Sutta Meditation Series

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Another session to accompany the second module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions to Lay People on VIRTUE (sīlakathaṁ)   In this additional episode, we look at THE SCENT OF VIRTUE and Venerable Ānanda’s question to the Buddha. In Buddha's answer we learn of the supreme fragrance of virtue...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is the first module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series, focused on our younger audience looking into BUDDHA'S GRADUAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LAY PEOPLE ON VIRTUE (sīlakathaṁ)   In this session we look into:  — what is sīla and why is it important?  — How to reflect on taking the five precepts  — Why we need to protect...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is a supplement to our examination of the accomplishment of ENERGETIC or ACTIVE EFFORT ( āraddhavīriyo ), that is part of a study program that delves into the Sekha-pāṭipada Sutta (MN53). In this brief session we examine some short teachings from the Buddha that look at result for a person that is energetic vs lazy when it comes to a badly...

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...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast . This is a GUIDED MEDITATION on PAINFUL PRACTICE WITH SLOW REALISATION (The First Doorway to Nibbana) ** Please note, this has been recorded as a useful aid, and you are strongly encouraged to learn the meditation and develop it on your own so that the insight pathway is fully activated and you sharpen your spiritual faculties** There have been...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is one part of a study program that delves into the Sekha-pāṭipada Sutta (MN53) – Venerable Ānanda’s Discourse on the Trainee’s Mode of Progress , which has been broken into different episodes. This study program began in October 2020 with a specific meditation group and is still ongoing. This episode looks at how we can develop the accompl...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Another session to accompany the first module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions to Lay People on GIVING (dānakathaṁ) In this additional episode, we look at THE STORY OF ANĀTHAPIṆḌIKA, the foremost donor of the Buddha's male disciples. He is a very well-known lay disciple of the Buddha and und...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Another session to accompany the first module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions to Lay People on GIVING (dānakathaṁ) In this additional episode, we look at THE STORY OF VISĀKHĀ, the foremost donor of the Buddha's female disciples. She is a undoubtedly a wonderful role model for us to emulate...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. Another session to accompany the first module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions to Lay People on GIVING (dānakathaṁ) In this session, we do a guided meditation together - recalling all of our good deeds and what we give up (that we may have written down in our merit book (pin potha in Sinhala...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is the FULL DHAMMA SESSION conducted on VAP POYA (20 October 2021) via zoom on "THE PROFITABLE PATH", how to meditate on the Buddha's verse from the Cunda Sutta (Ud 8.5) and activate the insight pathway of non-greed, non-hatred and non-delusion leading to the realisation of path and fruit. *Please note - the meditation slot have been remove...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.  Another session to accompany the first module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions to Lay People on GIVING (dānakathaṁ)    We look into the significance of developing giving and generosity as a factor stream entry.    In this short session we examine:   — what...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.  A short session to accompany the first module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions to Lay People on GIVING (dānakathaṁ)    We briefly look at a deva's questions to the Buddha on KNOWING WHAT WE GIVE in the Kiṁdada Sutta (SN 1.42).    If you have any questions or comment...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast . It's stated that " there are four ways of practice. What four? Painful practice with slow realisation, painful practice with quick realisation, pleasant practice with slow realisation, and pleasant practice with quick realisation " in the Saṁkhitta Sutta (AN 4.161)   We will examine what these Profitable Directions are, the import...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is the first module in the Youth Dhamma Gradual Teachings series, focused on our younger audience looking into BUDDHA'S GRADUAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LAY PEOPLE ON GIVING (dānakathaṁ)   In this session we look into:  — what is giving and why it is important  — Importance of making and sharing merit  — Different qualities aroun...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is another session to help with the learning and development of the Painful Practice with Slow Realisation (First Doorway to Nibbāna). We look at six key "inflection points" in the meditation as a means to addressing: questions that have arisen,  potential blocks in the meditation, and  subtle nuances in understanding the insight...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast . This is a SHORT GUIDED MEDITATION with the theme of TUNING INTO GOODNESS. In this meditation, we tap into our own acts of generosity and kindness to lift the mind.  We can rejoice in our own goodness, as well as the goodness of others (including the noble ones). We are connecting to the field of merit and goodness. It's good to do thi...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. This is the introductory talk for a new series, specifically for our younger audience, looking into Buddha's Gradual Instructions (anupubbiṁ kathaṁ) for lay people. The question commonly asked by audiences, both young or older, is why did the Buddha give these specific gradual instructions or teachings to lay people? And what are those teachings...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast . A gentle encouragement to revisit and review who we take as our role models. Are they in support of the non-greed, non-hatred, non-delusion path? Are their actions and speech leaning towards freedom from all suffering? Are they encouraging us towards Nibbana, or tying us to samsara? Do they have Right View? We must choose our role models wisely...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast . We continue with our examination of "all sentient beings are sustained by nutriment" ( sabbe sattā āhāraṭṭhitikā ) in the Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33)  In this session (PART 6), we learn how to meditate on the Four Nutriments and Suffering. All the nutriments are linked (work in tandem, or altogether - process happens very quickly), so we bu...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast . We continue with our examination of "all sentient beings are sustained by nutriment" ( sabbe sattā āhāraṭṭhitikā ) in the Saṅgīti Sutta (DN 33)  In this session (PART 5), we will examine the Fourth Unprofitable Direction how we go the Wrong Way due to Delusion (mohaagatigamanaṃ) when we crave Consciousness as Nutriment (viññānāhāro)....

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast . In today's session, we look at Dhammapada Verse 177 - THE STORY OF INCOMPARABLE ALMS-GIVING and the generous, abundant giving of King Pasenadi of Kosala and Queen Mallika . We learn a great deal from this story and the Buddha's saying about giving, generosity, right view, making merit, the cause and effect of our actions (kamma), having joy for...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast . Following on from the sessions looking at "117 Why associating with good people ( sappurisa ) is so important on the Noble Eightfold Path" and "118 Developing the Buddha's qualities of a good person" and, "142 The Importance of Hearing True Dhamma" , we now examine "ESTABLISHING UNWAVERING CONVICTION". This talk is part of our examination of th...

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...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. A question received in relation to our recent poya Dhamma session on The First Doorway to Nibbāna:   "Could you briefly run through the instructions again for the Painful Practice with Slow Realisation and how to get to immeasurable mettā please?"   **This is a particularly powerful meditation, but may not be for everyone, as the...

Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast. A question received in relation to our recent poya Dhamma session on The First Doorway to Nibbāna:   "Why is stinginess a block for the development of immeasurable mettā? And can you explain how to examine and overcome stinginess?"   The short answer relates to stinginess linking to craving contact as nutriment with consciousness stead...