Audio recording to my talk on Anatta from the recent 3 Characteristics of Existence Retreat. This talk takes a grand tour of what the Buddha says about self, identity, and soul in the EBTs, and how this all fits within the 3 characteristics of existence and your own direct experience/.
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Backlog of Videos Coming Up
I’ve started putting out a bunch of the videos I had in back log.. to be notified by email whenever I post a video, click subscribe then click the bell for email notifications.
All Dhamma Media Links
As I get geared up back into doing dhamma media, I wanted to make a post giving a little tour of the various types of videos on the “Students of the Path” youtube channel that I’ve been running since 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/studentofthepath
The last link is where to find anything I do in audio, which is uploaded to CLYP
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“A Journey into Homelessness” Is my first series and the beginnings of the channel, where I document from 2012-present my journey into monasticism:
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Ask a Bhante(Submit a Question, Get a Video Answer) :
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SOTP Podcast (The Beginnings of a Podcast I hope to do regularly) :
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Q&A Excerpts(Individual questions from full Q&A Videos):
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Dhamma Shorts(Individual short sections of full Dhamma talks) :
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Full Q&As :
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Full Talks :
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This is the official home for anything audio related I do – https://clyp.it/u/bhikkhujayasara , talks, guided meditations, chantings etc.
Returning to Online Work
I still have a lot of work to do here at Bhavana but most of the mental burden and administrative stuff has been lifted from me thanks to the new vice-abbot, Bhante Saddhajeewa, so I will try to get back into doing more of these online things that I enjoy doing and have some more time for my own practice.
I think I want to re-institute the “ask a bhante” section on my youtube channel, that should be a nice easy one to test the waters and get back into my online work.
if you want to add any questions for me to answer in my youtube channel via video, feel free to submit them in the final video below, or you could email/PM me if you dont have a youtube account. I’ve received a lot of positive feedback from these questions so your question may help many others.
Students of the Path Discord Turns 3, and hits a milestone
Over three years ago I helped found an online sangha with a few friends. Today we are an international sangha of men and women, both monastic and laity, who come together to practice, study the suttas, and support each other as “Students of the Path”.
Our premier event is a sutta reading and study that happens every Sunday at 6:30pm Eastern, called “Sutta Smunday”. Smunday because for some of our members who attend the event, it’s actually Monday for them, but Sunday for us still in the states. Over three years ago we started out with Majjhima Nikaya #1, and 5 people, Tomorrow tonight we are about to finish the Majjhima with #152, with 30+ people. We’ve come a long way.
The Channel tag line/summary is as follows :
“Students of the Path is a Buddhist discord server centering around the practical study and application of the Early Buddhist Texts (EBTs) as contained in the Pali Nikayas and Chinese Agamas. We host a number of events and conversations across all living Buddhist traditions so that we may better understand and practice the Buddhist Path together.”
We have live events throughout the week, as well as a variety of chat and dhamma resource channels, and an active community of practitioners to learn from and practice with. We do events over voice and text, including Uposatha talks and more.
In the early days we actually had 3-4 monastics online for these sessions, including Bhikkhuni friends from Australia, but alas as these things tend to go, people had to move on. If you are a monastic who studies and lives by the Early Buddhist Texts and would be interested in becoming active in this community, send me a message. The monastics on this channel do not simply give talks, but engage in dialogue and discussion about the suttas with the laity, Any monastic that joins would also need to understand they will be coming into an already established community with norms and rules that may not match what they are use to.
This channel was NEVER meant to be “my” channel, as these things tend to happen with monastics, I, and the lay community, would love for there to be numerous monastics, both Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis, on the channel with us to share in the dhamma.
If you are interested in checking us out, watch this short video, which, while old, covers the basics still pretty well, and join the link in the description of the video, or here : https://discord.gg/YBAzGcV
Join me in a few weeks for Metta in the City
My annual Metta retreat in NYC at Buddhist Insights is coming up. You can sign up at this link :
Request for Transport
This is a request post. As many know I am doing a fair bit of traveling these days ( 7 months out of 12 I have some travel to share dhamma somewhere), and I am blessed to have a small group of people who are usually able to drive me between Bhavana and Dulles/DC to connect with flights and buses. This time however our schedules could not match.
I have some upcoming flights in June and August that I could use help in transportation back and forth between Dulles and Bhavana. If anyone is willing to help with this transport, or be willing to drive myself or another monastic from Bhavana(Bhante Seela and I travel fairly often) in the future, it would be appreciated. Send me an email at bhikkhujayasara@gmail.com
