Dhammapada Part I

Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu
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Dhammapada Part I

A series on the Dhammapada, a set of 423 verse teachings given by the Buddha, including explanation of the Pali verse, a synopsis of the background story and application of the teaching to our practice by Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu. This Dhammapada Part I podcast includes Chapters 1-17 (Verses 1-234). Please subscribe to Dhammapada Part II for the verses in the rest of the chapters. New episodes are published each week in the Dhammapada Part II podcast. Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu is a Canadian-born Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in 2001 under the guidance of Venerable Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo. He has taught meditation courses in the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition since 2003 and gives online teachings via YouTube, as well as Dhamma talks to both intensive meditators and by invitation to the general public.

  1. EPISODE 1

    Dhammapada Verse 1: Suffering is Mind-made

    Verse 1 Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#1

    20 min

  2. EPISODE 2

    Dhammapada Verse 2: Happiness Follows a Pure Mind

    Verse 2 Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#2

    38 min

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    Dhammapada Verses 3 & 4: Clinging to Perceived Wrongs Only Leads to More Wrong

    Verse 3 “He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.” Those who harbor such thoughts do not still their hatred. Verse 4 “He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me.” Those who do not harbor such thoughts still their hatred. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#3

    22 min

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    Dhammapada Verse 5: Enmity Is Not Vanquished By Enmity

    Verse 5 Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#5

    16 min

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    Dhammapada Verse 6: Those With Clear Knowledge Settle Their Quarrels

    Verse 6 There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die. But those who do realize this settle their quarrels. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#6

    17 min

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    Dhammapada Verses 7 & 8: A Weak Tree and a Mountain of Solid Rock

    Verse 7 Just as a storm throws down a weak tree, so does Mara overpower the man who lives for the pursuit of pleasures, who is uncontrolled in his senses, immoderate in eating, indolent, and dissipated. Verse 8 Just as a storm cannot prevail against a rocky mountain, so Mara can never overpower the man who lives meditating on the impurities, who is controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, and filled with faith and earnest effort. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#7

    48 min

  7. EPISODE 7

    Dhammapada Verses 9 & 10: Worthy of the Robe

    Verse 9 Whoever being depraved, devoid of self-control and truthfulness, should don the monk’s yellow robe, he surely is not worthy of the robe. Verse 10 But whoever is purged of depravity, well-established in virtues and filled with self-control and truthfulness, he indeed is worthy of the yellow robe. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#9

    42 min

  8. EPISODE 8

    Dhammapada Verses 11 and 12: Essential and Unessential

    Verse 11 Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential. Verse 12 Those who know the essential to be essential and the unessential to be unessential, dwelling in right thoughts, do arrive at the essential. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp1-20/en/buddharakkhita#11

    26 min
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    A series on the Dhammapada, a set of 423 verse teachings given by the Buddha, including explanation of the Pali verse, a synopsis of the background story and application of the teaching to our practice by Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu. This Dhammapada Part I podcast includes Chapters 1-17 (Verses 1-234). Please subscribe to Dhammapada Part II for the verses in the rest of the chapters. New episodes are published each week in the Dhammapada Part II podcast. Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu is a Canadian-born Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in 2001 under the guidance of Venerable Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo. He has taught meditation courses in the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition since 2003 and gives online teachings via YouTube, as well as Dhamma talks to both intensive meditators and by invitation to the general public.

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