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General talk about what meditation is and how to practice based on the Suttas.

This is a 2 hr talk Bhante gave in Portland during his West Coast Tour.

Bhante Vimalaramsi does a public talk at the Bahai Center for a 2nd night.

Public Talk at the Bahai Center in Belleuve, Washington 3-24-09

Public Talk in San Diego

A personal video of Bhante as he tours and visits the Buddhist Conference site in Kobe Japan Nov 2008.

Bhante Vimalaramsi reads and comments on the Samyutta Nikaya short Sutta named The Fire Sermon in which he explains very clearly and carefully the nature of desire and craving and how meditation sees it and understands it. This is the culmination of the practice he teaches. This is what we are trying to see and understand and subsequently let go of.

Here Bhante Vimalaramsi reads and talks about MN 29, The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood. This Sutta describes how one must understand the most important part of the teaching and what makes up the heart of the teaching. What is the proper goal of the holy life to which all other benefits are secondary.

Bhante Vimalaramsi reads MN 43 and comments. This Sutta takes the form of questions and answers between Venerable Sariputta and Maha Kotthita over very subtle aspects of Dhamma. Described precisely are the aggregates of all existence. What is the body and Vital Formations. What is perception? What knows? What is the deliverance of mind? What is the signless deliverance of mind and how does one recognize it? A description of the Jhanas (here known as meditation levels) and how are they achieved through the practice of the Brahma Viharas.

MN 44 read and then commented on by Bhante Vimalaramsi. This Sutta is question and answers between Dhammadinna, the foremost woman disciple of the Buddha and Visakha, a lay follower. This Sutta goes into the finest points of What is Identity? Who are we and what are the pieces that make up this thing call identity. What is the cessation of the identity view. What is Cessation and how is it attained. This sutta is closely related to MN43.

Bhante reads Sutta 95 Majjhima Nikaya and makes comments as he goes. In this Sutta the Buddha describes to a young Brahmin follower the preservation of truth, the discovery of truth, and the final arrival at truth.

Bhante Vimalaramsi discusses the problem of depression and what causes it and how one may solve this problem once and for all by employing a meditation technique. Suicide and depression have become a talked about topic on various Web spaces recently.

This is an excellent Talk on Karma in Everyday Life. Bhante explains what Karma (Kamma) is and how it works. He explains the results of certain actions and how you can reverse those results by performing wholesome deeds. He also explains how you do not have to kill any living creatures by taking some unique measures and precautions. Some of these will really make you smile. How do you get rid of cockroaches, rats, bugs etc. Its all here. Do you know that Karma is responsible for disease? Do you know that when you injure someone else it causes disease in your body? Why are some people sick and some healthy. Why do some live long and some live short. What is the cause? Bhante explains in this excellent talk. 2 hrs Talk given 3-30-07 Bhante Vimalaramsi

The 2nd part of two of the MN 10 Sutta: Sattipatthana Sutta. Given 3-6-08

Bhante Vimalaramsi gives an excellent lecture on the teachings of the Buddha. What did he teach? How can you bring happiness and joy into your life? How does depression arise and how can it be eliminated? What is meditation and the difference between what the Buddha taught and other forms. This talk is 53 min. and is to a general audience at a Katina Ceremony Nov 18,2007 in Chicago USA. Nov 2007 This was Hosted by: Ven. Ratana Thongkrjai Wat Phrasriratanamahadhatu 4735 N. Magnolia Ave. Chicago, IL 60640

Introduction to Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center and Bhante Vimalaramsi

In this first talk at a Retreat Bhante Vimalaramsi gives a talk that prepares the student to start a retreat. First he gives them the Precepts (19min) and explains them thoroughly and then gives the basic instructions to do the meditation (26min) This is an excellent detailed instruction video on how to do the meditation in the way of the Tranquil Wisdom taught by the Buddha through the path of Lovingkindness up through all of the Brahma Vihara's to Nibbana itself.

Here Bhante Vimalaramsi talks about the importance of the last moment before death. This is the moment that will program your next birth. His Mother owns a nursing home in San Diego and he spent a year being with people who were within a few days of dying and talks about various visions that come at the last moment before they died and talk about what they mean.

These are 2 segments from the National News 10-4 and 10-5 that feature the moving away from traditional Christianity to the study of what the Buddha taught. Brian Williams and Ron Mott take on a surprising subject this week!

Bhante Vimalaramsi discusses the four foundations of mindfulness as taught by the Buddha and some of the ways that it is misunderstood by some teachers these days.

Bhante Vimalaramsi, in part 3 of this series goes on to address the results of practicing the breathing or lovingkindness meditation in the way he teaches.

Introduction to Lovingkindness Meditation with Bhante Vimalaramisi

This video was made during a meditation retreat Feb 2007 at Joshua Tree, California. Bhante Vimalaramsi made this so that people could find out who he is and what he is teaching. He is the first teacher to teach directly from the Buddhist Suttas in the way the Buddha taught. He says that much of the Buddhist Meditation today is actually a one-pointed practice which the Buddha found out did not go where he wanted to go. He learned the highest Yogic practices and meditations but left and found his own enlightenment, finally in Bodh-Gaya, India under the Bodhi Tree. This is what Bhante is teaching. He also goes on to talk about the progressive stages of practice which is quite interesting. This talk gives complete instructions. There are no other teachings. You may watch this, practice and experience everything he talks about very quickly with serious effort. Some students experience in only a week what he describes later in the video. Not years, in a week! Enjoy and practice!

In this talk Bhante Vimalaramsi gives the full instructions for practicing the breath meditation AS THE BUDDHA taught it. The Buddha did not teach one-pointed concentration which is currently taught by Vipassana teachers, but rather a "knowing of the breath" meditation. One does not focus on the sensation but on knowing of the breath. Then a step is added, as directed by the Anapanasati Sutta MN 118 and the Sathipatthana Sutta, which is to recognize and then RELAX into any distractions. Please see the talk for more details. This is very important.

Did you ever wonder what its like to be born, or how about being inside womb itself!! This Sutta will tell you what it might be like! Bhante Vimalaramsi is an American Buddhist Monk who has some rather amazing things to say about what the Buddha really taught. He is not politically correct by reading this Sutta, but he (the Sutta) may be right!

Bhante instructs you how to practice lovingkindness. This practice will take you to the very highest knowledges of Buddhism if done in the way instructed. http://begintosee.googlepage.com

Here Bhante suggest an innovative way to cure what ails you from the perspective of the system of Buddhist Philosophy and the idea of Karma. Bhante tells real stories about people changing their life through doing something good to counteract something bad. htt://begintosee.googlepages.com

Bhante Vimalaramsi describes his experience with getting a root canal in Burma... with no novocaine!

This is an except from a talk by American Monk Bhante Vimalaramsi on the higher jhanas. In this discussion as he reads the Sutta he relates a story about Dipa Ma when he asked her why she sat so long in her meditation. Bhante Vimalaramsi is an American who is teaching Buddhism differently than most teachers today-directly from the Suttas. When one practices as the Buddha taught, without leaving anything out, progress is very fast and deep. More information and videos: http://begintosee.googlepages.com

Bhante Vimalaramsi discusses the basics of Buddhism and meditation. How does the mind work? How does depression occur? How do you let it go and eliminate. More information at http://begintosee.googlepages.com