This channel features talks set to video featuring an American Buddhist monk Bhante Vimalaramsi who has now given a new interpretation of the Theravadan Middle Length Sayings. The 40 minute "Joshua Introductory Video" is the best comprehensive way to understand these teachings. For more information on this American Monk in the new and just developing American Forest Tradition please visit his site at www.dhammasukha.org or my site listed on the link below.
General talk about what meditation is and how to practice based on the Suttas.
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Public Talk - College of Naturopathy 4-4-09 Bhante Vimalaramsi
This is a 2 hr talk Bhante gave in Portland during his West Coast Tour.
Bhante Vimalaramsi does a public talk at the Bahai Center for a 2nd night.
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Talk in Bellevue Washington 3-24-09 with Bhante Vimalaramsi
Public Talk at the Bahai Center in Belleuve, Washington 3-24-09
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Talk at the UUC San Diego 3-16-09 Bhante Vimalaramsi
Public Talk in San Diego
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Highlights Bhante Vimalaramsi at Buddhist Conference
A personal video of Bhante as he tours and visits the Buddhist Conference site in Kobe Japan Nov 2008.
Bhante Vimalaramsi reads and comments on the Samyutta Nikaya short Sutta named The Fire Sermon in which he explains very clearly and carefully the nature of desire and craving and how meditation sees it and understands it. This is the culmination of the practice he teaches. This is what we are trying to see and understand and subsequently let go of.
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MN 29 Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood
Here Bhante Vimalaramsi reads and talks about MN 29, The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood. This Sutta describes how one must understand the most important part of the teaching and what makes up the heart of the teaching. What is the proper goal of the holy life to which all other benefits are secondary.
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MN 43 Greater Series of Questions and Answers
Bhante Vimalaramsi reads MN 43 and comments. This Sutta takes the form of questions and answers between Venerable Sariputta and Maha Kotthita over very subtle aspects of Dhamma. Described precisely are the aggregates of all existence. What is the body and Vital Formations. What is perception? What knows? What is the deliverance of mind? What is the signless deliverance of mind and how does one recognize it? A description of the Jhanas (here known as meditation levels) and how are they achieved through the practice of the Brahma Viharas.
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MN 44 Shorter Series of Questions and Answers
MN 44 read and then commented on by Bhante Vimalaramsi. This Sutta is question and answers between Dhammadinna, the foremost woman disciple of the Buddha and Visakha, a lay follower. This Sutta goes into the finest points of What is Identity? Who are we and what are the pieces that make up this thing call identity. What is the cessation of the identity view. What is Cessation and how is it attained. This sutta is closely related to MN43.
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What is Depression? How to solve it
Bhante Vimalaramsi discusses the problem of depression and what causes it and how one may solve this problem once and for all by employing a meditation technique. Suicide and depression have become a talked about topic on various Web spaces recently.
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Joshua Retreat MN10 Foundations of Mindfulness Pt2
The 2nd part of two of the MN 10 Sutta: Sattipatthana Sutta. Given 3-6-08
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Seattle Retreat MN135 An Explanation of Karma
This is an excellent Talk on Karma in Everyday Life. Bhante explains what Karma (Kamma) is and how it works. He explains the results of certain actions and how you can reverse those results by performing wholesome deeds. He also explains how you do not have to kill any living creatures by taking some unique measures and precautions. Some of these will really make you smile. How do you get rid of cockroaches, rats, bugs etc. Its all here. Do you know that Karma is responsible for disease? Do you know that when you injure someone else it causes disease in your body? Why are some people sick and some healthy. Why do some live long and some live short. What is the cause? Bhante explains in this excellent talk. 2 hrs Talk given 3-30-07 Bhante Vimalaramsi
Bhante Vimalaramsi gives an excellent lecture on the teachings of the Buddha. What did he teach? How can you bring happiness and joy into your life? How does depression arise and how can it be eliminated? What is meditation and the difference between what the Buddha taught and other forms. This talk is 53 min. and is to a general audience at a Katina Ceremony Nov 18,2007 in Chicago USA. Nov 2007 This was Hosted by: Ven. Ratana Thongkrjai Wat Phrasriratanamahadhatu 4735 N. Magnolia Ave. Chicago, IL 60640
Introduction to Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center and Bhante Vimalaramsi
In this first talk at a Retreat Bhante Vimalaramsi gives a talk that prepares the student to start a retreat. First he gives them the Precepts (19min) and explains them thoroughly and then gives the basic instructions to do the meditation (26min) This is an excellent detailed instruction video on how to do the meditation in the way of the Tranquil Wisdom taught by the Buddha through the path of Lovingkindness up through all of the Brahma Vihara's to Nibbana itself.
Here Bhante Vimalaramsi talks about the importance of the last moment before death. This is the moment that will program your next birth. His Mother owns a nursing home in San Diego and he spent a year being with people who were within a few days of dying and talks about various visions that come at the last moment before they died and talk about what they mean.
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N-B-C News Special on Buddhism in America Oct 2007
These are 2 segments from the National News 10-4 and 10-5 that feature the moving away from traditional Christianity to the study of what the Buddha taught. Brian Williams and Ron Mott take on a surprising subject this week!
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Joshua Tree: Instructions and higher Stages with Bhante Vimalaramsi
This video was made during a meditation retreat Feb 2007 at Joshua Tree, California. Bhante Vimalaramsi made this so that people could find out who he is and what he is teaching. He is the first teacher to teach directly from the Buddhist Suttas in the way the Buddha taught. He says that much of the Buddhist Meditation today is actually a one-pointed practice which the Buddha found out did not go where he wanted to go. He learned the highest Yogic practices and meditations but left and found his own enlightenment, finally in Bodh-Gaya, India under the Bodhi Tree. This is what Bhante is teaching. He also goes on to talk about the progressive stages of practice which is quite interesting. This talk gives complete instructions. There are no other teachings. You may watch this, practice and experience everything he talks about very quickly with serious effort. Some students experience in only a week what he describes later in the video. Not years, in a week! Enjoy and practice!
Bhante Vimalaramsi discusses the basics of Buddhism and meditation. How does the mind work? How does depression occur? How do you let it go and eliminate. More information at http://begintosee.googlepages.com
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