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April 15, 2024BHANTE JINARATANA | Contemplating 4 Elements in the Body | Dhamma Talk at Dhammagiri
Ven Jinaratana Thera offers guidance how we can experience and contemplate the four elements ('Cātu-mahā-bhūtikā') in in our own bodies.
Paṭhavī-dhātu = Earth Element /Solidity

Āpo-dhātu = Water Element / Liquidity

Tejo-dhātu = Fire Element / Heat (or lack of heat, i.e. cold)

Vāyo-dhātu = Wind Element (energy movement)
Bhante Jinaratana was born in Toronto, Canada. He became interested in meditation as a student at the University of Toronto, and began attending intensive retreats in 2002. After graduating with an H.B.Sc. (neuroscience, mathematics) in 2004, he taught English for a year in Nanning, P.R.C. Desiring to ordain, but without knowing a suitable place to do so, he travelled to Brisbane Australia and completed a Graduate Diploma in Education in 2008 at the Queensland University of Technology. During that time he had the opportunity to stay for an extended period at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage as eight-precept meditator. The guidance he received there helped him to gain the confidence to finally ordain.
Bhante Jinaratana received novice ordination at Na Uyana Forest Monastery in Sri Lanka in July 2011, and higher ordination in June 2012 (Na Uyana is the main monastery of the Shri Kalyani forest tradition, the same lineage where Ajahn Dhammasiha originally ordained). Most Venerable Na Uyane Ariyadhamma Mahāthera was the preceptor for both ceremonies. From 2019-2021 he stayed at Pa Auk Monastery, Pyin Oo Lwin Myanmar, meditating under the guidance of Sayadaw U Kumārabhivaṃsa and Most Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw Āciṇṇa. He currently resides at Dhamsuwa Forest Monastery, Melbourne.
Bhante has kindly accepted our invitation to visit Dhammagiri for 10 days in April.

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April 11, 20243 Things Meditators Must Pay Attention To | Ajahn Dhammasiha | SUTTA EXPLORATION AN 3s #103
In this sutta, the Buddha compares the work of a goldsmith to the work of a meditator trying to purify their mind.
Both have to pay attention to 3 qualities at the appropriate time, without overdoing any of them:
Calming the mind with samādhi / cooling the gold in the smelter

Arousing the mind with energetic effort / heating the gold

Looking on with equanimity / observing the gold with equanimity

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April 08, 2024 BHANTE JINARATANA | Starving the Hindrances | Dhammagiri | Buddhist Dhamma Talk on Panca Nivarana
Ven Jinaratana Thera explains how we can starve the 5 hindrances ('anāhāra pañca-nīvaraṇa') in order to gradually weaken and overcome their obstructive influence on our mental development. Like all sankhāras, the five hindrances are conditioned, i.e. they depend on some form of nutriment for their existence.
If we reduce the nutriment that's feeding the hindrances, they will become weaker and weaker, allowing our samādhi and wisdom faculty to overcome and finally completey eradicate them.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Bhante Jinaratana was born in Toronto, Canada. He became interested in meditation as a student at the University of Toronto, and began attending intensive retreats in 2002. After graduating with an H.B.Sc. (neuroscience, mathematics) in 2004, he taught English for a year in Nanning, P.R.C.
Desiring to ordain, but without knowing a suitable place to do so, he travelled to Brisbane Australia and completed a Graduate Diploma in Education in 2008 at the Queensland University of Technology.
During that time he had the opportunity to stay for an extended period at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage as eight-precept meditator. The guidance he received there helped him to gain the confidence to finally ordain.
Bhante Jinaratana received novice ordination at Na Uyana Forest Monastery in Sri Lanka in July 2011, and higher ordination in June 2012 (Na Uyana is the main monastery of the Shri Kalyani forest tradition,
the same lineage where Ajahn Dhammasiha originally ordained). Most Venerable Na Uyane Ariyadhamma Mahāthera was the preceptor for both ceremonies.
From 2019-2021 he stayed at Pa Auk Monastery, Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar, meditating under the guidance of Sayadaw U Kumārabhivaṃsa and Most Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw Āciṇṇa.
He currently resides at Dhamsuwa Forest Monastery, Melbourne.
Bhante has kindly accepted our invitation to visit Dhammagiri for 10 days in April.

Our Podcast is also available on our own Dhammagiri Website, no need for any special app, just listen in any browser:
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April 04, 2024 AJAHN SABBAJAYANTO | How I Became a Buddhist Monk | Dhammagiri | Ajahn Thee
Ajahn Thee Sabbajayanto shares his experience of arriving in Australia at age 16 for school and further studies.
He didn't know any English, and had to start learning it by 'being thrown in at the deep end'. Naturally, it wasn't easy, and although he liked Australia a lot, he had to work very hard to adjust to a language and culture very different from Thailand.
After school, he finished flight school and became a fully licensed commercial pilot, and could have applied for permanent residency in Australia. However, by that stage he decided that he really wants to be a Buddhist monk, and he returned to Thailand to ordain.
Ajahn provides a touching account of his struggles and tribulations on his way to monkhood, including the reaction of his totally surprised parents.
Ajahn Thee Sabbajayanto is a Thai monk with 10 years in the monkhood. He originally ordained in the North of Thailand, but a short time later moved to train at Wat Pah Nanachat. Currently, he is based at Amaravati Monastery near London.

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April 02, 2024 Loving Kindness Supported by Generosity & Virtue | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri
On occasion of Easter, Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about a subject that is common to virtually all religions: Loving Kindness.
Loving Kindness, in Pali known as 'Mettā', is the intention of unconditional good will to all beings without exeception or discrimination.
Whatever religion, or no religion at all, whatever race or nationality or sex or age or colour, whether they like us or hate us, the Buddha urges to have loving kindness to absolutely all beings, without exception, without expecting anything in return, without them having to fulfill any conditions for receiving our loving kindness.
We also include all animals, all ghosts, spirits, demons, fairies, nagas, devas, angels, gods, brahmas in our loving kindness - absolutely all beings, visible or invisible.
We practice generosity, dāna, as an expression of our loving kindness.
We observe sīla, the five precepts of fundamental Buddhist virtue, as an extenal manifestation of our intentions of loving kindness.

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March 28, 2024Craving for Existence & Non-Existence | Bhava Tanha Vibhava Tanha | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a question on the meaning of Bhava Taṇhā & Vibhava Taṇhā.
In the four Noble Truths, the Buddha explains three forms of craving (taṇhā):
Sensual Craving (Kāma Taṇhā)

Carving for Existence/Being/Becoming (Bhava Taṇhā)

Craving for Annihilation/Non Existence (Vibhava Taṇhā)
Craving is the cause of suffering, so we have to abandon all three types of craving to realize freedom from death and dukkha.
Ajahn Dhammasiha offers some reflections especially on the meaning of 'craving for non-existence".
He also makes some suggestions how emotions like anger can feed our sense of 'being', and how bhava taṇhā is closely related to the delusion of self, I and mine.

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March 25, 2024Overindulgence | Q&A with Students from UQ | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri
For our Full Moon Program, a student group from University of Queensland ('UQBUDS') has joined with many interesting questions.
Subjects brought up include:
Anxiety about Uncertainty

Overindulgence

'Good' attachements?

Benefits of Samatha and Vipassana

How can we always feel happy?

Helping others to improve themselves by Dhamma practice

Teaching meditation to elderly, frail patients in nursing home

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March 21, 2024Study, Practice, Realization | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhism
Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked about:
Pariyatti = Study

Paṭipatti = Practice

Pativeda = Realization
He offers reflections on this subject with an emphasis on the real meaning of 'study' as encouraged by the Buddha:
Not just learning and intellectually proliferating about concepts/perceptions, but to find the meaning of the terms the Buddha is using in one's own conscious experience. The Dhamma is about our body and mind, it's about our feelings & emotions, our happiness and suffering.
We have to learn to internalise the teachings of the Buddha, to make them 'applicable' ('opanāyiko'), to use them to cultivate bhāvanā (meditation) in our heart.

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March 18, 2024 Memories of Ven. Nyanavimala | Dhamma Reflection by Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri
Ajahn Dhammasiha shares fond memories of one of his personal spiritual heros, who has strongly influenced his approach to Dhamma practice right at the start of his monastic life in Sri Lanka.
He provides some background info about Ven. Nyanavimala, one of the early Western Buddhist monks, who lived in Sri Lanka for +50 years from the mid 1950ies.
When he passed away in 2006, he was the most senior Westen monk in the world with more than 50 'vassa' (rains retreats).
Ven Ñāṇavimala was well known and highly respected for his uncompromising dedication to Dhamma practice, for his asceticism and frugality, and for his dhutanga wanderings (cārika) all over Sri Lanka for 25 years.
You can read more about Ven Nyanavimala in this tribute booklet published for free distribution:

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March 14, 2024 Not Me, Not Mine: Better Let Go | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhist Teaching Dhammagiri
After the meditation session, Ajahn Dhammasiha offers reflections on the realationship of Samatha/Samādhi (Calmness/Concentration) & Vipassana (Insight).
After the samatha meditation has weakened the mental hindrances, and suffused our mind with joy and brightness, we can develop insight by simply obesrving phenomena as they truly are.
If we are not distorting our experience of feelings, emotions, thoughts and perceptions due to delusion, but observe them as they really are, we recognize their impermanent and therefore ultimatley unsatisfactory nature.
And why would we want to hold on and regard as me and mine something that is impermanent and unsatisfactory?
Better to end all I-Making & Mine-Making, and to let go!

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