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Bhante Bodhidhamma's Dharma Talks
Bhante Bodhidhamma
​Bhante Bodhidhamma, as lay person practiced at Throssel Hole Zen Priory in north England, later with Sayadaw U Janaka in Burma and at various places with Sayadaw U Pandita.​ ​He ​ ordained in ​1986 and spent 8 years in Sri Lanka, returning to UK in 1998. He was the resident teacher at Gaia House, UK, 2001-2004. In 2007, he founded Satipanya Buddhist Retreat on the borders of Wales., devoted to vipassana in the tradition of the Mahasi Sayadaw. ​
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2020-06-26 82 To Magandiya 29:34
Magandiya is hedonist, believing sensual pleasure is Nibbana. The Buddha explains the gratification, the danger and escape from this very wrong understanding.
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses
2020-06-25 81 To Dignanaka 16:09
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses
2020-06-24 80 Greater Discourse to Vaccagotta MN73 1:37:24
Vachogotta questions the Buddha as to whether others have attained. Then the Buddha accepts him into the order and after four years gives him directions on how to attain the Higher Powers one of which is the deliverance from the taints and Vachagotta becomes an arahat
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses
2020-06-23 79 At Kitagiri 16:01
The seven types of persons : how a disciple should behave : the need to give all to become liberated.
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses
2020-06-22 78 At Kitagiri 23:39
New rule not to eat in the evening and the rebellion by two monks. What are the grounds on which the Buddha teaches?
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses
2020-06-21 77 The Simile of the Quail MN66 18:06
Encouraging us to renunciation, relinquishment and abandonment of indulgence in sensual desire.
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses
2020-06-20 76 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers MN44 23:50
Attainment of perception and feeling, feelings, underlying tendencies, counterparts and conclusion.
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses
2020-06-19 75 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers MN44 19:06
Review of earlier questions, cessation of perception.
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses
2020-06-18 74 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers MN44 19:54
Dhammadina was a nun ans and arahat. Her former husband, Visakha, comes to ask her question on personhood/self, Noble Eightfold Path, concentration and habits/volitional formations
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses
2020-06-17 73 Bhumija Discourse 16:00
Satipanya Buddhist Retreat :  Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

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