How to study the Buddha's Teachings and meditate on the insight pathways from the Theravada suttas. Emphasis on lay practice towards developing the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path, attaining path & fruit, and culminating in the realisation of full liberation (nibbāna). This is an offering, Dhammadāna, take what is useful to you. For videos https://bit.ly/3Dy5mKy For notifications and published documents https://bit.ly/3xg4yXQ To get in touch with a question, request or comment, you can: 1) lea ...
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METTA LAB - Weekly Slow Session 03
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Welcome to Mettā Lab @suttameditationseries Mettā Lab is a weekly YouTube livestream Dhamma session on the Sutta Meditation Series channel to develop and intensify our loving kindness (mettā) practice. The focus is on developing *supramundane* loving kindness in accordance with the Buddha's teachings in the Pali Canon. (1) We will begin with the Bu…
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METTA LAB - Weekly Slow Session 02
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Welcome to Mettā Lab @suttameditationseries Mettā Lab is a weekly YouTube livestream Dhamma session on the Sutta Meditation Series channel to develop and intensify our loving kindness (mettā) practice. The focus is on developing *supramundane* loving kindness in accordance with the Buddha's teachings in the Pali Canon. (1) We will begin with the Bu…
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METTA LAB - Weekly Slow Session 01
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Welcome to Mettā Lab @suttameditationseries Mettā Lab is a weekly YouTube livestream Dhamma session on the Sutta Meditation Series channel to develop and intensify our loving kindness (mettā) practice. The focus is on developing *supramundane* loving kindness in accordance with the Buddha's teachings in the Pali Canon. (1) We will begin with the Bu…
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PROFITABLE PERCEPTIONS (PART VI) — Perception of impermanence
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We continue our Profitable Perceptions Series with Part VI: Perception of impermanence (aniccasaññā) explained in the Dutiyasaññā Sutta (AN 7.49). * Please note this is part of an insight pathway we develop by applying this particular sequence of profitable perceptions from the Buddha. So how we …
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WHY DOES BUDDHISM TALK SO MUCH ABOUT SUFFERING?
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This question "Why does Buddhism talk so much about suffering?" is often asked by people who are not-so familiar with the Buddha's teachings and also people who are practising the Buddha's teachings and wish to help people who ask them this question. This was a recent offering to a kalyanamitta t…
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PROFITABLE PERCEPTIONS (PART V) — Perception of non-delight in the entire world
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We continue our Profitable Perceptions Series with Part V: Perception of tnon-delight in the entire world (sabbaloke anabhiratasaññā) explained in the Dutiyasaññā Sutta (AN 7.49). In this session we go through some ways for developing this profitable perception of non-delight in the entire world,…
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BUDDHA'S ADVICE ON CARING FOR THE SICK
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In this Dhamma session on Navam full moon poya, we examine the "Buddha's advice on caring for the sick". This is in response to a request from one of our kalyanamittas. This will be based on Upaṭṭhāka Sutta (AN 5.124) and we will draw on other teachings, as well as highlighting the benefit of som…
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PROFITABLE PERCEPTIONS (PART IV) — Perception of the repulsiveness of food
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We continue our Profitable Perceptions Series with Part IV: Perception of the repulsiveness of food (āhāre paṭikūlasaññā) explained in the Dutiyasaññā Sutta (AN 7.49). In this session we go through some ways for developing this profitable perception of the repulsiveness of food, as well as why it…
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PROFITABLE PERCEPTIONS (PART III) — Perception of death
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We continue our Profitable Perceptions Series with Part III: Perception of death (maraṇasaññā) explained in the Dutiyasaññā Sutta (AN 7.49). In this session we go through some ways for developing this profitable perception of death, as well as why it's important to do so. We also reference some o…
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PROFITABLE PERCEPTIONS (PART II) — Perception of unattractiveness
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We continue our Profitable Perceptions Series with Part II: Perception of unattractiveness (asubhasaññā) explained in the Dutiyasaññā Sutta (AN 7.49). In this session we go through some ways for developing this profitable perception of unattractiveness, as well as why it's important to do so. And…
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PROFITABLE PERCEPTIONS (PART I) — Introduction to the Dutiyasaññā Sutta
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We begin our Profitable Perceptions Series with Part I: An Introduction to the set of seven perceptions explained in the Dutiyasaññā Sutta (AN 7.49). This short session provides some context for why it's fruitful and beneficial to develop and cultivate this set of seven profitable perceptions. So…
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THE HARM OF INSULTING DHAMMA TEACHERS AND THEIR DISCIPLES
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.Blessings of the Triple Gem - In today’s uposatha Dhamma session we examine “THE HARM OF INSULTING DHAMMA TEACHERS AND THEIR DISCIPLES” based on the Buddha’s teaching to Venerable Dhammika in the Dhammika Sutta (AN 6.54).In this teaching, the Buddha highlights the harm that we can do to ourselves …
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A DEEPER CONTEMPLATION OF KAMMA
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In this Dhamma session, we wisely contemplate in a progressive way, wholesome and unwholesome states (Kusala Sutta), blameable and blameless states (Sāvajja Sutta), inferior and superior states (Cūḷakammavibhaṅga Sutta), and dark and bright states with their counterparts (Chaḷabhijāti Sutta) refe…
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THE THIRD DOORWAY TO NIBBANA — Pleasant practice with slow realisation
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In this Dhamma session, we examine the Third Doorway to Nibbāna — Pleasant Practice with Slow Realisation (sukhā paṭipadā dandhābhiññā). This is the Buddha's medicine for Mental Volition as Nutriment. This is part of the supramundane path and practice. This is a powerful insight pathway, and is s…
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HOW CAN I CHECK IF I'M DEVELOPING LOVING KINDNESS CORRECTLY? - The "Stickiness" Check
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.This is an easy check, once we have developed the 10 skilled states through the insight pathway in the Karaṇīyametta Sutta (Snp 1.8) and are radiating loving kindness to all living beings. I like to call it the "stickiness" check. This is how we can diagnose if there are flaws in our metta practic…
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BOJJHANGA (PART THREE) — BOJJHANGA Q&A
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In Part III of our Bojjhaṅga Series, we address some questions on developing the seven factors of enlightenment: 1. Is it possible to develop the bojjhaṅgas at work or while going about daily activities? 2. Can someone arouse the bojjhaṅgas without any desire for enlightenment? 3. Is it possible …
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*EXTRACT* from Bojjhanga (Part II) — Summary of the progressive development of the Bojjhangas
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. A short extract from the FULL Dhamma session on "The progressive development of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment" based on the Sīla Sutta (SN 46.3) on 31 August 2023.This extract is only a *SUMMARY* OF THE PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEVEN FACTORS OF ENLIGHTENMENT. Just as in the Kūṭāgāra Su…
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*EXTRACT* from Bojjhanga (Part II) — What nourishes the bojjhangas?
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. A short extract from the FULL Dhamma session on "The progressive development of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment" based on the Sīla Sutta (SN 46.3) on 31 August 2023.This extract is on "WHAT NOURISHES THE BOJJHANGAS?" referencing the Kundaliya Sutta (SN 46.6). This is very helpful for establish…
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BOJJHANGA (PART TWO) — Progressive development of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In Part II of our Bojjhaṅga Series, we examine the Sīla Sutta (SN 46.3) and the Buddha’s progressive pathway for developing the seven factors of enlightenment. In this session we look at: — Overview of the Sīla Sutta (SN 46.3) — What nourishes the bojjhaṅgas? — “Deep dive” into how to arouse and …
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BOJJHANGA (PART ONE) — Introduction to the Factors of Enlightenment
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We begin our Bojjhaṅga Series with Part I : An Introduction to the Factors of Enlightenment. In this session we look at: — Understanding ”bhāvanā“ — What makes the factors of enlightenment unique? — Why are they called factors of enlightenment ? — The Buddha’s simile of the rafters of a peaked ro…
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THE BENEFITS OF WALKING MEDITATION
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In this Dhamma session, we examine a selection of the Buddha's teachings on walking meditation and its benefits, including the Caṅkama Sutta (AN 5.29) . In this session we look at: — Evidence of walking meditation being practised by the Buddha(s) and noble disciples — How it connects with wakeful…
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SIMILE OF THE ANT-HILL (Insight pathway to Nibbana)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.In this Dhamma session, we examine the Vammika Sutta (MN 23) and how to contemplate the riddle given to Venerable Kumārakassapa and the teaching he received from the Buddha, which eventually culminated in this noble disciple of the Buddha realising nibbāna. It's a powerful teaching and we will be …
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WHO ARE OUR ROLE MODELS? — Bhikkhu Kumarakassapa (foremost with variegated speech, arahant)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Role models play an important part in all of our lives, whether we seek them out or not. And whether we walk the Buddhist Path or not, they can have the power to shape the direction we take and the ability to influence the decisions that follow on from there. For Buddhist practitioners, the Buddh…
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NOBLE FIVE-FACTORED RIGHT CONCENTRATION (including the Jhāna Similes)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In this Dhamma session, we look at a question that has been asked by one of our kalyāṇamittas: “I was wondering if you could do a teaching on the four jhāna similes as found in the Samādhaṅga (Pañcaṅgika) Sutta among many others and how they relate to the development of jhana. The bath attendant,…
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WHY IS ENVY A BLOCK TO IMMEASURABLE COMPASSION? — Dhamma Q&A
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Following on from our Dhamma session on the Second Doorway to Nibbana - Painful Practice with Quick Realisation, we examine why envy is a block to developing Immeasurable Compassion.This is a good example of the power of abandoning defilements or mental stains, as we have been practiing with the …
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THE SECOND DOORWAY TO NIBBANA — Painful practice with quick realisation (livestream)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 14 May 2023. This was based on the Asubha Sutta (AN 4.163) and Petakopadesa. ** Please note, it's helpful if you have already practised the insight pathway meditation for the First Doorway to Nibbāna — Painful practice with slow reali…
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TATHAGATA (PART TWO) — Understanding the perfection of a fully enlightened Buddha (livestreamed)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 5 May 2023 The main purpose of today’s livestream is to understand the perfection of a fully enlightened Buddha, and why a Buddha is superior to other living beings, including humans, devas and even noble disciples who have realised t…
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TATHAGATA (PART ONE) — Understanding the perfection of a fully enlightened Buddha (livestreamed)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 5 May 2023 The main purpose of today’s livestream is to understand the perfection of a fully enlightened Buddha, and why a Buddha is superior to other living beings, including humans, devas and even noble disciples who have realised t…
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NOBLE RETIREMENT (Insight pathway to Nibbana) — PART TWO (livestreamed)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 23 April 2023 This is one of the Buddha's most powerful teachings to a lay person on how to develop the path that leads to supramundane or noble retirement (nibbāna) The format for this livestream (Part II) will be: Overview of the Bu…
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NOBLE RETIREMENT — PART ONE (livestreamed)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 22 April 2023 This is one of the Buddha's most powerful teachings to a lay person on how to develop the path that leads to supramundane or noble retirement (nibbāna) The format for this livestream (Part I) will be: Introduction and ov…
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FIVE SUBJECTS TO FREQUENTLY CONTEMPLATE (livestreamed)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 16 April 2023 The format for this livestream:(1) Quick overview of the Abhiṇhapaccavekkhitabbaṭhāna Sutta (AN 5.57) and why the Buddha encourages these five subjects for frequent contemplation: — ‘I am subject to old age; I am not exe…
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THE ATTRIBUTES OF HOUSEHOLD LIFE THAT CAN POISON THE MIND (FULL DHAMMA SESSION, Poya)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.This is the FULL DHAMMA SESSION, conducted on BAK POYA (5 April 2023) via zoom, on "THE ATTRIBUTES OF HOUSEHOLD LIFE THAT CAN POISON THE MIND"We examine the Cūḷadukkhakkhandha Sutta (MN 14) and the Buddha's teaching to Mahānāma the Sakyan on why, despite understanding the Dhamma taught by the Budd…
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PRECIOUS HUMAN BIRTH (livestreamed)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 2 April 2023. The format for this livestream:(1) Examine the teachings of the Buddha on how difficult and rare it is to gain a human birth, including the eight lost opportunities(2) Contemplate the Buddha's advice on this unique and p…
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Guided meditation — CULTIVATING LOVING KINDNESS (livestreamed)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 25 March 2023 so that we could practise together. This is a GUIDED MEDITATION on CULTIVATING LOVING KINDNESS based on the insight pathway from the Karaṇīyametta Sutta (Snp 1.8).By developing the 10 skilled states, we abandon the 10 un…
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PURIFYING THE MIND TOWARDS WISDOM (livestreamed)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 25 March 2023 so that we could practise together. The format for the session:(1) Quick overview of the Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)(2) Simple explanation, including examples, of the Vatthūpama Sutta links that corrupt the mind (3) Short me…
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THE POWER OF AN UNHINDERED MIND
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Recent Dhamma session via zoom with student members and friends of the Warwick Buddhist Society on "THE POWER OF AN UNHINDERED MIND", where we contemplated the five hindrances, how they are linked, why they trouble us (including weakening our memory, making it difficult to concentrate the mind an…
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Following on from the unexpected visit to the hospital and taking the opportunity to contemplate the Dhamma, we now take a look at the importance of prioritising Dhamma, not Kamma. Whether we know it or not, all of us spend the bulk of our time on kamma. Even when we think we're in Dhamma. Kamma …
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Contemplating Dhamma at the hospital
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Sharing this morning's unexpected visit to the hospital and using the opportunity to contemplate the Dhamma and cultivate immeasurable mettā, immeasurable upekkhā and liberation of mind due to mettā. The insight pathway applied is the Painful Practice with Slow Realisation (dukkhā paṭipadā dandhā…
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REMOVING WHAT BLOCKS SPIRITUAL PROGRESS (FULL DHAMMA SESSION, Poya)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 5 February 2023 for the uposatha, so that we could practise together. This is one of the most beneficial suttas to help us be in the right mind state to continuously learn and penetrate the Buddha's true teachings, but one we find mos…
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SPIRITUAL PROGRESS AND ATTAINMENT (FULL DHAMMA SESSION, Poya)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is the FULL DHAMMA SESSION, conducted on NAVAM POYA (5 February 2023) via zoom, on "SPIRITUAL PROGRESS AND ATTAINMENT" We examine the Sunakkhatta Sutta (MN 105) and the Buddha's teaching to Sunakkhatta on true spiritual progress and attainment that is intent on complete liberation through a …
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THE EXPOSITION OF THE ELEMENTS - PART TWO
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In this Dhamma session, we complete our study of the Dhātuvibhaṅga Sutta (MN 140) and the Buddha's teaching to venerable Pukkusāti on the six elements, six bases of contact, eighteen mental explorations and four determinations. For Part 1 - https://bit.ly/3Gf539O (video) or https://bit.ly/3XYlFdy…
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EXTRACT - EXPERIENCING THE HAPPINESS OF MEDITATION OVER THE PULL OF THE INTERNET AND FRIVOLOUS TALK (EXTRACT from Dhamma Session)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This short extract is from discussion around identifying and abandoning unwholesome verbal conduct and mental stains in the meditation and then seeing that they arose as a result of spending time clicking through a variety of things on the internet, as well as indulging in frivolous talk. This ha…
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DEVELOPING IMMEASURABLE LOVING KINDNESS (SUPRAMUNDANE METTA)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is an edited version of a Dhamma session held via zoom on "DEVELOPING IMMEASURABLE LOVING KINDNESS", based on the Buddha's teaching in the Karaṇīyametta Sutta (Snp 1.8), emphasising the supramundane practice that leads to the fruit of non-return. Some of the suttas covered directly or indire…
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EXTRACT - THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS, FOUR DETERMINATIONS AND FOUR CONCENTRATIONS (EXTRACT from Poya Session)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. A short extract from our Full Duruthu Poya Dhamma session (on 6 January 2023) explaining the connection between the Four Noble Truths and having the Four Determinations as taught by the Buddha in the Dhātuvibhaṅga Sutta (MN 140), that lead to the four concentrations. This gives a broader picture …
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EXTRACT - THE CONTEXT FOR BUDDHA'S EXPOSITION OF THE SIX ELEMENTS (EXTRACT from Poya Session)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. A short extract from our Full Duruthu Poya Dhamma session (on 6 January 2023) explaining the context for Buddha's exposition of the six elements in the Dhātuvibhaṅga Sutta (MN 140) - Why the Buddha is offering this particular teaching to venerable Pukkusāti and why it is applicable to us. We refe…
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THE EXPOSITION OF THE ELEMENTS - PART ONE (FULL DHAMMA SESSION, Poya)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is the FULL DHAMMA SESSION, conducted on DURUTHU POYA (6 January 2023) via zoom, on "THE EXPOSITION OF THE ELEMENTS" - PART ONE. We examine the Dhātuvibhaṅga Sutta (MN 140) and the Buddha's teaching to venerable Pukkusāti on the six elements, six bases of contact, eighteen mental exploration…
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GRATITUDE AND JOY FOR GOOD FRIENDS
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. As we come to the end of 2022, it's a good opportunity to reflect on how we've connected through the Buddha and his Teachings, and to honour the good friendship we've cultivated together. It's a time to express heartfelt gratitude and joy. (*Listen to the end if you can*) Blessings and good wishe…
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EXTRACT - SEVEN KNOWLEDGES AND THE FRUIT OF STREAM ENTRY (EXTRACT from Poya Session)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is an EXTRACT from the Full Unduvap Poya Dhamma session (on 7 December 2022) explaining the Buddha's teaching of the Seven Knowledges that arise from possessing the noble right view: making one ready to realise the fruit of Stream Entry, or one has attained and is able to maintain the fruit …
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THE STRENGTH OF LIVING IN HARMONY AS SUPPORT TO DEVELOP THE NOBLE PATH (FULL DHAMMA SESSION, Poya)
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is the FULL DHAMMA SESSION, conducted on UNDUVAP POYA (7 December 2022) via zoom, on "THE STRENGTH OF LIVING IN HARMONY AS SUPPORT TO DEVELOP THE NOBLE PATH". We examine the Kosambiya Sutta (MN 48) and the Buddha's teaching to the quarreling monks of Kosambi. The purpose of examining this pa…
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Growth, not a standstill or deterioration
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Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. As we come close to the end of the year, we can take the opportunity to do some self-examination of our spiritual practice, applying the Buddha's teaching from the Ṭhiti Sutta (AN 10.53). The Buddha states at the opening of the discourse: "Bhikkhus, I do not praise even a standstill in wholesome …
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