Ajahn Punnadhammo's Dharma Talks
Ajahn Punnadhammo
Ajahn Punnadhammo has been studying and practicing Buddhism since 1979 and was ordained in Thailand in the forest tradition of Ajahn Chah (novice ordination Feb. 1991, higher ordination Feb. 1992). Between 1990 and 1995 he was based at Wat Pah Nanachat, Thailand. Punnadhammo is a Canadian, born Michael Dominskyj in Toronto in 1955. He began studying the Dhamma under Kema Ananda, the founder and first teacher at the Arrow River Center.
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2015-10-31
A Buddhist Halloween
2019-05-01
A Cheerful Spring Message
2021-02-28
A Guide To The Precepts
2019-08-17
A Human Rebirth
2019-02-10
A Practical Teaching
2020-02-16
Abhidhamma Analysis of Consciousness
2021-06-05
Aggañña Sutta (DN 27)
2021-03-07
Ajahn Chah - Whatever
2021-11-14
Alagaddupama Sutta
2007-04-29
AM Morning Reflections - Residing In The Present
2007-05-02
AM Reflections - Settling Into The Now
2022-07-16
An Analysis Of A Human Being - The Five Khandhas
2018-10-26
An Inquiry into the Central Buddhist Teaching of Not-Self - Meditation
2018-10-26
An Inquiry into the Central Buddhist Teaching of Not-Self - Talk
2013-05-06
Anatta
2017-08-05
Anatta (Not-Self)
2018-01-22
Another Look At Dependent Origination
2022-04-03
Assutavā Sutta - Mind And Body?
2022-05-14
Astronomy in the Time of the Buddha
2019-07-27
Attachment to Views
2004-04-21
Balance In Meditation: The Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2019-04-18
Basic Instruction
2021-01-24
Be Mindful Of Your Emotional States
2015-11-21
Beginner's Mind
2021-12-19
Being Overly Critical
2016-07-23
Beings of the Sense Desire Realms
2006-06-05
Benefits Of The Brahma Viharas
2021-11-21
Bhavana in Daily Life
2015-10-17
Bhikkhu Ordination
2016-04-16
Bhumma Devas
2022-05-15
Bhuridata Jataka No 543
2009-12-12
Breath Meditation Instruction
2016-03-26
Brief Instructions for Mindfulness of Breathing
2018-08-03
Brief Into to Meditation
2008-06-01
Buddhism and the Environment
2022-07-30
Buddhist Folk Lore
2020-11-08
Buddhist Ordination
2015-10-26
Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 6
2020-02-24
Chakra Or Sensual Heavens Meditation
2019-08-04
Challenges In Meditation
2008-12-12
Change is Here to Stay
2010-05-02
Chanting
2010-05-08
Chanting and Morning Reflection
2010-05-07
Chanting and Talk: The Three Characteristics - Samsara's Kaleidoscope
2019-12-01
Characteristics of Kamma
2019-01-13
Characteristics Of The Dhamma
2018-01-15
Clarifying Dukkha
2013-05-12
Closing Ceremony
2015-02-28
Cognitive Series
2019-01-27
Conceit
2017-05-27
Conciousness Knowing Itself
2018-03-04
Confronting Mysteries
2020-08-29
Constructing Reality
2019-04-14
Contemplation Of Brahma Beings
2020-04-12
Contemplation of Devas
2019-04-07
Contemplation of the Devas
2022-09-03
Contentment
2016-09-17
Conventional Truth vs Ultimate Truth
2022-03-06
Dana, Generosity and Service
2018-01-07
Dealing With Change
2018-07-14
Dealing with Fear
2020-07-18
Dealing with Fear
2016-08-13
Dealing with Fear and Anxiety
2022-07-02
Dealing with Negative Emotions
2016-07-02
Dealing With The Mind When Awake
2016-08-27
Dealing With Your Mental States
2016-01-23
Death
2018-11-11
Defilements and War
2021-07-17
Delusion and Ignorance (fixed)
2013-05-10
Dependent Origination
2015-08-29
Dependent Origination
2016-10-01
Dependent Origination Revisited
2017-08-26
Dependent Origination Revisited
2017-11-05
Depression
2019-08-03
Developing Samadhi
2021-07-03
Dhamma, the Second Jewel
2015-04-25
Difficulties in Meditation
2021-09-11
Dream Practice
2015-12-19
Dukkha
2022-05-21
Dukkha Is More Than Suffering
2018-11-18
Dukkha Revisited
2004-04-18
Dukkha, Clear Awareness, Contentment
2019-12-15
Dwelling In The Brahma Viharas
2019-05-11
Early Buddhist World-View
2020-10-17
Empathy and Buddhist Ethics
2015-12-12
Emptiness
2022-01-23
Emptiness & Dependent Origination
2019-04-20
Entry Into The Formless
2015-09-12
Equanimity
2016-10-08
Escaping The Lord of Death
2018-04-14
Escaping The Lord Of Death
2019-03-10
Ethics - The Five Precepts
2008-05-04
Evening Dharma Talk 7:30 PM
2019-04-19
Exploring Emptiness
2019-11-24
Finding a Calm Place
2018-06-30
Finding a Peaceful Mind
2022-11-13
Finding Balance In Your Practice
2015-10-23
Finding Focus and Calm
2015-10-23
Finding Focus and Calm - Meditation
2012-12-07
Finding Freedom Through Emptiness
2017-02-26
Finding Happiness
2006-06-07
Finding The Faith To Practice Metta
2019-04-27
Finding the Heart of Emptiness
2016-01-30
Finding Your Centre
2006-06-12
Formless Abidings
2020-01-05
Forms of Tanha
2017-12-31
Four Jataka Stories
2020-07-25
Four Qualities Good And Bad
2019-10-11
Friday AM Instructions
2019-10-11
Friday PM Dhamma Talk
2017-08-12
Going Against The Grain
2012-12-07
Graded contemplations from ordinary to great stillness
2021-08-21
Grounding with the Four Elements
2021-08-21
Guided Meditation on Devas and Chakras
2013-05-11
Guided Meditation on Emptiness
2015-05-30
Guided Meditation on the Formless Abidings
2004-04-24
Guided Meditation: It Only Hurts When I Exist
2004-04-20
Guided Meditation: The Five Aggregates & Emptiness
2017-10-29
Halloween Stories
2015-06-20
Happiness
2015-11-10
Happiness I
2015-11-17
Happiness II
2015-11-25
Happiness III
2009-12-11
Happiness is an Enlightenment Factor
2016-09-24
Hauling Water, Splitting Wood
2022-11-05
Having Confidence In Oneself
2019-08-31
History And Importance Of The Sangha
2019-03-17
Holding Lightly
2017-11-26
How Do We Know What We Know
2022-05-07
How Do We Know What We Know?
2016-07-31
How Should I Meditate?
2017-03-12
Human Reality According to Abhidhamma
2018-04-21
Iconography
2019-03-24
Ignorance
2021-12-05
Imperfect Impermanent Insubstantial
2015-05-02
Impermanence
2015-05-26
Intro to Vipassana
2015-04-28
Introduction to Meditation
2022-06-04
Is Meditating An Artificial Exercise?
2019-02-06
It's Ultimately Simple
2016-03-27
Jhana Factors
2015-07-25
Kamma 2
2022-10-01
Kamma And It's Resultants
2010-02-15
Kamma and Rebirth
2016-04-23
Kamma and Rebirth
2017-02-12
Kamma and Rebirth
2015-01-17
Kamma and the Result of Kamma
2018-10-06
Kamma Looking Forward
2019-02-03
Karuna
2009-12-12
Knowing, Anatta and Right View
2021-01-03
Knowledge and Wisdom
2001-05-14
Leading Inwards Or Onwards?
2021-11-06
Learning To Tame The Mind
2022-07-23
Levels of Consciousness
2017-07-01
Living Harmoniously
2017-12-03
Living In Society
2022-09-24
Living With Your Emotions
2017-09-16
Looking Into The Mind
2015-06-30
Loving Kindness
2022-01-09
Loving Kindness Meditation
2022-06-25
Mahanama Sutta
2019-12-08
Mai Na - Whatever
2020-09-12
Managing Your Suffering
2020-10-10
Manifestation Of Defilements
1998-04-17
Meditation & Daily Life
2019-07-20
Meditation - What and Why?
2015-09-19
Meditation in Action
2018-08-25
Meditation in Activity
2019-11-03
Meditation on Chakras
2019-11-03
Meditation on Chakras
2021-07-24
Meditation On Devas
2019-04-03
Meditation on the Body
2021-09-25
Meditation on the Body
2016-03-31
Meditation on the Formless
2016-02-20
Meditation On The Formless Abidings
2018-05-26
Meditation Practice Made Simple
2019-06-22
Mind and World
2022-02-13
Mindfulness Of Breathing - Anapanasathi
2009-12-12
Mindfulness of Emotion
2020-12-13
Mindfulness of the Body
2016-12-11
Modalities Of Consciousness
2020-11-01
Moha, Lobha, Dosa - The Three Root
2019-10-14
Monday PM Dhamma Talk
2013-05-05
Morning Instructions
2013-05-09
Morning Instructions
2018-05-05
Nature of The Human Organism
2016-02-27
Not Me, Not Mine
2019-10-05
Not-Self
2005-04-27
Nothing Doing
2008-05-07
Nothing Doing - Evening Dharma Talk
2021-07-10
On the Nature of Time
2013-05-03
Opening Talk
2020-06-27
Our Attitude Towards Meditation
1999-03-10
Overcoming The Hindrances
2019-09-08
Paritta Chanting by the North American Abbots
2022-01-02
Past, Present and Future
2015-06-27
Peace of Mind
2021-08-28
Peace of Mind
2015-12-26
Peacefulness
2017-10-22
Perception
2016-02-06
Physical Discomfort In Meditation
2020-05-10
Postures In Meditation
2020-05-17
Practice Outside Of Formal Meditation
1999-03-13
Practicing Dhamma In Daily Life
2017-04-22
Practicing For Awakening
2017-02-19
Processing Your Experiences
2022-08-27
Proliferation - Papañca
2013-05-07
Questions and Answers
2021-06-19
Questions That Can't Be Answered
2011-12-09
Rectification of Names: Precise Use of Dhamma Language
2017-01-01
Reflections on Past, Present and Future
2015-07-18
Reflections on Vastness
2016-11-13
Resolving Conflict
2017-12-24
Return of the Light
2015-09-05
Right Effort
2018-06-16
Right Effort
2021-04-03
Right Effort - Shaping the Mind
2021-01-10
Right View - The First Path Factor
2021-08-07
Saddha - Faith or Confidence
2021-10-30
Sakka's Questions To The Buddha
2016-04-09
Samadhi
2015-05-23
Samadhi and Transcendence
2018-04-28
Samanera Ordination
2010-05-03
Samatha - Vipassana
2015-02-21
Samatha Meditation
2021-10-02
Samatha Meditation And Jhana
2020-12-20
Samatha Meditation Revisited
2019-05-25
Samma Vayama - Right Effort
2019-05-04
Sammaditthi - Right View
2015-03-14
Samsara
2015-08-15
Sankhara
2019-10-27
Sankharas (Formations)
2015-02-07
Sati, "Recollectedness"
2019-10-12
Saturday AM Instructions
2019-10-12
Saturday PM Dhamma Talk
2020-01-12
Search Within Thine Own Mind
2015-02-14
Second Discourse of The Buddha
2017-03-19
See Mental Formations As Empty
2019-03-06
See Things According To Reality
2019-11-20
Seeing Reality
2020-09-05
Seeking the Middle Way
2019-03-03
Shades of Dukkha
2022-06-18
Sigalovada Sutta
2007-04-27
Simplicity And Purity
2020-04-26
Simplify and Purify
2018-09-01
Skillful Speech
2020-10-03
Sleeping and Dreaming
2007-04-30
Small Tools With Big Results
2017-08-19
Solar Eclipses - An Alternate Theory
2019-07-06
Some Aspects of Equanimity
2020-03-15
Some Aspects Of Equanimity
2017-04-29
Some Aspects of Meditation
2022-11-20
Some Aspects Of Upekkha - (Equanimity)
2020-01-19
Some Basics Of Meditation Practice
2020-11-29
Some Characteristics of Upekkha
2018-08-18
Some Issues in Buddhist Philosophy
2022-02-06
Some Practical Aspects of Meditation
2020-12-27
Some Thoughts on Vipassana
2020-02-09
Space Time And Reality
2018-11-25
Stations of Rebirth
2020-03-29
Stay in the Clear Knowing
2006-06-13
Stop Thinking
2017-05-06
Story From The Dhammapada Commentary
2019-08-24
Strange Corners (includes guided meditation)
2015-09-26
Studying Buddhism
2016-12-04
Suffering Is Not a Personal Problem
2019-10-13
Sunday AM Instructions
2019-10-13
Sunday PM Dhamma Talk
2021-08-14
Surpassing The Devas
2016-03-31
Taking it Home
2020-06-14
Talking About Emptiness
2016-05-21
Talks in Tavatimsa Heaven
2016-06-11
The Abhidhamma in Practice
2016-01-09
The Aggregate of Consciousness
2022-09-17
The Basics of Buddhist Philosophy
2018-10-13
The Basis of Ethics
2018-08-04
The Benefits of Meditation
2018-09-22
The Big View
2021-06-12
The Book of Sixes (AN)
2018-07-25
The Book of Tens
2020-11-15
The Brahma Viharas
2021-04-25
The Brahma-nimantanika Sutta - Baka The Brahma
2019-01-20
The Brahmajala Sutta
2016-05-25
The Brahmaviharas
2015-01-24
The Buddha - Who He Was
2015-06-01
The Buddha in Tavatimsa Heaven
2022-04-10
The Carrot and the Stick
2017-06-10
The Contents of the Mind
2018-11-07
The Delusion of Self
2021-10-09
The Development of Wisdom
2022-02-20
The Devotional Side Of Practice
2014-12-14
The Divine Abodes
2020-09-26
The Eightfold Path
2019-02-17
The Elephant's Footprint
2020-08-01
The Emptiness Of The Five Aggregates
2017-07-15
The Enlightenment Factor Of Joy
2020-08-08
The Factors of Awakening
2013-05-08
The Fire Sermon
2022-01-16
The Fire Sermon
2015-11-28
The First Noble Truth
2019-04-21
The Five Aggregates
2016-07-30
The Five Aggregates
2015-08-08
The Five Hindrances
2016-03-12
The Five Hindrances
2018-02-04
The Five Hindrances
2016-01-02
The Five Khandhas
2019-12-29
The Five Khandhas (Aggregates)
2019-05-18
The Foot-Print Jataka
2006-06-03
The Four Brahma Viharas
2016-03-29
The Four Iddhipada
2015-05-09
The Four Iddhipada
2018-09-08
The Four Iddhipada Revisited
2021-09-04
The Four Kinds of Upadana
2015-08-01
The Four Noble Truths
2016-01-06
The Four Noble Truths
2015-03-21
The Four Postures
2020-07-11
The Fundamentals Of Sila
2015-12-05
The Game Of Samsara
2017-09-23
The Goal of Buddhism
2022-12-04
The Goal of the Path
2022-05-28
The Goal Of The Path
2016-02-13
The Greater Discourse on the Mass of Suffering
2018-02-11
The Guardians of the World
2020-05-03
The Hindrances and Jhana Factors
2021-01-31
The Importance of Courage
2022-02-27
The Intellectual Side Of Practice
2018-03-25
The Kamma of Thought
2022-01-30
The Knowing Mind (Citta)
2018-10-20
The Layman's Code of Conduct
2017-04-16
The Layman's Vinaya
2018-03-18
The Lens You Look Through
2019-03-31
The Lower Three Fetters
2017-12-10
The Meaning & Purpose Of Life
2022-07-09
The Meaning Of Stream Entry
2020-07-04
The Mere Reality Of Being Sentient
2022-03-20
The Mind is the Forerunner
2017-06-17
The Nature And Meaning of Dhamma
2020-03-01
The Nature of Conditioned Phenomena
2021-02-07
The Nature Of Dukkha
2017-09-08
The Nature of Mind
2018-06-23
The Nature of Mind
2022-08-06
The Nature of Mind - The Meaning of Citta
2016-06-18
The Nature of Perception
2019-06-29
The Nature of Samadhi
2022-11-27
The Nature Of The External World
2017-03-05
The Nature of Time
2017-11-12
The Nature Of Time
2018-12-30
The Nature of Time
2021-03-21
The Nature of Time
2019-09-28
The Need for Grounding
2017-09-02
The Path Factor Of Right Effort
2015-03-07
The Path in Daily Life
2006-12-10
The Path of Transcendence
2022-06-11
The Power of Anatta?
2021-05-01
The Practice Of Vipassana
2016-08-06
The Precepts - What Am I Getting Myself Into?
2016-09-10
The Preciousness of Human Rebirth
2021-06-26
The Preciousness of Human Rebirth, The Horrors of Samsara
2022-12-11
The Problem With Materialism
2016-03-28
The Quail
2019-11-10
The Quality of Saddha
2020-02-19
The Question Of Birth & Death
2022-09-03
The Question Of Not-Self (Anatta)
2017-06-24
The Reality of Birth & Death
2017-09-30
The Realms Of Existence
2021-10-23
The Rebuke to Mara
2018-09-29
The Role of Happiness
2021-10-16
The Root of All Things
2020-11-22
The Root of Conditioned Existence
2022-03-13
The Roots Of Unskillful Behaviour
2020-09-19
The Second Noble Truth
2020-12-09
The Seven Factors of Awakening
2016-01-16
The Simile of the Ocean
2018-08-05
The Skill of Meditation
2021-07-31
The Skillful Emotions
2016-06-25
The Sleeping Mind
2015-12-31
The Story of Anarudha
2021-05-26
The Story Of King Asoka
2018-12-31
The Story of Matanga
2019-12-31
The Tale of the Middle Mango
2018-01-28
The Ten Fetters
2013-12-13
The Ten Fetters and Four Stages
2016-06-04
The Ten Perfections
2018-02-18
The Ten Questions
2020-01-26
The Ten Samyojjana
2021-03-14
The Three Characteristics
2016-10-14
The Three Characteristics of All Existence
2022-08-13
The Three Feelings - Vedana
2022-08-20
The Three Forms of Desire
2019-08-10
The Three Refuges
2020-04-19
The Three Refuges
2018-12-16
The Transcendental Element in Buddhism
2018-04-01
The Truth Of Impermanence
2016-09-03
The Uniqueness of Buddhism
2020-02-02
The Wings of Awakening
2015-07-11
The World Is The Mind
2020-08-15
The Zen of Firewood
2021-02-21
Think Of This Life As A Past Life
2019-10-10
Thursday AM Instructions
2019-10-10
Thursday PM Dhamma Talk
2022-04-30
Tilakkhana - The Three Characteristics
2009-06-26
Time and Place
2020-05-24
Time and Space
2018-12-09
To Be Fully Awake
2021-09-18
Transformation
2020-04-05
Trapped in a Small Space
2016-03-05
Triple Gateway To Liberation
2015-01-31
True or Counterfeit Dhamma
2018-02-25
Truth
2013-05-04
Turning The Wheel Of Dhamma
2019-04-17
Two Approaches To knowing
2018-08-12
Types of Equanimity
2019-09-14
Uncomplicating the Mind
2019-10-18
Understanding and Transforming our Heart & Mind: How the Early Buddhist World V…
2019-10-18
Understanding and Transforming our Heart & Mind: How the Early Buddhist World V…
2019-07-13
Understanding Our Inner Life
2021-04-10
Understanding Terminology
2021-01-17
Understanding The Nature Of Thought
2022-10-22
Understanding Your Progress
2015-11-14
Unwise Actions
2018-09-15
Upadana
2020-10-24
Upadana - Clinging
2016-11-27
Upanisa Sutta
2020-06-07
Upanisa Sutta
2021-02-14
Using Language Precisely
2018-05-12
Variations of Khandas
2019-09-21
Variations on Meditation
2021-05-22
Varieties of Meditation
2021-11-28
Vastness
2022-10-15
Vastness And Expansiveness
2017-11-19
Vedana
2018-12-23
Vedana - The Aggregate of Feeling
2018-05-29
Vesak 2018
2013-05-07
Vipassana Basic Instruction
2020-03-08
Vipassana is not Psychoanalysis
2020-06-20
Vipassana Meditation
2009-12-12
Vipassana Meditation Instruction
2015-05-30
Voidness and the Formless
2019-01-06
Volition - Cetana
2015-10-03
Walking Meditation
2019-11-17
Walking the Path of Dhamma
2017-02-05
Wandering In Samsara
2020-03-22
We're All Going to Die
2019-10-09
Wednesday AM Instructions
2019-10-09
Wednesday PM Dhamma Talk
2020-05-31
Western vs Buddhist Psychology
2017-07-29
What Do We Mean By Buddha?
2016-12-18
What Do We Really Know?
2021-05-29
What Is Consciousness
2015-07-04
What is Mind?
2019-01-02
What is Real? What is True?
2016-03-25
What is Samadhi?
2019-06-01
What is the Abhidhamma
2017-07-08
What Is The Nature Of Mind?
2022-03-27
Whatever is Your Mind Doing?
2019-12-18
Who Was The Buddha?
2015-08-22
Why Do We Meditate?
2017-01-22
Why Do We Practice?
2021-12-26
Wisdom
2022-10-29
Wisdom
2015-11-07
Wisdom And Compassion
2017-01-29
Wisdom and Compassion
2018-07-07
Wisdom and Compassion
2007-12-16
Wisdom and Kindness
2013-12-14
Workshop - Anatta
2014-12-13
Workshop - The Divine Abodes
2016-10-15
Workshop - The Three Characteristics of All Existence
2012-12-08
Workshop: Exploring Inner Space
2015-10-24
Workshop: Practicing Samadhi with the Breath
2011-12-10
Workshop: Satipatthana Sutta
2017-09-09
Workshop: The Nature of Mind
2021-03-28
Worse Than Death
2019-12-22
Your Mental State - Your Choice!
