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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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Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
9 day Retreat with Ajahn Brahm at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 17th October to 26th October 2025.
Track 1 : – Introduction – 17th October 2025 .
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Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
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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Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
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.
Find the entire series and reading materials on bswa.org here.
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Friday Nov 21, 2025
Friday Nov 21, 2025
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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Friday Nov 21, 2025
Friday Nov 21, 2025
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.
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Monday Oct 27, 2025
Monday Oct 27, 2025
Ajahn Hasapanna discusses sutta 22 from the Majjhima Nikaya: Alagaddūpama Sutta – “The Simile of the Snake” and is using Bhikkhu Bodhi’s translation.
Read MN22 on Sutta Central here:
“One of the monks denies that prohibited conduct is really a problem. The monks and then the Buddha subject him to an impressive dressing down. The Buddha compares someone who understands only the letter of the teachings to someone who grabs a snake by the tail, and also invokes the famous simile of the raft.”, Sutta Central.
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Saturday Oct 04, 2025
Saturday Oct 04, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 12/12: Why I Meditate – 1 October 2025
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Saturday Oct 04, 2025
Saturday Oct 04, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 11/12: A Talk About Nothing in Particular – 24 September 2025
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Sunday Sep 28, 2025
Sunday Sep 28, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 10/12: Practising the Path in the Long Term – 17th September 2025
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Sunday Sep 28, 2025
Sunday Sep 28, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 9/12: Staying Inspired Through Hardship – 10th September 2025
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Sunday Sep 28, 2025
Sunday Sep 28, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 8/12: The Path Walking Itself – 3rd September 2025
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Sunday Sep 28, 2025
Sunday Sep 28, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 7/12: Faith in Practice – 27th August 2025
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Friday Sep 26, 2025
Friday Sep 26, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 6/12: Community of Hermits – 20th August 2025
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Friday Sep 26, 2025
Friday Sep 26, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 5/12: Nothing to Attain – 13th August 2025
See the full set here.
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Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 4/12: Inspiration Not Aspiration – 6th August 2025
See the full set here.
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Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 3/12: Learning to Do Nothing – 30th July 2025
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Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 2/12: Experimenting with Perception – 23rd July 2025
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Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
Rains Retreat teachings from the 16th July to 7th October 2025. Teachings given by the abbot Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine (southeast of Perth, Western Australia). The main audience was the Sangha.
Track 1/12: Allowing Things to Vanish – 16th July 2025
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Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
This is Part 4 of Sunday morning sutta class on Karaniyametta sutta (sutta on loving kindness). It is an in depth discussion and this session explains the benefits of being humble and not conceited person. Discuss the subtle ways arrogance could pop up in our hearts. Explains anatimānī quality.
Please find the entire series for this talk on bswa.org here.
Teaching given by Ayya Karunika on the 06 October 2024.
Bhikkhuni Ayya Kārunikā is currently the Abbot at Santi Forest Monastery, NSW, Australia and the spiritual director for New Zealand Bhikkhuni Sangha Trust, Hamilton. Ayya Karunika started her monastic life in 2010 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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Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
5 Day Meditation Retreat with Ajahn Hasapanna at Jhana Grove Retreat Centre in Serpentine, Western Australia, from 10th June - 15th June 2025.
Track 12 : – Talk & Guided Meditation - 14th June 25.
See the full retreat on bswa.org here.
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BSWA teachings are available from:
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