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The Bhante Punnaji Podcast

Sanathavihari Bhikkhu

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast is a channel dedicated to sharing the radical explorations of Pre-Sectarian Buddhism, according to Bhante"s understanding. The legacy of Bhante Punnaji"s teachings is based on the Buddha"s original teachings, the Supernormal Eightfold Way, or Ariyamagga. The talks in this channel are largely the collection of countless sutta classes, dhamma talks, and meditation retreats he conducted all over the world.

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00:57:52

Healing Through the Dhamma: Bhante Saranapala on...

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2025/03/19

In this episode, Bhante Sanāthāvihārī (creator of this podcast) speaks with Bhante Dr. Saranapala, the "Kindful Canada Monk," about his journey, his teachings, and his mission to spread mindfulness and kindness worldwide. You'll hear about:Bhante Saranapala’s path from ordaining in Bangladesh at age 10 to bringing the Dhamma to Canada and beyondHow he employs kindfulness, a concept that blends mindfulness with kindness as a tool for emotional and psychological healingHis global

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00:47:43

Satipaṭṭhāna: Q&A

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2024/08/02

In this episode you'll hear Bjante Puññaji answer a number of audience questions, covering a wide range of topics, including:How meditation leads to a virtuous circle, that eventually leads to liberation How to apply appropriate attention The currents of Western philosophy in contrast with Buddhism How experience arises What the problem of existence is How conditionality works The interactions between emotions and thoughts in the mind Bhante's YouTube:

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00:57:30

Satipaṭṭhāna: How to Cultivate Both Samatha & Vipassanā

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2024/07/04

In this episode you'll learn:How emotions can derail us How meditation helps us solve our thinking problem How calming emotions helps us act more skillfully How to calm these emotions by calming the body and calming the mind What is samādhi The transition from satipaṭṭhāna to samādhi through the seven factors of awakening How deeper levels of concentration help us understand the process of experience How understanding the process of experience with wisdom and knowledge helps put an

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01:22:35

Satipaṭṭhāna: Western Psychology and Buddhist Psychology

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2024/06/07

In this episode you'll learn:The importance of taking care of your mind Why relaxation is important How the breath and relaxation are connected How relaxation is letting go What materialism is How the scientific perspective of the body, brain and mind relates to Buddhism How Western psychology developed an understanding of the phenomena of the brain and mind How Western psychology explains and deals with the problems of the mind The four Upādānas (normally translated as

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00:14:39

Satipaṭṭhāna: Breathing Instructions and Observing...

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2024/06/01

In this episode you'll learn:How to take stock of the mind How to become conscious and stopping unwholesome thoughts and reactions How to explore the breath through the sensations of the body How to calm the mind and relax the body The conditions necessary to enter Jhāna Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji --- Send in a voice message:

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00:50:31

Satipaṭṭhāna: Meditation Instructions

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2024/04/24

In this second part covering Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation, you'll learn:How to bring the attention inward Why mediation is beneficial What calming the mind means How meditation helps us to let go How to deal with certain hindrances to our meditation What existence is and how it relates to feeling The problems with pleasure and pain How to comfort someone going through pain Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo Bhante's Website:

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01:31:05

Satipaṭṭhāna: Introduction to Meditation

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2024/04/10

In this episode you'll learn:what meditation means in the words of the Buddha how to draw your attention inward how to relax the body such that we can deal with emotional problems how to create a life that supports our practice of meditation how meditation extends beyond what we normally think Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji --- Send in

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00:26:06

The Four Divine Abodes

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/11/09

In this episode you'll learn:What the divine abodes, or brahmavihārā, are How each of the four abodes—goodwill (mettā), compassion (karuṇā), empathetic joy (muditā) and equanimity (upekkhā)—work Why it's hard to follow the precepts when we do not develop these four qualities How the brahmavihārā, through an interest in others, leads to relief of suffering Why the brahmavihārā are not emotional excitement How the divine abodes lead into one another successively How the abodes

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01:35:50

The Fabric of Reality

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/10/24

In this episode you'll hear about: how Buddhism isn't at odds with the scientific conception of the world how the line between the material and the spiritual is blurred when considered from the buddhist point of view what psychic powers are and how they arise what the Jhānas are and how one gets into them how the mind works Buddhist psychology Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com Bhante's Instagram:

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01:18:04

Buddhist Determinism: Concurrence of Antecedents

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/10/12

In this episode you'll learn about: Determinism and how it differs from dogmatic views of divine intervention The cognitive process by which experience is constructed How emotions are born out of ignorance and why they're the source of our problems How to liberate ourselves from our emotions by understanding how the different factors of experience come into play What role jhāna plays in liberation The process of jhāna and how it differs from a state of hypnosis Dependent

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01:11:24

Who is a Buddha?

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/09/20

In this episode you'll learn: what a Buddha is, in human evolution terms how Gautama Buddha became awakened how a human being can become perfect what the human weaknesses are was the Buddha a god? the buddhist view on the creation of the universe the buddhist view on objectivity and subjectivity some details on desire Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com Bhante's Instagram:

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00:30:12

Happiness Beyond Pleasure and Emotions

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/08/30

In this episode you'll learn about: why happiness is not stimulation of the senses how we sometimes confuse concentration with a hypnotic state the two aspects of what we call "mind" why emotions can be problematic how we can manage emotional problems by using selective thinking and relaxing the body Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com Bhante's Instagram:

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01:46:43

Cosmology: The Universe, its Origin and Structure

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/08/10

In this episode, among other things, you'll learn about: the structure of the universe according to Buddhism the different spheres of existence supernormal powers of the Buddha the relationship of Buddhism to a creator god Dhamma talk by Ven Puññaji Maha Thera delivered at Washington D.C. Buddhist Vihara, 5017 16th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20011 202-723-0773 First published in Audio / Visual Library of Sobhana.net Bhante's YouTube:

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01:09:13

How Karma and Re-birth are Misunderstood in Buddhism

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/07/22

In this talk given by Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji you'll learn: How we tend to focus on karma and re-birth for the wrong reasons A brief history of karma and re-birth in the historical context of the Buddha What the proper focus for a peaceful life should be A detailed description of the process of experience, going through the senses and how that translates into craving and suffering Why karma and re-birth should not be seen as motivators for going to heaven or avoiding hell Ven. Dr. M

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01:18:41

The Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Appendix 3:...

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/07/13

Q&A Forum with Ven. Dr. M. Punnaji Maha Thera at the Buddhist Maha Vihara, Brickfields, on Wednesday 11th May 2016 on "Paṭicca-Samuppāda". Please refer to attached notes for reference. Download reference notes: http://tiny.cc/paticcasamuppada Download sutta AN10.6: http://tiny.cc/AN10-6 Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo/about Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com/ Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji/ --- Send in

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00:58:47

The Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Appendix 2:...

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/06/28

Q&A Forum with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Maha Thera at the Buddhist Maha Vihara on Saturday 30th April 2016 on the topic "Samādhi Bhāvanā – Beyond The 4 Jhānas" with reference to Anguttara Nikāya Book for Fours, Sutta 41 - Samādhibhāvanāsutta. Download AN 4:41 - Samādhibhāvanā Sutta (Pali & Bhikkhu Bodhi Translation): http://tiny.cc/AN4-41 Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo/about Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com/ Bhante's Instagram:

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01:13:15

The Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Appendix 1:...

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/06/21

Q&A Forum (New Series) on Satipaṭṭhāna at the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Mahathera and Bro. Billy Tan on 30th December 2015. This is the first in a new series of Q&A Forum with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Maha Thera. Traditionally, Western scholars have translated the Pali word "Satipatthana" as "mindfulness" which carries a diverse range of meanings and interpretations, amongst which is "pay attention to the present moment". Unfortunately,

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00:52:11

The Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Session 6

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/06/14

Q&A Forum (Session 6) on Sammā Sati (Harmonious Attention) & Sammā Samādhi (Harmonious Mental Equilibrium) at the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Mahathera and Ven. Dr. Dhammadinna Thero on the Sublime Eightfold Way on 1st September 2015. Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo/about Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com/ Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji/ --- Send in a voice message:

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00:47:06

The Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Session 5

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/06/08

Q&A Forum (Session 5) on Sammā Vāyāma (Harmonious Exercise) at the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Mahathera and Ven. Dr. Dhammadinna Thero on the Sublime Eightfold Way on 26th August 2015. Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo/about Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com/ Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ricardo-ortega79/message

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01:13:41

The Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Session 4

The Bhante Punnaji Podcast ·

2023/05/31

Q&A Forum (Session 4) at the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Mahathera and Ven. Dr. Dhammadinna Thero on the Sublime Eightfold Way. This session recorded on 25th August 2015 covers an elaboration of Sammā Vācā (Harmonious Speech), Sammā Kammanta (Harmonious Action), and Sammā Ājīva (Harmonious Lifestyle), collectively refered to as the Cultivation of Sīla. Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo/about Bhante's Website:

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