Bodhi Nights

Bodhi Nights
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Bodhi Nights: sleep stories for an overthinking mind. Put in your favorite earphones, turn off the light, and fall asleep listening. Each episode is one gentle hour: an ordinary person on a hard night, and an old Buddhist story retold in a calm, slow voice. No advice, no lecture, nothing to fix tonight. Just a story to rest inside until you drift off. Subscribe so tonight's story is waiting for you.

  1. 18h ago

    Quiet Isn't Slow — Buddha on Freezing Up | Buddhist Stories for Sleep

    Bodhi Nights: sleep stories for an overthinking mind. Put in your favorite earphones, turn off the light, and fall asleep listening. Someone asks you a simple question, your mind goes completely blank while everyone waits, and hours later, alone, the perfect answers arrive all at once. Tonight's stories come from the Buddha's teachings on rivers, on the right time to speak, and on a monk who was slow to learn and looked down on. Little streams splash and make noise, but deep rivers run quiet, so going quiet does not mean you are empty inside. The answer that comes later is still your answer. For tonight, there is nothing to answer and nowhere to be quick. You can simply listen. The narration voice and the images in this video were made with AI. This is a story for rest. It is not medical or mental health advice. 0:00 When the Mind Goes Blank 15:53 The Right Time to Speak 31:47 Slow, and Looked Down On 47:36 The Raft for Crossing Watch this story on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td3GjRjtHiA

    Quiet Isn't Slow — Buddha on Freezing Up | Buddhist Stories for Sleep

  2. 2d ago

    They hurt you and moved on. Who carries that? | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

    Bodhi Nights: sleep stories for an overthinking mind. Put in your favorite earphones, turn off the light, and fall asleep listening. On a lunch break, a woman sees a cheerful vacation photo from the friend who hurt her last month, and she wonders how that friend can laugh while she still holds the pain. Tonight's story stays with her in that moment and asks gently who is really carrying the hurt. We listen to an old teaching from the Akkosa Sutta, where the Buddha refuses an insult the way you might refuse a gift. A hurtful thing you do not take stays with the one who gave it. Then we think about one small, quiet thing you can do tomorrow when the memory comes back. The narration voice and the images in this video were made with AI. This is a story for rest. It is not medical or mental health advice. 0:00 An Ordinary Afternoon 15:41 Who Carries It Now 30:19 One Small Piece of Tomorrow 45:13 Letting the Night Hold You Watch this story on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y59Usryf1xU

    They hurt you and moved on. Who carries that? | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

  3. 3d ago

    Do you feel behind everyone else in life? | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

    Bodhi Nights: sleep stories for an overthinking mind. Put in your favorite earphones, turn off the light, and fall asleep listening. At a Sunday brunch, old friends share an engagement, a promotion, a new home, and you keep smiling while quietly counting everything you have not done yet. Tonight's story stays with that feeling gently, then walks to a pond where some lotuses are still under the water, some touch the surface, and some are already open. This image comes from the Ariyapariyesana Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 26), and its plain meaning is simple: none of them is wrong, because each one rises at its own time. You are not behind. At the end there is one small line to carry with you into tomorrow, and then a quiet place to rest. The narration voice and the images in this video were made with AI. This is a story for rest. It is not medical or mental health advice. 0:00 Sunday Brunch With Friends 14:59 A Pond of Lotuses 29:47 A Small Line for Tomorrow 44:18 Resting at Day's End Watch this story on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCR1j1UWZY

    Do you feel behind everyone else in life? | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

  4. 4d ago

    Why small fights make you fear the worst | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

    Bodhi Nights: sleep stories for an overthinking mind. Put in your favorite earphones, turn off the light, and fall asleep listening. On a Saturday at noon, a man sits alone in a supermarket parking lot after a small argument with his partner about the shopping list, and wonders whether arguing this often means their relationship is broken. Tonight we travel a long way back to an old teaching from the Culagosinga Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 31), where people who lived together in harmony said, "We are different in body, but one, I think, in mind." Living together well does not mean never disagreeing. People stay close by choosing kind actions and kind words toward each other again and again. Today's small thing is simply one kind word or one kind act, offered after a disagreement, without needing to settle everything first. The narration voice and the images in this video were made with AI. This is a story for rest. It is not medical or mental health advice. 0:00 A Noon Parking Lot 14:23 A Journey Back 29:06 Still in the Car 43:02 The Seat Beside You Watch this story on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9WELY0eQMQ

    Why small fights make you fear the worst | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

  5. 5d ago

    Why every big moment feels like life or death | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

    Bodhi Nights: sleep stories for an overthinking mind. Put in your favorite earphones, turn off the light, and fall asleep listening. On a weekday morning, a young man sits on a hard chair outside an interview room, gripping his folder and bouncing his knee, feeling as if his whole future depends on the next twenty minutes. Tonight we stay with that feeling gently and look at where it comes from. An old teaching from the Dhammapada (verse 216) says that fear grows out of craving, out of needing things to go a certain way. When we hold that need a little more loosely, the fear can grow a little smaller too. Near the end, we think about one small, ordinary part of tomorrow, and then let the day be finished. The narration voice and the images in this video were made with AI. This is a story for rest. It is not medical or mental health advice. 0:00 An Ordinary Weekday Morning 15:30 Turning Toward the Idea 30:41 One Small Part of Tomorrow 46:05 Letting the Day Finish Watch this story on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbQxMlJ21nw

    Why every big moment feels like life or death | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

  6. 6d ago

    Small steps aren't wasted, even when unseen | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

    Bodhi Nights: sleep stories for an overthinking mind. Put in your favorite earphones, turn off the light, and fall asleep listening. Early on a weekday morning, Tom waters the same small row of seedlings for the fortieth day in a row and sees no change from last week. He wonders if all his careful daily effort is going anywhere. Tonight's story stays with him in the quiet garden and follows him into an ordinary afternoon, guided by a short verse from the Dhammapada: drop by drop, the water pot is filled. A good thing done every day is not wasted, even before you can see it grow. Today's small thing is to notice one quiet act you repeated today and let it count. The narration voice and the images in this video were made with AI. This is a story for rest. It is not medical or mental health advice. 0:00 An Early Garden Morning 15:24 Drop by Drop 29:58 The Middle of the Day 44:01 Letting the Day Go Watch this story on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_wS0aVn0pA

    Small steps aren't wasted, even when unseen | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

  7. Nov 8

    Why one worry can fill your whole day | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

    Bodhi Nights: sleep stories for an overthinking mind. Put in your favorite earphones, turn off the light, and fall asleep listening. On her lunch break, a woman sits in a cramped, windowless break room and reads a message saying her rent is going up. Her sandwich sits untouched, and that one worry seems to fill the whole small room. Tonight we look back at that moment gently, from a distance, with a simple teaching from the Lonaphala Sutta (Anguttara Nikaya 3.100). A pinch of salt makes a small cup of water too salty to drink, but it cannot change a whole river. When the mind feels a little wider and calmer, the same trouble can feel smaller and easier to carry. We end by turning softly toward tomorrow with one small, quiet thing to take along. The narration voice and the images in this video were made with AI. This is a story for rest. It is not medical or mental health advice. 0:00 A Small Break Room 14:39 Salt in a Cup 29:25 A River Toward Tomorrow 44:13 Simply Being Held Watch this story on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXzvgZ0QSZA

    Why one worry can fill your whole day | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

  8. Nov 7

    Why you miss a friend you don't want back | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind

    Bodhi Nights: sleep stories for an overthinking mind. Put in your favorite earphones, turn off the light, and fall asleep listening. On the bus home after a long day, your thumb stops on an old photo of you and a former best friend, laughing. You feel a quiet ache, even though you know you would not want that friendship back. In this story we look at that ache gently, with an old teaching from the Upajjhatthana Sutta: everyone we love will change and go a different way. Missing someone you have grown apart from is not a mistake. You can let the missing be there without going back. Near the end, we find one small thing to carry into tomorrow, and then the day is done. The narration voice and the images in this video were made with AI. This is a story for rest. It is not medical or mental health advice. 0:00 The Bus Home 14:40 The Walk Home 28:40 Toward Tomorrow 42:52 Nothing Left Tonight Watch this story on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AyL9EcTKHQ

    Why you miss a friend you don't want back | Sleep Story for an Overthinking Mind
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Bodhi Nights: sleep stories for an overthinking mind. Put in your favorite earphones, turn off the light, and fall asleep listening. Each episode is one gentle hour: an ordinary person on a hard night, and an old Buddhist story retold in a calm, slow voice. No advice, no lecture, nothing to fix tonight. Just a story to rest inside until you drift off. Subscribe so tonight's story is waiting for you.

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    Bodhi Nights
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    33
  • Rating
    Clean
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