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LP Uthai talks to visitors from New Zealand in January 2012 at Wat Pah Charoentham Khao Yai

This video was made to illustrate the Buddha's teaching on dependent co-arising or dependent origination (paticca-samuppāda) which can be observed at many scales, which means that lessons drawn from observing the world (loka) can be applied to our internal experience of the six senses which makes up 'our world'. The black hole at the center of a galaxy is like the fundamental ignorance which gives rise to the formations that construct our experience in terms of consciousness being established in name & form. The Buddha compares the ongoing cycle of becoming to the process of planting seeds in fertile soil which is watered by rain. See 'The Shape of Suffering' by Thanissaro Bhikkhuhttp://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/shapeofsuffering.pdf'When there is this, that comes to be;with the arising of this, that arises.When there is not this, that does not come to be;with the cessation of this, that ceases. That is, because of ignorance, formations arise. Because of formations, consciousness arises. Because of consciousness, name and form arise. Because of name and form, the sixfold sense base arises. Because of the sixfold sense base, contact arises. Because of contact, feelings arise. Because of feelings, craving arises. Because of craving, clinging arises. Because of clinging, becoming arises. Because of becoming, birth arises. Because of birth old age, sickness, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair arise. Thus arises the complete mass of suffering (dukkha).'imasmiṃ sati idaṃ hoti, imassuppādā idaṃ uppajjati, imasmiṃ asati idaṃ na hoti, imassa nirodhā idaṃ nirujjhati, yadidaṃ - avijjāpaccayā saṅkhārā, saṅkhārapaccayā viññāṇaṃ, viññāṇapaccayā nāmarūpaṃ, nāmarūpapaccayā saḷāyatanaṃ, saḷāyatanapaccayā phasso, phassapaccayā vedanā, vedanāpaccayā taṇhā, taṇhāpaccayā upādānaṃ, upādānapaccayā bhavo, bhavapaccayā jāti, jātipaccayā jarāmaraṇaṃ sokaparidevadukkhadomanassūpāyāsā sambhavanti. evametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa samudayo hoti.'Credits: music by Abnocto

Ajahn Tim Thanuttaro - Talking about the stories in the book "Blistered Feet Blissful Mind". See http://blisteredfeet-blissfulmind.net/

Ajahn Suthep Chinavaro interviewed on 9-5-2010 in Malaysia. The development of the dynamic meditation technique which he learnt from Luang Por Teean. The seven lotus flowers walking meditation technique. Buddhalila Mahasati. Engaged Buddhism to help society. Solution to the current political problems in Thailand.

Ajahn Suthep Chinavaro interviewed on 9-5-2010 in Malaysia. Being part of the communist movement in Thailand in the 1970s, living in the jungle, then discovering Luang Por Teean's dynamic meditation method and ordaining as a monk. Violent revolution can't bring real peace, inner revolution is better. Buddhadasa's Dhammic Socialism as a solution to the problems of Thailand. Everyone should respect Dhamma in the first place.

Ajahn Suthep Chinavaro talking about the life and teachings of Luang Por Teean, a meditation teacher from north-east Thailand, who introduced the mindfulness technique of moving the hands. See http://www.luangporteean.com/

Malaysian 10 precept nun Sister Visuddhi interviewed in Feb. 2010

Story from the Apadana illustrating the nature of Samsara.

"... if beings knew, as I know, the result of giving and sharing, they would not eat without having given, nor would they allow the stain of meanness to obsess them and take root in their minds. Even if it were their last morsel, their last mouthful, they would not eat without having shared it, if there were someone to share it with..." (The Buddha; Itivuttaka 26)

"Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-made. If one speaks or acts with an impure mind suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox." (The Buddha; Dhammapada 1)

Bhante Gunaratana on the Upanisa Sutta (A 11), the holistic approach to supporting meditative development through cultivating virtue. See http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/wheel277.html

Bhante Gunaratana talking about the Alagaddupama Sutta (M 22) with the simile of the snake's tail and the simile of the raft. See http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.022.than.html

The origin of unhelpful thoughts, conceptual proliferation (papanca). See http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.018.than.html

"For one who is looking for an external aid to enlightenment, I see no greater help than an excellent friend" The Buddha, Iti 17

A first meditation retreat in India. Insights into being careful about one's actions and the benefits of slowing down.