Most Recent

• The Five Daily Remembrances: Contemplating Mortality and Gratitude
  39:39
  Bhante Bodhidhamma guides practitioners through the Buddha's five daily remembrances on aging, sickness, death, separation, and karma, balanced with gratitude reflections.
• Sympathetic Joy: Cultivating Muditā and the Brahmavihāras
  21:29
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores muditā (sympathetic joy) as one of the four brahmavihāras, offering practical guidance for recognizing and cultivating joy in daily life.
• Reflections on Polarization: A Dharma Perspective on Division and Understanding
  16:40
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how Buddhist teachings on not-self and proliferation (papañca) illuminate modern polarization and offers Dharma-based solutions.
• Overcoming Thīna-middha: Understanding Dullness and Lethargy
  15:13
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores thīna-middha, the hindrance of dullness and lethargy, offering practical advice from the Buddha for maintaining energetic awareness in meditation and daily life.

Nibbana

• The Nature of Nibbāna and the Path to Liberation
  16:41
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores nibbāna as consciousness without manifest objects, using metaphors of child development and Narcissus to illuminate the path beyond self-deception.
• Nibbāna: The Kevaddha Sutta and the Luminous Consciousness
  16:14
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Kevaddha Sutta's teaching on nibbāna as signless, limitless consciousness where the four great elements find no footing.
• What Was the Buddha's Great Discovery?
  15:01
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's transcendent achievement through his victory verse and teachings on the unconditioned dimension of Nibbāna.

The Buddha

• The Buddha as a Teacher
  23:10
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's extraordinary teaching abilities through the Cūḷamāluṅkyasutta, examining how he skillfully guided students away from speculative questions.
• The Buddha and War
  23:15
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's approach to war and violence, distinguishing between pacifism as ideology and non-violence as attitude.

The Perfections Parami and other Virtues

• Faith, Hope, and Aspiration on the Path to Awakening
  19:15
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the distinction between faith, hope, and aspiration in Buddhist practice, examining how expectation leads to suffering while true aspiration grounds authentic spiritual ...
• Renunciation — The Path of Letting Go
  15:46
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores renunciation (nekkhamma) as spiritual practice, distinguishing it from self-mortification and showing how letting go of craving leads to freedom.
• Need, Sufficiency and Greed
  18:01
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the monastic approach to basic needs—shelter, food, clothing, medicine—as a practice for reducing fear and cultivating simplicity.
• 2021 Gratitude, Generosity and Renunciation
  18:03
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the virtuous circle of gratitude, generosity and renunciation as practices for loosening attachment and moving toward liberation.
• Good Friendship, Companionship, Good Comradeship is the Whole of the Spiritual Life
  18:27
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching to Ānanda that kalyāṇamittatā (spiritual friendship) is not half, but the entire spiritual life.
• Karuṇā: The Fourth Brahmavihāra - Compassion Practice and Pitfalls
  28:30
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores karuṇā (compassion), the fourth brahmavihāra, sharing personal stories and examining common pitfalls in compassionate action.
• Fear and Courage
  23:26
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores fear as the root of delusion and examines six areas where we need courage: physical, social, moral, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual.
• Sympathy, Empathy and Compassion
  17:26
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the subtle differences between sympathy, empathy and compassion, examining how we can relate skillfully to suffering without burning out.
• Equanimity
  26:04
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores equanimity (upekkhā) as the foundation of all virtues, examining its role in the brahmavihāra, factors of awakening, and daily life practice.
• Patient Forbearance
  19:29
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores khanti pāramī (patient forbearance) as supreme virtue, drawing from suttas on handling abuse, adversity, and inner reactivity with equanimity.
• The Importance of Tranquillity — Passaddhi
  16:52
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores passaddhi (tranquillity) as one of the seven factors of Awakening, examining its effects on body and mind and its role in meditation practice.
• Cultivating Joy: Beyond Suffering to Muditā and Daily Happiness
  17:16
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddhist approach to joy, addressing the fear of indulgence and teaching practical methods for cultivating muditā (appreciative joy).
• Skillful Discussion: The Buddha's Guide to Noble Conversation
  19:46
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores an Aṅguttara Nikāya discourse on skillful conversation, offering timeless wisdom for navigating polarized discussions with wisdom and compassion.

Various Teachings

• Identity and Not-Self
  21:50
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on anattā (not-self) through practical examples of role identification and the suffering it creates.
• Paṭicca Samuppāda, the Role of Desire and the Only Choice
  15:03
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the twelve links of dependent origination, focusing on how desire creates identity and suffering, and the crucial moment of choice in liberation.
• Dukkha (Unsatisfactoriness) and Sīla (Morality and Ethics)
  25:20
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the roots of suffering and the ethical guidelines that help us work backwards from dukkha through moral precepts and wise relationships.
• The Four Noble Truths
  18:43
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's foundational teaching of the Four Noble Truths, examining dukkha as the cornerstone of all Buddhist understanding.
• The Spiral Path
  18:36
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores Transcendent Dependent Arising, showing how dukkha becomes the launching pad for liberation through seven practical entry points.
• Transcendent Dependent Arising: The Spiral Path from Dukkha to Liberation
  18:36
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Upanisā Sutta's teaching on Transcendent Dependent Arising, showing seven practical entry points to transform suffering into the spiral path leading to liberation.
• The Four Bases of Power
  10:45
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the four iddhipādā — desire, energy, devotion, and discrimination — essential qualities for both spiritual success and daily life achievements.
• The Dangers of Indulgence
  20:41
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on the middle path between sensual indulgence and self-mortification, examining how attachment to pleasure creates suffering.
• The Specific Law of Conditionality
  22:29
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores iddapacchayatā - the law of specific conditionality - revealing how causality, interdependence, and impermanence shape our experience.
• The Four Great Elements
  21:37
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the mahābhūta (four great elements) as taught in the Mahābhūta Sutta (MN 28), showing how earth, water, fire, and air serve as meditation objects for developing vipassan...
• The Crucial Role of Desire and Intention
  20:25
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores three key Pali terms—taṇhā, chanda, and cetanā—revealing how understanding desire and intention is essential for liberation.
• Dukkha — The Buddha Grounds His Teaching on This Word
  14:59
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores dukkha as the foundational truth of Buddhism, from its etymology to the Buddha's first discourse and the three types of suffering.
• The Paradox of Fear
  15:44
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores fear and anxiety through Buddhist understanding, examining both unwholesome fear rooted in attachment and wholesome fear that protects us.

Contemplations

• The Eight Worldly Winds
  20:57
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the atta loka dhammā—eight worldly conditions that obsess the mind: gain/loss, fame/disrepute, praise/blame, pleasure/pain.
• The Contemplation of Death
  25:14
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores maraṇasati - contemplation of death - as the Buddha's most powerful meditation practice for understanding impermanence and glimpsing nibbāna.
• The Five Regular Contemplations
  21:16
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's five contemplations on aging, illness, death, separation, and karma as a path to liberation.
• Kamma and Rebirth
  17:25
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the five natural laws in Buddhism, focusing on personal kamma that leads to liberation and the role of ethical conduct in spiritual development.
• I own my actions. I inherit the results of my actions. I am born of my actions. I form relations through my actions. I live dependent on my actions. Whatever I do for good or for ill, I shall inherit the results. — Kamma and Rebirth
  25:51
  Bhante Bodhidhamma guides a contemplation on the five reflections on kamma, exploring personal responsibility, consequences, and the interconnected nature of our actions.
• The Unattractive Nature of the Body
  29:05
  A balanced contemplation exploring the Buddha's teaching on the 32 parts of the body, using both detachment and gratitude to develop non-attachment.
• Contemplating the Unpleasantness of the Body
  21:20
  Bhante Bodhidhamma guides us through the asubha contemplation, examining our attachment to the body while cultivating both detachment and gratitude.

Various People

• On Upāli: Mind as the Source of Kamma
  21:55
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Upāli Sutta (MN 56), where the Buddha teaches a Jain householder that mental action is most significant in creating kamma.
• The Bāhiya Sutta: A Teaching on Direct Experience and Liberation
  20:35
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's profound teaching to Bāhiya of the Bark-cloth on direct awareness without identification, leading to immediate awakening.
• Bāhiya of the Bark Cloth
  11:51
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the profound discourse between the Buddha and Bāhiya, revealing direct instructions for liberation through the six sense doors.

Recent Courses 2020–2023

• Q&A: Emotions, Awareness/Delusion, Insight, Masculine/Feminine, Sense-of-Self, Porridge-itself-has-no-taste
  48:39
  Bhante Bodhidhamma addresses key questions on emotions in meditation, the nature of awareness and delusion, masculine/feminine differences in practice, and Buddhist sense perception theory.
• Q&A: Kamma/Free Will, Mettā/Attachment, Momentary Concentration (Khaṇika Samādhi)
  39:48
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores dependent origination, spiritual bypassing, and momentary concentration in vipassanā practice.
• Misunderstanding re. the Self, Karma and Transcendence
  54:46
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the transcendent view in Buddhism, clarifying misconceptions about self, karma, and the nature of awareness.
• Khandha, the Aggregates, as Person and Sati, Awareness
  48:41
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores dukkha and the five khandhas as a deconstruction of personhood, examining how awareness relates to our psychophysical experience.
• Dependent Origination is based on Not-Knowing and Innocence
  41:48
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores paṭicca samuppāda (dependent origination) as the Buddha's complete teaching, showing how dukkha arises from avijjā (not-knowing) rather than culpable ignorance.
• The Axial Age and the Momentous Discovery of the Buddha
  43:33
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's revolutionary insights within the context of the Axial Age, comparing his breakthrough with contemporary spiritual figures like Lao Tzu and Moses.
• Paṭicca Samuppāda and How All Other Important Teachings Are Included
  49:49
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the twelve-link chain of dependent origination, showing how this profound teaching encompasses the Buddha's entire path to liberation.
• The Mahāsi Technique and What We Need to Understand to Practice Vipassanā
  46:43
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explains the Mahāsi noting technique, right awareness, working with hindrances, and investigating the three characteristics of existence in vipassanā meditation.
• No More Ideologies!
  31:40
  Bhante Bodhidhamma examines the failure of modern secular ideologies and explores how Buddhist ethical principles offer an alternative to ideological thinking.
• Kamma: Specific Conditionality, the Five Laws, Ethical Behaviour, Social Kamma and Neoliberalism
  53:24
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on kamma through the lens of specific conditionality, examining the five laws of causation and their application to personal ethics and social syst...
• Paṭicca Samuppāda Revisited
  44:26
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the twelve links of dependent origination as both a process spanning lifetimes and immediate psychological arising.
• Good Friendship, Good Companionship, Good Comradeship - Ubuntu
  26:46
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching that spiritual friendship is the entire spiritual life, connecting this to the Ubuntu philosophy of interconnectedness.
• Buddha Day Address: His Training — The Fetters
  30:47
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's path to Awakening through his extreme ascetic practices and the ten fetters (saññojana) that bind beings to suffering.

Metta

• Karanīya Mettā Sutta
  28:33
  A comprehensive exploration of the Buddha's discourse on loving-kindness, examining the traditional verses and practical instructions for developing mettā meditation.
• The Introduction to Forgiveness Practice
  15:19
  Bhante Bodhidhamma introduces forgiveness as one of two fundamental attitudes for happiness, alongside gratitude, exploring the Buddhist approach to healing emotional wounds.
• Forgiveness is Fundamental to Purify the Heart
  22:05
  Bhante Bodhidhamma guides a profound forgiveness practice: asking for forgiveness, forgiving others, and forgiving ourselves to heal resentment, guilt, and shame.
• Love and Relationship
  14:28
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddhist understanding of love and relationship, emphasizing care, kindness, gratitude, and forgiveness as foundations for harmonious living.
• To Love or To Be Loved: That is the Question!
  17:49
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the crucial difference between loving to develop our hearts versus loving to be loved in return, drawing on Buddhist psychology and mettā practice.

Ordinary Daily Life

• Rest for Autumn
  15:20
  Bhante Bodhidhamma offers gentle guidance for establishing sustainable daily practice as autumn begins, covering sleep, morning meditation, and cultivating affectionate awareness.
• Right Livelihood
  16:16
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores sammā ājīva as right lifestyle, examining the Buddha's guidance on ethical work and how spiritual practice integrates with daily life.

Current Topics

• Social Conditioning or Karma — Our Social Conditioning is a Given, but Even So We Have to Take Responsibility for It and Cleanse Any Unwholesomeness
  13:52
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how cultural conditioning shapes us and our responsibility to purify unwholesome mental habits through Buddhist practice.
• Neoliberalism and Mindfulness
  19:36
  Bhante Bodhidhamma examines how neoliberal ideology corrupts authentic Buddhist practice, turning mindfulness into a tool for maintaining harmful systems rather than liberation.
• Non-Violence vs. Pacifism
  15:53
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddhist understanding of non-violence as practical wisdom rather than philosophical pacifism, drawing on Dhammapada teachings.
• Climate Emergency and the Role of the Dhamma
  14:50
  Bhante Bodhidhamma addresses the climate crisis through a Buddhist lens, exploring how Dhamma practice can help us respond skillfully to environmental and social collapse with compassion rather tha...

Coronavirus Lockdown 2020

• The Ten Fetters
  26:46
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the ten fetters (saṃyojana) that bind us to existence, from the Mahāmalunkyāputta Sutta (MN 64).
• Overcoming the Taints by Endurance
  21:24
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on overcoming mental taints through patient endurance, using the powerful simile of the saw.
• Overcoming the Taints by Using
  19:52
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the third method of overcoming mental taints: using requisites wisely with proper intention and moderation.
• Overcoming the Taints by Restraint
  22:55
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's second method for overcoming unwholesome mental states through sense restraint and wise reflection.
• Questions and Answers — Anger, Death Contemplation, and Buddhist Psychology
  26:01
  Bhante Bodhidhamma addresses questions on anger vs. assertiveness, death contemplation practice, and the relationship between Buddhist psychological categories like taints, fetters, and defilements.
• The Discourse on Not-self (SN 22.59)
  23:48
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's second discourse to his five companions, the Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta, examining the teaching of not-self through the five aggregates.
• Discourse on the Taints (MN 2): Overcome by Seeing
  21:46
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Sabbāsava Sutta on overcoming taints through right seeing, examining six wrong views of self that lead to suffering.
• The Investigation of Eating
  23:35
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on food as nutriment, using eating meditation to distinguish between enjoyment and indulgence in spiritual practice.
• The Nutriments: Food, Contact, Volition, and Consciousness
  24:41
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on the four nutriments from the Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta, examining how food, sensory contact, volition, and consciousness sustain existence.
• Grief
  18:28
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the difference between sorrow and grief, examining how attachment leads to suffering when we lose those we love.
• Right Speech, Action and Livelihood
  22:32
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the ethical foundations of the Noble Eightfold Path, examining how right understanding flows into virtuous conduct.
• Awareness at Work and Right View, Right Attitude
  21:15
  Practical guidance on maintaining awareness during work activities, plus exploration of the first two steps of the Noble Eightfold Path.
• Renunciation and the Buddha's First Occasion to Teach
  21:00
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores renunciation as spiritual practice and recounts the Buddha's journey from Awakening to his first teaching at Sarnath.
• Contemplation of Death (Again) - Living with Frugality
  32:11
  Bhante Bodhidhamma revisits maraṇasati (mindfulness of death) practice, sharing practitioner feedback and exploring Buddhist approaches to living frugally during challenging times.
• Contemplation of Death: Living More Awake
  21:48
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on death contemplation (maraṇasati) using an Āgama discourse, showing how awareness of mortality brings us fully into the present moment.
• Coronavirus and the Contemplation of Death
  18:19
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores using the current pandemic to practice maraṇasati (contemplation of death), transforming fear through direct engagement with mortality.
• First Three Noble Truths
  32:56
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores dukkha, its origin in taṇhā, and the possibility of cessation, examining why the Four Noble Truths form Buddhism's foundation.
• Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta (MN 9): Right View, Wholesome and Unwholesome Kamma
  23:01
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta, examining wholesome and unwholesome actions and their roots in greed, hatred, and delusion.
• Evening Lockdown Meditation: Compassion and Loving-kindness Practice
  59:03
  A guided evening meditation with contemplations on mortality, compassion practices, and the Mettā Sutta during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown.

2019

• Q&A: Resistance, Rebirth and Moral Justice, What Suffers, Mindfulness Apps, Spiritual Attainments
  48:22
  Bhante Bodhidhamma addresses key questions on meditation resistance, rebirth teachings, the nature of suffering, mindfulness technology, and the traditional four stages of insight.

2018

• The Discourse to the Kālāmas: Discernment, the Ethical Life and Fake News
  53:41
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Kālāma Sutta's teachings on discernment, examining how the Buddha's guidance on evaluating truth remains relevant in our age of misinformation.
• Kamma, Rebirth and Transcendence: A Top-Down View of the Buddhadhamma
  52:17
  Bhante Bodhidhamma presents a profound exploration of transcendence, kamma, and rebirth from Buddhism's transcendent perspective rather than scientific materialism.
• Scientism, Romanticism, Psychotherapy and Buddhadhamma
  59:39
  Bhante Bodhidhamma examines three cultural lenses through which Buddhism enters Western society, exploring their limitations and how they may obscure the Buddha's fundamental teachings.
• The First Discourse: Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta - Turning the Wheel of the Dhamma
  51:36
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's first discourse after his Awakening, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, examining the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path.
• New Year Address on the Qualities Needed to Succeed: The Roads to Success
  41:34
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the 37 factors of enlightenment (bodhipakkhiya dhammā) as a complete guide to spiritual practice and daily life success.
• Roads to Power: The 37 Bodhipakkhiya Dhammā
  41:34
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the 37 factors that lead to awakening (bodhipakkhiya dhammā), including the four foundations of awareness and the four bases of spiritual power.
• Ethics, Not-self and Liberation
  1:06:15
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how ethical conduct and insight into not-self are inseparably interwoven on the path to awakening, examining the Buddha's three knowledges and our fundamental delusion o...
• The Highest Blessings: A Dharma Talk on the Maṅgala Sutta
  36:03
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on supreme blessings from the Maṅgala Sutta, covering virtues like wisdom, generosity, patience, and contentment for spiritual development.
• Discourse on the Highest Blessings
  44:33
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's descriptions of nibbāna and the path to awakening, examining how the sense of self creates suffering and how transcendence becomes possible.
• Paṭiccasamuppāda Leading to Awakening in Ordinary Daily Life
  46:10
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how the twelve-link chain of Dependent Origination operates in daily life, offering practical ways to break free from unwholesome conditioning through mindful awareness.
• Feeling (Vedanā)
  46:01
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores vedanā, the second aggregate, examining how feelings arise from sense contact and condition our experience of happiness and suffering.
• The Body - Kāyagatāsati Sutta (MN 119)
  47:34
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's comprehensive teaching on mindfulness of the body, covering breath awareness, postures, repulsiveness meditation, and death contemplation.
• The Body - The Buddha's World View and the Role of Materiality (Rūpa)
  42:44
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's analysis of materiality through the four great elements (mahābhūta) and the practice of deconstructing physical experience to develop dispassion.

2016

• The Need for Saṅgha, Community and Questions about Ordinary Daily Life
  50:05
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the vital role of spiritual community (saṅgha) in Buddhist practice and addresses practical questions about daily meditation, vegetarianism, and establishing consistent ...
• Spiritual Progress - Stop Trying!
  50:55
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the paradox of spiritual seeking, explaining how the very desire for attainment becomes an obstacle to awakening.
• Buddha Day Address: What Was the Mindset of the Bodhisatta When He Left His Family and What Made Him Carry On?
  37:03
  On Buddha Day, Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the existential despair that drove the Bodhisatta to leave his family and seek liberation from the endless cycle of rebirth.

2015

• Ethics, Not-self and Liberation
  1:06:15
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the interconnection between ethical conduct (sīla) and insight into not-self (anattā), showing how they form a feedback loop on the path to awakening.
• Love and All That... The Ten Pāramī
  44:55
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the ten perfections (pāramī), focusing on loving-kindness, attachment, and the subtle distinctions between wholesome and unwholesome relationships.
• Deconstruction: The Five Khandhas and Dependent Origination
  1:12:14
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explains how the Buddha deconstructs human experience through the five khandhas (aggregates) and paṭicca samuppāda (dependent origination) to reveal the root of suffering.
• Buddha Day Address — The Life, Teaching, and Path to Nibbāna
  44:15
  Bhante Bodhidhamma commemorates the Buddha's life and revolutionary teachings, exploring his discovery of liberation and the gradual teaching method leading to Nibbāna.
• The Three Characteristics of Existence
  50:40
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the three fundamental characteristics of existence: anicca (impermanence), dukkha (unsatisfactoriness), and anattā (not-self).
• Mae Chee Kaew and Resolutions
  41:40
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the profound teachings of Mae Chee Kaew, a fully awakened Thai forest nun, offering insights for New Year spiritual resolutions.

2014

• The Prognosis is Very Good
  51:42
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Four Noble Truths, examining dukkha, desire, and the path to liberation through understanding the nature of identity and the possibility of transcendence.
• Talk at the Re-opening of the Golden Buddha Centre in Totnes
  55:22
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's path from seeking happiness to understanding suffering, emphasizing the discovery of our innate awareness beyond identification with body and mind.
• Dependent Origination and the Quality of Right Awareness
  53:05
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores paṭicca samuppāda (dependent origination) and how Right Awareness can interrupt the chain of conditioning that leads to suffering.
• Introduction to Body Awareness and Vipassanā Practice
  51:40
  Bhante Bodhidhamma introduces the Mahasi Vipassanā tradition, exploring the Buddha's journey to awakening and the foundations of Right Awareness practice.
• Reiki Practice Session - Energy Cultivation and Healing
  48:03
  A guided Reiki practice session led by Bhante Bodhidhamma, combining energy cultivation exercises with compassionate healing techniques.
• Comments on a Statement by Mae Chee Kaew
  45:05
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores Mae Chee Kaew's profound statement on liberation, examining the Four Noble Truths and the path to ending dukkha through right awareness.
• Kamma and Free Will
  51:09
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's unique approach to ethics and spiritual development, contrasting it with Western traditions while examining the ten pāramīs as practical virtues for daily l...
• No Inherent Being
  51:26
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddhist teaching of not-self (anattā) and interconnectedness, examining how our sense of individual identity creates suffering and how vipassanā practice reveals ou...
• Refinement, Sublimation and the Eightfold Path
  49:31
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how ethical refinement and behavioral sublimation manifest wisdom, connecting meditation insights to daily life through the Buddha's teachings on requisites and conduct.
• Daily Life Reinforced: Bringing the Pāramīs into Practice
  51:11
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how to integrate Buddhist practice into daily life through the ten pāramīs (perfections) and practical commitment to mindfulness.
• Kamma Revisited
  43:47
  Bhante Bodhidhamma clarifies common misconceptions about kamma, exploring the Buddha's teaching on the five niyāma (natural laws) and how personal ethical choices differ from other causes of experi...
• Basics for Meditation
  51:40
  Bhante Bodhidhamma introduces meditation fundamentals, exploring the Buddha's path from ascetic practices to awakening and the Mahasi Vipassanā technique.
• Q&A: Detachment, Engagement, Motivation, Devotion
  1:04:22
  Bhante Bodhidhamma addresses questions about balancing vipassanā practice with emotional engagement, avoiding unskillful detachment, and finding motivation when attachment dissolves.
• Control and Loss of Power
  51:43
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's journey from seeking happiness through control to discovering liberation through letting go of the desire for power.

2013

• How I Came to Establish a Non-Community
  25:00
  Bhante Bodhidhamma shares the humorous story of his failed attempts at building Buddhist communities and how he ended up with Satipaññā - a small meditation center in Wales.
• An Attempt to Understand the Teaching of Not-Self
  49:56
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on anattā (not-self), examining how meditation reveals the absence of an eternal, unchanging soul through direct experience.
• How to Critique the Dhamma and Buddha
  42:21
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on avoiding blind faith through the famous Kālāma Sutta, emphasizing direct experience over tradition, logic, or authority.
• Right Relationship
  42:39
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the ten pāramīs (perfections) as expressions of wisdom in our relationships, emphasizing how generosity, renunciation, and patient forbearance transform our connections ...
• Christmas Talk on the Path: Goodwill, Ethics, and Liberation
  47:03
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how Christmas goodwill connects to mettā, karma, and the ethical dimension of the Noble Eightfold Path.
• Importance of Resolution
  45:47
  Exploring Buddhist psychology and the power of resolution (adhiṭṭhāna) for spiritual progress, examining the five aggregates and the path to liberation.

2012

• Retreats, Attachment, Children and Suffering
  28:13
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores retreat practice, the nature of attachment in relationships, and how psychological suffering is self-generated.
• Monks, Daily Life & Not-Self
  57:18
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores monastic life, mindful daily practice, and the Buddha's teaching on not-self (anattā), addressing the methodology behind this challenging concept.
• Mindfulness: Time
  1:03:33
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how Right Awareness cuts between original suffering and our reactive responses, revealing the path to liberation from dukkha.
• Q&A Session: Family Distractions, Selfish to Meditate, Negative Emotions, Suffering on Identification
  38:11
  Bhante Bodhidhamma addresses common meditation questions: practicing with family responsibilities, whether meditation is selfish, handling overwhelming emotions, and understanding identification ve...
• The Body and the Discourse on How to Establish Right Awareness
  50:14
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on body contemplation within the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, examining how mindfulness of the body leads to liberation from dukkha.
• Happiness
  1:00:39
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's understanding of true happiness, distinguishing between temporary pleasures and lasting well-being.

Gaia House Retreat 2011

• Guided Bodycare
  29:40
  A guided meditation developing mettā and care for the body, transforming unhealthy attachment into wise appreciation through Buddhist contemplations.
• Guided Mettā
  28:26
  A comprehensive guided meditation developing mettā (loving-kindness) through traditional phases, forgiveness practice, and the Karaṇīyamettā Sutta chanting.
• Living Life according to the Dhamma
  58:50
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how to apply Buddhist teachings to daily life, covering the Noble Eightfold Path, five precepts, and the ceremony of taking refuge and precepts.
• The Law of Kamma
  41:48
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on kamma as action and intention, distinguishing between outer results and the inner ethical dimension that creates our experience of suffering.
• The Ethical Psychology of the Buddha (Paṭicca Samuppāda)
  43:39
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the twelve links of paṭicca samuppāda (dependent origination) as a profound psychology of how suffering arises and how liberation is possible.
• The Seven Factors of Awakening (Bojjhaṅga)
  38:46
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the seven factors of awakening (bojjhaṅga) - awareness, investigation, effort, joy, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity - as the foundation for vipassanā practice.
• Right Awareness: Introduction to Vipassanā
  28:34
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores sammā sati (Right Awareness) through the Buddha's journey from existential crisis to Awakening, laying foundations for vipassanā practice.
• The Hindrances: The Psychotherapy of Vipassanā
  53:54
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the five hindrances (nīvaraṇa) that obstruct meditation and liberation, offering practical guidance for working with desire, aversion, dullness, restlessness, and doubt.
• Basics of Insight Meditation 04
  27:38
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores vipassanā meditation as seeing things as they really are, discussing the Buddha's discovery of non-conceptual awareness and the three characteristics of existence.
• Basics of Insight Meditation 02
  34:20
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's journey to awakening and introduces the fundamentals of vipassanā meditation practice.
• The Mahasi Technique
  48:59
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explains the specific noting technique developed by Mahasi Sayadaw for developing Right Awareness in vipassanā meditation.
• Investigative Eating Meditation — An Explanation
  16:37
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores using eating as meditation practice to distinguish enjoying from indulging and develop freedom from unwholesome desires.
• A Detailed Guided Meditation
  45:00
  Comprehensive instruction in Mahāsī Sayadaw's vipassanā bhāvanā method, from posture and breath awareness to insight into the three characteristics.
• Starting a Retreat
  55:18
  Bhante Bodhidhamma guides practitioners through the opening meditation of a retreat, establishing the foundation for insight practice.
• Starting a Retreat
  1:27:48
  Bhante Bodhidhamma opens a Vipassanā retreat with traditional refuges, precepts, and guided meditations to establish mindful awareness and loving-kindness.

2011

• The Body as Meditative Object
  36:32
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how the body serves as a crucial foundation for insight meditation, drawing from the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta to examine physical and mental dukkha.
• The Problem of Identity
  39:05
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how identity creates suffering through the five aggregates and how meditation reveals the observer-self, pointing toward nibbāna.
• Opening of Dhamma Centre in Ghent: Community, Practice, and Daily Life Integration
  41:23
  Bhante Bodhidhamma celebrates the opening of a meditation centre in Ghent, exploring the vital role of saṅgha (community) in spiritual practice and how to integrate Dhamma into daily life.
• Hope to Inspire: The Seven Factors of Awakening in Daily Practice
  43:19
  Bhante Bodhidhamma opens the retreat season with an inspiring exploration of the seven factors of awakening and their integration into daily life meditation practice.
• New Year Revision of Buddhadhamma Theory and Practice
  56:08
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how we create our own suffering through the five khandhas and paṭicca samuppāda, offering practical guidance for liberation.

Gaia House Retreat 2011

• The Karma Concerning Liberation
  44:55
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on karma as the key to liberation, examining how we create our own suffering through wanting and not-wanting, and how purification leads to awakening.
• The Kamma of Liberation
  43:24
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's unique understanding of kamma, distinguishing between past conditioning and present creative action in our path to liberation.
• Importance of Mettā
  24:38
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explains how loving-kindness (mettā) prevents the equanimity of vipassanā practice from corrupting into indifference, maintaining heart connection.
• Questions and Answers: A Dolly Mixture
  48:35
  Bhante Bodhidhamma addresses diverse retreat questions, exploring pleasure and suffering, practical meditation advice, and Buddhist psychology with humor and wisdom.
• Subliminal Inclinations, Defilements and Hindrances
  55:00
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's threefold categorization of unwholesome mental conditioning and how Vipassanā meditation works therapeutically to purify the heart.
• Why We Need a Technique
  29:58
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the purpose and relationship between meditation techniques and spiritual objectives in vipassana practice.
• Why Noting Without Stop
  7:08
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explains why continuous noting is essential in Mahasi vipassanā practice, describing the stages of concentration and the relationship between discerning mind and direct experience.
• The Body and the Three Characteristics
  36:03
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's relationship with the body and how contemplating its impermanence, suffering, and not-self nature leads to liberation.
• Impulsive or Spontaneous
  47:02
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the difference between impulsive and spontaneous action, examining how the pāramīs (perfections) can transform our reactions into wise responses.
• Not-Self, Kamma, and Liberation
  50:53
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on kamma, dependent origination, and the practice of not-self as a path to liberation from suffering.
• The Principles and Problems of Vipassanā
  35:55
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the fundamental principles of vipassanā meditation, examining how identity and attachment create dukkha and how mindful observation can lead to liberation.
• Starting a Retreat
  4:43
  Bhante Bodhidhamma opens a retreat with the traditional ceremony of three refuges and precepts, explaining the training rules and establishing the foundation for intensive practice.

2009

• The Practice and Pitfalls of Mettā: Developing Universal Goodwill
  32:28
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores mettā (loving-kindness) practice, its relationship to vipassanā meditation, and how to develop universal goodwill while avoiding common pitfalls.
• Encouragement: The Principles of Meditation and Right Awareness
  41:43
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on Right Awareness (sammā sati) and the core principles of Vipassana meditation practice.
• Dukkha: Unsatisfactoriness and the Path to Liberation
  50:49
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the three levels of dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) and how understanding the five aggregates reveals our role in creating suffering.
• Revising the Principles of Vipassanā
  43:19
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the fundamental principles of vipassanā meditation, examining how mental conditioning creates dukkha and the path to liberation through mindful observation.
• Why Didn't the Buddha Return to Lay Life?
  57:39
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores why the Buddha remained in monastic life after Awakening and how lay practitioners can transform daily activities into spiritual practice through mindfulness.
• Q & A: Rebirth, Identification, Emotions, and Daily Practice
  38:50
  Bhante Bodhidhamma addresses questions on rebirth as a moment-to-moment process, the mechanics of identification and suffering, and maintaining awareness in daily life.
• There Is No Separation Between Vipassanā and Ordinary Daily Life
  53:40
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how the Buddha's Four Noble Truths unite meditation practice with daily living, showing that spiritual practice encompasses every moment from morning to night.
• The Sufferings of the Pleasure Syndrome
  49:32
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the first hindrance - sensual desire - revealing how our pursuit of happiness through pleasure creates suffering and addiction.
• The Mahāsī Method
  48:21
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the foundational techniques of Mahāsī Sayādaw's vipassanā method: noting, slow movement, and catching intentions before they become actions.
• Equanimity — Foundation of All Virtue
  48:04
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores equanimity as the foundation beneath all Buddhist virtues, examining both its intellectual and emotional dimensions in meditation and daily life.
• Mettā, Applied and Sustained Thought, Buddha Mind
  45:38
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how the brahmavihāras integrate with vipassanā practice, discusses vitakka and vicāra in jhāna states, and explains the meaning of Satipañña.
• Daily Rhythms; Fetters, Hindrances and Inclinations; Rebirth
  1:02:00
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores natural energy rhythms in meditation, the Buddha's categories of mental hindrances and spiritual fetters, and rebirth from both traditional and contemporary perspectives.
• Buddha Day Address with Refuges and Precepts
  34:41
  A contemplative Buddha Day teaching on the Buddha's awakening journey, followed by the traditional ceremony of taking the Three Refuges and Five Precepts.
• Vipassanā and/or Therapy
  50:37
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's psychological model for understanding suffering and liberation, contrasting it with modern therapeutic approaches.
• Samatha-Vipassanā
  51:55
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the two fundamental types of Buddhist meditation - samatha (concentration) and vipassanā (insight) - through the Buddha's own spiritual journey.
• Practice in Ordinary Daily Life
  1:09:15
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how the heart heals itself through understanding the Buddha's psychology, revealing how our emotional suffering is self-created and can be undone through insight practice.
• Dignity and the Qualities of a Ruler
  48:56
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores dignity as inner strength rooted in spiritual practice, drawing from ten royal qualities found in the Jātaka tales.

2008

• Towards a Whole Life Practice
  47:56
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how vipassanā insight transforms into positive qualities like mettā, compassion, and generosity, creating a complete spiritual path.
• There Is No Reason for Being!
  54:08
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores a child's profound insight about existence, examining the difference between 'being' and 'becoming' through Buddhist teachings on anattā and spontaneous awakening.
• The Problem Lies in the Looking
  43:27
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how suffering arises from our fundamental delusion in perception and understanding, addressing the first aspect of the Noble Eightfold Path.
• The Buddha's Quest — A Public Talk
  25:06
  Bhante Bodhidhamma traces the archetypal spiritual journey through the Buddha's life story, from his renunciation to his awakening under the Bodhi tree.
• Revising the Principles of Vipassanā
  43:18
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores core vipassanā principles, examining how we create dukkha through mental conditioning and how meditation helps us find liberation through objective awareness.
• Faith and the Spiritual Life
  59:29
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the nature of faith (saddhā) in Buddhist practice, distinguishing it from belief and examining how confidence grows through the spiritual path.
• Saṃvega and Other Questions
  54:34
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores saṃvega (spiritual enthusiasm) and pasāda (confidence), examining how they fuel the path from initial interest to liberation.
• Kamma, Paṭicca Samuppāda, Virtue and Liberation
  43:05
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's three-fold framework of gratification, danger, and escape as the foundation for understanding liberation from suffering.
• Mettā: Developing Goodwill
  56:41
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores mettā (loving-kindness) practice, examining how we condition ourselves, the role of intention, and developing goodwill as our default relationship with all beings.
• Samatha and Vipassanā
  51:52
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's personal journey through samatha (concentration) and vipassanā (insight) meditation, explaining how these two approaches work together.
• How Vipassanā Relates to Daily Life
  57:40
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores integrating vipassanā meditation with daily life, showing how the three characteristics and mindfulness transform ordinary activities into spiritual practice.

Christmas & New Year 2006/7

• New Year Reflections
  31:45
  Bhante Bodhidhamma offers four spiritual undertakings for New Year reflection: sufficiency, surrender, celibacy, and service as practical guidelines for spiritual life.
• Practice into Daily Life (Christmas 2006)
  48:40
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores bringing meditation insights into everyday life through the Noble Eightfold Path, connecting formal practice with daily awareness.

Christmas at Sharpham 2005

• The Hindrances
  31:04
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the five hindrances and the transformative process of vipassanā meditation, explaining how negative mental states naturally transform into their positive opposites.
• Revising the Principles of Meditation
  32:00
  Bhante Bodhidhamma revisits core meditation principles, exploring the Buddha's path from jhāna practice to the rediscovery of pure awareness, and practical guidance for working with hindrances.
• Question & Answer Session
  51:31
  Bhante Bodhidhamma addresses questions on creativity, engaged Buddhism, meditation practice, and the relationship between Buddhist and Christian contemplative traditions.
• Exploring Dukkha
  43:16
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on dukkha as life's fundamental unsatisfactoriness and the path to its cessation through insight meditation.
• Developing the Factors of Awakening
  46:56
  Bhante Bodhidhamma guides development of the seven bojjhaṅgas through practical meditation, explaining how awareness, investigation, and equanimity lead to insight.

On Practice

• The Perfections Turned Inward
  47:23
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the pāramī (perfections) as qualities we can develop toward ourselves during retreat practice, transforming spiritual development into an act of loving-kindness.
• The Illimitables
  42:00
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the four brahmavihāras - mettā, karuṇā, muditā, and upekkhā - as limitless heart practices that complement vipassanā meditation.
• Forgiveness
  1:02:08
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the psychology of forgiveness through the Buddha's teaching on paṭicca-samuppāda, showing how we create our own suffering.
• Fear
  38:17
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how to work skillfully with fear in meditation and daily life, teaching practitioners to sit with difficult emotions rather than react to them.
• Vedanā: Feeling
  44:00
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores vedanā (feeling) in Buddhist psychology, distinguishing physical sensations from mental reactions and showing how proper understanding supports both healing and awakening.
• The Ten Fetters
  23:01
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the ten saṃyojana (fetters) that bind us to saṃsāra and how they fall away through the four stages of Awakening.
• Eroticism, Romance, Love, Distraction and Boredom
  47:07
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the erotic, romantic love, and attachment as forms of deliciousness that can both bring joy and serve as escape from underlying suffering.
• Dullness, Lethargy, Restlessness and Pain
  58:28
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores working skillfully with four common meditation hindrances: dullness/lethargy, restlessness, and physical/emotional pain.
• The Buddha and the Hindrances
  47:30
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's awakening journey and practical guidance for working with the five hindrances in meditation practice.
• The Hindrances
  30:20
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the five mental hindrances (nīvaraṇa) that obstruct meditation practice and how to skillfully work with these conditioned patterns.
• Spiritual Faculties and Factors of Awakening
  46:02
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the five spiritual faculties (indriya) and seven factors of awakening (bojjhaṅga), emphasizing how faith (saddhā) and right awareness naturally balance these qualities.
• Developing the Spiritual Faculties
  45:46
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the five spiritual faculties (indriya) and seven factors of awakening, showing how Right Awareness naturally balances these inner qualities for insight development.
• Is Awareness Enough?
  54:01
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the role of Right Awareness (sammā sati) in awakening, examining what else beyond mere awareness is needed for liberation.
• Ritual in Spiritual Practice
  38:25
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the role of ritual and ceremony in Buddhist practice, from the Buddha's own minimal approach to modern devotional practices.
• Faith
  48:50
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores faith (saddhā) as a spiritual faculty, distinguishing it from mere belief and examining its cognitive, emotional, and volitional aspects.
• Starting a Personal Retreat
  43:11
  Essential guidance for beginning intensive meditation practice, exploring the three qualities of meditative awareness and how to work skillfully with hindrances.
• The Mahāsī Method
  22:50
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explains the theory behind Mahāsī Sayādaw's vipassanā method, covering noting technique and continuous awareness practice.
• Why Meditate?
  39:55
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the fundamental question of why we meditate, examining the Buddha's journey from jhāna practice to vipassanā insight.

Reflections

• The Gratification, the Danger and the Escape
  43:05
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's framework of gratification, danger, and escape - understanding how we seek pleasure, recognizing its inherent dangers, and finding the path to liberation.
• Just War
  43:24
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores Buddhist perspectives on pacifism versus just war, examining how inner meditation practice informs responses to violence and conflict.
• Buddhist View of Christ's Teaching
  29:40
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores Christianity through Buddhist eyes, examining Jesus's teachings on detachment, love, and mystical union with deep personal insight.
• The Buddha as Exemplar and Archetype
  50:27
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's life journey as a template for our own spiritual development, from initial resolution to final Awakening.
• Premodern, Modern, Postmodernism and Buddhism
  1:22:50
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how different historical mindsets - premodern, modern, and postmodern - relate to Buddhist spiritual practice and the teacher-student relationship.
• Rebirth
  38:40
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores Buddhist rebirth teachings, addressing common questions about death, the six realms, and whether belief in rebirth is necessary for Awakening.
• Kamma
  37:34
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on kamma, distinguishing personal intention from external circumstances through the five universal laws.
• Free Will
  40:03
  Bhante Bodhidhamma examines the concept of free will through Buddhist eyes, exploring how this Western preoccupation misses the real question of ending suffering.
• Wheel of Dependent Origination
  38:59
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explains paṭicca samuppāda as a psychological paradigm for understanding how suffering arises and how liberation unfolds through meditation practice.
• Ethical Behaviour and the Awakening are One
  43:38
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the inseparable unity of paññā (insight) and sīla (ethical conduct) in the Buddha's path to liberation.
• Impermanence and Not-self
  42:32
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the profound teachings of anicca (impermanence) and anattā (not-self), examining how these universal characteristics free us from ego-attachment and fear.
• Survey of Theravāda Buddhism
  1:00:42
  Bhante Bodhidhamma presents the complete panoramic view of the Theravāda path to Awakening, based on the seven purifications from the Rathavinīta Sutta.

On the Buddha

• The Years of Teaching and Parinibbāna
  55:45
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's 45 years of teaching and his final passing, revealing his humanity, compassion, and practical wisdom through stories from the Pāli Canon.
• The Awakening
  1:00:41
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's awakening experience and its translation into the core teachings of impermanence (anicca), suffering (dukkha), and not-self (anattā).
• Bodhisatta's Training to the Awakening
  59:49
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's spiritual journey from the great renunciation through his training with teachers, ascetic practices, and final breakthrough to Awakening.
• Bodhisatta's Birth to Renunciation
  46:02
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's early life from birth to the Great Renunciation, emphasizing spiritual reading and the arising of world-weariness.
• Bodhisatta Before Taking Human Birth
  40:24
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha as archetype and exemplar, reflecting on the pre-birth stories and their meaning for our spiritual practice and relationship to time.

Daily Life

• Right Livelihood
  1:00:00
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores sammā ājīva (Right Livelihood) as the fifth factor of the Noble Eightfold Path, showing how our work can become a vehicle for spiritual awakening.
• The Eightfold Path and Daily Life
  35:03
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how the Noble Eightfold Path integrates meditation practice with everyday activities, offering practical guidance for maintaining awareness throughout daily life.
• Meditation and the Weekly Group
  53:15
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explains the structure and purpose of a weekly meditation group, covering ritual, the Eightfold Path, and finding the observer within.
• Meditation and Daily Life
  45:34
  Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how Vipassanā meditation naturally extends into daily life through the Noble Eightfold Path, transforming work into service and bringing mindful awareness to all activit...

Refuges and Precepts with Metta

• Refuges and Precepts with Mettā
  14:38
  A traditional ceremony of taking the Three Refuges and Five Precepts, followed by mettā bhāvanā (loving-kindness meditation) and the Karaṇīyamettā Sutta.

Dramatisations

• Aṅgulimāla: A Monologue
  54:49
  A dramatic first-person retelling of the transformation of Aṅgulimāla, from serial killer to awakened monk, exploring themes of karma, redemption, and liberation.