Buddhist Film: A talk given by Bhante Bodhidhamma. (49 minutes)
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Three Dharma Gates to Buddhism by Bhante Bodhidhamma
‘Three Dharma Gates to Buddhism’ by Bhante Bodhidhamma a talk given at the Golden Buddha Centre, Totnes on Sunday 14th May 2017. (About 30 minutes)
Meditation In Daily Life — emotional states, by Bhante Bodhidhamma
The moods, once so solid, now seem softer and there is a general uplift towards calmness, peace and joy…
Buddhist Insight from Mahasi Meditation Tradition, by Bhante Bodhidhamma
Bhante Bodhidhamma’s talk begins with a short meditation then goes on to explore the nature of self as experience.
Vipassana as taught by The Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma
Thinking is always about something. It is an attempt to categorise. What we experience is seen in the light of past experience. What we have experienced in the past is filtered through the way we look at things, our dispositions (sankhara). That is why thought will not allow us to see things anew. If we want to experience things as they really are, then thought about those things must come to an end. When thinking stops, we must be right there with what is happening…
A Meditative Life, by Bhante Bodhidhamma
Sitting meditation is only a part of the meditation. What the Buddha wanted us to do was to develop a meditative life—to know what we are doing at all times, leading a life of full-time awareness…
Bhante Bodhidhamma
In the late seventies I began to meditate in the Soto Zen tradition with my first Buddhist teacher, Vajira Bailey in Birmingham. In August 1979 I underwent Jukai and committed myself to Buddhism as a Zen Buddhist at Throssel Hole… Read More ›
Meditation In Daily Life, by Bhante Bodhidhamma
It is good to take one of the Perfections as a special practice. Maybe it’s patience: I’m impatient with myself and others; I’m easily irritated and angered. So let this be my special practice. As we develop one Perfection, we shall discover that the whole personality is affected and all the other Perfections are also enhanced…