Ajahn Dhiravamso from Bodhinyana Monastery talks about the law of kamma. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
On relationships: Buddhist principles and practiceAjahn Brahm applies Buddhist principles and practice to solving problems in relationships: with partners, friends, with yourself and with life itself.
You can't change life, but you can change your relationship to it. Not my problem or your problem, but our shared problem. Put beautiful qualities between you and the other: peace, kindness, respect. In between is where the action is in life. The filter of mistrust. What you see in the other, what you pay attention to, grows in them; wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Looking forward with happiness: the 'excommunication' tapeIntroduction by Dennis Sheppard, President, Buddhist Society of Western Australia (22 min).
Dennis gives a personal account of the circumstances of a formal meeting of Ajahn Brahm as Abbot of Bodhinyana monastery, accompanied by himself as President of the BSWA, with senior monks at Wat Pah Pong monastery in Thailand last Sunday 1st November 2009. The outcome was that Bodhinyana is no longer a branch monastery of Wat Pah Pong, as a direct result of Ajahn Brahm's recent ordination of four ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
On courageous decision-making: Bhikkhuni ordinationThis evening's extended and celebratory talk is introduced by Dennis Sheppard, President of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. He gives the background to the historic occasion this week of the full ordination of four Bhikkhunis (nuns) in the Theravadin Buddhist tradition, the first in Australia:
Venerable Ajahn Vayama
Venerable Nirodha
Venerable Seri and
Venerable Hasapanna.
Ajahn Brahm shows how this is a case study in how to make a courageous decision in Buddhism, and in li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
On courageous decision-making: Bhikkhuni ordinationThis evening's extended and celebratory talk is introduced by Dennis Sheppard, President of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. He gives the background to the historic occasion this week of the full ordination of four Bhikkhunis (nuns) in the Theravadin Buddhist tradition, the first in Australia:
Venerable Ajahn Vayama
Venerable Nirodha
Venerable Seri and
Venerable Hasapanna.
Ajahn Brahm shows how this is a case study in how to make a courageous decision in Buddhism, and in li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
On suffering, the big pictureAjahn Brahmali leads a half-hour guided meditation on quiet enjoyment and gratitude, on how to start it right.
The Dhamma talk this evening is on the nature of suffering, the First Noble Truth in Buddhism. Without quiet reflection, we will not see through the many intoxications of life to the inherent suffering within. They are always there, so you can't see them. As you practice you start to see the problem. This is the motivation to keep investigating a solution.
But the really bi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
On dana, generosityAjahn Brahm leads a half-hour guided meditation on opening the door to your heart. His talk is on the same theme - how dana, generosity, can teach us the beauty and meaning of life, in giving not to get, but to express the energy of love, kindness and compassion. This softness of the heart makes you invulnerable. Hardness of the heart makes you brittle and easily hurt.
Stories of the suicidal spider, the paper lotus, the blank cheque, the gift to a new-born daughter.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Looking At Our Wrong ViewGuest speaker Ven. Thubten Dondrub gives a talk on Wrong View.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
