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Vens Canda and Vimala leads a guided meditation on the topic: Blossoming With Mudita: Dedicated to Anagarika Chie. 

Vens Canda and Vimala leads the discussion on the topic: How to Receive Admonishment Well (Sutta: MN 15)

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

Weekend retreat in Finland March 2025

What does it take to establish a Theravāda Forest Monastery in England—one where women can train towards full bhikkhunī ordination?

In collaboration with Handful of Leaves, this episode explores the inspiring journey of Anukampa Grove, founded by Ven. Canda—a dedicated Buddhist nun passionate about making the Dhamma accessible to all.

From its humble beginnings to its growing role as a sanctuary for deep practice, Anukampa Grove is creating a refuge where spiritual seekers can cultivate inner peace and wisdom.

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Anagarika Upacālā leads a discussion on SN 14.15, which focuses on how people with similar characteristics naturally draw together.

[0:00] Intro and sutta reading

[5:55] Devadatta

[13:38] Wisdom as compassion

[18:01] How we make friends

[23:18] Finding transformation

[30:22] Reflecting the people around us

[34:18] A gift of safety

[48:18] Unwholesomeness in close relationships

[52:49] Choosing our teachers

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Guided meditation on Metta towards ourselves by Ven Canda

Continuing from the sutta discussion two weeks prior, Ven Candā leads a session on the topic of guarding the senses inspired by SN 35.240, the simile of a tortoise who wisely keeps its six limbs protected in its shell when a jackal comes to prey on it.

[0:00] Review of the simile of six animals (35.247)

[5:15] Sutta reading and interpretation (five hindrances)

[25:01] Sense restraint, gentleness, and mindfulness

[34:18] The restraint of the Venerable Sariputta

[41:36] The danger of to-do lists and protection of mindfulness

[45:52] Suggestions for difficult environments

[53:00] Comments and suggestions in brief

Ven Candā leads a session focused on the Metta Sutta (Snp 1.8), including a sutta reading and reflection on the meaning of the sutta, followed by a discussion on various aspects of loving kindness, with questions and comments about how the participants draw on loving kindness in their own practice.

[0:00] Introduction and sutta reading

[9:14] Interpretation of the sutta

[25:05] Group discussion

Sutta references:

Suttanipāta 1.8: Metta Sutta - https://suttacentral.net/snp1.8/en/pi...

MN 19: Dvedhāvitakka Sutta - https://suttacentral.net/mn19/en/suja...

A guided meditation on Metta and Endings by Ven Canda

Ven Candā leads a discussion on the six senses and the sense restraint based on the sutta SN 35.247, in which the Buddha gives a simile about six animals pulling in different directions and how establishing mindfulness of the body can help restrain the senses.

After the 30-minute reading, she leads a 45-minute Q&A discussion.

[0:00] The six sense bases and sense restraint

[9:00] Sutta reading and explanation

[28:30] The role of mindfulness of the body in sense restraint

[35:30] The relationship between sense restraint and rejoicing

[39:24] Seeing aversion to sense objects in daily life

[45:26] How rejoicing in pleasant sense objects (ex: nature) relates to sense restraint

[50:30] How the sense doors are like wounds

[53:03] Moving the focus off of unpleasant sensations and skillful perception

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Bhante Sujato starts with a 20-minute discussion on skillful attitudes to approach mindfulness of breathing, followed by a 20-minute meditation.

In the second part, he gives a 45-minute talk on the importance of finding meaning in the Buddha’s wisdom as the world fills with unskillful speech and behaviour.

The session ends with 25 minutes of an audience Q&A, mostly focusing on right speech.

[0:00] Holding on is hard

[7:02] Finding the wisdom in mindfulness of breathing

[18:11] Letting the breath do its job

[23:16] Guided meditation

[46:20] Fools and wise people

[58:21] Right speech in a world flooded with wrong speech

[1:21:44] In the eye of the storm

[1:28:48] Questions on right speech in challenging situations

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Bhante Sujato starts with a Q&A that focuses on mindfulness and meditation and understanding the difference between them, with audience comments followed by Bhante’s interpretations of these two important terms.

He then leads a 25-minute guided meditation that expands off of the previous meditations to extend loving kindness to all beings.

[0:00] Reflections on previous meditation

[4:05] What’s the difference between mindfulness and meditation?

[29:03] Christian values

[36:50] Guided meditation

[1:04:30] Closing words

After a brief meditation, Ven Upekkhā shares the story of the bhikkhuni Kisagotami and her sutta from the Bhikkhuni Samyutta.

In the discussion section, members of the group share personal stories of coming to terms with death.

[0:00] Short meditation

[6:29] Sutta and story of Kisagotami

[23:25] What to prepare for the journey

[30:55] All we have to give is love

[34:44] Parents and children

[37:05] Confronting death daily

[42:40] Escaping the cycle

[45:27] Worry for those left behind

[51:48] How you live and die...

Bhante Sujato begins with 20 minutes of Q&A in which participants reflect on the previous guided meditation. This is followed by an hour-long talk about the Noble Eightfold Path, with an analysis of the deeper meaning underlying the first five path factors.

He ends with meditation instructions for practising loving-kindness towards a loved person, and a guided meditation.

[0:00] Q&A on loving-kindness meditation

[21:17] Intro to Dhamma talk

[25:37] The Noble Eightfold Path and Right View

[32:43] Right Intention

[34:50] Right Speech

[43:46] Right Action

[1:10:25] Right Livelihood

[1:26:23] Loving-kindness for a loved person

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In this session, Bhante Sujato gives a talk on the abundant nature of love in the world, and the process of getting in touch with and cultivating that love as a tool against the natural and inevitable chaos of our inner and outer surroundings.

He describes the method he teaches for loving-kindness meditation and leads participants on a guided meditation focused on oneself.

[0:00] Chaos

[3:42] Love is already present

[15:55] To meditate is rare and incredible

[22:29] Your thoughts are what you do

[30:32] Methods for cultivating loving-kindness

[39:41] Guided meditation

In this talk, Ven Candā leads a discussion on AN 5.200, regarding five ways to escape from suffering: the mind not launching out towards sensual pleasures, ill will, harming, form, and personal existence (i.e. holding a view of the existence of a self).

[0:00] Sutta reading, discussion of terminology, and general reflection

[20:39] Renouncing craving for food

[26:46] What is meant by “attending to”

[33:20] Focusing on the opposite of the unwholesome

[36:26] “Attending to”, part 2

[40:50] Focusing on the opposite, part 2

[43:24] “Attending to”, part 3

[46:08] Equanimity

[57:24] Metta a...

Ven Candā leads a discussion around AN 4.117, on the topic of guarding the mind. The talk starts with a sutta reading and reflection, followed by an hour of comments and reflection with participants.

[0:00] Intro and sutta reading

[4:44] Heedfulness, mindfulness and guarding

[14:11] Things that provoke lust and hatred

[22:02] Lust, desire, and adoration

[32:00] Changing the situation versus learning to be with it

[36:06] Not ready to let go

[41:32] Freedom from trembling and shaking

[46:28] Desire for acceptance from loved ones

[52:00] How is guarding the mind related to virtue? ...

Guided meditation on Metta and Care by Ven Canda.

Ven Candā leads a group discussion on AN 4.161 and AN 4.162 about four modes of practice: painful with slow insight, painful with swift insight, pleasant with slow insight, and pleasant with swift insight, and how the Zoom participants’ practice experiences relate to these four.

[0:00] Sutta reading 1 with reflections

[10:10] Which mode of practice do you relate to?

[27:20] Sutta reading 2

[39:14] The stickiness of hidden delusion

[44:30] Modes of practice are not fixed

[46:16] Delusion versus ignorance

[48:58] Insights from unpleasant practice

[53:18] Cultivating energy

Sutta discussion the topic "To Do &N ot To Do!" The Buddha's Advice to Mahapajapati Gotami (AN 8:53)

7 days meditation retreat in Venabu Norway 2024

7 days meditation retreat in Venabu Norway 2024

7 days meditation retreat in Venabu Norway 2024

In this session, Ven Candā reflects on the one-year anniversary of moving into Anukampa Grove Bhikkhuni Monastery, and leads a guided meditation focusing on gratitude and rejoicing.

In the last few minutes, participants share reflections on topics such as developing a perception of rejoicing on behalf of others, and gratitude in the realm of heavenly beings (devas).

[0:00] Introduction

[5:09] Guided meditation

[45:10] Ending discussion

7 days meditation retreat in Venabu Norway 2024

7 days meditation retreat in Venabu Norway 2024

7 days meditation retreat in Venabu Norway 2024

7 days meditation retreat in Venabu Norway 2024

In this session, Ven Candā leads a sutta discussion with participants on the first two suttas in the Bhikkhuni Samyutta, verses given by fully enlightened nuns in response to Mara, the evil one, when he disrupts their meditation.

Discussion on the first sutta focuses around our experiences of sensual pleasures, while the second focuses on experiences of gender discrimination.

[0:00] Background

[6:38] Sutta reading and reflections

[13:00] Sensual pleasures as swords

[21:34] Subtle and coarse pleasures

[34:30] Confronting Mara through creative means

[40:26] Seeking solitude

[50:48] Gender discrimination

[54:31] Second sutta reading

Ven Candā gives a talk on breath meditation, beginning with a discussion of the foundational precursors to meditation practice that many of us forget to consider. This is followed by explanations of the Buddha’s instructions on mindfulness of breathing, taking us from the coarser realm of the body into the subtle realm of the mind.

[0:00] Foundations for breath meditation

[9:55] Starting at the end

[13:19] What brings us to practice?

[20:04] Settling with the breath

[30:30] The sphere of pleasant feelings

[36:53] The power of joy

In this session, Ven Candā leads a guided meditation that focuses on mudita, or altruistic joy, leading the meditator in rejoicing with any happiness, peace, and good fortune we can see in our own life and the lives of others, and wishing for its continuation and increase.

⚠️ Viewer discretion is advised: This podcast episode discusses suicide and medically-assisted in dying, which some viewers may find distressing.

In this episode, Ven Candā reflects on the healing bliss of breath meditation through a discussion of SN 54.9, from the Ānāpāna Samyutta.

After the initial sutta reading and reflection, she leads a discussion with participants that touches on topics such as our relationships with our bodies, suicide, depression, and compassion.

[0:00] Intro and sutta reading

[20:46] How do the stages here relate to deep meditation (jhana)?

[24:36] Suicide and craving not to be (vibhavatanha)

[30:30] Counteracting aversion to the body

[36:58] Chronic pain and trauma in the body

[42:45] Depression, anxiety, and the breath

[49:11] Replacing empathetic distress with compassion

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Ven Canda leads the discussion regarding: Samatha Vipassana: A Swift Pair of Messengers, Sutta SN 35:245.

Ven Canda leads guided meditation on the topic breathing in love with all beings.

Ven Canda leads discussion on the topic Recovering From the Five Hindrances (DN:2).

Ven Canda leads discussion on the topic Content and delight from Sutta Noble Lineage AN 4:28.

7 days meditation retreat in Venabu Norway 2024

7 days meditation retreat in Venabu Norway 2024

7 days meditation retreat in Venabu Norway 2024