Dhammarato Dhamma

Cathal and Dhammarato talk about the foundations of good practice. #mahasisayadaw #vajrayana #darknightofthesoul See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTsVGl5R7Vg Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Not taking right effort to make a change; many different kinds of thoughts; six-shooter senses 07:52 Wanting things we don’t have; not knowing what we want 11:52 Elation; jumping with joy; being successful; Mahasi noting 18:26 Samādhi is not concentration but unification of mind; repetition; 25:17 Maps and right effort: 11 wasted steps out of 16; dukkha, dukkha-nirodha; not dukkha, dukkha, dukkha…. 28:04 The real Dark Night of the Soul; vajrayana: choiceless awareness; Mahasi: the Popeye method 37:58 What to do in seclusion; playing with new toys; breathing really well; visualisations; change of attitude 45:07 From loser to lion; playing and gladdening the mind 50:14 Attitude and effort

Robert and Dhammarato analyse the eight wordly conditions discussed in the Dutiyalokadhammasutta, Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.6. #sutta #pali #buddhadhamma Suttas mentioned in this discussion: https://suttacentral.net/an8.6 https://suttacentral.net/mn20 See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ33oCFHyv8 Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 An explanation of the second noble truth; four examples of liking; four of not liking 00:09:51 It’s over when you decide it’s over 00:13:07 Waking up and looking at what you’re doing (step 9 of ānāpānasati); greed for the object 00:15:57 Translations take out the essential repetition; loss has arisen 00:17:47 Gain and loss; the first of four pairs; caught in a cycle 00:26:50 Status and disgrace; inconsistency 00:31:01 Censure and praise; pleasure and pain; stoics; welcoming and rebelling 00:40:57 A well-instructed disciple of the nobles discerns things as they are and makes a change; this too shall pass 00:53:31 The change is that the greed does not remain in the mind; neither welcome nor rebel ignorantly; change of lineage (MN 20) 00:57:26 Friendship as a core teaching; wholesome scams; knowledge and wisdom; lack of delusion 01:06:53 Being mindful of changing conditions; welcoming and rebelling are scattered 01:12:08 The further shore is a mental change (saddhā); skepticism, doubt, sati; Bhagavad Gita; Ramayana in Thai culture; Lao Tzu 01:25:22 Becoming ungoverned; dukkha, dukkha-nirodha

Laurent and Dhammarato talk about how to deal with changing priorities. #friendship #lifestyle #thailife See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufqD6setZy4 Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Finding work less important; dealing with fear so we can act with wisdom 13:40 Being more secure than we feel; just making friends 16:26 Being professional vs. acting professional

Tessa and Dhammarato talk about reclaiming childhood joy as the basis for developing wholesome thoughts and positive attitudes. #mindfulnessofbreathing #joy #emptiness See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2eSw88U3I Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Not waking up to unwholesome thoughts; remembering childhood joy; pointless psychological archaeology 12:08 Reclaiming stolen property: you can have delight 16:29 Investigation and changing attitude; making friends with yourself; using music 23:02 It’s your party; changing your mind one little step at a time 26:08 Positive psychological archaeology; unreasonable rules and hypocrisy 31:38 The concept of suññata (emptiness); cycles of things; heavy-duty effort vs. finding your mojo 38:54 Taking control; “I don‘t have to think about that” - “I see you Mara” 47:55 Take a deep breath; look at what we’re doing

The Sangha discuss various approaches to the fundamentals of practice, including the analogy of choosing red or green for unwholesome or wholesome thoughts. #mindfulnessofbreathing #mindfulness #wisdom See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=969mo9N4SkM Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Removing the sankhāra; relaxing the body; fulfilling the satipaṭṭhāna (foundations of mindfulness) to fulfil the sambojjhangā (factors of awakening) 00:06:08 Seeing red and green; replacing red with green; the foundations of confidence (saddhā); seeing the four elements on the inside 00:13:20 Body scanning vs. putting out the fire in your mind; seeing the mind’s conditioners (mind-body-feeling) 00:18:53 Working with the attitude - victim or winner? (samma sankappa); adding success 00:25:01 Relax, you’re alive! Being free - things just get green! 00:28:02 Generating a positive attitude; practice your skills instead of having a pity party; telling jokes to yourself 00:39:17 Sustain your sukha! The coca-cola mantra 00:46:49 The best hack is repetitive practice 00:48:19 Right noble effort is what we require; never mind, start again 00:49:58 It’s counter-intuitive because we’re misinformed; drifting off into delusion; wisdom is the starting point 00:55:59 The luminous mind (bhavanga); the fundamental nature of mind is change 01:01:43 Courage and enthusiasm to change the things we can; live the present moment 01:08:25 Rehearsing to soothe our nerves; looking, investigating

Verbeke and Dhammarato talk about ethical standards and reasons for killing living beings. #ethics #buddhism #precepts Suttas mentioned in this discussion: https://suttacentral.net/an4.39 See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m90rHI5lCg Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Western Buddhism and Hinduism; levels of ethical standards and rules; types of killing; meat-eating; sacrifice (AN 4.39) 10:30 Finding some balance; your place in the chain of causality 15:05 Trapped by the rules - wake up! 18:21 The supports for right speech, right action, and right livelihood: right noble unification of mind 21:55 Complexity and karma machines; the point is to get the mind cleaned up 25:29 Views on rebirth; rebirth vs. reincarnation 29:44 Plans for judgment day; light enough not to take anything seriously

Markus and Dhammarato talk about arguments as a window into basic practice. #beinginthemoment #anapanasati #mindfulnessofbreathing See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD-t1LBHIZs Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Arguments are people speaking past each other; habitual responses 03:39 Why sati is so valuable; being alert for arguments; raised voices 08:18 Surviving criticism; dukkha interpreted as original sin 12:46 Wanting; clinging; drawing to ourselves the things we are afraid of; investigation 16:09 Checking for unwholesome thoughts; pecking order 21:30 Wake up and look at what we’re doing; recognising patterns; sankhāra and criticism 27:00 Become friends with yourself and then with other people 31:50 Wake up, look at what we’re doing, make a change, and congratulate ourself 32:47 Getting distance; that’s not who I am now 35:26 Life becomes a shiny new toy 39:15 How did I make it like this? Practice before we get out of bed; it feels good to be awake

The Sangha discuss ways of spreading the Dhamma online and of building the Sangha. #sangha #retreats #buddhistmonk See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLuON47N3oU Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Spreading the idea of sangha; spending time in wats 00:19:40 Comparing retreats and the daily lives of monks 00:24:49 Summary; coordinated effort 00:29:30 Parker looks at online forums; sharing experiences of wats; developing our sangha 00:35:05 Dhammarato’s experience of a delegation to Cambodia; learning from members of the sangha 00:44:31 Getting inspiration for web content; spreading joy is your business; using networks of nobles 00:53:09 Don’t worry about cultural differences; visit in the morning; all about sangha 01:02:15 Are there language barriers? Wats as cultural institutions 01:08:23 Matt and Scott’s visits to wats; Ṭhānissaro’s Metta Forest Monastery 01:17:05 Kloster Dhammapala, Switzerland, welcomes visitors; camping retreats

The Sangha discuss Parker’s visit to a wat and the centrality of dependent origination in understanding wisdom at the point of contact. #dependentorigination #vipassana #beinginthemoment See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SvUk4oemZA Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Parker’s visit to a Thai wat 00:10:12 What is a noble? Understanding the Dhamma 00:15:29 Suffering vs. dissatisfaction; dukkha, dukkha-nirodha 00:20:25 Vipassanā, deconstructing experience; separate consciousness 00:23:39 Feelings not emotions; sensations in the body 00:25:12 The centrality of seeing dependent origination (paticcasamuppāda); causes and conditions 00:31:59 Changing information processing; wisdom at the point of contact; a mind fit for work 00:38:30 Data; viññāna and salāyatana 00:43:23 The problem of communication; ānāpānasati; hindrances; the importance of wholesome thoughts 00:53:24 What is wisdom at the point of contact? Stop and look, change your attitude 01:01:04 Relaxation and reaction time; the intellectual level is not enough

Cathal, Eno, and Dhammarato talk about resistance to feeling good, the rule of delayed gratification, and learning to have wholesome thoughts right here, right now. #delayedgratification #instantgratification #beinginthemoment See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4UlI7mbMhA Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Repetition is a major part of the practice; how can I improve this thought? 04:41 I can think wholesome thoughts 05:54 Thinking of red and green, unwholesome and wholesome 11:47 Remember to take a long deep breath and break the resistance 13:25 Going deeper is delusional: seeing patterns; saying “no” and stopping breathing 18:43 Practice remembering 21:16 Potency, protection, permission; it’s ok to feel good 27:51 Believing old lies; seeing unworthiness; having a choice; right effort 33:13 Feeling contracted - expand the chest; wholesome thoughts 37:37 Staying alone, staying in the green; building up bit by bit 41:53 Going ahead with the practice

Eric and Dhammarato talk about relationships, sexuality, and bonding in the context of biological and cultural influences. #relationships #bonding #overstimulation Suttas mentioned in this discussion https://suttacentral.net/dn31 Dressing the Indian woman through history https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30330693 See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCkpX8zu7s Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Culture as the most important source of desire 00:14:27 Looking at desire and triggering; receptiveness to bonding 00:29:00 Guarding the sense doors 00:34:42 Friendship and companionship 00:39:04 The Buddha’s advice to lay people (DN 31); forbidden fruit; resource scarcity 00:54:49 Thinking about the future; working on desire; waking up to lose-lose situations 01:13:47 Patriarchy and colonialism

Gavin, Tyler, and Dhammarato discuss the factors of the jhānas and how they relate to the 16 stages of ānāpānasati. #anapanasati #mindfulnessofbreathing #jhana See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmaf0t583Ds Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 The jhāna factors; piti and sukha: mastering them separately and together (MN 119) 00:04:51 Sukha is safety, security, comfort, and satisfaction; freedom from dukkha 00:11:05 The first three steps of the noble eightfold path 00:15:22 Jumping between the stages of ānāpānasati; sati; right view; right effort; confidence (MN 48) 00:27:34 Piti is very energetic, but can relax back into sukha; success; all five factors of first jhāna 00:34:06 Feeling becomes primary: second jhāna: piti; third jhāna: sukha; fourth jhāna: equanimity (upekkha) 00:37:51 Putting the horse into a corral; buddho - relax into second jhāna 00:41:41 Purifying the body and mind; wakefulness; lucid dreaming 00:51:24 Building sukha to get to the piti; everything is arising and passing away; Daniel Ingram; maps 01:03:38 Can you remember to come back to the first jhāna? 01:06:08 Anchoring and enjoyment; focussing on the entire experience; arising and passing away 01:14:00 Training ourselves to let go of things; samsara; easy come, easy go

Laurent and Dhammarato talk about the practical application of dependent origination in everyday life and the importance of seclusion in developing skills. #dependentorigination #anapanasati #beinginthemoment See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOTwhfWX62k Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 How can we learn to play with dependent origination? The five aggregates; where does the self come from? 03:58 Contact is where feelings arise; wisely we can choose; everything is fluid and we can change 08:36 Tanha, upādāna, woeful states; wisdom at the point of contact; working with feelings 10:31 Watching how we feel and figuring out how we got there; taking control 17:11 Developing right effort through seclusion; the difference between vedanā and upādāna 21:37 Choosing ignorantly; not letting liking become wanting; not going into a woeful state 27:50 What kind of thoughts am I having? Attitude; ānāpānasati modifies paticcasamuppāda 34:04 You can feel the way you want to feel - if you remember 38:24 Turning around to the past instead of being in the moment and being OK right now

Robert and Dhammarato talk about ways of dealing with anxiety and tension. #fear #anxiety #tension See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk3098NUkyY Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Fear is often misplaced and irrational 06:09 Investigating danger 12:12 Looking for anxiety and tension 16:27 Nourishing ourselves; the role of adrenaline; what causes tension and anxiety? 24:40 Noting without making a change; focussing on nourishing, protecting, and relaxing the body 31:06 Making thinking heavy

Laurent and Dhammarato talk about how to deal with feeling responsible. See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrV6G1JvpCw Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Interventions can be wholesome; feeling responsible 09:44 Misery loves company; recognising the rules we are following; responding and reacting 16:04 The feeling of being responsible is the problem; reminiscing over old scars; not your business 26:51 Wake up to your feeling; spread your joy 31:39 See the issue clearly and empathise; karuna and mudita

Scott and Dhammarato talk about the insights into the streams and eddies of dependent origination that come from the jhānas and wisdom at the point of contact. #dependentorigination #beinginthemoment #enlightenment See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14RANWd18nc Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Controlling the feelings, changing the salāyatanas, removing the formatting, reading and processing, raw data 12:42 Differences with advaita; just seeing; staying with the viññana 18:12 It requires a skill; making gaps; everything is finite; no boundaries 27:38 Catching things at the point of liking; seeing the mechanism; streams and eddies; nothingness 38:02 This is not hard to do - it just needs skills; the diversity of mind moments 40:36 Taking the mystery out of the jhānas; not magic, but skills 47:11 The witness stage; being one with everything; everything is temporary; essentialising consciousness

Markus and Dhammarato talk about the four basic skills of practice #dukkha #nobleeightfoldpath #anapanasati See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThafS0QEJmQ Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 We always start with the four noble truths and the noble eightfold path 00:05:05 Seeing dukkha and coming into satisfaction; learning to feel bad 00:12:27 The second noble truth: greed, ill-will, and delusion 00:17:04 The attitude of a winner, a lion: going into the third noble truth 00:19:40 Stubbing our toes on reality; everything is in turmoil; be here now 00:23:24 Memories have three problems; problems with translation; with right effort you can make a change 00:28:22 Right noble viewing, right observation: this thought could be improved 00:31:49 Right sati (wakey, wakey), right view, right effort, right attitude - the four skills for right unification of mind 00:38:40 Clarity of mind is the route to freedom; ānāpānasati; Western Buddhism lacks key ingredients 00:45:09 Examining the mind and gladdening the mind; breathing consciously: body and mind in unison 00:47:57 The value of seclusion; samma sankappa: coming out of childhood victimhood 00:52:05 With a joyous attitude we can handle anything 00:53:54 The body is an electrochemical machine with slow features; changing the way we feel 01:00:24 Brief mind moments: ten things a second; developing fast sati 01:05:29 Habit is powerful: give yourself a break

Eric and Dhammarato talk about dealing wisely with people’s expectations and needs. #brahmaviharas #compassion #empathy See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgcyWQgIots Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Compassion is not feeling bad for someone else; don’t jump overboard; karuna 00:18:10 Looking at the brahmaviharas; sympathetic vibrations; smiling; wearing them down with joy 00:26:28 Not having enough joy; understanding your skills 00:29:02 Political activism; not your business 00:36:50 Sympathy, empathy, and compassion; don’t get wet; one by one as they occur 00:44:58 Promotion and incompetence 00:49:09 Asteroids; existential risk 00:51:48 Your job: your joy, your satisfaction 01:02:28 Giving gratitude; using wisdom

The Sangha discuss the four foundational skills of the Dhamma and how these are missing in thr Mahasi and Goenka methods. #mahasi #goenka #anapanasati Suttas mentioned in this discussion: https://suttacentral.net/mn22 https://suttacentral.net/mn117 https://suttacentral.net/mn48 https://suttacentral.net/mn87 See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5WZBWOdB8 Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 The simile of the snake (MN 22) Dukkha, dukkha-nirodha; life is not dukkha 00:08:30 The second and third noble truths; the noble eightfold method is the solution 00:14:47 Seclusion and the purification of mind: right noble view, right sati; meta is the outcome of practice 00:20:42 Right effort: make a change right now; any thought can be improved 00:23:23 Wholesome and unwholesome thoughts; getting rid of the hindrances immediately; sukha 00:29:20 Right noble unification of mind with its supports and features (MN 117); samādhi 00:38:15 Right attitude: samma sankappa; the attitude of a winner, a lion 00:41:50 The Mahasi method: setting up your private accommodation in the city dump; the 16 stages of insight 00:47:36 Mahasi and Goenka are missing elements; work with the noble eightfold path 00:53:31 Breathing well; using body and mind to control feelings (MN 48) 01:00:29 Kusala and akusala; wholesome and unwholesome; to diagnose; stop wanting things 01:07:28 This is all you need; forget about it; throw it out 01:11:50 What is important to you? (MN 87)

The Sangha have a wide-ranging discussion about the three types of ignorance. #ignorance #wisdom #craving See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vLmrzEr7p0 Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Needing information and near misses; paying attention 00:09:17 Having inadequate information; ignorance; recognising when we don’t know something 00:11:50 Wise ignorance; delusional ignorance; doubt 00:16:19 The delusion of things we have been told; ownership and control of information 00:24:04 Testing hypotheses; the four noble truths; learned mentality 00:32:48 The evil question; value judgments; wisdom at the point of contact 00:40:12 Using dependent origination; understanding what the feeling is 00:45:56 Biological drives and cultural conditioning; backing up one step: the salāyatana; the desirability of the new 00:59:04 How to recognise wise feeling; letting go; feeling heavy 01:14:14 Not fulfilling a want; reminiscing is wanting things to be new again 01:28:44 The wisdom of seeing where things are headed; wise reflection; the right direction

Laurent and Dhammarato talk about how the skill of seeing dukkha develops into wisdom-in-action. #dukkha #dependentorigination #wisdom See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH10XGmeIo4 Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 We can’t knowledge our way into skill development; don’t worry be happy 07:55 Practice the Noble Eightfold Path; we only need the knowledge of dukkha 11:52 A tired mind is prone to dukkha; take a break; wisdom takes care of the situation directly 22:08 We can improve whatever is happening; tiredness is not dukkha 24:03 Hitting rock bottom and Dark Night of the Soul; skill in seeing dukkha early; wisdom is looking where things are going 32:26 Dukkha is not life itself but the product of greed, ill-will, or delusion 37:54 Dependent origination (paticcasamuppāda) backwards and forwards; making changes as early as possible

Dean and Dhammarato talk about developing the skills to see dukkha in advance, first jhāna, strem entry, and enlightenment. #streamentry #enlightenment #wisdom See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXgCn5xejHk Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Western students think there is a lot to learn; seeing dukkha; looking at cause and effect 12:33 Challenge your thoughts joyfully; right effort 15:53 Feeling light; seeing dukkha in advance 21:35 The Buddha and first jhāna; from dukkha to sukha; reviewing first jhāna 25:48 Wanting more 28:10 Safe, secure, comfortable, satisfied; not a path, a method; getting out of unwholesome thoughts 30:42 Stream entry is being in the flow of the Dhamma; developing the right skills 36:11 “Enlightenment” is just a label 40:53 No magic in the Dhamma; seeing coincidences 43:50 Have fun, make friends

Robert and Dhammarato talk about the habits of thought that end in clinging and woeful states. #habit #wisdom #beinginthemoment See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVSJCZtfmbo Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 The four modes of clinging and the four woeful states; compliance and rebellion 08:18 Habits, heaviness, and importance 17:54 Is that all there is? Is that all there is to it? 30:54 Wisdom at the point of contact; guarding the sense doors 36:53 Quicksand and ānāpānasati 37:52 Appreciating the reality of life; closing down the conceptualised world 47:43 Mundane or exalted? It’s a matter of attitude

Will and Dhammarato talk about developing the four basic skills. #goenka #mahasisayadaw #nobleeightfoldpath See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4EibicfU-8 Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Seize the object and let it go; relaxing the body 07:15 Practicing the Noble Eightfold Method; practicing seclusion; practicing purification of mind 14:01 Any thought can be improved: coming out of the hindrances (MN 19) 20:43 Talking ourselves into feeling good; safety, security, comfort, and satisfaction 27:19 Wake up, take a look, make a change - developing these three skills inspires confidence 32:16 The first jhāna is applied and sustained thought 35:17 The supermundane Dhamma is practical

Joe and Dhammarato talk about how basic daily practice satisfies the deepest aspects of the Dhamma. #mindfulnessofbreathing #anapanasati #mindfulness See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53_oN2_iz3I Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 The difference between formal and functional ānāpānasati; the four foundations of mindfulness; the four elements 07:38 Focus on the Noble Eightfold Path; sila, samādhi, pañña 18:31 Knowledge of the body and relaxation; drawing the factors together; Dhamma mind objects 35:38 Investigating the jhāna factors; Goenka practitioners stick on step 3 of ānāpānasati 41:02 Stop trying to make sense out of things (MN 111); the progress of the jhānas; equanimity 47:04 Samādhi, anicca, dukkha, anatta

Laurent and Dhammarato talk about the qualities of a good retreat and the benefits of finding real seclusion. #retreats #seclusion #nobleeightfoldpath See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qsaoWntJc Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 The ideal personal retreat; seeing dependent origination 07:06 Blaming retreats for our own negativity; benefits 09:57 The value of understanding correct practice; crash landing 14:10 Success from hitting rock bottom vs. understanding the four noble truths 19:29 The Buddha teaches that you don’t have to hit rock bottom; retreats are not seclusion 24:04 Goenka retreats never develop; Mahasi is not tailored to student needs; forest seclusion 30:01 Letting students make their own decisions; seeing and throwing out the hindrances 38:33 The pleasure of seeing student success 40:10 A weekend in the woods; removing unwholesome thoughts; short sits; more walking in nature 45:13 Summary; no longer doing retreats; being awake 48:47 Congratulations

The Sangha discuss practical approaches to the Dhamma in everyday life, the importance of seeing childhood conditioning for what it is, and the difference between the map and the territory. #mindfulnessofbreathing #breathing #themapisnottheterritory See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIc15wmMnZI Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Procrastination: good (I don’t need to do this) and bad (fear of doing this); numbing discomfort 05:47 Effective ānāpānasati: the air is sweet; breathing and morality 09:22 An antidote to being bogged down; sweet sensations; samādhi 14:03 Opportunities to become awake; transitions; less reactivity; triumphant aspect of the path 20:41 Pausing and clearing things out; goodies on the path; enthusiasm and joy is effective practice 26:03 The jhānas and fear; a deep-seated belief that we should not be happy; conditioned fear of the child (MN 111) 37:27 Scientific research into the flow state; coming out of magical thinking 43:19 The present moment is a miracle; experiential not intellectual; corporate culture 46:49 The map and the territory; describing the map of the Dhamma is wholesome; Dhamma bombs

Robert and Dhammarato talk about methods to leave behind the self-created hell of the thoughts and get back into the senses. #walkingmeditation #beinginthemoment #mindfulness See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86bBD-iNwdw Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Aha, I see you… 03:26 Taking unwholesome states as true; the victim’s position; senses and concepts 12:41 Feeling how you want to; mettā and muditā 16:45 Using fewer absolutes; “wouldn’t it be fun to… “; the wagon in the creek 25:23 Clenching as a physical manifestation of anxiety; using the breath 33:07 Being disconnected from the body; bad habits; take a walk

John and Dhammarato talk about the things that are missing in most Western systems of meditation and compare them with the method explained in the suttas of remembering to look and making a change. #goenka #mahasisayadaw #buddhadhamma See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tjyx-g6INQ Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 We must be making choices and changes; remember to wake up, look, and make a change (MN 19, MN 117, MN 118) 07:33 Most systems are missing right effort (samma vāyāma); gladdening the mind; thus one trains oneself 13:43 Goenka misses control and gladdening; the noble Dhamma becomes self-evident 23:33 The 16 stages of insight; starting students at step 12: the four noble truths 27:43 Seeing the need for change; Muktananda 29:48 U Pandita; Bhikkhu Buddhadāsa; Achan Poh 33:34 Samādhi as unification of mind - gathering together; keeping the mind wholesome; first jhāna (MN 36) 39:56 Samma sankappa (right intention, right attitude): I can clean up the mind 43:04 Don’t worry about the long-term, practice right now; practice joyfully 46:49 Dukkha, dukkha-nirodha; the method is to remember to look at what you’re doing and make a change; hindrances (MN 2) 50:30 Life-stories don’t help; monkey see, monkey do 55:25 Choose how you feel; dukkha, dukkha-nirodha in this moment

Robert and Dhammarato talk about insight into the unreachable standards, rules, and expectations of the parent ego state and how this becomes the basis for change. #buddha #freud #transactionalanalysis See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MljR0eff-Uk Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Thou shalt not feel good; the Buddha, Freud, and Berne; neuroanatomy 09:12 Beginning to change the parent ego state; listening to the adult; the basis of investigation 14:39 The linchpin; “I see you, Mara”; remembering to make the change 17:50 Repetition, repetition, repetition - confidence will grow; make it as best you can until you make it right 22:58 Making mistakes about jhāna; you do not have to meet any standard 30:45 Standards we can’t match up too; coming out of socialisations so we can be social

Beau and Dhammarato talk about the foundational skills and attitudes that are often missing in Western Buddhism. #buddhism #skills #relaxation See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFZaBgL9gHY Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Skills that need to be developed: remembering, looking, changing 00:08:10 Music and repetition; mercy, grace, and forgiveness 00:12:06 Noting and despair; the 16 stages of enlightenment; stage 16 is “never mind, start again” 00:16:54 Back to skills; playfulness comes with the expectation of success; taking the right effort to gladden the mind 00:22:17 Steve James and Daniel Ingram on Mahasi noting; any thought can be improved; samma sankappa (right attitude or intention) 00:29:48 Developing confidence; the practice of being a lion, of being in charge 00:33:34 Working with the feelings (vedanā); getting in touch with the senses; mindful walking 00:40:47 We use the mind and body to control the feelings; the fox and the grapes (MN 12); Western passivity 00:51:58 Training in sukha (MN 118); the primary feeling of fear 00:58:51 Comfort: relaxing the body; freedom from fear; safety, security, satisfaction, confidence (piti) 01:04:12 First jhāna and panoramic openness; sustaining the quality of feeling very good; arising and passing away 01:12:27 Everything is a skill to be developed

Robert and Dhammarato talk about waking up to the crowd inside, how we create our own emotional rollercoaster (samsāra), and how we can develop a winner’s attitude by understanding that we can stop, make a change, and gladden the mind. #heroism #samsara #victimhood See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6YuIRL8yHI Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Becoming moods; waking up to the crowd inside 02:10 Congratulations on seeing the cycle: samsāra; the emotional rollercoaster we create 07:34 All personalities are a disorder 09:07 Effort is tainted with being; right effort is just enough; repetition 11:11 Start recognising what thoughts you are having at different points in the cycle 16:32 Ill will and wisdom towards oneself 21:24 Alwaysisms and being in the moment; trained to be negative; taught to be a victim 28:00 Dhamma teachers and stone Buddhas; we can change (MN 9) 35:51 Take a deep breath; the winner’s attitude is knowing you can handle it

Robert and Dhammarato talk about rules and reality, and developing the skills to build new habits. #habits #rituals #wisdom See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ujz-oY9K9o Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Wanting to be unhappy; resistance; the child (id) and the parent (superego) 00:05:20 Letting it sink in; keep practicing 00:11:30 Investigating the rules; the most common woeful state; four types in ok corral 00:21:00 Fear of losing happiness; fear of punishment; ignorance is the start 00:24:12 Giving up to being miserable; modifying lifetime habits; it’s ok to be happy 00:34:11 Reality is not the rules; protection, permission, and potency 00:42:49 Catching unwholesome thoughts; relishing being alive 00:59:16 Gladden the mind: celebrate that you’re still alive 01:00:00 Stupidity from the past; grand wisdom

Robert and Dhammarato talk about how to use seclusion to build skills. #seclusion #beinginthemoment #righthererightnow See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQfIkhRwv-k Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Building up seclusion time; start in bed in the morning 04:38 Maintaining motivation; types of motivation; positive winner’s attitude 13:51 Switching between different modes of being and losing balance; right here, right now 22:35 Let go of dukkha; pick up sukha 30:07 Getting real; avoiding romantic thinking 33:13 Feeling the need to track the past to avoid traps 37:06 Wisdom is becoming a win-win person; seeing the world as a farce 41:58 The power is you don’t have to be part of it; it’s the Keystone Cops 48:20 Back to seclusion 50:12 The gift of a smile; the gift of joy; the gift of the present moment

Robert, Beau, and Dhammarato talk about the relationship between music skills and meditation skills, investigating the hindrances, and gaining mastery and control through play and crazy thinking. #mindfulness #smoking #playfulness See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfujvpLHmm8 Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Can meditation skills be used in music? Analogy of changing gears: similarities and differences 00:05:57 Mastering skills; dealing with things right here, right now 00:11:21 Becoming tired of gladdening the mind; strategies for exhausted and exhausting; just stop (MN 86) 00:20:11 Investigating cause and effect - a missing element in Western Buddhism; analogy with chemical reactions 00:25:07 Figure out what it is you’re doing; you’re already in the holy place 00:29:36 Wanting to smoke; hatred for the desire; hatred for yourself 00:45:21 We imprison ourselves in rules; self-flagellation 00:48:47 Feelings and associated sensations in the body; crazy thinking and taking control 00:56:33 Sati one of five faculties, four foundations of mindfulness, seven factors of awakening, and the noble eightfold path 01:00:03 Secondary self-hatred; self-acceptance - or complete friendliness; the mentality of always

The Sangha discuss meditation as analogous to training a puppy in that we enjoy immediate rewards as opposed to delayed gratification, or seeking grace and mercy as a reward for working hard. #righteffort #concentration #delayedgratification See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8c-Hfl7I1M Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Meditation takes a little bit of effort; immediate benefit, no benefit; fits and starts 00:08:48 What are you doing right now? Remembering and making a change; perfect sila 00:11:13 Concentration is what losers do because they expect to fail 00:14:52 Attitude and immediate benefit (MN 111); being completely free from unwholesome thoughts 00:19:05 Sati is the number one skill to be developed; like training a dog 00:23:31 “Enlightenment” is something you can experience right here, right now; practice being satisfied 00:36:12 Gaining benefit right here, right now is missing from Western meditation; wholesome pleasure (MN 36; MN 139) 00:42:52 Pseudo-discipline; grace and mercy; suffering greatly from things that never happen 00:46:21 Right effort: the least amount of effort to get the job done 00:57:19 Passive meditation vs. skin in the game; noting vs. discrimination and change 01:04:21 Free falling into fear; from conceptualisation to observation/examination 01:20:05 Panda the puppy; right watching is putting the mind into another gear; remember to look at what you’re doing and make a change

The Sangha discuss wholesome thoughts and emptiness, the value of interactive communication, the qualities of the jhānas, and learning to live by the law of nature in friendship and satisfaction. #friendship #jhana #enlightenment See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_YCuk9iuAc Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM BST - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Investigating thoughts and feelings; anxiety as a concept; having wholesome thoughts and feelings 00:07:17 Wholesomeness, emptiness, and happiness; is this dukkha or dukkha-nirodha? 00:14:38 Emptiness all the way; the Tathāgatha 00:19:32 Gladdening the mind and Sangha; communication-intensive media; meditation competition 00:24:52 Insights come through conversation 00:26:46 The Alex Channel; the need for live dialogue; there is a path and a method 00:30:54 Improvisation and the Dhamma; the natural method and the organised method 00:35:00 First jhāna is everyday; byproducts of being satisfied; second, third, and fourth jhāna; arūpa jhānas 00:49:23 Empty thoughts; living by the law of nature; fear; self-preservation; existential threats 00:59:39 The Buddha was a homeless person who learned how to feel good 01:01:01 There’s nothing magical about satisfaction; friendship is the path

The Sangha discuss wholesome thoughts and emptiness, the value of interactive communication, the qualities of the jhānas, and learning to live by the law of nature in friendship and satisfaction. #friendship #jhana #enlightenment See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/SOIqfKzhbZM Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Investigating thoughts and feelings; anxiety as a concept; having wholesome thoughts and feelings 00:07:17 Wholesomeness, emptiness, and happiness; is this dukkha or dukkha-nirodha? 00:14:38 Emptiness all the way; the Tathāgatha 00:19:32 Gladdening the mind and Sangha; communication-intensive media; meditation competition 00:24:52 Insights come through conversation 00:26:46 The Alex Channel; the need for live dialogue; there is a path and a method 00:30:54 Improvisation and the Dhamma; the natural method and the organised method 00:35:00 First jhāna is everyday; byproducts of being satisfied; second, third, and fourth jhāna; arūpa jhānas 00:49:23 Empty thoughts; living by the law of nature; fear; self-preservation; existential threats 00:59:39 The Buddha was a homeless person who learned how to feel good 01:01:01 There’s nothing magical about satisfaction; friendship is the path

Laurent and Dhammarato discuss the insights and practical methods we find from combining ānāpānasati (mindfulness of breathing) with paticcasamuppāda (dependent origination). #dependentorigination #mindfulnessofbreathing #beinginthemoment See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/etKQk-5VVRg Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 The Five Aggregates are the sum total of what you are; not something that stays something 04:14 Contact is where feelings arise; finding places where changes can be made 08:36 Not going all the way to dukkha; resting at feelings; catching thoughts and gladdening the mind 12:45 Right effort is the change; seclusion; enjoying the show 19:10 Wisdom at the point of contact - salāyatana, contact (phassa), feelings (vedanā) 20:47 The distinction between vedanā and upādāna; “I like it but I don’t want it” 24:36 Playing with things at an ordinary level; reframing good and evil 27:50 Feeling bad about feelings; anxiety doesn’t happen on its own 32:20 Why ānāpānasati and paticcasamuppāda fit closely together 35:12 The secret of paticcasamuppāda is that you can feel the way you want to feel: safe, secure, content, satisfied, successful 38:23 Not feeling successful because of distraction; never mind, start again

Dean and Dhammarato talk about the experience of first jhāna in various settings, developing generosity, the definition of “enlightenment”, and why expensive retreats are best avoided. #retreat #jhana #enlightenment See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/5MfDEpdY8fk Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Being generous for the right reason; arrogance and noble thoughts 04:30 Enjoying the jhānas; developing skills 05:33 First jhāna at the gym seems less intense; bodily discomfort; oxygen in the brain 10:00 Walking meditation; breathing; in the present moment; open to sensation (from the five senses) 12:09 Sensing rather than processing is noble 14:10 Expectation is a hindrance; wanting something you don’t have 17:15 Developing generosity; gladdening the mind 20:54 Expensive retreats are selling something they don’t have; eagerness for the Dhamma 29:08 Removing unwholesome thoughts is not taught in Mahasi or Goenka 31:32 Being in first jhāna is enlightenment; sustain it minute by minute

The Sangha discuss the difference between wholesome and unwholesome questions, dependent origination, wisdom as free will, and wisdom at the point of contact. #wisdom #freewill #socraticmethod See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/GQMUbpJPOIY Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 What is the value of asking questions? Wholesome and unwholesome questions; the Socratic method 00:09:45 Understanding the connection between the mind, the feelings, and the body 00:16:00 Free will is not an issue 00:28:15 Stay out of the past because it’s fraught with bad feelings; the will to change 00:33:04 Everything is connected; dependent origination; our memories are based in ignorant delusions 00:44:32 Wisdom is free will; freedom from wanting; it’s a downhill journey 00:50:23 You can handle anything; come back to feeling (vedanā); wisdom at the point of contact 01:04:08 Visiting a wat

Laurent and Dhammarato discuss the twelve steps of dependent origination, which is a detailed explanation of the origins of dukkha. #dukkha #dependentorigination #fournobletruths See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/eWzSqmA3EmU Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 How to figure out dependent origination (paticcasamuppāda); the second noble truth 00:02:31 The Five Aggregates (khandas) and the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (satipatthāna) as function and structure 00:05:40 The Five Aggregates are impermanent; clinging to the body; anatta 00:17:08 Viññana - consciousness: a sense organ that can sense something; the ability of knowing; the mind senses old data (sankhara) 00:27:36 We can change how we fee about things; perception can be changed; reaction time 00:31:55 Sati is the noble way of dealing with the Five Aggregates; ignorant sankharas; new sankharas 00:37:25 Guarding the sense doors; choosing the right environment; wise endurance 00:43:01 Salāyatana is what impacts us; contact; feelings; “neutral” feelings are actually confusion 00:53:00 Interrupting the cycle of liking, wanting, needing 00:55:43 Pali terms; delusional ignorance; making the name into reality (nāmarūpa/perception); kicked by the salāyatana 01:03:09 Four types of clinging: self, things, rules, views; instincts; dukkha-dukkha-nirodha 01:15:05 All twelve steps and the four woeful states; hell (anger), hungry ghost (wanting), dumb animal (rule follower), asuras 01:20:02 Just a few mind moments; wisdom at the point of contact; first, wise vedanā

The Sangha discuss the apparent allure and function of self-pity and how we can give it up to find success in the breath. #anxiety #fear #selfpity See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/yn-NAQ6Gpgg Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Self-pity is not a route to happiness; truth vs. pattern recognition; waking up to unwholesome thoughts 00:27:17 Rules and resistance to change; exaggeration; separating from unwholesome thoughts 00:31:20 What’s the point; giving up; relinquishing to success; taking a deep breath 00:52:21 Practice when you remember to do it; resistance and live scripts 00:56:33 Success is immediately available; long-term goals and pity parties 01:04:50 Changing focus; being distracted from distractions by the breath 01:08:29 Positive reframing of situations; noticing the success; remember, remember, remember 01:18:09 Just thoughts; using discrimination; suññata; meaninglessness 01:24:57 Practice enjoying being alive by taking a deep breath; wisdom, not commiseration 01:30:45 It’s not important 01:33:13 Open Sangha Foundation; community and friendship

Robert and Dhammarato discuss the meaning of the Sabbāsavasutta. #sutta #meditation #obstacles See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/UeilxSgp8kA Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Majjhima Nikāya 2 Sabbāsavasutta - All the Defilements https://suttacentral.net/mn2/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin (Bhikkhu Sujato) https://suttacentral.net/mn2/en/bodhi?reference=none&highlight=false (Bhikkhu Bodhi) https://suttacentral.net/mn2/en/suddhaso?reference=none&highlight=false (Suddhāso Bhikkhu) Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 Āsava (discharge from a sore) and kilesa (obstacle, fetter); wise attention (seeing) is the solution 00:05:59 Seven ways of giving up āsava: seeing, restraint, using, enduring, avoiding, dispelling, developing 00:07:11 Ignorance skews our attention; the second noble truth; past and future; self 00:37:23 The things right in front of you are the things fit for attention: this is dukkha, its origin, its cessation, the way leading to cessation 00:44:40 Three fetters are abandoned through wise attention 1) personality view 2) doubt about what is and is not the path 3) doing what we’re told to do 01:15:01 The sotāpan: path and fruit 01:22:49 Restraining the senses: choosing the wholesome 01:28:59 Using: the four requisites 01:40:07 Enduring: good opportunities for practice; patience 01:46:58 Avoiding dangerous things 01:51:54 Dispelling, removing, investigation 01:55:19 Developing sati; unremitting; the seven factors of enlightenment are the noble eightfold path; right noble unification of mind with its supports and features 02:00:39 A doable path

Alex and Dhammarato discuss the differences between raw and processed experience and how the process of becoming helps us understand the jhānas. #jhana #paticcasamuppada #sensations See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/TDP1ZD_Wrpc Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00 Enjoying walking meditation; experience and the self; nouns and verbs 11:52 Arising and passing away of the self-concept; dukkha and protecting the self 16:02 Jhānas are not something for the self to attain; raw experience and processed experience 19:23 A computer analogy; just receiving data; flickering sensations and fourth jhāna as a way of looking 25:30 Paticcasamuppāda (dependent origination) consciousness and database matching; salāyatana, processing, thinking 31:45 Sampling rate; always in the past; fast thinking - stopping and taking more data 37:09 Answers as separation and confusion; happily ignorant; the nun’s habit 42:11 Fourth jhāna; arūpa-jhānas: “mental” jhānas; magic; “infinite” is a bad translation; boundary-less 45:39 “Infinite space” - the boundaries in space don’t exist; direct experience is not magical 47:54 “Infinite consciousness” - consciousness has no boundary; a flood of data 48:41 The experience of sensation fades away and becomes less solid 50:00 “Neither perception nor non-perception” and “nothingness” - processing and dukkha

The Sangha discuss the Open Sangha Foundation and why meditation is not important. #meditation #enlightenment #community See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/coYydrcvzaI Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 The Open Sangha Foundation: a universal gathering place for Western Buddhism 00:19:51 Taking money and business out of Western Buddhism; forming relationships; encouraging generosity 00:26:06 Working with what’s already available; no-hierarchy friendship model; hierarchy of respect 00:42:57 Preparing for cultural differences; using existing networks 00:50:09 The Triple Gem; nobility rubs off; being in seclusion; light and heavy thoughts 00:58:01 Sati (“waking up”) means “practice over and over again”; remember to investigate; paying attention to our senses 01:03:44 Thinking about thinking clearly 01:06:15 Let it go; relax; the job is done 01:10:27 “Emptiness” - there’s nothing to it, no importance, no heaviness; re-arranging our priorities 01:16:34 Be compassionate to yourself now; suffering is in demand; meditation is not important

Agnes and Dhammarato discuss the joy of practice and of sharing happiness, as well as the ability to see dangers coming so we can avoid them and continue to enjoy the breath and to love life. #life #breathing #tranquility See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/gvnrymTuyCU Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 The profound happiness of practice; fear as a primary motivator 00:10:36 Seeing dangers coming so we can avoid them in advance; importance and emptiness 00:19:32 Danger and willingness to make a change; limits and boundaries 00:21:35 The four requisites: housing, clothing, food, medical care - plus entertainment and transportation 00:29:28 Life as the most important thing; what we can do without; breath is life itself 00:37:10 Love of life is the gateway to the first jhāna; doubt and not needing to know 00:44:28 The first thing to realise about the hindrances is that they are interrelated 00:51:34 Tune into the rules you are following 00:55:25 Being friends with people; gratitude for parents 01:03:09 Happy, joyous, and free; boredom and restlessness

The Sangha discuss ways of approaching the fetters. #fetters #fear #competition See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/3Ebe2dJuBiA Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY These videos are also available in Podcast form on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. ►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/ 00:00:00 The fetters; asava and kilesa; the first five fetters are physical; the second five mental 00:06:23 The one-two punch: knowledge and deliverance; mature, unremitting mindfulness; seven factors 00:16:36 Paying wise attention to dukkha; knowledge and vision of what is and is not the path 00:22:50 The real sotāpan; seeing things through the lens of the four noble truths (MN 48) 00:26:59 Fetters four and five (greed and anger): take care of them one by one as they occur 00:44:05 Dealing with fear; clinging; self-preservation; rūpa and arūpa; acceptance of what happens 00:54:10 Conceit; competition; jealousy and envy 01:13:55 Ignorance is the last fetter; knowing enough 01:17:03 Helping others get past anger

Laurent, Scott, and Dhammarato talk about the skill of being in the present moment. #enlightenment #beinginthemoment #mindfulness See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysLtJeUmB_s Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT with Dan Goldfield - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY 00:00:00 “Importance” in the Western mindset; weight; heaviness, coming out of being a victim 00:06:43 Satisfaction; it’s so easy; lighter; we remember to change our attitude about stuff 00:11:23 The teaching of the Buddha is about subtraction; become lighter 00:17:20 Boredom is agitation, restlessness; there’s nothing to do 00:24:21 Imagining instead of looking at what’s real 00:30:00 Being in the present moment and knowing you can handle anything (samma sankappa) 00:33:53 Knowing enough; the four noble truths, the noble eightfold path, ānāpānasati 00:37:53 Samādhi and piti: collecting together the things that are needed; applied and sustained wholesome thoughts 00:42:07 A mind fit for work: superior investigation 00:44:49 An analogy with reading; reading what’s real; first jhāna 00:56:31 It’s so simple; nothing is good enough; there’s nothing to it

The Sangha discuss the benefits of using the breath as an anchor in formal practice and daily life, the meaning of “insight”, and learning from lineaged teachers and other members of the community. #anapanasati #mindfulnessofbreathing #mindfulness See the video version of this call on YouTube. ►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rot2W_jRKZk Find the full video chats on the Dhammarato Dhamma YouTube channel. ►YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DhammaratoDhamma Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome. ►The Sangha US, Friday 7PM PDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/uyYzUwJ3e3TO ►The Sangha UK, Sunday 10AM GDT with Dhammarato - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh ►The Sangha UK, Wednesday 8PM GDT with Dan Goldfield - https://join.skype.com/w6nFHnra6vdh To meet Dhamma friends, hang out, or volunteer—join our Discord Sangha. Everyone is welcome. ►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY 00:00:00 Relationship challenges integrated into practice; wholesomeness in the moment 00:14:50 What should be the object of awareness? The breath as an anchor 00:24:02 The benefits of meditation; investigation and staying satisfied 00:33:06 The importance of sati; mental stability and clarity; cultivating satisfaction and success 00:37:09 Psychedelics and jhānas; not getting caught up in any particular experience 00:50:04 Philosophical verbiage and practical experience 00:53:47 Enjoying the silence 00:55:18 What is insight? Connecting the dots; being quenched first; samatha and vipassanā together 01:02:28 Meditation mode vs. being awake in daily life; blurred and blended 01:08:47 Relaxing out of craving; the desire for liberation is a hindrance 01:12:30 Dhammarato’s lineage; everyone is a teacher 01:16:40 Self-help as an intellectual pursuit vs. mindfulness as a practice 01:19:32 Throw out the categories; return home to this place of safety and satisfaction (MN 117, MN 118) 01:35:05 Playing with the breath