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| 28 Apr 2024 | Buddhist Triple Refuge & 5 Precepts Ceremony | Tisarana | Dhammagiri | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:05:11 | |
This is the ceremony of taking refuge in the Triple Gem of Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, followed by taking of the FIVE precepts. We do this ceremony at Dhammagiri:
Requesting Triple Refuge & FIVE Precepts Mayaṃ Bhante, tisaraṇena saha pañca-sīlāni yācāma. Dutiyampi, mayaṃ Bhante tisaraṇena saha pañca-sīlāni yācāma. Tatiyampi, Mayaṃ Bhante tisaraṇena saha pañca-sīlāni yācāma. (English trsl., not chanted during session: "Venerable Sir, we request the Triple Refuge together with the 5 precepts. For the second time... For the third time...") Homage to the Buddha Recited by Monk 3x Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! Homage to the Buddha Repeated by Laity 3x Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! (English translation, not chanted during session: "Homage to the Exhaulted, Noble, and perfectly enlightened one!" 3x) Taking Refuge in Buddha, Dhamma & Sangha 3x (recited line by line by monk, and repeated line by line by laity) Buddhāṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dhammaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Sanghaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dutiyampi Buddhāṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dutiyampi Dhammaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dutiyampi Sanghaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Tatiyampi Buddhāṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Tatiyampi Dhammaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Tatiyampi Sanghaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. (English translation, not chanted during session: "I take refuge in the Buddha. I take refuge in the Dhamma. I take refuge in the Sangha For the second time, I take refuge... For the third time, I take refuge...") Taking the 5 Precepts (recited line by line by monk, and repeated line by line by laity)
(English translation, not chanted during session:
Monk Recites Blessing Imāni pañca-sikkhāpadāni sīlena sugatiṃ yanti, sīlena bhogasampadā, sīlena nibbutiṃ yanti - tasmā sīlaṃ visodhaye! (English translation, not chanted during session: These five training steps lead through virtue to a good rebirth, lead through virtue to the acquisition of wealth, lead through virtue to the extinction of suffering - therefore, may your purify your virtue!) Our Spotify playlists can be found on our Spotify Profile here: https://open.spotify.com/user/8z4dmrysnbbnjtz9f0wzjgcre Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter . | |||
| 05 Aug 2024 | Two Kinds of People... | Buddhist Dhamma Talk | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:06:32 | |
There are two kind of people: Some that visit a Buddhist monastery, and some that don't. Among those that visit a Buddhist Monastery, there are to kinds of people... Our Spotify Playlists Dhammagiri Youtube Channel . | |||
| 29 Dec 2022 | Paritta Chanting New Uposatha Hall Wat Pah Nanachat | Maha Sangha 100 Monks | Ajahn Dhammasiha | New Sima Bot | 00:19:38 | |
Auspicious recitation of Paritta ('Protective Verses & Blessings') at the inauguration of the new Uposatha Hall and Sima ('monastic boundary') at Wat Pah Nanachat, the international Forest Monastery established by Ajahn Chah in Ubon, Thailand. The event was attended by Ajahn Dhammasiha and more than 100 monks in the tradition of Ajahn Chah. Many of the most senior Western disciples were present, including abbots of many monasteries worldwide:
May the numerous senior Ajahns chanting in this recording send you off into a fortunate, successful New Year 🎊; More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage:
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| 19 Oct 2022 | Hospitality | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | Welcoming Visiting Monks to Support Long Life of the Buddha's Teaching | 00:41:00 | |
There are 7 conditions to make the teaching of the Buddha last a long time. At the same time, they support our own individual meditative development:
As we have our first big event with visiting senior monks after a long time coming up, Ajahn Dhammasiha touches on the first six conditions only lightly. He focuses mostly on the last quality, Hospitality:
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| 24 Oct 2024 | Consistent Practice & How to Prevent Unwholesome Mindstates | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhism | 00:24:56 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to two closely related questions from the audience: 1. We may experience highs and lows in our meditation practice. Sometimes it even seems like we're suddenly back to zero, almost like riding a roller coaster. How can we make our Dhamma practice more consistant? 2. How can we prevent unwholesome mindstates from arising? This is actually the first of 4 factors of Right Effort (sammā-vāyāma), number six in the Noble Eightfold Path: Rather than trying to abandon unwholesome states once they have come up, it's better to 'nip them in the bud', as they say, by eliminating the conditions that potentially cause defilements to arise in the first place. Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel #dhamma #buddhism #dhammatalk #dhammatalks #righteffort #sammavayama | |||
| 23 Jan 2024 | Guided Meditation | Compassion to All Beings and Yourself | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Karuna | 00:27:14 | |
A guided meditation to develop compassion (Karunā). More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 01 Jul 2024 | AJAHN AMARO | Was it Difficult to Become a Buddhist Monk? | Dhammagiri | 00:54:37 | |
Q&A session with Venerable Ajahn Amaro during his visit to Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Australia. Tan Ajahn Ajahn is asked if it was tough for him in the beginning, when he was a newly ordained monk at Ajahn Chah's monastery in Thailand in 1979. Ajahn answers that he didn't find it difficult at all in the first year, but quite the opposite, he could hardly believe his good fortune to have found exactly the place, lifestyle and community that he would aspire to. And people would even love to offer food and support to him, for doing exaclty what he likes to do anyhow himself! Ajahn Amaro also responds to a few other questions, for example about the highest happiness of Nibbāna: Who actually exxperiences this highest happiness, if the Buddha teaches that everything is not a Self? Ajahn Amaro is the abbot of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery near London, UK, the largest Western monastery in the lineage of Ajahn Chah. Born in England in 1956, Ven. Ajahn Amaro received a BSc. in Psychology and Physiology from the University of London. Spiritual searching led him to Thailand, where he went to Wat Pah Nanachat, a Forest Tradition monastery established for Western disciples of Thai meditation master Ajahn Chah, who ordained him as a bhikkhu in 1979. Soon afterwards he returned to England and joined Ajahn Sumedho at the newly established Chithurst Monastery. He resided for many years at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, making trips to California every year during the 1990s. In June 1996 he established Abhayagiri Monastery in Redwood Valley, California, where he was co-Abbot with Ajahn Pasanno until 2010. In 2010, he was invited to return to Amaravati, to become the successor of Luang Por Sumedho as abbot of this large monastic community. He was appointed an official 'Upajjhāya' (preceptor), with the authority to formally ordain Buddhist monks, and has since ordained and trained a large group of monks and nuns as his direct disciples. Pictures of Ajahn Amaro's visit at Dhammagiri Website of Ajahn's monastery, Amaravati Website of Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage . | |||
| 21 Mar 2025 | All Buddhas Respect Saddhamma - So Should We! | SUTTA EXPLORATION AN 4.21 | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:30:24 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha reads out and discusses Anguttara Nikāya / Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, Book of Fours, No 21. Shortly after his supreme awakening, the Buddha reflects that without anything to look up to and respect and revere, one dwells in suffering. However, not finding any being in the whole universe that would exceed him in virtue, or samādhi, or wisdom, or release, the Buddha decides to respect, honour and esteem the Saddhamma that he discouvered. Brahma Sahampati appears to confirm to the Buddha that actually all the Buddhas of the past did exactly the same thing, revering the Saddhamma, and all the Buddhas arising in the future will do likewise. He then recites 3 verses expressing that reality, which the Buddha approves of. We will install 4 bronze plaques on the four sides of our Saddhamma Stupa with the verses of Brahma Sahampati, extolling the Saddhamma and the importance of respecting and remembering it: Ye ca atītā Sambuddhā All Buddhas of the distant past, Sabbe saddhammagaruno They live, will live, have always lived Tasmā hi attakāmena And thus, for your own happiness, Dhammagiri Website Pics #respect #saddhamma #brahma #buddha #buddhastory #buddhistwisdom | |||
| 16 Sep 2022 | Exit World on Fire: Disenchantment, Not Aversion | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Reflections on Adittapariyaya Sutta Fire Sermon | 00:35:17 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha offers reflections on the Ādittapariyāya Sutta, the 'Discourse on Burning', known as the third formal teaching of the Buddha. In this discourse, the Buddha challenges his audience with the shocking statement that the whole universe of our conscious experience is literally on fire. All six senses are burning with the fire of desire, hatred and delusion; they are burning with rebirth, decay, death; they are a conflagration of grief, lamentation, pain, frustration, depression and despair: 🔥 👀 🔥 Ajahn points out that saddhā (faith/confidence/conviction) in the final goal of Nibbāna is a necessary condition to use such a challenging teaching beneficially. If someone believes the world of the senses is all there is, they will find this teaching of the Buddha discouraging, even depressing. But if we are convinced that an escape out of the fire exists, the teaching will not discourage us, instead it will provide us with the determined motivation required to escape the conflagration by means of vipassanā, insight. 🚒 ⬅ 🏃♀️ 🔥 If we trust that we can get out of the fire, and follow the instruction to wisely reflect on the suffering our world of subjective conscious experience inevitably entails, we will experience disenchantment (nibbidā) to this whole world of impermanent, disappointing phenomena. Disenchanted, all desire fades away, and we feel dispassion. Dispassionate, the heart experiences release by letting go of all six senses and their objects. That relase experienced in the heart of the enlightened beings is the safe place outside the fire, the escape out of the conflagration. Ajahn points out the danger of mistaking aversion for disenchantment. Any average person can easily experience aversion when reflecting on the evils of our world. But aversion is an unwholesome, unbeneficial mindstate based on defilements. Disenchantment (nibbidā) on the other hand is a result of seeing things as they truly are, based on wisdom and insight, and is extremely beneficial as it leads us to the experience of release, Nibbāna. More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: Our Youtube Channel: Our email Newsletter: Our Podcasts on Spotify: Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: . | |||
| 31 Oct 2024 | How to Develop Mudita Sympathetic Joy | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma Talk | 00:36:20 | |
Prompted by a question from the audience, Ajahn Dhammasiha shares reflections on the theme of developing Sympathetic Joy (Muditā). Muditā is on of the four Divine Abodes (Brahma-vihāra), together with loving kindness, compassion and equanimity. Sympathetic Joy is the quality of rejoicing and feeling happy in other beings success. It's the very opposite of envy and jealousy. Ajahn suggests a similar approach as in developing mettā: We imagine someone we really like anyhow, and then remember some wholesome achievement they accomplished. Next we use a mantra like formula, like for instance: "May you enjoy all your success!" or similar. We continue till we can really feel the corresponding emotion. However, we have to be careful that we only delight in wholesome success... Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel #mudita #sympatheticjoy #brahmavihara #divineabidings #buddhism | |||
| 08 Aug 2024 | AJAHN AMARO | Triple Refuge and Precepts Ceremony | Dhammagiri | 00:07:17 | |
During his visit at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage in Brisbane, Australia, Ven. Ajahn Amaro is leading our community in taking the Triple Refuge (Tisaraṇa Gamana), and the 5 or 8 precepts. Ajahn Amaro is the abbot of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery near London, UK. Born in England in 1956, Ven. Ajahn Amaro received a BSc. in Psychology and Physiology from the University of London. Spiritual searching led him to Thailand, where he went to Wat Pah Nanachat, a Forest Tradition monastery established for Western disciples of Thai meditation master Ajahn Chah, who ordained him as a bhikkhu in 1979. Soon afterwards he returned to England and joined Ajahn Sumedho at the newly established Chithurst Monastery. He resided for many years at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, making trips to California every year during the 1990s. In June 1996 he established Abhayagiri Monastery in Redwood Valley, California, where he was co-Abbot with Ajahn Pasanno until 2010. He then returned to Amaravati to become Abbot of this large monastic community. By the way, our Spotify Playlists are here: https://open.spotify.com/user/8z4dmrysnbbnjtz9f0wzjgcre Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 11 Mar 2024 | Entertainments: To Watch or Not to Watch? | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:23:30 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked about the rules prohibiting shows, entertainments and music for monks and nuns; and how that would relate to lay life. What to do if we come back after a hard days work, and are feeling very tired - is it fine to indulge in just watching Youtube or TV, or doing online games simply to relax? Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 18 Oct 2024 | Metta is Excellent, but Don't Neglect Mudita & Karuna | Compassion Sympathetic Joy | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:39:21 | |
Loving Kindness is an extremely beneficial mental quality, and an excellent meditation object. However, in some situations Compassion (Karuṇā) or Sympathetic Joy (Muditā) may work even better to overcome unwholesome mind states, and develop wholesome ones. (Of course, there is also the extremely important 4th 'Divine Abiding' (Brahmavihāra), namely Equanimity (Upekkhā), but that will have to be covered in another talk) Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel #karuna #compassion #mudita #sympatheticjoy #brahmavihara #divineabodes | |||
| 04 Jan 2024 | Mind Freed from 5 Hindrances Unifies in Samadhi | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma Talk | 00:25:03 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha explains that 'attaining' samādhi is not just a questions of technique or sitting a lot. The crucial factor is the suspension of the 5 hindrances:
We have to consistently work against these 5 hindrances, in our formal meditation as well as in daily life, to weaken them to such an extend that our heart can experience the rapture and bliss resulting from their abandonment. www.dhammagiri.net | |||
| 17 Jul 2023 | 8 Fold Path in Daily Life | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma Talk at BUBS, KL, Malaysia | 00:52:16 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha was invited to share some Dhamma at Bandar Uttama Buddhist Society (BUBS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He talks about the Noble Eightfold Path, one of the most fundamental teachings of the Buddha, that is known and acknowledged as essential in all Buddhist traditions, including Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism. In fact, the Noble Eightfold Path is already included in the first discourse of the Buddha, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, as it constitutes the fourth Noble Truth. Ajahn puts special emphasis on cultivating the factors of the Noble Path in one's daily life:
We should never seperate 'our life' and 'our meditation practice'. Instead, our life and our meditation should become one thing, one intergrated whole, in the sense of developing the factors of the Noble Eightfold Path continuously, in whatever we're doing. Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 04 Jun 2023 | Amaravati Vesak Chanting | Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta | The Buddha's First Teaching | Pali Chanting | 00:19:21 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha joins the Vesak Full Moon prgram at Amaravati. We chant the 'Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta', the first formal teaching of the Buddha after his attainment of supreme awakening, 'Setting in Motion the Wheel of Dhamma'. Ajahn Amaro is leading the recitation, with the whole monastic community of some 40 monks, nuns, male and female anagārikas joining, plus many of the lay visitors participating in the event. The full Pali text of the chant, as well as an Engllish translation, is in Volume two of the Amaravati Chanting boo, page 3ff: https://cdn.amaravati.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/30/Chanting-Book-Vol-2-Web.pdf . | |||
| 26 Sep 2024 | Sharing Merits with Departed Loved Ones - Who Can Receive Them? | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Transferring Good Karma | 00:53:44 | |
At almsoffering before the meal, the monks usually chant the blessing, anumodanā & verses for sharing merits with the spirits of departed relatives. Does that sharing of good karma really reach the departed? Under what conditions, in which sphere of rebirth can they they benefit most from sharing merits? Ajahn Dhammasiha quotes from Anguattara Nikāya (Numerical Discourses of the Buddha), Book of Tens, #177, 'Jānussoni-sutta'. In this discourse, the Buddha explains that direct material benefit in the form of food, drink, clothing & shelter can only be transferred to loved ones reborn in the 'Peta-loka', ('Realm of Hungry Ghosts'/'Deprived Spirits'). It's so important for them, and they really depend on it so much for satisfying their basic needs, that the Buddha established it as a duty for us to regularly share merits with departed relatives, just in case that they ended up in this realm. Moreover, we had relatives also in our countless previous lives. Therefore, even if the relative we're thinking of primarily is not reborn among the deprived spirits (and won't required our sharing anyhow in a deva or human rebirth), the Buddha asserted that there will always be some relative from on of our past lives that can benefit from our sharing. Consequently, we should include all past relatives when sharing merits, additionally to the main recipient. Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel #merits #sharingmerits #Karma #pastrelative #lovedones | |||
| 06 Jan 2023 | Subconcious Learning - Overt vs Hidden Curriculum | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:40:14 | |
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| 21 Jan 2025 | AJAHN KENG KHEMAKO | Training the Mind | Dhammagiri | 01:18:31 | |
Ajahn Keng Khemako is a Singaporean monk of the Thai Forest Tradition. He was ordained in 1987 under the recommendation of Ajahn Thanissaro. One of his main teachers was Luang Pu Jia Cundo, a first generation disciple of Ajahn Mun. He received the title of Chao Khun in 2012. Currently, Ajahn Keng is the Abbot of Santi Forest Monastery (Malaysia) and the Abbot of a hill-tribes forest monastery in Om Koi, Chiangmai and President of Palelai Buddhist Temple (Singapore). This is a recording of Ajahn Keng's second visit to Dhammagiri. https://santiforestmonastery.org Info about Dhammagiri: Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #mindfulness #sati #buddhism #meditation #karma | |||
| 23 Sep 2024 | AJAHN AMARO | 4 Noble Truths | Dhamma Talk at Dhammagiri | 01:11:27 | |
On occasion of his first visit to Australia at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Ajahn Amaro shares insights about the four noble truth, one of the most fundamental teachings of the Buddha. In particular, Ajahn provides guidance how to apply contemplation of the 4 Noble Truths in our daily life. Ajahn Amaro is the abbot of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery near London, UK. Born in England in 1956, Ven. Ajahn Amaro received a BSc. in Psychology and Physiology from the University of London. Spiritual searching led him to Thailand, where he went to Wat Pah Nanachat, a Forest Tradition monastery established for Western disciples of Thai meditation master Ajahn Chah, who ordained him as a bhikkhu in 1979. Soon afterwards he returned to England and joined Ajahn Sumedho at the newly established Chithurst Monastery. He resided for many years at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, making trips to California every year during the 1990s. In June 1996 he established Abhayagiri Monastery in Redwood Valley, California, where he was co-Abbot with Ajahn Pasanno until 2010. He then returned to Amaravati to become Abbot of this large monastic community. Ajahn Amaro has written a number of books, including an account of an 830-mile trek from Chithurst to Harnham Vihara called Tudong - the Long Road North, republished in the expanded book Silent Rain. His other publications include Small Boat, Great Mountain (2003), Rain on the Nile (2009) and The Island - An Anthology of the Buddha's Teachings on Nibbana (2009) co-written with Ajahn Pasanno, a guide to meditation called Finding the Missing Peace and other works dealing with various aspects of Buddhism. Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel . | |||
| 21 Aug 2023 | Loving Kindness Metta | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Talk on Buddhism at Dhammagiri | 00:37:23 | |
Mettā is unconditional, non-judgemental friendliness to all beings. Without distinction or discrimination, without any expectations or demands, without any preconditions:
We strive to make our loving kindless limitless, boundless, without any difference to absolutely everyone. Listen to our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 11 Oct 2022 | Accepting Advice to Overcome Delusion (Pavarana Ceremony) | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhist Talk at Dhammagiri Monastery | 00:54:58 | |
On occasion of Pavāraṇā Full Moon, Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about the meaning and purpose of the 'Invitation Ceremony' ('pavāraṇā') the monks have to do at the end of the rains retreat. All members of the sangha that have spent the retreat together invite each other for admonishment in case that any unsuitable behaviour has been seen, heard or suspected by their fellow monks. Although normally nothing is brought up at the ceremony itself, as any real issues are better sorted out beforehand, the ritual still serves as a powerful reminder that we should always welcome and constructive criticism. The faculty of delusion hides our own mistakes from ourselves, we just can't see them objectively. Feedback from well meaning, wise friends is an excellent way to counter that delusion and correct oneself. Ajahn also talks more generally about delusion, the conditioned nature of our views & opinions, and skillfull means to escape the 'catch 22' situation when dealing with delusion:
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| 20 Feb 2023 | Raise Your Mind to Connect with Visiting Senior Ajahns | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:36:44 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to uplift our mind to a higher level, to better connect with Luang Por Liem during his visit in three weeks time. The purer our heart, the better we will be able to tune into profound teachings and comprehend them. In Australia and many countries mobile networks are being upgraded to 5G. However, if our phone only has 4G capabilities, we won't be able to receive the super high speed of 5G. A 4G phone will only ever receive in 4G, it can't tune into the new 5G signal. Similarly, if we wish to receive the full benefits of the teachings and presence of a visiting meditation master, we have to 'upgrade' our mind to a higher level. How do we do that?
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| 24 Oct 2022 | Paritta - Auspicious Protective Chants | Buddhist Pali Chanting | Dhammagiri | Ajahn Kalyano, Ajahn Saeng, Ajahn Dhammasiha & Sangha | 00:30:01 | |
At our Robe Offering Ceremony at Dhammagiri, Ajahn Saeng leads our Sangha of eight monks in the recitation of Paritta. Paritta are teachings of the Buddha with particular auspicious or protective content, which are chanted by the Buddhist monks at special occasions. The 8 monks chanting are, in order of seniority:
Sequence of Chants Minutes:Seconds of recording, and page numbers of Amaravati Chanting Book, Volume 2:
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| 01 Oct 2023 | Guided Meditation: Empty of Self or Belonging to Self | Anatta | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:12:45 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha guides us through a meditation on Not-Self. We use the breath a anchor, and then contemplate all distracting thoughts, images, worries, anxieties and so on that arise in our mind as: This is not me, this is not mine, this is not my Self!" Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 05 Sep 2023 | Verses of Sharing and Aspiration | Dhammagiri Sunday Afternoon Merit Sharing | Buddhist Chanting in English | 00:03:21 | |
This is a new stereo recording of the chanting we do at the end of every Sunday afternoon session at 5.00 pm, called "Verses of Sharing and Aspiration" You can find it in the Amaravati Chaning Book on page 33: "Through the Goodness that arises from my practice..." We chanting an English translation of the traditional Pali chant known as "Uddissanādhiṭṭhāna-Gāthā" ("Iminā Puññakammena..."), used to share whatever good karma one has generated in the preceding meditation/puja/Dhamma reflections. We're actually playing the Amaravati version in the background on loudspeaker, to make the sound a bit fuller. We have also included the traditional Pali verses recited when bowing to the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha at the very end of the session. English Text: "Now let us chant the verses of sharing and aspiration! Through the goodness that arises from my practice, Through the goodness that arises from my practice, The Buddha is my excellent refuge, "(Arahaṃ) Sammāsambuddho Bhagavā (Svākkhāto) Bhagavatā Dhammo (Supaṭipanno) Bhagavato Sāvakasaṅgho Amaravati Chanting Book is available here: | |||
| 14 Feb 2025 | AJAHN KENG KHEMAKO | Mindfulness to Calm Emotional Turmoil | Dhammagiri | Sati | 00:30:17 | |
In this insightful Dhamma Talk, Ajahn Keng Khemako shares powerful teachings on how mindfulness can lead us to a deeper state of silence and inner peace. Discover how the ancient wisdom of Buddhism can be applied to modern life to cultivate a peaceful mind, reduce stress, and experience true stillness. Ajahn Khemako explains that through mindful meditation, we can quiet the noise of the world by turning our focus inward, allowing us to find clarity and tranquility. Learn the practical steps to incorporate mindfulness practices into your daily life. This video is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their meditation practice, explore Buddhist teachings, or anyone seeking a path to peace and stillness. Ajahn Keng Khemako is a Singaporean monk of the Thai Forest Tradition. He was ordained in 1987 under the recommendation of Ajahn Thanissaro. One of his main teachers was Luang Pu Jia Cundo, a first generation disciple of Ajahn Mun. He received the title of Chao Khun by the Kinf of Thailand in 2012. Currently, Ajahn Keng is the Abbot of Santi Forest Monastery (Malaysia) and President of Palelai Buddhist Temple (Singapore). Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #calm #mindfulness #sati #meditation #dhammatalk | |||
| 17 Aug 2023 | To Stop Thinking, we First have to Think Wholesome Thoughts | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:27:41 | |
Meditators often complain that they just can't stop thinking in their meditation. However, thoughts are not really the problem. The problem is only unwholesome or sensual thoughts. We first have to learn to think only good, beneficial, wholesome thoughts, like Loving Kindness, before we can stop thinking. Learning to think more wholesome is the basic practice we have to start with. Only once we're thinking mostly wholesome thoughts thoughout the whole day, can we succeed to completely calm down thinking in our formal meditation. Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 13 Oct 2023 | Just Observing? | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma Talk on Buddhism | Dhammagiri | 00:12:00 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha enquires from a newcomer to Dhammagiri if there's anything he'd like to ask or discuss. He answers: "Not really, I''m just observing!" Ajahn really likes that answer, and points out that 'Just Observing' is actually a very profound point of Dhamma. If we can truly 'just observe', without distorting our experience through liking and disliking; without being influenced by aversion, greed or delusion; without identifying and making it 'me' or 'mine'; we can see things as they rally are and develop profound insight, enabling us to let go and experience the true Dhamma in our heart. Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 28 Apr 2023 | LUANG POR THONG DAENG | Uplift Your Heart and Mind | Trsl Ajahn Moshe | Dhammagiri | LP Tongdaeng | 01:21:54 | |
We've put the English translation by Ajahn Moshe first, as our podcast audience are mainly English speakers. You can listen to the complete Thai original from 38:20 Luang Por Tongdaeng Varapañño is the abbot of Wat Doi Phra Jao Ton Luang near Chiang Mai. He was born in Sakon Nakhon Province in the Northeast of Thailand in August 1954. At the young age of 13 he ordained as a novice with Luang Por Wan Uttamo. Some time later, he trained in the monastery of Luang Por Waen, Wat Doi Mae Pang. After his full ordination as a bhikkhu, Luang Por Tongdaeng's most important teachers were Luang Por Prasit, and Luang Por Plien of Wat Aranyavivek. Luang Por encourages us not to miss the opportunity we have to practice the Dhamma, and to develop our heart with all the 10 foundations of making good karma ('Puñña-kirirya-vatthu'). He also answers several questions about meditation. Photos from Luang Por Tongdaeng's visit to Dhammagiri here: https://www.dhammagiri.net/luang-por-thong-daeng-gallery Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 07 Apr 2023 | We Become What We Worship | Dhammagiri | Dhamma Talk | Buddhist Reflections by Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:34:43 | |
When we respect and admire a person, like for example the Buddha, when we revere a certain quality, like wisdom or compassion, our mind will incline into that direction. We gradually condition ourselves to become similar to the person or quality that we respect and worship. The choice is ours, in which direction we wish to develop:
It does matter who's picture we put on our phone wallpaper, or on our walls at home. Let us choose wisely. Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 18 Dec 2023 | Contemplating Impermanence to Realize Freedom | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhist Dhamma Talk | 00:23:04 | |
Mindfully observing impermanence ('anicca') of all conditioned phenomena, whether loved ones, material objects, or our own mindstates, thoughts and emotions, can be challenging, even frightening. Ajahn Dhammasiha points out that the aim of contemplating impermanence is not to get sad or frustated, or to resign oneself to the inevitable loss of everything dear. The real aim of our meditation is to completely let go, and thus to experience what is beyond all impermanent phenomena: The Deathless, Ageless Reality of Release, Nibbāna. We're not contemplating impermanence to induce a feeling of hopeless resignation, but to enable our heart to totally let go of everthing, and realize the Dhamma: Liberation, Release, Freedom Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 | |||
| 12 Dec 2022 | Shakespeare, Art and Dhamma | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:44:54 | |
Today, one of the visitors is a professor who is an expert on Shakespeare. He and Ajahn Dhammasiha engage in an interesting discussion about art, beauty and it's relationship to Dhamma practice as a Buddhist monk.
Ajahn shares that his favourite works of art have always been those that induce a sense of 'nibbidā' (disenchantment) and 'semvega' (spiritual shock/urgency). Art that is not just celebrating life, but instead points us to the fundamental truths of impermanence, disappointment and suffering inherent in all conditioned phenomena. Ajahn recites one of his favourite quotes of Shakespeare to illustrate this point: "Tell me where is fancy bred, "It is engender’d in the eyes, The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 2, Lines #65-74 If we take 'fancy' in the sense of 'craving', 'desire', Shakespeare uses the same approach as the Buddha. He's asking for the origin, the cause of craving. Where does craving come from, and how does it grow? And just like the Buddha in the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, this little ditty points to the 'eye' and the act of 'gazing' as the source of suffering. "Cakkhu loke piyarūpam sātarūpam, etth'esā tanhā uppajjamāma uppajjati..." (Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta) And then Shakespeare even suggets to ring the 'death-knell' for fancy/craving, i.e. to kill/abandon craving. Where did Shakespeare get that from? Was he perhaps a Buddhist in a past life? More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJw Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 23 May 2023 | LUANG POR THONG DAENG | Meditation instructions and Q&A | Thai with engl. Translation | 00:52:25 | |
Luang Por Tongdaeng Varapañño is the abbot of Wat Doi Phra Jao Ton Luang near Chiang Mai. He was born in Sakon Nakhon Province in the Northeast of Thailand in August 1954. At the young age of 13 he ordained as a novice with Luang Por Wan Uttamo. Some time later, he trained in the monastery of Luang Por Waen, Wat Doi Mae Pang. After his full ordination as a bhikkhu, Luang Por Tongdaeng's most important teachers were Luang Por Prasit, and Luang Por Plien of Wat Aranyavivek.Luang Por Thong Daeng answers questions about the topics: - Why did the teachers of the Buddha not realize the Dhamma even though they had developed strong Samadhi? - How to develop loving kindness in daily life? - Overcoming difficlties and pain in our meditation practice CLICK HERE FOR PHOTO GALLERY OF LUANG POR'S VISIT TO DHAMMAGIRIhttps://www.dhammagiri.net/luang-por-...In addition to our Youtube videos, we usually publish about 2 new Dhammatalks/GuidedMeditations every week as audio podcast.All the latest podcasts, and some 300 earlier ones on a wide variety of subjects, are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/itunes, Castbox, Google Podcasts, and many other podcast apps.Just search for "Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts" on your favourite podcast app. Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 | |||
| 01 Feb 2024 | Career vs Dhamma Practice | Q&A Young Adults DAYWA Singapore | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 01:11:19 | |
Lively Question and Answer session with Young Working Adults (DAYWA) in Singapore, Wat Palelai. Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a range of questions:
Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 03 Oct 2024 | For One Dependent, there is Wavering... | SUTTA EXPLORATION Ud 8.4 | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:33:25 | |
"For one dependent, there is wavering. Without dependence, there's no wavering. Without wavering, there's tranquility. With tranquility, there's no inclination. Without inclination, there's no coming and going. Without coming and going, there's no passing away and rearising. Without passing away and rearising, there's no here or there or anywhere in between. This, just this, is the end of suffering." Udāna 9.4 "Catuttha-nibbāna-paṭisaṃyutta-sutta" Inspired Exclamations 9.4 "4th Sutta re Nibbāna" Ajahn Dhammasiha offeres some reflections on this profound sutta, an inspired exclamation the Buddha uttered in verse when he was teaching Dhamma related to Nibbāna, and the monks where all listening fully attentive. Ajahn Ṭhānissaro's (Ajaan Geoff's) translation of the Udāna is available for free download as epub, pdf and other formats here. Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel #Udana #InspiredUtterance #exclamations #SuttaStudy #Nibbana #Nirvana . | |||
| 05 Sep 2022 | How to Resist Desire? - Q&A at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:48:24 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a question in the audience: "How can we resist Desire?"
There are several other interesting questions as well:
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| 06 Jun 2022 | Mudita and Metta to Uplift Our Mind in a World Troubled by Pain | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:50:09 | |
With so much negative news about wars and crises reching us all the time, it is easy for our mind to become dejected. But a dejected mind is an obstruction to ourselves, and of no benefit to anyone. Ajahn Dhammasiha recommends to develop 'Muditā' (Sympathic Joy - Rejoicing in other's good actions) and 'Mettā' (unconditional loving kindness to all beings) to raise our mind our of dejection and negativity. Even with all the bad things happening, there are still countless examples of good, beautiful and admirable persons and actions. We have a choice what we pay attention to ('manasikāra'): We can focus on wars and frustating events, or we can focus on the Noble qualities of the Buddha. Either is possible to do, but the second will result in a much brighter and happier mind. Ajahn also points out the importance to include ourselves in our loving kindness. There are so many beings in the universe, that we may feel like only a tiny proportion of our loving kindness should go to ourselves - after all, we're only one of countless beings. But that's not how it works. In practical terms, it can be helpful to devote full 50% of our effort and energy in mettā meditation to ourselves, and the other 50% to all other beings! Once we can feel, really experience, loving kindness to ourselves, then we can increase the proportion devoted to others. But as long as we can't really feel Mettā to ourselves, we unlikely to succeed in sending mettā to everyone. Our own welfare is the very foundation of any service or help we can do to others. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJw https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive | |||
| 27 Aug 2024 | The Mind Like Fire Unbound | Fire Gone Out as Simile for Nibbana in Buddhism | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:31:58 | |
Although Nibbāna is beyond all description and can not possibly comprehended by the thinking mind through language and concepts, the Buddha still used various similes to convey some idea to us what Nirvāṇa is all about. In particular, many times he compared the eperience of Nibbāna to a fire gone out. However, there's a big problem with that simile nowadays: Our current understanding how fire functions is very different from the theory of fire in ancient India. In our time, after a fire has gone out, we simply regard it as non-existant. But that would be a serious misunderstanding regarding the experience of Nibbāna. The statement that an enlightened person after death doesn't exist anymore has been explicitely rejected by the Buddha as not applicable (of course, to state that he exists is just as inapplicable). In ancient India, fire was regarded as 'clinging' to the fuel dependent on which it burns. When the fire goes out (e.g. through exhaustion of its fuel), the fire is released and enters a non-manifest state. Indian's at the time of the Buddha would not see an extinguished fire as non-existant. Instead, they believed an extinguished fire is simply freed from its entrapment to the fuel, and has entered a state in which it can't be defined or described. As Ajahn Geoff Thanissaro will visit Dhammagiri end of November, Ajahn Dhammasiha uses the opportunity to introduce us to an excellent essay of Ajaan Ṭhānissaro on exactly this subject: By the way, our Spotify Playlists can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/user/8z4dmrysnbbnjtz9f0wzjgcre
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| 19 Jul 2024 | How to Let Go of Attachments? | Ajahn Dhammasiha | SHORT Dhamma Talk | 00:04:41 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked how we can let go of attachments. He explains that letting go can not be done by an act of willpower. We need wisdom, insight, in order to let go. If we can see that anything that we are attached to will NOT give us lasting happiness, but ultimatley causes us disappointment and suffering, then the heart will let go automatically. Dhammagiri Youtube Channel . | |||
| 10 Mar 2025 | Water, Wind, Earth & Fire: Freeing the Mind from the 4 Elements | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:31:44 | |
With Cyclone Alfred and heavy flooding just having passed over Brisbane, Ajahn Dhammasiha offers reflections on the 4 elements (Cātu Mahābhūta/Dhātu). As the cyclone showed, these 4 material elements of earth, water, fire and wind are unreliable, uncertain, unpredictable and lead to suffering. Fortunately, we can free our mind from attachment to the 4 elements through contemplation and insight, to realize the state that is beyond reach of cyclones, floods or any form of suffering: Freedom, Release, Nibbāna. Dhammagiri Website Pics #dhamma #buddhism #dhammatalk #4elements #dhatu | |||
| 07 Jan 2025 | AJAHN GEOFF THANISSARO | Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Breathing (Anapanasati) | How to meditate | 00:35:25 | |
Tan Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro is giving a guided meditation on how to practice mindfulness of breathing (Ānāpānasati) as instructed by the Buddha in the Discourse about mindfulness of breathing (Middle Length Discourses No. 118).A translation of the discourse is available here:https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN...Further instructions about how to meditate can be found in his book "With each & every breath - A guide to meditation" which is available online for free here:https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/#ea...A detailed series of talks on mindfulness of breathing together with the book "With each & every breath" is also available on his website:https://www.dhammatalks.org/mp3_colle...On 29 & 30 November 2024, Tan Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro and Tan Ajahn Keng Khemako have kindly provided time in their very busy schedule in Australia to visit Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Queensland. This was an excellent opportunity for the supporters of Dhammagiri to meet with them and benefit from their Dhamma teachings, that they shareed with us during their travels in Australia. Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro is the Abbot of Metta Forest Monastery in US, and Ajahn Keng Khemako is the abbot of Santi Forest Monastery in Malaysia. MORE INFO:Dhammagiri Website:https://www.dhammagiri.net Dhammagiri YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Dhammagiri Newsletter:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletterDhammagiri Podcasts:https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast | |||
| 01 Mar 2023 | Thursday Challange: Who can Disturb my Loving Kindness? | Dhammagiri | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma Talk | Metta | 00:37:14 | |
Mettā, 'Loving Kindness', is the intention of unconditional good will to all beings, without distinction or discriminatiton, without bargaining, without demanding anything back, without any expectations to be liked or thanked or reciprocated. Whether cute koalas or ugly canetoads, whether friends & family or total strangers or even enemies, we aim to wish well to absolutely everyone. Towards the end, Ajahn recommends to start our day with mettā meditation. Then go out and take on the challenge:
We're not expecting that everyone will be nice to us, just because we're trying to develop loving kindness throughout the day. Quite the contrary, we're willing to accept any provocation or irritation as a challenge to our mettā. We take it on and are exited to see what challenge might come, so that we've got an opportunity to maintain and strengthen our loving kindness in difficult conditions. More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 22 Jul 2024 | First Teaching of the Buddha | Asalha Full Moon | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta | 00:38:39 | |
On Āsāḷhā Full Moon, Ajahn Dhammasiha discusses the the first discourse of the Buddha, the sutta on 'Setting in Motion the Wheel of Dhamma' (Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta). In particular, he describes how the Buddha's teaching on the 4 Noble Truth is similar to the approach of a good doctor:
The Buddha follows exactly the same approach:
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| 01 Nov 2023 | Asking for Feeback | Pavarana | Buddhism | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma | 00:26:00 | |
On the full moon in October, the monks complete their annual 3-months Rains Retreat with the 'Pavāraṇā Ceremony': They invite constructive criticism from each other regarding anything heard, seen or suspected that one may have done or said against the rules of discipline ('Vinaya') laid down by the Buddha. It is difficult to see one's own weak points, because delusion tends to hide our own shortcomings from ourselves. Therefore, external input can be extremely helpful for improving oneself. Naturally, it will only really work if the person providing the feedback is
And if the person receiving it is amiable to instruction. If that's the case, we can all grow by mutual admonition as a support for our spiritual development. Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 | |||
| 08 Apr 2025 | Cleansing the Mind: Water as Symbol of Purification | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma Talk | 00:34:56 | |
With Thai, Sri Lankan & Myanmar New Year coming up, including the ceremony of pouring water on Buddha statues and on the monks' hands, Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about the symbolism of this ritual: Just as we use water to clean our bodies, so the Buddha has given us the Dhamma as a purifying agent for our mind. Dhammagiri Website Pics #water #cleaning #cleansing #purification #songkran #buddhistritual | |||
| 09 Aug 2022 | Parayana Vagga - The Way to the Beyond | Suttanipata #1038 ff | Ajahn Moneyyo | Buddhist Pali Chanting | 00:28:32 | |
Ajahn Moneyyo recites the Pārāyana Vagga in the Sutta Nipāta (Verses 1038 ff), one of the oldest parts of the Pali Canon. 16 Brahmin spiritual seekers visit the Buddha and ask him profound questions in verse about bondage and liberation. The unifying theme is going beyond, or crossing over – Crossing the floods (of sensuality, becoming, views and ignorance), crossing over birth and old age, crossing over attachment to the world – With the purpose to instruct and inspire us to do the same. The Pārāyana Vagga – “The Chapter on the Way to the Beyond” already existed as collection during the time of the Buddha and was memorized and chanted by monastics and laypeople, for eg. by Nandamātā, the Buddha's foremost female lay disciple in deep meditation. Sometimes monks would discuss the meaning of the Verses, give different interpretations and then go to ask the Buddha about it: Sometimes the Buddha would quote some of the Verses and give a detailed explanation himself: A free translation of the whole Sutta Nipāta is available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJw https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 13 May 2024 | Tiratana & 12 Spoked Dhamma Wheel | Dhammagiri T-Shirts Second Batch | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:28:10 | |
To commence free distribution of our Dhammagiri Tees 2nd batch, Ajahn Dhammasiha goes through the meaning of every symbol and writing on the shirt: 1. Twelve spoked Dhammacakka (Dhamma Wheel) 2. Tiratana (Three Jewels)
3. Tisaraṇa (Triple Refuge) - The Pali formula of going for refuge to the Triple Gem of Buddha, Dhamma & Sangha. This apparently simple declaration actually has profound implications. If we're truly taking refuge in Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, than we're also endeavoring:
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| 22 Apr 2024 | Compassion 'Karuna': What's the Difference to Loving Kindness 'Metta'? | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:29:45 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to the question how Karuṇā (Compassion) differs from Mettā (Loving Kindness). Compassion is the wish for all beings to be free from pain and suffering in any form. Loving Kindness is the wish for all beings to be happy and well. Though both belong to the 4 'Divine Abidings' (4 Brahmaviharas), and are closely related, in actual experience they feel quite distinct when developing them:
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| 08 Jan 2024 | Walking Meditation trains us to meditate in daily life | Samadhi | Mindfulness | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:05:14 | |
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| 02 Aug 2022 | Mara the Evil One, Karma, Rebirth and Judgement Scene after Death | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:58:06 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked about the power of Māra, 'The Evil One'. In Buddhist cosmology he is described as a powerful spirit, who is vehemently opposed to anyone attaining Nibbāna and thus escaping from his influence. Somewhat similar to the concept of the 'devil' in Western/Christian mythology. Ajahn explains that despite all his power, Mara can not overrule the effects of Karma. If we keep precepts, practise generosity, have faith in the Triple Gem, and conviction in the efficacy of good and bad actions causing rebirth according to our karma, Mara can not cause us any harm. If we can unify our mind in Samādhi, he is blindfolded and can't even see us any more. If we attain Nibbāna, he is defeated forever. Ajahn also talks about the 'judgment scene' after death described in the religions and mythologies of so many different cultures, and also reported in some 'Near Death Experiences' of those who were resuscitated after clinical death occured. He points out that there are both the external aspect, and the internal psychological reality. If internally we are harsh in condemning others, we may experience a very strict and mercyless 'judge' externally as well. If we have completely filled our heart with loving kindness and compassion, not applying any judgement and condemnation to any being at all, we may not experince any external judgement scene after death, but go straight to Brahmaloka (very high heaven beyond sensuality). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJw https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834
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| 20 Feb 2024 | Power of Symbols | Tiratana | Taking Refuge in Triple Gem | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:34:39 | |
One of the most eagerly anticipated fashion events of 2024 is going to take place during our Magha Puja Event at Dhammagiri 😉: We're launching our free distribution Dhammagiri T-Shirt! Ajahn Dhammasiha gives a little sneak preview of the shirt, and talks about the meaning of the Tiratana symbol that's printed on it. The top of the symbol represents the Triple Gem of Buddha, Dhamma & Sangha. Below that (the little triangular structures sticking out to the sides) is a 'Vajira', the Thunderbolt, a mythological weapon of Indra. It symbolizes the power of wisdom capable of destroying defilements like a flash of lightning. Below that is an 8-petelled lotus. The lotus represents purity, the ability to raise our heart above the pollution of worldly attachements, and become beautiful, fragrant and pure. The writing in Pali (language of the Buddha) says: "Buddhaṃ, Dhammaṃ, Sanghaṃ Saraṇaṃ Gacchāmi!" "I take refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma & Sangha!" This short, simple statement is nevertheless very powerful. If we truly commit to the Triple Gem, we're also committing to:
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| 23 Nov 2023 | Paritta Recitation | Robe Offering Ceremony | Auspicious Protective Chanting | Dhammagiri | 00:22:59 | |
At our Robe Offering Ceremony at Dhammagiri, our Sangha of 7 Buddhist monks recites 'Paritta'. These auspicious protective verses are believed to ward off misfortune, protect from various dangers, and bestow blessings on all those listening. Paritta verses have been recited in Pali, the language of the Buddha, for more than 2,000 years. The most important ones are still in their original form, as originally spoken by the Buddha himself some 2,500 years ago. Ajahn Saengchai Ratananyano from Bodhisaddha Monastery, Wilton near Sydney, is leading the chanting. Ajahn Den Atthakaro from Bodhipala monastery near Adelaide recites the traditional invitation to all devas and spirits at the beginning. Ajahn Varadhammo from Bodhisaddha Monastery, Ajahn Dhammasiha & Ajahn Moneyyo from Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, and Tan Khema & Tan Dhammavitakko from Buddha Bodhivana Monastery, Warburton near Melbourne, are all joining in. Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 29 Jul 2024 | Better than the Olympics | Buddhist Dhamma Talk | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:35:18 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha compares the benefits of watching or even participating in the 2024 Olympics in Paris with the benefits of Dhamma practice. He also urges us to use the effort athletes are applying to make it to the Olympics as an encouragement for us to apply similarly singleminded effort in our bhāvanā (meditation), in particular as the benefits of bhāvanā (the complete end of birth, aging, death & suffering) are vastly superior to even winning a Gold Medal. Our Spotify Playlists Dhammagiri Youtube Channel . | |||
| 28 May 2023 | LUANG POR THONG DAENG | Growing in our Dhamma Practice by supporting the Buddha Sasana | Thai with Engl. Translation | 00:42:32 | |
English Translation starts at 11:05 0:00 LPT Thai:Growing in our Dhamma Practice by supporting the Buddha Sasana 11:05 Aj M Engl Trsl:English Translation by Ajahn Moshe 21:20 LPT ThaiLPT about his practice as young monk, when his teacher encouraged him to meditate longer by meditating together with him. Luang Por Tongdaeng Varapañño is the abbot of Wat Doi Phra Jao Ton Luang near Chiang Mai. He was born in Sakon Nakhon Province in the Northeast of Thailand in August 1954. At the young age of 13 he ordained as a novice with Luang Por Wan Uttamo. Some time later, he trained in the monastery of Luang Por Waen, Wat Doi Mae Pang. After his full ordination as a bhikkhu, Luang Por Tongdaeng's most important teachers were Luang Por Prasit, and Luang Por Plien of Wat Aranyavivek. CLICK HERE FOR PHOTO GALLERY OF LUANG POR'S VISIT TO DHAMMAGIRIhttps://www.dhammagiri.net/luang-por-thong-daeng-gallery Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 | |||
| 23 May 2024 | AJAHN VAJIRO | Why Do Only so Few Attain Nibbana? | Dhammagiri | 00:30:37 | |
During his visit at Dhammagiri, Ajahn Vajiro responds to a question from the audience: What's the reason that apparently only so few practitioners actually succeed to attain Nibbana? Ven. Ajahn Vajiro was born in Malaysia in 1953 and has been a Buddhist monk for over 40 years. In 1979, he met Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho when they made a visit to Hampstead Vihara in Oakenholt, England. He received higher ordination from Ajahn Chah personally in Thailand in 1980 at Wat Nong Pah Pong. After helping with the opening of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK, he participated in the running of both Harnham Buddhist Monastery and Chithurst Forest Monastery. In 1993 he moved to New Zealand to lead the Bodhinyanarama community in Wellington for five years. Following this he entered a three-year retreat in Australia before returning to Amaravati in 2001. In 2012 he moved to Portugal, where he had been closely involved in the establishment of Sumedharama Buddhist Monastery near Lisbon, which is where he is now based. Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 17 Mar 2025 | Buddha's Most Important Teachings: Choosing Suttas to Enshrine in Stupa | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 01:00:18 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha explains the project to enshrine ultra-long lasting ceremic tablets into our Saddhamma Stupa, inscribed with the most essential suttas. All practitioners of the Dhamma should have their own little anthology of suttas and verses that they really like, to learn by heart, to contemplate, to recite again and again, and to practise & realize. Ajahn gives examples of uniquely profound suttas, and explains what makes them so outstanding. Dhammagiri Website Pics #buddhistteachings #buddhistteaching #buddhistphilosophy #stupa #sutta #sutra #tipitaka | |||
| 22 Dec 2022 | Chanting to Remember Dhamma Next Rebirth | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:31:24 | |
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| 28 Nov 2022 | Renunciation or Non-Attachment? | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma Talk at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage | 00:38:16 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a question: "Is renunciation or non-attachment the better practice?" Ajahn explains that both terms are often used largely synonymous, and that therefore it's not so much a question of 'either-or'. Both practices are concerned with 'letting go'. But it's also possible to understand these two terms with different nuances of meaning. On the one hand, one can 'renounce' something, even if one still has attachment to it. For example, someone may observe 8 precepts and not eat in the evening. He is 'renouncing' the evening meal for that day. However, he may still be attached to eating in the evening. It takes deliberate effort and determination to 'renounce' the evening meal, even though one would enjoy it, even though one is still attached to it. The term 'non-attachment', on the other hand, usually implies that desire, craving and clinging to the evening meal are really gone. It doesn't require any effort anymore to 'renounce' it, as the attachment is no longer there. Usually it's easier to develop real non-attachment by first renouncing. E.g. monks and nuns give up all their money before they ordain. But there may still be attachment, which even after giving it all up physically, takes a much longer time to truly overcome. It's more difficult to cultivate non-attachment to things we can't fully 'renounce'. Like for example food, or our physical bodies. Without food we couldn't live, we have to take food while we practice, we can't 'renounce' all food. Instead, we have to cultivate non-attachment while we're still taking food every day. This is much more difficult, and there's a danger that we may delude ourselves into thinking we're not attached, even though we're actually are. How deeply we're attached, we often only notice once we can't get the object of our attachment any more. Whenever possible, it's best to practice both, renunciation and non-attachment, together at the same time. First giving it away, or not indulging in it any more, and at the same time using wisdom to gradually abandon any remaining attachments. More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJw Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 24 Feb 2025 | Q&A: Purpose of Life? Tree Spirits? Path to Wisdom? | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhist Dhamma Talk | 00:47:03 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a variety of questions from a student of University of Queensland, and from other members of the audience. Dhammagiri Website Newsletter Pics #purposeoflife #wisdom #treespirits #nature #dhammatalk #buddhism . | |||
| 06 Dec 2024 | AJAHN GEOFF THANISSARO | Blessing Anumodana Pali Chanting | Dhammagiri Sangha | 00:02:57 | |
Tan Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro is leading our Sangha of 8 monks here at Dhammagiri in chanting the blessing and anumodanā before the meal (rejoicing in the good karma of the almsfood donors & sharing good karma with departed relatives). The blessing is recited in Pali, the original language of the Buddha. You may notice that it sounds different from the way we recite the blessing in the lineage of Ajahn Chah. As Ajahn Geoff, Ajahn Keng and Ajahn Jiep have ordained and trained in the Dhammayuttika Nikāya, they often recite Pali in the 'Makhot' style, whereas the Mahānikāya monks (including Ajahn Chah lineage) always chant in 'Sangyot' style. Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics Buddhist Pali Chanting #buddhistchanting #palichanting #blessing #anumodana #sharingmerits | |||
| 07 Jul 2022 | Meditation is Not to Get Anything - We Meditate to Understand & Let Go | Ajahn Dhammasiha Talk on Buddhism | 00:22:25 | |
When we sit down to meditate, we often start with an attitude of trying to get something. To attain Samādhi. To get enlightened. Not surprising that we often run into trouble and difficulties in our efforts! Instead, we better direct our mind to simply try to see what's really going on, to watch, to observe mindfully, to understand wisely. In particular, we notice various forms of clinging and grasping manifesting. We mindfully recognize how the grasping and attachment inevitably results in some form of disappointment, 'dukkha', suffering. Once we clearly understand that the clinging and attachment results in pain and suffering, our mind quite naturally lets go. And again, we mindfully observe how the letting go leads to the abandonment, or at least the weakening, of pain and suffering. This process we repeat again and again in our meditation, until it becomes ever clearer to our mind. Understanding that letting go gets us out of suffering, we naturally incline more and more to letting go, until one day the heart can let go comletely of everything. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJw https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive
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| 21 Mar 2024 | Study, Practice, Realization | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhism | 00:26:24 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked about:
He offers reflections on this subject with an emphasis on the real meaning of 'study' as encouraged by the Buddha: Not just learning and intellectually proliferating about concepts/perceptions, but to find the meaning of the terms the Buddha is using in one's own conscious experience. The Dhamma is about our body and mind, it's about our feelings & emotions, our happiness and suffering. We have to learn to internalise the teachings of the Buddha, to make them 'applicable' ('opanāyiko'), to use them to cultivate bhāvanā (meditation) in our heart. Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 19 Sep 2022 | Intro to Breath Meditation | Guided Buddhist Meditation | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | Mindfulness of Breathing Anapanasati | 00:41:56 | |
Mindfulness of Breathing, Ānāpāṇasati, was the Buddha's own favourite meditation. Ajahn Dhammasiha provides an introduction how to gradually settle our mind onto the breath:
We gradually allow three qualities to develop and unfold naturally:
We understand that these three qualities are extremely wholesome and beneficial. We're not afraid of that tranquillity, joy and brightness, but allow our mind to get carried away into blissful, internal unification, Samādhī 😊 After the bell, Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to look back and review our meditation. Obviously, not everyone will always go the full way into rapture and bliss. Instead, it's much more common to experience lots of struggles with an unruly mind. However, if we compare our mindstate now with our mindstate before the meditation:
If so, our Samatha/Samādhī meditation is going in the right direction! (This guided meditation is directed more towards Calmness/Samatha/Samādhī. For a focus of Breath Meditation on Vipassanā/Wisdom/Insight, refer to other relevant guided meditations by 'Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts') https://www.dhammagiri.net/news https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJw https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD . | |||
| 01 May 2023 | Sleep, Pleasure, Indulgence and Defilements | Dhamma Talk at Dhammagiri | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:58:21 | |
Responding to questions and comments of the audience, Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about falling asleep mindfully, directing awareness to the point of rising. He addresses questions on the hindrance of sleepiness and laziness ('Thina-middha'), and how to arouse energy to overcome excessive sleeping Ajahn talks about the relationship of pleasant feeling, desire, indulgence and the tendency of our mind to flow our into the world (and the www!) into sensuality ('Āsavā') Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 12 Sep 2023 | Letting Go Doesn't Mean Forgetting | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:32:31 | |
A family has come to share merits with their mother/grandmother/great-grandmother, who they lost a few days ago, at the age of 96 years. In the Dhamma discussion, Ajahn Dhammasiha explains that 'Letting Go' in the way the Buddha actually meant it differs redically from letting go out or heedlessness, negligence and 'I just can't bother'. Often we feel like there's something wrong with letting go, because we may only be familiar with letting go based on carelessness and neglect. For example, it would be outright cruel to let go of a close loved one in the sense of quickly completely forgetting about them. However, this is not what happens when we let go based on widom and insight into impermanence. The Buddha actually stongly encouraged to remember past relatives. He considered it a duty to share good karma with them regularly. Even an Arahant, who has completely let go of all attachments, still has all the wholesome emotions. Only the defilements of greed, hatred, delusion and so on are abandoned. Wholesome emotions like loving kindness, compassion, gratitude, respect, rejoicing in goodness, and so on, are still there, and are even reaching their highest potential, once they are no longer impeded by the defilements. For example the Buddha himself: Although he had zero attachments to anyone or anything after the experience of Sambodhi, he was actually better and more effective in looking after his relative than we can ever hope for. He succeeded in guiding basically all close relatives, and many of the more distant relatives, to freedom from death and suffering. Have we been able to do anything like that for our relative, who we are attached to? Therefore, we should never fear letting go based on wisdom, as we will be even better in practising kindness and compassion to loved ones and all beings without attachment! Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 15 Sep 2023 | Loving Kindness: 3 Things to Get it Going | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:30:45 | |
(1) We start by developing Loving Kindness just to one being, whoever we find most easy. Even an animal like a cat or cute puppy will do. Then we have to keep on going until we actually FEEL somthing. Loving Kindness is an emotion, not just a thinking exercise. Even if we take a long time with just one being, that's fine. Once we can really feel the emotion, a lot has been accomplished, and it's quite easy to include more beings and spread out our Mettā (2) We have to include ourselves. It may appear like that's not so important, as there are countless other beings that we want to radiate kindness towards. However, in reality we ourselves are very important, and loving kindness to ourselves is a BIG part of our practice. (3) Loving Kindness kindness doesn't mean agreeing with or condoning or supporting any harmful, unwholesome actions. We're still fully aware and mindful and con perfectly distinguish wholesome and unwholesome. However, we're wishing well even to those that act nasty, in the sense that we wish them to develop kindness and wisdom, that they abandon all anger and hatred. Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 14 Jan 2023 | Skillful Response to Anger, Pain and Sickness | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:44:21 | |
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| 07 Feb 2025 | Metta is Better: Our Loving Kindness Benefits Ourselves, Not Only Others | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:28:36 | |
RE the practice of Mettā (= Loving Kindness; Unconditional Good Will to All Beings without Distinction), Ajahn Dhammasiha points out that we should treat people that are angry like we treat people that have fallen sick: When we encounter someone suffering from flu, or perhaps even disabled in a wheelchair, we usually do not feel angry at them for being sick. Instead, we rather feel compassion, and an urge to help them, or at least to treat them especially kindly. Ideally, we even try to help them to recover from their sickness. Similarly, when we encounter anyone suffering from 'mental sickness', namely the defilements (kilesa) of anger or jealosy or hatred, we should have the same attitude: Not getting angry at them, but giving them special kindness. Ideally we even try to help them recover, just like a good doctor would do. And of course, we can't cure anger with anger; only by treating them with loving kindness, compassion, and equanimity can we help them to heal from their anger. Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #metta #lovingkindness #anger #kilesas # | |||
| 27 Dec 2024 | Morning Chanting SBS Sasanarakkha Part 01 | BUDDHIST PALI CHANTING | 00:32:57 | |
Listen to Part 02 on Apple/iTunes Morning Chanting at SBS Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary, Taiping, Malaysia. Info about Sasanarakkha and the Sanghaparinayaka, Ayasma Ariyadhammika: https://sasanarakkha.org Info about Dhammagiri: Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #chanting #buddhistchanting #palichanting #buddhism #buddhapuja #morningchanting | |||
| 09 Dec 2024 | BHANTE JINARATANA | Gratitude & Mudita | Buddhist Talk at Dhammagiri | 00:29:54 | |
During his visit to Dhammagiri, Bhante Jinaratana shared these reflections on gratitude and sympathetic joy (muditā). He also reades out a passage from Ajahn Lee's biography, to show how we can combine gratitude, muditā and recollection of sangha (sanghānussati) in reference to spiritual teachers. About the Speaker: Bhante Jinaratana was born in Toronto, Canada. He became interested in meditation as a student at the University of Toronto, and began attending intensive retreats in 2002. After graduating with an H.B.Sc. (neuroscience, mathematics) in 2004, he taught English for a year in Nanning, P.R.C. Desiring to ordain, but without knowing a suitable place to do so, he travelled to Brisbane Australia and completed a Graduate Diploma in Education in 2008 at the Queensland University of Technology. During that time he had the opportunity to stay for an extended period at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage as eight-precept meditator. The guidance he received there helped him to gain the confidence to finally ordain. Bhante Jinaratana received novice ordination at Na Uyana Forest Monastery in Sri Lanka in July 2011, and higher ordination in June 2012 (Na Uyana is the main monastery of the Shri Kalyani forest tradition, the same lineage where Ajahn Dhammasiha originally ordained). Most Venerable Na Uyane Ariyadhamma Mahāthera was the preceptor for bot ceremonies. From 2019-2021 he stayed at Pa Auk Monastery, Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar, meditating under the guidance of Sayadaw U Kumārabhivaṃsa and Most Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw Āciṇṇa. He currently resides at Dhamsuwa Forest Monastery, Melbourne. Bhante has kindly accepted our invitation to visit Dhammagiri for 3 weeks in November/December. Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #mudita #gratitude #sympatheticjoy #brahmavihara | |||
| 04 Oct 2022 | Bowing - External Form Supports Mental Cultivation | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Talk on Buddhism at Dhammagiri Monastery | 00:45:07 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about Luang Por Kalyano's 60th birthday, and shares that he's really looking forward to having a senior monk visiting that he can bow to. Contrary to attitudes common nowadays, having something to respect, and to express that in an external gesture, is actually very uplifting for our mind. A member in the audience asks if bowing is still of benefit if one doesn't really feel anything, but is just following external convention? In his response, Ajahn explains that we can get stuck in 'Sīlabbata-parāmāsa', the third of the ten fetters ('saṃyojana'), if we perform rituals perfuctory, in a superficial way without understanding. However, if we use the external form to develop the corresponding internal attitude and emotions, then rituals can be a strong support for our mental cultivation ('bhāvanā'). Conceit ('māna') and it's relationship to bowing and the delusion of self is also touched upon in the discussion. More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news
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| 25 Aug 2023 | Developing All 4 Divine Abodes: Metta, Karuna, Mudita, Upekkha | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:38:21 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha points out the benefits of developing all four 'Brahmavihāras': 1. Mettā = Loving Kindness 2. Karuṇā = Compassion 3. Muditā = Sympathetic Joy 4. Upekkhā = Equanimity Developed togther, these four 'Appamañña-Vihāras' (= Limitless/Boundless/Infinite Abidings) support each other and provide many synergies. Ajahn explains which of the 4 to use depending on either the external situation, or depending on the internal defilements that we wish to counter. Listen to our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 26 Apr 2023 | LUANG POR THONG DAENG | Blessing and Sanghadana | Buddhist Pali Chanting | Dhammagiri | LP Tongdaeng | 00:05:29 | |
Luang Por Thong Dang, Ajahn Dhammasiha, Ajahn Moshe, Ajahn Khantiko and Tan Niddaro receive 'Sanghadāna' (Offerings dedicated to the Sangha of the four quarters) and receite the Pali verses of blessings, anumodanā (rejoicing) and sharing of merits.
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| 24 Jul 2023 | Enhancing Our Dhamma Practice during Rains Retreat | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:45:55 | |
The annual three months 'Rains Retreat' period ('Vassa') abserved by the monks and nuns is also an excellent opportunity for the lay community to enhance their level of effort and commitment in their Dhamma practice. Ajahn Dhammasiha discusses a wide range of options to increase one's 'bhāvanā' (mental cultivation), e.g.: - Coming more regurlarly to the monastery - Offering food, other requisites, or financial donations - Staying as guest in the monastery on retreat - Purifying one's observance of the 5 precepts - Doing one day a month (usually around full moon) on 8 precepts, or perhaps even one day a week - Determining to do regular evening/morning chanting - Learning chanting by heart, at least parts, in Pāli or English - Perhaps even studying Pali - Studying the Suttas, the original teachings of the Buddha (in translation) - Listening more regualrly to Dhamma Talks on Youtube, Spotify and so on. - Making a resolution to sit formal meditation at least 30 min every day, or perhaps even one hour, or two hours (depending how much one is already regularly doing) - Doing lots of walking meditation - Determining: for these three months, whatever happens, whatever anyone may do, or not do, or say or write to me, I will not get angry. And even if I get angry, I will not speak any angry words... Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 15 Jan 2024 | Mettā - Loving Kindness - Q&A with group from Singapore | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 01:00:28 | |
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| 30 Sep 2024 | Joy & Rejoicing in Goodness | Muditā | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddha Dhamma | 00:38:23 | |
It's so important not to only look at all the bad things happening, or to be mostly focussed our own faults. Without denying negative events, we can discoved so much that's good, wholesome and admirable, both in ourselves and in others. If we only pay attention to the bad things, we feel miserable. If we notice and appreciate all that's good, we fill our lives with rejoicing, joy and muditā. Ajahn Dhammasiha also addresses questions about: 23:27 Meaning of 'psasāda' (confidence/faith)? 25:10 Is the desire to realize Nibbāna a 'good' desire? 29:20 Why didn't the Bodhisatta's first teacher didn't attain nibbāna themselves, as they had already realized very deep samādhi? 33:55 Anāpāṇasati (mindfulness of the breath) or Mettā (loving kindness) as meditation object? Related to the last question, Ajahn explains how to easily find any of our podcasts: Just enter any subject you're interested in, and all the relevant podcast will show up to listen to. Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel #joy #rejoicing #mudita #goodness #meditation | |||
| 27 Jun 2023 | Awareness of Emotions and how they affect our mind | Dhammatalk at Dhammagiri | 00:19:49 | |
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| 04 Jun 2024 | True Meaning of Taking Refuge in the Sangha | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:32:18 | |
What does it really mean "to take refuge in Sangha"? What if a very senior monk disrobes, how can we protect our mind from losing faith in such situations? Ajahn Dhammasiha points out that our refuge in terms of Sangha is: "...Yadidaṃ cattāri purisayugani, aṭṭha purisapuggala - Esa Bhagavato Sāvakasangho... "...Namely the four pairs of persons, the eight kind of individuals - THESE are the Sangha of the Exalted One's disciples..." In the strict definition given by the Buddha himself, 'Sangha' as refuge is NOT the ordained sangha of monks and nuns, but it is only those who have realized one of the stages of awakening, whether lay or ordained. If we keep that in mind, and direct our faith not to just to individual monks or nuns, but to the community of those who have realized the Dhamma, our faith will not be shaken if an individual monk or nun disrobes or acts in uninspiring ways. Naturally, as we can't know who truly has realized stages of awakening, there is a tendency to regard the ordained sangha as a symbol for the community of awakened disciples, as we can actually recognize monks and nuns easily by their wearing robes, and our faith likes to have something visible and concrete to latch on. There is nothing wrong in that, especially as so many Arahants and noble disciples have been part of the ordained sangha. But even so, we should be mindful to direct our faith to the WHOLE sangha, the complete sangha of the four quarters and the three time periods, rather than only to individual monks or nuns who we feel personal affection for. Again, this will protect our faith from crumbling in case a monk or nun we like does not meet our expectations. | |||
| 14 Aug 2022 | Breath and Anatta / Not-Self | Guided Buddhist Meditation | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | Anapanasati Anatta-Sañña | 00:37:45 | |
In this guided meditation, Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to use the breath as anchor for our awareness, and then to apply 'Anatta-Saññā' / 'Perception of Not-Self' to all the various thoughts, images, worries, phantasies bubbling up in our mind. Whatever distracts us from the breath, whether it's plans for the future or little traumas from the past, whether it's sensual images or restless thinking, we do not fight with them, we do not try to suppress them. Instead, we just see them as:
We can apply not-self even to the process of meditation:
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| 28 Apr 2024 | Buddhist Triple Refuge & 8 Precepts Ceremony | Tisarana | Dhammagiri | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:06:47 | |
This is the ceremony of taking refuge in the Triple Gem of Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, followed by taking of the EIGHT precepts. We do this ceremony at Dhammagiri:
Requesting Triple Refuge & 8 Precepts Mayaṃ Bhante, tisaraṇena saha aṭṭha-sīlāni yācāma. Dutiyampi, mayaṃ Bhante tisaraṇena saha aṭṭha-sīlāni yācāma. Tatiyampi, Mayaṃ Bhante tisaraṇena saha aṭṭha-sīlāni yācāma. (English trsl., not chanted during session: "Venerable Sir, we request the Triple Refuge together with the 8 precepts. For the second time... For the third time...") Homage to the Buddha Recited by Monk 3x Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! Homage to the Buddha Repeated by Laity 3x Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa! (English translation, not chanted during session:
Taking Refuge in Buddha, Dhamma & Sangha 3x (recited line by line by monk, and repeated line by line by laity) Buddhāṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dhammaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Sanghaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dutiyampi Buddhāṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dutiyampi Dhammaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dutiyampi Sanghaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Tatiyampi Buddhāṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Tatiyampi Dhammaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Tatiyampi Sanghaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. (English translation, not chanted during session: "I take refuge in the Buddha. I take refuge in the Dhamma. I take refuge in the Sangha For the second time, I take refuge... For the third time, I take refuge...") Taking the 8 Precepts (recited line by line by monk, and repeated line by line by laity)
Imāni aṭṭha-sikkhāpadāni samādiyāmi (3x) (English translation, not chanted during session:
I undertake these eight training steps!") Monk Recites Blessing Imāni aṭṭha-sikkhāpadāni sīlena sugatiṃ yanti, sīlena bhogasampadā, sīlena nibbutiṃ yanti - tasmā sīlaṃ visodhaye! (English translation, not chanted during session: These eight training steps lead through virtue to a good rebirth, lead through virtue to the acquisition of wealth, lead through virtue to the extinction of suffering - therefore, may your purify your virtue!) Our Spotify playlists can be found on our Spotify Profile here: https://open.spotify.com/user/8z4dmrysnbbnjtz9f0wzjgcre Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter . | |||
| 28 Mar 2024 | Craving for Existence & Non-Existence | Bhava Tanha Vibhava Tanha | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:28:03 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a question on the meaning of Bhava Taṇhā & Vibhava Taṇhā. In the four Noble Truths, the Buddha explains three forms of craving (taṇhā):
Craving is the cause of suffering, so we have to abandon all three types of craving to realize freedom from death and dukkha. Ajahn Dhammasiha offers some reflections especially on the meaning of 'craving for non-existence". He also makes some suggestions how emotions like anger can feed our sense of 'being', and how bhava taṇhā is closely related to the delusion of self, I and mine. Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 02 Sep 2024 | GUIDED MEDITATION | Loving Kindness - Metta | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhism | 00:51:24 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha leads a guided meditation on Mettā, Loving Kindness, cultivating the intention of unconditional good will to all beings without distinction. In particular, he encourages us to 'get the feeling going, i.e. to not just 'think' about loving kindness, but to recognize and nurture the ulifting, joyful emotion we feel while practising mettā. He also points out how important it is to develop loving kindness to ourselves. Finally, he shares some reflections on cultivating mettā while walking, and on maintaining the intention of good will to everyone throughout once daily life. Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Dhammagiri Youtube Channel #buddhism #dhamma #meditation #metta #lovingkindness | |||
| 20 Nov 2023 | AJAHN VARADHAMMO | Rejoicing in Goodness | Robe Offering Ceremony Dhammagiri | 00:24:18 | |
Ajahn Varadhammo is the abbot of Bodhisaddha Monastery, Wilton near Sydney. He has kindly accepted our invitation to our robe offering ceremony in the Kathina month here at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage. Ajahn Varadhammo is a disciple of Tan Ajahn Anan of Wat Marp Jan, Thailand. He has trained with Tan Ajahn Anan for more than 10 years, until he was invited to lead the establishment of Bodhisaddha monastery. Even now, he keeps in close contact with his teacher, visiting him regularly, and often providing English translations for Tan Ajahn Anan during his live casts on Zoom. However, although he has done a lot of interpreting from Thai to English, there are not yet that many teachings of Ajahn Varadhammo himself available yet. Therefore, we are very happy that he agreed to provide the main Dhamma talk for our robe offering ceremony. Ajahn encourages us to to rejoice ('anumodanā') in the countless acts of goodness that are necessary to bring sangha and lay supporters together, and conduct such a major event joyfully and in concord. The website of Bodhisaddha, Ajahn Varadhammo's home monastery: www.bodhisaddha.org The website of Ajahn Varadhammo's teacher, Tan Ajahn Anan/Wat Marp Jan: www.watmarpjan.org/en/ Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage website: www.dhammagiri.net Our Youtube Channel . | |||
| 16 Jun 2024 | Cleanliness is next to Godliness | Spiritual Practice and Purification | Dhammagiri | 00:32:58 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha compares spiritual practice and meditation with the task of cleaning to show how they are related to each other. Our Spotify playlists can be found on our Spotify Profile here: https://open.spotify.com/user/8z4dmrysnbbnjtz9f0wzjgcr Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 11 Dec 2023 | Impermanence 'Anicca' | Dhamma Talk by Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:32:37 | |
A family came to share merits with their father/grandfather, who they lost 3 months ago. Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about the process of rebirth. He explains how we can contemplate the impermanence of all conditioned phenomena, and develop insight to let go of attachment. Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 | |||
| 12 Aug 2024 | AJAHN ACHALO | Beach & Meditation | Good Karma Brightens the Mind | Q&A at Dhammagiri | 00:38:49 | |
Q&A with Ajahn Achalo on an occasion when he was visiting Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage in his home town, Brisbane. He shares his memories of his first experiences of inner calm on the beach while listening to the waves and answers questions about the benefit of apirations and rituals and how merit (good actions) can brighten our mind. More teachings by Ajahn Achalo can be found on his website and YouTube channel: www.peacebeyondsuffering.org https://www.youtube.com/@AjahnAchalo Ajahn Achalo was born in Brisbane Australia in 1972. He developed a keen interest in meditation at the age of twenty and a year later left for Thailand to study Buddhism more intently. After a two year period practising in various centres and monasteries, in 1996 Ajahn Achalo ordained as a Theravada Bhikkhu (monk) under Ajahn Liem at Wat Nong Pah Pong, the monastery founded by venerable Ajahn Chah. Although most of his training has taken place in Thailand, Ajahn Achalo has also lived in several international Forest Monasteries in the Ajahn Chah lineage. During his years of training, he has received personal guidance from many remarkable teachers, among them, Ajahn Sumedho, Ajahn Pasanno, Ajahn Jayasaro and Ajahn Kalyano. For most of his Bhikkhu life, he has considered Tan Ajahn Anan, abbot of Wat Marp Jan, to be his principal mentor. Ajahn Achalo is the founding abbot of Anandagiri Forest Monastery, Phetchabun, Thailand. By the way, our Spotify Playlists can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/user/8z4dmrysnbbnjtz9f0wzjgcre Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 25 Jul 2022 | Loving Kindness to the Unborn Child | Buddhist Talk at Dhammagiri by Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:22:09 | |
The environment children grow up in at an early age has a huge impact on their psychological well being for their whole life. If they consistantly receive love, affection and care, they will develop healthy self esteem, and the ability to give love and affection to others. This process starts already during pregnancy. In the video, Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages a young pregnant woman to be particularly diligent with her Dhamma practice, because everything she does is directly experienced by the unborn child as well. If she bows to the Buddha, the child bows as well. If she chants and does Buddha Puja, the child hears the chanting as well. If she develops loving kindness consistently, that wholesome emotion will be established in the child as 'default emotion' in his mind, it becomes 'normal' for the child to have that emotion of good will and friendliness in the background all the time. The influence of the father is also very important. If he looks after and cares for the mother, and provides a very safe, protected and comfortable environment for her, she will feel really at ease, and so will the child. As the topic of abortion has recently become a highly emotional and controversial topic again in all media, Ajahn Dhammasiha uses the opportunity to remind everyone that according to the Buddha, an unborn child (embryo/foetus) is a human being. It is not just a 'lump of cells', but it has consciousness connected to it, without which it could not develop. The Buddha is unambiguously in his teaching: The first precept, to abstain from intentionally killing living beings, does include to abstain from intentionally killing an unborn child through abortion. www.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJw www.tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive . | |||
| 24 Jun 2024 | Visits to Amaravati, Muttodaya & Cittaviveka | LPS90 Event | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:41:03 | |
After his return to Dhammagiri, Ajahn Dhammasiha shares some experiences from his travels. Some photos can be seen here: https://travel-pics-ajahn-2.dhammagiri.net He first attended the huge event for Luang Por Sumedho's 90th birthday at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery near London. LP Sumedho is the most senior Western disciple of Ajahn Chah, and the founder of Wat Pah Nanachat, Cittaviveka and Amaravati Monasteries. You can find more info about this great celebration attended by some 140 monastics here: https://amaravati.org/luang-por-sumedhos-birthday-update-june-2024/ Ajahn Dhammasiha also visited Muttodaya Monastery in Germany, and Cittaviveka in the south of England, Sussex. The website for Ajahn Khantiko's little place in Jena, Germany, which Ajahn couldn't remember correctly in the video, is: https://www.dhammagiri.net . | |||
| 11 Jun 2023 | Recollection of the Sangha | Sanghanussati | Ajahn Dhammasiha at Dhammagiri | 00:40:17 | |
A Dhammatalk about recollecting the Sangha, one of the 6 recollection that the Buddha frequently encourages to develop: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN11_12.html Our Podcast on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 | |||
| 06 Sep 2024 | New to Buddhism: How to Start? | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:29:52 | |
Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked by a newcomer to Buddhism for some advice how to get started with both study and practice of the Buddha's teaching. Our Spotify Playlists Dhammagiri Youtube Channel #buddhism #dhamma #generosity #virtue #meditation | |||
| 21 Jul 2023 | Samadhi through Gladness, Tranquility and Bliss | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 00:32:18 | |
Many times the Buddha explains how the mind can unify in Samādhi via the following steps:
Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to put effort in meditation not just into sitting in a certain posture for a certain amount of time, but predominently make an effort to arouse gladness through training our perception to enjoy our meditation, to make it fun and a happy activity.
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| 19 Jun 2023 | Learning to enjoy Meditation and making Puññā | Dhammagiri | 00:23:58 | |
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| 14 Mar 2024 | Not Me, Not Mine: Better Let Go | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhist Teaching Dhammagiri | 00:29:10 | |
After the meditation session, Ajahn Dhammasiha offers reflections on the realationship of Samatha/Samādhi (Calmness/Concentration) & Vipassana (Insight). After the samatha meditation has weakened the mental hindrances, and suffused our mind with joy and brightness, we can develop insight by simply obesrving phenomena as they truly are. If we are not distorting our experience of feelings, emotions, thoughts and perceptions due to delusion, but observe them as they really are, we recognize their impermanent and therefore ultimatley unsatisfactory nature. And why would we want to hold on and regard as me and mine something that is impermanent and unsatisfactory? Better to end all I-Making & Mine-Making, and to let go! Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 05 Oct 2022 | Working with Negative Mindstates and Trauma | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhist Dhamma Talk at Dhammagiri | 00:38:52 | |
In our meditation, we usually hope to find calm, happiness, bliss and enlightenment. But what we often encounter instead are all kinds of challenging and highly disagreeable mindstates. Defilements and distractions of all sorts assail the heart. Ajahn Dhammasiha reminds us that these negative states are very normal to encounter in meditation. Unless we're someone with great pāramī, like Venerable Sāriputta, who's heart was was already very pure from practice in previous lifetimes, we have a lot of cleaning up to do in our mind. In fact, that's exactly the point of our meditation: It's a little bit like tackling a really difficult and long delayed cleaning job. Finally getting into the attic or the basement room that hasn't been sorted for years. Or finally pulling the washing machine off the wall and cleaning out all the grime and mold behind and underneath it. Similarly, a big part of meditation is to allow all the difficult stuff to rise into awareness, and then to consciously contemplate it as impermanent, not me, not mine, unsure, not my self. This process usually has to be repeated many times. Each contemplation will weaken the issue only slightly, and the process of overcoming it tends to be very gradual, taking numerous repetitions over many years. Responding to a question, Ajahn points out that in case of severe trauma, it may not be possible straight away to follow the above process. The trauma may be too overwhelming. Rather than beneficially contemplating it, the mind may latch onto it and fully absorb into it, a form of 'wrong concentration' ('micchā-samādhī'). That may just reinforce the trauma, making it worse. If that's the case, it's better not to focus the mind internally. One has to start by training the mind in external activities. We gradually brighten the mind and fill it with more goodness and happiness. It's better to interact, to make good karma in interaction with other beings. Whenever we do something good for others (kindness, generostiy), we make our mind happy and brighter. We develop wholesome self esteem. We keep precepts ('sīla'), not harming or hurting ourselves or any being. Once the mind has been uplifted and lightened through kindness, good karma and virtue, it will gradually be able allow the trauma into awareness. The mind is now bright and confident enough to address the trauma with wisdom and insight, weakening and abandoning it step by little step. More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news
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| 26 Jan 2025 | Devotional Faith vs Faith in Dhamma Principles | Saddha | Confidence | Conviction | 00:40:19 | |
The new 'Saddhamma Cetiya' at Dhammagiri will serve as a focal point to direct and develop our faculty of faith/confidence/conviction ('Saddhā'). However, it's important to understand that faith/confidence is not limited to devotional affection to a particular person. We can also have faith in abstract principles of Dhamma, like: "All conditioned phenomena are not self" "Craving is the cause of suffering" "Lying is never wholesome, it's better to not even speak any 'white' or 'polite' lies, but to always be truthful" and so on... Our wisdom faculty may still be too weak to really understand these Dhamma principles the Buddha taught on our own. In that case, we can fall back on faith. For example, if we experience physical pain, we may not yet be able to wisely understand that the pain is not me, not mine, and not my self. But we can have faith that it's not me, not mine and not my self. If the conviction is strong enough, it can lead to letting go, which is the whole point of the exercise. Whether the letting go occurs based on wisely understanding the pain is not self, or whether it occurs based on having faith that the pain is not self, doesn't really matter. The result is the same: Letting go and being at ease. Dhammagiri Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #faith #confidence #conviction #saddha #wisdom | |||
| 26 Oct 2023 | Oh Dear, We've been HACKED! | Dhammagiri | Buddhist Dhamma Talk | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:32:11 | |
We're worried about getting hacked, or becoming victims of identity theft. Nefarious actors may scoop up all our private data after getting access to our computer or online accounts in a 'hack'. However, compared to a hacker getting into our email our bank account, it is far worse that our mind has been 'hacked' by Mara. Defilements, craving, ignorance and delusion have managed to gain access to our mind, and are now executing their neferious activity.
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| 21 Feb 2025 | AJAHN MONEYYO | The Buddha, the Unsurpassable Teacher | Who Was the Buddha? | 00:56:43 | |
The Buddha didn't realize awakening only for himself and was perfect in knowledge and conduct and developed supreme purity, compassion, wisdom and liberation but also had immeasurable compassion and an unique ability to teach and lead others to realize awakening themselves. This made him "the unsurpassable teacher" (anuttaro purisadamma sārathi, lit.: "the unsurpassable trainer of trainable people), one of the unique qualities of the Buddha that we can recollect about him. This Dhamma-Talk is a recollection of the Buddha as unsurpassable teacher: 0:00 Introduction 1:42 How does the Buddha teach and instruct? Where do his instructions lead? 8:54 What qualities made the Buddha the unsurpassable teacher? 33:32 How successful were the teaching efforts of the Buddha and what did he achieve by teaching? 49:54 The Buddha didn't just give people information but taught so that they get stirred up and inspired to practice his teaching Just like the sun is not only bright and radiant only for itself, but also provides the energy for the entire ecosystem of the planet earth and all beings living on it - so too the Buddha didn't realize awakening just for his own benefit but illuminated the life of countless beings and lead them to liberation. Click here to see the whole "The Life of the Buddha" series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbxbuMjfRsvxKRNGf2OpxFD322oyZzfWk Dhammagiri Website Newsletter Pics #buddha #buddhism #teacher #dhamma | |||
| 15 Dec 2023 | Santa Meditation - Empty the Heavy Sack! | Guided Meditation | Xmas | Christmas | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:30:21 | |
In this guided meditation, Ajahn Dhammasiha uses Santa Claus as a metaphor for the process of emptying the mind. Santa's job is to give gifts to all the kids for Christmas. He's working very hard to fulfill this task, travelling on his sleigh carrying a very big and heavy sack with all the presents. Similarly, our mind is carrying around the heavy load of all kinds of different emotions, feelings, moods, worries, desires, hopes, concerns, phantasies, images, thoughts... and so on. When Santa takes the gifts out of his sack, his task is simply to give it away to the kid that requested that particular gift. Whether the gift is some beautiful doll, or some ugly monster, or some boring game, Santa is not getting involved at all:
Whatever he finds in the sack, he just acknowledges it and then gives it away to the kid it's meant for, without clinging or aversion to the gifts. Similarly, whatever comes up in our mind, we just acknowledge it for what it is, but don't get involved at all. We don't attach to the pleasant stuff, we're not averse to the unpleasant mental objects, no liking, no disliking, no holding on. It's not our's anyhow, so we just give it all away, letting go, emptying our mind. More about Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJw Our email Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive Our Podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Our Podcasts on Apple/itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 . | |||
| 18 Jul 2022 | Reflections on Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path | Ajahn Dhammasiha | 00:31:40 | |
After the meditation session on Āsāḷhā Pūjā, Ajahn Dhammasiha shares some reflections on the 4 Noble Truths. He puts special emphasis on the Fourth Noble Truth, i.e. the Noble Eightfold Path, also known as the 'Middle Way' ('Majjhimā Paṭipadā'). With the Noble Eightfold Path, the Buddha has given us a tool that we can apply virtually any time throughout our life, whether ordained or in lay life. Meditation ('Bhāvanā') is not only sitting crosslegged. We practice 'bhāvanā', mental cultivation, whenever we're putting forth effort to apply any of these 8 path factors:
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