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
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You Can’t Concentrate on Silence, but It Is Here and Now
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May 15, 2026 |
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Not Identifying
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May 15, 2026 |
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Disintegrated Beauty: The Wise Ways of Seeing Formations
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May 15, 2026 |
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Life Is Not About the Way Things Should Be, but the Way It Is
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May 15, 2026 |
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How Are You, Luang Por?
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May 15, 2026 |
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Farewell: The Ending of a Chapter
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May 15, 2026 |
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Your True Nature Is Love. You Don’t Need to Look for It
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May 15, 2026 |
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The Essentials of Life and Practice – Ovāda Pāṭimokkha
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May 05, 2026 |
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A Break From the Role of Abbot: A Few Stories From a Sabbatical
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May 04, 2026 |
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Samma Samādhi
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May 04, 2026 |
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The Silence Behind the Forms
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May 04, 2026 |
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All the Appalling News
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May 04, 2026 |
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Restlessness
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May 04, 2026 |
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Personal Issues and Emotional Hangups
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Not Wanting Things to Be the Way They Are
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Great Expectations
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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PTSD in Terms of Dhamma
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Turning the Heart Back to Listen Within
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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The Place of ‘No Price’, ‘No Sword Out’
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Look to This Day
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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The Benefits of Virtue ผู้ตั้งอยู่ในความประพฤติดี (Thai)
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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When You Know Your True Nature, There’s Nothing Left to Know
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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How Did I Become a Monk? A Difficult Yet Amusing Beginning
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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What We Inherit: On Luang Por Chah’s Memorial Day
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Winter Silence
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Liberation Here and Now Rather Than Here and Then
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Resetting the Intention, the Purpose of Our Practice
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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The New Year’s Eve Bell – the Sound of the Present Moment
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Day-To-Day Reflections From the Ratana Sutta
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Looking Forward to Death
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Don’t Kill Him
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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From Budo to Buddho: From a Martial Arts Teacher to a Buddhist Monk
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Giving Thanks
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Keeping in Touch
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Monastic Training
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Investigating the Inner Tyrant
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Nurturing of Practice: The Daily Relief From Dukkha
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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In Homage to Queen Mother Sirikit
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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Counteracting the Restless Energy of Becoming
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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A Heart That Loves the Good
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Don’t Fight the Silence, Listen to the Way Things Are
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Chronic Pain, Ego and Liberation
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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A Good Spiritual Companion
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Where Human Dignity Lies in the Modern Age
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Nobody Has Duties, Nobody Gets Enlightened
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Loss of the Beloved Ones
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Four Summaries
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Is Consciousness the Ultimate Reality?
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Engaged in the Four Factors of Right Effort
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Letting Go or Letting Be
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Grief
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Who Is the Witness?
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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The Veil of Desire
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Even the Sasana Will Pass Away
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Living Fully, on This Very Day, at This Very Moment
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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The Buddha’s Answer to Armageddon
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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I’m Not a Teacher
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Seeing the Danger of Sense Pleasures
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Maturation of the Heart—Life Guided by Five Supportive Conditions
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The Beauty of Simplicity
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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What’s the Point of It All?
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Gratitude
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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What Luang Por Pasanno Taught
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Releasing and Letting Go—Ways to End Dukkha
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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The World and the End of the World
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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All That Is Mine, Beloved and Pleasing, Does Become Otherwise, Is Separated From Me
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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What Luang Por Chah Taught
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Further Considerations on the Exercise of Thinking Intentionally
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Making Peace in Space a Reality
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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The Language of Mindful Appreciation… Here and Now
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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On Fear
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers on Ajahn Chah’s Life and Teaching (part 2)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers on Ajahn Chah’s Life and Teaching (part 1)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Strive with Diligence—True Strength and Refuge
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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The Image of God
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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The Death’s Impact on the Mind/Body Relationship
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Reflect Again and Again, Until the Penny Drops
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Being Human Is an Emotional Experience
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Buddhānussati – Recollection of the Buddha
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Be the Watcher, Not the Victim
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May 07, 2025 |
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In Gratitude to Luang Por Pasanno
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May 07, 2025 |
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Who Cares?
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May 07, 2025 |
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No More Than ‘Just Right’
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May 07, 2025 |
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Taking Thinking to Absurdity
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May 07, 2025 |
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Unmoved and ReMoved: The Mind Free From Dependencies
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Opening up to Life and Finding the Answers Through Wisdom
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Grumpy Old Monk, Happy Old Monk
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Dhamma Is Where You’re at Home
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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A True Mind Isn’t Conditioned by Limitations
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Conscious Awareness Here and Now Is… Silence
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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…And That’s Nibbana
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Resilience of the Heart
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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A Direct Teaching, Straight to the Source, to Consciousness Itself
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Towards the End of Suffering
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Consciousness and Dhamma Apparent Here and Now
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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To Cross Over the Dukkha of Body and Mind
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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From Worry to Bliss
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Is the “Real World” Really the Real World?
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Joyful Acceptance of One’s Goodness
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Putting Down 10,000 Things
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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The Food Body
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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On Old Age, Sickness and Death
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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How Do We Create Suffering
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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The One Who Understands the Five Qualities
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Technology, Innovation and Looking Inward
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Self Identity Is an Empty Phenomenon
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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No Hook to the Saṃsāra
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Awakened Before the Buddha’s Name
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Pure Consciousness is the Real Magic
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The Spirit of Halloween
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The Elephant’s Footprint
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Beyond Right and Wrong
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Why I Became a Buddhist Monk
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Seven Underlying Tendencies
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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If All Things Are Not Self, What Is Reborn?
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Love and Desire
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Conscious Dementia
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Getting Beyond Conditioning
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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All That Is Mine, Beloved and Pleasing, Will Become Otherwise
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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No Body, No Thing
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Aspiration with Regard to the Right View
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Boundaries and Boundless Compassion
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Absolute Truth and Conventional Truth
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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The Human Condition and Its Value as a Moral Life
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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We Don’t See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Boredom, Anger, Bliss and the Buddha
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Commitment to Buddho, The Witnessing Position
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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When to Attach and When to Let Go?
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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The 40th Anniversary of Amaravati
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Can a Person Realize Enlightenment?
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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The First Sermon of the Buddha
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Avijjā Paccayā Sankhārā
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Doubt
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Patience and Persistence
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Patience and Persistence (Thai)
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Developing Right Understanding: Letting Go of Identities
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Handful of Leaves
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Suttas as a Means to Liberation
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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In This Life
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Happiness of the Well-Trained Mind
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Happiness of the Well-Trained Mind (Thai)
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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The Joy of Being Nobody
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Meeting a Stranger
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Ajahn… Are We Buddhist? Or What Are We?
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Ajahn… Are We Buddhist? Or What Are We? (Thai)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Krooba Ajahns—Their Path of Practice and Legacy
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Krooba Ajahns—Their Path of Practice and Legacy (Thai)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Sincerity, Integrity and the Cessation of Dukkha
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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A Few Stories from the Early Years at Wat Pah Pong (Thai and English)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Peace Means Happiness
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Peace Means Happiness (Thai)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Continuing the Waxing Phase of Luang Por’s Dhamma
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Stories from Luang Por’s Early Life
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Just the Right Dhamma
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Just the Right Dhamma (Thai)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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The Highest Virtue
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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The Highest Virtue (Thai)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Footsteps of the Master
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The Good, the Old and the Miserable Days
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Learning from Luang Por Sumedho
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Approaching 90
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May 12, 2024 |
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Perfect Understanding
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May 12, 2024 |
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Dhamma and Consciousness
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May 04, 2024 |
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Let Go of EVERYTHING
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May 04, 2024 |
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Freedom from Fear
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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On Emotions
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Not Getting What One Wants Is Suffering
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Samsara Is Messed Up
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Patient Endurance
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Who is Offended?
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Just Shut Up and Ordain
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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I Am Right, Everybody Else Is Wrong
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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The Whirlpool of Views and Opinions
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Beliefs and Wisdom
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Understanding Worry, Anxiety and Fear
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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On Contentment
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Letting Go of Ideals
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Reflections on Starting the Winter Retreat 2024
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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The Path of the Unburdened: Four Reflections to Begin the New Year
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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That Which Is Aware of Grumpiness, Isn’t Grumpy
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Bowl and Robes — The Symbols of Refuge
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Not Being a Witness of Experience but Witnessing Experience
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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What’s Left When All Else Dies
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Gradual Letting Go
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Kathina Day: Dhamma Reflection
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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What Is the Purpose and Meaning of Worldly Life?
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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The Path of Resourceful Return to Nature
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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To Understand Oneself Is to Understand Others
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Brahmaviharas
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Timelessness
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Choose Life, Choose Inconvenience!
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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The Place Where Nothing Can Go
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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How Can I Be at Peace When the World Is at War?
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Form and Formlessness
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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How are They Behaving in ‘My’ Monastery?!
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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With the Body of an Animal and the Mind of a God
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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The Power of the Precepts
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Paritta Chanting
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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True but Not Right, Right but Not True
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Do Arahants Like Ice Cream?
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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How to Work with Self-sabotaging Tendencies
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Is the Buddha’s Teaching Able to Solve All Problems in Life?
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Identities
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Your Money or Your Life!
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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89th Birthday Reflection
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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The Dark Side
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Space to Reflect On
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Don’t Grasp, Let It Go!
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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The Four Brahmaviharas
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Breathing Spirit into Form
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Asalha Puja: Dhamma Reflection
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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What About the Unsatisfactory Conditions We Swim In?
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Faith in Awakening
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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I’ve Got All the Facts ‘Right’ but…
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Being Nobody: Not Clinging to Anything in the World
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Dhamma that Flows from the Heart
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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What Do We Inherit in Ajahn Chah’s Tradition? — On His 105th Birth Anniversary
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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See the Situation as It Is
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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When the Weapons of Earth Turned to Flowers
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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The Mind of All Beings: A Marvellous Quality of Awake Awareness
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Precepts, the Beginning of Secure Spiritual Path
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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“What is the Value and Meaning of Life?” — A Disabled Person’s Death
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Memories Are Made of This
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May 22, 2023 |
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Silence: the Eye of the Storm
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May 19, 2023 |
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The Joy of Freedom
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May 18, 2023 |
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Ego, Cultural Conditioning and Thinking
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May 11, 2023 |
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Right Effort is No Effort
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May 11, 2023 |
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On Retirement
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Our Ever-present Nature
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Judgement or Blessing?
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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The Silent Legacy of Quiet Lives
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Witnessing Who You Really Are
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Ghosts, Zombies and Blood Sucking Creatures
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Reflection on the Magha Puja Day
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Awareness of the Present Moment
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Meditation vs Bhavana
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Knowing that You Don’t Know
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Beyond Worldly Things
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The Benefits of Constructive Actions
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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A Flame That Embraces Everything
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Together in Harmony
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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QA in Wat Pah Nanachat (part1)
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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QA in Wat Pah Nanachat (part2)
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Teachings on Nibbāna from the Questions of King Milinda
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Silence – Not Following Becoming
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Contemplating the Five Aggregates
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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The Great Way
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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You Don’t Experience Consciousness
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Cultivating Selflessness
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Falling on Soft Ground
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Stopping
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Meeting The Mind
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Don’t Get Low, Let Go
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Sila, A New Definition Of Intelligence
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Don’t Run Away
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Can I Enjoy Sensual Pleasures Without Suffering?
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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A Really Good Retirement Plan
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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The Price We Pay
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Working With Restlessness
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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28 Buddhas & Idealism Vs Practice – No Chanting
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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Don’t Be Anyone At All
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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What Became Of Mara?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Good Enough
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Stress-Based Mindfulness Reduction
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Being the Witness
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Inherently Unsatisfactory
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Sunday Talk at Temple Forest Monastery (21 August 2022)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Dhamma Talk at Temple Forest Monastery (13 August 2022)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Who Shares, Wins
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Limitations
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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How can living in a warring, chaotic world be useful for undertaking the Path?
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Death, Separation and Loss
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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When all is said and done, the most important thing is… what?
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Feelings
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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How to teach paṭicca samuppāda to your dog
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Luang Por: Great Friend, Maha Mittā
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Ācariya-pūjā — expressing gratitude to Luang Por Sumedho on his 88th birthday
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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The Fluid World of the Buddhist Path
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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‘Nice guys finish last’ … or do they?
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Asalha Puja Talk at Tisarana
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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“Go away, I’m practising metta!”
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Setting the Wheel Rolling
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Seeing With the Eye of Dhamma
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Desire
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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The Dhamma of Amaravati
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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Unique Moment
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Q&A at Amaravati
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Enjoying Solitude
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Q&A at Chithurst
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Rejoice in Your Own Goodness
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Happiness and Contentment (at Abhayagiri)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Q&A with the monks at Abhayagiri
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Relate to Tradition Skillfully
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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“Patience” – a Word from a Friend
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Uposatha Talk at Abhayagiri
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Illuminating the World
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Peace is a Simple Step – QA
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Peace is a Simple Step
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Talk and Q&A in Seattle
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Skilful Leadership — the Ten Rajadhammas
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Jun 04, 2022 |