Resources
On our Resources page you’ll find audio recordings of dhamma talks from past retreats, links to other sites hosting dhamma talks, a list of selected writings in this tradition, and links to some of TBC’s friends’ sites.
Teachings from Retreats and Other Events
These are audio and video recordings of dhamma talks given by monastics to TBC retreats or Sunday morning meditation sessions.
Sunday Morning Dhamma Talks
A dhamma talk and Q&A from Venerable Khemako: The Internal Theatre and the Four Noble Truths. Questions and Answers: Suffering when thought is not a factor; the Buddha’s teaching on looking outwards and addressing social issues.
Five talks from Ajahn Viradhammo given during the Day of Mindfulness with TBC on July 12, 2020.
Awareness with the way things are.
Instructions for walking and lying down meditations.
Having refuge in knowing.
Dhamma Talk: Believing in perceptions versus trusting in awareness.
Questions and Answers: Body sweeping practice; mindfulness/awareness/consciousness/knowing; working with goals; teaching on parenting; maintaining mindfulness on daily walks; experiencing peace during meditation; availability and waiting.
In this Covid pandemic, we are living through a pandemic of moral decay and heightened fear in the disintegration of so much that has felt secure and stable. Seeing how we are not in control, we choose the Buddha’s way. We care both for ourselves and others morally and spiritually, and as we grow in equanimity, we near the very cusp of awakening.
Ottawa Buddhist Society
This is an excerpt from a talk given during a retreat on Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhists Nuns in June 2020.
The full talk, along with others from the retreat, can be found here on the Dharma Seed website.
The collection of poems Ayya refers to is “The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns”, by Matty Weingast.
Below is the Bikkhuni Lineage Chant from the retreat.
Four talks from Ajahn Viradhammo given during the Day of Mindfulness on June 7, 2020
Knowing that you know, and making the moment fully conscious.
An introduction to the first meditation session of the morning.
Right understanding; Infinite patience, boundless compassion.
Dhamma Talk and QA: Transcendence; using beauty to uplift the mind; anger feels this way. QA: Cultivating patience and compassion; how to begin a study of Buddhism; listening to dhamma talks versus meditating; daily practice of metta and compassion during covid; renunciation as a regular practice
Excerpts from The Body, Dhamma Reflections on Ageing, Sickness and Death by Ajahn Sundara and Ajahn Candasiri
A guided meditation and dhamma talk from Ayya Medhanandi.
A Cry of Suprise Guided Meditation
Dhamma Talk: The Quail’s Tale, A Path of Harmlessness
Books
Dhamma Talk Collections
A selection of web sites where you can find audio talks by teachers in this tradition.