4 Divine Abodes to Conquer Anxiety and Enmity - New Year at Dhammagiri
When we're exposed to some threat or danger, an instinctual response is either fear or aggression. We can see the same pattern in animals in the "flight or fight reaction" to danger. As humanity has b...
4 Tammi 202235min
New Year Paritta Auspicious Protective Chanting Dhammagiri | Buddhist Pali Chanting
For New Year at Dhammagiri, Ajahn Dhammasiha and Ajahn Moneyyo chant Paritta.These auspicious, protective verses are 2,500 years old, reaching back to the Buddha himself, and are recited in Pali, the ...
3 Tammi 202223min
The Buddha and the Leper | SUTTA EXPLORATION Udana 5.3
Ajahn Dhammasiha presents and comments on a sutta in Udāna, one of the oldest and most authentic parts of the Pali Canon. A poor, despised sufferer of leprosy approaches a large crowd where the Buddh...
23 Joulu 202145min
How to Create Karma for Long Life, Health, Wealth & Wisdom | SUTTA EXPLORATION
Ajahn Dhammasiha presents the Buddha's "Shorter Exposition on Karma" from Majjhima Nikāya/Middle Length Discourses #135.In this sutta, the Buddha descibes actions and mental attitudes that lead to goo...
20 Joulu 202140min
Loving Kindness to All, Like a Mother to Her Child
The goodwill of a mother to her only child arises naturally, spontaneously, and without any effort. But to widen that same attitude to all beings without distinction takes a lot of work. That's where ...
16 Joulu 202127min
Contemplating Uncertainty ('Anicca') | Dhamma Talk by Ajahn Dhammasiha
As Queensland is finally opening borders for arrivals without quarantine, there is a sense of uncertainty about future levels of infections and changing regulations. Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to...
14 Joulu 202138min
Death Contemplation |Dhamma Talk by Ajahn Dhammasiha
The typical response to death in our society is denial. But however much we deny it, that will not change the basic reality of our own mortality. The Buddha instead advises us to directly confront thi...
9 Joulu 202130min
Loving Kindness, Even to Canetoads & Snakes | Ajahn Dhammasiha
With a bunch of kids of various ages joining the session, Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about the 'Metta Sutta', one of the Buddha's best known teachings on Loving Kindness.Whether cute like koalas or ugly l...
2 Joulu 202136min
