Sutta Meditation Series

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. 

Another session to accompany the first module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions to Lay People on GIVING (dānakathaṁ)   

We look into the significance of developing giving and generosity as a factor stream entry.   

In this short session we examine:  

Some of the suttas that are mentioned directly or indirectly in this session:  

If you have any questions or comments regarding this talk, please email them to suttameditationseries[at]gmail.com or leave a voicemail message via anchor.fm 

A VIDEO of this FULL SESSION with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDCt8yyZ1c AND on Spotify as a video podcast

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. 

A short session to accompany the first module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions to Lay People on GIVING (dānakathaṁ)   

We briefly look at a deva's questions to the Buddha on KNOWING WHAT WE GIVE in the Kiṁdada Sutta (SN 1.42).   

If you have any questions or comments regarding this talk, please email them to suttameditationseries[at]gmail.com or leave a voicemail message via anchor.fm 

A VIDEO of this FULL SESSION with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP3xRh33LVs AND on Spotify as a video podcast

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

It's stated that "there are four ways of practice. What four? Painful practice with slow realisation, painful practice with quick realisation, pleasant practice with slow realisation, and pleasant practice with quick realisation" in the Saṁkhitta Sutta (AN 4.161)  

We will examine what these Profitable Directions are, the importance of learning about these four modes of practice, how we develop these insight pathways that lead to the four immeasurable states (i.e. Buddha's medicine for overcoming the craving for the four nutriments), how the 37 enlightenment factors are activated and support the Path, and an overview of how we meditate or contemplate towards unlocking the doors to Nibbāna.  

In this session we: 

• — get an overview of the framework and process map of the Four Modes of Practice and how it leads to the Four Immeasurable States 
• — familiarise ourselves with pali terms and their meanings to make the learning process easier  
• — how these insight pathways unlock the doorways to Nibbāna 
• — highlight the fruit of each profitable direction  

**NOTE - We have already looked in detail at the First Doorway to Nibbāna in episode 164 of the podcast - https://bit.ly/3BEWLVv **

Most of the suttas that are directly or indirectly referred to in this session: 

• — Vitthāra Sutta (AN 4.162) 
• — Ubhaya Sutta (AN 4.166)  
• — Mahāmoggallāna Sutta (AN 4.167)  
• — Sāriputta Sutta (AN 4.168)  
• — Suttavebhaṅgiya (Pe 9)  
• — Sekha-paṭipadā Sutta (MN 53) 
• — Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33)  
• — Brahma Sutta (SN 47.18)   
• — Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta (MN 10)  
• — Venāgapura Sutta (AN 3.63) 
• — Āneñjasappāya Sutta (MN 106) 
• — Padhāna Sutta (AN 4.13) 
• — Paṭhamasamaṇabrāhmaṇa Sutta (SN 46.5)  
• — Dhātuvibhaṅga Sutta (MN 140) 
• — Iddhipāda Sutta (AN 4.276) 
• — Subrahma Sutta (SN 2.17)  
• — Āhāra Sutta (SN 12.11) 
• — Puttamaṁsa Sutta (SN 12.63) 
• — Vipallāsa Sutta (AN 4.49)  

Bohoma pin to the person who requested this Dhamma talk.  

A VIDEO of this segment has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IJoPpliodA AND on Spotify as a video podcast

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

This is the first module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series, focused on our younger audience looking into BUDDHA'S GRADUAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LAY PEOPLE ON GIVING (dānakathaṁ)  

In this session we look into: 

Suttas that are mentioned directly or indirectly in this session: 

If you have any questions or comments regarding this talk, regarding this talk, please email them to suttameditationseries[at]gmail.com or leave a voicemail message via anchor.fm

Bohoma pin to the people who have asked about gradual instructions for lay people over the past few months. There have been quite a few, so much merit to you.

Bohoma pin to the kind person who helped with collating and highlighting of some of these valuable suttas for this session. Much mudita.

A VIDEO of this FULL SESSION with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymC5F01Qrqw AND on Spotify as a video podcast

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

This is another session to help with the learning and development of the Painful Practice with Slow Realisation (First Doorway to Nibbāna). We look at six key "inflection points" in the meditation as a means to addressing:

Bohoma pin to all the people who have asked different questions on this meditation.

A VIDEO of this DHAMMA Q&A with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1TTSZaGKs8

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

This is a SHORT GUIDED MEDITATION with the theme of TUNING INTO GOODNESS. In this meditation, we tap into our own acts of generosity and kindness to lift the mind. 

We can rejoice in our own goodness, as well as the goodness of others (including the noble ones). We are connecting to the field of merit and goodness.

It's good to do this meditation frequently as it nurtures wholesome qualities, goes against the hindrances & defilements, and encourages letting go.

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai.

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

This is the introductory talk for a new series, specifically for our younger audience, looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions (anupubbiṁ kathaṁ) for lay people.

The question commonly asked by audiences, both young or older, is why did the Buddha give these specific gradual instructions or teachings to lay people? And what are those teachings in more detail?

In this brief introductory talk we look at what the Buddha means by gradual instructions, the objectives in teaching lay people in this way, the important of this sequential process, and what to expect in this Youth Dhamma Series.

In future sessions we will go step-by-step, following the Buddha's instructions and look at:

Bohoma pin to the people who have asked this question over the past few months. There have been quite a few, so much merit to you.

A VIDEO of this FULL SESSION with presentation slides has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th_S2JWfL9U AND on Spotify as a video podcast

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

A gentle encouragement to revisit and review who we take as our role models. Are they in support of the non-greed, non-hatred, non-delusion path? Are their actions and speech leaning towards freedom from all suffering? Are they encouraging us towards Nibbana, or tying us to samsara? Do they have Right View?

We must choose our role models wisely in order to find support to walk the Noble Eightfold Path. And this is why we study the monks, nuns and lay disciples from the time of the Buddha, those who have developed the noble qualities, and realised Path and Fruit. They are safe examples of guiding standards for noble living and practising the Path.

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

We continue with our examination of "all sentient beings are sustained by nutriment" (sabbe sattā āhāraṭṭhitikā) in the Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33)  In this session (PART 6), we learn how to meditate on the Four Nutriments and Suffering.

All the nutriments are linked (work in tandem, or altogether - process happens very quickly), so we build on what we covered in the past five sessions. 

**It is helpful you have at least a broad understanding of each of the Four Nutriments, why we crave them, what is driving the insight pathways and why we go the wrong way in each of them. It's also beneficial if you are familiar with the "swinging monkey" analogy we went through in Part 4 - Mental Volition as Nutriment (3rd Unprofitable Direction)**

In this short session, we explain the meditation steps using the Four Nutriments & Four Wrong Ways Table, and go through 2 examples to help us to apply this meditation. When you do this meditation, take an example that is relevant to you so you can connect with this Dhamma more directly.

Bohoma pin to the person that requested this meditation.

A VIDEO of this segment has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBnohxxRBaA AND on Spotify as a video podcast

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.

We continue with our examination of "all sentient beings are sustained by nutriment" (sabbe sattā āhāraṭṭhitikā) in the Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33)  In this session (PART 5), we will examine the Fourth Unprofitable Direction how we go the Wrong Way due to Delusion (mohaagatigamanaṃ) when we crave Consciousness as Nutriment (viññānāhāro).  

All the nutriments are linked, so we build on what we covered in the session on the Physical Nutriment and Going the Wrong Way due to Desire, Contact as Nutriment and Going the Wrong Way due to Hate and Mental Volition as Nutriment and Going the Wrong Way due to Fear.  

What we cover in this session: 

• — look at how craving for Consciousness  as Nutriment activates dependent origination 
• — highlight the importance of understanding name-and-form 
• — go line by line to understand the process of how we go the wrong way due to delusion driven by ignorance and supported by the perversions 
• — examine how volitional formations get constructed, they shatter, and we continually lament when we don't get what we want. And this demonstrates the relationship between volitional formations and consciousness. 
• — apply the "swinging monkey" analogy to understand this Dhamma 
• — revisit the Buddha's simile of the criminal being punished by the king 
• — go through some examples of this process 
• — tips for learning and developing this meditation  

Most of the suttas that are directly or indirectly referred to in this session: 

• — Āhāra Sutta (SN 12.11) 
• — Paṭiccasamuppāda Sutta (SN 12.1) 
• — Puttamaṁsa Sutta (SN 12.63) 
• — Atthirāgasutta Sutta (SN 12.64) 
• — Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33) 
• — Suttavebhaṅgiya (Pe 9)  
• — Vibhaṅga Sutta (SN 12.2) 
• — Nāmarūpapaṭisandahanapañha (Mil 3.2.8) 
• — Viññāṇa Sutta (SN 12.59) 
• — Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta (MN 9) 
• — Saccavibhaṅga Sutta (MN 141) 
• — Samādhi-bhāvanā Sutta (SN 22.5) 
• — Vipallāsa Sutta (AN 4.49) 
• — Upādāna Sutta (SN 45.173) 
• — Yoga Sutta (SN 45.172) 
• — Gantha Sutta (SN 45.174) 
• — Ānantarikasamādhiñāṇaniddesa (Ps 1.1.32) 
• — Ogha Sutta (SN 45.171) 
• — Paṭhamaagati Sutta (AN 4.17)   

Bohoma pin to the person that requested this talk.  

A VIDEO of this segment has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqXSMmiKzyE AND on Spotify as a video podcast

Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai