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File05_The_four_truths_pain_pleasure.mp3The Four Truths1354 viewsPatrick Kearney's Vipassana Retreat Talk at Bodhi Tree Monastery (2009)
Continuing with Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Turning the dharma wheel), we examine the four truths, and in particular how they show the Buddha's understanding of pleasure and pain. The truths provide the fundamental structure of the teaching. We see dukkha presented as the pain arising from our delusion and drivenness. Then we look at how Siddhartha, before he became Buddha, turned his practice around through a spontaneous memory from his childhood which stimulated the arising of a fundamental question: “Why am I afraid of pleasure?†The practice requires pleasure — but what kind of pleasure?
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Sallekha_Sutta_06_VI_Mahasi_Sayadaw_p43-53.mp3Sallekha Sutta - A Discourse on the Refinement of Character1353 views6. The Permanent Remedy
Sallekha Sutta by Mahasi Sayadaw, Translated by U Aye Maung (read by Ven. Rakkhita)
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18-chant-18.mp318. Vandana: Pali Devotional Chanting1349 views18. Vandana: Pali Devotional Chanting
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IMG0032.jpgLotus Flowers at the Birthday Ayya Khema 19931348 viewsSangha - Monks and Nuns in the Buddhist Community
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Episode_29.flvVidhura-Pandita Jataka: Episode 29 Series 31346 viewsVidhura-Pandita, the eloquent Sage
At one time , thousands of years ago, the Bodhisatta came to earth in the person of a sage named Vidhura-Pandita. He was no ordinary man of wisdom. His life's purpose was to speak the truth, and in such a way that men would be held spellbound by his voice.
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File13_Preparing_the_fire.mp3Preparing the Fire1346 viewsPatrick Kearney's Vipassana Retreat Talk at Bodhi Tree Monastery (2009)
Tonight we follow the Buddha from Baranasi back to the area where he practised before his awakening, the Nerañjara River near Gaya. First, at Baranasi, the Buddha awakens Yasa, the son of a rich banker. This is the first time the Buddha awakens a lay person, proving the dharma can be understood by the laity as well as by professional ascetics; and the first time the Buddha gives a “graduated discourse,†which becomes the basic template of his teaching method. Yet this is not counted as the third teaching. Why not?
After his successes in Baranasi the Buddha goes alone to visit Uruvela Kassapa, the important head of an order of dreadlocks ascetics. He spends at least a month performing miracles to convert Kassapa and his followers. Why was Kassapa so important? Finally the Buddha leads the newly converted ascetics to Gayasisa, near Gaya, to give them the third teaching, Adittapariyaya Sutta (Burning …).
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IMG0025.jpgBuddha Amitabha at The Fo Kuang Shang Monastery, Taiwan1345 viewsSangha - Monks and Nuns in the Buddhist Community
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Episode_23.flvBhuriddata Jataka: Episode 23 Series 11344 viewsJataka Buddhist Tale: History of the Naga Prince name Bhuridatta.
(Thai audio, with English and Chinese subtitles)
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heart_thirteen.mp3The "Perfection of Wisdom" (Part Thirteen)1339 viewsThe "Perfection of Wisdom" (Part Thirteen)
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3.mp3Basic Instructions1339 viewsPracticing Vipassana 03: The Basic Instructions
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