Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks
2,437 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsDhamma Talks from various teachers present at Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery.
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Luang Por Munindo - Feeling The Ache Of Longing
April 13, 2024 23:00 - 24 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Christian monk, prayer, induction and instruction, catch a cold, Ajahn Chah in US, pariyatti, Nimbin, do's and don’ts, discipline attention, walking meditation, there’s just-knowing, calm, changed the course of my life, possibilities, 1970’s, questioning, initial inspiration, identity, forms, intoxicated by outer appearance, Vakkali, overly enamoured, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches and mental impressions, false identity, wound on your forehead, a...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: Identified As The Activity Of Awareness Or As Awareness Itself
April 07, 2024 23:00 - 14 minutes(keywords) (edited version) Q: "Are we still identifying as the activity taking place in our hearts and minds, or are we remembering our refuge in the Buddha, in just-knowing awareness?" Dhammapada Reflections, framing experience, victims of suffering, Ajahn Thate, refuge, content, context, Awakened beings, sites, sounds, liking and disliking, formal meditation, becoming the worldling, identified as the thinking mind, desire and craving, semantics, doubt, looking at the finger, heart of awar...
Luang Por Munindo - The Number One Global Stressor
March 31, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 163, Devadatta, winter retreat, excruciatingly difficult, intensely threatening, junk food, affluence, obesity, ease of access to information, contentment, ecological stressor, wars, technology, identified with the deluded sense of self, ‘my way’, hatred, morphing, pride, self-adoration, selfies, vulgar, intoxicant, religion, self-obsessed, virtues, humility, truthfulness, Greek myth, scientific scrutiny, beliefs systems, faith in True Pr...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: Please Would You Explain What Is Meant By, Being Born And Dying Moment By Moment
March 25, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes(keywords) (edited version) Q: "I have heard according to Theravada Buddhist teachings we are born and die at every moment, and we do this continuously, not only after our final breath. Could you please explain what this means?” Dependent Origination, kamma, rebirth, willing, daring, enquiring, 5 spiritual faculties, rainbow, burdensome, quandary, careful manner, self-adoration, vulgar, self-promotion, cooperation, harmony, self-obsessed, religion, Almighty, abominably, perpetual anxiety, co...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: How To Deal With Feeling Misunderstood?
March 25, 2024 00:00 - 13 minutes(keywords) (edited version) Q: “Can you speak about jealousy and how I can practice to combat the envy others have in my practice? Sometimes, friends can be critical and speak in a way that is judgemental and disparaging towards me. I feel misunderstood. How can I deal with this?” Self-centred, generosity, truthfulness, integrity, sila, lotus flower, compromising, Venerable Ananda, freedom from remorse, safety, psychologist, GP, sugar metabolism, highest virtue, wisdom, nekkhamma parami, abi...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: Though I Am Practising Hard, I Seem To Be Going Backwards
March 25, 2024 00:00 - 15 minutes(keywords) (edited version) Q: I have intensified my practice over the last year and a half. During this time my sila has gone backwards: Why is this the case? Sila, anger, attention, light, energy, dissolve, denial, restraint, 5 precepts, heedlessness, will, Ajahn Dukkha, conflation, peaceful, child, agile, guided meditation, gentle, sensitive, mental exercise, Satipatthana Sutta, counting the breath, strength, weakness.
Luang Por Munindo - Q: How Might Those With A Scientific Background Relate To Teachings On Rebirth?
March 25, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes(keywords) (edited version) Q: "For those of us with a Western scientific back ground, some of the more metaphysical teachings of the Buddha's teachings such as rebirth are hard to make sense of. And even from the perspective of the teaching on Anatta, rebirth is hard to make sense of! Please could you give advice on how to relate to those parts of the teachings that seem to require belief in things we cannot know for ourselves and also the parts of the teachings that we plain just don’t und...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: A Contemplative Perspective On Compulsive Stress Eating
March 14, 2024 00:00 - 15 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) “I know from past experiences that increased food intake never genuinely makes me feel better. Might you have any advice? Evolutionary biologists, psychologists, demonize desire, wanting, craving, wholesome desires, enemy, smoking, breaking the habit, basic skills, 5 spiritual faculties, faith, kamma, energy, intensity, embodied mindfulness, discipline attention, discernment, indriya samvara, skilful composure, containing, respecting intensity, hiri and o...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: Can You Recommend Ways Of Letting Go Of Painful Rejections?
March 14, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) "I have been ghosted by two close friends. They disappeared, without explanation. I emailed each 3 times requesting an open discussion and neither replied. In meditation, I offer and ask for forgiveness. Can you recommend additional ways to help let go of these painful rejections?" Commitment, framing, learn, lost, samsara, uninspected relationship with pain, Ajahn Chah, comfort, convenience, denied dukkha, meeting dukkha with interest, endurance, vector ...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: Isn’t It Selfish To Be Cultivating Contentment?
March 14, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) "Are we lacking in empathy if we feel contentment amongst all this suffering. Or are we indeed being selfish?" Dhammapada verse 197, 198, egotistical perspective, inflated, meditation, stillness and peace, deeper dimensions, ocean, bilingual, driving a car, agility of attention, evolution, essential tool, end of the world, cultivating awareness, multidimensional reality, cleaning teeth, strap-line.
Luang Por Munindo - Q: What Precautions To take To Protect The Opening Heart?
March 14, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) "Are there any precautions of safeguards I should be taking as I sense the tenderness of my heart opening?" Becoming overly sensitive, parenting, karaniya metta sutta, normality, native sensitivity, naively vulnerable, hurt, the Buddha had pain, Vulture’s Peak, unawareness, 4 Noble Truths, falling in love, the capacity for being loving, discipline, righteous indignation, 2 extremes, Dhammacakkha sutta, middle way, embodied mindfulness, intentional composu...
Luang Por Munindo - Q: A Contemplation On The 5 Spiritual Faculties?
March 14, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Teaching of the Cobra, filtered through perceptions, uncertainty, conceptual level, intuitive level, felt level, letting go, unfortunately limited, clinging to forms, resistance, arguments, intuitive, excruciating consequences, flippant, precepts, drinking alcohol, fifth precept, poison, blood-brain barrier, numbing, the open-hearted state, our spiritual workshop, compulsive contraction, deeply relevant, becoming stuck, embodied awareness, over stimul...
Luang Por Munindo - 10 Minute 'Aligning' Meditation
February 12, 2024 00:00 - 10 minutesThis brief, non-traditional exercise of disciplined attention aims at helping meditators return to a state of embodied balance and alignment. It should always be applied with gentleness and care.
Luang Por Munindo - 5 Minute 'Aligning' Meditation
February 12, 2024 00:00 - 5 minutesThis brief, non-traditional exercise of disciplined attention aims at helping meditators return to a state of embodied balance and alignment. It should always be applied with gentleness and care.
Luang Por Munindo - Naturally Deepening Understanding
January 16, 2024 00:00 - 22 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Teaching of the Cobra, filtered through perceptions, uncertainty, conceptual level, intuitive level, felt level, letting go, unfortunately limited, clinging to forms, resistance, arguments, intuitive, excruciating consequences, flippant, precepts, drinking alcohol, fifth precept, poison, blood-brain barrier, numbing, the open-hearted state, our spiritual workshop, compulsive contraction, deeply relevant, becoming stuck, embodied awareness, over stimul...
Luang Por Munindo - The Open-Hearted State
December 31, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) new year’s resolution, modesty, truthfulness, assessing truthfulness, asking our heart, centre of the chest, open window, children playing, giggling, parents caring, Handel’s Messiah, retreat, extreme sports, abseiling, free diving, novels, movies, love stories, vulnerable, joy, enthusiasm, evangelical, conflation, falling in love, denied dukkha, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair, norovirus, collude with the collective assumption, 5 hindrances,...
Luang Por Munindo - No Days-off In The Monastery
December 24, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) primary work, Dhammapada verse 301, cittabhavana, desire, tanha, fear, anxiety, present generated dukkha, old unmet dukkha, adopted dukkha, paranoid, complex, chaotic, satipatthana sutta, sati, recipe book, CJD, disposition, conjure up, numbness, fire, daring, contentment, a con, addiction, nekkhamma parami, repertoire of skilful means, authentic interest, cutting through, seeing through, burning through, abstractions on feelings, reintegrated into the he...
Luang Por Munindo - Right Time, Right Practice
December 10, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Metta, mudita, feeling threatened, personal survival, medical prognosis, collective crisis, 4 Divine Abidings, ICU, ideals, preparation, run aground, humility, tried and tested, The Discourse on the Greatest Blessings, unshakeable, stages of training, reputation, health, habitual addictions, indulgence and denial, psychotherapy, pontificating, Mahamangala Sutta, apparent sense of self, meditation retreat, daily meditation, 5 precepts, contented head, wide...
Luang Por Munindo - Appreciative Awareness Practice
December 03, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Forest Sangha Calendar 2025, 50th anniversary, Wat Nanachat, contentment, blasé, wringing our hands, waiting, ocean, tumultuous, study and practise, 37 Bodhipakkhiya dhamma, Requisites for Awakening, knowing directly, unitive intelligence, music appreciation, compulsively comparing, one-bowl-eaters practice, ascetic practice, control freak, addiction to preferences, addiction to ascetic practice, yabber-yabber, conventional theistic religion, self-inflate...
Luang Por Munindo - Dissolving Denied Dukkha
November 21, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Sangha gatherings, kathina, Elders’ Council Meetings, burden of suffering, reaping rewards, old pain, criticism, cynicism, unmet pain, DDB, denied dukkha backlog, solitary practice, a right pickle, lost in samsara, reconfigure views, reading Braille, raw data, ouch, intense illness, heavenly messengers, assailed, ICU, capacity of heart, nivarana, anger, vibhava-tanha, rage, feel fully offended, feel accurately, daring, momentum, overwhelmed, loathing wash...
Luang Por Munindo - Why Can’t I Stop Thinking?
October 28, 2023 23:00 - 27 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Buddhist meditators, compulsive thinking, self-critical, fire and smoke, irrational fear, chronically disconnected, broken glasses, fully want, open-hearted awareness, vociferous lifestyle gurus, satipatthana sutta, kayanusati, Ajahn Chah, feeling investigation, habits of denial, backlog, pressure, retreat, self harming, anxiety, assailed, zealous, resilience, humility.
Ajahn Punnyo - The Process Of Purification
October 07, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) 8 precepts, moral precepts, renunciate precepts, refining the practice, pressure, dam, leaks, Andalusia, transformation, mindfulness of breathing, energy, brahma-viharas, 5 khandas, insubstantiality, insight, liberation
Luang Por Munindo - Who Am I Without My Likings and Dislikings
September 16, 2023 23:00 - 29 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version)Dhammapada 418, dreich, Ajahn Chah, ‘Living With the Cobra’, upadana, clinging, Middle Way, All Blacks, thrash, porridge, lashings of chilly powder, organic sultanas, Harnham power porridge, 5 spiritual faculties, intentional inhibitions, indriyasamvara, energy extravagant, anger, balanced aliveness, rejection, feeling enquiring, just-knowing awareness,
Ajahn Kevali - The Ten Supports for Refuge
September 11, 2023 23:00 - 31 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) 10 Qualities to develop as protection, inner stronghold, refuge, ultimate refuge in Budddha, Dhamma Sangha, intermediate training, development of qualities worthy of respect, ethical conduct, sila, intention, aspiration, knowing the teachings, being well-learned, chanting, good and profound friendship, kalyanamitta, receiving feedback, readiness to do any task at hand, enthusiasm for Dhamma, putting forth effort, motivation, contentment, being happy with ...
Luang Por Munindo - Believing in True Principles or Believing in Personality
August 26, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada 297, vigilance, chaos, conditioned and unconditioned existence, false stories, protection, Awakening, aligning, orienting, three poisons, greed, hatred, delusions, indignant, aggressive, loss, grief, anger, indictment, Ajahn Chah, Reading the Natural Mind, Awakened Beings, wanting, symbols, Buddha image, approximations, theism, anthropomorphizing, saying grace before eating, gratitude, forgiveness, individuated sense of ‘I’, control freak, Psal...
Luang Por Munindo (full catalogue) - Believing in True Principles or Believing in Personality
August 26, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada 297, vigilance, chaos, conditioned and unconditioned existence, false stories, protection, Awakening, aligning, orienting, three poisons, greed, hatred, delusions, indignant, aggressive, loss, grief, anger, indictment, Ajahn Chah, Reading the Natural Mind, Awakened Beings, wanting, symbols, Buddha image, approximations, theism, anthropomorphizing, saying grace before eating, gratitude, forgiveness, individuated sense of ‘I’, control freak, Psal...
Luang Por Munindo - Why The Buddha Could Never Be Triggered
August 12, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Explosion, emotional reaction, Kosambi monks, Nalagiri, Cinca, Mahamangala Sutta, Nagampatti, imperturbable, unshakable, actuality, heedless habits of clinging, culprit, upadana, Dhammacakkappavattana sutta, pancupadanakkhandha dukkha, the agents of limited being, holding, infancy, reputation, Brahman, medical prognosis, edgeless awareness, Jivaka, obstructing kamma, incremental moments, DDB, Ajahn Chah, charnel grounds, fear of ghosts, rejections, anger,...
Luang Por Munindo (full catalogue) - Why The Buddha Could Never Be Triggered
August 12, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Explosion, emotional reaction, Kosambi monks, Nalagiri, Cinca, Mahamangala Sutta, Nagampatti, imperturbable, unshakable, actuality, heedless habits of clinging, culprit, upadana, Dhammacakkappavattana sutta, pancupadanakkhandha dukkha, the agents of limited being, holding, infancy, reputation, Brahman, medical prognosis, edgeless awareness, Jivaka, obstructing kamma, incremental moments, DDB, Ajahn Chah, charnel grounds, fear of ghosts, rejections, anger,...
Luang Por Munindo - Taking the Right Medicine
July 28, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ajahn Chah, crazy monastery, giggling, International Forest Monastery, misunderstanding, translation, the disease of unawareness, Buddho, 'the one who knows', selfless, just-knowing, citta, jit, heart, mind, merely thinking, abstractions, clinging, upadana, craving, desire, diabetes, collapsing heart awareness, compulsive behaviour, noting, ouch, centre of our chest, feeling awareness, fascinating carry on in our heads, senses and sense objects, disembodi...
Luang Por Munindo (full catalogue) - Taking the Right Medicine
July 28, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Ajahn Chah, crazy monastery, giggling, International Forest Monastery, misunderstanding, translation, the disease of unawareness, Buddho, 'the one who knows', selfless, just-knowing, citta, jit, heart, mind, merely thinking, abstractions, clinging, upadana, craving, desire, diabetes, collapsing heart awareness, compulsive behaviour, noting, ouch, centre of our chest, feeling awareness, fascinating carry on in our heads, senses and sense objects, disembodi...
Luang Por Munindo - If You Think You Are Special You Are Probably the Same As Everyone Else
July 21, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 228, praise and blame, stories whirling around in our heads, hurt, talented, sensitive, self awareness, unique, genetically, kammically, deluded notion, exceptionality, one-upmanship, Abhidhamma, conceit, 9 different types, ditthi mana, the knot of deluded egoity, conundrum, sati-pannya, disciplined attention, discernment, Rangiputa Beach, Pohutakawa, vedananusati, labouring this point, conscious caring, compassion, feeling investigation,...
Luang Por Munindo (full catalogue) - If You Think You Are Special You Are Probably the Same As Everyone Else
July 21, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 228, praise and blame, stories whirling around in our heads, hurt, talented, sensitive, self awareness, unique, genetically, kammically, deluded notion, exceptionality, one-upmanship, Abhidhamma, conceit, 9 different types, ditthi mana, the knot of deluded egoity, conundrum, sati-pannya, disciplined attention, discernment, Rangiputa Beach, Pohutakawa, vedananusati, labouring this point, conscious caring, compassion, feeling investigation,...
Luang Por Munindo (recommended for those new to these teachings) - Happiness in the Midst of Unhappiness (recommended for those new to these teachings)
July 15, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 198, free from misery, accurate record, apocryphal, moot point, Rohini River, drought, water wars, rivers of blood, clear and calm, unwise, unhelpful, beauty, worthy, burden of remorse, upadana, clinging, obstruction of the heart, stubbed toe, pain, suffering, disembodied, concept and actuality, anesthesia, indulge in feelings, depression, numbing ourselves, affluence, distraction, something missing, aliveness, treats, samsara, sacca para...
Luang Por Munindo - Happiness in the Midst of Unhappiness
July 01, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 198, free from misery, accurate record, apocryphal, moot point, Rohini River, drought, water wars, rivers of blood, clear and calm, unwise, unhelpful, beauty, worthy, burden of remorse, upadana, clinging, obstruction of the heart, stubbed toe, pain, suffering, disembodied, concept and actuality, anesthesia, indulge in feelings, depression, numbing ourselves, affluence, distraction, something missing, aliveness, treats, samsara, sacca para...
Luang Por Munindo (full catalogue) - Happiness in the Midst of Unhappiness
July 01, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 198, free from misery, accurate record, apocryphal, moot point, Rohini River, drought, water wars, rivers of blood, clear and calm, unwise, unhelpful, beauty, worthy, burden of remorse, upadana, clinging, obstruction of the heart, stubbed toe, pain, suffering, disembodied, concept and actuality, anesthesia, indulge in feelings, depression, numbing ourselves, affluence, distraction, something missing, aliveness, treats, samsara, sacca para...
Ajahn Punnyo - Giant Squirrels & Miniature Cows
June 20, 2023 23:00 - 35 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) misperception of reality, two extremes of feeling, neutral feeling as Middle Way, anapanasati, whole-body Eightfold Path, mindfulness in daily life, divine abidings, radiance, five khandas, six senses, insubstantiality, empty, peace
Luang Por Munindo - Our Evolving Relationship With the Refuges
June 17, 2023 23:00 - 29 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 290, wisdom, going for refuge, joy, confidence, beach, picnic, confidence, initial faith, impermanence, skilful means, tranquillity, deeply relaxed, dissolving habits of denial, DDB, denied dukkha backlog, upaya, armour, anger, sadness, disappointment, addiction to alcohol, wowed, Ajahn Chah, knowing so much, approximations, Abhidhamma, dosa mula citta, fire, patience, interest, knowing directly, discriminative intelligence, feeling inves...
Luang Por Munindo (full catalogue) - Our Evolving Relationship With the Refuges
June 17, 2023 23:00 - 29 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Dhammapada verse 290, wisdom, going for refuge, joy, confidence, beach, picnic, confidence, initial faith, impermanence, skilful means, tranquillity, deeply relaxed, dissolving habits of denial, DDB, denied dukkha backlog, upaya, armour, anger, sadness, disappointment, addiction to alcohol, wowed, Ajahn Chah, knowing so much, approximations, Abhidhamma, dosa mula citta, fire, patience, interest, knowing directly, discriminative intelligence, feeling inves...
Luang Por Munindo - Hope as a form of Creative Vigilance
June 10, 2023 23:00 - 27 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) naive hope, succumb to feeling hopeless, cynicism, protection from chaos, buoyed up, ‘Reading The Natural Mind’, wanting and craving, hopefulness and hopelessness, sati-pañña, accuracy of awareness, lashings of cream, floods of maple syrup, repression, feeling without becoming, deconstructing the deluded sense of self, storehouse of wholesomeness and purification, gauging a monk’s competence, festival days, strength, stability, worldly winds, praise and b...
Luang Por Munindo (full catalogue) - Hope as a form of Creative Vigilance
June 10, 2023 23:00 - 27 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) naive hope, succumb to feeling hopeless, cynicism, protection from chaos, buoyed up, ‘Reading The Natural Mind’, wanting and craving, hopefulness and hopelessness, sati-pañña, accuracy of awareness, lashings of cream, floods of maple syrup, repression, feeling without becoming, deconstructing the deluded sense of self, storehouse of wholesomeness and purification, gauging a monk’s competence, festival days, strength, stability, worldly winds, praise and b...
Luang Por Munindo (recommended for those new to these teachings) - UPAYA: Skilful Means (recommended for those new to these teachings)
May 31, 2023 23:00 - 41 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Disease of Denied Dukkha, True Principles, mere beliefs, aspirations, lists, 3 fires, 3 poisons, 4 Noble Truths, 4 Brahma Viharas, 5 Hindrances, 5 Ways of Removing Distracting Thoughts, 6 sense bases, 6 sense objects, 7 Factors of Enlightenment, 8-Fold Path, 8 Indicators of That Which is Dhamma, 10 Vectors of Transformation, 10 Parami, 12 links of Dependent Origination, 84,000 dhamma doors, Ajahn Tiradhammo, varieties of approaches, obstructions, kile...
Luang Por Munindo - How to Live a Life Full of Blessings
May 27, 2023 23:00 - 14 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) This talk was given at a memorial service for Daw Myint Su who died 1st April, 2023, in Edinburgh. Daw Myint Su had been a trustee at Harnham Buddhist Monastery for over thirty years. Keywords: two types of blessings, common-or-garden variety, wholesomeness, understanding, meditation, derogatory comment, brainwashed by the cult of materialism, consciousness, Afghan hounds, screeching birds, True Principles, Ajahn Siripañño, a storehouse of wholesomeness,...
Luang Por Munindo - UPAYA: Skilful Means
May 27, 2023 23:00 - 41 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Disease of Denied Dukkha, True Principles, mere beliefs, aspirations, lists, 3 fires, 3 poisons, 4 Noble Truths, 4 Brahma Viharas, 5 Hindrances, 5 Ways of Removing Distracting Thoughts, 6 sense bases, 6 sense objects, 7 Factors of Enlightenment, 8-Fold Path, 8 Indicators of That Which is Dhamma, 10 Vectors of Transformation, 10 Parami, 12 links of Dependent Origination, 84,000 dhamma doors, Ajahn Tiradhammo, varieties of approaches, obstructions, kile...
Luang Por Munindo (full catalogue) - How to Live a Life Full of Blessings
May 27, 2023 23:00 - 14 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) This talk was given at a memorial service for Daw Myint Su who died 1st April, 2023, in Edinburgh. Daw Myint Su had been a trustee at Harnham Buddhist Monastery for over thirty years. Keywords: two types of blessings, common-or-garden variety, wholesomeness, understanding, meditation, derogatory comment, brainwashed by the cult of materialism, consciousness, Afghan hounds, screeching birds, True Principles, Ajahn Siripañño, a storehouse of wholesomeness,...
Luang Por Munindo (full catalogue) - UPAYA: Skilful Means
May 27, 2023 23:00 - 41 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Disease of Denied Dukkha, True Principles, mere beliefs, aspirations, lists, 3 fires, 3 poisons, 4 Noble Truths, 4 Brahma Viharas, 5 Hindrances, 5 Ways of Removing Distracting Thoughts, 6 sense bases, 6 sense objects, 7 Factors of Enlightenment, 8-Fold Path, 8 Indicators of That Which is Dhamma, 10 Vectors of Transformation, 10 Parami, 12 links of Dependent Origination, 84,000 dhamma doors, Ajahn Tiradhammo, varieties of approaches, obstructions, kile...
Luang Por Munindo (recommended for those new to these teachings) - The Disease of Denied Dukkha (recommended for those new to these teachings)
May 23, 2023 23:00 - 26 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Minor and major suffering, tricks, avoidance, dukkha plus plus, dreams, grief, frozen, tears, parent, emotions, parking, blissful, Four Noble Truths, true principles, upaya, ubai, skilful means, conundrums, miserable, grumpy, backlog, denied life, medicating, spiritual faculties, idealistic, bhava-tanha, vibhava-tanha, aggressive, deficit, forces for transformation, terrible-twos, projections, disillusionment, gentle approach, introspection, misperceive, ...
Luang Por Munindo (full catalogue) - The Disease of Denied Dukkha
May 13, 2023 23:00 - 27 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Minor and major suffering, tricks, avoidance, dukkha plus plus, dreams, grief, frozen, tears, parent, emotions, parking, blissful, Four Noble Truths, true principles, upaya, ubai, skilful means, conundrums, miserable, grumpy, backlog, denied life, medicating, spiritual faculties, idealistic, bhava-tanha, vibhava-tanha, aggressive, deficit, forces for transformation, terrible-twos, projections, disillusionment, gentle approach, introspection, misperceive, ...
Luang Por Munindo - The Disease of Denied Dukkha
May 13, 2023 23:00 - 27 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Minor and major suffering, tricks, avoidance, dukkha plus plus, dreams, grief, frozen, tears, parent, emotions, parking, blissful, Four Noble Truths, true principles, upaya, ubai, skilful means, conundrums, miserable, grumpy, backlog, denied life, medicating, spiritual faculties, idealistic, bhava-tanha, vibhava-tanha, aggressive, deficit, forces for transformation, terrible-twos, projections, disillusionment, gentle approach, introspection, misperceive, ...
Ajahn Jayanto - Coming Home
May 06, 2023 23:00 - 25 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Coming home, dying, truth, via negativa, stress, true happiness, already here, addiction, detox, eight-step programme, coolness, idealism, crash, muck, spiritual friends, not becoming spiritual, freedom.
Luang Por Munindo (full catalogue) - Your Spiritual Toolkit
May 03, 2023 23:00 - 26 minutes(keywords) (slightly edited version) Samanera Precepts, structures, inner activity, outer activity, festival, graven images, rituals, deluded sense of self, transforming, anatta, skills, integrity, foundation, lotus, swamp, Ananda, freedom from remorse, disciplined attention, samanas, currency, sati, conscious caring, metta, nutriment, backlog, malnourished orphan, Ajahn Jayanto, our own best friend, conscious composure, inhibit, indriyasamvara, dust, neurotic repression, compulsive exuberan...