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2023 – Blue Mountains, Australia

November 4th to 12th, 2023 9-Day Natural Samādhi Retreat​ Boundless Love Meditation to Nibbāna​ With Bhante Ānanda & Ven. Mettānanda Natural Samādhi is the original teaching of the Buddha on how to develop mental collectedness (Samādhi), by way of uplifting the mind and relaxing bodily tension. This is what the Buddha called wise practice (Right effort). […]

LOVE UNBOUND Film

After an international teaching tour counting more than 8 meditation retreats in 2023, we have gathered the best footage of the year and combined it to the meditator’s experience which were taken at the end of the Buddha Pāda retreat in Kalimpong (India) in February. On this 40 min journey, listeners will be transported to the foothills of the Himalayas in Kalimpong, where meditators share their retreat experience, highlights, and the things which they are taking home to their day-to-day lives. 😇❤️☀️

Poems in Homage to Bhante Vimalaramsi

From the July 1st Newsletter:   “As many of you probably already know, this week was marked by the passing of a great being, out teacher, Bhante Vimalaramsi.  Bhante once broke through to an opening amidst confinement, a crack by which samsāra could be escaped, a tear in the fabric of illusion, and he shared […]

Allowing Love to Flourish: Class with Paul Rodrigue

This class will provide instructions for meditating in a manner that will increase your capacity for love, both for self and others. We will be using a text largely dependent upon the Buddha’s original teachings in the suttas. That book can be found here. Open Heart Allowing Love to Flourish: Practicing Boundless Meditation July 10, 2023 – […]

Mettā Center: Brahmavihāra Talk Series in July

Join us for an uplifted month of July 😇 hosted online or in-person from the Mettā Centre in Sydney, in Australia! Brahma viharas as taught by the Buddha – A sutta-based approach Speaker: Nguyễn Trung Công (Joining online from Hanoi, Vietnam) Wed 5 Jul | 7-8.30pm AEST Location: In person at Metta Centre (Bankstown) or […]

Easing Awake: Doug Kraft

Tenderness, the Broken Heart, and Spaciousness A Guided Discussion Doug Kraft, one of Bhante Ānanda’s most respected teacher is leading an online discussion and teaching on Tuesday, June 6th, at 6:30 pm PST! This discussion will be an outgrowth of last month’s exploration of Dependent Origination as we go to the very core of this topic. […]

Joy in the Buddha’s Teaching

Over the course of the past few years, many Dhamma discourses that delve on the importance of Joy in the Buddha’s Teaching have come our way. We since then have curated a playlist of the best Dhamma talks on the topic.