Meditating with Joy and Happiness | Guided Buddhist Meditation | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri
A crucial factor for progress and success in our meditation practice is learning to really enjoy meditating. Curiously, we often neglect that aspect, and instead rely only on will power and persistanc...
7 Syys 202232min
How to Resist Desire? - Q&A at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a question in the audience: "How can we resist Desire?" Is it enough to simply mindfully watch disire arising and passing away in our mind? And what if it does not p...
5 Syys 202248min
Morning Chanting and Buddhist Refuge & Precepts Ceremony Dhammagiri | Buddhist Pali Chanting
This time we have included the full morning chanting we're doing for our regular Saturday Triple Refuge and Precepts Ceremony. Audio is improved (though still far from perfect ;-) and we think it will...
23 Elo 202245min
I am NOT the Meditator - Anatta/Not Self | Talk on Buddhism by Ajahn Dhammasiha
One of the deepest delusions of all is the sense of 'Self' ('Attā'), 'I', 'me' and 'mine'. Whenever we identify with anything at all as I, me, mine or Self, it will inevitably lead to disappointment a...
22 Elo 202234min
Breath and Anatta / Not-Self | Guided Buddhist Meditation | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | Anapanasati Anatta-Sañña
In this guided meditation, Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to use the breath as anchor for our awareness, and then to apply 'Anatta-Saññā' / 'Perception of Not-Self' to all the various thoughts, images...
14 Elo 202237min
Peaceful, Untroubled and Unperturbed - Reflections on Verse 1054 from Parayanavagga 'Going Beyond' | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Inspired by Ajahn Moneyyo's recent recitation of the Pārāyanavagga' (Chapter on Going to the Further Shore in Suttanipāta), Ajahn Dhammasiha offers reflections on verse #1054, 'Puṇṇaka's Question'. In...
11 Elo 202226min
Parayana Vagga - The Way to the Beyond | Suttanipata #1038 ff | Ajahn Moneyyo | Buddhist Pali Chanting
Ajahn Moneyyo recites the Pārāyana Vagga in the Sutta Nipāta (Verses 1038 ff), one of the oldest parts of the Pali Canon. 16 Brahmin spiritual seekers visit the Buddha and ask him profound questions i...
9 Elo 202228min
Sharing Merits with All Beings - "Through the Goodness that Arises from my Practice..." | Dhammagiri Conclusion of Sunday Afternoon Session | Buddhist Pali Chanting
This is a good quality stereo recording of the Chanting we do at the end of our Sunday afternoon session. Called "Verses of Sharing and Aspiration", you can find it in the Amaravati Chaning Book on pa...
4 Elo 20223min
