are better positioned to give to others.

Venerable Mudito tells us that meditation should be fun, what a blessing to sit and meditate. Venerable then lead us through a 30 minute body contemplation meditation. Look as closely as you can at each and every part of your body. Just focus on relaxing the whole body. This meditation is well suited to both beginner and experienced a like.

After the meditation Venerable Mudito opened to questions. With everyone so relaxed and spaced out that there were no questions, Venerable related his own experience with beginning meditation and how it can be of great benefit to us. From health issues to anxiety meditation, being kind to ourselves, will benefit us and all those around us.

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Ajahn Brahmali says that having right view will enable you to have less attachments and a more peaceful mind.

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Ajahn Brahmali offers a teaching on Right View, the first factor of the Eightfold Path. Ajahn says people tend to argue over who is right, but he explains how having the right view makes us more humble about our opinions.

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Ajahn Brahmali guides a meditation for approximately 30 minutes.

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Ajahn Brahm talks about the Buddhist attitudes to homosexuality and discrimination. Ajahn points out that religion should never be cruel to anybody because the whole idea of spirituality is to have peace, harmony, kindness and love towards everyone. Ajahn also says that being celibate is more deviant than being gay, lesbian or transsexual in our society.

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Ajahn Nissarano launches a series on how to practice the Eightfold Path starting out with the factor of Samma sankappa - Right Intention.

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Ajahn Nissarano talks about how to understand and work with the mind to develop contentment and well-being.

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Ajahn Nissarano introduces the Noble Eightfold Path that leads to the ending of all suffering, and discusses the factors that draw us to practice the Noble Eightfold Path in the first place.

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Ajahn began the night with his own brand of wit and humour making everyone laugh and relax.  Ajahn then encouraged us to keep a light heart in meditation, relax to the max, be peaceful and let go.  When we let go of the past and the future, we have nothing to bother us, nothing to worry about.  As the great philosopher Snoopy once said "worrying about the future never stops bad things happening, whether you worry about them or not they happen, but what it does stop you doing is enjoying the present moment".  Like everything else in life we have to practice, we need to train ourselves how to let go.  So meditation is our training in how to let go of the future and the past, just live in the present moment.  Don't try to improve yourself.  Don't try to change yourself.  Just care for yourself.

When Ajahn had us all relaxed and had our attention, he led us in a thirty minute guided meditation well suited to beginners and experienced alike.

After the meditation Ajahn then regaled us with more stories and jokes. Leaving us feeling relaxed and in good humour when we then socialised with all present with chocolate cake.  A relaxing and enjoyable evening was had by all.

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Meditation guided by Ajahn Sujato. We apologize that the full meditation was not recorded due to technical failures.

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For the past 2 years Ajahn Sujato has been translating Pali Suttas into English. Ajahn shares with us his knowledge and enthusiasm about the Suttas. His translations are published on Sutta Central

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Ajahn Sujato guides a meditation for approximately 30 minutes.

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Ajahn Vayama talks about coming to terms with our shadow; that is our unacknowledged and unexpressed fears, hopes, dreams, disappointments, wishes, desires or envy. Ajahn explains how we don’t like to see this and so we avoid it by distracting ourselves in things that make us feel good. Ajahn describes how through meditation though we start to bring the shadow aspects of our life into our conscious awareness and when this happens, we can see things in our mind we don't like. When this happens we should not feel that our meditation is failing, but actually we should be happy that now we are going to a deeper level. Ajahn explains how to deal with this experience through building up the mind and heart with peace, loving kindness, generosity and wisdom i.e. an understanding of non-self, right intention and letting go.

We apologise for the quality of this audio, this Buddha Dhamma talk was given in 1999.

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Bhante Mudito is a monk orginally from Finland who has trained with Ajahn Brahm for many years. In this, one of his first ever public talks, he discusses the role of inspiration in the practice and how to cultivate it.

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Bhante Buddharakkhita leads a guided contemplation on gratitude and goes on to explain how reflecting with gratitude on the good that has been done to us can be the basis for a perception of abundance, and to help us to not feel like we need to acquire more things in our lives.

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Bhante Sujato has been absent from Australia for 2 1/2 years, so when he arrived at Armadale Meditation Group (AMG) on Tuesday everyone was interested to know where he'd been and what he’d been doing. Therefore, this session is quite different to our normal AMG evenings. Bhante gladly started the evening by recounting his time spent on a tiny island in the South China seas just off the coast of Taiwan for 2 1/2 years, translating the Buddha’s texts into plain English.

To see and read the good work being done by Bhante Sujato and his team, please visit Sutta Central.

Bhante, having spoken very little during his time away, started to lose his voice early in the evening and so the meditation, rather than the usual guided meditation, was a silent one. With the majority of us, on the night, well practised, this was a chance for us to do, as a group, our own favourite meditations. Some prefer breath meditation while others prefer metta meditation. It made for a very pleasant meditation greatly appreciated by all.

After the meditation Bhante opened to questions relating to meditation and gave us a talk on the five hindrances that the Buddha detailed in the very early suttas. Very sadly all too soon we ran out of time. We would all have happily stayed for several more hours. One doubts whether Bhante's voice would have held out that long though.  Especially when we consider that since returning to Australia, he has had to speak a great deal.  Bhante was recently on ABC Radio National, to listen to or download his interview, please click here.

An excellent evening with Bhante Sujato appreciated by all and one we hope Bhante will be willing and able to to repeat soon.

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