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Bhante Sujato's Dharma Talks
Bhante Sujato
Bhante Sujato left a career as a musician to become a Buddhist monk in 1994. He took higher ordination in Thailand and lived there in forest monasteries and remote hermitages. He spent several years at Bodhinyana Monastery in Western Australia before founding Santi Forest Monastery in New South Wales in 2003. Following Bhante Sujato’s wishes, Santi became a nun’s monastery in 2012, and he returned to live in Bodhinyana. In 2019, Bhante Sujato moved to Sydney to establish Lokanta Vihara (the Monastery at the End of the World) with his long term student, Bhante Akaliko, to explore what it means to follow the Buddha’s teachings in an era of climate change, globalised consumerism, and political turmoil.
2021-08-27 Breath meditation, Dhamma talk 1:25:59
with Bhante Akāliko, Bhante Sujato
Breath meditation guided by Bhante Sujato. Simile of the cops chasing kids in stolen cars. Dhamma talk by Bhante Akāliko: how to listen to the Dhamma, and its benefits (Dhammassavana Sutta, AN 5.202). Q+A: Bhante Sujato on today's epistemological crisis.
Lokanta Vihara
2021-08-20 Reflection, Stillness meditation, Dhamma talk, Q&A 1:19:03
with Bhante Akāliko, Bhante Sujato
Bhante Sujato on wisdom and peace arising from meditation and on the conditioned nature of the mind. Stillness meditation led by Bhante Sujato. Short Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on meditation as part of the way to the end of suffering. Q+A session together with Bhante Akāliko.
Lokanta Vihara
2021-08-13 Meditation on repulsiveness, Dhamma talk 1:35:40
with Bhante Akāliko, Bhante Sujato
Reality check! Meditation on repulsiveness led by Bhante Akāliko. Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato: comments on the recent IPCC report and climate change.
Lokanta Vihara
2021-08-06 Time, Breath meditation, Dhamma talk on new translation project 1:35:55
Bhante Sujato on the concept of time, then guiding a breath meditation. Dhamma talk presenting a new translation project in a cooperation of Sutta Central and the Oxford Center of Buddhist Sudies: all the still missing canonical texts – suttas and commentaries – from Pāli into English.
Lokanta Vihara
2021-07-30 Calm meditation and body scan, Dhamma talk 1:24:25
with Bhante Akāliko, Bhante Sujato
Calm meditation / body scan led by Bhante Akāliko; Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on how the Buddha's concept of impermanence relates to concepts in science, e.g. the speed of light. Upcoming bhikkhuni ordination in Australia!
Lokanta Vihara
2021-07-22 Mettā meditation, Dhamma talk on rains retreat 1:18:41
Mettā meditation and Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato at the beginning of the rains retreat: brief introduction to the Buddha's first teaching which marks the establishment of the sangha. The original role of rains retreats as a community event. Rains today during the present Covid lockdown.
Lokanta Vihara
2021-07-16 Calm meditation, Dhamma talk on vulnerability 1:19:00
with Bhante Akāliko, Bhante Sujato
Calm meditation led by Bhante Akāliko, Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on the vulnerability of our systems and ourselves – structure, energy and chaos. The Buddha: see things as they really are – burning, falling apart, impermanent. Can we be happy, content, equanimous with what is?
Lokanta Vihara
2021-07-09 Mettā meditation, "fireside chat" 1:26:03
with Bhante Akāliko, Bhante Sujato
Mettā meditation led by Bhante Sujato, "fireside chat" in celebration of Bhante Akāliko's 6th anniversary of going forth! Book link: wiswo.org/#featuredbook
Lokanta Vihara
2021-07-02 On the joy of meditating together, Dhamma talk on our values during quarantine, Q&A 1:29:38
with Bhante Akāliko, Bhante Sujato
Bhante Akāliko on the joy of meditating together; Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on reflecting on our values during quarantine (desires, needs, independence, freedom); Q + A on sense restraint, independence vs. interdependence, wholesome desires, and meaningful work.
Lokanta Vihara
2021-06-18 Breath meditation, Dhamma talk on history, facts, and stories 1:34:06
At Harris Park with Bhante Sujato – Breath meditation. Dhamma talk on history, facts, and stories: how Buddhism evolved into different schools as a response to the needs and challenges of the respective times and places.
Lokanta Vihara

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