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Trumix.com listings available of Buddhist Society of Western Australia Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Right View - How and Where to Look Ajahn Brahm talks about the first factor of the 8-fold path: [b]Right View[/b] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Impermanence: Everything Will Be Allright Ajahn Khemavaro is a senior monk at Bodhinyana Monastary. He has taught several meditation retreats locally and overseas. The topic of this talk is "Impermanence - Everything will be all right". It is dedicated to Shirley Jackson an active member of the lay community who passed away this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Realising Or Revealing Religion? Ajahn Brahm compares Buddhism, a religion that is based in personal realisation, to other religions which are mostly based in divine revelation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Loving Kindness Ajahn Brahmali looks at the usefulness loving kindness (metta) in every day practice and then expounds on how to develop it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meditation Kamma Ajahn Brahm investigates 'prayer to deities' and how to achieve good meditation. Both of these seemingly diverse topics receive new light when one looks at the law of kamma (action). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gossip Ajahn Brahm talks about gossip. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mind That Knows Ajahn Vayama talks about Dhamma and 'the mind that knows'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Doughnut Thief Venerable Cittapalo is a monk from Bodhinyana Monastery. This is his first talk at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre and it centers around Sutta MN20, 'The Removal of Distracting Thought'. We apologise for the audio somewhat rough quality of this talk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Decisions, Decisions, Decisions Ajahn Brahm gives advice on how to make decsions large and small. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peace Is the Highest Happiness There are a lot of books about happiness on those self-help shelves, but what REALLY is this elusive happiness and how can we achieve it? At Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre Ajahn Brahm puts his case to an exceptionally full house. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peace Is the Highest Happiness There are a lot of books about happiness on those self-help shelves, but what REALLY is this elusive happiness and how can we achieve it? At Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre Ajahn Brahm puts his case to an exceptionally full house. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating Sacred Space Ajahn Vayama talks about sacred spaces.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Expanding Your Mind Don't let perceptions suck you in. Ajahn Brahm advises that you expand your mind and look at the bigger picture... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MN 18 Madhupindika Sutta Ajahn Brahm explains the Madhupindika (The Honeyball) Sutta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Below The Mist Ajahn Brahm presents a down-to-earth perspective on enlightenment. It is not found in the high-mountain mists of intellectual delusion, but in simplicity, loving kindness and non clinging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ultimate Question While Deep Thought (the supercomputer in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy') calculated that the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything was '42', Ajahn Brahmali tackles the same question from the Buddhist perspective. And sets it straight... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samatha and Vipassana Ajahn Brahmali talks about the relationship of samatha and vipassana. It turns out they are complementary, like the blades of a double-edged a knife... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Being Open to Differences Ajahn Vayama talks about our capacity to accommodate different perspectives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Complaints Ajahn Brahm discourages complaints Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Meaning of Life Ajahn Brahm talks about the meaning of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Letting Go of the Ones We Love Ajahn Brahm talks about letting go of our loved ones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intention Using a range of examples and stories Ajahn Vayama explains the Buddha's teaching that intension and will are ultimately conditioned and beyond our full control. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Causes and Purpose of Mindfulness Ajahn Brahmali delivers a Dhamma talk about the causes and purpose of mindfulness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 3 Aspects of Freedom A Dhamma talk about freedom from a Buddhist perspective. Ajahn Brahm presents this talk by covering political/social, personal and spiritual freedoms in turn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of 'Evil' Ajahn Brahm talks about 'Right View'. The talk might also have been called 'Focusing on the Eggs' or 'A Little Hitler in All of Us'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Extinguishing the Sparks As the forest around Ajahn Vayama's Dhammasara Monastery reaches the state of a tinderbox, baking in 48 degree C heat, she very aptly likens the Buddhist path to one of fire awareness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real Life Teachings of Ajahn Chah Having recently returned from his training monastery in Thailand Ajahn Brahm reminisces about his famous teacher Ajahn Chah. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Take (Out) On Fundamentalism Ajahn Brahm explains his perspective and possible Buddhist responses to the serious challenge of religious fundamentalism in our world. On the way we gain insight into some of the more offbeat experiences a Buddhist monk can have, such as finding himself surrounded by scantily-dressed biker moll's at a funeral and dealing with head-hunting evangelists on the London Underground... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thanks A Lot For Gratitude Ajahn Brahm talks about a key attitude in Buddhism (and meditation), that of being content and grateful in all situations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pilgrimage to India Ajahn Brahmali recently returned from India where he visited many places of significance to Buddhists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Free In The Heart Topics of this talk are enlightened nuns, Sangamitha Theri, Christmas, Buddhist dichotomy of cetovimutti (liberation through mind) and panyavimutti (liberation through wisdom) as well as cause and effect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conflict! Learn how to tussle the Buddhist way with tigers, bears and the enemy inside yourself. Find out why this teacher should really be called 'Pipe Bomb Ajahn'... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Much To Do About Nothing What are Buddhists supposed to do? Ajahn Brahm explains that it's not about total passivity. Our efforts should focus on kindness, patience, peace, stopping. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret (Lo-Fi) Ajahn Brahm explores craving. Are there different types? Are some forms of craving necessary for survival? Is all craving 'bad'? [b]Note: due to hardware failure, this recording is of a lower audio quality. We apologise for the inconvenience. [/b] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Function of Mindfulness Ajahn Vayama outlines effects and strategies of the practice of mindfulness in daily life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Power Ajahn Brahm reflects on 'power'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Mindfulness and Compassion Ajahn Brahm reflects on mindfulness and compassion after his recent attendance at the 'Mind and It's Potential' Conference in Sydney. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebirth Ajahn Brahmali talks about aspects of rebirth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ten Great Vows of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra Venerable Fa Shu, Teacher: Sagaramudra Buddhist Temple in Carlisle, explaining one aspect of the Mahayana Tradition through the Avatamsaka Sutra Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Practice Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Read Your Heart, Not The Book Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Hope In Facing Death Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cherishing Others Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Four Boundless States & Four Exertions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Six Perfections Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Enjoy Your Life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anger and its Antidote of Patience Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Impermanence Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chenrezig Meditation A guided Chenrezig meditation and talk by Mana Waite given at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre in Perth Western Australia. Dr. Waite is a meditation teacher from the Tibetan (Vajrayana) Karma Kagyu tradition. He operates Open Mind Meditation School: [url=www.openmindmeditation.com.au]www.openmindmeditation.com.au[/url] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tolerance Explored While tolerance is widely regarded as a positive quality, Ajahn Brahm points out that tolerance always contains an element of passive disdain for it's subject. More liberating for the beholder (as well as the subject) is the deep investigation of all phenomena. An active, searching approach will point the contemplative toward profound understanding and acceptance rather than mere tolerance. [u]Warning:[/u] This talk contains a bonus joke :-D Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrating Celibacy How celibacy brings peace, simple contentment and spiritual insight that surpasses that of romance and sexuality. AND makes for a positive response towards an overpopulated and polluted planet... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happiness Industry: Joy At Last Ajahn Brahm leads us into the Rains Retreat with this scorcher of a talk. The Buddha's teaching of acceptance and letting go of states leads to the kind of deep happiness that cannot be found by shopping in the 'happiness industry' of this world. As Ajahn Chah famously said: "Joy at last -to know there is no happiness in the world!" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing The Bigger Picture Why is that even though we practice well, sometimes we fall back on on old habits and defilements? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Change the World Buddhist reflections on social, political and environmental action leading towards the creation of a better world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday Meditation 30-minute guided meditation with Ajahn Brahm given at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre in Perth Western Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Procrastination/Hierarchy of Life's Meaning Ajahn Brahm gives a 'medley talk' covering various topics that were requested by the community. They include procrastination, the meaning of life, euthanasia in pets and finding a balance between initiative/productivity and recreation in children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interconnectedness Interconnection disconnection and how to find a balance between the two.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Practicing for Dying Practicing for Dying Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dealing with Emotions Dealing with Emotions... :sendmylove: :violin: :hammer: :thumbsdown: :-0 8-) :lol: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accountability Ajahn Brahm teaches that we are accountable for our actions in this and future lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buddhism and Sects Buddhism and Sects Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tathagata - He did it! The Tathagata - He did it! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Right to Believe? Do we have a right to believe anything? Do some beliefs have priority over others? How do beliefs arise in the mind and how accurately do such 'intellectual fermentations' actually mesh with an Ultimate Reality?And if that's a little heavy for you, look out for the Pope's Faustian episode on the golf course! Quack, quack :lol: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freedom:The Path to Happiness For those abused and wronged is happiness actually possible? Attachment to painful emotions, such as grief, anger, bitterness, the notion of a wounded self with a distinct identity: all these can become a perpetual prison... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buddhism in the Business World Ajahn Brahm talks about the integration of Buddhism and business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investigation Into the 'Ethics of Murder' How does one interpret the first precept in everyday life? Is being a Buddhist and a soldier mutually exclusive? Are there instances when one can perform a 'mercy' killing and not attract negative results? How does kamma work in relation to the murdering of living beings? How might society justly deal with such grievous actions and ultimately, how can one forgive?Funky monk Ajahn Brahm provides practical approaches to this bewildering array of serious and complex issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recollections of the Buddha Ajahn Vayama explains how the recollection of the Buddha's virtues (Buddhanusati) can help us in our practice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building The House of Peace Stillness reached through meditation leads to an awakening in many spheres. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday Meditation 30-minute guided meditation with Ajahn Brahmali. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Some Aspects of Kamma Ajahn Brahmali talks about kamma. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aspects of Freedom Ajahn Nyanadhammo, abbot of [url=http://www.forestsangha.org/com/InfoFlyerWPN.PDF]Wat Pah Nanachat International Monastery[/url], visits Perth. His talk had the audience spellbound as he explained Buddhist strategies that can take us out of the unsatisfactoriness of human existence to freedom. We also hear of the oldest monk in the world who was swallowed and then regurgitated by a giant python! And why red light districts have red lights... :-) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Growing Happiness In her previous Dhamma talk, Ajahn Vayama advised how to avoid getting stuck in unskillful states. But how to arouse the skillful? Cultivating the Boundless States (Brahma Viharas) along with the 5 Precepts will take us a long way... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Higher Criticism A penetrating look at how we react to criticism both when furnishing it on others and (at once more challenging) receiving it ourselves. Why are we often so hardened and totally stuck in our views and perceptions when softness of mind can yield much larger fruit? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buffalo Training Visiting abbot of [url=http://www.abhayagiri.org/]Abhayagiri Monastery[/url] in California, Venerable Ajahn Pasanno takes us on an engaging tour of the Buddhist path. Centering around the topics of faith, spiritual nourishment and the need for active Dhamma practice, we're also told several sharp-witted recollections of the late Ajahn Cha's teachings, including that of the training of certain buffalo. Much more grim are Ajahn Pasanno's own experiences with a 'Dead Man Walking' on death row ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Nibbana Guaranteed? Nibbana is not something that can be predictably acquired through sheer effort. Actually it more or less happens automatically, the more one lets go of doing, gives up the notion of a distinct 'I' and acts from the knowledge of the oneness of all beings and things. Out of these insights compassionate energy and happiness arises. Nibbana, the ultimate happiness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Refraining From The Bad - Cultivating The Good Ajahn Sister Vayama explaining Buddhas teachings on how can we transform our suffering into happiness, getting away from obsessions and purifying our minds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zeroing In On Enlightenment This talk enlarges on an academic panel discussion held recently at the University of Western Australia regarding the reconciliation of religion and science. Ajahn Brahm also takes the opportunity to discuss the Buddhists concepts of Non-duality and the Middle Way. In the process some fascinating linkages and extrapolations come to light, particularly in regard to Emptiness (Anatta) and gravity physics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Right Intention & Speech This talk revolves around the second and third factors of the Noble Eightfold Path, namely the Intentions of Renunciation, Goodwill and Harmlessness - as well as the practicing of Right Speech. Always pragmatic and practical, the Dhamma taught by the Buddha 2500 years ago, correlates perfectly with contemporary concepts of psychology: deluded and and ego-intoxicated, humans project their own fears and weaknesses onto others, rather than face these within themselves. This creates endless con ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Morality By way of his considerable understanding of the Dhamma, Ajahn Brahmali provides a guide to making moral decisions and leading an ethical life. The Venerable runs his listeners through several approaches taught by the Buddha. These include the well-known '5 Precepts', as well as the '10 Courses of (Virtuous) Action'. An outstanding explanation of the '4 Types of Kamma' rounds off this inspired&practical talk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating Inner Wealth What is left when everything worldly is taken from us at the moment of our death? Ajahn Vayama explains that it's our inner, spiritual wealth, created by practicing the Buddha's noble eightfold path. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Buddhist Attitude to Sensuality Denial of the senses, labelling them evil or even completely prohibiting sense indulgence is not the Buddhist way. Meditation and mindfulness allow practitioners to deal with sensuality wisely, particularly if it is destructive to one's self or others.And, according to Ajahn Brahm, those who *really* want to be deviant and head towards nibbana (enlightenment):"Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side..."- and try celibacy . :-P Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Superstition A hint of irreverence for all forms of superstition, lashings of humor in this talk, serve to stress that it's ONLY our personal accountability and actions that make a difference. Trinket jewelery, mindless chanting and holy water do not. Is there heaven and hell? What is the mind? Ajahn's stories of the 'Samurai Warrior and the Monk' and 'The Cloaked Emperor' provide the answers... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Control and Freedom Ajahn Brahm' talks about the control/freedom paradox. How much of our lives is *actually* controlled by us, how much by forces outside ourselves? How free are we? The relinquishment of our controlling impulse brings freedom, while the ego, with its judgement apparatus, leads to bondage and despair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jealousy Ajahn Brahmavamso shines his torch on the issue of jealousy. By way of his inimitable stories e.g. The Burglar That Ordained, The 4 Mothers and Their 'Clergy' Sons :-D - he exposes the shackles of jealousy/envy and points us towards the freedom of mudita (sympathetic joy) as well as the striving for a peaceful, happy mind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gurus & Cults Venerable Ajahn Brahmali provides a compelling Buddhist perspective of the ubiquitous phenomenon of gurus and cults. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sharing The Human Condition Ajahn Sister Vayama advising on how to share our own experiences of suffering and happiness with others to help all of us Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who's The Boss? Ajahn Brahm's advice on which authorities we should be obedient to and why Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Laughing All The Way To Nibbana How can we distinguish between different types of happiness? How can we be happy now and in the future? Ajahn Brahm is giving some guidelines Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dealing With Anger Can we overcome anger, ill-will, irritation, negativity? Ajahn Brahmali is talking about practical ways of dealing with those emotions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good Meditation Ajahn Sister Vayama advising on how to develop our meditation skills Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Facing Life's Challenges Shall we seek out difficult situations in life to grow from those challenges? Listen to some guidance from Ajahn Brahm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping With Loss Ajahn Brahm trying to enrich our understanding of the life and death process Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deeper Than Reason - Beyond Belief What can we do to find some meaning, to find some truth and how can we use it to create some sense of peace and happiness and harmony in this fractured world Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keeping Ones Seat Ajahn Sister Vayama advising on how to keep the balance of ones mind through the ups and downs of life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buddhism And Homosexuality Ajahn Brahm is having a non-violent crusade against gender discrimination Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intelligence The Buddhist understanding of intelligence. What is it, how do we recognise it and how do we develop it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kicking Goals In Buddhism Ajahn Brahm is explaining how to find the right goal for any achievements Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It The beggar with the diamond in his rope: and other stories told by Sister Hue Can of the Sunyata Community and Meditation Centre . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transforming Adversity Kelsang Nampur, teacher in the New Kadampa tradition of the Dharmapala Buddhist Centre, Fremantle, is giving suggestions on how to deal with the difficulties in life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Awakening Sister Hue Can of the Sunyata Community and Meditation Centre talks about how purifying our minds through meditation will transform our perspective on life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dhamma In Daily Life 'Dhamma In Daily Life' explained by Venerable Fa Xun, the resident Teacher of the Sagaramudra Buddhist Temple in Carlisle, Mahayana Tradition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Medicine Meal Venerable Fa Xun, Resident Teacher: Sagaramudra Buddhist Temple in Carlisle, Mahayana Tradition, talking about her experiences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solving Conflict Solving Conflict Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Law Of Cause And Effect Venerable Dondrub visits to discuss the deeper implications of the law of karma on our lives and how we can use this to develop and grow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Has Religion Got A Future? In this insightful talk Ajahn Brahm discusses the future direction of religious institutions and spiritual participation in a world were dogmatic authority is fading away and people are demanding a means to find out the truths of life free from the shackles of narrow interpretations of scripture, and grounded in the direct experiences of developing spiritual awareness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website History Of Buddhism History Of Buddhism Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virtuous Death Ajahn Brahm continuing the discussion from the 4th Global Conference on Buddhism on the topic of euthanasia and abortion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Permanence In Impermanence Permanence In Impermanence Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buddhism In Traditional And Non-traditional Countries After talking at the 4th Global Conference on Buddhism Ven. Professor Dhammavihari adressed a slightly smaller group of listeners at the Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Give It Everything You've Got Friday night talk from the Perth Convention Centre Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dealing With Pain Dealing With Pain Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Busy Life Ajahn Brahm's motivational talk for how to become rich, efficient and get by in your workplace Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just Hanging On Ajahn Vayama giving guidance how to handle very challenging times in our life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting High On Vesak Ajahn Brahm is encouraging you to apply that beautiful Dhamma toothpaste to help with your bad mind smell ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Honesty Honesty Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Deal With Criticism Ajahn Brahm teaching you to lessen your suffering Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is That A Girl One Fresh from retreat our own Ajahn Sister Vayama is talking about perception Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Noble Eightfold Path How to practise THE path that Buddha advised, explained by Ajahn Brahmali Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website End Of Spiritual Elitism The Buddhist way of seeing through superiority/inferiority Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Desire Hear first hand how our favourite monk was sitting on the beach between bikini wearing seventeen year old beauties before going to prison ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cause And Effect In Expectations Aspects of cause and effect explained with experiences of a recent pilgrimage to India Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pyramid In The Jungle Ajahn Brahm's approach to get out of the jungle of our daily difficulties into the bliss of the infinite Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Skilful Livelihood Ajahn Brahm is skilfully explaining how to skilfully follow the Eightfold Path to Nibbana by a skilful livelihood Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just Injustice Ajahm Brahm explaining the Buddhist response to social injustice and other injustices in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Buddhist Realisation of Non-Self Ajahn Brahm illuminates the Buddhist concept of non-self. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Right View Ajahn Brahm explains how right view (from the Noble Eightfold Path) only leads to peace and harmony in the world. If it does not lead to peace, harmony, forgiveness, acceptance and compassion, then it is not right view as taught by The Buddha. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Expectations Unlike Charles Dickins "Great Expectations", Ajahn Brahm teaches the value of no expectations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Contemplate - Don't Think It is often the great thinks and scholars of society that can be the most divisive. But contemplation, as opposed to thinking, leads to harmony and peace. For Ajahn Brahm, the truth can only lead to peace and harmony, and never to war or conflict. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wedded Bliss? What did the Buddha say about marriage and relationships? Find out in this talk by Ajahn Sister Vayama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don't Rush To Your Grave (6.5MB) Feeling rushed? Busy? There is not much time in life, so go slowly. That is the message behind this talk by Ajahn Brahm. Often in our modern society we are money rich but time poor. We should take our time. Going slowly can prevent us from making mistakes, getting stressed and will ultimately allow us to enjoy what we are doing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don't Rush To Your Grave (13.1MB) Feeling rushed? Busy? There is not much time in life, so go slowly. That is the message behind this talk by Ajahn Brahm. Often in our modern society we are money rich but time poor. We should take our time. Going slowly can prevent us from making mistakes, getting stressed and will ultimately allow us to enjoy what we are doing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life As A Monk Or Nun (8.2MB) Ajahn Brahm discusses what distinguishes a real monk or nun from a lay person; that is, no sex and no money. Ajahn talks about why it is so important for monastics to not have any sexuality and that they not handle money. He also explains that renunciation of sex and money are necessary on the path to the highest happiness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life As A Monk Or Nun (16.3MB) Ajahn Brahm discusses what distinguishes a real monk or nun from a lay person; that is, no sex and no money. Ajahn talks about why it is so important for monastics to not have any sexuality and that they not handle money. He also explains that renunciation of sex and money are necessary on the path to the highest happiness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bhikkhuni Abhirupa Nanda Ajahn Sister Vayama tells the stories of a vain nun at the time of the Buddha, and King Asoka's daughter who took the female Buddhist monastic tradition from India to Sri Lanka. Implicit in these stories is the equal opportunity that both men and women have to realise enlightenment. Listen |