The greatest gift is the
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
