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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.
2018-09-08 Maps to Awakening 14:56
This recording provides an introduction to the maps.
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Maps to Awakening
2018-09-08 Introduction 22:42
Thanissaro gives some introductory points for the weekend.
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Maps to Awakening
2018-09-08 Opening Meditation 35:55
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Maps to Awakening
2018-09-08 Maps to Awakening PDF document 0:00
(Recording not available) 
Thanissaro used the suttas in this Maps to Awakening PDF document as the basis for the retreat.
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Maps to Awakening
Attached Files:
  • Maps to Awakening PDF document by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (PDF)
2018-04-25 In the Elephant’s Footprint 35:29
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
2017-09-19 Ananda:The Man with the Questions 35:05
In this second talk in a lecture series on the Great Disciples, the speaker, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, talks about the contributions by Ananda to the Dharma. Because of his incredible memory, what we know in the Pali Canon today came mostly from Ananda's recollection of the Buddha's teachings. He described in detail who came to the Buddha, what were their question/problem, and how the Buddha addressed that particular question/problem. This is an important contribution to our understanding of how the Dharma was taught, because so much of it depended on who was asking what, and what kind of teaching was the best for them. Another debt that we owe Ananda is that he asked the Buddha questions that no one had asked. And Ananda's questions in turn sparked the Buddha to explain things or do things that he otherwise might not have explained or done.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: The Great Disciples: People and Personalities in the Buddha's Community
2017-09-12 The Great Disciples: People and Personalities in the Buddha's Community 3:50:04
with Ayya Santussika, Ed Haertel, Margaret Gainer, Shaila Catherine, Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The early Buddhist sangha included some accomplished and intriguing disciples--lay and monastic, male and female. By searching the literature of the Pali Canon, contemporary scholars have been able to compile biographical information, infer personality traits, and gain a vivid sense of the human relationships and life-stories that formed the earliest Buddhist community. This speaker series will explore the lives, practice, and teachings of several of the great disciples of the Buddha. The series will illuminate both the ordinary and extraordinary contributions of some of the most interesting personalities whose questions, challenges, and life situations shaped the teachings that we cherish today.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
2016-03-12 Dharma Talk - Exhortation 21:14
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Teachings from the Wilderness
2016-03-11 Guided Meditation 59:45
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Teachings from the Wilderness
2016-03-10 Opening Talk with Guided Meditation 1:20:36
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Teachings from the Wilderness

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