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January 14, 2023 Skillful Response to Anger, Pain and Sickness | Ajahn Dhammasiha
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January 08, 2023 Nirvana is NOT Nothing | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma Talk on Buddhism at Dhammagiri
To counter the misleading idea that Nibbāna is simply nothing, Ajahn Dhammasiha quotes the well known passage in Udāna 8.3:
"There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, uncreated, unconditioned...".
He reminds us not to forget about this final goal of all our practice, to overcome our anxiety about sickness and death by remembering the garantee of the Buddha that the deathless exists, and can be realized by us. We do not contemplate impermanence, death and suffering in order to induce a mindstate of resignation. Instead, we contemplate to free ourselves from death, pain and decay, by attaining the deathless, unconditioned element.

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January 06, 2023 Subconcious Learning - Overt vs Hidden Curriculum | Ajahn Dhammasiha
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January 01, 2023 Mahāsamaya Sutta Recitation | Ajahn Moneyyo | Dhammagiri | Buddhist Pali Chanting
The Mahāsamaya Sutta (Dīgha Nikāya/Long Discourses #20) is a very famous chant. It is considered supremely auspicious, and particularly liked by all 'Devas' (Angels/Deities/Benevolent Spirits).
In every Buddha's livetime, there occurs an event where the Devas of our world system, and even from several adjacent worlds, assemble to meet the Buddha and his Sangha of disciples. In the case of our Buddha Gotama, this event happened in the Great Forest near Kapilavatthu, the hometown of Buddha, where he grew up as a prince.As not all of the 500 monks present are able to see spirits, the Buddha explains which devas have arrived, and gives the names of their leaders, which class of devas they belong to, and the numbers of their retinue.
It is widely believed that whenever this sutta is recited, devas feel attracted to come to listen with great joy and in large numbers.
An english translation of the Mahāsamaya Sutta is available here: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/DN/DN20.html

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December 29, 2022Paritta Chanting New Uposatha Hall Wat Pah Nanachat | Maha Sangha 100 Monks | Ajahn Dhammasiha | New Sima Bot
Auspicious recitation of Paritta ('Protective Verses & Blessings') at the inauguration of the new Uposatha Hall and Sima ('monastic boundary') at Wat Pah Nanachat, the international Forest Monastery established by Ajahn Chah in Ubon, Thailand.
The event was attended by Ajahn Dhammasiha and more than 100 monks in the tradition of Ajahn Chah. Many of the most senior Western disciples were present, including abbots of many monasteries worldwide:
Ajahn Kevali - Abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat (hosting the event)
Luang Por Pasanno (leading the chanting) - Retired abbot of Abhayagiri, California
Luang Por Tiradhammo - Retired abbot of Dhammapala, Switzerland; and Bodhinyanarama, New Zealand
Ajahn Amaro - Abbot of Amaravati, England
Ajahn Nyanadhammo - Abbot of Ratanawan, Thailand
Ajahn Jayasaro - Abbot of Marajina Hermitage, Thailand
Ajahn Vajiro - Abbot of Sumedharama, Portugal
Ajahn Jutindharo - Abbot of Hartridge Monastery, England
Ajahn Khemasiri - Retred abbot of Dhammapala, Switzerland
Ajahn Jayanto - Abbot of Jetavana, USA, New Hampshire
Ajahn Kusalo - Abbot of Bodhinyanarama, New Zealand
Ajahn Dhammasiha - Abbot of Dhammagiri, Australia, Brisbane
Ajahn Sukhito - Abbot of Pu Jom Gom, Thailand
Ajahn Ahimsako - Abbot of Cittaviveka, England
Ajahn Mudito - Abbot of Suddhavari, Brazil
(... many more, and many Thai abbots...)

May the numerous senior Ajahns chanting in this recording send you off into a fortunate, successful New Year 🎊;
and may your Dhamma practice blossom in 2023 with their blessings 😊

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December 27, 2022 Happy Dhamma Practice | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhist Talk at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage
There is heaps of happiness for us to enjoy in our Dhamma practice. The discourses of the Buddha are full of specific terms for different flavours of happines, some of which can be experienced already in the beginning stages of our meditative cultivation.
Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to mindfully identify the different forms of happiness as they arise in our heart, and then to deliberately cultivate them.

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December 22, 2022 Chanting to Remember Dhamma Next Rebirth | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri
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December 12, 2022Shakespeare, Art and Dhamma | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri
Today, one of the visitors is a professor who is an expert on Shakespeare. He and Ajahn Dhammasiha engage in an interesting discussion about art, beauty and it's relationship to Dhamma practice as a Buddhist monk.
Can a Buddhist monk still enjoy beauty, or would that conflict with the aim of abandoning all attachments?

Does art always celebrates beauty, and present the world as something good and enjoyable?

Ajahn shares that his favourite works of art have always been those that induce a sense of 'nibbidā' (disenchantment) and 'semvega' (spiritual shock/urgency). Art that is not just celebrating life, but instead points us to the fundamental truths of impermanence, disappointment and suffering inherent in all conditioned phenomena.

Ajahn recites one of his favourite quotes of Shakespeare to illustrate this point:
"Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head
How begot, how nourished?
Reply, reply!"
"It is engender’d in the eyes,
With gazing fed;
and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies. -
Let us all ring fancy’s knell;
I’ll begin it:
Ding, dong, bell.
Ding, dong, bell."
The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 2, Lines #65-74

If we take 'fancy' in the sense of 'craving', 'desire', Shakespeare uses the same approach as the Buddha. He's asking for the origin, the cause of craving. Where does craving come from, and how does it grow?
And just like the Buddha in the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, this little ditty points to the 'eye' and the act of 'gazing' as the source of suffering.
"Cakkhu loke piyarūpam sātarūpam, etth'esā tanhā uppajjamāma uppajjati..."
"The eye is dear and pleasurable in this world, and it is there where this craving arises..."
(Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta)

And then Shakespeare even suggets to ring the 'death-knell' for fancy/craving, i.e. to kill/abandon craving.
Where did Shakespeare get that from?
Was he perhaps a Buddhist in a past life?

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December 08, 2022Conditioned vs Unconditioned | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | Sankhata/Asankhata Lakkhanani AN 3.47
Ajahn Dhammasiha offers some reflections on the three characteristics of all conditioned phenomena, versus the three characteristics of the Unconditioned .

3 Qualities of all conditioned phenomena (sankhata-lakkhaṇāni):
Coming into existence can be discerned

Passing away can be discerned

Change while persisting can be discerned

3 Qualities of the Unconditioned (asankhata-lakkhaṇāni):
No coming into existence can be discerned

No passing away can be discerned

No change while persisting can be discerned

(Anguttara Nikāya/Numerical Discourses, Book of Threes, #47 & #48)

Both groups are very unequal:

Conditioned phenomena is ablsolutely everything a unenlightened person has ever experienced: Whether one's own body, or other bodies, or material objects; whether feelings or thoughts or emotions; whether forms or sights or fragrances... all arise and pass away and change, which means they are conditioned.
The only phenomenon that's Unconditioned is Nibbāna, the experience of total freedom in the heart of those that have fully realized the Dhamma and are liberated from craving and suffering.

From this follows, that all we really have to do in vipassanā meditation, is checking out whatever comes up in our experince, if it has any of the 3 qualities of conditioned phenomena. If we can discern arising or passing away or change, it's only a 'sankhāra', a conditioned phenomenon, and the task is to let it go.
Once we can let go of everything conditioned, we experience the Unconditioned, realization of the Dhamma, resulting in at least the first stage of enlightenment, stream entry (sotāpatti).

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December 05, 2022 Just Stop! Everyone Can Change Themselves - Story of Anugulimala | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri
Ajahn Dhammasiha shares the story of Angulimāla, the most infamous mass murderer ('terrorist') in the time of the Buddha. He had already killed 999 persons, and was wearing their thumb bones as a kind of macabre necklace, when the Buddha visited the forest that was his main haunt.
Once he had noticed the Buddha, Angulimāla rushed after him, trying to catch up. However, the Buddha used his supreme psychic powers in such a way that it appeared as if he was walking slowly and gracefully, but still moving too fast for Angulimala to reach him.
Exasperated, in the end Angulimāla cried out to the Buddha:
"Stop, Ascetic!"
The Buddha replied:
"I have stopped, please stop yourself, too!"
Puzzled, Angulimāla enquired what the Buddha meant.
After all, he was too fast for him to catch up, so how could he have stopped?
The Buddha explains that he has stopped harming any being, that he has completely stopped using any form of violence.
This simple teaching had such a profound impact on Angulimāla that he took refuge in the Buddha, completely abandoned his violent lifestyle, and even asked for ordination as a monk. The Buddha granted him ordination, and practising with supreme commitment and determination, Angulimala later fully realized the Dhamma and became an Arahant.
Ajahn points out that we often may feel hopeless, or not quite good enough, or have doubts and feeling of guilt about past mistakes - but compared to Angulimāla, whatever we have done wrong is probably much, much less serious. Therefore, if even such an extreme murderer could completely change his ways, it's certainly possible for us as well to overcome whatever bad things we may have done in the past!
You can read the whole story in:
Majjhima Nikāya / Middle Length Discourses
Sutta #86 "Angulimāla Sutta

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