Abhayagiri Talks

Apr 14 2025 20 ep. 81

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Abhayagiri Talks

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Our Bodies: The Rich Field to Cultivate Liberation

This Dhamma talk was offered on April 12, 2025 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.

You’re Not Gonna Like It

This Dhamma talk was offered on April 5, 2025 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.

Cultivating the Good Against All Odds

Ajahn Nyaniko gives reflections on the end of the winter retreat. He discusses impermanence, how everything is relational, how different types of practitioners relate to meditation, the act of developing metta for ourselves, uncertainty, the importance of being wholesome in the face of the problems of the world, and the bramaviharas. This talk was offered on March 29, 2025 at Abhay

Living With Our Creations

Ajahn Karunadhammo reflects on his transition from Amaravati back to Abhayagiri. He discusses how it made him notice the concepts that were built up around his original plan to stay there for a longer period of time. He then discusses how the conceptual mind creates the world we live in, and how that is both useful and can end up leading to suffering. He also talks about the notion

Get Ready For the Rest of Your Life

Ajahn Cunda discusses his experiences on retreat. He gives advice on how to transition out of a retreat period and how to skillfully relate to events in the world. He gives guidance on seeing the mind’s tendencies of planning, becoming, and forming expectations. This talk was offered on March 15, 2025 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.

General Advice for a Long Retreat

Ajahn Nyaniko reflects on the natural environment at Abhayagiri and the evolving nature of both the deer and practitioners, emphasizing the timelessness of the Buddha’s teachings. He explores mindfulness, especially mindfulness of the body, and the importance of contemplating impermanence to gain insight into the nature of existence. Ajahn Nyaniko encourages the community to

Surrender, Accept, Adapt

Ajahn Nyaniko talks about his continuing experiences with pain resulting from Sciatica. He talks about the mental suffering that results from wishing that things were different from the way they are. He also discusses the suffering that arises from endless, self-referential, proliferating thoughts, especially around planning and doubt. He covers various antidotes to this suffering,

Pain

Ajahn Nyaniko talks about his recent experiences with pain resulting from Sciatica. He discusses various ways in which pain can be a useful tool for dhamma practice, how it can be used to build equanimity, how feeling is a mental phenomenon instead of physical, and the unsatisfactory nature of having a body. This talk was offered on March 1, 2025 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.

Saddha

Ajahn Nyaniko talks about saddha, which is a Pali word that can be translated as faith or trust. He discusses how we can develop it and use it to overcome doubt in our practice. He talks about having the ability to drop things in our life if they no longer serve us, even when we’ve been holding onto them for a long time. He also points out that practice that cultivates a sens

Extracting Your Distractions

Ajahn Cunda talks about distraction. He discusses how it affects our practice and ways to overcome it, as well as the process of learning how we are causing our own suffering, how to use the tools of the Buddha’s teaching to examine our experience, and how our practice should progress in a positive direction over time. This talk was offered on February 15, 2025 at Abhayagiri