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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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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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Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 13 : – Last Talk – 17th January 24 .
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Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 12 : – Q & A – 16th January 24 .
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Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 11 : – Morning Talk & a Guided Meditation – 16th January 24.
See the full retreat on bswa.org 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.
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 10 : – Q & A – 15th January 24 .
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.
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 9 : – Guided Meditation – 15th January 24 .
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.
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 8 : – Morning Talk & a Guided Meditation – 15th January 24.
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.
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 7 : – Q & A – 14th January 24 .
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.
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 6 : – Guided Meditation – 14th January 24 .
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.
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 5 : – Morning Talk & a Guided Meditation – 14th January 24.
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.
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 4 : – Q & A – 13th January 24 .
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.
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 3 : Guided Meditation – 13th January 24 .
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.
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 2 : – Morning Talk – 13th January 24 .
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.
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
5 Day Retreat with Venerable Sunyo at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 12th to 17th January 2024.
Track 1 : – Introduction – 12th January 24 .
See the full retreat on 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.
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)
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
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.
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
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.