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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 2024-08-02 The Yakkha Ālavaka:...

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2024/08/01

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on mindfulness of the breath. Dhamma talk on Ālavaka the Yakkha from the second stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā. Alavaka's role as a local deity, the local deities that people erected shrines to and the role Buddhism had in stopping ritual sacrifice as seen in the gentleness and conversion of Ālavaka in Ālavaka Sutta. Around 20 minutes of recording was missed, on the Chinese Dhammapada on Ālavaka (Page 215).

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-07-26 War: Jaya-maṅgala...

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2024/07/25

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on letting the breath calm you down. Dhamma talk on peace and war, with reference to the genocide in Gaza. First in a series of talks discussing each stanza of the Jaya-maṅgala Gāthā which will be discussed throughout this year's Rains. 'Slave to craving' in Raṭṭhapālasutta as a reference to waging war.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-07-19 The third noble truth

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2024/07/18

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on distractions/attention. Dhamma talk on the third noble truth. Discussion of the end of desire and delusion, the three types of suffering: painful feelings (dukkha dukkha), the suffering of change (viparinama dukkha), the suffering of not-nibbāna (sankhara dukkha).

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-07-12 Q&A - kamma and...

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2024/07/11

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath and contentment, cause and effect. Dhamma talk on a range of Q&A questions: Is it advisable to sctively change the breath? MN135 and the idea of getting rich in a future life via your deeds, manifesting, synchronicity and conspirituality, free will vs determinism.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-07-05 The four iddhipadas

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2024/07/04

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on leaning back from the breath and control. Dhamma talk on the four iddhipadas: chanda (enthusiasm), viriya (energy), citta (consciousness), vīmaṁsā (investigation).

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-06-28 Rohitassasutta SN2.26

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2024/06/27

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on investigating causes and qualities rather than only a method. Dhamma talk on Rohitassa Sutta SN2.26. The many layers of meaning in this sutta that are not immediately obvious. The relationship of this sutta's definition of the world to the rays of the sun, the noble truth of suffering, lights. Other References: SN35.116 Lokantagamana Sutta, SN 46.33 Upakkilesa Sutta, Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad S.3 Verse 4.3.2

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-06-21 Poson Day

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2024/06/20

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on finding rapture to keep your meditation going. Dhamma talk on Poson day and the foundations of all traditions being the same, with reference to the time of Ashoka's missions. Discussion of the reliability of various records, the different positions of early sects.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-06-14 The Mystic Syllable Huṁ

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2024/06/13

Bhante Sujato. How to approach pain in meditation. Dhamma talk on Bhante's new discovery and new translation of Udāna 1.4 The Mysic Syllable Huṁ. Huṁ is the syllable at the end of the famous chant Oṃ maṇi padme hūm̐, and the first person who the Buddha spoke to after his enlightenment was a Brahmin priest who was a reciter of this syllable. Discussion of its role as the 13th stobha in the Chāndogya Upaniṣad. Other References: D&D Essay: On the brahmin who said "huṁ" by Bhante Sujato, Mahākhandhaka

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-06-07 Merit

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2024/06/06

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on merit.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-05-31 Pirivena Project

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2024/05/30

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on the SuttaCentral Pirivena Project to sponsor English translations printed for the Pirivenas (schools for monastics in Sri Lanka). Discussion of the historical work and carefulness preserving the tradition. Discussion of how much we all owe to these early traditions, which may be easy to forget. Brief discussion on skeptical/reform movements who can variously dismiss things from the tradition or revitalise them.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-05-24 5474

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2024/05/23

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on keeping your meditation simple. Dhamma talk on 5474 - the five hindrances, four mindfulness meditations, seven awakening factors, and four noble truths - an inference made by venerable Sāriputta on the qualities of all historical Buddhas in SN47.12 Nālandasutta.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-05-17 The Buddha's life part...

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2024/05/16

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on sharpness of knowing. Dhamma talk on the Buddha's life (part three); the first Buddhists, found in the Theravada Vinaya in the first Khandhaka - Mahākhandhaka / The Great Chapter. Readings of the verses of exclamation and how each went for refuge.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-05-10 The Buddha's life part...

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2024/05/09

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on purification of the mind and doing as few things as possible. Dhamma talk on part two of the Buddha's life covering the Buddha's practices before his enlightenment, focusing on self-mortifications and MN19 Two Kinds of Thought and MN128 Corruptions. References: Earliest example of sunk cost fallacy: DN23#29.1 Pāyāsisutta

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-05-03 The Buddha's life part...

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2024/05/02

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath and feeling. Dhamma talk on the Buddha's birth, early life and renunciation, given Vesak is approaching. Discussion of the Buddha going into jhana as a child, and a reading of the start of the Attadaṇḍa Sutta (Taking Up Arms).

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-04-26 Snp4.4 Eight on the Pure

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2024/04/25

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on how you look at your breath. Dhamma talk on Snp4.4 Suddhaṭṭhakasutta (Eight on the Pure).

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-04-19 Taipei digital...

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2024/04/18

Bhante Sujato. Mettā meditation and discussion of Simon (Bhante Akāliko)'s recent disrobing. Brief talk on some things learned at the digital Buddhism conference Bhante Sujato is currently attending in Taiwan. Resources mentioned: Chan scholar Christian Wittern's Web Space

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-04-12 Consciousness and...

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2024/04/11

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath, natural state of peace. Dhamma talk on consciousness and the relationship of nāmarūpa (name and form) to viññana (consciousness). Discussion of consciousness as subtle, in deeper meditation, differences with Yajnavalkya's definition.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-04-05 MN43 The Great...

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2024/04/04

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the bright breath. Dhamma talk on MN43. Discussion of Venerable Sāriputta's and Venerable Mahākoṭṭhita's dialogue on the relationship between wisdom and consciousness, which they do with reference to the jhanas. Definitions of yonisomanasikāra; the three uses of the word 'yoniso'. Right view being supported by ethics, learning, discussion, serenity, and discernment.

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-03-29 Rebirth

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2024/03/28

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on letting go. Dhamma talk on rebirth and different perspectives on rebirth. Discussion of Jain understandings of rebirth, annihalationist views, .

Monks In Cyberspace 2024-03-22 Ethics

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2024/03/21

Bhante Sujato. Meditation on the breath. Dhamma talk on ethics. Discussion of precepts and their role, comparisons with Western ethics and utilitarianism.

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