‘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)
Beginners
The Fruit Which Arises as Samadhi Matures, by Ajahn Chah
You will be able to sustain concentration without any feelings of pain and discomfort…
This is the outlook which leads to Enlightenment, by Ajahn Chah
In the field of conventional reality one side is right and the other side is wrong, but there will never be complete agreement. Arguing till the tears fall has no use…
Buddhism isn’t really a religion, is it? By Diana St Ruth
A few stares of disbelief and awkward silences was enough for me, if I ever had the temerity to mention my heartfelt interest. So I lived with a private kind of Buddhism while in other respects living a typical working-class English life in a city in the late fifties and sixties…
Why do you want this holy water? By Ajahn Chah
The worldly way is to do things for a reason, to get some return, but in Buddhism we do things without the idea of gaining anything…
Regular Everything, by John Aske
How often, acting upon our need for comfort and security, do we sacrifice our freedom and happiness?
Nibbana, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Speaking like this you will soon be accusing me of giving you a big sales pitch. Don’t think of me as someone hawking the wares of the Buddha in the marketplace, think rather that we are all companions in Dukkha, in birth, old age, sickness and death…
Snakes, Ladders, and Utopia, by Diana St Ruth
The practice of Buddhism, however, is not to go up and down with those changing conditions—feeling sad when things are not as we want them to be, and happy when they are. The Buddha’s teaching is pointing towards understanding this world…
