Amaravati Podcast | Latest Dhamma Talks

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These are the latest Dhamma Talks given mainly in the Amaravati Temple during the Wan Phras (moon/observance days). These talks include those given during the Winter Retreat, Rains / Vassa retreat and the rest of the year. A complete audio library can be found on https://www.amaravati.org

Episode Date
Freedom from Fear
Apr 19, 2024
On Emotions
Apr 18, 2024
Not Getting What One Wants Is Suffering
Apr 03, 2024
Samsara Is Messed Up
Apr 03, 2024
Patient Endurance
Mar 29, 2024
Who is Offended?
Mar 28, 2024
Just Shut Up and Ordain
Mar 27, 2024
I Am Right, Everybody Else Is Wrong
Mar 26, 2024
The Whirlpool of Views and Opinions
Mar 25, 2024
Beliefs and Wisdom
Mar 24, 2024
Understanding Worry, Anxiety and Fear
Mar 23, 2024
On Contentment
Mar 22, 2024
Letting Go of Ideals
Mar 21, 2024
Reflections on Starting the Winter Retreat 2024
Mar 20, 2024
The Path of the Unburdened: Four Reflections to Begin the New Year
Jan 06, 2024
That Which Is Aware of Grumpiness, Isn’t Grumpy
Jan 02, 2024
Bowl and Robes — The Symbols of Refuge
Jan 02, 2024
Not Being a Witness of Experience but Witnessing Experience
Jan 02, 2024
What’s Left When All Else Dies
Dec 17, 2023
Gradual Letting Go
Dec 17, 2023
Kathina Day: Dhamma Reflection
Dec 14, 2023
What Is the Purpose and Meaning of Worldly Life?
Dec 14, 2023
The Path of Resourceful Return to Nature
Nov 29, 2023
To Understand Oneself Is to Understand Others
Nov 16, 2023
Brahmaviharas
Nov 10, 2023
Timelessness
Nov 10, 2023
Choose Life, Choose Inconvenience!
Oct 25, 2023
The Place Where Nothing Can Go
Oct 21, 2023
How Can I Be at Peace When the World Is at War?
Oct 18, 2023
Form and Formlessness
Oct 18, 2023
How are They Behaving in ‘My’ Monastery?!
Oct 04, 2023
With the Body of an Animal and the Mind of a God
Oct 03, 2023
The Power of the Precepts
Oct 03, 2023
Paritta Chanting
Sep 24, 2023
True but Not Right, Right but Not True
Sep 24, 2023
Do Arahants Like Ice Cream?
Sep 17, 2023
How to Work with Self-sabotaging Tendencies
Sep 17, 2023
Is the Buddha’s Teaching Able to Solve All Problems in Life?
Sep 17, 2023
Identities
Sep 17, 2023
Your Money or Your Life!
Sep 16, 2023
89th Birthday Reflection
Sep 16, 2023
The Dark Side
Sep 16, 2023
Space to Reflect On
Sep 13, 2023
Don’t Grasp, Let It Go!
Sep 13, 2023
The Four Brahmaviharas
Sep 08, 2023
Breathing Spirit into Form
Sep 08, 2023
Asalha Puja: Dhamma Reflection
Aug 03, 2023
What About the Unsatisfactory Conditions We Swim In?
Aug 03, 2023
Faith in Awakening
Jul 30, 2023
I’ve Got All the Facts ‘Right’ but…
Jul 29, 2023
Being Nobody: Not Clinging to Anything in the World
Jul 29, 2023
Dhamma that Flows from the Heart
Jul 07, 2023
What Do We Inherit in Ajahn Chah’s Tradition? — On His 105th Birth Anniversary
Jul 06, 2023
See the Situation as It Is
Jul 06, 2023
When the Weapons of Earth Turned to Flowers
Jun 10, 2023
The Mind of All Beings: A Marvellous Quality of Awake Awareness
Jun 09, 2023
Precepts, the Beginning of Secure Spiritual Path
Jun 02, 2023
“What is the Value and Meaning of Life?” — A Disabled Person’s Death
Jun 02, 2023
Memories Are Made of This
May 22, 2023
Silence: the Eye of the Storm
May 19, 2023
The Joy of Freedom
May 18, 2023
Ego, Cultural Conditioning and Thinking
May 11, 2023
Right Effort is No Effort
May 11, 2023
On Retirement
Apr 22, 2023
Our Ever-present Nature
Apr 18, 2023
Judgement or Blessing?
Apr 16, 2023
The Silent Legacy of Quiet Lives
Apr 16, 2023
Witnessing Who You Really Are
Apr 14, 2023
Ghosts, Zombies and Blood Sucking Creatures
Apr 14, 2023
Reflection on the Magha Puja Day
Apr 13, 2023
Awareness of the Present Moment
Apr 12, 2023
Meditation vs Bhavana
Apr 12, 2023
Knowing that You Don’t Know
Apr 11, 2023
Beyond Worldly Things
Apr 11, 2023
The Benefits of Constructive Actions
Apr 10, 2023
A Flame That Embraces Everything
Apr 10, 2023
Together in Harmony
Apr 10, 2023
QA in Wat Pah Nanachat (part1)
Jan 28, 2023
QA in Wat Pah Nanachat (part2)
Jan 28, 2023
Teachings on Nibbāna from the Questions of King Milinda
Jan 02, 2023
Silence – Not Following Becoming
Jan 02, 2023
Contemplating the Five Aggregates
Dec 28, 2022
The Great Way
Dec 18, 2022
You Don’t Experience Consciousness
Dec 06, 2022
Cultivating Selflessness
Nov 26, 2022
Falling on Soft Ground
Nov 20, 2022
Stopping
Oct 27, 2022
Meeting The Mind
Oct 27, 2022
Don’t Get Low, Let Go
Oct 13, 2022
Sila, A New Definition Of Intelligence
Oct 13, 2022
Don’t Run Away
Oct 12, 2022
Can I Enjoy Sensual Pleasures Without Suffering?
Oct 02, 2022
A Really Good Retirement Plan
Sep 29, 2022
The Price We Pay
Sep 22, 2022
Working With Restlessness
Sep 20, 2022
28 Buddhas & Idealism Vs Practice – No Chanting
Sep 17, 2022
Don’t Be Anyone At All
Sep 14, 2022
What Became Of Mara?
Sep 07, 2022
Good Enough
Sep 07, 2022
Stress-Based Mindfulness Reduction
Sep 06, 2022
Being the Witness
Sep 02, 2022
Inherently Unsatisfactory
Aug 29, 2022
Sunday Talk at Temple Forest Monastery (21 August 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
Dhamma Talk at Temple Forest Monastery (13 August 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
Who Shares, Wins
Aug 22, 2022
Limitations
Aug 22, 2022
How can living in a warring, chaotic world be useful for undertaking the Path?
Aug 18, 2022
Death, Separation and Loss
Aug 16, 2022
When all is said and done, the most important thing is… what?
Aug 08, 2022
Feelings
Aug 07, 2022
How to teach paṭicca samuppāda to your dog
Aug 02, 2022
Luang Por: Great Friend, Maha Mittā
Aug 01, 2022
Ācariya-pūjā — expressing gratitude to Luang Por Sumedho on his 88th birthday
Jul 29, 2022
The Fluid World of the Buddhist Path
Jul 27, 2022
‘Nice guys finish last’ … or do they?
Jul 25, 2022
Asalha Puja Talk at Tisarana
Jul 21, 2022
“Go away, I’m practising metta!”
Jul 18, 2022
Setting the Wheel Rolling
Jul 15, 2022
Seeing With the Eye of Dhamma
Jul 08, 2022
Desire
Jul 07, 2022
The Dhamma of Amaravati
Jul 02, 2022
Unique Moment
Jun 26, 2022
Q&A at Amaravati
Jun 26, 2022
Enjoying Solitude
Jun 23, 2022
Q&A at Chithurst
Jun 22, 2022
Rejoice in Your Own Goodness
Jun 19, 2022
Happiness and Contentment (at Abhayagiri)
Jun 16, 2022
Q&A with the monks at Abhayagiri
Jun 14, 2022
Relate to Tradition Skillfully
Jun 14, 2022
“Patience” – a Word from a Friend
Jun 12, 2022
Uposatha Talk at Abhayagiri (June 2022)
Jun 11, 2022
Illuminating the World
Jun 09, 2022
Peace is a Simple Step
Jun 08, 2022
Talk and Q&A in Seattle
Jun 07, 2022
Skilful Leadership — the Ten Rajadhammas
Jun 04, 2022
Buddhist Angels
Jun 02, 2022
Despair Can Be Illuminated in Unexpected Ways
May 30, 2022
Inspiration and Desperation
May 27, 2022
Not Trying To Be
May 05, 2022
Ending Dukkha
May 05, 2022
The Mind Goes Out
May 05, 2022
Things Shift
May 05, 2022
Inner Listening
May 04, 2022
Present Experience
May 04, 2022
Outflows
May 03, 2022
Present Reality
May 03, 2022
Different Personalities
May 03, 2022
Imperfect Forms
May 03, 2022
Alive
Apr 28, 2022
Not To Do
Apr 28, 2022
The Forerunner of Wholesome States
Apr 27, 2022
Beautiful Results
Apr 27, 2022
Fear of Relaxation
Apr 26, 2022
Mental Phenomena and Consciousness
Apr 26, 2022
Ajahn Chah’s Memorial Day Talk
Apr 23, 2022
Free Will and the World
Apr 23, 2022
Reflections on Grasping
Apr 21, 2022
Endless Strife
Apr 21, 2022
Teachings from the Book Stillness Flowing
Apr 19, 2022
Reflecting on the Way It Is (Alan Cole)
Apr 19, 2022
The Natural Flow Of Conditions
Apr 19, 2022
Practicing the Brahmaviharas
Apr 19, 2022
Working With Conditions
Apr 19, 2022
Rearranging Our Lives
Apr 19, 2022
In The Middle
Apr 19, 2022
Only_Phenomena
Apr 14, 2022
Getting Along
Apr 13, 2022
The Unshakeable Deliverance of the Heart
Apr 12, 2022
Feelings are Impersonal
Apr 11, 2022
Finding the End of Suffering
Apr 07, 2022
Spiritual Qualities of the Heart
Dec 21, 2021
Dhamma Is Always Here and Now
Dec 21, 2021
Habits & Patterns
Dec 18, 2021
Skilfull Conventions
Dec 09, 2021
When Wisdom and Consciousness Come Together
Nov 30, 2021
Kathina Festival – Dhamma Talk
Nov 29, 2021
Embodiment of the Right View
Nov 27, 2021
Meditation on Breath and Beyond Breath
Nov 26, 2021
If You Start with Ignorance…
Nov 26, 2021
Seeing through Desire
Nov 25, 2021
Contemplating Endings
Nov 24, 2021
Busabong – Part 2
Nov 22, 2021
Busabong – Part 1
Nov 22, 2021
Holy Shift: the Liberation of Stream Entry
Oct 27, 2021
Sublime Abiding to Non-Abiding
Oct 24, 2021
65th Birthday Reflection – to Continue
Oct 23, 2021
Silence
Oct 23, 2021
Virtues – a Path to Letting Go
Oct 18, 2021
Voices in the Head: Mara? Divine Messenger? Or Ordinary Delusion?
Oct 14, 2021
The True Nature of Awareness is Joyful
Sep 21, 2021
What’s True Love? It’s Not What You Think
Sep 19, 2021
The (Ongoing) Dhamma of Climate Change
Sep 12, 2021
Hiri-otappa and Guilt
Sep 10, 2021
Is the Buddha Alive Today?
Sep 09, 2021
On Being Right
Sep 08, 2021
The Energy of Release
Sep 05, 2021
Spiritual Birth Control
Sep 01, 2021
Who Knows?
Aug 31, 2021
To Ordain or Not to Ordain: is That the Question?
Aug 15, 2021
Consciousness and Mindfulness
Aug 15, 2021
All Wholesome States Can Be Included in the Four Noble Truths
Aug 12, 2021
Luang Por Sumedho 87th Birthday’s Talk
Aug 11, 2021
Āsāḷhā Pūjā: The Four Noble Truths
Aug 10, 2021
What to Do with One’s Life
Aug 08, 2021
Avijjā Paccayā Sankhārā
Aug 07, 2021
I Think, Therefore I Doubt
Aug 06, 2021
The Complaining Mind
Jul 04, 2021
Dhamma talk 20-04-78 poor quality
Jul 01, 2021
Being the Buddha, Seeing the Dhamma (221)
Jul 01, 2021
Sound of Silence – Retreat (164)
Jun 30, 2021
Reflecting on Consciousness
Jun 30, 2021
The 103 Birthday of Luang Por Chah
Jun 27, 2021
A Luang Por Chah Birthday Reflection
Jun 27, 2021
How to Get Rid of What we Don’t Like
Jun 26, 2021
From Selfrighteousness to Liberation
Jun 24, 2021
What You Think You Are is Not Reality
Jun 24, 2021
Belief and Trust
Jun 23, 2021
Vesākha (Wesak) Celebration Day
Jun 21, 2021
Where There is No Disappointment (224)
Jun 18, 2021
The Opportunity Between Birth and Death
Jun 02, 2021
Freedom
May 31, 2021
Don’t Believe Me, or You’ll Just Get Confused
May 30, 2021
Dhamma Isn’t Karmic, Isn’t Self
May 23, 2021
Happiness is being nobody (2001)
May 23, 2021
Reaction and Response
May 17, 2021
Follow Your Heart, Your Intuition or Trust Awareness
May 15, 2021
Consciousness, Space and Sakkayaditthi
May 08, 2021
A Quantum Leap into Natural Awareness (111)
May 08, 2021
Sound of Silence – Retreat (164)
May 08, 2021
Noise and Silence
May 06, 2021
What is Enlightenment?
May 04, 2021
Thinking, Concentration and Wisdom
May 02, 2021
Mindfulness of Forgetting
Apr 18, 2021
The Rewarding Challenges of Caring for Others
Apr 16, 2021
Shifting Perspectives
Apr 15, 2021
Your Own Sense of Yourself Is an Imagination
Apr 15, 2021
Grasping Is an Attempt to Find an Identity
Apr 14, 2021
Patient Observation, Relaxed Awareness
Apr 14, 2021
Release Your Faith in This Awareness
Apr 13, 2021
The Way It Is
Apr 13, 2021
Māgha Pūjā 2021
Apr 12, 2021
Just the Feeling
Apr 12, 2021
How Much do We Need to Know
Apr 11, 2021
Metta as Acceptance, Consciousness Beyond Acceptance
Apr 11, 2021
Who and What We’re Not
Apr 10, 2021
The Highest Blessings
Apr 10, 2021
Are We Really Here?
Apr 09, 2021
Creating Harmony
Apr 09, 2021
Holding Steady
Apr 08, 2021
New Year’s Dhamma Talk
Apr 08, 2021
Āsālhā Pūjā – Second Arrow Evasion
Apr 07, 2021
What the Heck Is Pure Consciousness
Dec 30, 2020
Looking for Happiness Where You Might Find It
Dec 28, 2020
Ten Year Anniversary
Dec 26, 2020
Advice for a New Anagārika
Dec 25, 2020
Peace, No Peace, the Same Price
Dec 24, 2020
Acknowledging Our Ideals
Dec 19, 2020
The Teachings and Example of Luang Por Sumedho
Dec 06, 2020
I Am Very Happy to Continue
Dec 05, 2020
Why Discipline? I just want to be Happy!
Dec 04, 2020
Why Discipline? I just want to be Happy! – Questions and Answers
Dec 04, 2020
Direction for Practice
Nov 28, 2020
Breathing In, Knowing, and Breathing Out the World
Nov 23, 2020
Gratitude and Generosity
Nov 22, 2020
Sense Consciousness and Pure Consciousness
Nov 04, 2020
The Many Kinds of Giving
Nov 03, 2020
Craving – The Great Lie
Nov 02, 2020
What Have We Learned From 40 Years As A Dual Community Of Monks & Nuns?
Oct 04, 2020
‘No Cup, No Problem?’ The Buddha’s Teaching On Emptiness
Sep 26, 2020
The Faculties of Forgettery and Mindfulness
Sep 24, 2020
Understanding Refuge
Sep 14, 2020
Wisdom Develops Samādhi Develops Wisdom
Sep 11, 2020
Why is Peace So Boring and the Idea of Nibbāna So Off-Putting? – Questions and Answers
Sep 11, 2020
Why is Peace So Boring and the Idea of Nibbāna So Off-Putting?
Sep 11, 2020
Combining Compassionate Action with a Peaceful Heart – Questions and Answers
Sep 11, 2020
Combining Compassionate Action with a Peaceful Heart
Sep 11, 2020
Wisdom Develops Samādhi Develops Wisdom – Questions and Answers
Sep 09, 2020
Just Watching the Mind
Sep 06, 2020
A Moral Universe
Sep 05, 2020
The SEP Syndrome (Someone Else’s Problem)
Aug 17, 2020
This is the Way to Immortality
Aug 14, 2020
Awareness in Daily Life
Aug 14, 2020
Awareness Being Aware of Awareness
Aug 12, 2020
Not Trying So Hard
Aug 12, 2020
Beware of Idealism
Aug 11, 2020
Not Thinking About Thinking
Aug 11, 2020
Feeling Rebellious and Preparing for Death
Aug 10, 2020
Praise and Blame, Wisdom and Foolishness
Aug 10, 2020
Wise Speech – Liberation Through Relations
Aug 10, 2020
10th Year Anniversary of Coming to Live at Amaravati
Aug 05, 2020
Dreaming Ourselves Into Existence
Jul 28, 2020
Knowing in the Knowing
Jul 24, 2020
Testing Dhamma for Testing Times
Jul 15, 2020
Testing Dhamma for Testing Times – QA
Jul 15, 2020
The Many Faces of Insight
Jul 12, 2020
The Buddhist Ideal of a Perfect Society
Jul 11, 2020
Why Are Things the Way They Are? What Do I Do Now?
Jul 03, 2020
Forgiveness
Jun 26, 2020
Luang Por Chah’s Life and Example
Jun 22, 2020
Beware the Zombie Fungus of Avijja
Jun 18, 2020