Ajahn Amaro's Dharma Talks
Ajahn Amaro
I think of myself primarily as a monk who occasionally teaches, who strives to convey the spirit and the letter of Buddhism through my lifestyle, through explanation, and through the imagery of storytelling in order to bring Buddhism to life for people who are seeking truth and freedom.
As co-abbot of Abhayagiri Monastery, I am deeply involved with forming a monastic community that can serve as a guiding spirit for Buddhist practice in the world. The traditional, renunciate form of the practice is the embodiment of simplicity, strength and resiliency for anyone who seeks classical training in the monastic life. It is also a hand extended to the lay community that says: come, experience the life of the forest, the chanting, the bowing, the serenity of meditation, the robes, the peacefulness of celibacy. Draw from our well and bring this spiritual nourishment back into your everyday life.
The outward structure of traditional Buddhism supports a form of spiritual living that is grounded in honesty, non-violence, and living in truth-all the qualities of inner freedom that are precious to me. Buddhist practice turns the current of attention toward an inner life, irrigating the arid internal landscapes created by the external priorities of our Western world.
Buddhist practice also reconstructs our relationship to time and space. Our fragmented world is suffering from a continually diminishing attention span as we become overwhelmed with so much to do, with so little time and so many options. The practice allows us to visit our interior landscape, slow down, pay attention to the qualities of time and spirit, to explore who we are, instead of focusing on what we do. Buddhism trains the heart to recognize happiness, not by racing onto the next thing, but by paying attention and ending suffering.
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2021-08-21
1 - Opening Reflections
2021-08-22
1 - Second Day Opening Reflections
2021-08-22
2 - Guided Meditation
2021-08-21
2 - Guided meditation (41 min)
2021-08-21
3 - Introduction to walking meditation
2021-08-22
3 - Introduction to walking meditation
2021-08-21
4 - Morning Q&A
2021-08-22
4 - Second Day Morning Q&A
2021-08-21
5 - Afternoon reflections
2021-08-22
5 - Second Day Afternoon Reflections
2021-08-21
6 - Guided meditation
2021-08-22
6 - Guided Meditation
2021-08-21
7 - Afternoon Q&A
2021-08-22
7 - Second Day Afternoon Q&A
2021-08-21
8 - Guided meditation
2021-08-22
8 - Guided Meditation
2021-08-22
9 - Thank You and Goodbye
2005-05-01
A Mind Like Fungi
2012-11-06
A Precious Morning with Ajahn Amaro
1991-01-02
Absolute Proof
2007-05-03
AM Morning Reflections
2007-04-30
AM Morning Reflections
2007-04-30
AM Morning Reflections - The Changing Nature Of Things
2007-04-26
AM Reflections
2007-04-27
AM Reflections
2000-03-06
An Investigative Tool
1998-11-09
Anatta
2010-05-04
Becoming - why public speaking is more terrifying than worldwide nuclear destru…
2022-08-06
Being guided by mindfulness and wisdom
1999-04-22
Born Again
1998-10-28
Both Titled And Untitled
2004-04-20
Breaking The Cycle Of Becoming
2005-05-02
Carrying The Blessings
2007-04-28
Catching Suffering Before It Happens
1999-09-12
Cessation Of Consciousness I Followed By Q And A
1999-09-13
Cessation Of Consciousness II
2010-05-06
Chanting and Morning Reflection
2004-05-20
Chanting, Guided Awareness of Body Meditation
2004-05-18
Chanting, Instructions - Becoming & Letting Go
2010-05-07
Chanting: Buddhist Words On Living Kindness
2010-05-08
Chanting: Mind Abiding In Divine Abodes
2022-08-06
Concluding dedication
1998-04-10
Convention And Liberation
1997-04-06
Dependent Origination
2000-10-30
Dependent Origination
1995-01-01
Dependent Origination I : A Beginning Again
1995-01-01
Dependent Origination II : An Investigative Tool
1995-01-01
Dependent Origination III : Who Am I? Who Am I? What Is It? What Is? What??
1993-01-04
Dependent Origination: Genesis And Cessation
1998-04-12
Desire And Becoming
2022-08-06
Don’t cling to anything
1995-01-01
Dukkha And Dependent Origination
2010-05-02
Evening Chanting
1998-10-23
Exploring the Monastic Tradition
1999-09-15
Focus Of Vipassana Practice
2007-04-25
From Difficulties To Freedom
2001-11-21
Gratitude
2004-04-17
Guided Mediation Body And Breath
2022-08-06
Guided Meditation
2004-04-21
Guided Meditation: Letting Go Of Conventions
2004-04-19
Guided Meditation: Loosening The Grip
2000-10-28
Heavenly Messenger
1998-04-16
Human Relationships
2010-04-03
I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Content…
2010-04-03
I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Content…
2010-04-03
I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Content…
2010-04-03
I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Content…
2010-04-03
I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Content…
2010-04-03
I'm Right, You're Wrong! Attachment to Views & the Buddha's Path of Non-Content…
2008-06-12
I, Me, Mine
2000-11-03
Impermanence as Uncertainty
2004-05-14
Intro Talk & Chanting - Learning From Everything
2001-05-17
Investigating George W. Bush Mind
1997-04-05
It Shouldnt Be This Way Recognizing The Grasping Mind
1990-05-12
Liberation Is A Natural Process
2001-05-15
Listening To The Inner Committee
2008-08-01
Love For Our Dear Ones
2010-06-13
Meditation and Talk
2010-06-12
Meditation Instructions
2010-06-13
Meditation Instructions
2010-06-13
Meditation Instructions 2
2010-05-01
Mindfulness Of The Body
2010-06-20
Monastic Day - Don't Push (1 of 10)
2010-06-20
Monastic Day - Don't Push (10 of 10)
2010-06-20
Monastic Day - Don't Push (2 of 10)
2010-06-20
Monastic Day - Don't Push (3 of 10)
2010-06-20
Monastic Day - Don't Push (4 of 10)
2010-06-20
Monastic Day - Don't Push (5 of 10)
2010-06-20
Monastic Day - Don't Push (6 of 10)
2010-06-20
Monastic Day - Don't Push (7 of 10)
2010-06-20
Monastic Day - Don't Push (8 of 10)
2010-06-20
Monastic Day - Don't Push (9 or 10)
2010-06-20
Monastic Day - Don't Push, Just Use the Weight of Your Own Body...
1997-04-12
Morning And Evening Chanting
1998-01-01
Morning Instructions Set 1
1998-01-02
Morning Instructions Set 2
1998-01-03
Morning Instructions Set 3
1998-01-04
Morning Instructions Set 4
1998-01-05
Morning Instructions Set 5
1998-01-06
Morning Instructions Set 6
1998-01-07
Morning Instructions Set 7
2010-05-03
Morning Reflection
2010-05-09
Morning Reflection
1991-01-01
My Life As A Monk
2001-06-09
Nada Practice
1998-10-30
Neither Title Nor Untitled
2004-04-22
No Regrets
1999-09-14
Non Meditating
2001-05-13
Nothing Is Everywhere
2001-06-08
Nothing Special
2010-04-30
Opening Talk
1998-10-23
Opening Talk For The Monastic Retreat
2001-05-11
Opening Talk: Refuges And Precepts
2001-05-12
Personality View
2010-06-12
Questions
2010-06-13
Questions
2004-04-18
Remembering The Purpose Of Practice
2001-05-01
Renunciation
2009-09-27
Seasons of Mist and Mellow Fruitfulness, pt 1 of 4
2009-09-27
Seasons of Mist.. pt 4 of 4
2009-09-27
Seasons.. part 3 of 4
2009-09-27
Seasons.. pt 2 of 4
1993-01-03
Sex, Violence And The State Of Grace
2009-04-04
Spring Fever Part 3
2009-04-04
Spring Fever Pt 1.
2009-04-04
Spring Fever Pt 2
2004-05-15
Start with the Body
1998-10-26
The Essence Of Dhamma
1993-01-02
The Fire Sermon
1993-01-01
The Four Noble Truths
2004-05-16
The Inner Committee
1990-05-26
The Joys of Monastic Life, Part 6
1997-04-10
The Monastic Life
2006-07-02
The One Who Knows - part 1
2006-01-01
The One Who Knows - Part 1
2006-07-02
The One Who Knows - part 2
2006-01-02
The One Who Knows - Part 2
2006-07-02
The One Who Knows - part 3
2006-01-03
The One Who Knows - Part 3
1999-09-10
The Place Of Non Abiding I
1999-09-11
The Place Of Non Abiding II Followed By Q And A
1998-04-14
Thinking
1998-04-14
Thinking
2010-05-01
Tracing Back The Radiance
1999-09-09
Ultimate And Conventional Reality
1998-10-24
Unconditioned Reality
2001-11-17
What Are We Doing Here?
2001-11-16
What Are You Expecting?
2000-03-05
Who Am I, What Am I? What Is? What?
2000-11-01
Working with Pain