Cultivating Metta and Reflections on Desire – Q and A
Ajahn Viradhammo. Ottawa Buddhist Society Fall Retreat in Arnprior (Sixth Talk).… Read the rest
Perception Versus Belief – Beyond Position Taking
Ajahn Viradhammo. Ottawa Buddhist Society Fall Retreat in Arnprior (Seventh Talk).… Read the rest
Refuges and Precepts – Setting Your Boundaries
Ajahn Viradhammo. Ottawa Buddhist Society Fall Retreat in Arnprior (First Talk).… Read the rest
Contemplating Resistance
Ajahn Viradhammo. Ottawa Buddhist Society Fall Retreat in Arnprior (Second Talk).… Read the rest
Knowing Life
Ajahn Viradhammo. Ottawa Buddhist Society Fall Retreat in Arnprior (Third Talk).… Read the rest
Deepening the Four Noble Truths
Ajahn Viradhammo. Ottawa Buddhist Society Fall Retreat in Arnprior (Fourth Talk).… Read the rest
Intellectual Dueling or an Internal Conversation
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Fifteenth talk). The difference between intellectual cleverness and knowledge versus a contemplative exploration of experience with the teachings of the Buddha.… Read the rest
Staying With the Open Heart
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Seventeenth talk). Awareness with any condition: no matter what conditions arise, we use awareness to understand our changing experience. Thus we are not trapped by conditions. When we stay with the open heart, we understand the true meaning of love. We can do this by exploring how we use the brahmaviharas without using the brahmaviharas.… Read the rest
Principals of the Holy Life
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Sixteenth talk). The meaning of renunciation and how to follow a moral life while living in community.… Read the rest
Don’t Go to the Thought Go to the Heart
Ajahn Viradhammo. Tisarana Non-Residential Retreat 2014 (Eighteenth talk). Ajahn gives an example of being criticized and then compulsively reacting. We try to see this sort of patterning and our craft is to work on this habit with the intention to observe arising phenomena rather than hating ourselves for having certain experiences. We can do this by seeing conditionality correctly: when there is this, there is that. When we do this, we are not getting lost in the history of losing the plot, nor carrying it around. We can therefore be available to our changing experience without judging it nor thinking of it as permanent.… Read the rest