🎬 YouTube Talks
Dharma talks and teachings from the Satipanya Insight YouTube channel — short to medium-length talks on Buddhist philosophy, meditation practice, the Dhammapada, Satipaṭṭhāna, and daily life.
YouTube Talks
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15:13Bhante Bodhidhamma explores thīnamiddha, the hindrance of dullness and lethargy, offering practical advice from the Buddha and personal insights.
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16:51Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how identity and the three conceits fuel social polarisation, offering Buddhist perspectives on overcoming division through understanding not-self.
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21:48Bhante Bodhidhamma explores sympathetic joy (muditā) as one of the four brahmavihāras, offering practical guidance for cultivating joy in daily life and meditation.
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27:38Bhante Bodhidhamma returns to fundamentals: the Buddha's discovery of non-conceptual awareness and how vipassanā reveals impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self.
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40:38Bhante Bodhidhamma guides practitioners through the Buddha's five daily contemplations on aging, sickness, death, separation, and karma to cultivate Right Awareness and reduce attachment.
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19:48Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teachings on skillful conversation and dialogue from the Aṅguttara Nikāya, offering timely wisdom for our polarized age.
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19:23Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the subtle differences between hope, aspiration, and expectation in Buddhist practice, examining how proper understanding supports liberation.
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16:41Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's victory over Māra, the deluded self or 'housebuilder,' through powerful metaphors and practical Vipassanā techniques.
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16:12Bhante Bodhidhamma explores a profound discourse where the Buddha reveals the true nature of nibbāna through a monk's cosmic journey seeking answers.
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15:01Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's transcendent discovery through his victory verse and the Udāna passages on the unconditioned dimension of Nibbāna.
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23:12Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's exceptional teaching skills through the Cūḷamāluṅkyāputta Sutta, showing how he redirected speculative thinking toward practical wisdom.
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15:48Bhante Bodhidhamma explores renunciation as a gradual path of letting go, distinguishing it from self-mortification and showing how restraint of the senses leads to freedom.
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15:45Exploring fear and anxiety through Buddhist wisdom - understanding their roots in attachment and self, and how some fears can actually protect us.
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20:58Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the aṭṭha loka dhamma — the eight worldly conditions of gain/loss, fame/disrepute, praise/blame, pleasure/pain — and how to develop equanimity toward life's inevitable u...
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15:56Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddhist understanding of non-violence versus pacifism, examining practical ethics in times of conflict.
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15:02Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the foundational Buddhist concept of dukkha, examining its etymology, place in the Four Noble Truths, and three types of unsatisfactoriness.
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34:16Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's journey to awakening and the fundamentals of vipassanā practice, examining the three characteristics and five hindrances.
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15:28Bhante Bodhidhamma explores forgiveness as a fundamental attitude alongside gratitude, examining how to release emotional charges through asking for, giving, and receiving forgiveness.
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25:55Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the contemplation of kamma as intentional action, guiding practitioners through five reflections on moral responsibility and consequences.
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20:42Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's middle path between indulgence and self-mortification, examining how attachment to sensual pleasures creates suffering.
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22:29Bhante Bodhidhamma explores idappaccayatā - the fundamental Buddhist principle of conditioned arising that underlies all existence and experience.
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21:38Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the mahābhūta - earth, water, fire, and air - as meditation objects and tools for insight into not-self.
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29:02Bhante Bodhidhamma guides a meditation on the Buddha's 32 parts of the body practice, exploring our relationship with physical form and balancing contemplation with gratitude.
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24:43Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's potential path as a wheel-turning monarch and the ten qualities of righteous leadership.
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21:14Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the asubha contemplations - examining the unpleasant aspects of the body to develop healthy detachment and understanding.
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21:57The Buddha debates with Jain householder Upāli about which creates the most evil kamma: body, speech, or mind. A profound teaching on mental intention and awakening.
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23:49Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's second discourse to his five disciples, examining how the five khandhas reveal the illusion of self-control and permanent identity.
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36:34Multi-faith gathering at Satipānya's stupa blessing ceremony, featuring Dhamma talks on meditation and devotional practice from Buddhist monastics.
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26:23A sacred stupa blessing ceremony featuring traditional Pali chanting of the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta and Metta Sutta with community participation.
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15:36Traditional Buddhist ceremony with Pali chanting to bless the stupa at Satipanya, including the Ratana Sutta and Maṅgala Sutta recitations.
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56:55Historic opening ceremony of Satipaṭṭhāna Buddhist Retreat with blessing of shrine and stupa foundation, featuring traditional Pāli chanting and Dhamma talks.
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20:28Bhante Bodhidhamma explores three key Pali terms—taṇhā, chanda, and cetanā—showing how understanding desire and intention is essential for liberation.
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16:54Bhante Bodhidhamma explores passaddhi, tranquillity as one of the seven factors of awakening, examining its effects on body and mind in meditation and daily life.
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28:39Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Karaṇīyamettā Sutta, the Buddha's systematic teaching on cultivating mettā (loving-kindness) as a path to liberation.
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55:27Bhante Bodhidhamma guides a comprehensive opening meditation session, covering standing meditation, sitting posture, and breath awareness with the three characteristics.
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24:33Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's five regular contemplations on aging, illness, death, separation, and karma from the Aṅguttara Nikāya.
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18:28Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching to Ānanda that kalyāṇamittatā (spiritual friendship) constitutes the entire spiritual path, connecting this profound insight to the African philoso...
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28:35Exploring karuṇā through personal stories, examining obstacles to true compassion, and practicing the brahmavihāra of compassion for all beings.
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25:56Bhante Bodhidhamma explores upekkhā (equanimity) as the foundation that supports all other virtues, preventing them from falling into subtle errors.
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19:39Bhante Bodhidhamma explores patient forbearance (khanti), one of the ten perfections, examining how to cultivate patience with insults, adversity, others, inner reactivity, and spiritual progress.
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23:28Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how fear arises from the delusion of self and how developing courage in six key areas helps undermine this fundamental delusion on the path to awakening.
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26:35Bhante Bodhidhamma explores whether the Buddha believed in God, examining the difference between Western atheism and Buddhist non-theism through the Kevaddha Sutta.
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17:25Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the cultivation of joy in Buddhist practice, addressing the balance between appreciation and indulgence while developing muditā.
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20:37Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the profound teaching given to Bāhiya, where the Buddha distills his entire path into a few transformative words about pure awareness.
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11:49Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the famous discourse to Bāhiya, examining the Buddha's profound teaching on direct experience and liberation.
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10:45Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the four iddhipādā — aspiration, energy, devotion, and reflection — as essential qualities for both spiritual awakening and daily life success.
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17:49Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the difference between loving to be loved versus loving from the heart, drawing on Buddhist psychology and Eric Fromm's insights.
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25:10Bhante Bodhidhamma explores maranasati (mindfulness of death) as the Buddha's most powerful contemplation, leading to glimpses of Nibbāna and freedom from fear.
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21:51Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the challenging Buddhist teaching of anattā (not-self) through personal examples of role identification and emotional reactivity.
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15:22Bhante Bodhidhamma offers practical guidance for establishing a sustainable autumn meditation routine, covering sleep hygiene, morning practice, and cultivating affectionate awareness.
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14:25Bhante Bodhidhamma addresses our climate crisis through a Buddhist lens, exploring how to maintain spiritual equanimity amid environmental and social collapse.
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13:53Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how social conditioning shapes us versus personal karma, examining our responsibility for inherited cultural patterns.
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18:01Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the monastic rules around basic needs—shelter, food, clothing, medicine—to help overcome economic anxieties through simplicity.
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23:19Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's approach to war through historical accounts, distinguishing between pacifism as ideology and non-violence as attitude.
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19:37Bhante Bodhidhamma examines how mindfulness has been co-opted by neoliberal capitalism, contrasting genuine Buddhist practice with corporate stress reduction.
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16:08Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddhist understanding of non-violence as practical wisdom versus philosophical pacifism, examining how the Buddha's teachings apply to conflict.
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26:31Bhante Bodhidhamma explores Dhammapada verses 314-317 on wrong views, shame, and the six realms of existence, including vivid depictions of hell realms.
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17:26Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the subtle differences between sympathy, empathy and compassion, examining how we can skillfully respond to suffering without burnout.
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24:58Exploring Dhammapada verses 152-153 on seeing others' faults while missing our own, and how inner criticism affects spiritual practice.
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18:47Bhante Bodhidhamma explores three verses from the Dhammapada on ageing, impermanence, and the body's decay, reflecting on life's stages and preparing for death.
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17:40Bhante Bodhidhamma explores appamāda (vigilance/conscientiousness) from Dhammapada verses 22-24, examining how diligent spiritual practice leads to nibbāna.
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14:30Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the essential qualities that underpin genuine loving relationships, from care and kindness to gratitude and forgiveness.
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12:31Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the perfection of generosity (dāna), distinguishing ordinary giving from spiritual generosity rooted in gratitude and leading to renunciation.
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17:25Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on personal kamma versus natural laws, and the role of ethical conduct in liberation.
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15:13Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the twelve links of dependent origination, focusing on how desire (taṇhā) arises and the crucial moment of choice where we can break free from suffering.
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25:24Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the relationship between dukkha (unsatisfactoriness) and sīla (ethical conduct), examining the five precepts, hindrances, and defilements that create suffering.
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1:11:09Bhante Bodhidhamma discusses integrating Buddhist practice into daily life, covering karma, the Eightfold Path, relationships, and taking refuges and precepts.
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19:46Bhante Bodhidhamma explores Dhammapada verse 90, examining what defines an arahant through the four bonds (ganthas) that must be released for complete liberation.
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21:57Exploring the Buddha's teaching on saṃvara (restraint) through Dhammapada verses 360-362, examining how mindful restraint of the senses leads to inner joy and liberation.
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22:49Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the nine traditional qualities of the Buddha chanted in pūjā, revealing their deeper spiritual significance for practitioners.
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18:46Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's foundational teaching of the Four Noble Truths, examining dukkha as the cornerstone of all Buddhist understanding.
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18:59Bhante Bodhidhamma explores verse 46 of the Dhammapada on seeing the body's impermanence and insubstantiality like foam and mirage.
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17:57Bhante Bodhidhamma explores verses from the Dhammapada on righteous judgment, distinguishing between prejudicial thinking and wise discernment.
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16:08Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the famous Dhammapada verse teaching that hatred never ceases through hatred, but only through non-hatred—an eternal law.
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14:07Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the opening twin verses of the Dhammapada, revealing how mind precedes and governs all mental phenomena, shaping our karma through wholesome and unwholesome thoughts.
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17:20Bhante Bodhidhamma explores verses on the wavering mind and practical methods for training mental stability from the Buddha's teaching.
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18:25Bhante Bodhidhamma explores verses 21-23 of the Dhammapada on appamāda (diligence/heedfulness), examining how vigilance leads to the deathless while negligence leads to suffering.
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18:03Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the virtuous circle of gratitude, generosity, and renunciation as a path toward liberation in daily life.
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17:20Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's famous Victory Verses from the Dhammapada and the profound Kaimaka Sutta, revealing the difference between view of self and sense of self.
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20:04Bhante Bodhidhamma explores verses 188-192 of the Dhammapada on taking refuge and the crucial role of confidence (saddhā) in spiritual development.
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8:50Bhante Bodhidhamma explores saddhā (confidence/trust) as one of the five spiritual faculties, examining how it develops through hearing, contemplating, and practicing the Dhamma.
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1:20:38Bhante Bodhidhamma guides a bilingual meditation session beginning with the Three Refuges and Five Precepts, followed by standing and sitting vipassanā practice.
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18:03Bhante Bodhidhamma explores a virtuous circle of gratitude, generosity, and renunciation as daily practices leading toward liberation from attachment and suffering.
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1:21:31Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on misguided ascetic practices and the four types of kamma, showing how wrong views lead to unfortunate rebirths.
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30:13Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the seven purifications (visuddhi) from the Rathavinīta Sutta, mapping the progressive stages of insight meditation practice.
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23:43Bhante explores the seven stages of purification leading to final nibbāna, through the beautiful meeting of Sāriputta and Puṇṇa Mantāniputta.
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27:57Bhante Bodhidhamma concludes his series on the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta with the Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path sections.
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22:07Bhante Bodhidhamma continues through the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, exploring the fourth foundation: contemplation of mind objects including the five hindrances and aggregates.
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21:29Bhante Bodhidhamma continues his exposition of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, exploring the foundations of feelings and mind in mindfulness practice.
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19:46Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the four elements meditation and charnel ground contemplations from the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, showing how to deconstruct sensations and contemplate death.
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21:12Exploring body contemplation practices from the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, including the four postures, daily life awareness, and balanced understanding of the body.
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22:04Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teachings on establishing right relationship with the body, examining Kāyagatāsati practice and the path beyond attachment.
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22:37Bhante Bodhidhamma begins an in-depth exploration of the foundational Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, focusing on the Buddha's teachings on establishing Right Awareness through pure vipassanā practice.
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1:00:22A comprehensive guided meditation combining standing and sitting postures, exploring mindful awareness and vipassanā insight practice.
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19:52Bhante Bodhidhamma explores harmonious community living through the Buddha's teachings on concord, mutual appreciation, and mindful cooperation.
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19:10Continuation of the Caṅkī Sutta exploring how we personally discover truth through investigation rather than blind faith.
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21:33Bhante Bodhidhamma continues exploring the famous Kālāma Sutta (AN 3.65), examining the Buddha's radical teaching on independent inquiry and ethical living.
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18:57Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Caṅkī Sutta, examining how the Buddha challenged Brahmin claims to absolute truth and the dangers of coming to definitive conclusions without direct experience.
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19:11Bhante Bodhidhamma introduces the famous Kālāma Sutta, exploring how the Buddha taught discernment in evaluating spiritual teachings and information sources.
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1:12:17Bhante Bodhidhamma explores Reiki healing practices, their Buddhist connections, and practical energy exercises for self-healing and compassion.
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16:46Bhante Bodhidhamma explores Right Awareness (sammā sati) in vipassanā practice, using the image of a child's pure observation to understand our original intuitive awareness.
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22:02Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teachings on developing a skillful relationship with the body to overcome suffering and attachment.
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1:12:40Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddhist roots of Reiki, sharing Dr. Usui's connection to Tendai Buddhism and the Yamabushi mountain practitioners.
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44:55A guided practice combining body contemplations with mettā meditation to heal our relationship with the physical form and cultivate loving-kindness toward every cell.
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15:41Bhante Bodhidhamma explores mettā as an attitude of goodwill rather than mere emotion, covering how it manifests in speech, action, and generosity.
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59:07An exploration of Reiki healing techniques combined with Buddhist meditation practices, featuring breathing exercises, energy work, and the therapeutic power of the Bojjhaṅga Sutta.
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51:22A guided practice combining mettā (loving-kindness) meditation, forgiveness exercises, and developing determination for spiritual growth.
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25:23Bhante Bodhidhamma continues exploring the Saḷāyatana Vibhaṅga Sutta, examining how we experience pleasant, unpleasant and neutral contact through the six senses.
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21:59Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's psychology through the six sense bases, examining how consciousness creates our experience of selfhood.
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21:49Exploring the Buddha's seven principles for societal stability from the Mahāparinibbāna Sutta, examining their relevance to modern governance and democracy.
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32:56Bhante Bodhidhamma explores truth, interdependence, and sympathetic joy through community reflections, concluding his series on values and the pāramīs.
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26:39Bhante Bodhidhamma explores reflections on creating harmony through our relationship with nature, moderation, care, and personal responsibility.
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21:40Bhante Bodhidhamma explores Buddhist teachings on social harmony, drawing from the wheel-turning monarch stories to address modern societal challenges.
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26:46Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the ten fetters (saṃyojana) that bind us to suffering, from the Mahāmalunkya Sutta (MN 64).
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22:14Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the final method for overcoming mental taints through developing the seven enlightenment factors (bojjhaṅga).
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10:12Bhante Bodhidhamma continues exploring the Buddha's method of purifying the mind through careful attention to thoughts and mental states.
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11:04Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's method of abandoning mental taints through removing unwholesome thoughts, drawing from the Dvedhā Vitakka Sutta (MN 19).
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21:24Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on overcoming mental taints through patient endurance of life's inevitable difficulties and irritations.
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19:53Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the third method of abandoning the taints (āsavas) - through wise use of the four requisites: clothing, food, shelter, and medicine.
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22:55Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on abandoning mental taints through sense restraint, examining how mindful awareness of our sensory engagement leads to contentment.
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26:01Bhante Bodhidhamma addresses practical questions on anger versus assertiveness, compassion versus grief, death contemplation, and Buddhist psychological categories.
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23:40Bhante Bodhidhamma presents practical vipassanā techniques for investigating anattā through deconstruction, recognizing lack of control, and objectification of experience.
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20:42Exploring the Buddha's teaching on not-self through the cautionary tale of Bhikkhu Sati, who confused consciousness with eternal identity.
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21:46Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Sabbāsava Sutta (MN 2) on overcoming taints through right seeing, examining six wrong views of self and the path to stream entry.
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23:36Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's powerful metaphor about eating one's son in the desert, teaching mindful eating as spiritual practice to distinguish enjoyment from indulgence.
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24:41Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on the four nutriments from the Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta, examining how food, contact, volition, and consciousness sustain existence.
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18:28Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddhist understanding of grief, distinguishing between sorrow and attachment, and how to work skillfully with loss.
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22:33Bhante Bodhidhamma explores three aspects of the Noble Eightfold Path: sammā vācā, sammā kammanta, and sammā ājīva, showing how ethical conduct flows from right understanding.
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21:15Practical guidance on maintaining awareness during technical work, plus exploration of the first two factors of the Noble Eightfold Path.
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24:53Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's first teaching to his five companions, examining the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta and its profound significance.
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21:01Bhante Bodhidhamma explores renunciation as spiritual practice and shares the Buddha's first teaching mission from the Ariyapariyesanā Sutta.
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32:12Bhante Bodhidhamma returns to maraṇānussati (contemplation of death) with practical guidance from the Aṅguttara Nikāya and shares wisdom on living frugally during difficult times.
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21:49Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Buddha's teaching on maraṇasati (contemplation of death) as a path to mindful presence and awakening to impermanence.
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18:19Bhante Bodhidhamma explores how the pandemic offers an opportunity to practice maraṇānussati (contemplation of death), facing our deepest fears with Buddhist wisdom.
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59:04A complete evening meditation session with traditional Buddhist chants, evening contemplations on mortality, and loving-kindness (mettā) practice.
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23:02Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta, examining wholesome and unwholesome actions through Sāriputta's teaching on Right View and the ethical foundation of the path.
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32:56Bhante Bodhidhamma explores the first three of the Four Noble Truths, examining dukkha (unsatisfactoriness), its origins in taṇhā (craving), and the path to cessation.
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24:24Bhante Bodhidhamma launches evening meditation sessions during lockdown, offering guidance on establishing beneficial routines, contemplative practices, and community support during isolation.
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1:23:33Bhante Bodhidhamma shares his complete spiritual journey from Catholic seminary to Buddhist monk, exploring the experiences that led him to the Dharma.
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42:45Bhante Bodhidhamma introduces the fundamental principles of vipassanā meditation, exploring the three characteristics of existence and the five hindrances.