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- ANGER 1.0 (Youth Dhamma Session)
Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
This is the most recent talk on Anger from a Youth perspective. It's a shorter and simplified talk.
The intention is to cultivate wisdom - so that we do not create the conditions for anger to arise, and if anger has arisen that we make an effort to abandon any of the mental stains associated with anger.
Suttas that are covered directly or indirectly in this session:
- — Sallekha Sutta (MN 8)
- — Potaliya Sutta (MN 54)
- — Āghātavatthu Sutta (AN 10.79)
- — Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)
- — Saṁsappanīya Sutta (AN 10.216)
- — Cūḷakammavibhaṅga Sutta (MN 135)
- — Duccaritavipāka Sutta (AN 8.40)
To read the Āghātavatthu Sutta (AN 10.79) - https://suttacentral.net/an10.79/en/sujato
To read the Vatthupama Sutta (MN 7) - https://suttacentral.net/mn7/en/bodhi
Bohoma pin to the person who requested this version of the talk.
A VIDEO of this segment has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcrsH48B8P4 AND on Spotify as a video podcast
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai
23 min - ANGER 1.0 - A Buddhist Perspective on Exploring Anger through Lockdown
Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
In this session, we use the real-life experience of lockdown and restrictions over the past year and half to explore the topic of Anger from a Buddhist Perspective.
The intention is to cultivate wisdom - so that we do not create the conditions for anger to arise, and if anger has arisen that we make an effort to abandon any of the mental stains associated with anger.
In this session we:
- - Explore the real-life experience of Lockdown
- - Brainstorm personal reasons for Anger during the Lockdown
- - Look into what we do when we get angry
- - Deep dive into the Grounds for Anger in the Āghātavatthu Sutta (AN 10.79)
- - Deconstruct the grounds for Anger & Resentment
- - Deconstruct mental defilements and their links in the Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)
- - Examine how these can lead to giving up Anger & Resentment
Suttas that are covered directly or indirectly in this session:
- — Sallekha Sutta (MN 8)
- — Potaliya Sutta (MN 54)
- — Āghātavatthu Sutta (AN 10.79)
- — Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)
- — Āghātavatthu Sutta (AN 5.161)
- — Āghātavatthu Sutta (AN 9.29)
- — Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (SN 56.11)
- — Abhiṇhapaccavekkhitabbaṭhāna Sutta (AN 5.57)
- — Saṁsappanīya Sutta (AN 10.216)
- — Cūḷakammavibhaṅga Sutta (MN 135)
- — Duccaritavipāka Sutta (AN 8.40)
To read the Āghātavatthu Sutta (AN 10.79) - https://suttacentral.net/an10.79/en/sujato
To read the Vatthupama Sutta (MN 7) - https://suttacentral.net/mn7/en/bodhi
Bohoma pin to the people who have requested this talk.
A VIDEO of this segment has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oRcpVEeEgo AND on Spotify as a video podcast
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai
1 hr 10 min - DEVELOPING THE BUDDHA'S QUALITIES OF A GOOD PERSON
Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
Following on from the last session looking at "Why associating with good people (sappurisa) is so important on the Noble Eightfold Path", we take this one step further to examine "Developing the Buddha's qualities of a good person".
We are particularly interested in looking at how we may self-sabotage our progress on the Path, and to investigate qualities that we consciously or unconsciously continue to practice that may be unwholesome, rather than wholesome. This is a strong encouragement to deepen the practice and really put effort to progress on the Noble Eightfold Path.
This is part of our examination of the Avijjā Sutta (AN 10.61). Instead of ignorance, we want to cultivate and develop to fulfillment True Knowledge and Liberation (vijjāvimutti). The intention is to look at a few different parts of this insight pathway (which has all the main teachings of the Buddha to develop the Noble Eightfold Path and realise Nibbana) before pulling it all together to explain how to meditate on the full insight pathway.
In this session we:
- - briefly refresh our minds about the Story of Sakka, King of the Devas and the Buddha's words
- - examine the qualities of gratitude and thankfulness, whom to praise and not praise, matters of belief or suspicion, behaving rightly towards our parents, the Tathagata and his noble disciples, simile of the newly arrived bride and the four qualities when it comes to virtues & faults, and the things we should refrain from using to glorify ourselves and belittle others
- - look at how to reflect and contemplate to develop these wholesome qualities and abandon the unwholesome ones.
Most of the suttas that are directly or indirectly referred to in this session:
- — Sakka Vatthu (Dhp 206-208)
- — Samacittavagga (AN 2.32)
- — Āyācanavagga (AN 2.134-137)
- — Sappurisa Sutta (AN 4.73)
- — Sappurisa Sutta (MN 113)
- — Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)
- — Karaniyametta Sutta (Sn1.8)
- — Dasuttara Sutta (DN 34)
To read the Avijjā Sutta (AN 10.61) - https://suttacentral.net/an10.61/en/bodhi
A VIDEO of this segment has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DILGEN1PsAY AND on Spotify as a video podcast
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai
1 hr 14 min - WHY ASSOCIATING WITH GOOD PEOPLE IS SO IMPORTANT ON THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH
Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
We look at the first part of the insight pathway for the way out or passing away (atthangama) of Ignorance (avijjā), which is associating with good people. This is from the Avijjā Sutta (AN 10.61). Instead of ignorance, we want to cultivate and develop to fulfillment True Knowledge and Liberation (vijjāvimutti).
The intention is to look at a few different parts of this insight pathway (which has all the main teachings of the Buddha to develop the Noble Eightfold Path and realise Nibbana) before pulling it all together to explain how to meditate on the full insight pathway.
In this session we:
- - briefly revisit Buddha's definition of a bad person (asappurisa)
- - look into the Buddha's definition of a good person (sappurisa)
- - examine some of the Buddha's teachings on why it's important to associate with good people
- - reflect on the example of Angulimala, the murderer who realised full awakening
- - run through some questions we can use as prompts for contemplation about "why associating with good people is so important on the Noble Eightfold Path" that may help us to make more conscious choices regarding the company we keep and who we spend the most time with. This is from the perspective of the spiritual growth on the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path.
Most of the suttas that are directly or indirectly referred to in this session:
- — Sappurisavagga (AN 4.201-210)
- — Samacittavagga (AN 2.32)
- — Āyācanavagga (AN 2.134-137)
- — Dutiyakhatasutta (AN 4.4)
- — Sappurisa Sutta (AN 4.73)
- — Akataññutā Autta (AN 4.223)
- — Cūḷapuṇṇama Sutta (MN 110)
- — Sappurisa Sutta (MN 113)
- — Paṭhamaasappurisa Sutta (SN 45.25)
- — Dutiyaasappurisa Sutta (SN 45.26)
- — Dasaṅga Sutta (SN 14.29)
- — Caṅkama Sutta (SN 14.15)
- — Angulimalatthera Vatthu (Dhp 173)
- — Vassakāra Sutta (AN 4.187)
- — Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)
- — Karaniyametta Sutta (Sn1.8)
To read the Avijjā Sutta (AN 10.61) - https://suttacentral.net/an10.61/en/bodhi
A VIDEO of this segment has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfc5me6D0j8 AND on Spotify as a video podcast
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai
50 min - THE INSIGHT PATHWAY FOR IGNORANCE - PART 1 (Arising)
Welcome to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
In this session we study the insight pathways taught by the Buddha in the Avijjā Sutta (AN 10.61) and how to contemplate or meditate on them.
The first is the one that leads to the arising (samudaya) of Ignorance and the second is the passing away (atthaṅgama) or way out of Ignorance.
The session has been split into two parts:
- In this first part we look at the arising of Ignorance and all the nutriments or conditions that lead to the arising and growth of Ignorance, which in turn keeps us bound to continual rebirth into samsara.
- In the second part (to be published), we’ll look at the insight pathway for the way out of Ignorance, which leads to True Knowledge and Liberation.
What is covered in this session:
- o Overview of the Avijjā Sutta (AN 10.61)
- o What is avijjā?
- o Importance of this teaching
- o Quick recap on insight pathways
- o “Deep dive” into the insight pathway for avijjā
- o How do we meditate on this sutta
Most of the suttas that are directly or indirectly referred to in this session:
- — Paṭiccasamuppāda Sutta (SN 12.1)
- — Avijjā Sutta (SN 56.17)
- — Samudaya Sutta (SN 22.131)
- — Kevaddha Sutta (DN 11)
- — Kalahavivādasuttaniddesa (Mnd 11)
- — Vijjā Sutta (AN 10.105),
- — Avijjā Sutta (AN 45.1)
- — Sādhu Sutta (AN 10.34)
- — Yonisomanasikārasampadā Sutta (SN 45.55)
- — Sūka Sutta (SN 45.9)
- — Nibbedhika Sutta (AN 6.63)
- — Tiṇakaṭṭha Sutta (SN 15.1)
- — Cūḷapuṇṇama Sutta (MN 110)
- — Sappurisa Sutta (MN 113)
- — Āsāduppajahavagga (AN 2.125-126)
- — Ekadhammavagga, Dutiyavagga (AN 1.310-311)
- — Vuṭṭhi Sutta (SN 1.74)
- — Assaddhasaṁsandanasu Sutta (SN 14.17)
- — Assaddhamūlaka (SN 14.18)
- — Upanisa Sutta (SN 12.23)
- — Gotama Sutta (SN 12.10)
- — Sīlavanta Sutta (SN 22.122)
- — Akusalavitakka Sutta (SN 9.11)
- — Hāravibhaṅgapañcamabhūmi (Pe 5)
- — Pamādādivagga (AN 1.92)
- — Dutiyapamādādivagga (AN 1.108)
- — Vīriyārambhādivagga (AN 1.68)
- — Satisampajañña Sutta (AN 8.81)
- — Kummopama Sutta (SN 35.240)
- — Pamādavihāri Sutta (SN 35.97)
- — Indriyasaṃvara Sutta (AN 6.50)
- — Sāleyyaka Sutta (MN 41)
- — Duccarita Sutta (Iti 64)
- — Tevijja Sutta (DN 13)
- — Akusalarāsi Sutta (AN 5.52, SN 47.5)
- — Nīvaraṇa Sutta (SN 46.40)
- — Kāyasutta (SN 46.2)
- — Āhārasutta (SN 46.51)
- — Upakkilesa Sutta (AN 5.23)
To read the Avijjā Sutta (AN 10.61) - https://suttacentral.net/an10.61/en/bodhi
Bohoma pin to the people 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=boCECIM0Lto AND on Spotify as a video podcast
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai
2 hr 7 min - Guided Meditation - IS IT WORTH TAKING AS ME AND MINE?
Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
This is a GUIDED MEDITATION on the following contemplation:
"If it is impermanent (anicca), painful or suffering (dukkha), and subject to change (vipariṇāma), is it worth taking as me and mine?"
**We examined this as part of looking into the contemplation of the five aggregates subject to clinging as 11 characteristics in the Sīlavanta Sutta (SN 22.122).
This is a very powerful contemplation that carefully directs the mind towards the right view (yoniso manasikāra), using the primary characteristics the Buddha would normally teach and then follow up with questions.
If you are new to this type of contemplation, there may be some resistance that arises during this guided meditation. If you can, do try to persist. If we ever want to get out this predicament (it can be likened to a constructed prison,) we can't gently break out or go softly-softly, there needs to be some force and conviction to overcome all the barriers and traps.
To read the Sīlavanta Sutta (SN 22.122) - https://suttacentral.net/sn22.122/en/sujato
Bohoma pin to the person who requested this guided meditation.
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai.
32 min - You are not alone. We walk the Noble Eightfold Path together.
Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
A few words of encouragement for walking the Noble Eightfold Path and lifting our minds away from unwholesome (akusala) states towards wholesome (kusala) states during these challenging times.
Sending kind thoughts out to the world.
Theruwan saranai. Blessings of the Triple Gem.
15 min - WHAT THINGS SHOULD BE WISELY CONTEMPLATED? - Sīlavanta Sutta (SN 22.122)
Welcome to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
This session elaborates on how to meditate on the Sīlavanta Sutta (SN 22.122) with its deeply penetrative teaching on WHAT THINGS SHOULD BE WISELY CONTEMPLATED (i.e. the things we should be carefully directing our mind towards) TO ENSURE WE ACTIVATE THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH (leading with Right View) and REALISE THE FRUIT OF THE PATH.
In this session we:
- - get an overview of the Sīlavanta Sutta (SN 22.122)
- - look into the importance and benefits of this teaching
- - briefly examine the parallels in other suttas
- - provide some guidance on resistance towards contemplating in this way
- - deep dive into “What things should be wisely contemplated?”
- - explain the Five Aggregates subject to clinging
- - explain each of the 11 characteristics
- - provide ways to meditate on this sutta
- - sum everything up with the important short meditation
Suttas covered directly or indirectly in this session:
- — Āsāduppajahavagga (AN 2.125-126)
- — Mahāvedalla Sutta (MN 43)
- — Dutiyayonisomanasikārasampadā Sutta (SN 45.90)
- — Sādhu Sutta (AN 10.34)
- — Yonisomanasikārasampadā Sutta (SN 45.55)
- — Dasuttara Sutta(DN 34)
- — Avijja Sutta (AN 10.61)
- — Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (SN 56.11)
- — Pariññeyya Sutta (SN 56.29)
- — Sutavanta Sutta (SN 22.123)
- — Mahāmālukya Sutta (MN 64)
- — Dīghanakha Sutta (MN 74)
- — Dutiyanānākaraṇa Sutta (AN 4.124)
- — Jhāna Sutta (AN 9.36)
- — Vipassanākathā (Ps 3.9)
- — Samādhi-bhāvanā Sutta (SN 22.5)
- — Aghamūla Sutta (SN 22.31)
- — Palokadhamma Sutta (SN 35.84)
- — Suññataloka Sutta (SN 35.85)
- — Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (SN 22.59)
To read the Sīlavanta Sutta (SN 22.122) - https://suttacentral.net/sn22.122/en/sujato
Bohoma pin to the person that requested this talk.
A VIDEO of this segment has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YoutTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzlN56EruLA AND on Spotify as a video podcast
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai
1 hr 28 min - Vesak Poya - APPLICATION OF YONISO MANASIKĀRA: SIMILES FOR THE FIVE AGGREGATES
Welcome to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
This is ONLY the APPLICATION OF YONISO MANASIKARA APPLYING THE SIMILES FOR THE FIVE AGGREGATES from the Vesak Poya Dhamma Session, conducted via zoom on 26 May 2021.
**Please note - each contemplation is a gradual and sequential development of yoniso manasikara, therefore you may wish to do the meditations or contemplations in sequence.
For the full 3.5hr session (including contemplations) you can listen to episode 103 WHY YONISO MANASIKARA IS ESSENTIAL TO THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH (Vesak Poya FULL Dhamma Session)
In this segment from the Vesak Poya Dhamma Session, we briefly examine Buddha's teachings on USING FIVE DIFFERENCE SIMILES TO SEE THROUGH THE FIVE AGGREGATES - see them as VOID, HOLLOW, EMPTY, WORTHLESS, NO SUBSTANCE. It's useful to do this meditation (although we didn't during the Dhamma session) as it reinforces the earlier meditations on the five aggregates, and takes it further to enable you to clearly see in your meditation these aggregates as empty (suññato) and not worth taking as me and mine (anattato).
The main suttas supporting this contemplation:
- — Pheṇapiṇḍūpama Sutta (SN 22.95)
A VIDEO of this segment has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YoutTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx-Z0w8gIQE
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai
3 min - — Pheṇapiṇḍūpama Sutta (SN 22.95)
- Vesak Poya - APPLICATION OF YONISO MANASIKĀRA: FIVE AGGREGATES SUBJECT TO CLINGING AS 11 CHARACTERISTICS
Welcome to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
This is ONLY the APPLICATION OF YONISO MANASIKARA OF THE FIVE AGGREGATES SUBJECT TO CLINGING AS 11 CHARACTERISTICS from the Vesak Poya Dhamma Session, conducted via zoom on 26 May 2021.
**Please note - each contemplation is a gradual and sequential development of yoniso manasikara, therefore you may wish to do the meditations or contemplations in sequence.
For the full 3.5hr session (including contemplations) you can listen to episode 103 WHY YONISO MANASIKARA IS ESSENTIAL TO THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH (Vesak Poya FULL Dhamma Session)
In this segment from the Vesak Poya Dhamma Session, we examine the teachings given as a Q&A between Venerable MahaKotthita and Venerable Sariputta on:
- yoniso manasikara - how to wisely contemplate and direct the mind towards the five aggregates, cling to them as 11 characteristics
- ayoniso manasikara - how we misapprehend (unwisely contemplate) and direct the mind towards the five aggregates, cling to them as the opposing 11 characteristics
- briefly go through each of the 11 characteristics
- highlight importance of meditating on 5 x 11 = 55 contemplations (not easy, but very powerful given that this contemplation is advised for the virtuous, learned, stream-enterer, once-returner, non-returner and even the arahant)
- how this contemplation bears fruit for those that diligently develop and frequently practice it
- additional shorter meditation instruction - Taking to the mind the fact that we are born and subject to old age, sickness and death... you contemplate (yourself or someone else) - "If it is impermanent (anicca), suffering (dukkha) and, subject to change (viparinama), is it worth taking as mine?".
The main suttas supporting this contemplation:
- — Sīlavanta Sutta (SN 22.122)
- — Sutavanta Sutta (SN 22.123)
- — Palokadhamma Sutta (SN 35.84)
- — Mahāmālukya Sutta (MN 64)
- — Dīghanakha Sutta (MN 74)
- — Dutiyanānākaraṇa Sutta (AN 4.124)
- — Dutiyamettā Sutta (AN 4.126)
- — Jhāna Sutta (AN 9.36)
A VIDEO of this segment has been published to the Sutta Meditation Series YoutTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEkgUd2wjFc
***Extended talk on the Sīlavanta Sutta (SN 22.122) has recently been published - see episode 113***
Blessings of the Triple Gem. Theruwan saranai
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Emphasis on lay practice towards developing the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path, attaining path & fruit, and culminating in the realisation of full liberation (nibbāna).
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