Podcast
Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts
Dhamma Talks, Chanting, Precepts and Meditation
with Ajahn Dhammasiha, Ajahn Moneyyo,
and other experienced Senior Buddhist Monks
in the Theravada Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah.
Recorded at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage,
Brisbane, Australia.
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- Buddhism chart
- #71
- Episodes
- 528
- Releases
- Twice a week
- Typical length
- 31 min
- On air since
- 2020
- Latest episode
- 2 days ago
Episodes
528 episodes, newest first
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39 min
What AI Doesn't Know | Knowing One's Own Mind vs Knowing External Data | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 70
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What's most important for a meditator is exactly what no AI (Artificial Intelligence) can know:
Knowing our own mind, understanding our internal feelings, emotions, thoughts and intentions.
No AI can help us to know ourselves.
We ourselves have to develop the mindfulness to observe our emotions and mind states internally, AI can not possible do that for us.
Ajahn Dhammasiha also explains how the Dhamma is not only meant to improve our life, but ultimately can free us from all of Samsāra through experiencing the ultimate true reality, the deathless element, Nibbāna.
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46 min
Inviting Feeback | Learning from Criticism | Pavarana Full Moon | End of Vassa | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 69
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At the pavāranā full moon completing the annual rainy season retreat, the monks are instructed by the Buddha to mutally invite each other for critical feedback regarding their conduct.
The ceremony is to remind us how important it is for our own growth in the Dhamma to get and be able to receive and process critical feedback.
It's difficult to see one's own shortcomings, as the faculty of delusion is hiding them from us. But others can recognize them much easier, just like we can easily see the character flaws and mistakes in others.
If we have a knowledgable spiritual friend, who based on kindness and compassion points out our mistakes, and we're able to take it on board, we can overcome our delusion and progress in improving our conduct and character.
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29 min
Balancing Calm, Effort & Equanimity in Our Meditation | 3 Nimittas | Dhamma Talk by Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 68
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In Anguttara Nikāya / Numerical Discourses, Threes No 103, the Buddha explains that for progress in one's meditation, we have to give attention to three qualities ('nimittas'):
1. Samādhi Nimitta:
Calm, Tranquility, Unification of Mind, Concentration
2. Paggaha Nimitta:
Effort, Striving, Exertion
3. Upeakkha Nimitta:
Equanimity, careful observation without reacting or interfering, equipoise
We have to use wisdom and mindfulness to understand at what time we have to focus on which quality, depending on how our mind is developing, and what defilements and wholesome qualities are present in the heart.
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31 min
Letting Go of Everything | Detachment from 6 Sense Spheres & 5 Groups of Clinging | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 67
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Ajahn Dhammasīha reminds us that the ultimate end of our whole Dhamma practice is letting go.
Letting go of what?
Letting go of everything!
Everything means all sankhāras, all conditioned phenomena.
Once the heart lets go of all conditioned phenomena, it realizes the Unconditioned Deathless Reality, Nibbāna.
'Everything' (the Universe, the All) in the teaching of the noble ones is the six sense spheres, the 6 internal sense faculties and their external objects ('Saḷāyatana'):
• Eye and Forms
• Ear and Sounds
• Nose and Fragrances
• Tongue and Flavours
• Body and Bodily Sensations/Feelings
• Mind and Mental Objects/Ideas/Thoughts'Everything' can also be expressed by the 'Five Groups of Clinging' ('Pañcupādānakkhandhā'):
• Form/Body (Rūpa)
• Feeling (Vedanā)
• Perception (Saññā)
• Intention/Volition (Cetanā)
• Consciousness (Viññāṇa)The 5 Gourps of Clinging in particular constitute 'All' that can be misappropriated to support the illusion of Entity View/Self (Sakkāya-diṭṭhi/Attavādupādāna).
We have to observe and investigate these 6 sense sphere & 5 groups to understand their impermanent, unsatisfactory and not-self nature, in order to let go of them and experience the deathless reality free from all suffering.
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30 min
AJAHN DIPAKO: Spiritual Friendship | Recollection of Sangha | Sanghanussati and Kalyanamittata
Season 26, Episode 66
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Dhamma talk and discussion with Ajahn Dīpako at Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage.
Ajahn introduces the audience to the meditation object of 'Recollection of Sangha' (Sanghānussati), and emphasizes the importance of 'Spiritual Frienship' (Kalyānamittatā):
When we associate with admirable friends, who have a strong foundation in generosity, virtue and meditation, we will gradually acquire these qualities ourselves.
Ajahn also talks a bit about his life story, growing up in France and gaining faith in the Dhamma, which ultimately led him to ordain as a monk.
Ajahn Dīpako is a French-Cambodian monk with 11 vassa. He was born in Rennes, Brittany, France, and ordained at Amaravati in 2013, where he trained for approximately 6 years.
Ajahn Dīpako later lived around 4 years in Thailand, primarily practising near Ajahn Jayasaro's hermitage in Phak Chom and at Wat Pah Nanachat. Returning to Europe, he spent half a year on solitary retreat in Santaloka, a retreat Kuti in the Italian alps, and resided at Panyagiri Monastery, Spain, during Vassa 2025.
Ajahn Dīpako has visited Dhammagiri in 2023/2024 for a few months, when he helped us looking after Luang Por Vajiro:
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After a three months stay at Vimutti monastery in New Zealand, Ajahn Dipako has returned to Dhammagiri for vassa 2026.
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30 min
Christa Pike Survives Execution Protected by Loving Kindness | Metta vs Poison | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 65
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Recently the case of Christa Pike's "botched execution" in Tennessee went viral, as she is apparently the first person ever in the US to survive an "execution" after the poison (pentobarbital) was administered. In fact, after the first "lethal" dose failed to kill her, a second "lethal" dose was given to her. When she was still alive an hour after that second injection, an ambulance was called to get her into intensive care at a nearby hospital.
Christa remained unconscious and intubated on a ventilator for several days. Apparently, she was considered "brain dead" by October 5, and it was planned to disconnect Christa's life support on October 6.
However, to everyone's surprise and consternation, on the day of the planned termination of life support, Christa suddenly regained consiousness and started speaking. Although still very ill, she made progress in her recovery, and was transferred back from hospital to the prison on October 10.
What's rarely mentioned in the media reports is the fact that
CHRISTA PRACTISED LOVING KINDNESS (METTĀ) DURING THE "EXECUTION"!
Her Buddhist spiritual advisor explained in an interview that Christa has been practising Mettā for more than two years. She went into the execution chamber radiating unconditional Loving Kindness to everyone, including herself, the persons who were "executing" her, and even those behind the viewing window who wanted her dead and specially came to personally watch her being killed - she even included those in her Mettā!
Ajahn Dhammasīha points out that the Buddha mentioned 'Protection from Poison' as one of the benefits of Loving Kindness.
Anguttara Nikāya / Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, Book of Elevens No 15 'Mettānīsamsa Sutta / Benefits-of-Loving-Kindness Sutta:
https://suttafriends.org/sutta/an11-15/
Ajahn Dhammasīha considers it highly likely that Christa's diligent practice of Mettā is a crucial factor in her unprecedented survival of two lethal doses of pentobarbital.
Christa's case also highlights the cruel and degrading nature of "capital punishment", which will hopefully contribute to increasing awareness of the unacceptable ethical, moral, spiritual, social and practical implications of the "death panelty", and ultimately lead to the global abandonment of all executions.
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41 min
AJAHN MONEYYO | Pali Recitation: Buddha's Enlightenment to First Discourse | Vinaya Mahavagga 1. 1-6
Season 26, Episode 64
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Ajahn Moneyyo recites the first chapters of the Vinaya Piṭaka, Mahāvagga 1. 1. to 1.6. in the original Pali language.
These passages are the oldest and most authentic record of the events from the Buddha's supreme awakening (Sammā-sambodhi) under the Bodhi Tree at Uruvela (now Bodh Gaya) near the river Nerañjana, until the Buddha reunites with his first five disciples (Pañca-vaggiyā Bhikkhū) at the Deerpark near Vārānasī.
Nowadays, these passages are rarely memorised and recited by monks; and even less known in the lay community, due to their inclusion in the Vinaya Pitaka, the part of the Tipitaka concerned with monastic discipline. However, they are truly inspiring, as they are providing the earliest record of the events directly following the Buddha's supreme enlightenment, in his own words.
Fortunately, Ajahn Moneyyo has committed these passages to heart as part of his Dhamma practice in this year's vassa, and shared them with the other residents at Dhammagiri one morning, when we also did this recording.
You can read an English translation, that also provides the original Pāli side-by-side here:
https://www.dhammatalks.org/vinaya/Mv/MvI.html#burmese1
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47 min
How to Overcome Bad Karma | Diluting Unwholesome Kamma with Powerful Good Actions | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 63
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Ajahn Dhammasīha talks about the power of Good Karma (Puñña) to to weaken and dilute even extremely bad old karma.
The Buddha explained the process with the simile of drinking salty water:
🚰💧 The good, healthy spring water is the good karma we create.
🧂 Loads of salt mixed into the water is the bad karma we create.
🫗 Drinking the mix is experiencing the results of the karma we've created.
🤮 If there's lots of salt in the water (lots of bad karma), the experience is very unpleasant.
Naturally, we can't take the salt out of the water. So what to do?
• Certainly, not to put even more salt! (Don't make more bad karma)
• Add loads of fresh water to DILUTE the salt, until it's barely noticable 😊 (Create heaps of good karma)This way, we can weaken the bad karma so much that even the results of very evil actions may be experienced and exhausted with just a few days of headache. The story of Angulimāla, who killed 999 humans but later completely reformed on meeting the Buddha, became a monk, and experienced enlightenment, can be found here:
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN86.html
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26 min
Walking with Awareness | Luang Por Liem's Guide for Walking Meditation | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Cankama
Season 26, Episode 62
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Ajahn Dhammasiha reads Luang Por Liem's little booklet on Walking Meditation (Jongrom / Cankama / Sakman Bhāvanā), translated by late Ajahn Thaniyo.
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40 min
Walking Meditation: Apply 16 Stages of Breath Meditation to Walking Cankama | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 61
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Ajahn Dhammasiha suggests to use the same instructions the Buddha has given us for Breath Meditation in our Walking Meditation.
The 16 stages of breath meditation have been expounded by the Buddha in great detail, for example in the Ānāpānasati Sutta, Majjhima Nikāya No 118
= Mindfulness of In and Out Breath, Middle Length Discourses No 118:
English Version:
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN118.html
English & Pali Line-by-Line Version:
https://ancient-buddhist-texts.net/Texts-and-Translations/Anapanasati/Anapanasatisuttam.pdf
Divided into four groups of four ('4 Tetrads'), the 16 instructions cover all four Satipatthāna (4 Foundations of Mindfulness), four steps for each of the four foundations:
• Body
• Feelings
• Mind
• DhammaIf we simply transfer the same instructions to the experience of walking, we can apply the same thorough guidance to our walking meditation.
For example:
'Mindfully one breathes in, mindfully one breathes out' becomes 'Mindfully one steps with right leg, mindfully one steps with left leg'.
'Breathing in long/short, one knows "I'm breathing in long/short"' becomes 'Stepping long/short, one knows "I'm taking long/short steps" '.
'One trains oneself "I breathe in/out feeling the whole body" ' becomes 'One trains oneself "I step right/left feeling the whole body" '.
'One trains oneself "I breathe in/out joyfully" ' becomes 'One trains oneself "I step right/left joyfully" ' .
and so on...
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27 min
Sense Restraint | Self Control | Indriya Samvara | AN Eights #9 'Nanda Sutta'| Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 60
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The Buddha's half-brother Venerable Nanda was the foremost bhikkhu disciple in terms of sense restraint.
He was attractive, handsome, strong and had a natural inclination to intense sensual desire, which caused him major struggles in the beginning of his monk's life.
He overcame his difficulties through:
• Sense Restraint (Indriya Saṃvara)
• Knowing the right amount when eating (Bhojanasmiṃ Mattaññutā)
• Dedication to Wakefulness (Jāgariyaṃ Anuyutta)
• Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension (Sati Sampajañña)Anguttara Nikāya / Numerical Discourse, Eights, No 9 'Nanda Sutta'
See also:
Saṃyutta Nikāya / Collected Discourses 21.8 'Nanda Sutta'
Udāna / Inspired Exclamations No 22 'Nanda Sutta'
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42 min
Don't Neglect Walking Meditation! | Cankama Bhavana | Dhamma Talk | Jongrom | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 59
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Walking meditation is in no way inferior to sitting meditation. In fact, for many of us in modern society it can be a more suitable posture than sitting crosslegged (or even full lotus). The way we grow up, always sitting on chairs, we're often not flexible enough for sitting crosslegged.
Therefore, walking can help us to continue our meditation for a much longer time.
It's also excellent for excercise, and to keep us fit and healthy.
Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about the many benefits of walking meditation, and also suggests to apply the well known 16 steps of breath meditation to our walking meditation.
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49 min
Buddhist Chanting: Why We Do It | Benefits of Dhamma Recitation | Chant by Heart | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 58
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Chanting is an essential part of meditative practice in virtually all Buddhist traditions, and also in other religions.
Ajahn Dhammasiha explains the powerful benefits we receive from diligently learning Buddhist chants by heart, from listening to them, and from reciting them regularly.
Chanting the teaching of the Buddha develops samatha (tranquility) and samādhi, due to the calming and uplifting effect on our mind.
If we understand the meaning of what we're chanting, it can also lead to profound insight (vipassana). Monks have attained enlightenment while chanting, teaching or listening to Dhamma.
At the same time, chanting is also beneficial at the basic, beginning stages of our meditative practice. If we're in danger to be overwhelmed by unwholesome emotions like anger, sadness or intense desire, chanting may succeed in overcoming the crises when other other more refined meditative tools don't work.
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34 min
Transcendental Dependent Origination | Faith is the Bridge from Suffering to Joy | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 57
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Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about Saṃyutta Nikāya / Connected Discourses 12.23 'Upanisā Sutta' / 'Origin Sutta'
In his discourse, the Buddha expands the usual links of Dependent Origination / Paṭicca Samuppāda in a revolutionary way, moving from Suffering to Faith to Joy:
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• Birth is the origin of suffering (dukkha)
• Suffering is the origin of faith (saddhā)
• Faith is the origin of joy (pāmojja)
• Joy is the origin of rapture (pīti)
• Rapture is the origin of tranquillity (Passaddhi)
• Tranquillity is the origin of bliss (sukha)
• Bliss is the the origin of unification of mind (samādhī)
• Unification of mind is the origin of the knowledge and vision of things as they really are (yathā-bhūta-ñāṇa-dassana)
• The knowledge and vision of things as they really are is the origin of disenchantment (nibbidā)
• Disenchantment is the origin of dispassion (virāga)
• Dispassion is the origin of release (vimutti)
• And release is the origin of the knowledge of the destruction of the defilements (The crucial step here is our response to suffering. It is here where we either descend into more and more misery, or we can use faith to guide us to joy and the way to transcend suffering:
Whenever we experience pain and disappointment, we remember that this is exactly what the Buddha talked about, and we remember that he has also taught us the way how to get out of all this mass of misery. Thus the experience of suffering actually strengthens our confidence in the Buddha.
At that moment we experince joy, just like a very ill person finallly meeting a doctor they are confident in that he can cure them.
Bhikkhu Bodhi has written a helpful article about the Upanisā Sutta:
https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/wheel277.html
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40 min
Retraining the Faultfinding Mind | Focus on Joyful Events to Counter Depression | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 56
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Ajahn Dhammasiha explains how the faultfinding mind can deprive us of happiness, and even drive us into depression.
If we're stuck in the negative feedback loop of complaining and faultfinding, we have to gradually but consistently reeducate our mind to pay attention to good and uplifting events.
What we pay attention to ('yoniso manasikāra') is so important. We have a choice where to direct our attention. However much evil is happening in the world, there's still so much goodness as well.
We can focus on beautiful and inspiring actions, acts of generosity, kindness, virtue and sacrifice, and we will discover an endless source of joy and happiness.
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27 min
Nirvana is NOT Nothing | There IS an Unborn, Uncreated, Unconditioned | Nibbana | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 55
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The final goal of Dhamma practice, what it's all about, is to realize Nibbāna (Sanskrit: Nirvāṇa ).
It's important to have an accurate understanding of our final objective, otherwise it would be difficult to develop our mind in the right direction.
However, as Nibbana / Nirvana is totally beyond all concepts, words, notions and thoughts, even the Buddha can not possibly describe it accurately by means of language. He can only provide similies to inspire us, or he describes what Nibbāna in NOT.
For example, the Buddha has stated many times that Nibbana is the end of birth, ageing and death;
Nibbana the cessation of suffering;
Nibbana is the end of greed, hatred and delusion.
Unfortunately, in our modern materialist society, these 'negative' descriptions of Nibbana easily get misinterpreted as meaning that Nibbana is simply nothing. This is false and misleading.
Ajahn Dhammasiha therefore quote a statement directly from the Buddha that makes it unambiguously clear that Nibbāna should NOT be understood as 'nothing' -
Udāna No 73 (Inspired Exclamations No 73):
“There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, uncreated, unconditioned.
("Atthi bhikkhave ajātaṁ abhūtaṁ akataṁ asaṅkhataṁ.)
If, monks there were not that unborn, unbecome, uncreated, unconditioned,
(No ce taṁ bhikkhave abhavissā ajātaṁ abhūtaṁ akataṁ asaṅkhataṁ,)
you could not know an escape here from the born, become, created, and conditioned.
(na-y-idha jātassa bhūtassa katassa saṅkhatassa nissaraṇaṁ paññāyetha.)
But because there is an unborn, unbecome, uncreated, unconditioned
(Yasmā ca kho bhikkhave atthi ajātaṁ abhūtaṁ akataṁ asaṅkhataṁ,)
therefore you do know an escape from the born, become, made, and conditioned.”
(tasmā jātassa bhūtassa katassa saṅkhatassa nissaraṇaṁ paññāyatī ti.")
You can read and download this quote (and all other 'Inspired Exclamations') in the translation of Ajahn Geoff Thanissaro for free here:
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/udana.pdf
Or a more literal line by line translation giving also the Pali text:
https://ancient-buddhist-texts.net/Texts-and-Translations/Udana/Exalted-Utterances.pdf
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22 min
Knowing, Not Interfering | Insight through Awareness | Vipassana | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 54
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To develop insight, vipassana, we have to learn to observe uninterested. We have to be like an objective researcher. We know what we experience, without reacting, interfering and manipulating.
We shift our identification towards the 'Knower', rather than the 'Doer'.
What we take up as object of our observation, we no longer identify with.
We just mindfully know the emotion we're experiencing, we don't have to react to it.
It's like watching a movie, and knowing that we're watching a movie. We're not getting sucked into the action, we're aware that we're just looking at images of actors projected onto a screen. We don't take it for real.
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29 min
Remember Your Good Actions! | Recollection of Generosity | Caganussati | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 53
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Some people think:
"When I do something good, I just do it and then forget about it. That's what the Buddha would want us to do."
No, this is not what the Buddha teaches!
The Buddha teaches the exact opposite: We should remember our good actions, we should recollect our generosity, we should be mindful of our virtue.
Ajahn Dhammasiha explains why.
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26 min
What is Dear to Us will Bring us Suffering | Attachment is the Cause of Our Pain | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 52
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Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about one of the more challenging teachings of the Buddha:
"Grief, pain, sorrow, frustration, depression and despair are born from what is dear to us, they originate from what we love."
You can find the sutta Ajahn mentions in his talk at:
• Majjhima Nikāya / Middle Length Discourses No. 87
• 'Piyajātika Sutta' / 'Born from What is Dear'
• https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN87.htmlDhammagiri Forest Hermitage:
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31 min
Starting Dhammagiri 20 Years Ago | First Forest Monastery in Brisbane | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Season 26, Episode 51
Show notes
20 years ago on 13 August 2006, Brisbane Buddhist Vihara Inc (BBV) decided at a Special General Meeting to invite Ajahn Dhammasiha, to start a Forest Monastery associated with the tradition of Ajahn Chah in the Brisbane area.
The next day on 14th August 2006, Dr Gamini Jayasinghe (President of BBV Inc) called Ajahn Dhammasiha to formally extend this invitation to him, and Ajahn accepted.
Dr Gamini, his wife Rukmani, and the community of BBV made a very courageous decision with that invitation, as Ajahn had only 11 rains as a monk, was not well known at all, and lived at Vimokkharam, a small hermitage that was also quite unknown.
BBV Inc would go on to sell their 3 acres large suburban property with nice house and granny-flat, and buy the property at 30 Ben Varden, which then would become Dhammagiri. This poperty had no water, no power, no sewage connection and no buildings, except a huge empty watertank (half million litres!).
Only through the courage, determination, generosity and great faith of the very small group of early supporters could Dhammagiri be founded and ultimately flourish.
In this podcast, Ajahn shares some stories of the early days...
14 August 2006
Ajahn Dhammasiha accepts the formal invitation by Dr Gamini, President of Brisbane Buddhist Vihara Inc, to lead the establishment of a Forest Monastery in the Brisbane area, associated with the lineage of Ajahn Chah
09 March 2007
Settlement of Purchasing Contract for Dhammagiri Property 30 Ben Varden Avenue, Kholo
15 March 2007
Luang Por Plien of Wat Aranyavivek, Chiang Mai, visits Dhammagiri property 30 Ben Varden Ave, und provides advice and encouragement
(We will commemorate the 20th anniversary of this event on Sun 14 February 2027, together with our visiting guest Luang Por Vajiro)
28 & 29 April 2007
Moving to Dhammagiri property 30 Ben Varden Ave, and celebration of Vesak next day
(We're planning the main event of our 20th Anniversary Celebrations for the weekend 15th & 16th May 2027. That's the weekend right before Vesak, just like we moved to Dhammagiri right before Vesak 20 years ago)
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