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!

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