Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts
Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage
Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage
Dhamma Talks, Chanting, Precepts and Meditation with Ajahn Dhammasiha and other experienced Senior Buddhist Monks in the Theravada Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. Recorded at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Australia. Our website: https://www.dhammagiri.net Our Youtube Channel, including regular live streams on the weekend "Dhammatalks at Dhammagiri": https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724 Our email Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Our Spotify Playlists are here: https://open.spotify.com/user/8z4dmrysnbbnjtz9f0wzjgcre .
12h ago
Ven. Samvaro has stayed with us for here at Dhammagiri for one month in November to December 2025. In this short (10 min) video, recorded after the Saturday morning Changting and Refuge & Precepts Session, Tan Samvaro answers a question from the audience: With all the various Buddhist teachings we here about, what's the gist of them all? What do we really have to focus on in our practice? Venerable Saṃvaro is currently resident at Vimutti Monastery, Auckland, New Zealand, looking after the management of the monastery, and conducting most of the Dhamma teachings there: https://atba.nz Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #dhammatalk #buddhism #meditation #buddhistmeditation #buddhistwisdom
4d ago
Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about the 10 Foundations for Making Good Karma (Dasa Puñña-kiriya-vatthu): Generosity (Dāna) Virtue (Sīla) Mental Cultivation / Meditation (Bhāvanā) Reverence / Respect (Apaciti) Service, Offering One's Labour & Skills & Talents, e.g. our now monthly held Working Bees 🔨👨🌾⛏️👩🌾 ✂️(Veyyāvacca) Transference of Merits / Sharing Good Karma with Past Relatives (Pattānuppadāna) Rejoicing in Other's Good Karma (Abbhānumodanā) Teaching Dhamma (Desana) Studying Dhamma (Savana) Straightening One's Right View (Diṭṭhujukamma) Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #dhamma #buddhism #dhammatalk #buddhistwisdom #meditation #buddhistmeditation
Dec 12
Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to refocus our meditative effort on letting go. We can get overly obsessed with focussing on a particular meditation object, and lose sight of our general mindstate: We may fall back into the long established habit of acquiring things, of trying to get something. Instead, everything in our cultivation of bhāvanā should aim towards letting go. Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #dhammatalk #buddhism #theravada #meditation #buddhistmeditation #lettinggo #buddhistwisdom
Dec 8
Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about steps in the Buddha's 'Gradual Training' that lead on from fully established virtue to the develpment of samādhi. Sense Restraint / Indriya-saṃvara Contentment / Santuṭṭhi Maintaining full awareness of all bodily movements / Sampajāna-kārī Wakefulness / Jāgariyam-anuyutta Knowing the right measure when eating food / Bhojanasmiṃ Mattaññutā These steps form the necessary foundation for the next stage in the gradual training: Abandoning the five hindrances to develop samādhi in solitude. If we struggle to unify our mind in samādhi, we should give more attention to these five. Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #buddhism #dhammatalk #contentment #wakefulness #awareness #buddhistwisdom #buddhistteachings #insight
Dec 5
In the last Tetrad of Ānāpānasati, the last four steps of Breath Meditation, the Buddha teaches us to breathe in and out focussing on: Anicca - Impermanence Virāga - Fading Away of Passion = Dispassion Nirodha - Ending/Cessation Patinissagga - Letting Go However, these four contemplations do not apply only to breath meditation. In fact, they should be underlying principles of our whole Dhamma practice: Whether it's generosity and kindness, or purifying our ethical behaviour through keeping precepts, or practising sense restraint, or cultivating any meditation object - all of it should be done with these four modes, these four guidelines informing and directing our efforts in bhāvanā. Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #lettinggo #ending #nirodha #viraga #dispassion #dhammatalk
Dec 1
Tan Jayadhamma has stayed at Dhammagiri for 7 months, spending the vassa (rains retreat) 2025 with us. Just before leaving, he kindly offered this comprehensive guided meditation as a parting gift. His one hour guided meditation consitsts of three parts on the theme of "tuning in": Part one explores the six sense spheres, based on the Buddha's simile of the six animals found at SN 35.247. Part two focuses on the five hindrances, with the Buddha's simile of the five bowls of water found at AN 5.193. Part three zooms in on the mind and how to remove distracting thoughts, with five different methods the Buddha taught at MN 20. Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #meditation #buddhistmeditation #tuning #intune #balance #insight #wisdom
Nov 28
Tan Jayadhamma has stayed at Dhammagiri for 7 months, spending the vassa (rains retreat) 2025 with us. Just before leaving, he kindly offered these reflections on balance in practice, based on the Soṇa Sutta (AN 6.55) and the Buddha’s simile of the lute. His talk explores the meaning of sama (“in tune”), the five spiritual faculties as five strings, and how to maintain harmony in practice. Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #dhamma #dhammatalk #meditation #buddhistmeditation #tuning #intune #balance
Nov 24
Ajahn Dhammasiha provides advice to a newcomer to meditation. Although it was his first time visiting Dhammagiri, and only the second attempt in his life to practice formal meditation, he had sat through a full our of guided meditation forehand, and had also joined the almsfood offering earlier in the day. Ajahn Dhammasiha gives a broad outline of the development of the two main aspects of Buddhist meditation: Samatha / Samādhi / 'Concentration' Vipassana / Wisdom / Insight. Ajahn also gives some general encouragement helpful to establish a regular meditation practice. Website Our Spotify Playlists Newsletter Dhammagiri Youtube Channel Pics #meditation #buddhistmeditation #introtomeditation #samatha #vipassana #insight
