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The Bhante Punnaji Podcast episodes
- Healing Through the Dhamma: Bhante Saranapala on Kindfulness & Compassion
In this episode, Bhante Sanāthāvihārī (creator of this podcast) speaks with Bhante Dr. Saranapala, the "Kindful Canada Monk," about his journey, his teachings, and his mission to spread mindfulness and kindness worldwide. You'll hear about:
- Bhante Saranapala’s path from ordaining in Bangladesh at age 10 to bringing the Dhamma to Canada and beyond
- How he employs kindfulness, a concept that blends mindfulness with kindness as a tool for emotional and psychological healing
- His global initiative, A Mindful and Kind Nation, and how he shares Dhamma with police officers, banks, and legal professionals
- Insights into the teachings of Bhante Punnaji, including fresh interpretations of Buddhist terms like dukkha ("difficult to handle") and satipaṭṭhāna ("placing attention within")
- The connection between Dhamma and modern psychology, and how Bhante Puññaji bridged Buddhist philosophy with Western therapeutic concepts
- Why personal transformation is the key to societal change, and how small daily acts of kindness can create a more harmonious world
- The power of humor and joy in spiritual practice, and how teachers like the Dalai Lama and Ajahn Brahm use laughter to uplift and inspire
Join us for a thoughtful and engaging conversation on the transformative power of Dhamma in everyday life!
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
58 min - Satipaṭṭhāna: Q&A
In this episode you'll hear Bjante Puññaji answer a number of audience questions, covering a wide range of topics, including:
- How meditation leads to a virtuous circle, that eventually leads to liberation
- How to apply appropriate attention
- The currents of Western philosophy in contrast with Buddhism
- How experience arises
- What the problem of existence is
- How conditionality works
- The interactions between emotions and thoughts in the mind
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
48 min - Satipaṭṭhāna: How to Cultivate Both Samatha & Vipassanā
In this episode you'll learn:
- How emotions can derail us
- How meditation helps us solve our thinking problem
- How calming emotions helps us act more skillfully
- How to calm these emotions by calming the body and calming the mind
- What is samādhi
- The transition from satipaṭṭhāna to samādhi through the seven factors of awakening
- How deeper levels of concentration help us understand the process of experience
- How understanding the process of experience with wisdom and knowledge helps put an end to suffering and attain liberation
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
58 min - Satipaṭṭhāna: Western Psychology and Buddhist Psychology
In this episode you'll learn:
- The importance of taking care of your mind
- Why relaxation is important
- How the breath and relaxation are connected
- How relaxation is letting go
- What materialism is
- How the scientific perspective of the body, brain and mind relates to Buddhism
- How Western psychology developed an understanding of the phenomena of the brain and mind
- How Western psychology explains and deals with the problems of the mind
- The four Upādānas (normally translated as "clinging") and the process of personalizing
- How personalizing is suffering
- How the process of personalizing is stopped by giving up the idea of self
- The process of cognition in Buddhist psychology
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
1 hr 23 min - Satipaṭṭhāna: Breathing Instructions and Observing the Mind
In this episode you'll learn:
- How to take stock of the mind
- How to become conscious and stopping unwholesome thoughts and reactions
- How to explore the breath through the sensations of the body
- How to calm the mind and relax the body
- The conditions necessary to enter Jhāna
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
15 min - Satipaṭṭhāna: Meditation Instructions
In this second part covering Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation, you'll learn:
- How to bring the attention inward
- Why mediation is beneficial
- What calming the mind means
- How meditation helps us to let go
- How to deal with certain hindrances to our meditation
- What existence is and how it relates to feeling
- The problems with pleasure and pain
- How to comfort someone going through pain
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
51 min - Satipaṭṭhāna: Introduction to Meditation
In this episode you'll learn:
- what meditation means in the words of the Buddha
- how to draw your attention inward
- how to relax the body such that we can deal with emotional problems
- how to create a life that supports our practice of meditation
- how meditation extends beyond what we normally think
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
1 hr 32 min - The Four Divine Abodes
In this episode you'll learn:
- What the divine abodes, or brahmavihārā, are
- How each of the four abodes—goodwill (mettā), compassion (karuṇā), empathetic joy (muditā) and equanimity (upekkhā)—work
- Why it's hard to follow the precepts when we do not develop these four qualities
- How the brahmavihārā, through an interest in others, leads to relief of suffering
- Why the brahmavihārā are not emotional excitement
- How the divine abodes lead into one another successively
- How the abodes eventually lead us into seeing things clearly
- The relationship between the brahmavihārā and our behavior
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
27 min - The Fabric of Reality
In this episode you'll hear about:
- how Buddhism isn't at odds with the scientific conception of the world
- how the line between the material and the spiritual is blurred when considered from the buddhist point of view
- what psychic powers are and how they arise
- what the Jhānas are and how one gets into them
- how the mind works
- Buddhist psychology
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
1 hr 36 min - Buddhist Determinism: Concurrence of Antecedents
In this episode you'll learn about:
- Determinism and how it differs from dogmatic views of divine intervention
- The cognitive process by which experience is constructed
- How emotions are born out of ignorance and why they're the source of our problems
- How to liberate ourselves from our emotions by understanding how the different factors of experience come into play
- What role jhāna plays in liberation
- The process of jhāna and how it differs from a state of hypnosis
- Dependent Origination, the principle that explains how the world of experience arises, and which constitutes the teaching of the Middle Way
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
1 hr 19 min
About The Bhante Punnaji Podcast
From the publisher's feed
The Bhante Punnaji Podcast is a channel dedicated to sharing the radical explorations of Pre-Sectarian Buddhism, according to Bhante's understanding. The legacy of Bhante Punnaji's teachings is based…
on the Buddha's original teachings, the Supernormal Eightfold Way, or Ariyamagga. The talks in this channel are largely the collection of countless sutta classes, dhamma talks, and meditation retreats he conducted all over the world.