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June 24, 2024 Visits to Amaravati, Muttodaya & Cittaviveka | LPS90 Event | Ajahn Dhammasiha
After his return to Dhammagiri, Ajahn Dhammasiha shares some experiences from his travels.
Some photos can be seen here:
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He first attended the huge event for Luang Por Sumedho's 90th birthday at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery near London.
LP Sumedho is the most senior Western disciple of Ajahn Chah, and the founder of Wat Pah Nanachat, Cittaviveka and Amaravati Monasteries.
You can find more info about this great celebration attended by some 140 monastics here:
https://amaravati.org/luang-por-sumedhos-birthday-update-june-2024/
Ajahn Dhammasiha also visited Muttodaya Monastery in Germany, and Cittaviveka in the south of England, Sussex.
The website for Ajahn Khantiko's little place in Jena, Germany, which Ajahn couldn't remember correctly in the video, is:
https://waldmoench.de/

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42 min
June 19, 2024 What Possessions are Buddhist Monks Allowed to Own? | Ajahn Dhammasiha
The term ‘bhikkhu’ is defined as ‘almsman’, or ‘mendicant’. One who depends on the generosity of others for his material needs. What kinds of requisits are buddhist monks allowed to have and how should they relate to them?

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June 16, 2024 Cleanliness is next to Godliness | Spiritual Practice and Purification | Dhammagiri
Ajahn Dhammasiha compares spiritual practice and meditation with the task of cleaning to show how they are related to each other.

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June 11, 2024 Benefits of Loving Kindness (Mettā) | Self Motivation | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Ajahn Dhammasiha explains about the various benefits of developing Metta (loving-kindness), especially to motivate ourselves.

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June 07, 2024 Sañña - The role of Perception in the Teaching of the Buddha | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri
Sañña, usually translated as perception, is one of the 5 Aggregates (Khandha), one of the central teachings of the Buddha. Learn more about the meaning of the Pali word and how it relates to the origination and cessation of suffering.

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June 04, 2024 True Meaning of Taking Refuge in the Sangha | Ajahn Dhammasiha
What does it really mean "to take refuge in Sangha"?
What if a very senior monk disrobes, how can we protect our mind from losing faith in such situations?
Ajahn Dhammasiha points out that our refuge in terms of Sangha is:
"...Yadidaṃ cattāri purisayugani, aṭṭha purisapuggala - Esa Bhagavato Sāvakasangho...
"...Namely the four pairs of persons, the eight kind of individuals - THESE are the Sangha of the Exalted One's disciples..."
In the strict definition given by the Buddha himself, 'Sangha' as refuge is NOT the ordained sangha of monks and nuns, but it is only those who have realized one of the stages of awakening, whether lay or ordained.
If we keep that in mind, and direct our faith not to just to individual monks or nuns, but to the community of those who have realized the Dhamma, our faith will not be shaken if an individual monk or nun disrobes or acts in uninspiring ways.
Naturally, as we can't know who truly has realized stages of awakening, there is a tendency to regard the ordained sangha as a symbol for the community of awakened disciples, as we can actually recognize monks and nuns easily by their wearing robes, and our faith likes to have something visible and concrete to latch on. There is nothing wrong in that, especially as so many Arahants and noble disciples have been part of the ordained sangha.
But even so, we should be mindful to direct our faith to the WHOLE sangha, the complete sangha of the four quarters and the three time periods, rather than only to individual monks or nuns who we feel personal affection for. Again, this will protect our faith from crumbling in case a monk or nun we like does not meet our expectations.
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June 01, 2024 Association with Awakened People - Sappurisa-Samseva | Ajahn Dhammasiha
A Dhammatalk by Ajahn Dhammasiha about the numerous benefits of associating with people who have noble qualities and realized awakening.

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May 28, 2024 AJAHN VAJIRO | Silence & Space, Clinging to Views and Opinions, Ovāda Pātimokkha & Mangala Sutta
Guided Meditation and Question & Answer session at Dhammagiri with Ajahn Vajiro, currently abbot of Sumedharama monastery in Portugal on Sunday, 25th February.

Ajahn Vajiro first gives a short guided meditation. In the session afterwards he is answering questions on the topics of the meaning of the Ovāda Pātimokkha & Mangala Sutta, about Silence & Space and about clinging to views & opinions.

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May 26, 2024 Supreme Enlightenment of the Buddha | Vesak Dhammagiri | Ajahn Dhammasiha
On occasion of Visākhā Pūjā, Ajahn Dhammasiha relates the events leading up to the Buddha's Supreme Awakening under the Bodhi Tree.
Initially, the Bodhisatta practised extreme austerities in the believe that only through pain one can eradicate desire and attain perfect release. He fasted and tortured his own body until he almost died.
When he collapsed, the Bodhisatta fortunately remembered how he had attained Samādhi (the first Jhāna) as a little child, sitting in the shade of a Roseapple tree. The insight occurred to him that the happiness of Jhāna is not be be feared of avoided, as it is utterly seperated from sensuality or unwholesome states. He realized that the wholesom, spiritual rapture and bliss of Samādhi is not an obstruction to awakening, but actually an essential part of the path.
Eating and regaining his strength, he found a suitable location for developing samādhi, and after attaining the various jhānas, he sat down under the Bodhi Tree with the famous resolution:
"Even if my blood and flesh completely dry out until only skin, sinews and bones remain; I will not break this posture unless I have attained complete freedom from suffering!"
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May 23, 2024 AJAHN VAJIRO | Why Do Only so Few Attain Nibbana? | Dhammagiri
During his visit at Dhammagiri, Ajahn Vajiro responds to a question from the audience:
What's the reason that apparently only so few practitioners actually succeed to attain Nibbana?

Ven. Ajahn Vajiro was born in Malaysia in 1953 and has been a Buddhist monk for over 40 years.
In 1979, he met Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho when they made a visit to Hampstead Vihara in Oakenholt, England. He received higher ordination from Ajahn Chah personally in Thailand in 1980 at Wat Nong Pah Pong.
After helping with the opening of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK, he participated in the running of both Harnham Buddhist Monastery and Chithurst Forest Monastery. In 1993 he moved to New Zealand to lead the Bodhinyanarama community in Wellington for five years. Following this he entered a three-year retreat in Australia before returning to Amaravati in 2001.
In 2012 he moved to Portugal, where he had been closely involved in the establishment of ⁠Sumedharama Buddhist Monastery⁠ near Lisbon, which is where he is now based.
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