Sutta Meditation Series

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. A short extract from the FULL Dhamma session on "The progressive development of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment" based on the Sīla Sutta (SN 46.3) on 31 August 2023. This extract is only a *SUMMARY* OF THE PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEVEN FACTORS OF ENLIGHTENMENT. Just as in the Kūṭāgāra Sutta (SN 46.7) with the simile of all th...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. A short extract from the FULL Dhamma session on "The progressive development of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment" based on the Sīla Sutta (SN 46.3) on 31 August 2023.This extract is on "WHAT NOURISHES THE BOJJHANGAS?" referencing the Kundaliya Sutta (SN 46.6). This is very helpful for establishing a good foundation in order...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In Part II of our Bojjhaṅga Series, we examine the Sīla Sutta (SN 46.3) and the Buddha’s progressive pathway for developing the seven factors of enlightenment. In this session we look at: — Overview of the Sīla Sutta (SN 46.3) — What nourishes the bojjhaṅgas? — “Deep dive” into how to arouse and develop each bojjhaṅga — Summary of the progressiv...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We begin our Bojjhaṅga Series with Part I : An Introduction to the Factors of Enlightenment. In this session we look at: — Understanding ”bhāvanā“ — What makes the factors of enlightenment unique? — Why are they called factors of enlightenment ? — The Buddha’s simile of the rafters of a peaked roof — Hindrances vs factors of enlightenment — Impo...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In this Dhamma session, we examine a selection of the Buddha's teachings on walking meditation and its benefits, including the Caṅkama Sutta (AN 5.29) . In this session we look at: — Evidence of walking meditation being practised by the Buddha(s) and noble disciples — How it connects with wakefulness and helps to overcome the hindrance of du...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In this Dhamma session, we examine the Vammika Sutta (MN 23) and how to contemplate the riddle given to Venerable Kumārakassapa and the teaching he received from the Buddha, which eventually culminated in this noble disciple of the Buddha realising nibbāna. It's a powerful teaching and we will be drawing on some of the meditations we have pr...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Role models play an important part in all of our lives, whether we seek them out or not. And whether we walk the Buddhist Path or not, they can have the power to shape the direction we take and the ability to influence the decisions that follow on from there.  For Buddhist practitioners, the Buddha is our most eminent role model, teacher and the...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In this Dhamma session, we look at a question that has been asked by one of our kalyāṇamittas: “I was wondering if you could do a teaching on the four jhāna similes as found in the Samādhaṅga (Pañcaṅgika) Sutta among many others and how they relate to the development of jhana. The bath attendant, lake, lotuses and white cloth.” In answering this...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Following on from our Dhamma session on the Second Doorway to Nibbana - Painful Practice with Quick Realisation, we examine why envy is a block to developing Immeasurable Compassion. This is a good example of the power of abandoning defilements or mental stains, as we have been practiing with the Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7) and Anumāna Sutta (MN 15)...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 14 May 2023. This was based on the Asubha Sutta (AN 4.163) and Petakopadesa. ** Please note, it's helpful if you have already practised the insight pathway meditation for the First Doorway to Nibbāna — Painful practice with slow realisation (https://bit.ly/3GzEkpy), as well as be...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 5 May 2023 The main purpose of today’s livestream is to understand the perfection of a fully enlightened Buddha, and why a Buddha is superior to other living beings, including humans, devas and even noble disciples who have realised the fruit of arahantship. The format for this lives...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 5 May 2023 The main purpose of today’s livestream is to understand the perfection of a fully enlightened Buddha, and why a Buddha is superior to other living beings, including humans, devas and even noble disciples who have realised the fruit of arahantship. In Part 1 we'll look...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 23 April 2023 This is one of the Buddha's most powerful teachings to a lay person on how to develop the path that leads to supramundane or noble retirement (nibbāna) The format for this livestream (Part II) will be: Overview of the Buddha's instructions on how to achieve nobl...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 22 April 2023 This is one of the Buddha's most powerful teachings to a lay person on how to develop the path that leads to supramundane or noble retirement (nibbāna) The format for this livestream (Part I) will be: Introduction and overview of the Potaliya Sutta (MN 54) and why t...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 16 April 2023 The format for this livestream:(1) Quick overview of the Abhiṇhapaccavekkhitabbaṭhāna Sutta (AN 5.57) and why the Buddha encourages these five subjects for frequent contemplation: — ‘I am subject to old age; I am not exempt from old age.’ — ‘I am subject to illness; I a...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is the FULL DHAMMA SESSION, conducted on BAK POYA (5 April 2023) via zoom, on "THE ATTRIBUTES OF HOUSEHOLD LIFE THAT CAN POISON THE MIND"We examine the Cūḷadukkhakkhandha Sutta (MN 14) and the Buddha's teaching to Mahānāma the Sakyan on why, despite understanding the Dhamma taught by the Buddha, his mind gets invaded by states...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 2 April 2023. The format for this livestream:(1) Examine the teachings of the Buddha on how difficult and rare it is to gain a human birth, including the eight lost opportunities(2) Contemplate the Buddha's advice on this unique and precious opportunity we have in this life(3) Me...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast . We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 25 March 2023 so that we could practise together. This is a GUIDED MEDITATION on CULTIVATING LOVING KINDNESS based on the insight pathway from the Karaṇīyametta Sutta (Snp 1.8).By developing the 10 skilled states, we abandon the 10 unskilled states. With an understanding of the 1st...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 25 March 2023 so that we could practise together. The format for the session:(1) Quick overview of the Vatthūpama Sutta (MN 7)(2) Simple explanation, including examples, of the Vatthūpama Sutta links that corrupt the mind (3) Short meditations to break these Vatthūpama Sutta links to...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Recent Dhamma session via zoom with student members and friends of the Warwick Buddhist Society on "THE POWER OF AN UNHINDERED MIND", where we contemplated the five hindrances, how they are linked, why they trouble us (including weakening our memory, making it difficult to concentrate the mind and blocking wisdom), and the Buddha's...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Following on from the unexpected visit to the hospital and taking the opportunity to contemplate the Dhamma, we now take a look at the importance of prioritising Dhamma, not Kamma. Whether we know it or not, all of us spend the bulk of our time on kamma. Even when we think we're in Dhamma.  Kamma keeps us bound to saṁsāra and this whole mass...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Sharing this morning's unexpected visit to the hospital and using the opportunity to contemplate the Dhamma and cultivate immeasurable mettā, immeasurable upekkhā and liberation of mind due to mettā. The insight pathway applied is the Painful Practice with Slow Realisation (dukkhā paṭipadā dandhābhiññā), the first doorway to Nibbāna combined...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. We live streamed this Dhamma session on our YouTube channel on 5 February 2023 for the uposatha, so that we could practise together. This is one of the most beneficial suttas to help us be in the right mind state to continuously learn and penetrate the Buddha's true teachings, but one we find most difficult to listen to and put into practise...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is the FULL DHAMMA SESSION, conducted on NAVAM POYA (5 February 2023) via zoom, on "SPIRITUAL PROGRESS AND ATTAINMENT"   We examine the Sunakkhatta Sutta (MN 105) and the Buddha's teaching to  Sunakkhatta on true spiritual progress and attainment that is intent on complete liberation through a series of similes.   **Much of wh...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. In this Dhamma session, we complete our study of the Dhātuvibhaṅga Sutta (MN 140) and the Buddha's teaching to venerable Pukkusāti on the six elements, six bases of contact, eighteen mental explorations and four determinations.   For Part 1 - https://bit.ly/3Gf539O (video) or https://bit.ly/3XYlFdy (audio) In this session (part ii), we cover...