Anukampa Podcast

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Anagarika Upacālā leads a discussion on SN 14.15, which focuses on how people with similar characteristics naturally draw together. [ 0:00 ] Intro and sutta reading [ 5:55 ] Devadatta [ 13:38 ] Wisdom as compassion [ 18:01 ] How we make friends [ 23:18 ] Finding transformation [ 30:22 ] Reflecting the people around us [ 34:18 ] A gift of safety [ 48:18 ] Unwholesomeness in close relationships [ 52...

Guided meditation on Metta towards ourselves by Ven Canda

Continuing from the sutta discussion two weeks prior, Ven Candā leads a session on the topic of guarding the senses inspired by SN 35.240, the simile of a tortoise who wisely keeps its six limbs protected in its shell when a jackal comes to prey on it. [ 0:00 ] Review of the simile of six animals (35.247) [ 5:15 ] Sutta reading and interpretation (five hindrances) [ 25:01 ] Sense restraint, gentle...

Ven Candā leads a session focused on the Metta Sutta (Snp 1.8), including a sutta reading and reflection on the meaning of the sutta, followed by a discussion on various aspects of loving kindness, with questions and comments about how the participants draw on loving kindness in their own practice. [ 0:00 ] Introduction and sutta reading [ 9:14 ] Interpretation of the sutta [ 25:05 ] Group discuss...

A guided meditation on Metta and Endings by Ven Canda

Ven Candā leads a discussion on the six senses and the sense restraint based on the sutta SN 35.247, in which the Buddha gives a simile about six animals pulling in different directions and how establishing mindfulness of the body can help restrain the senses. After the 30-minute reading, she leads a 45-minute Q&A discussion. [ 0:00 ] The six sense bases and sense restraint [ 9:00 ] Sutta read...

Bhante Sujato starts with a 20-minute discussion on skillful attitudes to approach mindfulness of breathing, followed by a 20-minute meditation. In the second part, he gives a 45-minute talk on the importance of finding meaning in the Buddha’s wisdom as the world fills with unskillful speech and behaviour. The session ends with 25 minutes of an audience Q&A, mostly focusing on right speech. [...

Bhante Sujato starts with a Q&A that focuses on mindfulness and meditation and understanding the difference between them, with audience comments followed by Bhante’s interpretations of these two important terms. He then leads a 25-minute guided meditation that expands off of the previous meditations to extend loving kindness to all beings. [ 0:00 ] Reflections on previous meditation [ 4:05 ] W...

Bhante Sujato begins with 20 minutes of Q&A in which participants reflect on the previous guided meditation. This is followed by an hour-long talk about the Noble Eightfold Path, with an analysis of the deeper meaning underlying the first five path factors. He ends with meditation instructions for practising loving-kindness towards a loved person, and a guided meditation. [ 0:00 ] Q&A on l...

In this session, Bhante Sujato gives a talk on the abundant nature of love in the world, and the process of getting in touch with and cultivating that love as a tool against the natural and inevitable chaos of our inner and outer surroundings. He describes the method he teaches for loving-kindness meditation and leads participants on a guided meditation focused on oneself. [ 0:00 ] Chaos [ 3:42 ]...

In this talk, Ven Candā leads a discussion on AN 5.200, regarding five ways to escape from suffering: the mind not launching out towards sensual pleasures, ill will, harming, form, and personal existence (i.e. holding a view of the existence of a self). [ 0:00 ] Sutta reading, discussion of terminology, and general reflection [ 20:39 ] Renouncing craving for food [ 26:46 ] What is meant by “attend...

Ven Candā leads a discussion around AN 4.117, on the topic of guarding the mind. The talk starts with a sutta reading and reflection, followed by an hour of comments and reflection with participants. [ 0:00 ] Intro and sutta reading [ 4:44 ] Heedfulness, mindfulness and guarding [ 14:11 ] Things that provoke lust and hatred [ 22:02 ] Lust, desire, and adoration [ 32:00 ] Changing the situation ver...

Guided meditation on Metta and Care by Ven Canda.

Ven Candā leads a group discussion on AN 4.161 and AN 4.162 about four modes of practice: painful with slow insight, painful with swift insight, pleasant with slow insight, and pleasant with swift insight, and how the Zoom participants’ practice experiences relate to these four. [ 0:00 ] Sutta reading 1 with reflections [ 10:10 ] Which mode of practice do you relate to? [ 27:20 ] Sutta reading 2 [...

Sutta discussion the topic "To Do &N ot To Do!" The Buddha's Advice to Mahapajapati Gotami (AN 8:53 )