Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks

Aruna Ratanagiri Dhamma Talks episodes:

• 05.25.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Many Blessings Received From Luang Por Sumedho

  (keywords) (slightly edited version) 90th birthday, gratitude, 50 years ago, visa, Wat Bovorn, Samanera Dhammiko, Wat Saket, commitment and ease, balance, daring spirit, against the current, ‘my way’, floating alms-bowl, gratification, overly heroically, goal, transformation, transmuting, openness and honesty, pontifications,...

  
• 05.25.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Blessings Received From Luang Por Sumedho

  (keywords) (slightly edited version) 90th birthday, gratitude, 50 years ago, visa, Wat Bovorn, Samanera Dhammiko, Wat Saket, commitment and ease, balance, daring spirit, Ajahn Chah, Varapannyo, against the current, ‘my way’, floating alms-bowl, gratification, overly heroically, goal, transformation, transmuting, openness...

  
• 05.21.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Q: How Can I Be Sure

  (keywords) Q: "How can we know for ourselves that we are firmly on the right path of practice?" Not sure, letting go, security, relationship with desire, longing, stress, subtlety, greed renunciation, afraid, look directly, ‘who wants’, complacent, Mara, Ajahn Chah, nothing to...

  
• 05.12.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Going Forth From Home To Homelessness

  (keywords) (slightly edited version) Requesting bhikkhu precepts, robes, chanting, anagarika, Dhammapada 348, letting go of past future present, free from clinging, form, spirit, ochre robe, training, spiritual community, money, shelter, security, reputation, finding identity, supermarket trolley, bowing, magic ritual, selfless wisdom...

  
• 05.05.2024

  Ajahn Kevali - The Ripening Of Wisdom

  (keywords) (slightly edited version) Quiet contemplation, wisdom teachings, Ajahn Chah, wrong thinking, attitude, stories, nun, practical wisdom, study, suttamayapannya, wisdom from hearing, cintamayapannya, wisdom from mental analysis, bhavanamayapannya, wisdom from cultivation, frustration, funerals, chanting, intuition, humility, unexpected breakthrough, kalama sutta,...

  
• 04.28.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - The Pain Of Perpetual Wanting

  (keywords) (slightly edited version) Restless, unsettled, asking yourself a question, gratify, aim, listening from the heart, ears in your chest, Ajahn Chah, tape recorder, conscious relationship, dreaming, afraid to feel, contracted denial, breathing exercise, chanting, no judgement, cookies and ice-cream, kama...

  
• 04.13.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Feeling The Ache Of Longing

  (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,...

  
• 04.07.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Q: Identified As The Activity Of Awareness Or As Awareness Itself

  (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,...

  
• 03.31.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - The Number One Global Stressor

  (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,...

  
• 03.25.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Q: How Might Those With A Scientific Background Relate To Teachings On Rebirth?

  (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...

  
• 03.25.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Q: How To Deal With Feeling Misunderstood?

  (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...

  
• 03.25.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Q: Please Would You Explain What Is Meant By, Being Born And Dying Moment By Moment

  (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,...

  
• 03.25.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Q: Though I Am Practising Hard, I Seem To Be Going Backwards

  (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,...

  
• 03.14.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Q: Can You Recommend Ways Of Letting Go Of Painful Rejections?

  (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...

  
• 03.14.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Q: What Precautions To take To Protect The Opening Heart?

  (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...

  
• 03.14.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Q: A Contemplative Perspective On Compulsive Stress Eating

  (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...

  
• 03.14.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Q: Isn’t It Selfish To Be Cultivating Contentment?

  (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,...

  
• 03.14.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Q: A Contemplation On The 5 Spiritual Faculties?

  (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,...

  
• 02.12.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - 5 Minute 'Aligning' Meditation

  This 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.

  
• 02.12.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - 10 Minute 'Aligning' Meditation

  This 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.

  
• 01.16.2024

  Luang Por Munindo - Naturally Deepening Understanding

  (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,...

  
• 12.31.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - The Open-Hearted State

  (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,...

  
• 12.24.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - No Days-off In The Monastery

  (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,...

  
• 12.10.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Right Time, Right Practice

  (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,...

  
• 12.03.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Appreciative Awareness Practice

  (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,...

  
• 11.21.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Dissolving Denied Dukkha

  (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...

  
• 10.28.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Why Can’t I Stop Thinking?

  (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,...

  
• 10.07.2023

  Ajahn Punnyo - The Process Of Purification

  (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

  
• 09.16.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Who Am I Without My Likings and Dislikings

  (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,...

  
• 09.11.2023

  Ajahn Kevali - The Ten Supports for Refuge

  (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...

  
• 08.26.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Believing in True Principles or Believing in Personality

  (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,...

  
• 08.12.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Why The Buddha Could Never Be Triggered

  (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,...

  
• 07.28.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Taking the Right Medicine

  (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...

  
• 07.21.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - If You Think You Are Special You Are Probably the Same As Everyone Else

  (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,...

  
• 07.15.2023

  Luang Por Munindo (recommended for those new to these teachings) - Happiness in the Midst of Unhappiness (recommended for those new to these teachings)

  (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,...

  
• 07.01.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Happiness in the Midst of Unhappiness

  (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,...

  
• 06.20.2023

  Ajahn Punnyo - Giant Squirrels & Miniature Cows

  (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

  
• 06.17.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Our Evolving Relationship With the Refuges

  (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,...

  
• 06.10.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Hope as a form of Creative Vigilance

  (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,...

  
• 05.31.2023

  Luang Por Munindo (recommended for those new to these teachings) - UPAYA: Skilful Means (recommended for those new to these teachings)

  (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...

  
• 05.27.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - How to Live a Life Full of Blessings

  (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...

  
• 05.27.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - UPAYA: Skilful Means

  (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...

  
• 05.23.2023

  Luang Por Munindo (recommended for those new to these teachings) - The Disease of Denied Dukkha (recommended for those new to these teachings)

  (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,...

  
• 05.13.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - The Disease of Denied Dukkha

  (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,...

  
• 05.06.2023

  Ajahn Jayanto - Coming Home

  (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.

  
• 05.03.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Your Spiritual Toolkit

  (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...

  
• 04.17.2023

  Luang Por Munindo (recommended for those new to these teachings) - Transform, Translate, Protect (recommended for those new to these teachings)

  (keywords) (slightly edited version) Joining the monastic community, principles, pressure, deluded sense of self, obstructions, dross, approximations, untamed heart, lucid, spiritual toolkit, integrity, hiriottapa, remorse, disciplined attention, Ajahn Chah, crazy, diminished responsibility, conscious composure, indriyasamvara, jackfruit, compulsiveness, conscious caring, weird cult,...

  
• 04.17.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Transform, Translate, Protect

  (keywords) (slightly edited version) Joining the monastic community, principles, pressure, deluded sense of self, obstructions, dross, approximations, untamed heart, lucid, spiritual toolkit, integrity, hiriottapa, remorse, disciplined attention, Ajahn Chah, crazy, diminished responsibility, conscious composure, indriyasamvara, jackfruit, compulsiveness, conscious caring, weird cult,...

  
• 04.01.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - The Right Amount of Pressure

  (keywords) (slightly edited version) Spring, retreat, enlightenment, balance, turgor pressure, blood pressure, central heating system, psychotic episodes, idealism, meniscectomy, whole-being awareness, inspiration intoxication, intelligence, fundamentalists, trust, fear, goal, modesty, anatta, emptiness, deconstruct, cynicism, metta, sadness, compulsive judging disorder, discriminative intelligence, fear...

  
• 03.19.2023

  Luang Por Munindo - Applied Compassion

  (keywords) (slightly edited version) politics, hollow, inconsequential, principle, 4 Divine Abidings, caring, empathy, image, wound, mirror, actuality, noggin, approximation, sensitivity, processing information, self-referencing, willing to feel hurt, backlog, denied hurt, affluence, entitled, obstructed, wishy-washing, until the cows come home, numbness, children,...