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Doubt | by Ajahn Brahm

Doubt | by Ajahn Brahm

Doubt is a big problem in many people’s lives causing them anxiety and stress. Ajahn Brahm talks about what doubt is and how to deal effectively with it.

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Harmony | by Ajahn Brahm

Harmony | by Ajahn Brahm

In a world where there is so much conflict and disharmony – between governments, between religions, between co-workers, between family members and even in our own minds – there is a deep yearning for peace and harmony in the world. Ajahn Brahm uses this talk to highlight the topic of harmony and how to create it in our world, and within ourselves.

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What is Good? | by Ajahn Brahm

What is Good? | by Ajahn Brahm

What is “good” and “bad”, “right” and “wrong”, and how are we to understand these moral concepts really mean? Ajahn Brahm offers a Buddhist persective.

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Expanding Your View | by Ajahn Brahm

Expanding Your View | by Ajahn Brahm

How can people have so many different beliefs? How can people believe in things that are contrary to plain evidence? How can people, even in the same family, have arguments over these beliefs? Ajahn Brahm talks about the “distortions of the cognitive process” (vipallasa) and how this causes so much confusion in the world, and offers some practical strategies to make sure we aren’t the ones with…

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Below The Mist | by Ajahn Brahm

Below The Mist | by Ajahn Brahm

Ajahn Brahm brings the concept of Enlightenment down to Earth through offering the simile of the mist, and how sometimes we lose our direction even though we think we’re on the right track. Ajahn Brahm clears the mist of unknowing so that we have a clearer sense of the path to Enlightenment, and complete freedom.

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Taming the Untamed: Stories of the Enlightened Nuns | by Ayya Vayama

Taming the Untamed: Stories of the Enlightened Nuns | by Ayya Vayama

Ajahn Vayama tells stories from the time of the Buddha about the Awakened Nuns and what they can teach us today.

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Pilgrimage to India | by Ajahn Brahm

Pilgrimage to India | by Ajahn Brahm

Ajahn Brahmali reflects upon what a pilgrimage is and how it can be beneficial to Buddhist practice.

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Buddhism and Mental Illness | by Ajahn Brahm

Buddhism and Mental Illness | by Ajahn Brahm

Ajahn Brahm talks about mental illness from a Buddhist perspective.

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Conflict | by Ajahn Brahm

Conflict | by Ajahn Brahm

Ajahn Brahm talks about conflicts and how to deal with them in a skillful manner.

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Much To Do About Nothing | by Ajahn Brahm

Much To Do About Nothing | by Ajahn Brahm

Is Buddhism a religion? Or is it a way or life or a philosophy? What is it? And what are Buddhists supposed to do? Ajahn Brahm uses his characteristic humour and wisdom to answer these questions.

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Rebirth | by Ajahn Brahm

Rebirth | by Ajahn Brahm

Rebirth isn’t just a fundamental teaching of Buddhism, but also a very useful teaching that helps us see the BIG picture, not just of one life, but of many lives. It can help us to understand where we’ve come from, how we’ve developed certain characteristics and tendencies, and where we’re going. Equipped with modern evidence about the reality of rebirth, Ajahn Brahm gives a talk about the nature…

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The Secret | by Ajahn Brahm

The Secret | by Ajahn Brahm

Ajahn Brahm explores craving. Are there different types? Are some forms of craving necessary for survival? Is all craving ‘bad’? Ajahn Brahm shares the secret of finding a balance in the here and now by understanding the nature of craving, the different types of craving, and how to work giving up the types of craving most harmful to us whilst holding on (for the mean time) to those cravings which…

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Knowing | by Ajahn Brahm

Knowing | by Ajahn Brahm

Faced with critics spreading doubt about whether we really can know about such things as rebirth, Ajahn Brahm counters that the point of Buddhism isn’t just to blindly believe but to investigate phenomena ourselves. The Buddha’s teaching doesn’t insist on blind obedient faith, but encourages inquiry, and offers people the tools to understand our own experience with greater clarity and depth. This…

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Power | by Ajahn Brahm

Power | by Ajahn Brahm

Is power any good at all? What is realpower and how is it going to be of benefit to people in the world? How to people get addicted to power and become unwilling to give it up? Ajahn Brahm discusses these questions about the nature of power from a Buddhist perspective.

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What the Buddha Taught | by Ajahn Brahm

What the Buddha Taught | by Ajahn Brahm

Ajahn Brahm gives a talk on what the Buddha talk, taking the audience into a deeper perspective of what the Buddha realized on the night of his Awakening and what that really means for us all.

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The Power of Mindfulness & Compassion | by Ajahn Brahm

The Power of Mindfulness & Compassion | by Ajahn Brahm

Ajahn Brahm opens the talk by pointing to how much popularity and traction mindfulness techniques are developing in the contemporary world. He then goes on to explain how developing mindfulness with compassion can be transformative for anyone who practices it.

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The Source of Happiness | by Bhante Gunaratana

The Source of Happiness | by Bhante Gunaratana

Guest speaker and abbot of the Bhavana Society in West Virginia, Bhante Henepola Gunaratana gives a talk about the source of happiness by cultivating the mind.