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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 2025-01-03 Practicing mettā in...

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2025/01/02

Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on inner mettā. Dhamma talk on practicing mettā in your life, not holding on to what others do to you. Expanding your mettā field.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-12-20 From darkness to...

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2024/12/19

Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on metta. Dhamma talk on the four kinds of people, from darkness to light, from darkness to darkness, from light to light.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-12-13 Finding harmony...

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2024/12/12

Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on friendliness towards all beings. Dhamma talk on finding harmony between all the Buddhist traditions.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-12-06 Identity

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2024/12/05

Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on identity. he loosening of the self as something that happens from the beginning of the path, that we are quite different people as we age. Discussion of the the khandas, threatening-ness of identity, the definition of sati-sampojañña.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-11-29 The mind moving

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2024/11/28

Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on mettā. Dhamma talk on the mind moving. Discussion of 6th patriarch of Zen Hui Neng's decision to go forth, Ataloka Dhammas; the eight worldly vicissitudes.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-11-22 Going for refuge to a...

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2024/11/21

Bhante Sanathavihari. Meditation on mettā. Dhamma talk on what it means to go to refuge to the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha. What is a sammasambuddha? What does it mean to be awakened? The three knowledges: seeing past lives, the action of kamma, and destruction of the asavas. Reaching awakening while non-monastic. Q+A: How to talk about Buddhism to non-Buddhists, what is the taint of delusion? How to have faith in things you haven't seen yourself?

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-11-15 Non-self, illness and...

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2024/11/14

Ayya Karunika. Meditation on awareness of the body and breath. Dhamma talk on non-self, illness and getting angry.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-11-01 Suffering and keeping...

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2024/10/31

Giles Barton. Dhamma talk on suffering, keeping things inside, stories about Bodhinyana, mindfulness.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-10-25 Who illuminates the...

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2024/10/24

Brother Pháp Hải. Meditation on the first four Anāpānasati excercises. Dhamma talk on Silk Road Buddhism, the introduction of Ānāpānasati Sutta to China from Baghdad, and the Gandharan fragments/community. Dicussion of Vietnamese Zen teachers and teachings and who illuminates the forest?. References: Mountain Spring Monastery in Bilpin, NSW, MN32 Mahāgosiṅga Sutta, MN118 Anapanasati Sutta

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-10-18 Q and A - fear and...

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2024/10/17

Bhante Sujato. Mettā meditation. Dhamma talk on fear and stories about other monastics, among other Q and A questions. Last talk from Bhante Sujato for the year, next bunch of talks will be given by Bhante Sanāthavihārī.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-10-11 Climate change/global...

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2024/10/10

Bhante Sujato. Mettā meditation. Dhamma talk on climate change/global chaos. References: 1989 global warming projections, Volcaholic thread on flooding events

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-10-04 Q and A -...

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2024/10/03

Bhante Sujato. Meditation as not being optimised for input-output efficiency. Dhamma talk on intergenerational influence/trauma and trauma in general.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-09-27 Q and A

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2024/09/26

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on letting the breath come to you. Dhamma talk on a range of Q and A questions: stopping thoughts about the past, why do we sometimes feel anger after metta meditation or after a retreat, if you can't stay focused on the breath for long, what is a good meditation to do instead? Do all defilements arise from a wrong view? How can an impermanent not-self has a connection with another impermanent not-self that carries on from one existence to another?

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-09-20 Baka the Divinity:...

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2024/09/19

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on pleasantness of the breath. Dhamma talk on Baka the Divinity (Brahma), from the eighth stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā. The Buddha's visit to Baka the Divinity and Māra in MN49 On the Invitation of Divinity and its links to MN1 The Root of All Things. References: Roko's basilisk (Wikipedia), Roberto Calasso - Ardor (goodreads)

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-09-13 Nandopananda the naga...

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2024/09/12

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on Nandopanda the serpent elder, from the seventh stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā. Readings from recounting of this Jataka story by Buddhagossa in the Visuddhimagga BPS edition 2010 pages 1055-1060. Discussion of how to read such magical stories mythologically as signs rather than just symbols.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-09-06 Saccaka and trolling...

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2024/09/05

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on Saccaka part 2, continuing the last part of MN35 Shorter Discourse with Saccaka and MN36 from the sixth stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-08-30 Saccaka and trolling...

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2024/08/29

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on Saccaka who argued with the Buddha in MN35 Shorter Discourse with Saccaka from the sixth stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā. Saccaka as an early 'troll' figure. MN35's elaboration of the argument in the cardinal sutta Characteristic on Non-self that having a self implies control.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-08-24 With Sundarī and...

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2024/08/23

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the growth of the mind, letting the breath do its work. Dhamma talk on sexual assault and accusations of sexual assault in the vinaya/suttas. Discussion of Udana 4.8 With Sundari, a similar story to that of Ciñcā which is found in the Jātakas in the fifth stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā. Discussion of the monks' rule on believing a woman without a monk's confession, so-called "Aniyata Rules".

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-08-16 Aṅgulimāla/Harmless:...

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2024/08/15

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the mind healing itself, control and progres as natural; dhammata. Dhamma talk on the Aṅgulimāla Sutta, from the fourth stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā .

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-08-09 Nāḷāgiri the Elephant...

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2024/08/08

Bhante Sujato. Meditation as something you achieve, just nature bringing us to peace. Dhamma talk on Nāḷāgiri the elephant who attacked the Buddha under the direction of Devadatta, from the third stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā. Readings from the Theravada Vinaya Khandhaka 17 The chapter on schism in the Sangha. The way Devadatta was dealth with by the Buddha and the scripture's description of some of his behaviour and motivations.

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