Monday 8 September 2025: 18.30 – 20.00 hrs at Baan Aree Foundation, Bangkok We are delighted to welcome Phra Kru Medhankorn on the evening of Monday 8 September 2025 at Baan Aree, the beautiful location so generously made available to us by the Baan Aree Foundation. In his talk our guest will take a phenomenological …
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Zazen and Dharma talk with Joao Rodrigues Sensei
Monday 1 September 2025 at Baan Aree: 18.30 – 20.00 hrs. We are delighted to welcome back Zen monk João Rodrigues Sensei on the evening of Monday 1 September 2025 at Baan Aree, the beautiful location so generously made available to us by the Baan Aree Foundation. In his talk João will share about the …
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Practicing Buddhism in this Modern World with Chris Abraham
Monday 18 August 2025: 18.30 – 20.00 hrs. at Baan Aree Foundation, Bangkok We are delighted to welcome Chris Abraham on the evening of Monday 18 August 2025 at Baan Aree, the beautiful location so generously made available to us by the Baan Aree Foundation. Chris will be talking about how social media and other …
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Meditation in Action by Phra Kittikhun Katavanno (Phra Pele)
We are delighted to welcome back Phra Kittikhun Katavanno (Phra Pele) for an evening of teachings on Monday 2 June 2025 at Baan Aree, the beautiful location so generously made available to us by the Baan Aree Foundation. If you struggle to stay awake during traditional sitting meditation or find it too difficult, you may …
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Practice First, Belief System Second with Tom Sigurdson
You are invited to join us on Monday 5 August 2024 when Tom Sigurdson will be leading the Monday night meditation at Baan Aree, the beautiful location so generously made available to us by the Baan Aree foundation. The session will start at 6.30 PM. Everyone is welcome, from beginners to experienced meditators. We meet …
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Ajahn Medhino Teaching about an Uncertain Topic
Ajahn Medhino Bhikkhu, who has been a monk for over 30 years, will be leading the Monday night session on 27 November 2023 at Baan Aree, the beautiful location so generously made available to us by the Baan Aree Foundation. Ajahn will give a Dhamma talk about a not yet determined topic. In the forest …
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Bhikkhuni Karma Lekshe in Bangkok 2015
…∴… Special events with Bhikkhuni Karma Lekshe Tsomo ‘Compassion and Social Justice‘ Monday 27th July (Ekkamai) ‘The Simple Life – Monasticism in a World of Consumers‘ Thursday 30th (Ariyasom) Overview: One of our regular and most appreciated guest speakers returns for a few days. Karma Lekshe is a Bhikkhuni (ordained nun) in the Tibetan Lineage. Her Biography …
Before your head splits into seven pieces
Pu came to the temple wanting to make some offerings. She had a ubiquitous yellow bucket. she was well dressed and in her mid 30s. If you want to know, at the time, she owned a small book business. In the temple she kept asking about Karma. – We always know something is up when …
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Cause and Karma Effect – Three evening teaching on the Law of Karma, with Caru Dassini
⋅⋅ ‘Cause and Karma Effect’ Three evening special, with Sayalai Caru Dassini at Ariyasom Villa, Sukhumvit Soi 1 Overview We host one of our regular visiting teachers from Myanmar – Sayalai Caru Dassini for a three evening special on the topic of Karma. She has excellent English and is both a scholar and meditation teacher. …
Karmic intervention
Is this luck (and good or bad luck?), is it Karma, is it divine/non-divine intervention? American woman wins lottery for a fourth time An American woman has been named the luckiest lottery winner in the world after scooping her fourth multi million pound jackpot Joan Ginther won £6.2m with the top prize from a scratch …
Can Karma be Explained?
Thursday 10th Nov 2008 we enjoyed a dhamma talk by Thai monk and clear thinker Phra Bhasakorn. The topic was Karma, a subject he has written a lively little handbook on in English. Was Karma Explained? Karma is probably the most slippery of all the topics in Buddhism. The Buddha himself taught that even the arahants, those with …
Notes on Karma
Notes for the final talk at Wat Yannawa 2008. Topic : Karma Sanskrit = Karma Pali = kamma But the word kama (with a long ‘a’ sound) means sense desire – usually referring to lust. This is where we get the sexual ‘kama sutra’ from. Kamma is one of those topics in Buddhism that attracts …