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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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Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
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 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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Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
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 2. 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.
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Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
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 1. 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.
Copyright Buddhist Society of Western Australia www.bswa.org
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Ajahn Brahmali discusses sutta 2 from the Digha Nikaya: Sāmaññaphala Sutta, "The Fruits of the Ascetic Life". We apologise for the lost of sound for about 5 minutes from around 14 minutes into the teaching. (Sorry there was no backup audio on this occasion).
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
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Ajahn Brahmali discusses the first sutta from the Digha Nikaya: Brahmajala Sutta. This is part 8.
Read DN1 here on Sutta Central.
"While others may praise or criticize the Buddha, they tend to focus on trivial details. The Buddha presents an analysis of 62 kinds of wrong view, seeing through which one becomes detached from meaningless speculations," Sutta Central.
Find the full DN1 series 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.
You can read suttas online at SuttaCentral or Access to Insight
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Ajahn Sunyo discusses Sutta 22.100 of the Saṁyutta Nikāya: Dutiyagaddulabaddhasutta – The Leash (2nd).
Click here to read SN22.100 on Sutta Central.
A dog leashed to a post will always remain close to that post. In the same way, beings remain close to aggregates in this endless cycle of transmigration. The Buddha refers to a well-known painting called “Conduct”, and says the mind is even more diverse than that; and indeed, the animal realm is the most diverse of them all, and it is produced by the mind”, Sutta Central.
You can read suttas online at Access to Insight and SuttaCentral
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 Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Ajahn Brahm discusses sutta 68 of the Majjhima Nikaya: Naḷakapānasutta - At Naḷakapāna.
Click here to read MN68 on Sutta Central.
"Those who practice do so not because they are failures, but because they aspire to higher freedom. When he speaks of the attainments of disciples, the Buddha does so in order to inspire", Sutta Central.
You can read suttas online at Access to Insight and SuttaCentral
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.
Monday Jun 13, 2022
Monday Jun 13, 2022
Ajahn Brahm discusses sutta 36 of the Majjhima Nikaya: Mahāsaccakasutta - The Longer Discourse With Saccaka.
Click here to read MN36 on Sutta Central.
"In a less confrontational meeting, the Buddha and Saccaka discuss the difference between physical and mental development. The Buddha gives a long account of the various practices he did before awakening, detailing the astonishing lengths he took to mortify the body", Sutta Central.
You can read suttas online at Access to Insight and SuttaCentral
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.
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
Ajahn Brahmali discusses the first sutta from the Digha Nikaya: Brahmajala Sutta. This is part 7.
Read DN1 here on Sutta Central.
"While others may praise or criticize the Buddha, they tend to focus on trivial details. The Buddha presents an analysis of 62 kinds of wrong view, seeing through which one becomes detached from meaningless speculations," Sutta Central.
Find the full DN1 series 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.
You can read suttas online at SuttaCentral or Access to Insight
Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
Ajahn Hasapanna discusses sutta 3 of the Majjhima Nikaya: the Dhammadayada Sutta, “Heirs in Dhamma”.
Read MN3 here on Sutta Central
"Some of the Buddha’s students inherit from him only material profits and fame. But his true inheritance is the spiritual path, the way of contentment. Venerable Sāriputta explains how by following the Buddha’s example we can experience the fruits of the path," 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 Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Ajahn Brahmali discusses the first sutta from the Digha Nikaya: Brahmajala Sutta. This is part 6.
Read DN1 here on Sutta Central.
"While others may praise or criticize the Buddha, they tend to focus on trivial details. The Buddha presents an analysis of 62 kinds of wrong view, seeing through which one becomes detached from meaningless speculations," Sutta Central.
Find the full DN1 series 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.
You can read suttas online at SuttaCentral or Access to Insight
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Ajahn Brahmavamso discusses sutta 20 of the Majjhima Nikaya: Vitakkasaṇṭhānasutta - The Removal of Distracting Thoughts.
Click here to read MN20 on Sutta Central.
“Their mind becomes stilled internally; it settles, unifies, and becomes immersed in samādhi. This is called a mendicant who is a master of the ways of thought. They’ll think what they want to think, and they won’t think what they don’t want to think. They’ve cut off craving, untied the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit have made an end of suffering”, Sutta Central.
You can read suttas online at Access to Insight and SuttaCentral
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.
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Ajahn Hasapanna discusses sutta 25 from the Majjhima Nikaya: The Nivapa Sutta – The Bait.
Read MN25 here on Sutta Central
"The Buddha compares getting trapped by Māra with a deer getting caught in a snare, illustrating the ever more complex strategies employed by hunter and hunted," 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
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Ajahn Brahmali discusses the first sutta from the Digha Nikaya: Brahmajala Sutta. This is part 5.
Read DN1 here on Sutta Central.
"While others may praise or criticize the Buddha, they tend to focus on trivial details. The Buddha presents an analysis of 62 kinds of wrong view, seeing through which one becomes detached from meaningless speculations," Sutta Central.
Find the full DN1 series 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.
You can read suttas online at SuttaCentral or Access to Insight
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.
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.
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Ajahn Brahmali discusses the first sutta from the Digha Nikaya: Brahmajala Sutta. This is part 4.
Read DN1 here on Sutta Central.
"While others may praise or criticize the Buddha, they tend to focus on trivial details. The Buddha presents an analysis of 62 kinds of wrong view, seeing through which one becomes detached from meaningless speculations," Sutta Central.
Find the full DN1 series on bswa.org here.
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To find and download more Sutta Classes on DeeperDhamma, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the sutta you want, then type the sutta title into the DeeperDhamma search box.
You can read suttas online at SuttaCentral or Access to Insight
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
Ajahn Diravamso discusses sutta 61 from the Anguttara Nikaya The Book of the Fours: Pattakamma Sutta - Worthy Deeds.
"Four things that are desirable, but hard to get; and how to get them through deeds of substance.", Sutta Central.
Read AN4.61 on Sutta Central here.
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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.
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Ajahn Appicchato discusses several Suttas from the book "In The Buddha's Words" by Bhikkhu Bodhi.
The Suttas referenced by the topics discussed by Ajhan can also be found in Sutta Central using the following links.
Lump of foam
Handful of Leaves
Empty is the World
The Two Nibbāna Elements
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Sunday Aug 15, 2021
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
Ajahn Brahm discusses from SN12 Nidana-samyutta. Click here to read the English translation on Access to Insight
12.11(1) Ahara Sutta (Fuel or Nutriment)
12.3(3) Patipada Sutta - The Two Ways
12.16(6) Dhammakathika Sutta - A Speaker of the Dhamma
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Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Ajahn Brahm discusses sutta 139 from the Majjhima Nikaya: Aranavibhanga Sutta, "Non Conflict" - the Middle Length Sayings.
Read MN139 on Sutta Central here.
"Achieving peace is no simple matter. The Buddha explains how to avoid conflict through contentment, right speech, understanding pleasure, and not insisting on local conventions.", 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.