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Thanissaro Bhikkhu's Dharma Talks
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Dharma practice is medicine for the mind -- something particularly needed in a culture like ours that actively creates mental illness in training us to be busy producers and avid consumers. As individuals, we become healthier through our Dharma practice, which in turn helps bring sanity to our society at large.
2004-01-01 Developing Your Potential 15:52
The simple things we already have in the present can be put together in such a way that they can lead to true happiness. We don’t have to go searching outside. All we need is to develop what’s right here.
Metta Forest Monastery
In collection: The Present Moment
2004-06-11 Self-Identity View 14:34
As long as you have a sense of self-identity, make it one that's willing and able to learn, one that finds joy in doing things skillfully.
In collection: Self & Not-Self Series
2005-05-18 A Decent Education 18:48
The Core curriculum for life: How to Live, How to Die, How to deal with pain, aging, illness, death & seperation.
In collection: Self & Not-Self Series
2005-05-21 The Karma Of Self & Not-Self 17:21
When a sense of self is a useful strategy for finding happiness, and when it's not.
In collection: Self & Not-Self Series
2005-05-27 Self Control 16:49
One of the reasons we focus on the present moment is so we can see our intentions as we act and learn to take control of our choices.
In collection: Self & Not-Self Series
2005-06-04 Up For The Challenge 17:28
A long line of people going back over 2,500 years have been up for the challenge of the practice. Are you going to join them?
In collection: Up For The Challenge Series
2006-02-25 Talk And Q&A 1 1:16:49
The Buddha's teachings on Karma provide a necessary foundation for understanding how meditation works to develop tranquility and insight.
New York Insight Meditation Center
In collection: Karma Of The Mind
2003-08-09 Right Where You Are 20:54
Metta Forest Monastery
In collection: Suffering And Its End I
2005-06-07 In-Line With The Dhamma 17:40
The problem with delusion is that it's always threatened by reality. If you learn to admit reality, act in-line with the way things actually are, then there's nothing threatening.
In collection: Up For The Challenge Series
2005-04-08 Stay With The Breath 8:11
Bringing thought formations into the light of conciousness through the simple exercise of staying with the breath.
In collection: Breath Meditation Series

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