Episodes

Saturday Aug 05, 2023
2002 Rains Retreat (9/10) | Dependant Origination and Cessation | Ajahn Brahm
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Rains Retreat teachings for 2002. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 9/10: Dependant Origination and Cessation
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Friday Aug 04, 2023
2023 June | 9 day Sutta Retreat (8/26)| Ajahn Brahmali
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
9 day Sutta Retreat with Ajahn Brahmali at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 23rd June to 2nd July 2023.
Track 8 : Morning Session – 26th June 23.
See the full retreat on bswa.org here.
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Friday Aug 04, 2023
2023 June | 9 day Sutta Retreat (7/26)| Ajahn Brahmali
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
9 day Sutta Retreat with Ajahn Brahmali at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 23rd June to 2nd July 2023.
Track 7 : Q & A – 25th June 23.
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.
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Friday Aug 04, 2023
2023 June | 9 day Sutta Retreat (6/26)| Ajahn Brahmali
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
9 day Sutta Retreat with Ajahn Brahmali at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 23rd June to 2nd July 2023.
Track 6 : Afternoon Session – 25th June 23.
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.
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Friday Aug 04, 2023
2023 June | 9 day Sutta Retreat (5/26)| Ajahn Brahmali
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
9 day Sutta Retreat with Ajahn Brahmali at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 23rd June to 2nd July 2023.
Track 5 : Morning Session – 25th June 23.
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.
Copyright Buddhist Society of Western Australia www.bswa.org

Friday Aug 04, 2023
2023 June | 9 day Sutta Retreat (4/26)| Ajahn Brahmali
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
9 day Sutta Retreat with Ajahn Brahmali at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 23rd June to 2nd July 2023.
Track 4 : Q & A – 24th June 23.
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.
Copyright Buddhist Society of Western Australia www.bswa.org

Friday Aug 04, 2023
2023 June | 9 day Sutta Retreat (3/26)| Ajahn Brahmali
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
9 day Sutta Retreat with Ajahn Brahmali at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 23rd June to 2nd July 2023.
Track 3 : Afternoon Session – 24th June 23.
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.
Copyright Buddhist Society of Western Australia www.bswa.org

Friday Aug 04, 2023
2023 June | 9 day Sutta Retreat (2/26)| Ajahn Brahmali
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
9 day Sutta Retreat with Ajahn Brahmali at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 23rd June to 2nd July 2023.
Track 2 : Morning Session – 24th June 23.
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.
Copyright Buddhist Society of Western Australia www.bswa.org

Friday Aug 04, 2023
2023 June | 9 day Sutta Retreat (1/26)| Ajahn Brahmali
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
9 day Sutta Retreat with Ajahn Brahmali at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 23rd June to 2nd July 2023.
Track 1 : Introduction Session – 23rd June 23.
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.
Copyright Buddhist Society of Western Australia www.bswa.org

Friday Aug 04, 2023
2002 Rains Retreat (8/10) | What to do After Jhana | Ajahn Brahm
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Rains Retreat teachings for 2002. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 8/10: What to do After Jhana
See the full set 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.

Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
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.

Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
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.

Monday Jul 31, 2023
2002 Rains Retreat (7/10) | Insight Beyond Vipallasa | Ajahn Brahm
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Rains Retreat teachings for 2002. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 7/10: Insight Beyond Vipallasa
See the full set 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 Jul 30, 2023
2002 Rains Retreat (6/10) | Faith | Ajahn Brahm
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Rains Retreat teachings for 2002. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 6/10: Faith
See the full set 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.

