Podcast – Tisarana Buddhist Monastery

Podcast – Tisarana Buddhist Monastery


Latest Episodes

Three Dukkhas
November 25, 2012

A talk based around the three types of dukkha—dukkha vedana (the feeling of dukkha), dukkha sacca (the truth of dukkha), and dukkha lakkhana (the characteristic of dukkha).

Four Brahma-vihara’s
November 18, 2012

Memory can be like that, we can plug into goodness.  Memory is important to understand, and how it works, like in the practices of metta meditation.  [We use it] to bring up associations that are wholesome and skillful.

Metta Meditation
November 11, 2012

Bring up the image of someone whom it's easy to feel affection for.  On the in-breath bring the image of them into your heart.  On the out-breath wish, "May you be well."

Body Meditation
November 11, 2012

Quite often we carry a lot of tension in our eyes and our face.  So, to become conscious of that can be an interesting exercise.  Get in touch with this awareness which isn't looking for anything special.

Practice As a Craft
November 04, 2012

In the texts the Buddha would often give analogies which related to craft.  So you have the musician tuning his instrument, the fletcher straightening his arrow, a carpenter working with a piece of wood- these are the images of craft.  So, if there's th

Attachment to Idealism
October 28, 2012

Quite often we don't reflect on the reality of our hearts and minds.  We tend to overlay it with our idealism.

February 2011 Retreat- Discomfort
October 14, 2012

Physical discomfort is what you have to be aware of.  Discomfort makes you restless, so the resistance to discomfort is what you have to get in touch with.

February 2011 Retreat- Guided Meditation
October 07, 2012

A guided meditation given during a retreat in February, 2011.

February 2011 Retreat- Back to Basics
October 07, 2012

There's something about not being too complex and just coming back to the basic principles.

Q & A: Anger and Weightlessness
September 23, 2012

Ajahn conducts a question and answer session. There is one question about anger and one question about weightlessness.