(keywords) (slightly edited version)  Transformative potential, trust, meditation, patience, compost, frustration, casual gratification, appointed as abbot, training monastery, resistance, teachers, boredom, terrible-twos, boundaries, indecisive, renunciation, setting limitations, nekkhamma parami, extreme asceticism, nothing special, overly zealous, phone, devices, AI, stress, anxiety, indulge, deny, embodied just-knowing awareness, letting go, raw, untamed, saying ‘yes’, intentional kindness.

(keywords) (slightly edited version) Kathina ceremony, dhamma talk, food, chanting, hungry, gifts, most important, true principles, benefit, blessings, Mahamangala Sutta, deva, auspicious, runes, virtue, anxiety, spiritual faculties, integrity, sila, precepts, beauty, transformation, remorse, joy, profound insight, insecurity, safety, confidence, sati, embodied mindfulness, literacy, emotional, intuitive, disappointment, investigation, victims, agency, fantasy, indriya samvara, container, intensity, anger, fear, resilience, meditation, goal, wisdom, pannya, Dhammapada 290, patience, mirror, curiosity, compost, nutriment, compassion, Kisa Gotami, grief, mustard seed, core elements, mindful hope, aspiration.

(keywords) (slightly edited version)  Mahayana, Theravada, ‘Trusting In The Heart’, suffering, the Middle Way, first teachings, Four Noble Truths, Pancavaggi bhikkhus, spiritual faculties, complicit, self-loathing, overwhelmed, nourished, Brahma Viharas, open-hearted state, samadhi, intoxicated, beguiling, anger, indignation, the three poisons, fear, rate of change, anxiety pandemic, conscious relationship, formal meditation, fear of losing control, Ajahn Dukkha, authentic compassion, undoing denial, who is afraid, storehouse of wholesomeness.

(keywords) (slightly edited version)  Results, Dhammapada 119, 120, growing up, fruit trees, creative, obstructions, denied dukkha, maranasati, mortality, trauma, traumatised, psychotherapy, damaged goods, cleaning your teeth, spiritual faculties, reintegrated, coping strategy, Chinese medicine, functional, basement, attic, ‘I can’t handle this’, Ajahn Chah, techniques, lotus, getting over suffering, heart energy, helpful.

(keywords) (slightly edited version)  Feeling challenged, failing, addictions, distraction, avoidance, dislike, hatred, megalomaniacal, disappointment, rage, progress, Dhammapada verse, 103, spiritual faculties, conquering delusion, Tathagata, sensitivity, aliveness, mindfulness, resilience, patience, grindstone, sword of wisdom, guided meditation, aligning, https://dhammakatha.org/qa/, practising, conceptual resilience, emotional resilience, tudong, frustration, physically resilient, loss, agrarian society, great patience, Ajahn Chah, transforming virtue, cultivating.

(keywords) (slightly edited version) Transforming virtues, generosity, loneliness, good fortune, determination, strength, competence, reserve, foot and mouth disease, addhittana parami, panidhana, Dipankara Buddha, stickability, staying-power, sustaining capacity, modesty, smoking, ritual practices, bowing, obeisance, coffee machine, aligning, unlived life, affluence, www.dhammakatha.org, judgement-free awareness, five minutes guided meditation, Dhammapada verse 163, a reality teaching, consoling fantasy.

(keywords) (slightly edited version) The Discourse on the Turning of the Law, Four Noble Truths, foundation, advanced spiritual abilities, insight, preparation, spiritual faculties, human intelligence, comfort, the great matter, ‘what is this all about’, unshakeable, great doubt, rewire thinking, disappointment, approximations, letting go, resistance, heart energy, building up blessings, storehouse of wholesomeness, wholesome potential, indulging and denying, middle way, welcome Ajahn Dukkha, sacca, honesty, booking a restaurant, honest speech, believing in stories, dying, generosity, friendships, physical discipline, meditation, investigating fear, anxiety, Dhammapada 327, resolution, elephant, swamp, uplifting, the inspiration of cultivated attention

(keywords) (slightly edited version)  Disinclination to teach, Brahma, unawakened state, but a little dust in their eyes, dana parami, transforming virtues, foundational, meditation, wisdom, supportive conditions, conceptual understanding, transformative understanding, relationship, kalyanamitta, helping hand, pointers, Ajahn Chah, lost in anxiety, fear, brains bursting, empathy, gift, loneliness, cold-heartedness, first book, first meditation retreat, disciplining attention, deluded personality, self obsessed, instilling virtues, Wester traveller, offering respect to the Buddha, practices, adequate examples, susceptibility, fully blown narcissists, mainlining bhava tanha, opening, softening, ‘my way’, lonely, self-referencing, forgetting about yourself, gentling, kathina, anumodana, form and spirit, shared participation.

(keywords) (slightly edited version)  Present moment awareness, past, future, resentment, forgiveness, aspirations, unique, newness, freshness, beginning again, soul, essence, endurance, ultimate transformer, cultivating competence, Thai language, great faith, great doubt, great endurance, formal meditation, two eyes.

Talk given in 2024

Talk given in 2024