Ajahn Martin Piyadhammo
Dhamma Talks in 2007
Stopping the Mind-Engine
Why living the life of a monk?
Sensual Desires: the Path to Hell
Avijja, the Blender of the Five Khandas
Magga-Phala and Nibbana
The Practice of Samatha
Subha and Asubha (The Beautiful and the Beast)
Kamma, Heaven and Hell (The 5 Precepts and the Way Out of Samsara)
Kilesas and the Five Khandhas
Respect for the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha
Getting into one-pointedness
Preview of nibbana and investigating pain
The importance of sati; kamma
The results of kamma are manifold
See and understand how the kilesas work
Ways to practice awareness
A skilful way to change bad habits (kamma)
Wishful Thinking
Undermining the power of the kilesas
The power and tricks of avijja
When practicing, we need to know only little
The path leading to the end of dukkha
The need to take a rest
Wrong kind of samadhi
Investigation and reflection about death
Results of kamma; death
What do you want to do with your life?
Keeping precepts increases inner freedom
The difference to the practice in the West (asubha)
Shutting down the mind-Engine
Cutting the three fetters to reach Streamentry
Stop your own injustice first!
The right way to help
Boredom: Hearing always the same things
We just cannot accept our own kamma
What has our appearance to do with us?
Practice is NOT developing our Self
5, 227 precepts for our protection; sati
Inviting the hooligans into our heart
Being like gold diggers in the ways of Dhamma
The three columns of our practice
Finding the right boat to cross the river
Wrong views about our practice
Reading and listening to talks on Dhamma
You can decide what to do right now, but kamma will come back to you and you cannot change it!
Generosity, respect and gratitude
Good practice, bad practice: just practice!
Stopping the Mind-Engine
Why living the life of a monk?
Sensual Desires: the Path to Hell
Avijja, the Blender of the Five Khandas
Magga-Phala and Nibbana
The Practice of Samatha
Subha and Asubha (The Beautiful and the Beast)
Kamma, Heaven and Hell (The 5 Precepts and the Way Out of Samsara)
Kilesas and the Five Khandhas
Respect for the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha
Getting into one-pointedness
Preview of nibbana and investigating pain
The importance of sati; kamma
The results of kamma are manifold
See and understand how the kilesas work
Ways to practice awareness
A skilful way to change bad habits (kamma)
Wishful Thinking
Undermining the power of the kilesas
The power and tricks of avijja
When practicing, we need to know only little
The path leading to the end of dukkha
The need to take a rest
Wrong kind of samadhi
Investigation and reflection about death
Results of kamma; death
What do you want to do with your life?
Keeping precepts increases inner freedom
The difference to the practice in the West (asubha)
Shutting down the mind-Engine
Cutting the three fetters to reach Streamentry
Stop your own injustice first!
The right way to help
Boredom: Hearing always the same things
We just cannot accept our own kamma
What has our appearance to do with us?
Practice is NOT developing our Self
5, 227 precepts for our protection; sati
Inviting the hooligans into our heart
Being like gold diggers in the ways of Dhamma
The three columns of our practice
Finding the right boat to cross the river
Wrong views about our practice
Reading and listening to talks on Dhamma
You can decide what to do right now, but kamma will come back to you and you cannot change it!
Generosity, respect and gratitude
Good practice, bad practice: just practice!