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Dhamma Talks, Chanting, Precepts and Meditation with Ajahn Dhammasiha, Ajahn Moneyyo, and other experienced Senior Buddhist Monks in the Theravada Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. Recorded at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Australia. Our website: https://www.dhammagiri.net Our Youtube Channel, including regular live streams on the weekend "Dhammatalks at Dhammagiri": https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Spotify Playlists are here: https://open.spotify.com/user/8z4dmrysnbbnjtz9f0wzjgcre .
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- 3 days ago41 min
Don't Neglect Walking Meditation! | Cankama Bhavana | Dhamma Talk | Jongrom | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Walking meditation is in no way inferior to sitting meditation. In fact, for many of us in modern society it can be a more suitable posture than sitting crosslegged (or even full lotus). The way we grow up, always sitting on chairs, we're often not flexible enough for sitting crosslegged. Therefore, walking can help us to continue our meditation for a much longer time. It's also excellent for excercise, and to keep us fit and healthy. Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about the many benefits of walking meditation, and also suggests to apply the well known 16 steps of breath meditation to our walking meditation. Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsOur email Newsletter:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletterPics: https://www.dhammagiri.net/photo-albumsOur Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 #walking #meditation #buddhistmeditation #walkingmeditation #cankama #mindfulness #sati
- 1 weeks ago48 min
Buddhist Chanting: Why We Do It | Benefits of Dhamma Recitation | Chant by Heart | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Chanting is an essential part of meditative practice in virtually all Buddhist traditions, and also in other religions. Ajahn Dhammasiha explains the powerful benefits we receive from diligently learning Buddhist chants by heart, from listening to them, and from reciting them regularly. Chanting the teaching of the Buddha develops samatha (tranquility) and samādhi, due to the calming and uplifting effect on our mind. If we understand the meaning of what we're chanting, it can also lead to profound insight (vipassana). Monks have attained enlightenment while chanting, teaching or listening to Dhamma. At the same time, chanting is also beneficial at the basic, beginning stages of our meditative practice. If we're in danger to be overwhelmed by unwholesome emotions like anger, sadness or intense desire, chanting may succeed in overcoming the crises when other other more refined meditative tools don't work. Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsOur email Newsletter:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletterPics: https://www.dhammagiri.net/photo-albumsOur Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 #chanting #buddhistchanting #palichanting #buddhism #dhamma #dhammatalk #recitation #samatha #vipassana
- 1 weeks ago33 min
Transcendental Dependent Origination | Faith is the Bridge from Suffering to Joy | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about Saṃyutta Nikāya / Connected Discourses 12.23 'Upanisā Sutta' / 'Origin Sutta'In his discourse, the Buddha expands the usual links of Dependent Origination / Paṭicca Samuppāda in a revolutionary way, moving from Suffering to Faith to Joy: ( ... )Birth is the origin of suffering (dukkha)Suffering is the origin of faith (saddhā) Faith is the origin of joy (pāmojja) Joy is the origin of rapture (pīti) Rapture is the origin of tranquillity (Passaddhi) Tranquillity is the origin of bliss (sukha) Bliss is the the origin of unification of mind (samādhī) Unification of mind is the origin of the knowledge and vision of things as they really are (yathā-bhūta-ñāṇa-dassana) The knowledge and vision of things as they really are is the origin of disenchantment (nibbidā) Disenchantment is the origin of dispassion (virāga) Dispassion is the origin of release (vimutti) And release is the origin of the knowledge of the destruction of the defilements (The crucial step here is our response to suffering. It is here where we either descend into more and more misery, or we can use faith to guide us to joy and the way to transcend suffering: Whenever we experience pain and disappointment, we remember that this is exactly what the Buddha talked about, and we remember that he has also taught us the way how to get out of all this mass of misery. Thus the experience of suffering actually strengthens our confidence in the Buddha. At that moment we experince joy, just like a very ill person finallly meeting a doctor they are confident in that he can cure them. Bhikkhu Bodhi has written a helpful article about the Upanisā Sutta:https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/wheel277.htmlDhammagiri Forest Hermitage:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsOur email Newsletter:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletterPics: https://www.dhammagiri.net/photo-albumsOur Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 #suffering #dukkha #joy #happiness #buddhism #dhamma #dhammatalk
- 2 weeks ago40 min
Retraining the Faultfinding Mind | Focus on Joyful Events to Counter Depression | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Ajahn Dhammasiha explains how the faultfinding mind can deprive us of happiness, and even drive us into depression. If we're stuck in the negative feedback loop of complaining and faultfinding, we have to gradually but consistently reeducate our mind to pay attention to good and uplifting events. What we pay attention to ('yoniso manasikāra') is so important. We have a choice where to direct our attention. However much evil is happening in the world, there's still so much goodness as well. We can focus on beautiful and inspiring actions, acts of generosity, kindness, virtue and sacrifice, and we will discover an endless source of joy and happiness.Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsOur email Newsletter:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletterPics: https://www.dhammagiri.net/photo-albumsOur Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 #depression #faultfinding #joy #happiness #buddhism #dhamma #positivethinking #dhammatalk
- 2 weeks ago26 min
Nirvana is NOT Nothing | There IS an Unborn, Uncreated, Unconditioned | Nibbana | Ajahn Dhammasiha
The final goal of Dhamma practice, what it's all about, is to realize Nibbāna (Sanskrit: Nirvāṇa ). It's important to have an accurate understanding of our final objective, otherwise it would be difficult to develop our mind in the right direction. However, as Nibbana / Nirvana is totally beyond all concepts, words, notions and thoughts, even the Buddha can not possibly describe it accurately by means of language. He can only provide similies to inspire us, or he describes what Nibbāna in NOT. For example, the Buddha has stated many times that Nibbana is the end of birth, ageing and death; Nibbana the cessation of suffering; Nibbana is the end of greed, hatred and delusion. Unfortunately, in our modern materialist society, these 'negative' descriptions of Nibbana easily get misinterpreted as meaning that Nibbana is simply nothing. This is false and misleading. Ajahn Dhammasiha therefore quote a statement directly from the Buddha that makes it unambiguously clear that Nibbāna should NOT be understood as 'nothing' - Udāna No 73 (Inspired Exclamations No 73): “There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, uncreated, unconditioned.("Atthi bhikkhave ajātaṁ abhūtaṁ akataṁ asaṅkhataṁ.) If, monks there were not that unborn, unbecome, uncreated, unconditioned,(No ce taṁ bhikkhave abhavissā ajātaṁ abhūtaṁ akataṁ asaṅkhataṁ,) you could not know an escape here from the born, become, created, and conditioned.(na-y-idha jātassa bhūtassa katassa saṅkhatassa nissaraṇaṁ paññāyetha.) But because there is an unborn, unbecome, uncreated, unconditioned(Yasmā ca kho bhikkhave atthi ajātaṁ abhūtaṁ akataṁ asaṅkhataṁ,) therefore you do know an escape from the born, become, made, and conditioned.”(tasmā jātassa bhūtassa katassa saṅkhatassa nissaraṇaṁ paññāyatī ti.") You can read and download this quote (and all other 'Inspired Exclamations') in the translation of Ajahn Geoff Thanissaro for free here: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/udana.pdfOr a more literal line by line translation giving also the Pali text:https://ancient-buddhist-texts.net/Texts-and-Translations/Udana/Exalted-Utterances.pdfDhammagiri Forest Hermitage:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsOur email Newsletter:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletterPics: https://www.dhammagiri.net/photo-albumsOur Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 #nibbana #nirvana #awareness #enlightenment #buddhism #dhamma #dhammatalk.
- 3 weeks ago22 min
Knowing, Not Interfering | Insight through Awareness | Vipassana | Ajahn Dhammasiha
To develop insight, vipassana, we have to learn to observe uninterested. We have to be like an objective researcher. We know what we experience, without reacting, interfering and manipulating. We shift our identification towards the 'Knower', rather than the 'Doer'. What we take up as object of our observation, we no longer identify with. We just mindfully know the emotion we're experiencing, we don't have to react to it. It's like watching a movie, and knowing that we're watching a movie. We're not getting sucked into the action, we're aware that we're just looking at images of actors projected onto a screen. We don't take it for real. Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsOur email Newsletter:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletterLatest Photoshttps://latest-pics.dhammagiri.netOur Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 #buddhism #meditation #awareness #mindfulness #mindfulnessmeditation #dhammatalk #observing
- 3 weeks ago29 min
Remember Your Good Actions! | Recollection of Generosity | Caganussati | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Some people think: "When I do something good, I just do it and then forget about it. That's what the Buddha would want us to do." No, this is not what the Buddha teaches! The Buddha teaches the exact opposite: We should remember our good actions, we should recollect our generosity, we should be mindful of our virtue. Ajahn Dhammasiha explains why. Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsOur email Newsletter:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletterLatest Photoshttps://latest-pics.dhammagiri.netOur Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 #buddhism #meditation #generosity #mindfulness #mindfulnessmeditation #dhammatalk
- Aug 17, 202626 min
What is Dear to Us will Bring us Suffering | Attachment is the Cause of Our Pain | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about one of the more challenging teachings of the Buddha: "Grief, pain, sorrow, frustration, depression and despair are born from what is dear to us, they originate from what we love." You can find the sutta Ajahn mentions in his talk at: Majjhima Nikāya / Middle Length Discourses No. 87 'Piyajātika Sutta' / 'Born from What is Dear' https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN87.htmlDhammagiri Forest Hermitage:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsOur email Newsletter:https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletterLatest Photoshttps://latest-pics.dhammagiri.netOur Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724#attachment #clinging #grief #dhamma #dhammatalk #buddhism
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Dhamma Talks, Chanting, Precepts and Meditation with Ajahn Dhammasiha, Ajahn Moneyyo, and other experienced Senior Buddhist Monks in the Theravada Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. Recorded at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Australia. Our website: https://www.dhammagiri.net Our Youtube Channel, including regular live streams on the weekend "Dhammatalks at Dhammagiri": https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Spotify Playlists are here: https://open.spotify.com/user/8z4dmrysnbbnjtz9f0wzjgcre .
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