Ajahn Brahm Podcast
Episodes
To Hell With Punishment | Ajahn Brahm
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm tackles the issue of punishment - both cosmic punishments of a vast scale like tsunamis, and the micro-punishments we inflict upon ourselv...
Dealing With Tragedies | Ajahn Brahm
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the aftermath of the Boxing Day Tsunami that impacted much of the Indian Ocean coastline and the many questions that followed on from that, Ajahn B...
What is Prison? | Ajahn Brahm
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm talks about how to deal with the metaphorical prisons that we often feel trapped in, as well as tips on how to get out. — This dhamma ta...
Buddhism and Psychology | Ajahn Brahm
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm speaks about how Buddhism in and of itself is a form of psychology. So it’s to be expected that there will be some similarities between ...
Hopelessness | Ajahn Brahm
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm gives guidance on how to see through mind states of hopelessness and how to end hopelessness using skilful means. — This dhamma talk was...
Mental Energy Equals Happiness | Ajahn Brahm
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm offers insight in how to understand the nature of happiness and thereby work out how to apply it in yourself. Key amongst those insight is...
Helping Children Overcome Problems
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm talks about the Buddhist attitude to helping children with their problems. — This dhamma talk was originally recorded using a low qualit...
Doing What Is Good | Ajahn Brahm
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm elaborates on a saying of the Buddha inscribed on a statue outside of the Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre: “To do that which is good, to refr...
Who's Right? | Ajahn Brahm
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever noticed that people are always arguing about who has the right religion, politics, fashion, and basically everything? So how do we work ...
Self Discipline | Ajahn Brahm
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes we have the right intention to do good things and make positive changes in our lives but we just can’t figure out how to actually do it! A...
How To Deal With Pain | Ajahn Brahm
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm gives a talk on how to deal with physical pain. — This dhamma talk was originally recorded using a low quality MP3 to save on file size ...
The Buddhist Attitude to Animal Abuse | Ajahn Brahm
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the very beginning Buddhism extended its moral ethics not only to humans, but also to animals (and all sentient beings). Ajahn Brahm explains how...
Dependent Origination | Ajahn Brahm
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm got a request for talk but he couldn’t remember what it was, so he decided to talk about something that he wanted to talk about - depend...
Reborn ... Again! | Ajahn Brahm
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm talks about reincarnation … again! And helps us all get a sense of perspective about the meaning of our lives. — This dhamma talk was ...
Free Will | Ajahn Brahm
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Responding to a request from the audience, Ajahn Brahm talks about free will. What is free will? What is freedom? What is the will? When one starts me...
Doomsday! | Ajahn Brahm
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An online listener from the United States contacted Ajahn Brahm to ask about the many ways in which there are multiple ecological threats - like globa...
Having Your Cake | Ajahn Brahm
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm responds to a query from the online audience about “how can we have our cake and eat it too?” — This dhamma talk was originally reco...
Freedom From Self-Hate | Ajahn Brahm
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Responding to an request from the audience, Ajahn Brahm talks about the origins of self-hate, its symptoms, and how to overcome self-hate. When we are...
Assumptions | Ajahn Brahm
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm talks about all the problems that can arise from making assumptions, how they can be wrong and why they are wrong. And of course, such a t...
The Values of Buddhism | Ajahn Brahm
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm talks about the values of Buddhism. — This dhamma talk was originally recorded using a low quality MP3 to save on file size (because int...
Praise and Blame | Ajahn Brahm
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Using similes and stories, Ajahn Brahm tried to put a fresh perspective on the praise and blame that we receive in life with the aim of guiding us tow...
Buddhism and the Body | Ajahn Brahm
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This talk by Ajahn Brahm is about Buddhism and the body, because our bodies can cause us a lot of trouble and problems. So what is the meaning of our ...
Be Patient | Ajahn Brahm
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Impatience causes a lot of difficulties and problems in life. And the remedy for impatience is patience. Having patience can be of great value and ben...
A Buddhist Attitude to Life | Ajahn Brahm
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk Ajahn Brahm talks about how with can take a Buddhist attitude to dealing with various problems with life. A clue to understanding this at...
Consciousness | Ajahn Brahm
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm talks about the nature of consciousness, the ‘colours of consciousness’ - meaning the emotions - and how different states of conscious...
Doubt | Ajahn Brahm
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Responding to a request, Ajahn Brahm is talking about the experience of doubt in their lives and their practice. So how can we deal with doubt and the...
What is Good? | Ajahn Brahm
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm gives a talk about the meaning of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, and how we can know for ourselves the difference between the two. — This dha...
Buddhism and Mental Illness | Ajahn Brahm
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm gives a talk about mental illness. He makes a distinction between an illness of the brain and illness of the mind because whilst the mind ...
Rebirth | Ajahn Brahm
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm talks about how out-of-body experiences and near-death experiences, as well as experiences in deep meditation provide the proof that rebir...
Knowing | Ajahn Brahm
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can we know what is real and what isn’t? How can we know the best way to live? How can we know what is really true? Can we knowing anything? Bud...
What the Buddha Taught | Ajahn Brahm
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Using the framework of what happened on the night that Siddhartha Gotama became a fully awakened Buddha, Ajahn Brahm gives an outline of what the BUdd...
Buddhist View on Injustices | Ajahn Brahm
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are many problems in the world related to ideas of injustice. Ajahn Brahm offers an entirely different, Buddhist perspective on the problem of i...
Responsibility | Ajahn Brahm
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ajahn Brahm gives a talk about responsibility and how to respond wisely. — This dhamma talk was originally recorded using a low quality MP3 to save ...
Mudita – Sympathetic Joy | Ajahn Brahm
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Answering to a request for a talk from Canada on the topic of mudita – sympathetic joy. This divine emotion forms a pair with compassion. Whereas co...
How to Stop | Ajahn Brahm
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The truth is not something found in a book or passed on from someone else, but is something that is found within one’s own experience. But the deepe...