Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts
Dhamma Talks, Chanting, Precepts and Meditation with Ajahn Dhammasiha and other experienced Senior Buddhist Monks in the Theravada Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. Recorded at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Australia. Our website: https://www.dhammagiri.net Our Youtube Channel, including regular live streams on the weekend "Dhammatalks at Dhammagiri": https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Spotify Playlists are here: https://open.spotify.com/user/8z4dmrysnbbnjtz9f0wzjgcre .
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On the occasion of Venerable Thaniyo's (Alex Oliver) passing away yesterday afternoon Thursday 24 April 2025, we're re-publishing this episode of LP Liem's last visit at Dhammagiri, with the translation provided by Alex Oliver Ṭhāniyo.
Ajahn Thaniyo was know for his outstanding translating and interpreting skills, in particular for his teacher LP Liem, who he attended on with great care & dedication for many years.
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Please Note: Spotify deletes many of our Buddhist Chanting podcasts, claiming that they are 'Music', and that pure music tracks may not be uploaded to Spotify Podcasts. Personally, I disagree that our chanting constitutes 'Music', but there's not much point trying to argue with a bot.
Therefore, I have included a spoken introduction, to make it not exclusively 'music'. Similarly, after the paritta, I have added Luang Por Liem's adv...
We live in a world dominated by screens: Mobile Cell Phones, Tablets, Laptops, TV... When we look at these screens, our mind gets 'sucked in' and flows out into the www = "The Worldwide Net of Māra".
Our awareness disconnects form our physical body and gets lost in an external virtual dimension of images, videos, concepts and proliferations.
It's so important to bring awareness back into our physical body.
In...
We can be so fussy about our carpet and all kinds of things we protect from dirt and clean immediately if anything spoils them.
But why are we not even more concerned if we notice any impurity in our mind?
Why don't we immediately apply the Buddha's Dhamma as a cleansing agent whenever unwholesome emotions arise?
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Asking Forgiveness from Triple Gem.
Pouring Rinsing Water on Buddha statue and Monks hands as a sign of respect, gratitude and affection on New Year's Day in Sri Lankan, Thai, Myanmar, Cambodian & Lao traditin (13 April).
Ajahn Dhammasiha guides community through ceremony, and provides explanations of the deeper meaning of our ritual.
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Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a question posed by the audience:
How to deal with dukkha and let it go?
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With Thai, Sri Lankan & Myanmar New Year coming up, including the ceremony of pouring water on Buddha statues and on the monks' hands, Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about the symbolism of this ritual:
Just as we use water to clean our bodies, so the Buddha has given us the Dhamma as a purifying agent for our mind.
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During his visit to Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Australia, Ajahn Karuniko joined our silent afternoon meditation. After the walking meditation, he opened up for a Q&A session, as it was the last opportunity to receive any Dhamma from him, before his departure next day.
The first question is about the 5 Spiritual Faculties, and how they relate to developing the Noble 8-Fold Path.
Ajahn Karuniko was born in Greater...
During his visit to Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Australia, Ajahn Karuniko gave a special blessing to the small Buddha statues that we will enshrine in the upper circular niches of our Saddhamma Cetiya. He also encouraged us to use our stupa to focus our faith and gain inspiration to practise Dhamma.
Ajahn Karuniko was born in Greater Manchester, UK in 1953. After graduating in Electronic Engineering in 1975 he worked for ...
There are different kinds of happiness, and we have to learn to mindfully distinguish them.
Some kinds of joy we do not indulge in, like partying with alcohol & drugs; or hurting others as revenge for what they did to us.
Other kinds of happiness we deliberately develop, like helping other beings, sharing, generosity, keeping ethical standards, calm & peace, and in particular the blissful joy we can experience in meditation.
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As followers of the Buddha, are we devoted to the persuit of pleasure?
Amazingly, and perhaps even counterintuitively, the answer is actually 'Yes"!
It's not every kind of pleasure, though: we're not persuing happiness based on sensual indulgence, or anything causing harm to other beings. We only persue wholesome, spiritual pleasure, like the happiness one gets from practising generosity and helping other beings;
or the blameless h...
Ajahn Dhammasiha reads out and discusses Anguttara Nikāya / Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, Book of Fours, No 21.
Shortly after his supreme awakening, the Buddha reflects that without anything to look up to and respect and revere, one dwells in suffering.
However, not finding any being in the whole universe that would exceed him in virtue, or samādhi, or wisdom, or release, the Buddha decides to respect, honour and esteem the Sa...
Ajahn Dhammasiha explains the project to enshrine ultra-long lasting ceremic tablets into our Saddhamma Stupa, inscribed with the most essential suttas.
All practitioners of the Dhamma should have their own little anthology of suttas and verses that they really like, to learn by heart, to contemplate, to recite again and again, and to practise & realize.
Ajahn gives examples of uniquely profound suttas, and explains what makes th...
When we contemplate the 4 elements of earth, water, fire and wind, we need conviction that there exists an escape beyond these elements. Without that confidence, a complete materialist would feel very despondent when reflecting on the unreliable, unpredictable and uncontrollable nature of the elements.
However, if we have faith in the Buddha's teaching that one actually can go beyond, then through contemplation & insight int...
With Cyclone Alfred and heavy flooding just having passed over Brisbane, Ajahn Dhammasiha offers reflections on the 4 elements (Cātu Mahābhūta/Dhātu).
As the cyclone showed, these 4 material elements of earth, water, fire and wind are unreliable, uncertain, unpredictable and lead to suffering.
Fortunately, we can free our mind from attachment to the 4 elements through contemplation and insight, to realize the state that is beyond re...
Equanimity, in Pali 'Upekkhā', means letting go of likes and dislikes. Neither aversion nor attraction. The mind is even, balanced, neither attached nor repulsed by whatever sense impressions impinge on us.
However, Ajahn Dhammasiha points out that we have to develop Equanimity based on wisdom, insight and understanding. There's a danger that we may mistake states of indifference, carlessness, or even subtle aversion for Upekkhā. Th...
Towards the end of the session, Ajahn Dhammasiha is passed a note with several existential questions:
- How could I find meaning in life?
- Why am I not happy?
- How can I find inner peace?
- I can't find my way!
- Am I stupid?
Ajahn tries to respond as succinct as possible within the remaining 15 minutes of the session.
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Our culture encourages activity, going out and doing something. We're constantly busy managing our lives, trying to control our environment, trying to influence the behaviour of other persons.
In this Dhamma talk, Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to give more attention to the quiet, passive quality of observing. Not interfering at all, but to mindfully know, to be aware of whatever is happening. In particular, to be aware of whatever...
Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a variety of questions from a student of University of Queensland, and from other members of the audience.
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The Buddha didn't realize awakening only for himself and was perfect in knowledge and conduct and developed supreme purity, compassion, wisdom and liberation but also had immeasurable compassion and an unique ability to teach and lead others to realize awakening themselves.
This made him "the unsurpassable teacher" (anuttaro purisadamma sārathi, lit.: "the unsurpassable trainer of trainable people), one of the unique qualities of t...
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