2020

Transcripts of Dhamma discussions in English with Thai Abhidhamma Teacher Than Ajahn Sujin Boriharnwanaket (b. 1927) sharing her wise reflections and considerations on the Buddha's deep Teachings as recorded in the Pali Tipitaka.

That which hasn't been before

A. Sujin: Is there you now? Lukas: Yes A. Sujin: See, not enough considering. What is you, if there is you. Lukas: It's true what ...

19 Dec, 2020

Life is this moment

Lukas: My question to Tan Ajahn is my lack of motivation or interest in understanding Dhamma even though sometimes I feel I do have some ...

19 Dec, 2020

Death after seeing

A. Sujin: You are talking about bhavanga citta, the object of bhavanga citta, right? But there are so many realities that cannot be known...

14 Dec, 2020

The world goes very very fast

Maeve: Ajahn, while you are speaking you are teaching us the truth of the Dhamma, but even in in the short time of listening so many othe...

23 Nov, 2020

Compassion can be known when it's there

Maeve: May ask you a question about the Buddha's compassion, because I found myself thinking about how the Buddha hesitated to teach ...

23 Nov, 2020

Sense door or mind door now?

Azita: I have a comment, many more mind door processes than sense door processes, could you talk a little about that please, that's a...

23 Nov, 2020

No one who makes it arise: it's there now

Betty: Tan Ajahn, would you say that the... I guess you're going to call it the cure for the problem, is that we need to listen more ...

23 Nov, 2020

Talking about that which is there

Azita: What’s a good way of introducing a small child to the Dhamma? A. Sujin: Just talk about reality, that which is true, for example:...

16 Nov, 2020

Now all four nāma khandhas arise to listen to the words and understand that moment

Vincent: Sawadee kap, Ajahn, did you hear the discussion, or would you like to say something? A. Sujin: About what? So many words, so w...

10 Nov, 2020

It's I from the beginning which no one knows when it was

Azita: Ajahn, you spoke about the āsavas, the four āsavas so kamāsava it would appear to arises more often than any of the other three co...

24 Oct, 2020

The patience not to be me is more difficult

Sarah: I have a comment and a question the comment is yes we usually think of patience in terms of situation waiting patiently for one’s ...

24 Oct, 2020

When it’s so very difficult to understand one can understand viriya and khanti

Azita: Ajahn, I have a question regarding everyday patience and khanti parami, what is the difference, if any? A. Sujin: Between khanti ...

24 Oct, 2020

Kathā vatthu, a moment of wanting is just like dreaming of that

A. Sujin: We’ve talked about kathā vatthu, and kathā vatthu is the subject or object about having no attachment, no lobha at all, from s...

17 Oct, 2020

How much understanding of daily life as not-me now?

[A. Sujin] Maeve's question about how can one know how much development of right understanding is there, I think that we don't...

26 Apr, 2020