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Bhikkhu Bodhi's Dharma Talks
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk originally from New York City. He lived as a monk in Sri Lanka for 24 years and now lives at Chuang Yen Monastery in upstate New York. Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator or editor, including The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya, 1995) and The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Samyutta Nikaya, 2000). A full translation of the Anguttara Nikaya is due out in 2011. In 2008 he founded Buddhist Global Relief, a Buddhist organization dedicated to providing relief from poverty and hunger among impoverished communities worldwide.
2012-11-03 Applied Compassion 1:17:47
Karuna Buddhist Vihara
2010-11-04 Ascending and Descending Movements of Dharma Practice + Buddhist Global Relief 1:11:40
Bhikkhu Bodhi discusses the Five Spiritual Faculties, the ascending factors that lead toward enlightment and the Four Brahma Viharas, the descending factors that lead toward engagement in the world.

Following the dharma talk, Kim Behan, Executive Director of Buddhist Global Relief, gives a presentation on the founding, goals, and projects of the organization. Buddhist Global Relief is a Buddhist organization dedicated to providing relief from poverty and hunger among impoverished communities worldwide. Read Bhikkhu Bodhi's provocative essay that led to the founding of BGR: “A Challenge to Buddhists”

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
2010-11-02 An Evening with Bhikkhu Bodhi 35:37
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
2009-04-21 Mind is the Core 47:36
Mind (citta) as the Buddha’s focus of investigation. As both the cause of suffering and the means to its cessation The Buddha points to two states or tendencies of mind Akusala - unwholesome, unskillful Kusala - wholesome, skillful, beneficial Suffering follows the unwholesome mind, Happiness follows the wholesome mind like a shadow that never departs. Our task, step by step, is to train the mind and supplant the unwholesome state with the wholesome states. Greed, hatred and Delusion are the root causes for the unwholesome mind. We must cultivate the factors that are the cause for the wholesome mind at three levels. Coarse - Actions, bodily or verbal. We use the five precepts to prevent unwholesome tendencies at this level. Obsessive, compulsive patterns - Thoughts, emotions. We use meditation, deep samadhi directed to an object, to see the arising of these tendencies and still the mind. Underlying tendencies, attachments - the remaining defilements We use wisdom, insight, to investigate the body and mind and see their impermanence and stop the clinging to a false self to uproot these final tendencies. This is liberation.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
2000-07-27 Indriyabhavana Sutta: Development of Mental Faculties 59:53
MN152
Sri Lanka BPS
2000-07-20 Chachakka Sutta—The Six Sextets, Part 2 61:03
MN148.02
Sri Lanka BPS
2000-07-13 Chachakka Sutta—The Six Sextets, Part 1 52:20
MN148.01
Sri Lanka BPS
2000-07-06 Rathavinitha Sutta - The Simile of The Relay of Chariots 63:51
MN24
Sri Lanka BPS
2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 5 48:36
MN1.05
Sri Lanka BPS
2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 4 62:13
MN1.04
Sri Lanka BPS

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