Going Beyond the 4 Elements: Contemplating Water, Wind, Fire, Earth | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhatu
When we contemplate the 4 elements of earth, water, fire and wind, we need conviction that there exists an escape beyond these elements. Without that confidence, a complete materialist would feel very...
14 Mar 202531min
Water, Wind, Earth & Fire: Freeing the Mind from the 4 Elements | Ajahn Dhammasiha
With Cyclone Alfred and heavy flooding just having passed over Brisbane, Ajahn Dhammasiha offers reflections on the 4 elements (Cātu Mahābhūta/Dhātu).As the cyclone showed, these 4 material elements o...
10 Mar 202531min
Equanimity | Upekkha | Buddhist Dhamma Talk by Ajahn Dhammasiha
Equanimity, in Pali 'Upekkhā', means letting go of likes and dislikes. Neither aversion nor attraction. The mind is even, balanced, neither attached nor repulsed by whatever sense impressions impinge ...
10 Mar 202533min
Why am I not Happy? - I can't Find my Way! | Dhamma Talk | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhism
Towards the end of the session, Ajahn Dhammasiha is passed a note with several existential questions:How could I find meaning in life?Why am I not happy?How can I find inner peace?I can't find my way!...
3 Mar 202515min
Observing, Knowing, Cultivating Awareness | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhist Dhamma Talk
Our culture encourages activity, going out and doing something. We're constantly busy managing our lives, trying to control our environment, trying to influence the behaviour of other persons. In this...
28 Feb 202540min
Q&A: Purpose of Life? Tree Spirits? Path to Wisdom? | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhist Dhamma Talk
Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a variety of questions from a student of University of Queensland, and from other members of the audience.Dhammagiri Website...
24 Feb 202547min
AJAHN MONEYYO | The Buddha, the Unsurpassable Teacher | Who Was the Buddha?
The Buddha didn't realize awakening only for himself and was perfect in knowledge and conduct and developed supreme purity, compassion, wisdom and liberation but also had immeasurable compassion and a...
21 Feb 202556min
Magha Puja - The Buddha teaches Ovadapatimokkha to 1,250 Arahants | Ajahn Dhammasiha
The occasion of Māgha Pūjā commemorates the sponteneous gathering of 1,250 awakened disciples of the Buddha (Arahants) in the Veḷuvana Monastery (Bamboo Grove Monstery) in Rājagaha, and the teaching o...
17 Feb 202549min
