20 episodes
The Bhante Punnaji Podcast Sanathavihari Bhikkhu
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- Religion & Spirituality
The Bhante Punnaji Podcast is a channel dedicated to sharing the radical explorations of Pre-Sectarian Buddhism, according to Bhante's understanding. The legacy of Bhante Punnaji's teachings is based on the Buddha's original teachings, the Supernormal Eightfold Way, or Ariyamagga. The talks in this channel are largely the collection of countless sutta classes, dhamma talks, and meditation retreats he conducted all over the world.
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Satipaṭṭhāna: Western Psychology and Buddhist Psychology
In this episode you'll learn:
The importance of taking care of your mind
Why relaxation is important
How the breath and relaxation are connected
How relaxation is letting go
What materialism is
How the scientific perspective of the body, brain and mind relates to Buddhism
How Western psychology developed an understanding of the phenomena of the brain and mind
How Western psychology explains and deals with the problems of the mind
The four Upādānas (normally translated as "clinging") and the process of personalizing
How personalizing is suffering
How the process of personalizing is stopped by giving up the idea of self
The process of cognition in Buddhist psychology
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
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Satipaṭṭhāna: Breathing Instructions and Observing the Mind
In this episode you'll learn:
How to take stock of the mind
How to become conscious and stopping unwholesome thoughts and reactions
How to explore the breath through the sensations of the body
How to calm the mind and relax the body
The conditions necessary to enter Jhāna
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
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Satipaṭṭhāna: Meditation Instructions
In this second part covering Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation, you'll learn:
How to bring the attention inward
Why mediation is beneficial
What calming the mind means
How meditation helps us to let go
How to deal with certain hindrances to our meditation
What existence is and how it relates to feeling
The problems with pleasure and pain
How to comfort someone going through pain
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
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Satipaṭṭhāna: Introduction to Meditation
In this episode you'll learn:
what meditation means in the words of the Buddha
how to draw your attention inward
how to relax the body such that we can deal with emotional problems
how to create a life that supports our practice of meditation
how meditation extends beyond what we normally think
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
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The Four Divine Abodes
In this episode you'll learn:
What the divine abodes, or brahmavihārā, are
How each of the four abodes—goodwill (mettā), compassion (karuṇā), empathetic joy (muditā) and equanimity (upekkhā)—work
Why it's hard to follow the precepts when we do not develop these four qualities
How the brahmavihārā, through an interest in others, leads to relief of suffering
Why the brahmavihārā are not emotional excitement
How the divine abodes lead into one another successively
How the abodes eventually lead us into seeing things clearly
The relationship between the brahmavihārā and our behavior
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
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The Fabric of Reality
In this episode you'll hear about:
how Buddhism isn't at odds with the scientific conception of the world
how the line between the material and the spiritual is blurred when considered from the buddhist point of view
what psychic powers are and how they arise
what the Jhānas are and how one gets into them
how the mind works
Buddhist psychology
Bhante's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bhantepunnajivideo
Bhante's Website: http://protobuddhism.com
Bhante's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhantepunnaji
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ricardo-ortega79/message