Whatever you experience will become an object for contemplation. This is where the practice really begins. It is the fruit which arises as samadhi matures.
Theravada
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)
The Buddhist Path – Footprint of the Buddha
Buddhist film looking at how Buddhism is practiced in Sri Lanka and India. Ronald Eyre meets [the late] Venerable Ananda Maitreya a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka. About 50 minutes.
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…
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…
The First Truth, by Ajahn Sumedho
The significance of the Buddhist teaching lies in the fact that it isn’t doctrinal. It’s not an attempt to tell us how things should be, it’s more a way of bringing our attention to the way things are. Most of… Read More ›
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…
