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The Bhante Punnaji PodcastSatipaṭṭhāna: Q&AIn this episode you'll hear Bjante Puññaji answer a number of audience questions, covering a wide range of topics, including:
How meditation leads to a virtuous circle, that eventually leads to liberation
How to apply appropriate attention
The currents of Western philosophy in contrast with Buddhism
How experience arises
What the problem of existence is
How conditionality works
The interactions between emotions and thoughts in the mind
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji2024-08-0247 minThe Bhante Punnaji PodcastSatipaṭṭhāna: How to Cultivate Both Samatha & VipassanāIn this episode you'll learn:
How emotions can derail us
How meditation helps us solve our thinking problem
How calming emotions helps us act more skillfully
How to calm these emotions by calming the body and calming the mind
What is samādhi
The transition from satipaṭṭhāna to samādhi through the seven factors of awakening
How deeper levels of concentration help us understand the process of experience
How understanding the process of experience with wisdom and knowledge helps put an end to suffering and attain liberation
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bh...2024-07-0457 minThe Bhante Punnaji PodcastSatipaṭṭhāna: Western Psychology and Buddhist PsychologyIn this episode you'll learn:
The importance of taking care of your mind
Why relaxation is important
How the breath and relaxation are connected
How relaxation is letting go
What materialism is
How the scientific perspective of the body, brain and mind relates to Buddhism
How Western psychology developed an understanding of the phenomena of the brain and mind
How Western psychology explains and deals with the problems of the mind
The four Upādānas (normally translated as "clinging") and the process of personalizing
How personalizing is suffering
How the process of personalizing is stopped by giving up...2024-06-071h 22The Bhante Punnaji PodcastSatipaṭṭhāna: Breathing Instructions and Observing the MindIn this episode you'll learn:
How to take stock of the mind
How to become conscious and stopping unwholesome thoughts and reactions
How to explore the breath through the sensations of the body
How to calm the mind and relax the body
The conditions necessary to enter Jhāna
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji2024-06-0114 minThe Bhante Punnaji PodcastSatipaṭṭhāna: Meditation InstructionsIn this second part covering Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation, you'll learn:
How to bring the attention inward
Why mediation is beneficial
What calming the mind means
How meditation helps us to let go
How to deal with certain hindrances to our meditation
What existence is and how it relates to feeling
The problems with pleasure and pain
How to comfort someone going through pain
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji2024-04-2450 minThe Bhante Punnaji PodcastSatipaṭṭhāna: Introduction to MeditationIn this episode you'll learn:
what meditation means in the words of the Buddha
how to draw your attention inward
how to relax the body such that we can deal with emotional problems
how to create a life that supports our practice of meditation
how meditation extends beyond what we normally think
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji2024-04-111h 31
AudioDharma: Collection of talks from Sati CenterSukha as the Way to the End of DukkhaThis talk was given by Bhikkhu Sanathavihari on 2023.11.11 at the Sati Center in Redwood City, CA.We will focus on claiming body, speech, and mind by developing the mental factors of lucid awareness (sati), discernment of mental qualities (dhamma-vicaya), vigor (vīriya), joy (pīti), tranquility (passaddhi) which will bring us to the stilling/unification of mind (samādhi). We will do this by first focusing on claiming our thoughts (vitakkasaṇṭhāna), that is cultivating the three wholesome thoughts (samma sankappa). Then, we will focus on the claiming of the body (passambhayaṁ kāyasaṅkhāraṁ) via the practice...2023-11-111h 29The Bhante Punnaji PodcastThe Four Divine AbodesIn this episode you'll learn:
What the divine abodes, or brahmavihārā, are
How each of the four abodes—goodwill (mettā), compassion (karuṇā), empathetic joy (muditā) and equanimity (upekkhā)—work
Why it's hard to follow the precepts when we do not develop these four qualities
How the brahmavihārā, through an interest in others, leads to relief of suffering
Why the brahmavihārā are not emotional excitement
How the divine abodes lead into one another successively
How the abodes eventually lead us into seeing things clearly
The relationship between the brahmavihārā and our behavior
Bhante's YouTube...2023-11-0926 minThe Bhante Punnaji PodcastThe Fabric of RealityIn this episode you'll hear about:
how Buddhism isn't at odds with the scientific conception of the world
how the line between the material and the spiritual is blurred when considered from the buddhist point of view
what psychic powers are and how they arise
what the Jhānas are and how one gets into them
how the mind works
Buddhist psychology
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji2023-10-241h 35The Bhante Punnaji PodcastBuddhist Determinism: Concurrence of AntecedentsIn this episode you'll learn about:
Determinism and how it differs from dogmatic views of divine intervention
The cognitive process by which experience is constructed
How emotions are born out of ignorance and why they're the source of our problems
How to liberate ourselves from our emotions by understanding how the different factors of experience come into play
What role jhāna plays in liberation
The process of jhāna and how it differs from a state of hypnosis
Dependent Origination, the principle that explains how the world of experience arises, and which constitutes the teaching of the Mi...2023-10-121h 18The Bhante Punnaji PodcastWho is a Buddha?In this episode you'll learn:
what a Buddha is, in human evolution terms
how Gautama Buddha became awakened
how a human being can become perfect
what the human weaknesses are
was the Buddha a god?
the buddhist view on the creation of the universe
the buddhist view on objectivity and subjectivity
some details on desire
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji2023-09-201h 11The Bhante Punnaji PodcastHappiness Beyond Pleasure and EmotionsIn this episode you'll learn about:
why happiness is not stimulation of the senses
how we sometimes confuse concentration with a hypnotic state
the two aspects of what we call "mind"
why emotions can be problematic
how we can manage emotional problems by using selective thinking and relaxing the body
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji2023-08-3030 minThe Bhante Punnaji PodcastCosmology: The Universe, its Origin and StructureIn this episode, among other things, you'll learn about:
the structure of the universe according to Buddhism
the different spheres of existence
supernormal powers of the Buddha
the relationship of Buddhism to a creator god
Dhamma talk by Ven Puññaji Maha Thera delivered at Washington D.C. Buddhist Vihara, 5017 16th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20011
202-723-0773
First published in Audio / Visual Library of Sobhana.net
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bh...2023-08-101h 46The Bhante Punnaji PodcastHow Karma and Re-birth are Misunderstood in BuddhismIn this talk given by Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji you'll learn:
How we tend to focus on karma and re-birth for the wrong reasons
A brief history of karma and re-birth in the historical context of the Buddha
What the proper focus for a peaceful life should be
A detailed description of the process of experience, going through the senses and how that translates into craving and suffering
Why karma and re-birth should not be seen as motivators for going to heaven or avoiding hell
Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji
Seremban Sudhamma Buddhist Society
2023-07-221h 09The Bhante Punnaji PodcastThe Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Appendix 3: PaṭiccasamuppādaQ&A Forum with Ven. Dr. M. Punnaji Maha Thera at the Buddhist Maha Vihara, Brickfields, on Wednesday 11th May 2016 on "Paṭicca-Samuppāda". Please refer to attached notes for reference.
Download reference notes: http://tiny.cc/paticcasamuppada
Download sutta AN10.6: http://tiny.cc/AN10-6
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo/about
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com/
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji/2023-07-131h 18The Bhante Punnaji PodcastThe Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Appendix 2: Sammā SamādhiQ&A Forum with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Maha Thera at the Buddhist Maha Vihara on Saturday 30th April 2016 on the topic "Samādhi Bhāvanā – Beyond The 4 Jhānas" with reference to Anguttara Nikāya Book for Fours, Sutta 41 - Samādhibhāvanāsutta.
Download AN 4:41 - Samādhibhāvanā Sutta (Pali & Bhikkhu Bodhi Translation): http://tiny.cc/AN4-41
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo/about
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com/
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji/2023-06-2858 minThe Bhante Punnaji PodcastThe Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Appendix 1: Sammā SatiQ&A Forum (New Series) on Satipaṭṭhāna at the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Mahathera and Bro. Billy Tan on 30th December 2015.
This is the first in a new series of Q&A Forum with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Maha Thera.
Traditionally, Western scholars have translated the Pali word "Satipatthana" as "mindfulness" which carries a diverse range of meanings and interpretations, amongst which is "pay attention to the present moment". Unfortunately, these translations and interpretations fail to properly convey the true teachings of the Buddha. This forum aims to clarify the true esse...2023-06-211h 13The Bhante Punnaji PodcastThe Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Session 6Q&A Forum (Session 6) on Sammā Sati (Harmonious Attention) & Sammā Samādhi (Harmonious Mental Equilibrium) at the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Mahathera and Ven. Dr. Dhammadinna Thero on the Sublime Eightfold Way on 1st September 2015.
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo/about
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com/
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji/2023-06-1452 minThe Bhante Punnaji PodcastThe Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Session 5Q&A Forum (Session 5) on Sammā Vāyāma (Harmonious Exercise) at the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Mahathera and Ven. Dr. Dhammadinna Thero on the Sublime Eightfold Way on 26th August 2015.
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo/about
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com/
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji/2023-06-0847 minThe Bhante Punnaji PodcastThe Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Session 4Q&A Forum (Session 4) at the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Mahathera and Ven. Dr. Dhammadinna Thero on the Sublime Eightfold Way. This session recorded on 25th August 2015 covers an elaboration of Sammā Vācā (Harmonious Speech), Sammā Kammanta (Harmonious Action), and Sammā Ājīva (Harmonious Lifestyle), collectively refered to as the Cultivation of Sīla.
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo/about
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com/
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji/2023-05-311h 13The Bhante Punnaji PodcastThe Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Session 3Q&A Forum (Session 3) at the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Mahathera and Ven. Dr. Dhammadinna Thero on the Sublime Eightfold Way. This session recorded on 11th August 2015 covers an elaboration of Sammā Sankappa (Harmonious Orientation) and about the Conscious and Unconscious mind.
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo/about
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com/
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji/2023-05-241h 02The Bhante Punnaji PodcastThe Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Session 2Q&A Forum (Session 2) at the Buddhist Maha Vihara between Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Mahathera and Ven. Dr. Dhammadinna Thero on the Sublime Eightfold Way. This session recorded on 4th August 2015 covers an exploration of the first two stages of the Sublime Eightfold Way namely Sammā Diṭṭhi (Harmonious Perspective) and Sammā Sankappa (Harmonious Orientation).
In this episode you'll learn about why Bhante Punnaji prefers to translate Sammā Diṭṭhi as "Harmonious Perspective" instead of the more common "Right View"; you'll hear about various issues with some scholarly translations that are not made within the co...2023-05-1734 minThe Bhante Punnaji PodcastThe Supernormal Eightfold Way Explained — Session 1Q&A Forum at the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) with Ven. Dr. M. Puññaji Mahathera and Ven. Dr. Dhammadinna Thero on the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. This is the inaugural Q&A session recorded on 28th July 2015 beginning with the Four Noble Truths and will follow through with the Sublime Eightfold Way.
In this episode you'll learn about what makes Buddhism different from Western religions and philosophical currents; you'll hear Bhante Punnaji explain what it means to experience awakening; and, finally, you'll listen to an explanation of the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta which covers the Four Noble Truths and a ge...2023-05-141h 04
Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & PractitionersMeeting La Familia Where They Are At with Bhante SanathavihariLos Angeles Sanathavihari Bhikkhu is a Mexican-American Theravāda monk at the Sarathchandra Buddhist Center in North Hollywood, a Sri Lankan center. He is a student of the late Dr. Bhante Punnaji, and the director of Casa De Bhavana – an outreach project to bring the Dhamma to the Spanish-speaking world. He is also the co-author of Buddhism in Ten Steps. Bhante is a U.S. Air Force veteran, has a B.A. in Religion, and is a Mindfulness researcher at Mount St. Mary University, Los Angeles, and a Graduate Student in Counseling Psychology at Mount St. Mary Univ...2022-09-0644 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan Peto27 - Buddhism in 10 Steps Book Interview with Buddhist Monk Sanathavihari BhikkhuThe free eBook, Buddhism in 10 Steps, was written by Alan Peto and Buddhist Monk Sanathavihari Bhikkhu to help those new to Buddhism get a 'quick start' with a short and easy to read book. In this episode, Alan discusses some topics from the book, and Buddhism in general, with Sanathavihari. Sanathavihari’s websites and social media: https://linktr.ee/sanathaviharibhikkhu
To get the book, visit: https://alanpeto.com/books/buddhism-10-steps/ (available as a free eBook or a paperback on Amazon).
Contact Alan: https://alanpeto.com/contact
Podcast Disclaimer: https://alanpeto.com/legal/podcast-disclaimer/2022-05-0940 minLearn Buddhism with Alan Peto9 - Do You Want To Become a Buddhist Monk?Becoming a Buddhist monastic (monk or nun) is often a desire by Westerners new to the religion instead of staying a layperson. But should you? What does it entail? And, can you have a complete Buddhist experience as a layperson?
This episode's guest is Bhante Sanathavihari who is a Mexican American Theravada Buddhist monk from the Sarathchandra Buddhist Center in North Hollywood, California, and shares his experiences and insights. This was a Zoom video session which you can watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr3HYG0GzIU
Join Alan and Sanathavihari Bhikkhu as...2021-10-0843 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan Peto7 - Returning Home - Buddhist Teachings for Returning to a Changed World After the COVID-19 Pandemic (eBook Special Edition)As the COVID-19 pandemic changes, lockdowns, and other restrictions ending, how does a Buddhist reintegrate back into a changing world? A world that has changed due to the causes and conditions of the pandemic is different from the one we left. Just like a Buddhist monk returning to a village after meditating in the forest for a long time, we must also be mindful of the changes that occurred to society - and us - while we were away.
Our new book, "Returning Home", is a follow-up and companion to our original book, "The 14-Day Buddhist Daily Pl...2021-08-2337 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 14 - Impermanence Day (Special Episode & Series)Day 14: Impermanence Day
"When death comes, neither parents, children, nor kin can protect one." ~ The Buddha (Dhammapada 288)
After 14 days, you are finally here: “Impermanence Day”. Everything ends, and nothing lasts forever. But also, nothing is ever truly gone. Yesterday (and throughout the 14 days) we were reciting the Five Remembrances which is a tool to help us recognize impermanence. When we accept impermanence, we can live naturally in our world free of the three fires for their fuel is now truly gone. They cannot feed on someone’s mind who understands the true nature of imperm...2021-01-1234 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 13 - The Five Remembrances (Special Episode & Series)Day 13: The Five Remembrances
"There are these five facts that one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained." ~ The Buddha (Upajjhatthana Sutta)
The Buddha said we should contemplate and accept “the Five Remembrances”. Why? Because when we reflect on them, we are setting down the road of the Noble Eightfold Path! And when we set down this road, we are dropping all the baggage of “fetters” and abandoning “obsessions”.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are faced with our health, mortality, and loss of family, friends, and...2021-01-1128 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 12 - Bodhisattva Path (Special Episode & Series)Day 12: The Bodhisattva Path
"A bodhisattva is a great practitioner who is walking on the path toward Buddhahood by benefiting all sentient beings as well as themselves." ~ Venerable Master Hsing Yun
Before the Buddha was “the Buddha”, he was a “Bodhisattva” in prior existences. As a Bodhisattva, he was able to save lives and help others. So, it is no wonder that Mahayana Buddhism fell in love with the Bodhisattva Path for laypersons. This is a practice where anyone can practice in their daily lives as an “unenlightened Bodhisattva” towards awakening.
During this time, c...2021-01-1022 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 11 - Loving Kindness (Special Episode & Series)Day 11: Loving Kindness
"Dwelling in Loving-Kindness, delighting in the Buddha’s teaching. Gets their bliss when conditions cease." ~ The Buddha (Dhammapada 368)
Loving kindness (Pali: Metta, Sanskrit: Maitri) is an essential part of Buddhism where we wish for all beings to be happy, and pair it with Karuna (compassion) to wish they be free from suffering.
By focusing our attention this way (which is typically self-centered), it is like a fireman’s hose dousing the three fires that have been causing us so many issues. Can you just imagine Mara dripping wet?!
Du...2021-01-0925 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 10 - No Harm (Special Episode & Series)Day 10: No Harm
"Harassing not others, those who seek happiness gain their own happiness hereafter." ~ The Buddha (Dhammapada 132)
One of the Five Precepts is to refrain from stealing or taking what is not yours. But what does that mean during a pandemic? We have seen people going to stores to hoard things, such as toilet paper, food, water, and other supplies. Some have said this is a psychological response to lack of control over the situation.
However, most of modern supply chains work in a “just-in-time” replenishment, meaning shelves are going bare...2021-01-0822 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 9 - Entering the Market (Special Episode & Series)Day 9: Entering the Market
"Bare-chested, barefooted, he comes into the marketplace. Muddied and dust-covered, how broadly he grins! Without recourse to mystic powers, withered trees he swiftly brings to bloom." ~ Kuòān Shīyuǎn
In Zen Buddhism, the famous “Zen Ox-herding Pictures” are used to illustrate the path one takes in achieving enlightenment. The final picture is that of the practitioner, now awakened to realizing Buddha nature, they enter the market (an analogy for everyday life/world) now truly aware of what is around them, and free of all delusions, desires, and attachments to share...2021-01-0824 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 8 - Right Concentration (Special Episode & Series)Day 8: Right Concentration
"With no concentration there is no wisdom, with no wisdom there is no concentration. But with concentration and wisdom one will come near nirvana" ~ The Buddha (Dhammapada 372)
The final part of the discipline group of the Noble Eightfold Path is Right [Meditative] Concentration. This specifically refers to focus the mind and settle your distracted body so you can cultivate yourself. If you cannot concentrate, you will let Mararun rampant in your mind and control your actions.
With right concentration, you begin to settle your mind of distractions, lead yourself...2021-01-0627 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 7 - Right Mindfulness (Special Episode & Series)Day 7: Right Mindfulness
"Constantly contemplative on the body, mindful, and alert they block out all the influences." ~ The Buddha (Dhammapada 293)
Mindfulness often gets a generic view in western culture; however, it is a core part of the Buddhist practice. When you are truly practicing mindfulness, you are a Buddha! We sometimes look at the Buddha as becoming enlightened, and that was the end of his effort. However, he was practicing every day, and every moment, of his life.
True contemplation (another term for right mindfulness) is to develop your mind...2021-01-0529 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 6 - Right Effort (Special Episode & Series)Day 6: Right Effort
"Though one should live a hundred years lazy of little effort. Yet better is life for a single day strongly making effort." ~ The Buddha (Dhammapada 112)
Next in the Noble Eightfold Path is discipline. All the other steps will wither away if you do not have the discipline to continue practicing and practicing correctly! During the pandemic, we will face many obstacles to discipline such as fear, uncertainty, confusion, and anxiety. However, some other ones can easily creep in such as boredom, distractions (binge watching TV shows, for instance...2021-01-0424 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 5 - Right Livelihood (Special Episode & Series)Day 5: Right Livelihood
"You yourselves must strive; the Buddhas only point the way. Those meditative ones who tread the path are released from the bonds of Mara." ~ The Buddha (Dhammapada 276)
The final step in wholesome conduct is that of right livelihood. Traditionally, this means not killing, stealing, lying, engaging in sexual misconduct, and selling intoxicants. During the pandemic, many will have lost their jobs. This is due to quarantines, ‘stay at home’ orders, and generally economic effects of people buying less of certain products. This may be one of the most difficult of the Nobl...2021-01-0323 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 4 - Right Speech (Special Episode & Series)Day 4: Right Speech
"Use no harsh words, it is painful. More harsh words
will follow with retaliatory action." ~ The Buddha (Dhammapada 133)
While we think of right action as being central, right speech is also important as it is wholesome verbal karma. We have all heard the adage of “words that cut like a knife”, and the affects one hurtful/bad, or genuinely good, word can have on someone.
Everyone is facing a variety of feelings, emotions, and reactions to the pandemic, including yourself. Right speech is important to start prac...2021-01-0223 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 3 - Right Action (Special Episode & Series)Today's Buddhist Practice: Right Action
"Seeing the purity of one’s own actions the doer of good
continues to rejoice in both worlds." ~ The Buddha (Dhammapada 16)
So far, you have started on the path in gaining wisdom (right view and thought) towards what is causing panic, fear, anxiety, etc. Now, it is time to transform that into right conduct. First, it is right action.
Your behavior matters and needs to be aligned with the truth of the Buddha’s teachings. Essentially, you should strive towards prot...2021-01-0124 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 2 - Right Thought (Special Episode & Series)Daily Buddhist Practice: Right Thought
"The Bhikkhu in kindness abiding, bright in the buddha’s teaching can come to the place of peace, the bliss of the constructed cease." ~ The Buddha (Dhammapada 368)
Now that you recognize that Mara is what causes the three fires of greed, anger, and ignorance (especially during this time), you must have right determination, awareness, and intention to eliminate it.
When you allow these negative views to control you and your actions, you create unwholesome karma for yourself and others.
However, when your th...2020-12-3120 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Day 1 - Right View (Special Episode & Series)Daily Buddhist Practice: Right View
"Those who view the unreal as real and the real as unreal reach not up to the real, mislead as they are." ~ The Buddha (Dhammapada 11)
Mara is the embodiment of fear, confusion, and delusion in our lives.
While portrayed as an actual entity that the Buddha challenged before his enlightenment, Mara is also referred to as the actions of our own mind.
Our mind constantly deceives us and leads us to paths of wrong action.
You may think of...2020-12-3025 min
Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: Introduction (Special Episode & Series)This episode will give you an overview of what the next 14 episodes (days) will cover for our Buddhist practice, and what you will learn.
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Learn Buddhism with Alan PetoBuddhist Practice: What to Expect (Special Episode & Series)The first episodes in this podcast will be not only timely and interesting, but a great way to start a daily practice! I will be posting the audio from a live daily Zoom session that myself (a Mahayana layperson) and Sanathavihari Bhikkhu (a Theravada monk) hosted for fourteen days. While it is structured around the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is perfect for anyone just starting out in Buddhism. Each day is structured around the Noble Eightfold Path and other Buddhist teachings, and all of it is done in a non-sectarian way so it is perfect for everyone. We have a FREE...2020-12-2903 min
DHARMATICEntrevista con un monje budista // DHARMATICConoce más de Bikkhu Los Angeles Sanathavihari Los Angeles Sanathavihari Bhikkhu fue ordenado en Vesak el 7 de mayo de 2015 en el Sarathchandra Buddhist Center N. Hollywood California. El 15 de mayo de 2017, obtuvo su Licenciatura en Religión en la American Military University. A partir de entonces, recibió su ordenación superior en el Centro de Capacitación Maharagama Bhikkhu, Sri Lanka, el 21 de julio de 2018. Actualmente, está inscrito en una Maestría en Psicología de Consejería en la Universidad Mount Saint Mary de Los Ángeles. Anterior Sanathavihari estuvo alistado en la Reserva de la Fuerza Aér...2020-10-1631 min
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRU84: Rendering Bhante Sanathavihari Bhikkhu Unconscious, on Buddhism and PsychoanalysisRendering Unconscious welcomes Bhante Sanathavihari Bhikkhu, a Theravada Buddhist Monk from Los Angeles California. Currently enrolled in a Master's of Counseling Psychology Marriage Family Therapist program. He also has a BA in Religion and was previously in the United States Air Force Reserve. He is currently working on continuing his teacher's work on Buddhism as psychotherapy and conducting meditation retreats in Mexico and Spain.
The book "Buddha: the Radical Shrink" by Venerable Dr. Madawela Punnaji Maha Thera was referenced often in this episode. Link to a free PDF: http://buddhaoriginalteachings.blogspot.com/p/buddha-radical-shrink.html
"Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis" by...2020-06-1453 min