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Dhamma teachings from the tradition of Ajahn Brahm and the Western Australian Buddhist Sangha for those looking for something deeper.
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Dec 15, 2025
Dec 15, 2025
2hr 9 min
Session 5: Samādhi and Insight (afternoon session)
On the development of samādhi and insight based on it.
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Dec 15, 2025
Dec 15, 2025
1hr 53 min
Session 5: Samādhi and Insight (morning session)
On the development of samādhi and insight based on it.
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Dec 14, 2025
Dec 14, 2025
2hr 51 sec
Session 4: Mindfulness, clear comprehension, and wise attention (afternoon session)
On the use of mindfulness and wise/proper attention in sense restraint and in other parts of the gradual training.
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Dec 14, 2025
Dec 14, 2025
1hr 55 min
Session 4: Mindfulness, clear comprehension, and wise attention (morning session)
On the use of mindfulness and wise/proper attention in sense restraint and in other parts of the gradual training.
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Dec 5, 2025
Dec 5, 2025
2hr 10 min
Sense of Restraint in Practice (afternoon session)
This session will consist of an in-depth study of sense restraint, starting with its relationship to right effort. We will discuss will power versus wisdom power, and how this distinction is expressed in the suttas. We shall see that true restraint comes from wisdom, not from force.
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Dec 5, 2025
Dec 5, 2025
1hr 51 min
Sense of Restraint in Practice (morning session)
This session will consist of an in-depth study of sense restraint, starting with its relationship to right effort. We will discuss will power versus wisdom power, and how this distinction is expressed in the suttas. We shall see that true restraint comes from wisdom, not from force.
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Nov 25, 2025
Nov 25, 2025
2hr 2 min
Happiness on the Path (afternoon session)
This session explores a joy that arises not from gaining, indulging, or escaping, but from living rightly. By living blamelessly, we experience the happiness of freedom in the present moment while laying the foundation for deeper peace and insight. The session highlights the transformative power of contentment, showing how peace and happiness can flourish in ‘enough.’ Through mastering the art of restraint, participants discover how conscious, ethical choices and sense restraint cultivate clarity and inner strength, ultimately leading to freedom.
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Nov 25, 2025
Nov 25, 2025
1hr 53 min
Happiness on the Path (morning session)
This session explores a joy that arises not from gaining, indulging, or escaping, but from living rightly. By living blamelessly, we experience the happiness of freedom in the present moment while laying the foundation for deeper peace and insight. The session highlights the transformative power of contentment, showing how peace and happiness can flourish in ‘enough.’ Through mastering the art of restraint, participants discover how conscious, ethical choices and sense restraint cultivate clarity and inner strength, ultimately leading to freedom.
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Nov 21, 2025
Nov 21, 2025
2hr 18 min
A Gradual Journey to Freedom (afternoon session)
This class introduces the structure, purpose, and doctrinal context of the Buddha’s gradual training as presented in the early discourses. It examines its relationship to contemporary Vedic and Jain practices, explores the flexibility of its sequential steps, and considers its integration within the core teachings of the Middle Path.
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Nov 21, 2025
Nov 21, 2025
2hr 34 sec
A Gradual Journey to Freedom (morning session)
This class introduces the structure, purpose, and doctrinal context of the Buddha’s gradual training as presented in the early discourses. It examines its relationship to contemporary Vedic and Jain practices, explores the flexibility of its sequential steps, and considers its integration within the core teachings of the Middle Path.
Find the entire series and reading materials on bswa.org here.
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Aug 1, 2023
Aug 1, 2023
2hr 3 min
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)
Find the entire series and reading materials on bswa.org here.
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Aug 1, 2023
Aug 1, 2023
1hr 55 min
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)
Find the entire series and reading materials on bswa.org here.
Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon.
To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.
Aug 1, 2023
Aug 1, 2023
1hr 56 min
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.
Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon.
To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.
Aug 1, 2023
Aug 1, 2023
1hr 55 min
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.
Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon.
To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.
Aug 1, 2023
Aug 1, 2023
2hr 5 min
In the 2nd part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali and Venerable Sunyo continues on with what is Right Knowledge and talks about:
- Four noble truths (ariyasacca)
- Dependant Origination (paticca samupada)
- Three insights (tevijja)
- Six senses (salayatana)
- Five aggregates (pancupadanakkhanda)
- Three characteristics (tilakkhana)
Find the entire series and reading materials on bswa.org here.
Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon.
To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.
Aug 1, 2023
Aug 1, 2023
1hr 54 min
In the 2nd part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali and Venerable Sunyo continues on with what is Right Knowledge and talks about:
- Four noble truths (ariyasacca)
- Dependant Origination (paticca samupada)
- Three insights (tevijja)
- Six senses (salayatana)
- Five aggregates (pancupadanakkhanda)
- Three characteristics (tilakkhana)
Find the entire series and reading materials on bswa.org here.
Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon.
To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.
Aug 1, 2023
Aug 1, 2023
2hr 3 min
In this first part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali and Venerable Sunyo covers what is Right Knowledge.
Find the entire series and reading materials on bswa.org here.
Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon.
To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.
Aug 1, 2023
Aug 1, 2023
1hr 59 min
In this first part of the Right Knowledge and Right Liberation Workshop, Ajahn Brahmali and Venerable Sunyo covers what is Right Knowledge.
Find the entire series and reading materials on bswa.org here.
Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon.
To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.
Jan 1, 2022
Jan 1, 2022
1hr 24 min
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
See the full retreat on bswa.org here.
Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon.
To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.
Jan 1, 2022
Jan 1, 2022
1hr 20 min
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
See the full retreat on bswa.org here.
Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon.
To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.