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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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2 days ago
2 days ago
Ajahn Hasapanna discusses sutta MN13 from the Majjhima Nikaya: Mahādukkhakkhandha Sutta, "The Greater Discourse on Mass of Suffering". Ajahn Hasapanna is using Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation https://suttacentral.net/mn13/en/bodhi
Read MN13 on Sutta Central here.
"Challenged to show the difference between his teaching and that of other ascetics, the Buddha points out that they speak of letting go, but do not really understand why. He then explains in great detail the suffering that arises from attachment to sensual stimulation.", Sutta Central.
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This is Part 2 of Sunday morning sutta class on Karaniyametta sutta (sutta on loving kindness). It is an in depth discussion and this session explains what it means to be straightforward and upright, how to straighten and brighten the mind (uhu and suhuju quality). Also explains ways to become a good listener and why this is so important not only for your day to day life but also for the spiritual practice. Explains the qualities ujū ca sūjū Suvaco c’assa. This is the 2nd session of the Metta sutta, find the entire series on bswa.org here.
Teaching given by Ayya Karunika on the 18 August 2024.
Bhikkhuni Ayya Kārunikā is currently the senior resident monastic at Santi Forest Monastery, NSW, Australia and the spiritual director for New Zealand Bhikkhuni Sangha Trust, Hamilton. She has been in monastic life for over 14 years and she received her full ordination as a bhikkhunī in 2014 at Dhammasara Nuns monastery in Western Australia where she lived and trained for over a decade with Ajahn Hāsapaññā. She has been a student of Ajahn Brahm and Ajahn Brahmali for over 2 decades.
Ayya Kārunikā is able to articulate the Buddhist teachings in a way that is practical and comprehensible to people of all ages and has experience in conducting retreats for both adults and youth. While she has a PhD in Microbiology and worked as a scientist, she has also been the building project manager for the construction of the Dhammasara Nuns Monastery main building complex and has worked with many volunteers over the years. Ayya Kārunikā was born in Sri Lanka but has been living and working in Australia for over 2 decades.
She has a passion to share her experience and knowledge and loves working with people and also doing creative projects. She is dedicated to supporting the growth of Bhikkhunis around the world and is currently involved in projects to support the establishment of places for Bhikkhunis in Theravada forest tradition in Australia, New Zealand, Poland and Sri Lanka.
Please visit the Santi Forest Youtube Channel and Santi Forest Monastery website
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Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
Venerable Radha discusses various suttas on Right Speech listed here.
Read AN10.176 Cundasutta on Sutta Central here.
"Cunda the smith tells the Buddha of rites of purification practiced by the western brahmins. The Buddha explains purification in his teaching.", Sutta Central.
Read AN4.82 Musāvādasutta on Sutta Central here.
"Wrong or right speech leads to heaven or hell.", Sutta Central.
Read AN5.198 Vācāsutta on Sutta Central here.
"Five factors of good speech.", Sutta Central.
Read MN44 Cūḷavedallasutta on Sutta Central here.
"The layman Visākha asks the nun Dhammadinnā about various difficult matters, including some of the highest meditation attainments. The Buddha fully endorses her answers.", Sutta Central.
Read MN21 Kakacūpamasutta on Sutta Central here.
"A discourse full of vibrant and memorable similes, on the importance of patience and love even when faced with abuse and criticism. The Buddha finishes with the simile of the saw, one of the most memorable similes found in the discourses.", Sutta Central.
Read SN9.11 Akusalavitakkasutta on Sutta Central here.
"A mendicant plagued by bad thoughts is encouraged by a deity.", Sutta Central.
Read MN58 Abhayarājakumārasutta on Sutta Central here.
"The leader of the Jains, Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta, gives his disciple Prince Abhaya a dilemma to pose to the Buddha, supposing that this will show his weakness. Things don’t go quite as planned.", Sutta Central.
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Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Discuss MN10 Mahasatipatthana sutta and explains what right mindfulness is and how it is different to the mindfulness practices done widely in modern times. Explains the significance of Satipatthana practice and also discuss the Buddhas instruction on when, how and where to do this practice. This session only covers mindfulness on body and mindfulness on feeling. The remaining 2 Satipatthanas will be discussed in the following session. Teaching given by Ayya Karunika on the 15 August 2024.
Bhikkhuni Ayya Kārunikā is currently the senior resident monastic at Santi Forest Monastery, NSW, Australia and the spiritual director for New Zealand Bhikkhuni Sangha Trust, Hamilton. She has been in monastic life for over 14 years and she received her full ordination as a bhikkhunī in 2014 at Dhammasara Nuns monastery in Western Australia where she lived and trained for over a decade with Ajahn Hāsapaññā. She has been a student of Ajahn Brahm and Ajahn Brahmali for over 2 decades.
Ayya Kārunikā is able to articulate the Buddhist teachings in a way that is practical and comprehensible to people of all ages and has experience in conducting retreats for both adults and youth. While she has a PhD in Microbiology and worked as a scientist, she has also been the building project manager for the construction of the Dhammasara Nuns Monastery main building complex and has worked with many volunteers over the years. Ayya Kārunikā was born in Sri Lanka but has been living and working in Australia for over 2 decades.
She has a passion to share her experience and knowledge and loves working with people and also doing creative projects. She is dedicated to supporting the growth of Bhikkhunis around the world and is currently involved in projects to support the establishment of places for Bhikkhunis in Theravada forest tradition in Australia, New Zealand, Poland and Sri Lanka.
Please visit the Santi Forest Youtube Channel and Santi Forest Monastery website
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Tuesday Feb 25, 2025
Tuesday Feb 25, 2025
Ajahn Brahmali discusses sutta 2 from the Digha Nikaya: Sāmaññaphala Sutta, "The Fruits of the Ascetic Life". This is part 9.
Find the full series here.
Read DN2 on Sutta Central here.
"The newly crowned King Ajātasattu is disturbed by the violent means by which he achieved the crown. He visits the Buddha to find peace of mind, and asks him about the benefits of spiritual practice. This is one of the greatest literary and spiritual texts of early Buddhism", Sutta Central.
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Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
This is a sutta class. It is an in depth discussion of the Karaniyametta sutta (Chant on loving-kindness). Discuss why just mindfulness isn't enough for enlightenment and explains the uniqueness of Buddhist way of practicing loving-kindness. Explains how the 7 enlightenment factors are developed as you practice metta meditation. Discuss many ways how you can become skilled in doing metta meditation. Explains the first quality sakko or being skilled. This is the 2nd session of the Metta sutta, find the entire series on bswa.org here.
Teaching given by Ayya Karunika on the 11 August 2024.
Bhikkhuni Ayya Kārunikā is currently the senior resident monastic at Santi Forest Monastery, NSW, Australia and the spiritual director for New Zealand Bhikkhuni Sangha Trust, Hamilton. She has been in monastic life for over 14 years and she received her full ordination as a bhikkhunī in 2014 at Dhammasara Nuns monastery in Western Australia where she lived and trained for over a decade with Ajahn Hāsapaññā. She has been a student of Ajahn Brahm and Ajahn Brahmali for over 2 decades.
Ayya Kārunikā is able to articulate the Buddhist teachings in a way that is practical and comprehensible to people of all ages and has experience in conducting retreats for both adults and youth. While she has a PhD in Microbiology and worked as a scientist, she has also been the building project manager for the construction of the Dhammasara Nuns Monastery main building complex and has worked with many volunteers over the years. Ayya Kārunikā was born in Sri Lanka but has been living and working in Australia for over 2 decades.
She has a passion to share her experience and knowledge and loves working with people and also doing creative projects. She is dedicated to supporting the growth of Bhikkhunis around the world and is currently involved in projects to support the establishment of places for Bhikkhunis in Theravada forest tradition in Australia, New Zealand, Poland and Sri Lanka.
Please visit the Santi Forest Youtube Channel and Santi Forest Monastery website
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Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
*Apologies, recording started late and this session is missing the introduction.
Ajahn Brahm is taking a classic text compiled by the Venerable Nyanatiloka titled the “Word of the Buddha” which provides a staged summary of the Buddha Dhamma. But Ajahn Brahm is heavily revising the text to bring it up to date with contemporary English language usage.
Ajahn translates the pali sentence by sentence instead of word for word to make it powerful and accessible for us to understand.
To celebrate Ajahn Brahm’s 50th Bhikkhu Anniversary, on 5th December 2024 a PDF copy of the published version of Ajahn Brahm’s translation of ‘The Word of the Buddha’ is being made freely available for download here:
This is Part 3. Find the full series here.
Ajahn Brahm has given previous teachings on the Word of Buddha: https://bswa.org/teachings/
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Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
Ajahn Brahmali discusses sutta 2 from the Digha Nikaya: Sāmaññaphala Sutta, "The Fruits of the Ascetic Life". This is part 8.
Find the full series here.
Read DN2 on Sutta Central here.
"The newly crowned King Ajātasattu is disturbed by the violent means by which he achieved the crown. He visits the Buddha to find peace of mind, and asks him about the benefits of spiritual practice. This is one of the greatest literary and spiritual texts of early Buddhism", Sutta Central.
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Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Ajahn Brahmali discusses sutta 2 from the Digha Nikaya: Sāmaññaphala Sutta, "The Fruits of the Ascetic Life". This is part 7.
Find the full series here.
Read DN2 on Sutta Central here.
"The newly crowned King Ajātasattu is disturbed by the violent means by which he achieved the crown. He visits the Buddha to find peace of mind, and asks him about the benefits of spiritual practice. This is one of the greatest literary and spiritual texts of early Buddhism", Sutta Central.
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Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Ajahn Hasapanna discusses sutta MN1 from the Majjhima Nikaya: Mūlapariyāya Sutta, "The Root of All Things". Ajahn Hasapanna is using Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation here.
Click here to read MN1 on Sutta Central.
"The Buddha examines how the notion of a permanent self emerges from the process of perception. A wide range of phenomena are considered, embracing both naturalistic and cosmological dimensions. An unawakened person interprets experience in terms of a self, while those more advanced have the same experiences without attachment.", Sutta Central.
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Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
*Apologies, this was wrongly publish earlier as Part 16. Ajahn Brahm is teaching this series again in 2024.
Ajahn Brahm is taking a classic text compiled by the Venerable Nyanatiloka titled the “Word of the Buddha” which provides a staged summary of the Buddha Dhamma. But Ajahn Brahm is heavily revising the text to bring it up to date with contemporary English language usage.
Ajahn translates the pali sentence by sentence instead of word for word to make it powerful and accessible for us to understand.
To celebrate Ajahn Brahm’s 50th Bhikkhu Anniversary, on 5th December 2024 a PDF copy of the published version of Ajahn Brahm’s translation of ‘The Word of the Buddha’ is being made freely available for download here:
This is Part 1. Find the full series here.
Ajahn Brahm has given previous teachings on the Word of Buddha: https://bswa.org/teachings/
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Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
*Apologies, this was wrongly publish earlier as Part 17. Ajahn Brahm is teaching this series again in 2024.
Ajahn Brahm is taking a classic text compiled by the Venerable Nyanatiloka titled the “Word of the Buddha” which provides a staged summary of the Buddha Dhamma. But Ajahn Brahm is heavily revising the text to bring it up to date with contemporary English language usage.
Ajahn translates the pali sentence by sentence instead of word for word to make it powerful and accessible for us to understand.
To celebrate Ajahn Brahm’s 50th Bhikkhu Anniversary, on 5th December 2024 a PDF copy of the published version of Ajahn Brahm’s translation of ‘The Word of the Buddha’ is being made freely available for download here:
This is Part 2. Find the full series here.
Ajahn Brahm has given previous teachings on the Word of Buddha: https://bswa.org/teachings/
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Sunday Nov 17, 2024
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
Venerable Radha discusses sutta AN5.161 from the Anguttara Nikaya: Paṭhamaāghātapaṭivinaya Sutta, "Getting Rid of Resentment", click here for presentation file.
Click here to read AN5.161 on Sutta Central
"Five reflections to help eliminate resentment, in brief.", Sutta Central.
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Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Ajahn Brahm discusses sutta 128 of the Majjhima Nikaya: Upakkilesasutta – Imperfections.
Read MN128 on Sutta Central here.
"A second discourse set at the quarrel of Kosambi, this depicts the Buddha, having failed to achieve reconciliation between the disputing mendicants, leaving the monastery. He spends time in the wilderness before encountering an inspiring community of practicing monks. There he discusses in detail obstacles to meditation that he encountered before awakening", Sutta Central.
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Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Venerable Sunyo discusses sutta SN47.8 from the Saṁyutta Nikāya: the Sūda Sutta, Cooks and is using the translation from https://suttas.github.io/sn47.8.
Read SN47.8 here on Sutta Central
“The parable of the cook. They present different kinds of dishes to the king, and observe which the king likes. In the same way, a mendicant observes why their meditation succeeds or fails. When the four kinds of mindfulness meditation succeeds it leads to giving up hindrances and entering immersion.,” Sutta Central.
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Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Ajahn Hasapanna discusses sutta 64 from the Majjhima Nikaya: the Mahāmālukya Sutta, The Greater Discourse to Māluṅkyaputta and is using Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation which can be found here.
Read MN64 on Sutta Central here.
“A little baby has no wrong views or intentions, but the underlying tendency for these things is still there. Without practicing, they will inevitably recur.,” Sutta Central.
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Tuesday May 14, 2024
Tuesday May 14, 2024
Ajahn Brahmali discusses sutta 2 from the Digha Nikaya: Sāmaññaphala Sutta, "The Fruits of the Ascetic Life". This is part 6.
Find the full series here.
Read DN2 on Sutta Central here.
"The newly crowned King Ajātasattu is disturbed by the violent means by which he achieved the crown. He visits the Buddha to find peace of mind, and asks him about the benefits of spiritual practice. This is one of the greatest literary and spiritual texts of early Buddhism", Sutta Central.
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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.
You can read suttas online at SuttaCentral or Access to Insight
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Ajahn Brahmali discusses sutta 2 from the Digha Nikaya: Sāmaññaphala Sutta, "The Fruits of the Ascetic Life". This is part 5.
Find the full series here.
Read DN2 on Sutta Central here.
"The newly crowned King Ajātasattu is disturbed by the violent means by which he achieved the crown. He visits the Buddha to find peace of mind, and asks him about the benefits of spiritual practice. This is one of the greatest literary and spiritual texts of early Buddhism", Sutta Central.
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.
You can read suttas online at SuttaCentral or Access to Insight
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Ajahn Brahm is taking a classic text compiled by the Venerable Nyanatiloka titled the “Word of the Buddha” which provides a staged summary of the Buddha Dhamma. But Ajahn Brahm is heavily revising the text to bring it up to date with contemporary English language usage.
Ajahn translates the pali sentence by sentence instead of word for word to make it powerful and accessible for us to understand. A link to the translation can be accessed here.
This is Part 13. Find the full series here.
Ajahn Brahm has given previous teachings on the Word of Buddha: https://bswa.org/teachings/
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.
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Ajahn Brahm is taking a classic text compiled by the Venerable Nyanatiloka titled the “Word of the Buddha” which provides a staged summary of the Buddha Dhamma. But Ajahn Brahm is heavily revising the text to bring it up to date with contemporary English language usage.
Ajahn translates the pali sentence by sentence instead of word for word to make it powerful and accessible for us to understand. A link to the translation can be accessed here.
This is Part 12. Find the full series here.
Ajahn Brahm has given previous teachings on the Word of Buddha: https://bswa.org/teachings/
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.