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dnbf enigma

Den Norske Buddhistforening

| EN | Eager to discover the depths of your inner happiness? This podcast dives into teachings given by various instructors about meditation, mindfulness, a path towards and journeys of happiness − both in English and Norwegian language. | NO | Spent på å oppdage dyp indre lykke? Denne podcasten dykker ned i læren gitt av forskjellige instruktører om meditasjon, mindfulness, en vei mot og reiser til lykke − både på engelsk og norsk språk. dnbf guide | dnbf enigma | dnbf original

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00:17:07

Four stages of aircon | EN | Ajahn Nitho | Oxford 2025

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2025/05/25

The spiritual training is like aircon for your mind. Our body can be uncomfortable in a hot and humid climate. But air conditioning really can help. So too can our hot and uncomfortable mind get real help from our spiritual development of ethics, meditation and wisdom. But when doing your meditation, please allow your mind to calm down by itself - you just create more mental discomfort by craving, wanting and fighting your mind. This teaching was given

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00:49:05

Continuation and Red Jackets | EN | Ajahn Nitho |...

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2025/05/10

One day our body doesn't want to hang around any more because of old age, then what is the continuation? By looking back in time, we can see that there is continuation. How does this continuation happen? What can we do to secure the future? And how can we develop towards the highest? This teaching was given at Venabu 2025, and the relevant illustrations are found here:https://dnbf.org/en/2025/05/venabu-may-2025/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this

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00:57:56

Mindfulness of death | EN | Venerable Canda | Venabu...

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2025/05/09

Focusing on the fact that our body is going to die, can arouse a sense of spiritual urgency, that again can help us developing wholesome states of mind. This practice is of great fruit and benefits, it helps to put life in perspective − what is important in life, what should we prioritise, what values should we have. We ask ourselves - how kind have we been, how much gratitude have we shown and how much wisdom have we developed? This contemplation gives

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00:57:56

Mindfulness of death | EN | Venerable Canda | Venabu...

dnbf enigma ·

2025/05/09

Focusing on the fact that our body is going to die, can arouse a sense of spiritual urgency, that again can help us developing wholesome states of mind. This practice is of great fruit and benefits, it helps to put life in perspective − what is important in life, what should we prioritise, what values should we have. We ask ourselves - how kind have we been, how much gratitude have we shown and how much wisdom have we developed? This contemplation gives

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00:41:22

Hindrances | EN | Ajahn Nitho | Venabu 2025

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2025/05/08

We can waist lots of time, doing the same things over and over again in meditation, if we don't sometimes pull back and look at what we are doing. Sometimes analysis is important, and for example using the framework of the five hindrances that stops our development. In this talk the focus is the hindrances of sensory desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse and doubt. So next time you feel stuck in meditation - have a look at these

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01:06:25

Loving kindness meditation | EN | Venerable Canda |...

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2025/05/07

Loving kindness meditation or metta-meditation is a type of practice that fulfils the whole eight fold path. It is a type of unconditional love, committed to the wellbeing of everybody − it is radically inclusive. While breath meditation creates peace first, and then happiness later − loving kindness meditation creates happiness first and then peace later. It is a type of meditation which makes us sleep well and wake up happy, it protects us from others

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00:43:56

The importance of happiness | EN | Ajahn Nitho |...

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2025/05/06

In the beginning of a retreat it is important to focus on deliberately creating happiness and beautiful states of mind, and this is exemplified in this talk by teachings of the Buddha and current teachers. When we are happy inside, we get to sit for a long time, and the longer we meditate, the more stillness and clarity is created for our development of wisdom. In between the meditation, staying in the present moment is important. In the present we are

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00:59:55

The gradual training | EN | Venerable Canda | Venabu...

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2025/05/05

If meditation is your only method, then the result can be limited and meditation becomes difficult. Developing our mind is an integrated whole, focusing both on virtue, meditation and wisdom. It is the calm of meditation that can abandon craving. And when insights are developed, we understand and we can abandon delusion − we can see the truth. One way of looking at the training is called the gradual training, which is a gradual refinement of wholesome

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00:51:04

The path to freedom | EN | Bhante Sujato

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2024/10/31

How does the mind work? Often we don't understand, and we create problems for ourselves and others. But it IS possible to develop wisdom and to be free! In Buddhism it is done by developing samatha and vipassana. Samatha is the emotional approach, having a genuine emotional engagement or emotional wholeness. The benefit is obvious: You feel good, it is nice to be happy, so you keep meditating, maybe even for the rest of your life. This leads to a life of reflection and growth,

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00:51:04

The path to freedom | EN | Bhante Sujato

dnbf enigma ·

2024/10/31

How does the mind work? Often we don't understand, and we create problems for ourselves and others. But it IS possible to develop wisdom and to be free! In Buddhism it is done by developing samatha and vipassana. Samatha is the emotional approach, having a genuine emotional engagement or emotional wholeness. The benefit is obvious: You feel good, it is nice to be happy, so you keep meditating, maybe even for the rest of your life. This leads to a life of

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00:42:41

What is jhana and samadhi | EN | Bhante Sujato

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2024/10/30

Jhana has become popular, but often dumbed down. So then it helps to have an overview of how aspects of the path fits together. Jhana means oneness and illumination, and is described as having five factors: applied and sustained application (vitakka, vicara), rapture or uplift (piti), pleasure (sukha) and unification of consciousness (ekaggata). And the coming together of all this factors is jhana. And each person has the potential to realise these stages of meditation, they

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00:42:41

What is jhana and samadhi | EN | Bhante Sujato

dnbf enigma ·

2024/10/30

Jhana has become popular, but often dumbed down. So then it helps to have an overview of how aspects of the path fits together. Jhana means oneness and illumination, and is described as having five factors: applied and sustained application (vitakka, vicara), rapture or uplift (piti), pleasure (sukha) and unification of consciousness (ekaggata). And the coming together of all this factors is jhana. And each person has the potential to realise these stages of meditation, they

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00:38:05

The four bases of mental power | EN | Bhante Sujato

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2024/10/29

When coming to a retreat, you give up a lot for a few days − there is maybe a desire or a longing for freedom. And just that is the first of 'The four bases of mental power' (iddhi pada), this wish or longing for freedom and a spiritual development − and maybe the most important supporting factor for this desire is mental pleasure, which is really important to develop. The second factor is energy, so to keep going and not giving up. The third factor is mind or heart or

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00:51:09

How the Buddha learned to meditate | EN | Bhante Sujato

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2024/10/28

This talk is about the process the Buddha went through learning to meditate, starting with an experiences he had as a child, which teachers he met and learned from and how he was conditioned by other schools. Then later on, how the Buddha stayed with the sramanas doing all kinds of ascetic practises, which the Buddha found as a waste of time. And finally, when he had been searching out all the best teachers of his time, and not finding them good enough, he started to develop his

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01:23:41

Metta meditation | EN | Bhante Sujato

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2024/10/27

Metta meditation is the practice to develop the mind in such a way that this feeling of metta, this most exalted of human potentials, becomes a reality. And when this feeling starts to spark, which sages in the past has described as transcendence or divinity, than that is inside you! And it has been there all along − it is like coming home − and it it is there for everybody. This talk is actually four different talks combined into one, each talk given in regards to the four

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00:26:33

Mindfulness meditation | EN | Bhante Sujato

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2024/10/26

Mindfulness is not really meditation, but can be used as a type of meditation where we simply are aware of what is happening in your body and mind. You start to notice what is happening: thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories, ideas, desires - and spaces between them. The aim to get a place where we are resonable equanimous, as a preperation for other types of meditation. Just remember that ethical behavior is the fundation of any meditation, just beeing a good person. This

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00:56:16

How to practise after a retreat | EN | Venerable Canda

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2024/04/28

After a retreat, how can we continue our practice, how can we transfer our skills to our daily lives? At this retreat at Venabu a whole toolkit was given: right approach to mediation, what happiness and suffering is, learning to be mindful and developing wholesome qualities, the importance of joy and how it is aroused, and wisdom - what it is and how it is developed. In our daily life we must protect the seed we have planted, and remove the weeds. Keeping the soil moist by

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00:31:10

Wisdom − what it is, when will it arrise and how | EN...

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2024/04/27

Ajahn Nitho describes in this talk what wisdom is according to the teaching of the Buddha. He also reads out a short parable describing when wisdom will arrise in a person − independent of gender, body or ethnicity. He continues with a longer descriptions of the various stages of meditation, all the way into deep meditation or jhana, because that is the needed level of meditation for deep wisdom and enlightenment to arrise. In short - a meditation and wisdom journey of ever

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00:58:46

Loving kindness − what and how | EN | Venerable Canda

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2024/04/26

This talk is about loving kindness − what it is, how it affects our mind, different ways of doing loving kindness meditation, and how it connects to deep meditation and awakening. This teaching was given at Venabu 2024:https://dnbf.org/en/2024/04/venabu-retreat-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! FeedbackIf you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org DonationThe non-profit society DNBF together with the

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00:57:24

Working with the senses | EN | Venerable Canda

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2024/04/24

In this talk, Venerable Canda talks about guarding the sense doors, and the hindrances that arise in relation to the sensory world, with the goal to create clarity of mind. She talks about the sense bases, and how contact creates feelings in body and mind − pleasant or not − resulting in craving or ill will. Seeing that this process is conditioned, not substantial, reduces the reactivity and the creation of suffering. She gives examples, and refer to stories both from

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