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Bhante Sujato lives at Lokanta Vihara, the Monastery at the End of the World. Bhante gives these regular Friday night teachings online. Visit the Lokanta Vihara homepage for session link, chanting book and further information.

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Monks In Cyberspace 2023-12-08 Sankhāras

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2023/12/07

Bhante Sujato. Mindfulness of breathing meditation - how important consistency is in medtiation, how unwholesome thoughts can come up if we define ourselves in specific ways. Dhamma talk on sankhāras. Discussion of how sankhāra relates to energy, relativity, neuroplasticity. Broader discussion of sankhāras as moral choices, sankhāras patterns in meditation, relationship to time, the bhavanga citta. Recording also seemed to speed up and slow down seemingly due to a bug in jitsi or OBS.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-12-01 Impermanence

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2023/11/30

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on impermanence, steadiness and stilness. Dhamma talk on impermanence. Question on precognition, the relationship of the present to consciousness. Discussion of the relationship of time to impermanence. How many religions involve a search for things that don't change. The subtle desire to live forever. Q+A question of how momentariness was introduced into Buddhism.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-11-24 Making decisions

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2023/11/23

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on doing nothing because the breath is calming you down. Dhamma talk on making decisions.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-11-17 Looking on the bright...

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2023/11/16

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath as radiant and changing dependent on the hindrances. Dhamma talk on "looking on the bright side" with discussion of the role of happiness on the path.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-11-10 Mid-life crises, faith...

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2023/11/09

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the simple breath. Dhamma talk on mid-life crises. Discussion of the positive aspects of a mid-life crisis, the nature of faith and science, discussions about death, the difference between right thought and wisdom, God and Nietzsche, the three kinds of dukkha, with focus on viparinamadukkha, should we have hope?.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-11-03 MN38 Part 2 Longer...

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2023/11/02

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the caring breath and brightness of the breath. Dhamma talk part 2 on the MN38 Mahātaṇhāsaṅkhayasutta (The Longer Discourse on the Ending of Craving). Discussion of Ven. Sāti's harmful misconception that 'this very same consciousness that roams and transmigrates, not another'.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-10-27 MN38 Part 1 Longer...

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2023/10/26

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on seeing the knower. Dhamma talk on the MN38 Mahātaṇhāsaṅkhayasutta (The Longer Discourse on the Ending of Craving). Discussion of Ven. Sāti's harmful misconception that 'this very same consciousness that roams and transmigrates, not another'.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-10-20 MN37 Shorter Discourse...

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2023/10/19

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on craving. Dhamma talk on the MN37 Cūḷataṇhāsaṅkhayasutta (The Shorter Discourse on the Ending of Craving). Discussion of how insisting on something is a strong form of craving, the role of Sakka in the suttas.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-10-13 MN35 Cūḷasaccaka Sutta

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2023/10/12

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on feeling and form, two of the five aggregates. Dhamma talk on the MN35 Cūḷasaccaka Sutta (The Shorter Discourse With Saccaka). Saccaka as an early "troll" figure. Discussion of the dramatic way the debate takes place and how the Buddha refutes Saccaka's argument that Self is the five aggregates.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-10-06 MN128 Upakkilesasutta

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2023/10/05

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on light and the breath. Dhamma talk on the story of Anuruddha, Nandiya and Kimbila found in both MN128 Upakkilesasutta (Corruptions) and MN31 Cūḷagosiṅgasutta (The Shorter Discourse at Gosiṅga) . Discussion of the background to these three and why the sutta is framed the way it is, Anuruddha evading questions and gradually revealing things. Discussion of the eleven things that blocked the Bodhisatta's meditation. Comparison of how this sutta talks about light with

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-09-29 MN28 The Longer Simile...

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2023/09/28

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the parts of the body. Dhamma talk on Ven. Sāriputta's MN28 Mahāhatthipadopama Sutta (The Longer Simile of the Elephant’s Footprint) . Discussion of the elements as gods that reflect the sacredness of the world we live in. The integration of the four elements, and a shorter discussion of how Ven. Sāriputta also fits in anicca, non-self, forgiveness, metta into the four noble truths.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-09-22 MN26 Ariyapariyesana

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2023/09/21

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on consciousness of the gradual movement and subtle dimensions of the breath. Dhamma talk on MN26 Pāsarāsisutta/Āriyapariyesanasutta (The Noble Quest). The question of what Āḷāra Kālāma and Uddaka Rāmaputta taught and what may be missing from MN26. Āstika versus the nāstika/neti neti wings of Upanishadic thought, the dimension of nothingness. Also mentioned are MN29 and DN3.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-09-15 MN22: Alagaddūpamasutta

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2023/09/14

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on finding anything that is ourself. Dhamma talk on MN22 Alagaddūpamasutta (The Simile of the Cobra). The simile of the raft, and the various comparisons of self and non-self: 6 grounds for views. How non-self is almost always grasped in tthe wrong way like the simile of the snake/cobra.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-09-08 MN23 Vammikasutta

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2023/09/07

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on "what's done is finished". Dhamma talk on MN23 Vammikasutta (The Ant-Hill). Dicussion of how "the gods love hidden things" in the Vedic literature and the possible obscure meanings of the various things that the hero is digging for in this sutta with reference to the Vedic culture.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-09-01 Thought part 3: MN20...

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2023/08/31

Bhante Sujato. Meditation using the five stratgies of calming unskilful thoughts in Madhupiṇḍikasutta: 1. Focus on another thing that gives rise to more wholesome thoughts. 2. Examine ther drawbacks of unskillful thoughts 3. Ignore and forget the thought 4. Stop the causes of unskilful thoughts 5. With exertsion 'crush mind with mind'. Dhamma talk on the final on the trilogy in Majjhima on thought: the same five strategies found in MN20 How to Stop Thinking / Vitakkasaṇṭhānasutta.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-08-25 Thought part 2: MN19...

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2023/08/24

Bhante Sujato. Meditation using the Dvedhāvitakkasutta strategy of dividing thoughts into two classes: wholesome and unwholesome, focus on the drawbacks of unwholesome thoughts. Dhamma talk following on from last week's trilogy of suttas in Majjhima on thought (vitakka/sankappa) MN19 Dvedhāvitakkasutta (Two kinds of thought).

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-08-18 Thought part 1: MN18...

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2023/08/17

Bhante Sujato. An insight practice meditation on being aware of how far away from your meditation you are when you realise you have lost your meditation. Dhamma talk on MN18 The Honeycake Sutta. Discussion of Bhante's updated version of this sutta. The Buddha's interlocutor Daṇḍapāṇi as representing someone with a past grudge. Discussion of the senses -> contact -> feeling -> perceiving -> thinking -> proliferating -> judging -> being beset by proliferation and judgements sequence from Mahākaccāna's

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-08-11 Reality

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2023/08/10

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mudita. Dhamma talk on reality, with reference to the idealism vs realism debate in philosophy, the elements, the senses, delusion (delulu) and how the Buddha did not assume things, often asking and clarifying. Discussion of Thursday night's discussion between the Australian Sangha Association including Bhante Sujato, Venerable Thubten Chokyi and Noel Pearson on the First Nations Voice to Parliament.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-08-04 Dhammacakkappavattana...

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2023/08/03

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on gentle, easeful sense of balanced alertness; meditation as carrying you through the path. Dhamma talk on the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta for Āsālha Pūjā.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-07-28 Giles Barton

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2023/07/27

Giles Barton. Meditation on the quality of your own mood and energy, present moment awareness. Dhamma talk on beginners's luck, kamma and Devadatta, rebirth, Giles's history with Buddhism, account of recovering from a recent accident.

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