Downloadable Dhamma Talks & Writings of Thanissaro Bhikkhu of Metta Forest Monastery (Wat Metta)

This site offers freely downloadable Dhamma talks, books and essays by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Phra Geoffrey DeGraff, or Ajaan Geoff), a senior monk in the Kammatthana (Thai Forest) tradition of Theravada Buddhism. All talks and written materials listed here are in English, but Thanissaro Bhikkhu's Thai Dhamma Talks from 2003 onwards are also available.

 

New items: Thanissaro Bhikkhu has recently contributed a number of additional items, including the following:

New essay Head & Heart Together: Bringing Wisdom to the Brahmaviharas

English Dhamma talks from May & June 2009 (see below on this page)

Downloadable audio & readings from Saskatoon June 2009 weekend retreat by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Thai Dhamma Talks from all of 2008

A special collection of Dhamma talks selected by the Wat Metta Sangha for practitioners

Newly released book of Dhamma talks Meditations4

The Shape of Suffering: A Study of Dependent Co-arising

The Paradox of Becoming

Essays

Ignorance

The Joy of Effort

Study guides

The Ten Recollections

A Burden Off the Mind: A Study Guide on the Five Aggregates

 

In addition to links to mp3 files, the Dhamma talk links now include cross-references to edited transcripts of selected Dhamma talks. Please also note that mp3 files with an LF notation at the beginning of the name indicate recordings of somewhat lower audio fidelity.

Dhammatalks site administrators, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. June 19, 2009.

Dhamma Talks

2009

June Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Equanimity Isn't Nibbana

Tools of Perception

Dhamma Warrior

Inner Refuge

Lust

Pride in Your Craft

Question Your Defilements

The Lightning Bolt

Choices in the Present

Acceptance

May Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Self-starting

Animals in the Mind

The Mind in Good Shape

Strength of Conviction

The Fires of Sensuality

Getting Yourself

A Questioning Attitude

The Path Is & Isn't the Goal

Imagining Freedom

Full Body Breath

Why We Train the Mind

The Buddha's Narrative

Befriending the Breath

The Importance of Being Focused

April Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

The Practice of Right View

A Soiled, Oily Rag (3 Perceptions in Context)

A Position of Strength

Three Virtues for the Mind

Faith in the Buddha's Awakening

In Cahoots with Your Defilements

Shame & Acceptance

Appreciation

Mindful, Alert & Ardent

The Time & Place to Let Go

Wisdom for Dummies

The Five Hindrances

A Clean Break at Death

Learning from What You Do

Fear & Anger

Letting Go

Wise Choices

March Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Refuge

The Fourth Frame of Reference

Basic Intro

Taking an Active Role

The Wisdom of Merit

Permission to Play

February Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Freedom & Security

Preparing to Die Well

Honesty

Mastery

The Buddha's Investment Strategy

A Recipe for Jhana

Choosing Not to Suffer

Recovery Skills

The Evening News

January Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Circumspection

The Four Jhanas

The Limits of Old Kamma

Endurance Made Easier

Caring without Clinging

The Will to Awaken

Control from Within

Actualizing Your Potentials

A Trustworthy Mind

The Truth of Consistency

Inconstancy

Success on the Path

Balancing Tranquility & Insight

Thinking Your Way to Stillness

Ajaan Lee - Conciousnesses

The Lotus in the Mud

The Resolve to Let Go

Abusing Pleasure & Pain

2008

December Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

A Frame of Reference

Basic Steps

The Uses of Concentration

The Freedom to Give

Moving Between Thought Worlds

A Well Thatched Roof

Step Outside Your Culture

Knowing the Body from Within

The Duties of Compassion

Values

Your Big Sister

The Four Precepts

The Heart Leaps Up

The Four Properties

The Luminous Mind

The Rivers of Karma

A Meditative Environment

Your Quiet Corner

An Island in the Flood

Make a Refuge for Yourself

November Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

The Karma of Pleasure

Generating Desire

Beyond Inter-eating

The Center of Your Life

The Mind's Many Potentials

Achieving Balance

A Stranger to Your Thoughts

Goodwill First & Last

Mindfulness as Protection

Feeling Your Way

The Good Fight

Stay Right There

When Things Aren't Going Well

The Brahmaviharas on the Path

Centered on the Breath

The Fangs of Ignorance

True Friends & False

Giving Meaning to Life

Absorbed in the Body

Attachment vs. Affection

Ingenuity

Staying in Position

October Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Acceptance

Unnecessary Burdens

Do You Want to Be Free

Taking Refuge

The Brightness of the World

The Ways of the World

In Charge of Your World

Serious About Happiness

Truths of the Will

Xtreme Drama

Assumptions

Caring for the Mind

The Escape of Discipline

Wise Work

Your Inner Adult

Questioning & Conviction

Taking the Buddha at his Word

Facing Your Responsibilities

September Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

There Is This

Breathaholic

Digging Up Resistence

Putting the Practice into Practice

The Uses of Fear

The Uses of Equanimity

The Conditions for Knowledge

Medicine-Timely & Timeless

Complexity

The Context for No Context

Evaluation

An Ennobling Pleasure

Establishing Priorities

To Be Your Own Teacher

Thinking Your Way to Stillness

A Solid Support

August Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

True Protection for the World

Your Own Best Friend

Turtle Meditation

Things In and Of Themselves

Arising & Passing Away

The Wisdom of Tenacity

Perfections as Priorities

A Dhamma Map

Brain Pollution

The Ennobling Path

Inhabiting the Body

The Wounded Warrior

Working at Home

A Dependable Mind

Learning How to Learn

What's Next

Battling Negativity

You Can't Eat the Buddha

A Slave to Craving

The Breath In and Of Itself

How to Feed Mindfulness

The Buddha's Therapy

July Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Good Eating

Settling In

An Auspicious Birth

Taking Charge of Your Life

Pleasure from the Body

Strength of Intelligence

Investment Strategies

Intoxication

Defensive Position

A Pleasure Not to Be Feared

Volunteer Spirit

Creatures of Habit

Determination

Completing the Refuge

The Four Duties

Embodied Awareness

Dharma Medicine

Horror Stories

To Comprehend Suffering

Directing Yourself Rightly

Coming to Your Senses

Dwelling in the Observer

A Philosophy of Feeding

The Wilderness Tradition

Training Heart & Mind

Independence Day

Faith in Nirvana

Carrying Your Duties Lightly

Questioning Everything

June Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Dealing with Distractions

The Quest for Inner Happiness

A Lotus from the Mud

The Heightened Mind

Thoughts with Fangs

The Persistent Gardener

Against Your Type

Simple vs. Right Mindfulness

Strength from Within

Mindfulness, Concentration & Discernment

Wise Effort

May Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

An Anthropologist from Mars

Feeding Your Attack Dogs

Always Willing to Learn

Fabricating Against Defilement

Faith in the Buddha's Awakening

In Terms of the Four Noble Truths

A Blameless Happiness

A Sustaining Happiness

The Body In & Of Itself

Training the Mind

Potentials in the Present

Mindfulness Immersed in the Breath

Lessons Learned in the Breath

Harmony

The Brahmaviharas & Karma

April Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Trial & Error

New Eyes

Merit & Skill

Coming into the Present

A Sense of Where You Are

Sensitivity & Strength

Dharma Warriors

Dimensions of Right Effort

A Quiet Corner

March Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Even Shame Can Be Skillful

Taking Risks

A Doctor's Strategies

Why We Meditate

At Home in Your Own Skin

The Meditation Game

The Gift of the Practice

Finding Balance

A Walking Ad for the Dhamma

No Running Away

Between You & Your Eyes

The Right Attitude to the Body

Diseases of the Mind

Meditation as Fabrication

Meditation as Karma

The Value of Merit

Ignorance

Where is Here

Becoming Trustworthy

Wilderness Lessons (Edited Transcript)

The Buddha's Medicine

The Humble Way to Awakening

In Debt to Generosity

February Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Karma & Rebirth (Edited Transcript)

Sweat the Small Stuff (Edited Transcript)

Hindrances Based on Delusion

Outside the Culture

Opening the Dhamma Eye

The Heart of the Buddha's Teachings

Five Strengths

Basic Breath Instructions

Connect the Dots

Down to Essentials

The Path Has a Goal (Edited Transcript)

On the Path of the Breath (Edited Transcript)

Directing (& Not Directing) the Mind

Overcoming Delusion

Looking Off to the Side

Good & Bad Meditation (Edited Transcript)

You've Got What It Takes

Judging Your Meditation

Safe Territory

January Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

The Riddle of I Am

Meditation Prep

Expert's Mind

Skillful Thinking

Patience & Curiosity

Playing the Lute

Good Traditions

This Body, Too

Practice Letting Go

Consistency

The Joy of Merit

A Death in the Family

The Buddha's Shoulds (Edited Transcript)

The Buddha's 16 Steps

The Five Strengths

Harmony Improv

2007

December Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Sense of Direction

Samaratrophia

Start by Relaxing Your Hands

Right Effort

The Need for Evaluation

Right Livelihood (Edited Transcript)

The Skill of Restraint (Edited Transcript)

Step Back

A Skillful Attitude

Eyes in the Back of Your Head

A Happiness Based Inside

Wherever You Go, There You Aren't

Cooking Food for the Mind

Primed to Suffer

Transparent Becoming

How to Be Alone (Edited Transcript)

Talking to Yourself

November Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

To Comprehend Suffering

One Foot in the Present

Right Action

Attached to Concentration

Right Speech

Connoisseur of the Breath

Set Your Heart on the Breath

Goodness Comes from Heedfulness

Right Resolve

Right View (Edited Transcript)

Basic Stuff

Proactive Mindfulness

A Mind Like Wind (or Radical Skepticism) (Edited Transcript)

Whatever It Takes

The Safety of Jhana

Self Reliance

Strategic Thinking

A Slave to the Dhamma

Understanding Happiness

A Home for the Mind

Precarious Knowledge

October Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Your Inner Teacher

Escape Routes in the Present

Nourishment from the Breath

After the Fire

The Garden of Enlightenment

A Sense of Adventure (Edited Transcript)

Disenchantment (Edited Transcript)

Staying True

Doing, Maintaining, Using

Training the Mind

At Normalcy

Bases for Success

Gnawing Old Bones

Stay Tuned (Edited Transcript)

Admirable Friendship

Antidotes for Clinging (Edited Transcript)

What Are You Doing Right Now

Why We Meditate

Samvega & Pasada

Training Like an Adult

September Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Make Yourself Small

Lessons From the Breath

Stupid About Pleasure (Edited Transcript)

The Shape of a Circle

Protection

Goodwill

Calming the Breath

A Post by the Ocean (Edited Transcript)

Analyzing Results

The Strength of Conviction

AB Skillful Effort

Refuge

Pushing the Three Characteristics

The Identity Crutch

Seeing Distinctions

To Practice Dying

The Joy of Effort (Edited Transcript)

The Larger Picture

Radical Questioning

Guardian Meditations

Advice for a New Monk

August Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Timeless Dhamma

The Buddha Didn't Play Gotcha (Edited Transcript)

Terror & Revulsion

Don't Believe Everything You Think

A Wealthy Memory

Not What You Are, What You Do (Edited Transcript)

Loving Yourself

Three Perceptions (Edited Transcript)

Resources for Endurance

Rottweilers in the House

One Point, Two Points, Many Points (Edited Transcript)

The Reality of Emotions

Be Observant

The Best Use of Your Time

Beyond Nature (Edited Transcript)

Experimental Intelligence (Edited Transcript)

A Special Time

Oozing Bodies, Oozing Minds

The Raft of Concepts (Edited Transcript)

Oneness (Edited Transcript)

The Taste and the Reality (Edited Transcript)

July Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Distractive Thoughts

Making an Effort

The Dhamma Eye

Easy to Instruct

A Slave to Craving

At Home in Jhana

Start with Yourself

Becoming (Edited Transcript)

Factors for Stream Entry

Strategic Wisdom

The Entertaining Breath

Lessons in Happiness

A Private Matter (Edited Transcript)

June Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

To Understand the Path

Actor & Experiencer

Dharma Medicine

Emotion

Focus on the Doing

Respect for Happiness

Wisdom through Training

Look at Yourself

Fear of Death

Universal Truths (Edited Transcript)

In the Land of Wrong View

Normalcy (Edited Transcript)

Guardian Meditations (Edited Transcript)

Four Virtues

The Noble Search for Happiness

Honesty

The Wheel of Dhamma

Fighting Off Ignorance

Respecting Death

May Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Visakha Puja - True Homage

The Power of Perception

Questioning the Hindrances

Circumspection

Right & Right

Body & Food

What's Not on the Map

Meditator, Mediator

Centered in the Body

Our Variegated Minds

April Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Disenchantment

All of a Piece

The Karma of Ideas

Energy Channels

Wilderness Wealth

Introduction-Meditation as Skill

A Gift of Strength

A Game of Chess

Bad Friends Inside

Elephant Training

Shoulds & Ideals

Cutting Through the Hype

The Wealth of Simplicity

Old Movies & New

Flexibility

Dependable Friends

What Are You Bringing

Shoot Your Pains with Wisdom

A Mind Like Earth

Free from Buddha Nature

March Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

The Buddha's Rules of Order

Two Kinds of Middle

Strength Training

The Path of Mistakes (Edited Transcript)

Limitations

Fabrication Theory

Reading Your Meditation

Stay

A Refuge from Modern Values

At Home with the Breath

Overwhelmed by Freedom

Finding Balance

A Safe Harbor

Learning How to Learn

Harmless & Clear Headed

Ardency

Two Kinds of Seclusion

Living Forwards Understanding Backwards

Ironies

How to See for Yourself

February Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Turning Points

The Power of Truth

Feeding on Rapture

Right Effort

Refuge

Heedful & Alert

Evaluation

The Path of Happiness

January Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Head & Heart

Holding On to the Path

Technique & Attitudes

Wisdom & Compassion

Conceit (Edited Transcript)

A Warrior's Strengths

The Pursuit of Pleasure

The Sublime Attitudes in Context

Trustworthy Intentions

Well-being Despite It All

Effective Self-Discipline

Bare Attention

2006

December Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

New Year's Blessing

Mountains Moving In

Genuine Goodness

Attitude (Edited Transcript)

To Discern Suffering

Guardian Meditations

What You Bring to the Moment

November Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Balancing the Bases for Concentration

The Noble Path to Happiness

A Matter of Life & Death

Taking Responsibility

Bring the Right Attitude

Singleminded

Endurance

Truths of the Will

Exercising the Mind

Allowing the Breath to Spread

Goodwill All Around

October Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Life's First Question

Feeding Frenzy! Dependent Co-arising

Precept Meditation

May I Be Happy (Edited Transcript)

The Perfection of Freedom

Practicing Your Scales

Worlds Inside & Out

Close to What You Know

Independent Values

A Wilderness Mind at Home

The Riddle Tree

Train Hopping

Before Your Face Was Born

Noble Happiness

Right View

Doing, Maintaining, Using

A World of Limitations

The Humane Quality of the Path

September Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Truth as Medicine

Respect for Concentration

Baby Dhamma

On Not Being a Victim

Energy & Efficiency

The Hall of Mirrors

Enlarged Awareness

The Thinking Cure

Conserving Your Strength

Discernment Purifies the Mind

Keep It Simple

Testing Karma

Training in Happiness

Different Minds, Different Bodies

Basic Meditation Instuctions

Freedom

August Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

The Right Medicine

Looking for Trouble

Your Quiet Corner

Slogging Through Difficulties

Clear of Defilement

The Seven Factors for Awakening

Cutting Roads

Levels of the Breath

A Point of Balance

The Bridge to Concentration

Control

The Trick to Staying in Place

Ingenuity

Mindfulness & Perception

The Buddha's Secret Weapon

Right Livelihood

Discernment

A Strong Mind

The Four Noble Truths

Befriending the Breath

Just Rightness

Staying Normal

July Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Patterns to Happiness

Ways to Think

Pain & Distraction

How Completion Is Found

Taking Apart Suffering

Pulling Out of the Narratives

The Energy in the Body

Walking Meditation - Stillness in Motion (Edited Transcript)

Keep the Mind from Wandering

Gaining the Dhamma Eye

Putting Out the Fires

The Mind Isn't Hot

With Reference to the World

Immediate Knowledge

Asalha Puja - Completeness

Control

An End to Suffering

Weak Friends

People Suffer from Their Thinking

A Good Mood to Meditate

Strategies for Generosity

The Adventure in the Present

June Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

A Positive Sum Game

Equanimity Isn't Apathy (Edited Transcript)

Building on Certainty

The Basic Pattern (Edited Transcript)

One Thing Clear Through (Edited Transcript)

Mind Control

Chew Your Food (Edited Transcript)

A Thread Out of the Maze

The Focus on Suffering

Booster Stages

Crossing the River

Getting into the Body

Centered on Concentration

A Refuge Inside

The Form of the Body

May Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

The Regularity of the Dhamma (Edited Transcript)

Alternative Conceptions

The Duty to Understand

Think Like a Thief

Read the Breath

The Balance of Power

Visakha Puja

Identifying Weeds

Skill

The Acrobat

Duties in the Present

April Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Appropriate Attention

Good at Thinking

How to Straighten Out the World

A Refuge from Death

Mindfulness Defined (Edited Transcript)

Step Outside the World

Analyzing Suffering

Tenacity

Equanimity (Edited Transcript)

Our Sense of Self

The Wheel of Dhamma

The Rhythm of Karma (Edited Transcript)

The World of the Body

March Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Informing the Whole Committee

A Safe Home

Chopping Off Thoughts

Mange in the Mind

Trustworthy Judgment

The Path of Adventure

Common Sense

Friendship

February Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Not Swept Away

Cleanliness Is Next to Mindfulness (Edited Transcript)

On Human Nature

Giving Ballast to the Mind

Intoxication

Finding Your Own Balance

Heirs to Our Actions

January Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Straightening Out the World

Harmony Inside & Outside

Skillful in Everything

Commit Yourself

Hunker Down

Unskillful Voices

Afraid of Pleasure

Starting from Within

The Middle Way

Seeing with the Body (Edited Transcript)

Free to Do the Right Thing

Judging the Dhamma

Engaging the Whole Mind

2005

December Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Proving the Teachings

Directing the Flow

In Your Power

The Strength to See

Death Is All Around

Honesty & Integrity

Feel Good Religion

Self-Hatred

November Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Maintenence Work

Body as Path

Inner Poise

Path Is in the Details, The

Truths of the Will

Your Inner Teacher

Impatient Stories (Edited Transcript)

Best Friends

Mindreading

Solid Inside

Steady Intentions (Edited Transcript)

Languages of the Mind

Room of Your Own, A

Good Work

October Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Kathina, The

Reliable Action

Purity Comes Through Discernment

Contentment

Eeeels

Dualistic Path, The

Kind & Happy

Exercising Discernment

Balanced Concentration

Unified Committee, A

Safe at Home

Challenge of Right View, The

Attahi Attano Nattho

Mental Experiments (Edited Transcript)

Karma that Ends Karma, The (Edited Transcript)

Fear of Death (Edited Transcript)

Pure Action

All Your Old Baggage

Marshalling the Emotions (Edited Transcript)

Language of the Breath, The

What Focus, What Breath

Food of Feelings, The

September Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Intelligent Design (Edited Transcript)

Ignorance & Deception

Skillful Attachments

Doubting the Buddha

False Friends

Solidly Established

Remarkable Qualities

Monastery Standard Time

Hypocrisy

True to the Breath

Totally Secure

Beyond Duality

Self Esteem

True to the Practice

Staying Inside the Body (Edited Transcript)

Comfortable With the Truth

How the Dhamma Protects

Your Inner Mob (Edited Transcript)

Where Brightness Is

Listening to the Body

Examined Life, An

Metta Meditation

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People Who Think Too Much

Things as They've Come to Be (Edited Transcript)

Truth Is Where You're True

Reflecting on the Requisites

Stop Weaving

Give It Your All

Respect for the Mind

Urgency & Contentment

Evaluation

Perception (Edited Transcript)

Hour of Bliss, An

Seclusion

Deconstructing Suffering

Expanding Your Awareness

This Fathom Long Body

Friends With Pain

Breathing Game, The

Unparadoxical Happiness

Web of Pain,The

Battling Darkness (Edited Transcript)

Doing Nothing

Working Ourselves Free

Pleasure & Pain

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Good Narrative, A

Sophisticated Dhamma

Balanced Breathing

Agreements to Perceive

Practical Wisdom

Worldly Dhammas

Catch It in the Act

Focus on One Thing

True to the Teachings

No Preferences

When This Is, That Is

Range of Potentials, A

Your Secret Foundation

Path Requires Effort, The

Reasonable Path, The

Environment for Practice, An

Mind Set Tall, The

Gratification

Breath by Breath

Guided Meditation

Doubt vs. Questioning

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Path of Giving, The

Wheel of Dhamma, The

Equanimity of a Cow, The

Using What You've Got

Good Friends Inside

In-line with the Dhamma

Sucked into the Tube

Up for the Challenge

Solo Practice

Mundane Right View

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Rewards of Cleanliness, The

Allies

Around in Circles

Self Control

Goodwill for All Beings

Licking Yourself Clean (Edited Transcript)

Rooted in Desire

Karma of Self & Not-self, The

Equanimity as a Factor of Awakening

Decent Education, A (Edited Transcript)

Truthfulness

Always Looking Inside

Getting Familiar with Concentration

Training for Happiness

Your Nose Above Water (Edited Transcript)

Humorous Perspective, A (Edited Transcript)

Worthy of Trust

Mental Balance

Value of Concentration, The

End of Uncertainty, The (Edited Transcript)

Constancy of the Body, The

Challenge, The

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Leaving Meditation

Cost of Happiness, The

Ekaggata

Middle Way, The

Karma & Not-self

Analyzing the Breath (Edited Transcript)

Pleasure & Pain (Edited Transcript)

Three Levels of Concentration, The (Edited Transcript)

Quality

Need for Stillness, The

Restraint of the Senses (Edited Transcript)

Breath Energies

Stay with the Breath

Active Truth, The (Edited Transcript)

Even Keel, An

Multi-lingual Mind, A (Edited Transcript)

Willingness to Learn

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Investing Your Intention

Guarantee of Concentration, The

Everybody Suffers

Heedful of Small Dangers

Monologue on the Breath

Watch What You're Doing

Comfortable with Yourself

Patience

Specifics

Renunciation

Friends (Edited Transcript)

Top Priority

Purity of Heart

Open Committee, The

Settling In

At Ease with the Breath

Is It Worth It

Problem of Suffering, The

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Virtue

Meditation as Skill

Giving Weight

Objectivity

Magha Puja

Peace of Mind

Hobo Mind

Your Center (Edited Transcript)

Introduction to the Breath

Cause & Effect

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Saints Don't Cry, The (Edited Transcript)

Wandering Aimlessly

SF Source of Goodness, The

SF Slowing Down to Look

Standing Where the Buddha Stood (Edited Transcript)

Breath Meditation

Buddha's Qualities, The

Painful Thinking

Frustrated Desires

Human Condition, The (Edited Transcript)

Desire

Self Esteem (Edited Transcript)

Joyous Discernment

Protection from Fools

2004

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Auspicious Year, An

Resisting the Dhamma

Four Noble Truths, The (Edited Transcript)

Balanced Meditation

Past Intentions, Present Intentions

Creating Reality

Seeing Requires Focus

Desire to Practice, The

Respect for the Dhamma

Staying in the Now

Sense of Humor, A

Complexity

Freedom Undefined (Edited Transcript)

Customs of the Noble Ones, The

New Framework, A

Suppressed Emotions (Edited Transcript)

Observation

Handful of Leaves, A

Long-term Trends

Seven Treasures, The

Independence

Path of Action, The

Guiding Truths (Edited Transcript)

Mindstorms (Edited Transcript)

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Habits of Perception (Edited Transcript)

Luxury of Meditation, The

Source of Goodness, The

Unskillful Thinking

Life Well Lived

Friendly with the Present

Feeding Your Own Mind

Finding Happiness

Worldly Effort

Battle Tactics

Purity

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Noble Aspiration, A

Power of Choice, The

Decartes' Error

Wheel of Dharma, The

Deep Thoughts (Edited Transcript)

Interest in the Breath, An

Using the World

Your Own Karma

Listening to the Practice

Science of Meditation, The

Developing Concentration

Respect for the Training

Doing the Practice

Using the Body (Edited Transcript)

Spectrum of Skillfulness, The

Count Yourself Lucky

Battling Distraction

Point of Suffering, The

Creativity & Play (Edited Transcript)

Sowing Good Seeds (Edited Transcript)

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Events In & Of Themselves

Relating to the Breath

Taming Desire

Disenchantment & Dispassion

Immersed in the Body (Edited Transcript)

Peaks & Valleys

Clean, Bright House, A

Adjusting the Practice

Appreciating the Path

Becoming Consummate

Patience

Deep Understanding

Constellations of Stress

Polished on All Sides

Process of Insight, The

Worthy of Respect

Irresponsibility

Gladdening the Mind (Edited Transcript)

Your Own Best Friend

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Right Fear

Learning to Learn

Enjoying the Path

Strategies for Happiness (Edited Transcript)

Overcoming Obstacles

Main Skill, The

Over and Over Again

Happiness

Tuning the Practice

Fabricating the Present (Edited Transcript)

Teacher Inside, The

Give Your All

Causal Chains

Catcher in the Rye, The

Good-natured Attitude, A

Responsible for Yourself

Middleness of the Path, The (Edited Transcript)

Truth of Your Focus, The

Magic Set of Tools, A (Edited Transcript)

Continental Shelf, The

Questioning Impermanence

Mature Concentration

Using Comfort

Disposable Worlds

Intended Happiness (Edited Transcript)

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Homage Through the Practice

Seclusion

Mature Strategies (Edited Transcript)

Days Fly Past (Edited Transcript)

Grass at the Gate, The (Edited Transcript)

Greater Happiness, A

Exploring on Your Own (Edited Transcript)

Maintaining Goodwill

Healing Work

Gentle Touch, A

Voices in the Mind

Testing Insights

Physicist's Approach, A

Labels

Go, Do Jhana (Edited Transcript)

Inner Baggage

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Culture Shock (Edited Transcript)

Single-minded Determination (Edited Transcript)

Embodying the Dhamma

Community of the Wise, The

Self-Identity View

Preparedness

Breath Meditation

Heedfulness Is the Path (Edited Transcript)

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Maintaining Stillness

Counterintuitive Happiness

Relaxed Focus, A

Trust in Heedfulness (Edited Transcript)

Slave to the Defilements, A

Direction & Determination

Simple & Basic

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Good Inner Relationship, A

Appropriate Attention

Stairway Up, The (Edited Transcript)

Desire & Reality

Wish for Happiness, The

Entitlement, A Sense of (Edited Transcript)

Load of Straw, A (Edited Transcript)

Developing Your Potential

High Level Dhamma

Stepping Back

Freedom to Choose

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Unnecessary Suffering

Intelligent Heart, The

Gratitude, Goodwill & Generosity

Barriers in the Heart (Edited Transcript)

Real Issues, The

Shaping Your Life

Island in the Flood, An

Intro to Breath Meditation

Life Crises

Focus on the Doing

Routing Strong Emotions

Rhythms of the Practice

Customs of the Noble Ones

Lionhearted

Learning by Experiment

Fighting Attitude

Misguided Intentions

Virtue

Purifying the Mind

Essense of Discernment, The

Making an Effort

Friends in Death

Body Contemplation (Edited Transcript)

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Cutting Through Disturbances

Wise Choices

Mental Stirrings

Breath's Potential, The

Big-heartedness

Unexpected Insights

Unskillful Habits

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Fullness of the Breath, The

Walls of Ignorance, The (Edited Transcript)

Four Bases of Success, The (Edited Transcript)

Laying the Infrastructure (Edited Transcript)

Hope

Why the Breath

Staying Power

Insight from the Breath

Alert Stillness, An

Shifting Your Paradigm

Healing the Mind

Right Inner Speech

2003

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Happy New Year, A

Three Characteristics, The

Pure Happiness, A

Our Primary Responsibility

Exploring What You've Got

Insight in Concentration

Self-Reliance

Heart of the Path, The

Limitless Thoughts

The Ennobling Path

Getting to Know the Breath

Humility (Edited Transcript)

Just This Breath (Edited Transcript)

Much Better Place, A

Noble Heart, A

Little Things, The

Testing Your Insights

Lightening Our Burdens

Close to the Heart (Edited Transcript)

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Learning from the Breath

Changing Your Mind

Getting Out of the Road

No Need to Feed

Minding Your Own Business

Take Care (Edited Transcript)

Mindfulness & Alertness

Quiet in Every Way (Edited Transcript)

Security

Right Now

Four Bases of Success, The

Outside the Box (Edited Transcript)

Emptiness, Dwelling in (Edited Transcript)

Seeds of Becoming, The

Protected by the Practice

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Adolescent Practice (Edited Transcript)

Outside the Narratives

Love for the Dhamma (Edited Transcript)

Three Levels of Concentration, The

Get Real (Edited Transcript)

Right Learning

Friends with the Breath (Edited Transcript)

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Right Where You Are

Skillful Intentions

Three Characteristics, The

World Is Swept Away, The (Edited Transcript)

Start Out Small (Edited Transcript)

Being Still (Edited Transcript)

Of Past & Future (Edited Transcript)

Looking Inward

Heedfulness (Edited Transcript)

Pleasure & Pain

Four Bases of Success, The (Edited Transcript)

One Step at a Time (Edited Transcript)

Interconnectedness (Edited Transcript)

Worlds (Edited Transcript)

Flammable Mind, A

Breathing Through Daily Life (Edited Transcript)

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In-line Practice

Alertness

Anger (Edited Transcript)

Heightening the Mind

Enjoying Meditation

Rebel Without a Cause

Respect for Suffering

Mixed Bag, A

Observer, The (Edited Transcript)

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Equanimity (Edited Transcript)

At the Door of the Cage (Edited Transcript)

Harmony & Unity

Super-sensitivity

True Honesty

Emptiness

Rite of Passage, A (Edited Transcript)

Switching Tracks

Working at Meditation

True Goodwill

Samvega

Surpassing Expectations

Ardency

Carrot & the Stick, The

Advice to a New Monk (Edited Transcript)

Popularity (Edited Transcript)

Meticulousness (Edited Transcript)

Simplification (Edited Transcript)

Breaking Old Habits (Edited Transcript)

Stages of Breath Meditation (Edited Transcript)

Sense of Well-being, A (Edited Transcript)

Wide-open Awareness (Edited Transcript)

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Break It Down

Decisions

Body Related Issues

Judicious vs. Judgmental

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Right View Takes Over

Maintaining the Observer (Edited Transcript)

Single-mindedness

Right Livelihood

Relationships

At Home in the Mind

Cause & Effect

Varieties of Mindfulness (Edited Transcript)

Shelter of Mental Qualities, A

Judicious vs. Judgmental (Edited Transcript)

Respect, Confidence & Patience (Edited Transcript)

Getting into the Present

Setbacks

One with the Body

Renunciation

Focus Strengthens the Mind

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Five Hindrances, The

Right Effort

Fear (Edited Transcript)

Dismantling the Self

Consistency

Basis in Well-being, A

Four Frames of Reference, The

Imagine (Edited Transcript)

When to Think

Equanimity

Well-thatched Roof, A

Here to Learn

Ending Suffering

Noble Eight-fold Path, The

Conviction in Kamma

Oppressed by Old Kamma

Traveling Well

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Respect

Total Fitness Workout, A

Making a Difference

Five Recollections, The

Giving Weight to the Mind

Anchored by Skillful Roots

Turning Inside

Cleaning House

Distracting Thoughts

Generosity First (Edited Transcript)

Six Properties, The (Edited Transcript)

Compassionate Judgement

Accepting Yourself

How Not to Suffer

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Paving the World

Bearing Responsibility Lightly

Relating to Results

Scrupulous from the Start

Making Inner Wealth

Caring About Results

Central Question, The

Firm Intention

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Nobility

Role of Attachment, The

Above the World

Cleaning Up Inside

Web of Breath, A

Obsessive Thinking (Edited Transcript)

Good Meditation

Desire for Happiness

Mistakes (Edited Transcript)

Doing Meditation

2002

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Virtuous Beginnings

Wise Strategies

Maintenance Work (Edited Transcript)

Source of Blessings, The

Higher Training, The

Training the Trainer

Pain & Suffering

True to Your Priorities

One Step at a Time

Impatience

Tuning-in to the Breath (Edited Transcript)

Your Primary Experience

Bringing Wealth to Meditation

How to Fall (Edited Transcript)

Inner Wealth

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Four Guardian Meditations, The

Comfortable Home, A

Impossible Things

Beginner's Mind (Edited Transcript)

Self Images

Finding the Openings

In the Mood (Edited Transcript)

Patience (Edited Transcript)

Alternative of Concentration, The

Sensitivity All the Time (Edited Transcript)

Road to the South Rim, The

Steps of Breath Meditation, The (Edited Transcript)

Admirable Friendship (Edited Transcript)

Producing Experience (Edited Transcript)

Reexploring the Breath

Looking After Your Concentration

Helpful Friends

Battle Strategies

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Guarding Against Infection

Admitting Mistakes

Skills to Take Home

Using What We Have

Vows (Edited Transcript)

Four Biases, The

Respect for Concentration (Edited Transcript)

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Karma of Meditation, The

Above & Beyond Suffering

Embodying Goodwill

Fighting the Defilements

Tranquility & Insight Go Together

Leaving the Worlds Behind

Mature Equanimity

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When This Is, This Is

Present Moment, The

Two Hands Washing (Edited Transcript)

Collecting Your Tools

Adjusting Your Focus

Understanding Ignorance

De-perception (Edited Transcript)

One Who Sees Danger

Balancing Effort & Patience

Onslaught of the World, The

Seeker's Habits, A

Mind's Immune System, The (Edited Transcript)

Treasure Hunt, The (Edited Transcript)

Rare Gift, A

Observing Thoughts

Right Effort

Neverending Chatter (Edited Transcript)

Joy of Meditation, The

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Bright Tunnel, The (Edited Transcript)

Respect

Interactive Present, The (Edited Transcript)

Questions (Edited Transcript)

Ups & Downs

Accelerating the Practice

Ten Recollections, The

Breath Meditation, Step by Step

Tranquility & Insight

Right Effort & Its Rewards

Wrong Equanimity

Skills for Dying

Pleasure & Pain

Strong & Heedful

Small Steady Flame, A (Edited Transcript)

All Along the Way

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Conducive Context, A

Precepts, The

Observing Ignorance (Edited Transcript)

Negative Emotions

Five Aggregates, The

Aggregates as a Path, The

Friends

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Knife of Discernment, The (Edited Transcript)

Appropriate Attention

Mental Movements

Mental Disease

Veils of Delusion, The

What Are You Doing Right Now

Beyond Likes & Dislikes (Edited Transcript)

Fool & the Wise Person, The

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Encourage Yourself

Pursuit of True Happiness, The (Edited Transcript)

Life in the Buddha's Hospital (Edited Transcript)

True Happiness

Restraint of the Senses

Jewels in the Mind

Looking Inward

Power to Transcend Suffering, The

Worldly Narratives

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What We Notice

Samsara

Fires of the Mind

Karma-ism

Karma

Fear

Meditation Is Not Mechanical

2001

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Fence Me In

Where Everything Comes Together

An Auspicious Day

Patience

Against the Flow

Mental Burdens

Fear of Death

Encouragement

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Flotsam & Jetsam

Interconnectedness

Wilderness Mind

Overcoming Complacency

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Technique & Attitude

The Awful Truth

Tools for Happiness

The Five Strengths

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The Mind Well Trained

Intelligent Equanimity (Edited Transcript)

Your True Responsibility

The Dignity of Restraint

The Good We Already Have

Discipline in Adversity

Keeping It Simple

Appropriate Attention

Skillful Thinking (Edited Transcript)

Seeing the Stillness (Edited Transcript)

For the Good of the World (Edited Transcript)

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The Basic Medicine (Edited Transcript)

New Feeding Habits (Edited Transcript)

The Uses of Pleasure & Pain (Edited Transcript)

Your Own Governor

The Patient Hunter

Sailing Lessons

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Questioning Assumptions

Happiness Inside

The Aggregates as Tools

A Quiet Spot (Edited Transcript)

Restraint of the Senses

The Guardian Meditations

Care & Feeding of the Mind

Selecting from the Teachings

The Path of Questions (Edited Transcript)

Respect for Concentration (Edited Transcript)

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Heightening the Mind

Contentment in the Practice

Training the Whole Mind

The Story-telling Mind

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The Heart of the Path

Relationships

True Happiness

Concentration & Insight

Mastering Causality (Edited Transcript)

Survival Tactics (Edited Transcript)

Your No. 1 Priority

Visakha Puja

The Real Thing

The Chess Game

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The Benefits of Mental Training

Preparing to Meditate

Attached to the Body

Right Here, Right Now

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An Attitude of Respect

Fabrication

The Wheel of Dhamma

Clearing a Space (Edited Transcript)

The Steadiness of Your Gaze (Edited Transcript)

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Contentment

The Best Work Around

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Progress & Regress

How to Save the World

A Pervasive Well-being

A Clear Sense of Priorities

Watching Over Time

Food for the Mind

Elemental Energy

Hedgehog Knowledge

Taking Your Own Medicine

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December Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Start the Year Right Here

November Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Unraveling the Present

October Archive (zip) file of all talks for month (WARNING: This file may take hours to download, depending on your connection speed and the number of others currently using this site. Out of courtesy for others, please only download one or two of these files simultaneously)

Knowing & Acting

Feeding the Mind

Warrior Knowledge (Edited Transcript)

Other Resources on this Site

Thematic Dhamma talk collections

Basics Collection

A list of starter sets for those who wish to begin exploring specific topics, such as breath meditation, breaking old habits, pain, and the Sublime Attitudes.

 

Page of miscellaneous essays

 

Books of Dhamma Talks

Meditations

Meditations2

Meditations3

Meditations4

A Small, Steady Flame

 

Essay Books

Noble Strategy (particularly for new practitioners)

Purity of Heart

The Karma of Questions

 

Study Guides

The Ten Recollections

A Burden Off the Mind: A Study Guide on the Five Aggregates

 

Thematic books

The Paradox of Becoming

The Shape of Suffering: A Study of Dependent Co-arising

Chants by the Wat Metta Sangha

Saskatchewan activities

 

Co-hosted Chinese-language Theravadan website

Link to site: TheravadaCN.org

PDF of site (July 2009 version)

 

Suggested External links

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