2011-12-30- Farewell2011:
You can’t change the world, but you can change your attitude towards the world.So embrace 2012 with compassion and kindness.
The Last Talk for the year 2011
2011-12-16 -2012- Will it be “Good?” , “Bad?”, What will it bring?
2011-12-09 – Bringing Up Children – Do you want to “make” your kids buddhists? is the any other option to make them wise honest and compassioanate without insulting their intelligence. Brahms talk after the recent tour in Malaysia gives you much to think .
2011-11-25 – Friendship- Ajahn Brahm talks about the Friendhip that should stem from the friendship to your own body and your own mind and how it can generate the all encampassing metta to the entire living world.
2011-11-18 – Just Praise - Useful tips on everyday life, dealing with children , and work etc etc.
2011-11-04 -Only The Body is Sick – An enlightening talk about how it is not wrong to be sick. Ajahn Brahm discusses the merit of being sick, and illustrates a touching story of a dying nun. Not to be missed, and sure to rid you of those guilty feelings forever, when the flu bug next bites!
2011 -10-28 - The Middle Way – Ajahn had just returned that afternoon from a 27-hour journey from teaching in Oslo. and gave a light-hearted and humorous talk on the ‘Middle Way’, a central theme in Buddhism. With jokes and stories he explained the avoidance of extremes in everyday life, and the importance of what we put into the space between us and others. He takes this deeper into what we put into the space between our self as observer and that which we observe.
Buddhist Values – Brahm Talked on the importance of understanding what we hold are the values or priciples of following the teaching. (This Talk was given previously and was re loaded on 28th October as Brahm is away in Norway)
2011-10-14 - Justice -Ajahn Brahms continues from the Talk at the Curtin University on Human Rights and expands on the entire concept of Justice and What we expect from the others and the system
2011-10-11- Buddhism and Human Rights Part A – A talk given at the Curtin University for the benefit of the University community to introduce the aspects of Buddhism to the moden day theme of Human Rights
2011-10-11- Buddhism and Human Rights Part B
2011-10-07- Anger Eating Demons – Venerable Brahm is back after Rain retreat and delivered the first talk about the fault-finding mind, how people are not ‘wrong’, but different. Simile of the anger-eating demon.
2011-10-04 Bringing Playfullness to Life Ajahn Brahm lead a short guided meditation (15min), followed by a Dhamma talk (30min) with questions and answers. to students of Duke University, USA (This Session was given through SKYPE and was recorded. The PLAY arrow below will enable you to hear the talk. The Youtube video for the meditation session is available here. The Talk on Youtube is available here.)
2011-08-08-Joy and Happiness in Meditation : Hundreds of people celebrated Ajahn Brahm’s 60th birthday at Jhana Grove meditation retreat centre on 7th August 2011. This Dhamma talk was given the day after the small celebration for the benefit of the overseas visitors who came to join the celebration. It’s on bringing joy and happiness in meditation, particularly through recollecting one’s generosity (chaga), Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha and virtue.
2011-07-15 - Certainty – How fuitile is that we take for granted that there is certainty in our lives. Ajahn shows you why we get heartaches and worries due to not taking the correct perspective in life
2011-07-08 Motivation – Brahm make you think why we do things. Make peace, be kind, be gentle – let that be your motivation.
2011-07-01 Sex and Booze – Brahm talks about the purpose of precepts and the benefit of keeping them, why we get caught under peer pressure and get in to trouble.
2011-06-17 Why Do People Do Bad Things? Many a time people do things that they regret later. Brahm explores the cause of such behaviour in his own style of profound wisdom.
2011-06-03 Buddhism and Bananas - The lessons to be learnt from the experts in peeling Bananas. In reducing all the suffering we go through. Learn to be different. Dont follow the same pattern of thinking. Go against the strains. Swim against the current. Maybe you’ll get liberated from the dogmas of shackles you are bound with and find the true liberation.
2011-05-27 In Between - We emphasise too much on beginnings and ends, and do not pay enough attention to the in-between times which count the most in our lives.
2011-05-20 Fear - The fear of the known and fear of Unknown, How fear controls you and how you can control fear is explained by Ajahn Brahm
2011-05- 15 Wesak Poya day Talk on Precepts
2011-05-13- “F” For Forgiveness - “Good,Bad,Who Knows?” Ajahn Brahm talks widely on the nature of forgiveness in Buddhism, contrasted with justice and revenge in the world today.
2011-05-06 – What Do You Want -Ajahn Brahm shares what he really wants in life. He wants the beautiful sense of peace, friendship, kindness, contentment, respect, acceptance and love. Isn’t that what you want?
2011-04-15- Arguments We all have different views, conditioned by different experiences. Arguments are inevitable, but argue with kindness and respect which will encourage growth and bring us one step closer to truth.
2011-04-08 – What Happens After You Die – Ajahn Brahm talks about what happens just before, during and after the dying process, how to approach it and how to enjoy it.
2011-04-01 TRUST
All about trusting this moment, trusting ourselves and trusting others. Trust can’t be earned, it has to be given.
Metta to the PAST
Metta to The Present
Metta to the Future
2011-03-18- IRRITATION
Irritation is part of life. How you deal with it is what matters. Ajahn Brahm introduces several techniques to help deal with it, including positive reinforcement and the similes of the empty trash can and Ajahn Mosquito.
2011-03-11- Hissing but Not Biting - Ajahn Brahm talks about how to be assertive, hissing but not biting, as in the story of the snake
2011-03-04- Instead of Attachment : Ajahn Brahm talks about enjoying our possessions like family, relationship and identity without being attached to them. Attachment comes from fear and enjoyment comes from letting go of fear.
2011-02-25 – -Transcending Disasters (Ajahn Brahm says that natural disasters happen, it is part of living in the world. It is not karma, what really matters is how we deal with it.)
2011-02-18- Why Not Us (Ajahn Brahm talks about what enlightenment is and how lay people can get there)
2011-02-07- Meditation WHY and HOW First Talk in Hong Kong Retreat atTsuen Wan, Wang Fat Ching She
2011-02-07 -Questions and Answers After the Talk on Meditation
2011-02-04- Wisdom and Stupidity Ajahn Brahm talks about Buddhist ideas of wisdom and stupidity, ignorance and delusion.
2011-01-28- Buddhism and Autonomy ;
Ajahn Brahm challenges ideas about autonomy and freedom, and about knowledge and faith, in Buddhism and in other religions.
Ajahn refers to Richard Gombrich’s keynote address ’Comfort or Challenge?’ for the International Conference on Dissemination of Theravada Buddhism in the 21st Century, held in Salaya, Bangkok, Sep/Oct 2010. Click here for the text of the address.
Professor Richard Gombrich is chairman of The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies.
2011-01-21- How to Live with Non – Buddhists : Ajahn Brahm gives advice on how to live with others who are not Buddhist..
2011-01-07- Wining and Losing Ajahn Brahm talks about the Buddhist significance of winning and losing. How you make the journey is important, not the goal, the destination. The real winner is one who is content and peaceful and happy with life.
