Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts

Retraining the Faultfinding Mind | Focus on Joyful Events to Counter Depression | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Ajahn Dhammasiha explains how the faultfinding mind can deprive us of happiness, and even drive us into depression. If we're stuck in the negative feedback loop of comp

Nirvana is NOT Nothing | There IS an Unborn, Uncreated, Unconditioned | Nibbana | Ajahn Dhammasiha

The final goal of Dhamma practice, what it's all about, is to realize Nibbāna (Sanskrit: Nirvāṇa ). It's important to have an accurate understanding of our final object

Knowing, Not Interfering | Insight through Awareness | Vipassana | Ajahn Dhammasiha

To develop insight, vipassana, we have to learn to observe uninterested. We have to be like an objective researcher. We know what we experience, without reacting, interfe

Remember Your Good Actions! | Recollection of Generosity | Caganussati | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Some people think: "When I do something good, I just do it and then forget about it. That's what the Buddha would want us to do." No, this is not what the Buddha teac

What is Dear to Us will Bring us Suffering | Attachment is the Cause of Our Pain | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about one of the more challenging teachings of the Buddha: "Grief, pain, sorrow, frustration, depression and despair are born from what is dear t

Starting Dhammagiri 20 Years Ago | First Forest Monastery in Brisbane | Ajahn Dhammasiha

20 years ago on 13 August 2006, Brisbane Buddhist Vihara Inc (BBV) decided at a Special General Meeting to invite Ajahn Dhammasiha, to start a Forest Monastery associated

Letting Go of Illusion of Ownership | Abandoning Mine-Making | Nekkhamma | Ajahn Dhammasiha

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about Nekkhamma = Letting Go To truly renounce, to truly let go, we have to investigate the process of attachment hap

Enjoying Life in Italy vs Getting Out of Samsara | Zest for Life vs Disenchantment | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Ajahn Dhammasiha shares how much he liked Italy and Rome at his recent visit to Santacittarama Monastery in Sabina, Italy. He was surprised how easy it is to get lost i

4 Noble Truths | First Teaching of Buddha | Entry to Rains Retreat | Dhammacakka | Ajahn Dhammasiha

The full moon in July marks one of the most important dates in the Buddhist calendar: Asalha Puja (Esala), the start of the Rains Retreat / Vassa for the Buddhist monas

Yourself and Dhamma is Your Only Refuge | Attadipa Viharatha | Dhamma Talk | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Ajahn Dhammasiha quotes and shares reflections on Samyutta Nikāya 22.43 (Connected Discourses of the Buddha, 22.43): "Attadīpā, bhikkhave, viharatha attasaraṇā anaññasa

Harmony | Letting Go of Preferences to Preserve Concord | Samaggi | Ajahn Dhammasiha

One of the most important conditions for progress in one's Dhamma practice and bhavana is harmony in the community one is living in, whether it's the monastic sangha, a l

Feeling the Whole Body in Breath Meditation | Anapanasati | Mindfulness of Breathing | Ajahn Dhammasiha

In the Buddha's own instructions for Breath Meditation (Anapanasati), the third step is: "Sabba-kaya-patisamvedi assasissami/passasissamit ti sikkhati" "One trains one

Protection against Snake Bite | Loving Kindness to Snakes | Khandhaparitta | Ajahn Dhammasiha

The Buddha has given a special Pali Recitation to protect the monks (or anyone) against snake bite, the Khandhaparitta. The power of this protection rests mostly on dev

Contentment is the greatest wealth - Dhammapada Verse 204 | Teachings of the Buddha | Ajahn Moneyyo

A teaching on Dhammapada Verse 204 of the Buddha: Contentmet is the greatest wealth.How can we relate to our material posessions in a skillfull way, so that we use them f

Ven. Maha Moggallana - The Master of Psychic Powers - Great Disciples of the Buddha | Early Buddhism

The Buddha says that every perfectly awakened one has a pair of monk disciples who are the most outstanding among all the several thousand Arahants (completely liberated

Great Disciples of the Buddha - Introduction - The benefits of recollecting the Sangha | Meditation | Ajahn Moneyyo

The Buddha was not only perfect in knowledge and conduct and developed supreme purity, compassion, wisdom and liberation but he was also the unsurpassable trainer of trai

Ven. Sariputta - The Greatest Disciple of the Buddha foremost in wisdom | Great Disciples of the Buddha

The Buddha says that every perfectly awakened one has a pair of monk disciples who are the most outstanding amongall the several thousand Arahants (completely liberated d

Thinking in Meditation | Vitakka & Bhavana | Buddhist Meditation and Thoughts | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about thoughts coming up while we're meditating. How can we abandon unwholesome thoughts, and can we perhaps even use thoughts to further our med

Faith Follower vs Wisdom Follower | Saddhanusari vs Dhammanusari | Noble Disciples | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked about the meaning of Saddhanusari and Dhammanusari. Both are considered 'Noble Individuals' by the Buddha, although they have not yet attained

Ajahn Dhammasiha Visiting Monasteries in Europe | Buddhist Monasteries in the Tradition of Ajahn Chah

Ajahn Dhammasīha describes monasteries of the Ajahn Chah tradition that he's going to visit on his travels from 13 May to 21 June. Talking about the 'Incineration Toile