Monks In Cyberspace

2023-06-23   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath as streaming you along with the flow of nature. Dhamma talk on the concept of Early Buddhism. Discussion of certain people and movements who referred back to the scriptures, and the ways traditions have brought the dhamma alive and sustained it as the world changes.

2023-06-16   Venerable Bon Hyon Sunim. Breath meditation on tension in the body. Dhamma talk on connecting with the body, being present to what's going on and bringing into harmony. Aspects of Venerable's studies of the role of the wholeness of embodiment in young peoples' practices as well as trauma. Meditation on direct experience of thoughts and memory in the body; the body's wisdom.

2023-06-09   Venerable Dhammagawesi. Dhamma talk on the five hindrances, distraction, the course of meditation, boredom, subjectivity, kindness to others, impermanence, causing one's own pain, importance of applying knowledge and mettā w/r Venerable Ānanda. Meditation on mutual forgiveness.

2023-06-02   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on letting go of the sense of ahaṅkāra (I-making). Dhamma talk on SN12.15 Kaccānagotta Sutta .

2023-05-26   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the hindrances of restlessness and sloth and addressing the hindrances by not attending to the past or future. Dhamma talk on each of the five hindrances - sensual desire, ill will, restlessness and remorse, sloth and torpor, doubt.

2023-05-19   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath and attachment to the breath, the breath as reflecting you in a mirror. Dhamma talk on the various Buddhist sects and how the various saṇgha groups were considered more of a single saṇgha historically. Discussion of who Moggaliputta Tissa was and the third council.

2023-05-12   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on FIRE. Dhamma talk on Nibbāna. Discussion of Anāsavādi Sutta (32 Similes of nibbāna) and Udāna 8.3, nibbāna as the end of greed, hate and delusion.

2023-05-05   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on abandoning conditions that lead towards suffering and simplicity. Dhamma talk during Vesak about the Buddha's enlightenment - the three knowledges (described as happening in a single night in the Mahasaccaka Sutta, with mention of the various accounts of the Bodhisatta's enlightenment - gradual aspects in the Dvedhāvitakka Sutta, Upakkilesa Sutta.

2023-04-28   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on for fear of death, pain and sleepiness. Dhamma talk on morality with reference to a Buddhist creation myth - DN27 Agaññasutta. Discussion of pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional morality (Kohlberg).

2023-04-21   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on recollection of the Buddha. Dhamma talk on the monk's life, with Q+A.

2023-04-14   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on course to subtle sensations and contentment. Dhamma talk on different questions from online, with focus on mourning, time, as well as memory.

2023-04-07   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on causes and the breath, course to subtle. Dhamma talk on Buddhism and God. The concept of God in Indian religions, God from a philosophical point of view - the relationship of impermanence and consciousness to ideas of God, engaging in interfaith dialogue.

2023-03-31   Bhante Sujato. Meditation: progressive body relaxation, letting the breath calm you down and fill you with joy and peace. Dhamma talk on Aritificial Intelligence. Discussion of the Open Letter to "Pause Giant AI Experiments" with its proposed moratorium on further development, and 'AI' more generally. Who is designing these models? What is the Buddhist idea of intelligence? How should...

2023-03-24   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on unwinding delusion by seeing what happens to drive the "bicycle of thought". Dhamma talk: The last dhamma talk in the world ever: Questions: What make life worth living even just for a few more hours? The Simile of the Mountain. The gradual training: sīla, samadhi and pañña. Nibbana, the idea of "objects" of the mind not in the suttas. What does 'mindfully...

2023-03-17   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mindfulness of the breath with focus on self-ing, the present and keeping grounded. Dhamma talk: What makes something you do good? Talk on metaethics.

2023-03-10   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mindfulness of the breath. Dhamma talk: DN18 Janavasabhasutta, with events mentioned in the Mahāparinibbana Sutta. Discussion of the sutta's events, and how the Buddha speaks about different things people may be looking for as well as the more common goals of the path repeated throughout the suttas.

2023-03-03   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on impermance (aniccā). Dhamma talk: The Mahāparinibbāna sutta part 2: The verses of Brahmā Sahampati, Sakka, Venerables Anuruddha and Ānanda with a discussion of impermanence.

2023-02-24   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mettā for oneself and a loved one. Dhamma talk: The Mahāparinibbāna sutta part 1: The Four Great References.

2023-02-17   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mettā for oneself and a loved one. Dhamma talk: Discrimination and bigotry from the standpoint of Buddhist philosophy and Buddhist psychology. The four biases: chanda (preference), dosa (hatred), moha (stupidity), bhaya (fear).

2023-02-10   Bhante Sujato. Breath meditation. Q+A: Q: Does "Knowledge and Vision" (Nyanadasana) mean stream entry? Q: Meaning of 'whole body' in Satipattana Sutta? Q: Meaning of "letting go", is it renouncing sensual pleasures? Q: Is regular sleepiness counted under "sloth and torpor"? Q: Kamma of lying in a specific situation? Q: Is there a type of meditation the Buddha taught w/r remembered tra...

2023-02-03   Bhante Sujato. Mettā meditation for oneself and a loved person. Dhamma talk on happiness.

2023-01-27   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the bones. Dhamma talk on samatha (settling, tranquility) and vipassana (clear seeing, inferential understanding) with reference to the past Buddha Vipassī described in DN14 Mahāpadānasutta.

2023-01-20   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mettā for oneself. Dhamma talk on the history of Buddhism, the emergence of Mahayana, questions of transmission and doctrine throughout history.

2023-01-13   Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mindfulness of breathing; the breath does the meditation. Dhamma talk on the eightfold path.

2023-01-02 Mettā Retreat Day 9 Night   Discussion on vipassana and practicing post-retreat