Bhante Bodhidhamma's Dharma Talks
at Satipanya Retreat Centre
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Bhante Bodhidhamma, as lay person practiced at Throssel Hole Zen Priory in north England, later with Sayadaw U Janaka in Burma and at various places with Sayadaw U Pandita. He ordained in 1986 and spent 8 years in Sri Lanka, returning to UK in 1998. He was the resident teacher at Gaia House, UK, 2001-2004. In 2007, he founded Satipanya Buddhist Retreat on the borders of Wales., devoted to vipassana in the tradition of the Mahasi Sayadaw.
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2011-09-01
01 Introducing the Buddha
2020-04-02
01 MN9 Discourse on Right View Wholesome and Unwholesome Kamma
2019-03-20
01 The Body - The Buddha's World View and the role of Materiality (rupa)
2013-05-01
01 Views about Spiritual Paths
2011-07-01
01. Dana Generosity
2011-01-01
01. Sickness Ageing and Death
2013-05-02
02 Discourse to the Kalamas
2020-04-02
02 First Three Noble Truths
2011-09-02
02 The Birth of the Buddha
2019-03-21
02 The Body - Kayagasati Sutta MN131
2011-01-02
02. Divine Messengers
2011-07-02
02. Sila Virtuous Conduct
2020-04-03
03 Coronavirus and the Contemplation of Death
2013-05-03
03 Desire the Root of Suffering
2011-09-03
03 The Bodhisatta Leaves Home
2011-07-03
03. Nekkhamma Renunciation
2011-01-03
03. The Two Darts
2020-04-05
04 Contemplation of Death - Living more awake
2013-05-04
04 How to Test the Buddha
2011-09-04
04 The Essence of the Awakening
2011-07-04
04. Panya Intuitive Intelligence and Wisdom
2011-01-04
04. The Eight Worldy Conditions
2020-04-05
05 Contemplation of Death again!
2011-01-05
05. Clinging causes Anxiety plus
2011-07-05
05. Viriya Effort
2020-04-07
06 Renunciation and Buddha's First Occasion to Teach
2011-07-06
06. Khanti Patience
2011-01-06
06. Mahakassapa Explains the Cause of Conflict
2020-04-07
07 Setting the Wheel of the Dhamma in Motion
2011-01-07
07. Envy and Niggardliness the Cause of Conflict
2011-07-07
07. Sacca Honesty
2020-04-08
08 Mindfulness at work And Right View Right Attitude
2011-07-08
08. Adhitthana Resolution.
2011-01-08
08. Detailed Sequence Leading to Conflict
2020-04-10
09 Right Speech, Action and Livelihood
2011-01-09
09. Power
2011-03-08
1 Not-self - Control
2011-04-01
1. Avijja - not-knowing
2011-03-01
1. Indulgence
2011-02-01
1. Righteous Governement and Righteous Ruler
2020-04-11
10 Grief
2011-01-10
10. Samsara Onward Going
2020-04-12
11 The Nutriments - Food, Contact, Volition and Consciousness
2011-01-11
11. Rounds of Becoming
2020-04-13
12 The Investigation of Eating
2011-01-12
12. Short Review of the Human Condition
2020-04-14
13 Discourse on the Taints MN 2 - Overcome by seeing
2020-04-15
14 Not-self Revisited The story of Sati MN38
2020-04-17
16. Investigating Not-self - The Practice
2020-04-18
17 Questions See Description
2020-04-19
18 Overcoming the Taints by Restraint
2020-04-20
19 Overcoming the Taints by Using
2011-03-09
2 Not-self - Impermanence and Suffering
2011-04-02
2. Nama Rupa Body Mind
2011-03-02
2. Self-Mortification
2011-02-02
2. The Ruler
2020-04-21
20 Overcoming the Taints by Endurance
2020-04-24
21a Overcoming the Taints by Removing 1
2020-04-24
21b Overcoming the Taints by Removing 2
2020-04-24
22 Overcoming the Taints by Developing
2020-04-24
23 The Ten Fetters
2020-04-26
24 Society
2020-04-28
25 Reflections for an Harmonious Society
2020-04-29
26 More Reflections
2020-04-30
27 What makes a Society Strong
2020-04-30
28 The Six Sense Bases MN137
2020-05-02
29 Senses Bases Cont.
2011-03-10
3 Not-self - Recap and Metaphors
2011-04-03
3. Salayatana Vedana Phasa Six senses Contact Feeling
2011-03-03
3. The First Noble Truth of Suffering
2011-02-03
3. The Six Directions Ritual as useless or meaningful
2020-05-03
30 Some Pointers for Metta
2020-05-05
31 Body as Meditation Object
2020-05-12
31b The Body
2020-05-05
32 Vipassana
2020-05-06
33 Kalama Sutta AN 3.65
2020-05-09
34 Kalama Discourse cont.
2020-05-09
35 Canki Sutta MN95
2020-05-10
36 Canki Sutta cont.
2020-05-11
37 Shorter Discourse on Gosinga
2020-05-12
38 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10
2020-06-10
39 Discourse on Mindfulness of the Body
2020-05-13
39 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10
2011-02-04
4. Parents and Chidren
2011-03-04
4. Second Noble Truth:The Cause of Suffering
2011-04-04
4. Tanha Upadana Bhava Craving Grasping Becoming
2020-05-14
40 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10
2020-05-16
41 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10
2020-05-16
42 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10
2020-05-17
43 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10
2020-05-18
44 The Relay of Chariots MN24
2020-05-19
45 The Relay of Chariots MN24
2020-05-19
46 To Vachagotta on Fire MN72
2020-05-20
47 To Vachagotta on Fire MN72
2020-05-21
48 Vachagotta on the Threefold True Knowledge
2020-05-22
49 Jivaka Discourse MN55
2011-02-05
5. Husbands and Wives
2011-04-05
5. paticca samuppada dependent origination to samsara
2011-03-05
5. The Third Noble Truth:The End of Suffering
2020-05-23
50 Dog Ascetic Discourse MN57
2020-05-24
50 Dog Ascetic Discourse MN57
2020-05-24
51 Potiliya Sutta MN54
2020-05-25
52 Good Friendship
2020-05-26
53 Advice to Channa MN144
2020-05-27
54 Ambalathika Rahula Sutta MN61
2020-05-28
55 The Greater Discourse to Rahula
2020-05-29
56 The Shorter Discourse to Saccaka
2020-05-30
57 The Many Kinds of Elements MN115
2020-05-31
58 The Many Kinds or Elements MN115
2020-06-01
59 The Many Kinds or Elements MN115
2011-04-06
6. Another model of Dependent Orgination
2011-03-06
6. The Fourth Noble Truth The Eightfold Path
2011-02-06
6. What makes for a Good Life
2020-06-02
60 The Shorter Exposition on Action (Kamma) MN135
2020-06-03
61 The Shorter Exposition on Action (Kamma) MN135
2020-06-04
62 The Greater Exposition on Action (Kamma) MN136
2020-06-06
63 Discourse on Upali MN56
2020-06-07
64 Discourse on Upali MN56
2020-06-08
65a Greater Discourse to Sakuludayin MN77
2020-06-09
65b Greater Discourse to Sakuludayin MN77
2020-06-10
66 The Honeyball Discourse
2020-06-11
67 The Removal of Distracting Thoughts MN20
2020-06-12
68 The Greater Discourse on Voidness
2020-06-13
69 The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood
2011-03-07
7. The Buddha's Enlightenment becomes universal
2011-02-07
7. Use of wealth for Happiness
2020-06-14
70 The Greater Discourse in Gosingha
2020-03-28
70th Birthday Bhante Bodhidhamma's Life story
2020-06-15
71 The Greater discourse on the Cowherd. MN33
2020-06-16
72 Wonderful and Marvellous MN123
2020-06-17
73 Bhumija Discourse
2020-06-18
74 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers MN44
2020-06-19
75 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers MN44
2020-06-20
76 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers MN44
2020-06-21
77 The Simile of the Quail MN66
2020-06-22
78 At Kitagiri
2020-06-23
79 At Kitagiri
2011-02-08
8. Virtues of a Good Spouse
2020-06-24
80 Greater Discourse to Vaccagotta MN73
2020-06-25
81 To Dignanaka
2020-06-26
82 To Magandiya
2020-06-27
83 Samanamandika Discourse MN78
2020-06-28
84 To Vehkanassa
2020-06-29
85 The Root of All Things MN1
2020-06-30
86 The Root of All Things MN1
2020-07-01
87 The Wilderness of the Heart MN16
2020-07-02
88 At Samagama Discourse MN104
2020-07-03
89 Kosambi MN48
2020-07-04
90 The Six Sets of Six MN148
2020-07-05
91 The Exposition of the Elements MN140
2020-07-06
92 The Exposition of the Elements MN140 cont.
2020-07-07
93 Angulimala
2020-07-08
94 The Enquirer
2020-07-09
95a The Incontrovertible Truth
2020-07-10
95b The Incontrovertible Truth
2020-07-11
97 At Catuma MN67
2020-07-12
98 The Noble Search MN4 & 26 DN16
2022-01-28
Ageing
2010-01-01
All Around the Houses
2013-04-01
An Attempt to Understand the teaching of Not-Self
2011-08-01
Anusaya - Latent Tendencies
2022-01-21
Apamado DHP 22 23 24
2011-08-02
Asava-Taints, Ogha-Floods, Yoga-Yokes
2020-03-27
Basics for Insight Meditation, Vipassana Bhante Bodhidhamma
2014-02-01
Basics for Meditation
2020-05-03
Bodycare Practice - Metta towards the Body.
2012-10-21
Bonheur
2011-08-03
Buddha
2011-06-01
Buddha as Refuge
2016-05-01
Buddha Day Address
2019-05-01
Buddha Day Address 2019 : How the Buddha came to to teach ethics and transcen…
2015-05-01
Buddha Day Address May 2015
2009-03-01
Buddha Day Address with Refuges and Precepts
2007-06-07
c. corpo med guidata
2021-10-02
Ceremonie du The
2012-12-20
Christmas Talk re the Path
2013-12-20
Christmas Talk re the Path
2014-08-01
Comments on a Statement by Mae Chee Kaew
2006-05-12
Concerning Buddhist Psychology
2006-05-13
Concerning Metta and Other Questions
2020-10-02
Conseils avant déjeuner
2014-01-01
Contol and Loss of Power
2014-04-01
Daily Life Reinforced
2009-03-15
Daily Rythms; Fetters, Hindrances and Inclinations; Rebirth
2015-03-01
Deconstruction
2006-01-10
Dependant Origination
2021-09-01
Dependent Orgination is based on Not-Knowing and Innocence
2007-06-04
Dependent Origination
2014-10-01
Dependent Origination and the Quality of Right Awareness
2021-08-23
Dependent Origination and the Role of Desire and the Only Choice
2012-10-23
Dependent Origination et Kamma
2019-03-01
Dependent Origination leading to awakening in ordinary Daily life
2022-05-10
Dependent Origination Revisited
2021-05-01
Dependent Orignation and how all other importnant teachings are included
2005-12-22
Developing the Factors of Enlightenment
2011-06-02
Dhamma as Refuge
2021-05-22
Dhp 01 02 Mind is the forerunner
2022-02-04
Dhp 152 153 The Inner Critic
2021-05-22
Dhp 153 154 The Buddha's Victory Verses
2021-05-22
Dhp 188 - 192 The Role of Confidence.
2021-05-22
Dhp 21 - 23
2021-06-13
Dhp 256 157 Judgmental v Judicious
2022-03-04
DHP 314-317 From the Chapter on Hell
2021-07-02
Dhp 360 362 Restraint
2021-05-22
Dhp 4 Hatred is not overcome with hatred!
2021-06-25
Dhp 46 How to view the Body
2021-07-09
Dhp 90 The Arahant
2021-05-22
Dhp Chapter 3 - verses 33 & 34 The Unruly Mind
2021-05-22
Dhp No4 Hatred is not pacified by hatred
2009-01-01
Dignity and the Qualities of a Ruler
2019-09-01
Discourse on the Highest Blessings
2011-08-04
Dukkha - A Hard Place
2021-07-26
Dukkha Unsatisfactoriness and Sila Morality and Ethics
2009-08-01
Dukkha Unsatisfactoriness et al
2009-10-01
Encouragement October 09
2006-06-01
Entering the Course
2008-05-01
Enthusiam and other questions
2009-04-15
Equanimity - Foundation of all Virtue
2015-06-01
Ethics Not-self and Liberation
2018-05-01
Ethics, Not-self and Liberation
2020-04-02
Evening Lockdown Meditation
2006-06-07
Evening Metta Chant and Instructions
2005-12-23
Exploring Dukkha
2021-12-20
Facets of a Love
2007-06-03
Factors of Enlightenment
2008-06-01
Faith and the Spiritual Life
2019-03-10
Feeling (vedana)
2020-05-11
Gaia Standing and Sitting Guided Meditation
2021-12-20
Gratitude Generosity and Renunciation
2021-03-29
Gratitude Generosity Renunciation
2012-01-01
Happiness
2011-08-05
Hetu - The Unwholesome Roots
2011-07-01
Hope to Inspire
2017-01-08
How I became a Buddhist, then and monk and then a Dhamma Teacher
2013-03-01
How to critique the Dhamma and Buddha
2008-01-01
How Vipassana relates to Daily Life
2010-10-01
Importance of Metta 24 min
2013-01-01
Importance of Resolution plus
2010-04-01
Impulsive or Spontaneous
2021-10-02
Intro
2014-09-01
Intro Talk to Bodycare
2007-06-08
Intro. Guarig. corpo med guidata
2020-05-03
Introduction to Standing and Sitting Meditation
2016-10-21
Is the Buddha a materialist?
2007-06-05
Kamma
2014-07-01
Kamma and Free Will
2021-09-20
Kamma and Rebirth
2014-03-01
Kamma Revisited
2018-02-01
Kamma, Rebirth and Transcendence : A top down view of the Buddhadhamma
2006-06-06
Karma
2022-05-01
Karma- Specific, Conditionality the Five Laws, ethical behaviour, social karma-…
2008-04-01
Karma, Dependent Origination, Virtue and Liberation
2011-07-10
Karuna - Compassion
2020-04-01
Khanda, the Agregates, as Person and Sati, Awareness
2011-05-01
Khandha The Aggregates
2012-10-22
L'Esprit Concevoir et les Empêches
2019-10-15
La Libre Volunté
2017-10-14
Le Dhamma dans la Vie Quotidienne Ordinaire
2010-10-23
Le Kamma de la Liberation
2009-10-21
Le Methode de Mahasi Vipassana
2010-10-24
Les Bases de Vipassana
2009-10-22
Les Empeches de Vipassana
2009-10-23
Les Facteurs de Liberation
2015-04-01
Love and All That
2015-01-01
Mae Chee Kaew and Resolutions
2007-06-01
Mahasi Instructions and Metta Chant
2020-10-03
Méditation Assise
2020-10-02
Méditation Debout
2020-10-11
Méditation Guidée detaillée
2019-10-14
Meditation Guidée Detaillée
2020-10-10
Méditation Guidée: Debout et Assise
2012-02-01
Méditation Guidée: Debout et Assise
2020-10-03
Méditation Metta (manque qques mn au début)
2011-07-09
Metta - Love
2010-10-21
Metta Bhavana Bienveillance
2007-06-06
Metta Guidata
2009-04-01
Metta, Applied and Sustained Thought, Buddhamind
2020-05-02
Metta, Forgiveness and Determination Practice
2008-03-01
Metta: Developing Goodwil
2012-06-01
Mindfulness : Time
2020-03-01
Misunderstanding re. the Self, Karma and transcendence
2012-07-01
Monks : Daily Life : Not-Self
2006-06-08
Morning Chant
2011-07-11
Mudita - Pure Joy
2022-07-18
Need Sufficiency and Greed
2022-04-18
Neoliberalism and Mindfulness
2018-01-01
New Year address on the qualities needed to succeed : The Roads to Success
2007-01-01
New Year Reflections
2011-06-01
New Year Revision of Buddhadhamma Theory and Practice
2014-06-01
No Inherent Being
2020-10-15
Non-soi
2022-03-21
Non-Violence is not Pacificism
2010-03-01
Not-Self Indulgence and all
2010-10-22
Nous causons de la souffrance pour nous meme
2011-08-06
Panya - Wisdom and Intuitive Intelligence
2009-01-15
Practice in Ordinary Daily Life
2006-12-25
Practice into Daily Life (Xmas 2006)
2021-10-02
Pratique debout pre enregistree PARTIE 1
2021-10-02
Pratique debout pre enregistree PARTIE 2 consignes pratique marchee
2021-10-02
Pratique Metta
2021-10-02
Prise de refuge et preceptes
2010-10-25
Progres et d'autres sujets
2009-10-24
Psychologie de Buddha
2011-08-07
Puja - Devotional Attention
2009-06-15
Q & A Rebirth Identification Emotions etc.
2012-05-01
Q.&A session: Family Distractions : Selfish to Meditate : Negative Emotions : …
2006-05-11
Q&A Concerning States of Mind - Sankhara
2014-01-15
Q&A Detachment Engagement Motivation Devotion
2020-01-01
Q&A Emotions: Awareness/Delusion:Insight : Masculine/Feminine : Sense-of-Self :…
2020-02-01
Q&A Kamma / FreeWill , Metta/attachment, Momentary Concentration (khanika samad…
2019-10-01
Q&A Resistance Rebirth and Moral Justice What suffers Mindfulness Apps Spiritua…
2005-12-24
Question & Answer Session
2010-09-01
Questions and Answers A Dolly Mixture
2010-10-26
Questions and des Questions Plus
2014-05-01
Refinement,Sublimation and the Eightfold Path
2014-06-10
Reiki
2013-10-22
Retour à l'essentiel.
2012-08-01
Retreats : Attachment : Children and Suffering
2005-12-25
Revising the Principles of Meditation
2008-07-01
Revising the principles of vipassana
2009-07-15
Revising the principles of vipassana
2012-04-01
Right Relationship
2013-02-01
Right Relationship
2011-05-02
Rupa Corporeality
2021-04-26
Saddha Confidence and Trust
2008-02-01
Samatha and - or Vipassana
2009-02-01
Samatha-Vipassana
2011-08-08
Samyojana - The first three Fetters
2011-08-09
Samyojana - The last seven Fetters
2011-06-03
Sangha as Refuge
2011-05-05
Sankhara Volitional Conditioning
2011-05-04
Sanya Perception & Vedana Feeling
2011-08-10
Sati - Knowing
2011-08-11
Sati in Daily Life
2018-02-10
Scientism : Romanticism : Psychotherapy - and Buddhadhamma
2017-10-15
Scientisme-Romantisme-Bouddhisme
2011-08-12
Sila - Good Conduct
2022-07-18
Social Conditioning or Karma
2021-04-11
Spanish Introduction - Refuges and Precepts, Standing ans Sitting Meditation
2020-05-13
Standing and Sitting Guided Meditation Weds am
2010-08-01
Subliminal Inclinations, Defilements and Hindrances
2011-05-06
Summing up
2022-02-21
Sympathy Empathy and Compassion
2011-08-01
Talk at Opening of centre in Ghent
2014-11-01
Talk at the Re-opening of the Golden Buddha Centre in Totnes
2020-03-30
Talk Starting Inaugural Lockdown Evening Meditations 29_03_20
2013-05-01
Talk to the European Teachers Meeting How I came to establish a non-community
2021-09-10
The Axial Age and the Momentous Discovery of the Buddha
2019-08-12
The Body
2012-02-01
The Body and the Discourse on How to Establish Right Awareness
2010-05-01
The Body and the Three Characteristics
2011-10-01
The Body as Meditative Object
2022-05-26
The Buddha and War.
2008-08-01
The Buddha's Quest - A Public Talk
2018-03-01
The Discourse to the Kalama : Discernment, the Ethical Life and Fake News
2018-01-10
The First Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dhamma
2021-06-27
The Four Noble Truths
2008-09-01
The Gratification, the Danger and the Escape
2007-06-02
The Hindrances
2005-12-26
The Hindrances
2020-10-14
The Hindrances
2006-06-03
The Joyful Aspects of Meditation
2010-11-01
The Kamma of Liberation
2010-12-01
The Karma Concerning Liberation
2006-06-02
The Mahasi Method
2009-05-01
The Mahasi Method
2021-05-10
The Mahasi Technique and What We Need to Understand to Practice Vipassana
2016-02-01
The Need for Sangha, Community and Q's about Ordinary Daily Life
2021-06-28
The NIne Qualities of the Buddha
2006-06-05
The Perfections
2009-08-15
The practice and the pitfalls of metta, goodwill practice
2010-02-01
The Principles and Problems of Vipassana
2008-10-01
The problem lies in the looking
2011-09-01
The Problem of Identity
2014-12-01
The Prognosis is Very Good
2006-01-11
The Purpose of Meditation
2009-05-15
The Sufferings of the Pleasure Syndrome
2015-02-01
The Three Characteristics
2006-06-04
The Wheel of Dependent Origination
2008-11-01
There is no reason for being!
2009-06-01
There is no separation between vipassana and ordinary daily life
2008-12-01
Towards a whole life practice
2020-10-01
Trois compréhensions nécessaires
2013-10-21
Une tentative de comprendre le non-soi.
2011-07-12
Upekkha - Equanimity
2011-05-03
Vedana Feeling
2009-02-15
Vipassana and or Therapy
2021-07-24
Vita Quotidiana
2016-01-01
What is vedana and where does it fit in?
2009-07-01
Why didn't the Buddha return to lay life
2010-06-01
Why noting without stop
2006-05-10
Why the Present Moment is So Important
2010-07-01
Why we need a technique
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2006-01-10
Belgium January 2006
2006-05-10
Geneva May 2006
2006-06-01
Talks with an Accompanying Czech Translation
2007-06-01
Talks with an Accompanying Italian Translation
2009-10-21
Lausanne 2009 October
2010-10-21
Lausanne 2010 October
2010-10-24
Paris and Lausanne 2010 October
2011-01-01
Chapter I : The Human Condition
2011-02-01
Chapter IV : The Happiness Visible in the Present Life - Buddha's Teaching for …
2011-03-01
The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law
2011-03-08
The Second Discourse on Not-Self
2011-04-01
Paticca Samuppada - Dependent Origination
2011-05-01
Khanda - The Aggregates
2011-06-01
The Refuges
2011-07-01
Parami - The Perfections
2011-07-09
Brahmavihara - Sublime Abodes : The Illimitables
2011-08-01
Pali Words
2011-09-01
The Buddha from Birth to First Teaching
2012-10-21
Lausanne and Paris 2012 October
2013-05-01
Approaching the Dhamma
2013-10-21
Lausanne 2013 October
2016-10-21
Lausanne 2016 October
2017-10-14
Talks given at Maison Mudita, Suisse 2017
2019-10-14
Talks given at Maison Mudita, Suisse 2019
2020-04-02
Talks on the Middle Length Discourses
2020-10-10
Weekend Retraite pour Terre d'Éveil Octobre 2020
2021-01-01
Dhammapada
2021-10-02
Retraite de Jour
2021-10-14
Talks given at Maison Mudita, Suisse 2021
2021-10-14
Trois discours pour une retraite personnelle
2022-01-28
Ageing
18:47
Ageing is one of the 'Messemgers of the Gods' that woke the Buddha up to his spiritual journey. The others were Sickness, a Corpse and an ascetic sitting under a tree, suggesting there may be a way out suffering and rebirth.
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