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Troubleshooting breath meditation | EN | Venarble Canda | Venabu 2026

This talk is a walkthrough of the Buddha's teachings on breath meditation based on the Anapanasati Sutta. It is also a troubleshooting guide that highlights the various p

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

The spiritual training is like aircon for your mind. Our body can be uncomfortable in a hot and humid climate. But air conditioning can really help. So too can our hot an

Continuation and Red Jackets | EN | Ajahn Nitho | Venabu 2025

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 fo

Mindfulness of death | EN | Venerable Canda | Venabu 2025*

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

Hindrances | EN | Ajahn Nitho | Venabu 2025

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 i

Loving kindness meditation | EN | Venerable Canda | Venabu 2025

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 wellbein

The importance of happiness | EN | Ajahn Nitho | Venabu 2025*

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

The gradual training | EN | Venerable Canda | Venabu 2025

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, m

The path to freedom | EN | Bhante Sujato*

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

What is jhana and samadhi | EN | Bhante Sujato

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, an

The four bases of mental power | EN | Bhante Sujato

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 pow

How the Buddha learned to meditate | EN | Bhante Sujato*

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 ho

Metta meditation | EN | Bhante Sujato

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 fee

Mindfulness meditation | EN | Bhante Sujato

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 w

How to practise after a retreat | EN | Venerable Canda

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

Wisdom − what it is, when will it arrise and how | EN | Ajahn Nitho*

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 perso

Loving kindness − what and how | EN | Venerable Canda*

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 a

Working with the senses | EN | Venerable Canda

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 min

The key to breath meditation | EN | Ajahn Nitho

Doing breath meditation ends sometimes up being dry and out of oomph, then try the advice of the Buddha. This talk is about the importance of joy, happiness and rapture f

What happiness is and how to get it | EN | Venerable Canda*

We all want more of happiness, and less suffering. What is the reason for happiness? What type of happiness should we pursue? What is the foundation and causes for happin