Episodes
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Rains Retreat teachings from 23rd July to 1st October 2014. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm and Bhante Sujato at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 9/11 : Verses of the Senior Monks Part 2 – Bhante Sujato 17th September 2014.
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Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
In the final part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali, Ajahn Sujato and Venerable Sunyo discusses Right Liberation:
- Liberation from what exactly?
o Defilements
o Suffering = the five aggregates = existence
o Liberation in both respects - Liberation and Nibbāna (SN 23.1, SN 1.2)
- The meaning of “Nibbāna”
- The two types of Nibbāna (Iti 44, Thag 15.2)
o Nibbāna at enlightenment
o Nibbāna at passing away - Nature of Nibbāna
o Awakening vs. enlightenment
o Only potsherds being left (SN 12.51)
o All feelings become cool at the end of life (MN 140) - Anattā: no entity comes to an end, only suffering (MN 72, SN 22.85)
- Conceit and enlightenment (MN 140, Ud 1.10)
- To help others, aim for enlightenment yourself; get out of the mud (MN 8)
- Some say Nibbāna is cessation, others that it is a kind of eternalism; so how do we choose?
o We need to zoom out and take a bird’s eye view
o The safe bet: let go of as much as possible. “Nothing is worth holding on to” (MN 37)
o The view of cessation of existence is closer to non-clinging (MN 60) - What’s the purpose of extinguishment? (SN 23.1)
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Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
In the final part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali, Ajahn Sujato and Venerable Sunyo discusses Right Liberation:
- Liberation from what exactly?
o Defilements
o Suffering = the five aggregates = existence
o Liberation in both respects - Liberation and Nibbāna (SN 23.1, SN 1.2)
- The meaning of “Nibbāna”
- The two types of Nibbāna (Iti 44, Thag 15.2)
o Nibbāna at enlightenment
o Nibbāna at passing away - Nature of Nibbāna
o Awakening vs. enlightenment
o Only potsherds being left (SN 12.51)
o All feelings become cool at the end of life (MN 140) - Anattā: no entity comes to an end, only suffering (MN 72, SN 22.85)
- Conceit and enlightenment (MN 140, Ud 1.10)
- To help others, aim for enlightenment yourself; get out of the mud (MN 8)
- Some say Nibbāna is cessation, others that it is a kind of eternalism; so how do we choose?
o We need to zoom out and take a bird’s eye view
o The safe bet: let go of as much as possible. “Nothing is worth holding on to” (MN 37)
o The view of cessation of existence is closer to non-clinging (MN 60) - What’s the purpose of extinguishment? (SN 23.1)
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Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
In the 3rd part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali, Ajahn Sujato and Venerable Sunyo discusses the myths and misconceptions:
- Myth 1: Nibbāna is a kind of consciousness
- Myth 2: Nibbāna is kind of mind
- Myth 3: Extinguished fires keep existing
- Myth 4: The Buddha/arahants do not suffer
- Myth 5: Cessation is just annihilation
- Myth 6: Only the clinging aggregates are suffering, not the pure aggregates
- Myth 7: Nibbāna is “the unborn” thing, the “deathless” thing
- Myth 8: Nibbāna is a state or sphere.
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Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
In the 3rd part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali, Ajahn Sujato and Venerable Sunyo discusses the myths and misconceptions:
- Myth 1: Nibbāna is a kind of consciousness
- Myth 2: Nibbāna is kind of mind
- Myth 3: Extinguished fires keep existing
- Myth 4: The Buddha/arahants do not suffer
- Myth 5: Cessation is just annihilation
- Myth 6: Only the clinging aggregates are suffering, not the pure aggregates
- Myth 7: Nibbāna is “the unborn” thing, the “deathless” thing
- Myth 8: Nibbāna is a state or sphere.
Find the entire series and reading materials on bswa.org here.
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Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
AN7.66 Sattasuriya Sutta - The Seven Suns | Ajahn Sujato | 14 December 2014
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Ajahn Sujato discusses sutta 7.66 of the Anguttara Nikaya: Sattasuriya Sutta - The Seven Suns.
Click here to read AN 7.66 on Sutta Central.
"A rare discourse on cosmic evolution. The Buddha describes the successive appearance of seven suns and how even the earth will be burned up.", Sutta Central.
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Thursday Apr 07, 2022
AN3.36 Devadūta Sutta – Messengers of the Gods | Ajahn Sujato | October 2014
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Ajahn Sujato discusses sutta 3.36 from the Anguttara Nikaya: Devadūta Sutta – Messengers of the Gods. “The god of death questions us, but we are punished by our own deeds”, Sutta Central.
Click here to read AN3.36 on Sutta Central.
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
A five-day session on Dependent Origination based on the early Buddhist text, conducted by Ajahn Brahmali and Bhante Sujato on 21 to 25 June 2021 at the Rydges Hotel in Rosehill.
This workshop was organised by SuttaCentral and recorded by Gopalan Radhakrishnan.
Track 10 : Final session
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
A five-day session on Dependent Origination based on the early Buddhist text, conducted by Ajahn Brahmali and Bhante Sujato on 21 to 25 June 2021 at the Rydges Hotel in Rosehill.
This workshop was organised by SuttaCentral and recorded by Gopalan Radhakrishnan.
Track 9
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
A five-day session on Dependent Origination based on the early Buddhist text, conducted by Ajahn Brahmali and Bhante Sujato on 21 to 25 June 2021 at the Rydges Hotel in Rosehill.
This workshop was organised by SuttaCentral and recorded by Gopalan Radhakrishnan.
Track 8
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
A five-day session on Dependent Origination based on the early Buddhist text, conducted by Ajahn Brahmali and Bhante Sujato on 21 to 25 June 2021 at the Rydges Hotel in Rosehill.
This workshop was organised by SuttaCentral and recorded by Gopalan Radhakrishnan.
Track 7
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
A five-day session on Dependent Origination based on the early Buddhist text, conducted by Ajahn Brahmali and Bhante Sujato on 21 to 25 June 2021 at the Rydges Hotel in Rosehill.
This workshop was organised by SuttaCentral and recorded by Gopalan Radhakrishnan.
Track 6
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
A five-day session on Dependent Origination based on the early Buddhist text, conducted by Ajahn Brahmali and Bhante Sujato on 21 to 25 June 2021 at the Rydges Hotel in Rosehill.
This workshop was organised by SuttaCentral and recorded by Gopalan Radhakrishnan.
Track 5
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
A five-day session on Dependent Origination based on the early Buddhist text, conducted by Ajahn Brahmali and Bhante Sujato on 21 to 25 June 2021 at the Rydges Hotel in Rosehill.
This workshop was organised by SuttaCentral and recorded by Gopalan Radhakrishnan.
Track 4
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
A five-day session on Dependent Origination based on the early Buddhist text, conducted by Ajahn Brahmali and Bhante Sujato on 21 to 25 June 2021 at the Rydges Hotel in Rosehill.
This workshop was organised by SuttaCentral and recorded by Gopalan Radhakrishnan.
Track 3
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
A five-day session on Dependent Origination based on the early Buddhist text, conducted by Ajahn Brahmali and Bhante Sujato on 21 to 25 June 2021 at the Rydges Hotel in Rosehill.
This workshop was organised by SuttaCentral and recorded by Gopalan Radhakrishnan.
Track 2
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
A five-day session on Dependent Origination based on the early Buddhist text, conducted by Ajahn Brahmali and Bhante Sujato on 21 to 25 June 2021 at the Rydges Hotel in Rosehill.
Track 1 : This is the first session of the first day of the retreat. Introductory material.
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Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Udana 5.4: Kumāraka Sutta - A lesson to young boys | Ajahn Sujato | 26-01-2014
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Ajahn Sujato discusses sutta 5.4 from the Udana in the Khuddakanikāya Nikaya - The Collection of Minor Discourses.
"A lesson to young boys: If you don’t want to suffer from pain, don’t inflict pain on other beings." Sutta Central.
Read Udana 5.4 on Sutta Central here.
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Sunday Sep 05, 2021
SN1.13 Devatasamyutta Sutta | Ajahn Sujato | 27-01-2013
Sunday Sep 05, 2021
Sunday Sep 05, 2021
Ajahn Sujato discusses SN1.13 Devatasamyutta Sutta.
"Like many of these discourses, here the Buddha repeats a god’s verses with a subtle twist towards the Dhamma." Sutta Central.
Click here to read the SN1.13 on Sutta Central.
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Friday Sep 27, 2019
SN47.12 Nalanda Sutta- At Nalanda | Ajahn Sujato | 24-02-2013
Friday Sep 27, 2019
Friday Sep 27, 2019
Ajahn Sujato discusses from SN47.12 from the Samyutta Nikaya: Nalanda Sutta, "At Nalanda".
Read SN47.12 here on Sutta Central.
"Sāriputta boldly claims that no-one has ever, or will ever, be more enlightened than the Buddha. He admits that he can read the minds of all the Buddhas, but he understands a principle of the Dhamma: all those who become awakened do so by giving up the five hindrances, practicing the four kinds of mindfulness meditation, and developing the seven awakening factors," Sutta Central.
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