2024-11-01 Giles Barton. Dhamma talk on suffering, keeping things inside, stories about Bodhinyana, mindfulness.

2024-10-25 Brother Pháp Hải. Meditation on the first four Anāpānasati excercises. Dhamma talk on Silk Road Buddhism, the introduction of Ānāpānasati Sutta to China from Baghdad, and the Gandharan fragments/community. Dicussion of Vietnamese Zen teachers and teachings and who illuminates the forest?. References: Mountain Spring Monastery in Bilpin, NSW, MN32 Mahāgosiṅga Sutta, MN118 Anapanasati Sutta

2024-10-18 Bhante Sujato. Mettā meditation. Dhamma talk on fear and stories about other monastics, among other Q and A questions. Last talk from Bhante Sujato for the year.

2024-10-11 Bhante Sujato. Mettā meditation. Dhamma talk on climate change/global chaos. References: 1989 global warming projections, Volcaholic thread on flooding events

2024-10-04 Bhante Sujato. Meditation as not being optimised for input-output efficiency. Dhamma talk on intergenerational influence/trauma and trauma in general.

2024-09-27 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on letting the breath come to you. Dhamma talk on a range of Q and A questions: stopping thoughts about the past, why do we sometimes feel anger after metta meditation or after a retreat, if you can't stay focused on the breath for long, what is a good meditation to do instead? Do all defilements arise from a wrong view? How can an impermanent not-self has a connection with another impermanent not-self that carries on from one existence to another?

2024-09-20 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on pleasantness of the breath. Dhamma talk on Baka the Divinity (Brahma), from the eighth stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā. The Buddha's visit to Baka the Divinity and Māra in MN49 On the Invitation of Divinity and its links to MN1 The Root of All Things. References: Roko's basilisk (Wikipedia), Roberto Calasso - Ardor (goodreads)

2024-09-13 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on Nandopanda the serpent elder, from the seventh stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā. Readings from recounting of this Jataka story by Buddhagossa in the Visuddhimagga BPS edition 2010 pages 1055-1060. Discussion of how to read such magical stories mythologically as signs rather than just symbols.

2024-09-06 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on Saccaka part 2, continuing the last part of MN35 Shorter Discourse with Saccaka and MN36 from the sixth stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā.

2024-08-30 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on Saccaka who argued with the Buddha in MN35 Shorter Discourse with Saccaka from the sixth stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā. Saccaka as an early 'troll' figure. MN35's elaboration of the argument in the cardinal sutta Characteristic on Non-self that having a self implies control.