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| EN | Eager to discover the depths of your inner happiness? This podcast dives into teachings given by various instructors about meditation, mindfulness, a path towards and journeys of happiness − both in English and Norwegian language. | NO | Spent på å oppdage dyp indre lykke? Denne podcasten dykker ned i læren gitt av forskjellige instruktører om meditasjon, mindfulness, en vei mot og reiser til lykke − både på engelsk og norsk språk. dnbf guide | dnbf enigma | dnbf original

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Troubleshooting breath meditation | EN | Venarble Canda | Venabu 2026

1 hr 10 min

This talk is a walkthrough of the Buddha's teachings on breath meditation based on the Anapanasati Sutta. It is also a troubleshooting guide that highlights the various problems and solutions at each stage. - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: Anukampa - https://anukampaproject.org/donate/ DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Four stages of aircon | EN | Ajahn Nitho | Oxford 2025

17 min

The spiritual training is like aircon for your mind. Our body can be uncomfortable in a hot and humid climate. But air conditioning can really help. So too can our hot and uncomfortable mind get real help from our spiritual development of ethics, meditation and wisdom. But when doing your meditation, please allow your mind to calm down by itself - you just create more mental discomfort by craving, wanting and fighting your mind. This teaching was given during a short day retreat in Oxford May 2025: https://dnbf.org/en/2025/05/anukampa-in-oxford/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Continuation and Red Jackets | EN | Ajahn Nitho | Venabu 2025

49 min

One day our body doesn't want to hang around any more because of old age, then what is the continuation? By looking back in time, we can see that there is continuation forward in time. How does this continuation happen? What can we do to secure the future? And how can we develop towards the highest? This teaching was given at Venabu 2025, and the relevant illustrations are found here: https://dnbf.org/en/2025/05/venabu-may-2025/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

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Troubleshooting breath meditation | EN | Venarble Canda | Venabu 2026

1 hr 10 min

This talk is a walkthrough of the Buddha's teachings on breath meditation based on the Anapanasati Sutta. It is also a troubleshooting guide that highlights the various problems and solutions at each stage. - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: Anukampa - https://anukampaproject.org/donate/ DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Four stages of aircon | EN | Ajahn Nitho | Oxford 2025

17 min

The spiritual training is like aircon for your mind. Our body can be uncomfortable in a hot and humid climate. But air conditioning can really help. So too can our hot and uncomfortable mind get real help from our spiritual development of ethics, meditation and wisdom. But when doing your meditation, please allow your mind to calm down by itself - you just create more mental discomfort by craving, wanting and fighting your mind. This teaching was given during a short day retreat in Oxford May 2025: https://dnbf.org/en/2025/05/anukampa-in-oxford/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Continuation and Red Jackets | EN | Ajahn Nitho | Venabu 2025

49 min

One day our body doesn't want to hang around any more because of old age, then what is the continuation? By looking back in time, we can see that there is continuation forward in time. How does this continuation happen? What can we do to secure the future? And how can we develop towards the highest? This teaching was given at Venabu 2025, and the relevant illustrations are found here: https://dnbf.org/en/2025/05/venabu-may-2025/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Mindfulness of death | EN | Venerable Canda | Venabu 2025*

57 min

Focusing on the fact that our body is going to die, can arouse a sense of spiritual urgency, that again can help us developing wholesome states of mind. This practice is of great fruit and benefits, it helps to put life in perspective − what is important in life, what should we prioritise, what values should we have. We ask ourselves - how kind have we been, how much gratitude have we shown and how much wisdom have we developed? This contemplation gives us resilience in time of death, it helps us live our lives to the best, so we have no regrets. And surprisingly, in will also bring us into the present moment of our lives. If you only have a short time left to live − what would you have done? This teaching was given at Venabu 2025: https://dnbf.org/en/2025/05/venabu-may-2025/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: Anukampa - https://anukampaproject.org/donate/ DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Hindrances | EN | Ajahn Nitho | Venabu 2025

41 min

We can waist lots of time, doing the same things over and over again in meditation, if we don't sometimes pull back and look at what we are doing. Sometimes analysis is important, and for example using the framework of the five hindrances that stops our development. In this talk the focus is the hindrances of sensory desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse and doubt. So next time you feel stuck in meditation - have a look at these five hindrances. This teaching was given at Venabu 2025, and the relevant illustrations are found here: https://dnbf.org/en/2025/05/venabu-may-2025/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Loving kindness meditation | EN | Venerable Canda | Venabu 2025

1 hr 6 min

Loving kindness meditation or metta-meditation is a type of practice that fulfils the whole eight fold path. It is a type of unconditional love, committed to the wellbeing of everybody − it is radically inclusive. While breath meditation creates peace first, and then happiness later − loving kindness meditation creates happiness first and then peace later. It is a type of meditation which makes us sleep well and wake up happy, it protects us from others ill will, people will find us dear and we will find meditation easy. Loving kindness makes us more courageous, helps us being authentic because we have our inner worth and we can be more transparent about our faults. And this talk is about how to do it. This teaching was given at Venabu 2025: https://dnbf.org/en/2025/05/venabu-may-2025/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: Anukampa - https://anukampaproject.org/donate/ DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

The importance of happiness | EN | Ajahn Nitho | Venabu 2025*

43 min

In the beginning of a retreat it is important to focus on deliberately creating happiness and beautiful states of mind, and this is exemplified in this talk by teachings of the Buddha and current teachers. When we are happy inside, we get to sit for a long time, and the longer we meditate, the more stillness and clarity is created for our development of wisdom. In between the meditation, staying in the present moment is important. In the present we are free from so much of our fault finding mind, which tend to dig into the negative parts of our past and fantasying about the future through the lenses of negativity creating anxiety and fear. In the present moment we are relatively free for a while. This teaching was given at Venabu 2025, and the relevant illustrations are found here: https://dnbf.org/en/2025/05/venabu-may-2025/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

The gradual training | EN | Venerable Canda | Venabu 2025

59 min

If meditation is your only method, then the result can be limited and meditation becomes difficult. Developing our mind is an integrated whole, focusing both on virtue, meditation and wisdom. It is the calm of meditation that can abandon craving. And when insights are developed, we understand and we can abandon delusion − we can see the truth.  One way of looking at the training is called the gradual training, which is a gradual refinement of wholesome happiness and freedom. It starts with the arising of an enlightened being which can teach right view, then we adjust our lives with right intentions and simplicity, we develop virtue conduct, we restrain our senses and develop contentment and mindfulness. And then, when the foundation is strong, then we can do our meditation, get into deep meditation and develop wisdom about our own nature. This teaching was given at Venabu 2025: https://dnbf.org/en/2025/05/venabu-may-2025/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: Anukampa - https://anukampaproject.org/donate/ DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

The path to freedom | EN | Bhante Sujato*

51 min

How does the mind work? Often we don't understand, and we create problems for ourselves and others. But it IS possible to develop wisdom and to be free! In Buddhism it is done by developing samatha and vipassana. Samatha is the emotional approach, having a genuine emotional engagement or emotional wholeness. The benefit is obvious: You feel good, it is nice to be happy, so you keep meditating, maybe even for the rest of your life. This leads to a life of reflection and growth, taking responsibility of yourselves. It also create a place of safety, you have found this place where you can be peaceful, happy and loving and caring, stability and clarity. Vipassana is seeing clearly, for example by reflecting on your meditation, cause and effect, investigation of three characteristics in the six senses or the five aggregates - either through direct experience or inference. This leads to stages of awakening, wisdom and freedom. This is why we are teaching, we believe that anybody can realize wisdom, and engage with the teachings in a sincere way. Step by step, we move from darkness to light, ignorance to knowledge, from suffering to freedom. This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/11/venabu-autumn-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of a...

What is jhana and samadhi | EN | Bhante Sujato

42 min

Jhana has become popular, but often dumbed down. So then it helps to have an overview of how aspects of the path fits together.  Jhana means oneness and illumination, and is described as having five factors: applied and sustained application (vitakka, vicara), rapture or uplift (piti), pleasure (sukha) and unification of consciousness (ekaggata). And the coming together of all this factors is jhana.  And each person has the potential to realise these stages of meditation, they represent the very end and summit of the eight fold path, and is also the foundation for deep insights. This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/11/venabu-autumn-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org  

The four bases of mental power | EN | Bhante Sujato

38 min

When coming to a retreat, you give up a lot for a few days − there is maybe a desire or a longing for freedom. And just that is the first of 'The four bases of mental power' (iddhi pada), this wish or longing for freedom and a spiritual development − and maybe the most important supporting factor for this desire is mental pleasure, which is really important to develop.  The second factor is energy, so to keep going and not giving up. The third factor is mind or heart or consciousness, a clear mind which can deliver answers. And the last factor is investigation or inquiry, this ability to see what is going on, what changes and why - and as your peace of mind deepens, so will the investigation deepens into insights.  These are factors which we can focus on, to give our meditation practise a boost − this enthusiasm, energy, clarity of mind and inquiring wanting to understand. This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/11/venabu-autumn-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

How the Buddha learned to meditate | EN | Bhante Sujato*

51 min

This talk is about the process the Buddha went through learning to meditate, starting with an experiences he had as a child, which teachers he met and learned from and how he was conditioned by other schools. Then later on, how the Buddha stayed with the sramanas doing all kinds of ascetic practises, which the Buddha found as a waste of time. And finally, when he had been searching out all the best teachers of his time, and not finding them good enough, he started to develop his meditation alone, finding inspiration from his childhood experiences − not following a path but finding out himself.  And we have all this texts today explaining what problems the Buddha had, how he struggled and how he found his way. So this is a beautiful story about perseverance, not giving up, and finding your way yourself.  This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/11/venabu-autumn-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Metta meditation | EN | Bhante Sujato

1 hr 23 min

Metta meditation is the practice to develop the mind in such a way that this feeling of metta, this most exalted of human potentials, becomes a reality. And when this feeling starts to spark, which sages in the past has described as transcendence or divinity, than that is inside you! And it has been there all along − it is like coming home − and it it is there for everybody. This talk is actually four different talks combined into one, each talk given in regards to the four people you spread metta to: metta for our self, mette for the loved person, metta for the neutral person and metta for the disliked person. This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/11/venabu-autumn-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org  

Mindfulness meditation | EN | Bhante Sujato

26 min

Mindfulness is not really meditation, but can be used as a type of meditation where we simply are aware of what is happening in your body and mind. You start to notice what is happening: thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories, ideas, desires - and spaces between them. The aim to get a place where we are resonable equanimous, as a preperation for other types of meditation. Just remember that ethical behavior is the fundation of any meditation, just being a good person. This teaching was given during a retreat at Venabu in October 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/11/venabu-autumn-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org  

How to practise after a retreat | EN | Venerable Canda

56 min

After a retreat, how can we continue our practice, how can we transfer our skills to our daily lives? At this retreat at Venabu a whole toolkit was given: right approach to mediation, what happiness and suffering is, learning to be mindful and developing wholesome qualities, the importance of joy and how it is aroused, and wisdom - what it is and how it is developed. In our daily life we must protect the seed we have planted, and remove the weeds. Keeping the soil moist by virtue - which actually is a beautiful and fun training leading to a blameless bliss. Trying to keep up the daily practice of meditation. Trying to read the original teaching of the Buddha, remembering that patience is the highest spiritual quality. Also - try associate with the wise, they will keep your inspiration up! In the end of this talk (35:02), there is a finishing off guided loving kindness meditation. This teaching was given at Venabu 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/04/venabu-retreat-2024/  - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: Anukampa - https://anukampaproject.org/donate/ DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Wisdom − what it is, when will it arrise and how | EN | Ajahn Nitho*

31 min

Ajahn Nitho describes in this talk what wisdom is according to the teaching of the Buddha. He also reads out a short parable describing when wisdom will arrise in a person − independent of gender, body or ethnicity. He continues with a longer descriptions of the various stages of meditation, all the way into deep meditation or jhana, because that is the needed level of meditation for deep wisdom and enlightenment to arrise. In short - a meditation and wisdom journey of ever increasing happiness, mindfulness, clarity, wisdom and freedom.  This teaching was given at Venabu 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/04/venabu-retreat-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Loving kindness − what and how | EN | Venerable Canda*

58 min

This talk is about loving kindness − what it is, how it affects our mind, different ways of doing loving kindness meditation, and how it connects to deep meditation and awakening.  This is a method that aligns the mind with proper intention during meditation—kindness, not controlling, letting things be, not possessing, giving to the moment, giving to our practice and what we are experiencing. The method develops a mind that has goodwill without condition, which can set people free to be who they are. Just like the goodwill a mother has towards her only child − so we can have goodwill towards everyone!  This teaching was given at Venabu 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/04/venabu-retreat-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: Anukampa - https://anukampaproject.org/donate/ DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Working with the senses | EN | Venerable Canda

57 min

In this talk, Venerable Canda talks about guarding the sense doors, and the hindrances that arise in relation to the sensory world, with the goal to create clarity of mind. She talks about the sense bases, and how contact creates feelings in body and mind − pleasant or not − resulting in craving or ill will. Seeing that this process is conditioned, not substantial, reduces the reactivity and the creation of suffering. She gives examples, and refer to stories both from contemporary teachers and the original teachings of the Buddha. This teaching was given at Venabu 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/04/venabu-retreat-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: Anukampa - https://anukampaproject.org/donate/ DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

The key to breath meditation | EN | Ajahn Nitho

37 min

Doing breath meditation ends sometimes up being dry and out of oomph, then try the advice of the Buddha. This talk is about the importance of joy, happiness and rapture for the development of deep meditation and wisdom. In the end of the talk, Ajahn Nitho also mentions some alternative meditations to help kindle these beatiful mental states during meditation of breathing.  This teaching was given at Venabu 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/04/venabu-retreat-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

What happiness is and how to get it | EN | Venerable Canda*

52 min

We all want more of happiness, and less suffering. What is the reason for happiness? What type of happiness should we pursue? What is the foundation and causes for happiness? What motivates us to practice? Happiness is a natural process − there is happiness, and it comes as a result of putting in beautiful wholesome causes, learning to go through problems with wisdom, and developing perceptions that will transform our lives. This teaching was given at Venabu 2024: https://dnbf.org/en/2024/04/venabu-retreat-2024/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: Anukampa - https://anukampaproject.org/donate/ DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Retreat questions and answers at Venabu 2024 | EN | Venerable Canda and Ajahn Nitho

45 min

This is a recording of a question and answers session normally done every evening during retreat: (00:00) − You mentioned that for meditation, it helps to focus on the here and now, like breathing, walking or yoga. Would focusing on petting ones cat be the same, could that be meditate? (02:51) − Often when I am observing my breathing closely, the closer I watch, the more I realise that I am all doing the breathing, in stead of letting it breath on its own. Should I just observe myself doing the breathing, in stead of struggling to stop? (05:54) − Most comfortably, my legs take turn going numb. Is it a matter of habit? (09:45) − What is the mental action that corresponds to putting the glass of water down on the floor, so that it can fall into silence? (11:26) − Is there any effect meditating with the palms up, or palms down? (14:25) − What happened to your brother, Nitho − you said he inspired you to do meditations? Was he also a monk? (18:14) − Morning teaching:  The peace and happiness inside, I want to catch it but it just hide. Today I had a teaching and now I know, you can only find peace and happiness by letting go. If you still need to do it − to act, add kindness it will have a huge impact. To all you with an active mind − just remember, be kind. (19:10) − When I meditate in day-to-day life, while not on a retreat. I find in may take two hour to find some ease. So far in this retreat, it feels like this in minutes. Any recommendations for the causes required to perhaps finding this easy in day-to-day life? (22:22) − Where can I read about the eight fold path? (24:32) − How can I know the difference between deep meditation and falling a sleep and dreaming, while sitting? (27:32) − How do I make the best out of karma-yoga? (31:05) − If I give my best, but make absolutely no progress at all after eight days, it is still okay alright? (35:10) − Can we at some point during the retreat have metta meditation with Venerable Canda canting in the end, please? (35:3...

It's not your fault | EN | Ajahn Brahm and Canda | Oslo 2022

1 hr 47 min

Ajahn Brahm and Ven Canda were invited to the House of Litterature in Oslo, to talk about our complicated minds - which always have to find fault. This teaching was given in Oslo 2022: https://dnbf.org/en/2022/11/its-not-your-fault/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: Anukampa - https://anukampaproject.org/donate/ DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Wisdom alongside meditation | EN | Ajahn Brahm*

1 hr 3 min

Sometimes meditation is frustrating and disappointing, then we should practice insights. And just as in the story of Sam and Vi, each with their dog, Metta and Anapana, climbs a mountain both for deep peace and a clear view, so we can climb the meditation mountain inside.  But we have blind spots, we see only what we want to see, and don't see what we don't want to see. Real insights goes much deeper then you think is obvious, and wisdom is not believing what you see. And few stories highlight these blind spots. Basically, you need a strong mind to see clearly!  And on the way to the big insights and stages of awakening, there are many smaller wisdoms to develop − our minds have powerful abilities and we can even remembering our past lives.   This teaching was given in Oslo 2022: https://dnbf.org/en/2022/11/ajahn-brahm-weekend-retreat/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Buddhism in a nutshell | EN | Ajahn Brahm

1 hr 9 min

Buddhism is not a religion of belief, but a training to empower ourselves to develop wisdom and happiness, based on our own experience. Some people, the bhikkhunis and bhikkhus, do this training full time, and then become teachers for others. And maybe the most important aspekt is kindness, and a few good stories are told about how kindness can help, both when one encounters poisonous snakes, or when you need building approval from the municipality. But the talk starts by answering a deeper question about meditation.  This teaching was given in Oslo 2022: https://dnbf.org/en/2022/11/ajahn-brahm-weekend-retreat/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org  

QA in Oslo | EN | Ajahn Brahm

1 hr 33 min

These questions were asked and answered: (00:00) − Christmas family time - I find it really difficult when I gather with my big family for Christmas for many days, can you give some advice on how to handle the lack of silence, the negative discussions, they love to discuss all the problems in the world, the overload of thing and food, everybody has so much, and all want to buy more? (12:05) − Do you currently have ties in the Thai sangha? (the bhikkhuni controversy) (20:23) − Are you supporting the Thai bhikkhunis in Thailand? If so, how? (23:29) − Through deep hypnosis, I broke through and came into a state of bliss. This is my first experience of a nimitta. The following day I wanted to get back to this, and tried to force myself back to the beach, and the dark night, but I terrified because I am sure I saw some demons. Is this real? Is this made by my mind because I tried to force it back to the blissful state? Luckily have have experience nimittas on retreat after this, but then i don't let go, and stay for hours. Can you go in and out of this stage? Is it like riding a bicycle when you get the experience? (33:53) − Ever so often, I experience the biggest effect of meditation. After the meditation, when I don't try to meditation, I fall into deep meditation. (37:02) − No self, how to explain to my husband that his wife does not exist? (41:57) − How do you find the right balance between doubt and faith/trust in Buddhism? I feel like too much doubt becomes a hindrance, faith without some doubt becomes blind faith. Any input or thought on this? (50:43) − I can only focus on three consecutive breaths before my mind wanders off. What am I doing wrong in the previous stage? (57:31) − My parents are kind people, but I never feel close or good connection with them in my head, spending half a day with my mother is enough for me each time I visit them. How can I let go of the guilty feeling I have to be there for my parents (78 and 81 years old), when they seem like they...

The opening of the lotus flower by not owning | EN | Ajahn Brahm*

1 hr 3 min

Training the mind, is not forcing the mind, but understanding and working with your mind. One problem is that we think we own our meditation, but if we can look at ourselves as guests − then there is less to do, and we can relax. And as we meditate deeper and deeper, it is like the mind opens up like a lotus flower - layer by layer. First into the present moment, then into silence, then into breathing, then into joy and delight. Even deeper in, we get to stages of lights and brightness, before entering those powerful stages of jhana. And interestingly enough, these jhana stages has probably been attained by spiritual seekers from other traditions as well. This teaching was given in Oslo 2022: https://dnbf.org/en/2022/11/ajahn-brahm-weekend-retreat/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

Journeying into stillness | EN | Ajahn Brahm

1 hr 4 min

This is an introduction to meditation talk, given in Oslo in 2022. It starts by focusing on right motivation − letting go, kindness and gentleness. This motivation will guide our minds towards peace and stillness, by not using force, but allowing stillness to arise just as water in a drinking glass. It is the winds of wanting that makes our mind move away for peace. Silence is delightful, and also creates a clear bright mind, which can see things clearly. And that clarity of mind can be applied to your body for health, and also towards your mind to deepen your peace and develop wisdom. This teaching was given in Oslo 2022: https://dnbf.org/en/2022/11/ajahn-brahm-weekend-retreat/ - - - Please, feel free to recommend this podcast to your friends! Feedback If you have feedback or questions about this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org Donation The non-profit society DNBF together with the instructor has produced and distributed this podcast for free and without advertising, but we are dependent on financial support through one-time donations or monthly patron donations for our operation and development: DNBF Donation - https://dnbf.org/en/donation/ DNBF Patron - https://dnbf.org/en/patron/ Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter to receive information about our activities: https://dnbf.org/en/newsletter/ Membership You are welcome as a member, and we have a lot to offer in terms of activities: https://dnbf.org/en/membership/ Problems If you have a problem with this podcast, send an email to: post@dnbf.org

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