เสียงธรรม The language of the heart | Luang Por Viradhammo

The Receptive Quality & The Natural Stillness | Luang Por Viradhammo

Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
Published on Jul 11, 2018

 

Luang Por Viradhammo’s 70th birthday
Today, April 27, 2017, marks Luang Por Viradhammo’s 70th birthday. We at Abhayagiri would like to share our happiness, gratitude and good wishes to Luang Por Viradhammo and the community at Tisarana.

New Book: The Contemplative’s Craft

In celebration of this day, we would like to share Luang Por Viradhammo’s new book, entitled The Contemplative’s Craft: Internalizing the Teachings of the Buddha, which is now available in e-book formats:

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  • The Contemplative’s Craft (PDF)
  • The Contemplative’s Craft (Epub)
  • The Contemplative’s Craft (Mobi)

About Luang Por Viradhammo
Ajahn Viradhammo was born in Germany, 1947, to Latvian refugee parents. They moved to Toronto when he was four years old. Around 1969, while living in India, he encountered Buddhism, meeting the late Sāmanera Bodhesako, who introduced him to the teachings of the Buddha. He eventually travelled to Thailand to become a novice at Wat Mahathat in 1973 and took bhikkhu ordination the following year at Wat Pah Pong with Ajahn Chah. He was one of the first residents at Wat Pah Nanachat, the international monastery in north-east Thailand. Having spent four years in Thailand, he went back to Canada to visit his family in 1977. Instead of returning to Thailand, he was asked by Ajahn Chah to join Ajahn Sumedho at the Hampstead Vihāra in London. Later, he was involved in the establishment of both the Chithurst and Harnham monasteries in the UK. In 1985, invited by the Wellington Theravāda Buddhist Association, he moved to New Zealand, accompanied by Venerable Thanavaro, where he lived for 10 years, setting up Bodhinyānārāma monastery. In 1995 he came to the UK to assist Ajahn Sumedho at Amarāvati and stayed for four years before returning to New Zealand, where he lived until 2002. He was living in Ottawa caring for his mother for nine years and is now resident full time at Tisarana.

From the Tisarana Buddhist Monastery website.

Posted April 27, 2017

 

Talk by Ajahn Viradhammo at Stanford University

Buddhist Studies at Stanford
Published on Nov 9, 2015

 

Ajahn Viradhammo: Awakening to the Way Things Are

Theosophical Society
Published on Oct 9, 2014

 

There Is the Unconditioned by Ajahn Viradhammo (7/30/2017)

Ajahn Viradhammo | 20 December 2018

BuddhaDhamma Foundation
Published on Dec 25, 2018

 

Watchful and Available: Qualities of Mindfulness by Ven. Viradhammo

Buddhist Fellowship
Published on Mar 12, 2015
Intolerance to Nonconformity - Ajahn Viradhammo

The Island Is Not Thought - Ajahn Viradhammo

The Skill of Meditation - Luang Por Viradhammo
Nguyen Linh
Published on Oct 27, 2016

 

Recollections of Luang Por Chah (Vintage 2011 talk) | Ajahn Viradhammo

Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
Published on Sep 23, 2018
Ajahn Viradhammo at Portland, June 2014, Portland Friends of the Dhamma (Part 1 of 2)

Ajahn Viradhammo at Portland, June 2014, Portland Friends of the Dhamma (Part 2 of 2)

Balaji Ramasubramanian
Published on Nov 17, 2014

 

ACRD_203 LPViradhammo - Dealing With Fear

Losel Boon Hong Chuah
Published on Jan 24, 2014

 

The Stories We Tell | Ajahn Vīradhammo .. Nov 2, 2019

Streamed live on Nov 2, 2019
Ajahn Vīradhammo reflects on the stories we tell ourselves and how they can influence our practice.
A Greater Happiness | Ajahn Vīradhammo

Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
Ajahn Vīradhammo discusses the wisdom that can arise through directing attention to the body, the benefits of practicing in the lying posture, and how caring for his aging mother supported practice. This reflection was offered during the 2019 Kaṭhina Ceremony on November 3, 2019 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.

 

The Receptive Quality & The Natural Stillness | Luang Por Viradhammo

Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
Luang Por Viradhammo reflects on the ability to be focused and present, and the relationship between that quality and a broader awareness and empathy. He describes how both of these aspects of heart and head are indispensable parts of the appreciation of reality and the path towards a natural stillness.
This Dhamma talk was offered as a part of the reception hall inauguration weekend at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery on June 30, 2018.

 

Luang Por Viradhammo - Reflections on the Dhamma, "Seeking Happiness"

BUBS
Jun 6, 2020
Luang Por Viradhammo - Facing the uncertainties of 2021 (1 January 2021)

dhammarama
Dec 31, 2020

 

Life and teachings of Luang Por Viradhammo (Montage)

dhammarama
Jan 2, 2021
Photo presentation on the early life of Luang Por Viradhammo and a few quotes from his teachings.

 

TISARANA BUDDHIST MONASTERY
"Remorse & Resentment" | Luang Por Viradhammo | 16 Sep 22

Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
Sep 19, 2022

 

Luang Por Viradhammo | Vassa '23 Dhamma Streams | 25 Aug 2023

BuddhaDhamma Foundation
Aug 28, 2023

 

"Who's the thinker?" | Luang Por Viradhammo | 21 Jul '23

Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
Aug 8, 2023

 

"Kindly Attention" | Luang Por Viradhammo | 23 Jul '23

Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
Jul 26, 2023
This session covers a Dhamma talk, followed by a Q&A session. The topic for the talk, is "kindly attention", when a given state comes up in awareness, Luang Por suggests the approach of speaking kindly to what has arise with the followuning statements:
1. I love you
2. I have always loved you
3. I will always love you
This is given as an antidote to "Vibhava Tanha", the desire to eliminate.. Or not to be.. As stated in the Buddha's explanation on the 3 kinds of desire. Love here, is not the sentimental, often overused word, but a deep kindly acceptance.

 

"Consciousness as Love" | Luang Por Viradhammo | 21 Jul '23

Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
Aug 8, 2023
This session covers a Dhamma talk, followed by a Q&A session given at the Quaker centre, in conjunction with the OBS. Luang Por explores the nature of "consciousness" as "love". Allowing all things to arise and pass. Moving from "attachment" to "Non attachment"

 

"Death & the Unconditioned" | Luang Por Viradhammo | 25 Aug '23

Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
Aug 29, 2023

 

"Right concentration" | Luang Por Viradhammo | May '23

Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
Jun 27, 2023

 

"The intention of Goodwill" | Luang Por Viradhammo | 24 Oct '23

Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
Oct 29, 2023