Monks In Cyberspace

2025-04-25 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on tranquility and solidity. Dhamma talk on the noble eightfold path. Discussion of each factor and implications that aren't often drawn out. Additional reference: 10-fold path?

2025-04-18 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mood/attitude and reviewing before and after. Dhamma talk on spies, trust, and the Buddha's words on how to tell if someone is genuine, with reference to King Pasenadi's 35 spies listed in SN3.11 The Seven Matted-hair ascestics. Other reference: Kautilya - Arthashastra (Espionage) at Wisdomlib.

2025-04-11 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on a space that draws us in. Dhamma talk on Buddhism and its relation to culture/cultures. Discussion of the diversity of Buddhism, the notion of early Buddhism. References: Did it have to be THIS impermanent? Staying sane in a mad world. - event in Newcastle April 26

2025-04-04 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath as sacred. Dhamma talk on can a monastic punch a nazi in the face?. Discussion of ethics in hard times, vinaya rules, mind states during transgressions.

2025-03-28 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on becoming one with the giant consciousness again, talking about a clip from 'White Lotus' TV show. Links: White Lotus clip, new chanting book, Walt Whitman - Out of the rolling ocean, the crowd

2025-03-21 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the skeleton. Dhamma talk on the Buddha and the forest.

2025-03-14 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on being peaceful in the storm. Dhamma talk on may all beings be happy. Discussion on the importance of diversity and how to foster and support in society. Supporting women and LGBTQI+ folk. References: Queer as fact podcast, Mettā Sutta.

2025-03-07 Bhante Sujato. Meditation on anicca. Dhamma talk on AN7.66 The Seven Suns as a warning about the future. Discussion of the meanings of sankharā and its relationship to physics.

2025-03-02 Bhante Sujato. Not my tomorrow - reclaiming the future from the technofascists. A Buddhist critique of tech run amuck: AI, TESCREAL, and the lie that a bunch of nazis in Silicon Valley get to tell us what the future is.

2025-02-28 Bhante Sujato. Breath meditation. Dhamma talk on AN5.78 Future Perils (2nd), a text included in the list of most important suttas when the canon was first written down. Dicussion of Bhante's upcoming talk on Sunday "Not my tomorrow: reclaiming the future from the technofascists" on the set of beliefs held by many of the wealthy in Silicon Valley and now in the White House (the TESCREAL...

2025-02-21 Bhante Sujato. Breath meditation. Dhamma talk on the beginning of DN16 Mahāparinibbāna Sutta, and the Buddha's advice to King Ajātasattu as a response to the US election.

2025-02-14 Bhante Sujato. Breath meditation. Dhamma talk on DN5 Kūṭadanta Sutta in relation to the US election.

2025-02-07 Bhante Sanatavihari. Mettā meditation. Dhamma talk on keeping it moving.

2025-01-31 Bhante Sanathavihari. Mettā meditation. Dhamma talk on counselling and psychology, how to be a good counsellor. References: Dr Vanessa Sinclair - Rendering Unconscious, Bhante Punnaji - Buddha the Radical Shrink.

2025-01-24 Bhante Sanathavihari. Mettā meditation. Dhamma talk on caring for those without a protector. References: Sarah Shaw - The Art of Listening

2025-01-17 Bhante Sanathavihari. Mettā meditation. Dhamma talk on death and helping those who are grieving.

2025-01-10 Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on the mind in Buddhism. References: Some of Bhante Punnaji's works in translation, Padmasra De Silva - Introduction to Buddhist Psychology

2025-01-03 Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on inner mettā. Dhamma talk on practicing mettā in your life, not holding on to what others do to you. Expanding your mettā field.

2024-12-20 Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on metta. Dhamma talk on the four kinds of people, from darkness to light, from darkness to darkness, from light to light.

2024-12-13 Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on friendliness towards all beings. Dhamma talk on finding harmony between all the Buddhist traditions.

2024-12-06 Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on identity. he loosening of the self as something that happens from the beginning of the path, that we are quite different people as we age. Discussion of the the khandas, threatening-ness of identity, the definition of sati-sampojañña.

2024-11-29 Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on mettā. Dhamma talk on the mind moving. Discussion of 6th patriarch of Zen Hui Neng's decision to go forth, Ataloka Dhammas; the eight worldly vicissitudes.

2024-11-22 Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on mettā. Dhamma talk on what it means to go to refuge to the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha. What is a sammasambuddha? What does it mean to be awakened? The three knowledges: seeing past lives, the action of kamma, and destruction of the asavas. Reaching awakening while non-monastic. Q+A: How to talk about Buddhism to non-Buddhists, what is the taint of delusio...

2024-11-15 Ayya Karunika. Meditation on awareness of the body and breath. Dhamma talk on non-self, illness and getting angry.

2024-11-01 Giles Barton. Dhamma talk on suffering, keeping things inside, stories about Bodhinyana, mindfulness.