Abhayagiri Talks

Tan Sudhiro discusses how sensuality and delight in the world may produce fleeting pleasure, but then results in longing and more suffering over time.

Ajahn Cunda talks about mental habits of aversion, and qualities of awareness.

Ajahn Ñāṇiko reflects on the universal experience of suffering and points to understanding its cause as the key to transcendence. This talk was offered on September 10, 2022.

Ajahn Cunda speaks on the nature of desire and its resultant suffering. He explains a recent real life example pertaining to his work in the monastery garden to illustrate this point. Even a gift of trees can turn into suffering if desire and expectation are the driving force.

This talk was offered on September 3, 2022 at Abhayagiri Monastery.

Ajahn Nyaniko offers reflections on facing life courageously and dying fearlessly, encouraging us to put things down each day and, when the time comes, to face death without craving.

This talk was offered on August 26, 2022 at Abhayagiri Monastery.

Ajahn Cunda speaks on the topic of anicca, or impermanence, and the aspect of questioning one’s own thoughts and beliefs regarding permanence and being sure.

This Dhamma talk was offered at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery on August 20, 2022.

Ajahn Pasanno offers reflections on the Buddha’s advice to his step-mother, Mahapajapati, about how to decipher what is in line with the Dhamma and Vinaya (the Buddha’s Teaching and Discipline).

This talk was offered on August 27, 2022 at Abhayagiri Monastery.

Ajahn Ñāṇiko discusses personality belief or persona, attachment to rites and rituals, and doubt.

Ajahn Pasanno reviews the essentials of meditation practice: the relinquishment of the hindrances, establishing the four foundations of mindfulness, and cultivating the seven factors of awakening.

Ajahn Ñāṇiko reflects on the steady cultivation of mindfulness as a basis for insight. This talk was offered on August 5, 2022.