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2023-01-01 Mettā Retreat Day 8 Night   Mettā meditation Stage 4 - Mettā for the disliked and the patibhaga nimitta (counterpart sign)

2023-01-01 Mettā Retreat Day 8 Morning   Finding your own way and the path

2022-12-31 Mettā Retreat Day 7 Night   The jhana factors - Vitakka, vicara, pīti, sukha, ekaggata

2022-12-30 Mettā Retreat Day 6 Night   Mettā meditation Stage 3 - Mettā for a neutral person and separately Bhante's book portion endorsing the Uluru Statement From The Heart

2022-12-30 Mettā Retreat Day 6 Morning   The mettā nimitta

2022-12-29 Mettā Retreat Day 5 Night   Mettā meditation 2nd Stage - Mettā for a loved person

2022-12-29 Mettā Retreat Day 5 Morning   The mettā sutta

2022-12-28 Mettā Retreat Day 4 Night   Peace and the present

2022-12-27 Mettā Retreat with Bhante Sujato Day 4 Morning   Summary of meditation instructions

2022-12-27 Mettā Retreat Day 4 Morning   Pain and discomfort

2022-12-27 Mettā Retreat Day 3 Night   Focussing on practice

2022-12-27 Mettā Retreat Day 3 Morning   Peace

2022-12-26 Mettā Retreat Day 2 Night   Mettā meditation first stage - Mettā for oneself

2022-12-26 Mettā Retreat Day 2 Morning   Mindful equanimity Part 2

2022-12-25 Mettā Retreat Day 1 Night   The five hindrances

2022-12-25 Mettā Retreat Day 1 Morning   Walking meditation and mindful equanimity

2022-12-24 Mettā Retreat Day 0 Night   Mettā Retreat - Day 0 Night - Retreat introduction, expect the unexpected

2022-12-16   Bhante Sujato. Guided meditation on muditā. Dhamma talk on how to act for justice, with reference to senior male monastics' roles in Bhikkhuni ordinations of 2009.

2022-12-09   Bhante Sujato. Guided meditation of awareness of the messy mind, being aware of consciousness brings fearlessness. Dhamma talk on papañca with reference to The Honey Cake sutta MN18 and Concept and Reality by Ven. Ñāṇananda's analysis of MN18 16.1. How venerable Kaccāna presents a sequence where the self slowly emerges, creating the person who then is beset by papañca; nouns turn to v...

2022-12-02   Bhante Sujato. Guided meditation on sīlanussati. Dhamma Talk: SN22.1 Nakula's Father. Discussion of Sāriputta's analysis of what is meant by the Buddha's statement on coping with old age: “Even though I am afflicted in body, my mind will be unafflicted.”

2022-11-25   Bhante Sujato. Guided mettā meditation. Dhamma Talk: The ghost is not in the machine. The question of robots and the soul. The Buddha's views on the soul versus others at the time e.g. Brahmanism's atta and Jainism's jiva. Understanding things through relations and processes rather than substances or a soul. Self-awareness in robots, AI with reference to The Terminator.

2022-11-18   Bhante Sujato. Guided breath meditation on enjoying silence rather than enjoying thoughts. Dhamma talk on Right Speech in the context of Twitter collapsing, the rise and fall of fraudsters/authoritarian leaders, COP27. How might we use social media with Right Speech.

2022-11-11   Bhante Sujato. Meditation: Meditation on thoughts and desire. Dhamma talk on Muditā.

2022-11-04   Bhante Sujato. Meditation: Mettā meditation. Dhamma talk on The Way to the Beyond/Far Shore (Parāyanavagga) and Future Perils (AN77-79).

2022-10-28   Bhante Sujato. Meditation: Bhante Sujato's patented hayfever cure. Dhamma talk on community. The story of Upagupta binding Mara and the beginning of Buddharupas.