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
2022-12-09
Aspects of Death Contemplation
2022-12-06
Aspects of Vipassana
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
2024-05-10
Chanting In Pali
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
2023-08-19
Closing blessings
2022-12-10
Closing Reflections
2024-07-14
Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-08-06
Concluding dedication
2024-05-06
Continuity in Formal and Informal Practice
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
2024-05-10
Dharma Talk
2022-08-06
Don’t cling to anything
1995-01-01
Dukkha And Dependent Origination
2022-12-08
Emotions and Relationships
2023-08-19
Establishing harmony in a community
2010-05-02
Evening Chanting
2024-05-07
Evening chanting in Pali
2024-05-07
Evening Dharma Talk
2024-05-09
Evening guided meditation
2024-07-07
Evening Puja, Meditation and Dhamma Teaching (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-07-13
Evening Puja, Meditation and Dhamma Teaching (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-05-06
Evening, chanting and dharma talk by Ayya Khemaka
1998-10-23
Exploring the Monastic Tradition
1999-09-15
Focus Of Vipassana Practice
2007-04-25
From Difficulties To Freedom
2022-12-08
Getting to Know Emotions
2001-11-21
Gratitude
2004-04-17
Guided Mediation Body And Breath
2022-08-06
Guided Meditation
2022-12-08
Guided Meditation
2023-08-19
Guided meditation
2024-05-05
Guided Meditation
2022-12-09
Guided Meditation - Death Contemplation (Ajahn Jivako)
2022-12-07
Guided Meditation - Sound of Silence
2022-12-07
Guided Meditation - Who am I?
2022-12-05
Guided Meditation Instructions
2022-12-09
Guided Meditation with Ajahn Jivako
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
2008-06-12
I, Me, Mine
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…
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
2024-05-04
Meditation instructions – sitting and walking
2010-06-13
Meditation Instructions 2
2024-05-11
Metta chant in English
2024-05-11
Metta chant in English
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
2024-07-09
Morning Puja and Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-07-10
Morning Puja and Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-05-03
Morning Reflection
2010-05-09
Morning Reflection
2022-12-07
Morning Reflection
2024-05-07
Morning reflection and 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
2024-07-05
Opening Night Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-12-05
Opening Reflections
2010-04-30
Opening Talk
2022-12-05
Opening Talk - General Guidance
1998-10-23
Opening Talk For The Monastic Retreat
2001-05-11
Opening Talk: Refuges And Precepts
2001-05-12
Personality View
2022-12-06
Q&A
2022-12-06
Q&A
2022-12-07
Q&A
2022-12-07
Q&A
2022-12-08
Q&A
2022-12-08
Q&A
2022-12-09
Q&A
2022-12-10
Q&A
2022-12-09
Q&A with Ajahn Jivako
2010-06-12
Questions
2010-06-13
Questions
2022-12-09
Reflections on Death
2004-04-18
Remembering The Purpose Of Practice
2001-05-01
Renunciation
2024-05-03
Retreat Opening - chanting
2024-05-03
Retreat Opening - reflections
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
2024-07-06
Sitting with Dhamma Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-07-10
Sitting with Dhamma Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-12-09
Some Ways of Playing with Practice
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
2022-12-06
The Five Khandhas and the Three Characteristics
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
2022-12-08
The Nine Eyes of Insight
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
2023-08-19
The power of awareness when practising loving-kindness
1998-04-14
Thinking
1998-04-14
Thinking
2022-12-06
Three Kinds of Craving
2023-08-19
Togetherness and Individuality
2010-05-01
Tracing Back The Radiance
1999-09-09
Ultimate And Conventional Reality
1998-10-24
Unconditioned Reality
2024-05-04
Unentangled participation
2022-12-07
Using Ch'an and Zen Methods
2022-12-06
Walking Meditation
2001-11-17
What Are We Doing Here?
2001-11-16
What Are You Expecting?
2022-12-07
What is the World?
2000-03-05
Who Am I, What Am I? What Is? What?
2000-11-01
Working with Pain
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Select one of Ajahn Amaro's 20 retreats
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1990-05-26
The Joys of Monastic Life
1998-04-10
Buddhist Contemplations (9 days)
1999-09-09
Dzogchen Retreat
2000-10-27
Monastic Retreat
2001-05-11
Buddhist Contemplation
2004-04-16
Monastic Retreat
2004-05-14
Untitled Retreat
2007-04-25
Monastic Retreat
2008-06-06
Monastic Retreat
2008-07-30
Family Retreat
2009-04-04
Spring Fever
2009-09-27
Ajahn Amaro Daylong at Spirit Rock
2010-04-30
Monastic Retreat
2021-08-21
Day 1 – Sustaining Right Effort and Finding the Balance
2021-08-22
Day 2 – Sustaining Right Effort and Finding the Balance
2022-08-06
Ajahn Amaro – Letting go: Isn’t That a Bit Irresponsible!?
2022-12-05
Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment
2023-08-19
Ajahn Amaro – Togetherness and Individuality
2024-05-03
Monastic Retreat
2024-07-05
The Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination: Are They Still Applicable?
1998-04-14
Thinking
65:49
Conceptual thought: its role and nature and how to use if skillfully. We dont have to get rid of thinking in order to meditate. There is no problem with thinking in and of itself, but only in how we sometimes relate to it. This talk explores the role and nature of conceptual thought, how to relate to it skillfully, as well as acknowledging the value and right use of reflective thinking.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Buddhist Contemplations (9 days)
1998-04-14
Thinking
65:33
We don't have to get rid of thinking in order to meditate. There is no
problem with thinking in and of itself, but only in how we sometimes
relate to it. This talk explores the role and nature of conceptual
thought, how to relate to it skillfully, as well as acknowledging the
value and right use of reflective thinking.