Dhamma in English – always up to date…
To a meditator the experience of consciousness sidesteps the body/mind duality, and the idealist/materialist philosophies. Seeing the nature of the mind directly changes your view of your self. Below find the full video from Week Six of the Meditation course 2017 The reason for posting here is that the English subtitles are given below and …
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• Coming Home to Yourself week 2 of the 2017 meditation course, Bangkok video and transcript • transcript: OK … so The end of the session today I will introduce another extra practice which you can take up optionally so your 20 minutes a day that’s mandatory but what you do during that 20 minutes …
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Each year I run a special dharma talk series – it might look easy, but there’s a lot to work on. Mostly the work goes on the PR – getting the word out. It’s not that we need a big crowd, but it would be nice if everyone who would like to attend gets to …
Here are the typical scenes of a day trip to Pak Chong for a dhamma talk in English with Ajahn Jayasaro, which we do once or twice a year. Next one is scheduled for October 2015
Right now we are hosting a Burmese nun Sayalai (which means Ajahn) Caru Dassini. It’s a great privilege to be able to host dhamma teachers, and we owe a great debt to Ariyasom Villa Hotel in Bangkok for this. Every teacher has a different style, and a variant meditation method. Our current guest teaches according …
In May 2013 we invited Bhikkhuni Ani Choying to stay with us, at the ever supportive Ariyasom Villa and Restaurant in Sukhumvit 1, Bangkok. I had met her at Bodhi Hearts sanctuary in Penang where we were both holing up for a while as we planned out our next steps. For me it was getting …
April 15th 2013 saw our first attempt to hold a proper Buddhist ceremony. There is a current trend in Buddhism to strip away all cultural aspects of Buddhism that might appear to be animistic or ritualistic, and get to the ‘bare bones’ that is purely meditation. This ‘atheistic’ approach is popular, especially in modern psychology, …
In February 2013 some 19 of us met up in the always wonderful Ariyasom Villa in Bangkok for discussion on the topic of the Bodhisattva Vow – the vow to keep on practising from lifetime to lifetime until you have the necessary qualities of character to become a full Buddha. That’s a long time. Afterwards some people …
January 2013 we took off on retreat at the beach in Rayong province. Thanks to Sujata we had taken an exploratory trip to investigate this location as a possible retreat venue in mid 2012. It is a quiet location near to the village of Chaag Phong, about 40 km West of Rayong town. It is …
The following message came from Phra Frank: Dear Friends, Sorry to be the bearer of sad tidings, but Herbert Gelb, our old Friend in the Dhamma, congenial companion in Life, and Companion in Suffering passed away this morning at 4AM in Los Angeles. April 17, 1931 – May 25, 2012 I accompanied Herb back to …
We just had another one of our Tai Pan events – where we lunch and then rent a room for viewing video and discussion. We have done this before on different topics – previous one was Osho, but also Eckhart Tolle, Life of Brian, Consciousness and others. This format provides a nice change from the …
Notes on ‘Shut Up and Dance‘ – eighth and final dhamma talk in the 2011 Dhamma Talk Series: The Dance of Emptiness. Talks kindly hosted by the Dance Centre, School of Performing Arts, Sukhumvit 24, Bangkok. Below are notes, quotes, links – in case anyone who listened to the talk would like to follow up on …
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Notes on ‘Why the Prodigal Son had to Wait‘ – seventh dhamma talk in the 2011 Dhamma Talk Series: The Dance of Emptiness. Talks kindly hosted by the Dance Centre, School of Performing Arts, Sukhumvit 24, Bangkok. Below are notes, quotes, links – in case anyone who listened to the talk would like to follow up …
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Notes on ‘All the beasts’ – sixth dhamma talk in the 2011 Dhamma Talk Series: The Dance of Emptiness. Talks kindly hosted by the Dance Centre, School of Performing Arts, Sukhumvit 24, Bangkok. Below are notes, quotes, links – in case anyone who listened to the talk would like to follow up on any of the …
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While it won’t make too much fluid sense if you were not there, below are notes on the Talk by Ajahn Jayasaro in Pak Chong last week when we went there. It is always hard to remember exactly what A. Jayasaro talked about, as there is so much depth …. Thanks to Phra Frank for …
Notes on ‘Path of Purification’ – fifth dhamma talk in the 2011 Dhamma Talk Series: The Dance of Emptiness. Talks kindly hosted by the Dance Centre, School of Performing Arts, Sukhumvit 24, Bangkok. Below are notes, quotes, links – in case anyone who listened to the talk would like to follow up on any of the …
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Notes on ‘Taking a Moment’ – fourth dhamma talk in the 2011 Dhamma Talk Series: The Dance of Emptiness. Talks kindly hosted by the Dance Centre, School of Performing Arts, Sukhumvit 24, Bangkok. Below are notes, quotes, links – in case anyone who listened to the talk would like to follow up on any of …
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Notes on ‘All You Can Know’ – third dhamma talk in the 2011 Dhamma Talk Series: The Dance of Emptiness. Talks kindly hosted by the Dance Centre, School of Performing Arts, Sukhumvit 24, Bangkok. Below are notes, quotes, links – in case anyone who listened to the talk would like to follow up on any …
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Notes on ‘The Spirituality of Imperfection’ – second dhamma talk in the 2011 Dhamma Talk Series: The Dance of Emptiness. Talks kindly hosted by the Dance Centre, School of Performing Arts, Sukhumvit 24, Bangkok. Below are notes, quotes, links – in case anyone who listened to the talk would like to follow up on any …
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Notes on ‘The Hero’s Journey’ – first dhamma talk in the 2011 Dhamma Talk Series: The Dance of Emptiness. Talks kindly hosted by the Dance Centre, School of Performing Arts, Sukhumvit 24, Bangkok. Below are notes, quotes, links – in case anyone who listened to the talk would like to follow up on any of …
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