Ajahn Brahmali Podcast

The Buddha said perceiving in the right way can take you all the way to awakening. We can change and develop our perceptions to support our path to awakening.

Recorded 2011-11-11

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Ajahn Brahmali teaches us what real freedom is from the Buddha’s point of view. This kind of freedom isn’t about doing whatever one wants, but about being free from craving, attachments, and suffering. Ajahn Brahmali emphasizes that true freedom arises from discipline, renunciation, and mindfulness.

Recorded 2023-04-14

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging y...

Ajahn Brahmali describes the Buddha’s teaching on non-self, and how to use this teaching in the practice. He encourages listeners to look at direct experience, not beliefs, to see how the sense of self is constructed and can be let go. Understanding non-self helps to diminish attachment, reduce suffering, and lead to liberation.

Ajahn Brahm authored a related paper called Anatta Non-Self in 2005.

Recorded 2014-11-21

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Ajahn Brahmali explores how Right View serves as the foundation for successful meditation practice and letting go in the Buddhist path.

He talks about Right View is the correct understanding of reality, particularly impermanence, non-self, and suffering. It involves seeing things as they truly are, which naturally leads to letting go.

Ajahn Brahmali emphasizes that true letting go is not forceful but happens naturally through insight. The more clearly we see that things are impermanent and not under our control, the more easily we release our...

In this talk, Ajahn Brahmali speaks on the theme of benefits and pitfalls of renunciation. Being more of an internal phenomenon rather than a mere external state, the Pali word for renunciation, Nekhamma, refers to letting go of the world of the five senses. One of the main benefits of the monastic life is the company of Kalyanamittas, spiritual friends, and they bring out the best in us. It is accentuated by a teacher who is a living example of the Dhamma. The dangers of the monastic life often arise from using force and willpower to suppress negative mind...

Ajahn Brahmali talks about developing positive perceptions, how we are preconditioned from our past and the dangers of anger. Ajahn explains how Metta can gradually steer our mind onto the right path.

Recorded 2023-04-07

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

Ajahn Brahmali teaches us how to practice Right View in our day to day life. Right View is the first part of The Noble Eightfold Path (The Middle Way).

Recorded 2023-03-24

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Letting go is a big part of Buddhist practice, but what are we supposed to let go of and how do we do it?

Recorded 2022-01-07

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Ajahn Brahmali clarifies some misconceptions about meditation. Ajahn explains how mindfulness doesn’t grow by practicing mindfulness alone, it requires sincere practicing of the Buddhist path, especially of kindness and right view.

Recorded 2022-02-25

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Ajahn Brahmali teaches about the idea of “going against the stream”, and how we can use this to enhance our spiritual practice.

Recorded 2023-01-06

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Ajahn Brahmali explains the importance of generosity in Buddhism. This recording begins with a short guided meditation.

Recorded 2021-11-12

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Ajahn Brahmali teaches us about the importance of having the right view in Buddhism. According to Ajahn, the right view is seeing reality how the Buddha saw it. Right View is the first part in the Noble Eightfold Path or The Middle Way:

Recorded 2022-04-22

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Ajahn Brahmali explains how compassion was explained in the early Suttas and compares that with how we do things today.

Recorded 2021-12-10

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Dhamma talk by Ajahn Brahmali at the Buddhist Society of Victoria (BSV). 

Recorded 2022-04-03

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This is from a series of daily meditation and Dhamma teachings offered by the monks at Bodhinyana Monastery and nuns at Dhammasara to support the community during the Coronavirus pandemic.

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

This is from a series of daily meditation and Dhamma teachings offered by the monks at Bodhinyana Monastery to support the community during the Coronavirus pandemic.

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

Ajahn Brahm discusses about death and eternal life. Ajahn explains how Buddhism views death and how death contemplation can help you live a wiser and happier life.

Recorded 2020-05-01

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

This is from a series of daily meditation and Dhamma teachings offered by the monks at Bodhinyana Monastery to support the community during the Coronavirus pandemic.

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

This is from a series of daily meditation and Dhamma teachings, offered by the monks at Bodhinyana Monastery, to support the community during the Coronavirus pandemic.

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

Ajahn Brahmali explains how Buddhism views consciousness, the negative impacts of having a materialistic outlook and why it is important to develop our spiritual qualities.

Recorded 2020-03-20

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

Ajahn Brahmali gives an excellent talk about finding the meaning of life, and an overview of how religion, science and philosophy has evolved over time. Ajahn then talks about how the mind is being reintroduced to science and philosophy over the recent years, and how that could is an optimistic outlook of the future. Ajahn Brahmali then tells a powerful story of the big fire at Bodhinyana Monastery at January 1991 - to convey how we can focus on the process with care, kindness and integrity rather than being result-oriented. 

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Ajahn Brahmali compares material and spiritual progress. Ajahn reminds us that all material things will fall apart. Therefore we should look for progress and meaning somewhere else. According to the Buddha, there is only one thing that really matters in life, that is wholesome qualities of the mind.

Recorded 2020-02-28

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by ple...

What does it mean to have an identity and how does it relate to Buddhist teachings? Ajahn Brahmali explains how identities can be a problem and suggests that we identify with qualities that bring peace and harmony among people instead of holding onto identities that divide us.

Recorded 2020-02-07

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledgi...

Ajahn Brahmali talks about whether or not Buddhism is a religion and describes how Buddhism is actually more similar to science and psychology, than it is to being a religion.

Recorded 2020-01-10

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

According to the Suttas, a corrupt leader can corrupt the whole society. Ajahn Brahmali discusses the importance of voting for moral leaders and for having compassion towards politicians. Ajahn reminds us that our world is never going to be perfect, so we shouldn’t become upset over political issues. Instead we should focus our attention on being generous and kind.

Recorded 2020-01-03

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Crea...

Ajahn Brahmali discusses how to contemplate on the Dhamma. Ajahn suggests we focus on a simple contemplation like finding appreciations in our daily life, because this will really help our spiritual development.

Recorded 2019-11-29

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

Ajahn Brahmali explains the importance of lay Buddhists, how they interact with the monastic community and how they can ideally practice Buddhism.

Recorded 2019-11-22

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

Ajahn Brahmali advises us on how to deal with worldly problems like climate change and governments behaving wrongly. Ajahn reminds us to prompt the right view i.e. that the world going wrong is exactly what we should expect. Knowing this we shouldn’t become frustrated when things don’t go our way. We should instead focus on how we can be peaceful and kind regardless what is happening around us and their outcomes. At the end Ajahn shares a funny story about his student life.

Recorded 2019-10-25

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Ajahn Brahmali gives a Dhamma talk in Colombo.

Recorded 2019-06-29

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

Ajahn Brahmali discusses what monasticism is, why it is essential to Buddhism and what the benefits of becoming a monk or nun are. Ajahn explains how the monastic life can bring happiness to oneself and others.

Recorded 2019-05-24

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Ajahn Brahmali addresses the recent terrorist attack in Sri Lanka and teaches us how to view terrorism and other tragedies from a Buddhist perspective. Ajahn reminds us that our world is full of suffering and we should respond to this with compassion, not anger.

Recorded 2019-04-26

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via th...

Dhamma talk recorded at the Buddhist Society of Victoria (BSV) in April 2019.

Recorded 2019-04-21

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Victoria under the Creative Commons license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Victoria by joining their Patreon.⁠

Ajahn Brahmali examines some questions about Samadhi (deep states of meditation), such as: are they really important? Or can they be skipped? And are there any dangers from practicing Samadhi?

Recorded 2019-02-08

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

The Buddha said that all conditioned phenomena will eventually come to an end. Ajahn Brahmali explains that because our world is impermanent, it’s an unreliable source of happiness and therefore we need to find our happiness and inspiration from within.

Recorded 2019-01-25

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This talk by Ajahn Brahmali was recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BWSA) under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ license. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

Ajahn Brahmali is back after the rains retreat. Ajahn Brahmali revisits the basic teachings of Buddhism such as the Four Noble Truths because he says these help us to see what Buddhism is pointing to and is all about. Ajahn talks about the problems of our existence and shares a story from the suttas to help illustrate the point clearly. Ajahn describes how the Buddhist path is the path to purify ourselves so that we see things in the right way, get insights into the Four Noble Truths and ultimately eliminate our suffering once and for all.

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Ajahn Brahmali explains how he came across the Buddhist path and the various reasons why he decided to become a monk, in particular experiencing the peace of breath meditation led him to want to pursue this further. Ajahn explains how through experience you gain confidence in the teachings of the Buddha and he discusses the Kalama Sutta (AN3.65) on navigating among different spiritual options.

Recorded 2018-07-12

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Ajahn Brahmali gave a Dhamma Talk and Questions and Answers Session at October Gallery London on the 9th of July 2018.

Recorded 2018-07-09

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These talks by Ajahn Brahmali have been recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ licence. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

A talk given on a short day retreat at Thames Buddhist Vihara as part of Ajahn Brahmali’s tour in the UK in support of Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project.

Recorded 2018-06-30

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These talks by Ajahn Brahmali have been recorded and made available for free distribution by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia under the ⁠Creative Commons⁠ licence. ⁠You can support the Buddhist Society of Western Australia by pledging your support via their Ko-fi page.⁠

Ajahn Brahmali discusses how the Buddha’s core teachings have given rise to the numerous traditions and teachings of Buddhism that exist today. Through textual comparison, scholars can today point to those core teachings of the Buddha that are common across the early existent canons of the various Buddhist schools. These early teachings are where Ajahn Brahmali believes we should focus our attention if we are to uncover the Buddha’s original teachings.

Recorded 2010-04-02

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Ajahn Brahmali discusses the place of Buddhism in the context of modern secular society. This talk looks at how as Buddhism comes to the West that it offers an opportunity to look at Buddhism in a historical context and to see what is the essence of Buddhism and what are the cultural accretions that form around that essence. He goes on to also talk about how there is a risk of Western culture diluting the essence of Buddhism. This is what Ajahn Brahmali identifies as “secular Buddhism” developing in the West, which has some useful practices and some that are...