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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 2023-07-21 Turning points on the...

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2023/07/20

Dr. Sumana Ratnakaya. Meditation on the present moment and body relaxation. Dhamma talk on turning points on the path of awakening and in meditation. Discussion of SN48.42 as it relates to stages of the path and the kusala dhammas. Mention of MN117 - The Great Forty and the MN62 - Longer Discourse to Rāhula, MN131 - One Fine Night .

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-07-14 Climate change and...

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2023/07/13

Bhante Sujato. Mettā meditation for oneself and all beings. Dhamma talk on climate change and engaging in politics, day after the panel with Bhante Sujato and climate experts Let not the world burn.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-07-07 The Razor

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2023/07/06

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath leading us to peace rather than "me doing my meditation to get my results", the breath calming the energies of the body. Dhamma talk on the simile of "the Razor" in the Cunda Sutta DN29 and its possible source in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad by Yajnavalkya.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-06-30 Death and near-death...

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2023/06/29

Ayya Karunika. Meditation on death. Dhamma talk on death with reference to Dhammapada verse 174 and in one of its commentaries the story of a girl who meets the Buddha and practices death contemplation, which prepares her for stream entry. Broad discussion of near death experiences, importance of practicing death contemplation and doing things which cause pāmojja (non-regret) because death is always the end of any spiritual path. Q+A and account of Ayya's own NDE when she was younger.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-06-23 Early Buddhism as a...

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2023/06/22

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath as streaming you along with the flow of nature. Dhamma talk on the concept of Early Buddhism. Discussion of certain people and movements who referred back to the scriptures, and the ways traditions have brought the dhamma alive and sustained it as the world changes.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-06-16 Body Contemplation

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2023/06/15

Venerable Bon Hyon Sunim. Breath meditation on tension in the body. Dhamma talk on connecting with the body, being present to what's going on and bringing into harmony. Aspects of Venerable's studies of the role of the wholeness of embodiment in young peoples' practices as well as trauma. Meditation on direct experience of thoughts and memory in the body; the body's wisdom.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-06-09 Guest speaker: Ven....

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2023/06/08

Venerable Dhammagawesi. Dhamma talk on the five hindrances, distraction, the course of meditation, boredom, subjectivity, kindness to others, impermanence, causing one's own pain, importance of applying knowledge and mettā w/r Venerable Ānanda. Meditation on mutual forgiveness.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-06-02 Kaccānagotta Sutta

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2023/06/01

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on letting go of the sense of ahaṅkāra (I-making). Dhamma talk on SN12.15 Kaccānagotta Sutta .

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-05-26 The Five Hindrances

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2023/05/25

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the hindrances of restlessness and sloth and addressing the hindrances by not attending to the past or future. Dhamma talk on each of the five hindrances - sensual desire, ill will, restlessness and remorse, sloth and torpor, doubt.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-05-19 Sectarianism and...

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2023/05/18

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath and attachment to the breath, the breath as reflecting you in a mirror. Dhamma talk on the various Buddhist sects and how the various saṇgha groups were considered more of a single saṇgha historically. Discussion of who Moggaliputta Tissa was and the third council.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-05-12 Nibbana

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2023/05/11

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on FIRE. Dhamma talk on Nibbāna. Discussion of Anāsavādi Sutta (32 Similes of nibbāna) and Udāna 8.3, nibbāna as the end of greed, hate and delusion.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-05-05 Vesak - the Buddha's...

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2023/05/04

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on abandoning conditions that lead towards suffering and simplicity. Dhamma talk during Vesak about the Buddha's enlightenment - the three knowledges (described as happening in a single night in the Mahasaccaka Sutta, with mention of the various accounts of the Bodhisatta's enlightenment - gradual aspects in the Dvedhāvitakka Sutta, Upakkilesa Sutta.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-04-28 Ethics

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2023/04/27

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on for fear of death, pain and sleepiness. Dhamma talk on morality with reference to a Buddhist creation myth - DN27 Agaññasutta. Discussion of pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional morality (Kohlberg).

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-04-21 Life as a monk

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2023/04/20

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on recollection of the Buddha. Dhamma talk on the monk's life, with Q+A.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-04-14 Grieving, time and memory

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2023/04/13

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on course to subtle sensations and contentment. Dhamma talk on different questions from online, with focus on mourning, time, as well as memory.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-04-07 Buddhism and God

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2023/04/06

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on causes and the breath, course to subtle. Dhamma talk on Buddhism and God. The concept of God in Indian religions, God from a philosophical point of view - the relationship of impermanence and consciousness to ideas of God, engaging in interfaith dialogue.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-03-31 Artificial Intelligence

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2023/03/30

Bhante Sujato. Meditation: progressive body relaxation, letting the breath calm you down and fill you with joy and peace. Dhamma talk on Aritificial Intelligence. Discussion of the Open Letter to "Pause Giant AI Experiments" with its proposed moratorium on further development, and 'AI' more generally. Who is designing these models? What is the Buddhist idea of intelligence? How should the powerful/governments proceed here? Why current LLMs are not conscious. The possible effects on society going

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-03-24 The last dhamma talk...

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2023/03/23

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on unwinding delusion by seeing what happens to drive the "bicycle of thought". Dhamma talk: The last dhamma talk in the world ever: Questions: What make life worth living even just for a few more hours? The Simile of the Mountain. The gradual training: sīla, samadhi and pañña. Nibbana, the idea of "objects" of the mind not in the suttas. What does 'mindfully' actually mean? Being self-aware or reflective, and continually sustain such awareness. The end of the world.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-03-17 How do you know what...

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2023/03/16

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mindfulness of the breath with focus on self-ing, the present and keeping grounded. Dhamma talk: What makes something you do good? Talk on metaethics.

Monks In Cyberspace 2023-03-10 Janavasabha sutta

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2023/03/09

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mindfulness of the breath. Dhamma talk: DN18 Janavasabhasutta, with events mentioned in the Mahāparinibbana Sutta. Discussion of the sutta's events, and how the Buddha speaks about different things people may be looking for as well as the more common goals of the path repeated throughout the suttas.

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