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2025-11-07 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on peace and the breath, being truly mindful. Dhamma talk on more questions from attendees: Bhante Sudhasso asks about the translation of 'sankhara', talent's relationship to kamma, the meaning of delusion with concrete examples, mettā meditation for the disliked.

2025-10-31 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on observing the peace inside the breath. Dhamma talk on questions from attendees: Kaya in the context of jhana: sukhuma rupa (subtle body) and olarika rupa (course body), time as fractal, feeling of floating in the air while meditating.

2025-10-24 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on what the breath feels like. Dhamma talk on moving house. Sutta mentioned: Attadaṇḍa Sutta

2025-10-17 Venerable Pasanna. Meditation on the breath and kindness towards the body. Dhamma talk on the three unskillful roots (greed, hate and delusion) as presented in AN3.69 Akusalamūla Sutta with a focus on delusion and how delusion operates.

2025-10-10 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on contentment, energy and the breath. Dhamma talk on the practical implications of Dependent Origination continued. Part eleven (last) of rains series talks on Dependent Origination. The relationship of happiness and joy to dependent origination, exploration of the sequence truly knowing and seeing, dispassion, freedom and knowledge in SN12.23 Upanisasutta.

2025-10-03 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the whirplool of desire and peace. Dhamma talk on the practical implications of Dependent Origination. Part ten of rains series talks on Dependent Origination. Cessation of ignorance as right practice in SN12.3 Paṭipadāsutta. The end of five types of fear and enmity in this and future lives, stream entry as investigating and understanding DO in SN12.41 Fears...

2025-09-26 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on wrong interpretations of Dependent Origination: Only a response/rehashing of Vedic ideas, that it evolved from shorter to longer form and 'one-life' Dependent Origination. Part nine of rains series talks on Dependent Origination. Discussion of Vasubandhu's defense of three-life D.O. in Abhidharmakośabhāṣya. Talk's focus on refutal...

2025-09-19 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mindfulness and contentment in the present. Dhamma talk on Nagarjuna's work Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Part eight of rains series on Dependent Origination. References: Mūlamadhyamakakārikā in Sanskrit (GRETIL).

2025-09-12 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on not underestimating our own potential to be free. Dhamma talk on Dependent Origination part seven of rains series. Discussion of "the oldest cosmology" of "all exists" and its Vedic origins. References: SN12.48 Lokāyatikasutta, SN12.15 Kaccānagotta Sutta, Rig Veda 10.129.1 as translated by Jamison and Brereton

2025-09-05 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on minfunless of the breath. Dhamma talk on the meeaning of "is suffering made by oneself or another?" in Dependent Origination, part six of rains series. References: SN12.17 With Kassapa the naked ascetic, Jataka 126.

2025-08-29 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mindfulness of breathing. Dhamma talk on Dependent Origination part five of rains series. Discussion of the line 'the body as produced by [old] choices and intentions as something to be felt' in SN12.37 Na tumhā sutta / Not yours - straight from sankharas to feeling. Discussion of the meaning of underlying tendencies / anusayā in SN12.38 Cetana sutta.

2025-08-22 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on Dependent Origination part four of rains series, the grammar of DO's terms. How each factor relates to the previous. References: SN12.37 (is a requirement/paccayā formulation), SN12.49 (when ignorance exists/sati formulation).

2025-08-15 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on Dependent Origination in SN12.2 which is presented in reverse order, starting with old age and death, rebirth, then bhava/continued existence - part 3 of rains 2025 talks on Dependent Origination. Discussion of the wording used in DO, inluding etymology. The traditional way of dividing DO into three parts (kilesavata, kammavata, an...

2025-08-08 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on is Dependent Origination in other religions? (part two of rains series of talks on Dependent Origination). Discussion of four early religious texts and their similarities to DO. References: Stela 797 Egyptian text in Joseph Campbell - The Masks of God Volume 2 - Oriental Mythology, p.74, Genesis Chapter 1 and chapter 2, Rig Veda 10...

2025-08-01 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on conscious rest. Dhamma talk on dependent origination (part one of rains series of talks).

2025-07-25 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on stopping. Dhamma talk on the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (SN 56.11). Discussion of how the Buddha frames the discourse from the perspective of the group of five mendicants he had practiced with, something present often in the suttas. The correspondence of the 3 rounds and 12 aspects to the stages of enlightenment.

2025-07-18 Venerable Pasanna. Meditation on the earth and water elements. Dhamma talk on the five subjects for frequent recollection (I am liable to grow old, get sick, die, be separated from all I hold dear, and am the owner of my deeds), with readings from AN 5.57 Subjects for Regular Reviewing. Final discussion of how these fit into the noble eigthfold path and meditation.

2025-07-04 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath, many great benefits of meditation. Dhamma talk on the beginning of the khandakas, the period before the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, including Brahma urging the Buddha to teach.

2025-06-20 Bhante Sujato. Meditation by Venerable Pasanna. Dhamma talk on Bhante Sujato's recent visit to Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

2025-06-06 Giles Barton. Meditation on silent present-moment awareness. Dhamma talk on the four brahmavihāras, contentment and gratitude among other subjects.

2025-05-30 Giles Barton. Meditation on the breath and body sweep. Dhamma talk on subjects such as intention, Aṅgulimāla, the eight worldly winds, Giles's practice as a clinical psychologist.

2025-05-23 Giles Barton. Meditation on sensations. Dhamma talk on practicing in lay life. Discussion of trauma and conditionality, meditation in lay life.

2025-05-16 Giles Barton. Meditation on letting go. Dhamma talk on awareness and the ego, humility.

2025-05-09 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on avoiding matching your experience onto something which is an idea/doctrinal category. Dhamma talk on the various doctrines of the six other ascetics visited by King Ajātasattu in the Sāmaññaphala Sutta (DN2).

2025-05-02 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the river of pleasure versus little rivulets of dukkha. Dhamma talk on the origin of government as in the Agañña Sutta DN27.