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Facing Aging, Illness, & Death

Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha. (published July 7, 2024) A transcript of a retreat sponsored by Le Refuge in April, 2023.

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Meditations 12

Meditations 12. (published May 28, 2024) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery primarily from 2022-2023.

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The Heart a Flowing Stream

The Heart a Flowing Stream, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (published April 1, 2024) The ninth collection of essays: The Heart a Flowing Stream, Everywhere & Always, At War with the Dhamma, Free the Dhamma, Mindfulness to the Fore, Thinking about Jhāna, Fun & Games, Perception, Just Right as It Is, and Neither Here nor There.

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So as not to get lost among the seven dozen plus books available on this page, this ‘Features’ section highlights the introductory and essential books that are introduced in the ‘For Beginners’ section on the home page.

Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo

Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samadhi, by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) A fundamental guidebook for breath meditation and practicing the jhānas.

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Ajaan Fuang Jotiko

Awareness Itself, by Ajaan Fuang Jotiko. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) A collection of teachings spanning the whole range of practice by Ajaan Lee’s principal student and Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu’s teacher.

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Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu

The Buddha’s Teachings

The Buddha’s Teachings: An Introduction, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) A short introduction to the basic concepts and values underlying Buddhist practice, with special attention to clearing up common misinterpretations about what the Buddha taught.

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With Each & Every Breath

With Each & Every Breath: A Guide to Meditation, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised June 3, 2021) A breath meditation manual by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu drawing on two sources: the Buddha’s own set of instructions on how to use the breath in training the mind, and Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo’s method of breath meditation — which builds on the Buddha’s instructions, explaining in detail many of the points that the Buddha left in condensed form.

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Noble Strategy

Noble Strategy, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised “One Tool Among Many” on April 11, 2020) This first collection of essays is recommended for new practitioners. Includes: Affirming the Truths of the Heart, Karma, The Road to Nirvana Is Paved with Skillful Intentions, The Healing Power of the Precepts, Right Speech, Trading Candy for Gold, A Guided Meditation, The Path of Concentration & Mindfulness, One Tool Among Many, What Is Emptiness?, No-self or Not-self?, and The Image of Nirvana.

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The Karma of Questions

The Karma of Questions, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) This is a revised edition to the second collection of essays. Significant changes were made to the essay ‘Perennial Issues,’ and Pāli diacritics were added throughout. The essays included are: Life Isn"t Just Suffering, Opening the Door to the Dhamma, Questions of Skill, Freedom from Fear, Samsara, Samsara Divided by Zero, The Agendas of Mindfulness, De-perception, The Weight of Mountains, Five Piles of Bricks, Perennial Issues, and When You Know for Yourselves.

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Karma Q & A

Karma Q & A, compiled by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 21, 2021) Kamma and rebirth are often understood to be teachings of fate and helplessness in the face of unknowable influences from the past. Instead of teaching fate, The Buddha’s teachings on kamma and rebirth are empowering, showing how people can develop skills in the present that will lead to the end of suffering. So, to help show how valuable these teachings are, here’s a set of answers, based on the Pāli Canon, to some questions frequently asked about these topics.

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Suttas

Sutta Piṭaka

Handful of Leaves: an Anthology from the Sutta Piṭaka, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised October 9, 2021) This all-in-one eBook bundles all of the sutta collections on this page: the Dīgha, Majjhima, Saṁyutta, and Aṅguttara Nikāyas, as well as six books from the Khuddaka Nikāya—the Khuddakapāṭha, Dhammapada, Udāna, Itivuttaka, Sutta Nipāta, Theragāthā & Therīgāthā.

The purpose of combining these collections into one volume is to hyper-link the extensive cross-referencing within and across the collections. The epub, azw3 and mobi eBook versions therefore serve as functional equivalents to an offline mirror of the sutta portion of the site.

Note re the pdf version: The pdf is over 4,000 pages long and will be almost completely unusable on small devices and might lag even on a computer.

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Dīgha Nikāya

Handful of Leaves, Volume I: an Anthology from the Dīgha Nikāya, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 10, 2021) This volume is the first in a four-volume anthology of suttas (discourses) drawn from the Sutta Piṭaka (Discourse Basket or Repository) of the Pāli Canon. This volume contains suttas drawn from the first of the five collections comprising the Sutta Piṭaka: the Dīgha Nikāya—or Long Collection—named after the length not of the collection, but of its individual suttas. There are 34 in all, many of them among the most polished literary compositions in the Pāli Canon. This anthology contains complete translations of twelve suttas, and partial translations of two.

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Majjhima Nikāya

Handful of Leaves, Volume II: an Anthology from the Majjhima Nikāya, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 10, 2021) The Majjhima Nikāya—the Middle Collection—is the second collection in the Sutta Piṭaka. It takes its name from the length of the discourses it contains: shorter than those in the Long Collection, longer than those in the Connected and Numerical Collections. There are 152 suttas in all. This anthology offers complete translations of 103 of these suttas, and excerpts from three.

Majjhima Syllabus. The suttas in the Majjhima Nikāya are among the most interesting and informative of the Canon. However, when they were collected they were organized for ease of memorization, not for ease of study. So, as an introduction to the collection, here is a list of suttas organized by topic, from the more fundamental to the more advanced.

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Saṁyutta Nikāya

Handful of Leaves, Volume III: an Anthology from the Saṁyutta Nikāya, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised October 9, 2021) The Saṁyutta Nikāya, a collection of short to medium-length discourses, takes its name from the way the discourses are organized into groups connected (samyutta) by a particular theme. In some cases, the theme is a topic. In others it may be the name of an interlocutor, a place, a group of people, or—as in the Simile-Connected discourses—a formal attribute of the discourses themselves. The complete collection, counting all its formulaic expansions, contains more than 2,900 discourses, of which 450 are translated here.

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Aṅguttara Nikāya

Handful of Leaves, Volume IV: an Anthology from the Aṅguttara Nikāya, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised August 25, 2021) The Aṅguttara Nikāya, a collection of short to medium-length discourses, takes its name from the way the discourses are grouped by the number of their parts (anga), with the number growing progressively higher (uttara) with each group. No single English term can convey the full meaning of this name, although the translation Numerical Collection gives a workable idea of the principle behind it. The complete collection, counting all its formulaic expansions, contains more than 9,500 discourses. When these expansions are not counted, the total comes to approximately 2,300 discourses, of which 427 are translated here.

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Khuddaka Nikaya

Khuddakapāṭha

Khuddakapāṭha: Short Passages, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Jan. 29, 2020) This, the first book in the Khuddaka Nikāya (Collection of Short Discourses), appears to have been designed as a primer for novice monks and nuns. In nine short passages it covers the basic topics that one would need to know when beginning Buddhist monastic life; many of the passages also serve as useful introductions to Buddhist practice in general.

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Dhammapada

Dhammapada: A Translation, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Jan. 29, 2020) An anthology of verses attributed to the Buddha long recognized as one of the masterpieces of early Buddhist literature. This edition has the full Introduction, Historical Notes, and extensive Endnotes, which are hyper-linked in the epub & mobi versions.

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Udāna

Udāna: Exclamations, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Jan. 29, 2020) A complete translation of the book of the Udāna from the Khuddaka Nikāya collection of the Pāli Canon. The role of the Udāna within the context of the Pāli Canon is to focus on the values and principles—“meaning” in the larger sense of the term—that underlie the Buddha’s teachings.

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Itivuttaka

Itivuttaka: This was said by the Buddha, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 10, 2021) The Itivuttaka is a newly updated translation of a collection of 112 short suttas, each one a prose passage followed by a verse. This collection is shaped less by literary considerations than the Dhammapada or Udāna and is more straightforwardly didactic. The itivuttakas cover the full range of Buddhist practice. On the basic levels, they focus on skillful and unskillful behavior, and on the advanced, they cover some topics found nowhere else in the Canon.

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Sutta Nipāta

Sutta Nipāta: The Discourse Group, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 10, 2021) This is a translation of the entire collection of 72 suttas, which includes some of the longer and more famous poems in the Pāli Canon, such as the Discourse on Goodwill (Karaṇīya-Mettā Sutta), the Discourse on Treasures (Ratana Sutta), and the Discourse on Protection (Maṅgala Sutta). It also contains two sets of poems considered to be deep expressions of advanced points of doctrine: the Aṭṭhaka Vagga, on the theme of non-clinging, and the Pārāyana Vagga, in which the Buddha answers questions posed by adepts in concentration practice. The collection also contains three suttas with rare biographical information of the Buddha’s early life.

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Theragāthā & Therīgāthā

Poems of the Elders: An Anthology from the Theragāthā & Therīgāthā, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 21, 2021) This is an anthology consisting of 97 poems from the Theragāthā (Poems of the Elder Monks) and 34 from the Therīgāthā (Poems of the Elder Nuns). These texts are, respectively, the eighth and ninth texts in the Khuddaka Nikāya, or Collection of Short Pieces, the last collection of the Sutta Piṭaka in the Pāli Canon.

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Vinaya

The Buddhist Monastic Code

The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II, translated and explained by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 1, 2022) This two-volume set attempts to give an organized, detailed account of the Vinaya training rules and the traditions that have grown up around them. The Pāṭimokkha training rules as explained in the Suttavibhaṅga are the topic of the first volume; the rules found in the Khandhakas, the topic of the second. The book as a whole is aimed primarily at those whose lives are affected by the rules—bhikkhus who live by them, and other people who have dealings with the bhikkhus — so that they will be able to find gathered in one location as much essential information as possible on just what the rules do and do not entail. Students of Early Buddhism, Theravadin history, or contemporary Theravadin issues should also find this book interesting, as should anyone who is serious about the practice of the Dhamma and wants to see how the Buddha worked out the ramifications of Dhamma practice in daily life.

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The Question of Bhikkhunī Ordination

The Question of Bhikkhunī Ordination, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 17, 2021) A complete collection of Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu’s writings since 2009 on the validity of recent attempts to reinstitute bhikkhunī ordination.

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The Mahāvagga

The Mahāvagga. A translation, side-by-side with the original Pāli, of one of two books from the Vinaya Piṭaka explaining the rules and protocols concerning the daily life of the Saṅgha.

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More Vinaya

Additional Vinaya Materials. The Bhikkhu and Bhikkhuni Pāṭimokkhas, essays on Vinaya issues, and translations of the Vinaya Piṭaka.

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Thai Forest Ajaans

Ajaan Mun Bhūridatto

A Heart Released: The Teachings of Phra Ajaan Mun, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Much has been written about the life of Phra Ajaan Mun Bhūridatta Thera (1870-1949), the founder of the Thai Forest Tradition, but very little was recorded of his teachings during his lifetime. (Most of his teachings he left in the form of people: the students whose lives were profoundly shaped by the experience of living and practicing meditation under his guidance.) The first piece translated here, A Heart Released (Muttodaya), is a record of passages from his sermons, made during the years 1944-45 by two monks who were staying under his guidance. The second, The Ever-present Truth, is drawn from notes of Ajaan Mun’s sermons taken by two of his students during the last two years of his life, covering a wide range of topics, including some standard accounts of the Buddha’s life. And the third, the poem The Ballad of Liberation from the Khandhas, was found after his death among the few papers he left behind.

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Ajaan Dune Atulo

Gifts He Left Behind: The Dhamma Legacy of Phra Ajaan Dune Atulo, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) This book is a compilation of Ajaan Dune’s short teachings—pure truths at the highest level, lessons and admonishments he gave his students, answers to questions, and passages from the Buddha’s words in the Canon that he always liked to quote. Also included are the events, locations, and people who were involved, to help make the passages easier to understand and more inviting to read. Translated from the Thai by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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Phra Ajaan Funn Ācāro

Come & See, by Phra Ajaan Funn Ācāro. (revised July 8, 2019) Three Dhamma talks on the importance of being in touch with the truths inside—the truths of the body and of the mind—so that the mind can be trained to bring about happiness, both on the personal and on the social level. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo

Keeping the Breath in Mind

Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samadhi, by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) A fundamental guidebook for breath meditation and practicing the jhānas.

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Starting Out Small

Starting Out Small: A Collection of Talks for Beginning Meditators, by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) In this collection of talks Ajaan Lee covers the sorts of questions that occur to people new to meditation—Why meditate? How should I meditate? And why in that particular way?—and in his own style he provided not only straightforward answers to these questions but also vivid analogies.

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Food for Thought

Food for Thought: Eighteen Talks on the Training of the Heart, by Phra Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) The title of this collection reflects how it invites the reader to fill in the spaces suggested by the talks to reflect on how the images and teachings they contain relate to one another and to one’s own situation in life.

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Inner Strength

Inner Strength & Parting Gifts: Talks by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) A collection of 20 Dhamma Talks by Ajaan Lee, from the basics of breath meditation to longer talks with extended metaphors on consciousnesses, knowledge and the defilements.

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The Heightened Mind

The Heightened Mind: Dhamma Talks of Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) In previous collections of Ajaan Lee’s talks, the main focus has been on technique. Here the focus is more on attitudes to bring to the practice of concentration. As he once said, the three trainings are like posts supporting a bridge over a river. The posts on the near shore and far—virtue and discernment—are not that hard to set in place, for they lie in shallow water away from the main current of the river. The posts in the middle of the river—concentration—are the ones requiring special effort, and so they need to be treated in depth.

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The Skill of Release

The Skill of Release: Teachings of Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) A selection of Ajaan Lee’s teachings, including a few full talks, some short passages, and sometimes even half-thoughts, if they seemed provocative enough. Although the passages presented here have been arranged so that the book will stand on its own, they are also meant to fill in some of the gaps left by Ajaan Lee’s other writings.

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Autobiography

The Autobiography of Phra Ajaan Lee, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 28, 2020) Phra Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo was one of the foremost teachers in the Thai forest ascetic tradition of meditation founded at the turn of the twentieth century by Phra Ajaan Sao Kantasilo and Phra Ajaan Mun Bhūridatto. His life was short but eventful. Known for his skill as a teacher and his mastery of supranatural powers, he was the first to bring the ascetic tradition out of the forests of the Mekhong basin and into the mainstream of Thai society in central Thailand.

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Craft of the Heart

Craft of the Heart, by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Ajaan Lee’s first, this book is also his most comprehensive, covering all aspects of the path of practice, from taking the five precepts to the attainment of arahantship. Although his later books made further developments in the positions offered here — such as the treatment of breath meditation in Keeping the Breath in Mind — this book remains one of the best introductions to Ajaan Lee’s teachings as a whole.

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Frames of Reference

Frames of Reference, by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (revised Aug. 26, 2020) A practical explanation for meditators of the four frames of reference from the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta. There is an accompanying mp3 audio recording of this book. It is a 66 MB zip archive containing eight mp3 audio files.

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Basic Themes

Basic Themes: Four Treatises on Buddhist Practice, by Phra Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Uniquely among the ajaans in the Thai Wilderness tradition Ajaan Lee composed systematic treatises on the practice. These are valuable documents, giving a wilderness perspective on basic Dhamma topics.

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A Handbook for the Relief of Suffering

A Handbook for the Relief of Suffering : Three Essays by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (published January 13, 2023) A Handbook for the Relief of Suffering consists of three short essays that were meant to be given to hospital patients as food for thought for them to ponder while undergoing treatment.

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Ajaan Mahā Boowa Ñāṇasampanno

Straight from the Heart

Straight from the Heart: Thirteen Talks on the Practice of Meditation, by Venerable Ācariya Mahā Boowa, and translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) The talks in this collection all deal with the practice of meditation, and particularly with the development of discernment. These talks were originally given for the benefit of a follower of Venerable Ācariya Mahā Boowa who had contracted cancer of the bone marrow and had come to practice meditation at Wat Pa Baan Taad in order to contend with the pain of the disease and the fact of her approaching death.

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Things as They Are

Things as They Are: A Collection of Talks on the Training of the Mind, by Venerable Ācariya Mahā Boowa, and translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) These talks were originally given to the monks at Venerable Ācariya Mahā Boowa’s monastery in Thailand. They deal in part with issues particular to Buddhist monks, but they also contain much that is of more general interest. Since the monks being addressed were at different stages in their practice, each talk deals with issues on a variety of levels. Thus there should be something of use for every reader interested in the training of the mind.

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Ajaan Fuang Jotiko

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Ajaan Suwat Suvaco

Fistful of Sand

Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment: Teachings of Phra Ajaan Suwat Suvaco, translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) In 1989 Ajaan Suwat, the founder of Metta Forest Monastery, guided a meditation retreat for Westerners at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. Fistful of Sand contains the translations of the Dhamma talks and question and answer sessions from that retreat. The Light of Discernment is a collection of translations of Dhamma talks by Luang Pu Suwat given at Metta Forest Monastery.

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The Intelligent Heart

The Intelligent Heart : Five Dhamma Talks, by Phra Ajaan Suwat Suvaco. (revised July 28, 2020) A collection of Dhamma talks published to commemorate Ajaan Suwat’s 100th birthday.

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Ajaan Chah Subhaddo

Still Flowing Water

Still Flowing Water: Eight Dhamma Talks, by Venerable Ajahn Chah, and translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) A collection of eight new or significantly revised translations of Ajahn Chah’s Dhamma talks by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. Two of them have never been translated before into English, and four of them are based on entirely new Thai transcriptions of the best and most complete source recordings available.

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In Simple Terms

In Simple Terms: 108 Dhamma Similes, by Venerable Ajahn Chah, and translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Ajahn Chah was a master at using the apt and unusual simile to explain points of Dhamma. The translations of these similes have been polished as little as possible, for their unpolished nature is precisely what reveals unexpected layers of meaning. This book is a companion to It’s Like This.

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It's Like This

It’s Like This: 108 Dhamma Similes, by Venerable Ajahn Chah, and translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Ajahn Chah was a master at using the apt and unusual simile to explain points of Dhamma. He was especially talented at exploiting the open-ended nature of the simile - using a particular image to make one point in one context, and a very different point in another. This book is a companion to In Simple Terms.

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Upāsikā Kee Nanayon

An Unentangled Knowing: The Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Lay Woman, by Upāsikā Kee Nanayon, and translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) A collection of Dhamma talks from the foremost woman Dhamma teacher in modern Thailand. There is an accompanying mp3 audio recording of this book. It is a 336 MB zip archive with twenty-nine mp3s.

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Other Teachings by Thai Ajaans. A number of translations by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu in pdf format of teachings by well-respected Ajaans of the Thai Forest Tradition: Chao Khun Nararatana, Phra Ajaan Thate, Phra Ajaan Khamdee, Phra Ajaan Phut, and Phra Ajaan Fuang.

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Dhamma Talks

The Meditations Series

Meditations

Meditations. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 1996-2003.

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Meditations 2

Meditations 2. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2000-2005.

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Meditations 3

Meditations 3. (revised July 28, 2020) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2001-2005.

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Meditations 4

Meditations 4. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2004-2008.

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Meditations 5

Meditations 5. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2006-2009.

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Meditations 6

Meditations 6. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2009-2011.

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Meditations 7

Meditations 7. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2012-2015.

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Meditations 8

Meditations 8. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2014-2016 primarily.

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Meditations 9

Meditations 9. (published Feb. 13, 2019) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2015-2018.

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Meditations 10

Meditations 10. (published Feb. 13, 2021) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery primarily from 2018-2019.

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Meditations 11

Meditations 11. (published June 6, 2022) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery primarily from 2020-2021.

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Gather ’Round the Breath

Gather ’Round the Breath : Dhamma Talks Cited in With Each & Every Breath, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised June 3, 2021) A collection of 115 Dhamma Talks. A companion volume to Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu’s introduction to breath meditation, With Each & Every Breath, presenting in sequence all of the talks referenced in it.

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The Noble Eightfold Path

The Noble Eightfold Path: 13 Meditation Talks, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 28, 2020) The Noble Eightfold Path forms the framework for all the Buddha’s teachings. It was the first topic he mentioned in his first sermon, and the last topic he mentioned in his last. These edited transcripts correspond to the 13 Noble Eightfold Path mp3s available on the Talk Collections page.

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Bases for Success

Bases for Success: Six Dhamma Talks on the Four Iddhipādas, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (published January 24, 2020) Six talks addressing the most neglected of the teachings that the Buddha said were central to maintaining his message.

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In the Elephant’s Footprint

In the Elephant’s Footprint, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Three Dhamma talks, given at Wat Palelai in Singapore, on the need to put the four noble truths ahead of the three characteristics when making merit, practicing concentration, and developing discernment. Videos of these talks are available via the dhammatalks.org youtube channel.

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Factors for Awakening

Factors for Awakening : Ten Dhamma Talks. (revised July 7, 2019) The seven factors for awakening (bojjhanga) are a set of qualities explaining how right view helps to develop right mindfulness into right concentration.

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The ePublished Series

ePublished Dhamma Talks: I

ePublished Dhamma Talks, vol. I. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Transcribed Dhamma talks by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu from 1995-2004 similar to those in the Meditations series, but which were never published as a book.

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ePublished Dhamma Talks: II

ePublished Dhamma Talks, vol. II. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Transcribed Dhamma talks by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu from 2002-2008 similar to those in the Meditations series, but which were never published as a book.

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ePublished Dhamma Talks: III

ePublished Dhamma Talks, vol. III. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Transcribed Dhamma talks by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu from 2003-2011 similar to those in the Meditations series, but which were never published as a book.

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Individual Transcriptions

Individual Talk Transcriptions. Dhamma talk transcriptions are also available from the mp3 audio download page where links to pdf files appear next to their respective mp3 source files. You also might want to use the new search function on the site (‘more > search’ on the navigation menu). This uses the Duck Duck Go search engine to search dhammatalks.org and allows you to search the content of all the pdf transcriptions for particular topics of interest.

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Essays

Noble Strategy

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The Karma of Questions

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Purity of Heart

Purity of Heart, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 28, 2020) The third collection of essays by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. Includes: Purity of Heart, Faith in Awakening, Untangling the Present, Pushing the Limits, All About Change, The Roots of Buddhist Romanticism, Right & Wrong Reconciliation, Getting the Message, Educating Compassion, Jhana Not by the Numbers, The Integrity of Emptiness, A Verb for Nirvana, The Practice in a Word.

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Head & Heart Together

Head & Heart Together, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Aug. 26, 2020) This is a revised edition to the fourth collection of essays. Significant changes were made to the essay ‘Mindfulness Defined,’ and Pāli diacritics were added throughout. The essays included are: The Lessons of Gratitude, No Strings Attached, The Power of Judgment, Think like a Thief, Strength Training for the Mind, Mindfulness Defined, The Joy of Effort, Head & Heart Together, The Wisdom of the Ego, Ignorance, Food for Awakening, The Buddha via the Bible, and Freedom from Buddha Nature.

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Beyond All Directions

Beyond All Directions, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) This fifth collection of essays includes: Beyond All Directions, Lost in Quotation, An All-around Eye, Metta Means Goodwill, On Denying Defilement, Virtue Without Attachment, The Limits of the Unlimited Attitudes, The Essence of the Dhamma, The Middles of the Middle Way, and The Arrows of Thinking.

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Noble & True

Noble & True, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) This sixth collection of essays includes: Danger Is Normal, What’s Noble about the Noble Truths?, Truths with Consequences, We Are Not One, Under Your Skin, Silence Isn’t Mandatory, The Not-self Strategy, and The Buddha’s Last Word.

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First Things First

First Things First, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) The seventh collection of essays. The essays included are: Honest to Goodness, Did the Buddha Teach Free Will?, In the Eyes of the Wise, First Things First, The Karma of Now, The Streams of Emotions, Worlds & Their Cessation, Wisdom over Justice, All Winners, No Losers, How Pointy is One-pointedness?, The Limits of Description, and The Names for Nirvana.

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The Mirror of Insight

The Mirror of Insight : The Buddha as Strategist, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 28, 2020) A short explanation of the Buddha’s teachings on the topic of insight and how those teachings should be strategically applied in practice. Included is an analysis of the different meanings of the word, saṅkhāra, fabrication, and the various ways in which fabrications are viewed, used, and abandoned along the path. The traditional two-truth theory of how the Buddha taught is also called into question.

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Along the Way

Along the Way, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (published Jan. 21, 2022) The eighth collection of essays: Safety in a Duality, Dhamma Is What Dhamma Does, Becoming a True Person, Happiness as a Skill, Wise Enough to Care, An Arrow in the Heart, Meditators at Work, Unhindered at Death, Clinging & the End of Clinging, The Buddha’s Rx, The Logic of Not-self, and The Dhamma Eye.

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Other Essays

Other Essays. Essays by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu that have appeared in various Buddhist publications, but which have not yet been included in a collection.

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Study Guides

Non-Violence

Non-violence: A Study Guide Based on Early Buddhist Teachings, translated and with an introduction by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 28, 2020) Passages from the Pāli Canon on the topic of putting an end to the causes of conflict and violence.

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Beyond Coping

Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging, Illness, Death, & Separation, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 21, 2021) Passages from the Pāli Canon arranged in five sections: the Buddha as physician; diagnoses of the conditions of aging, etc.; the conditions as motivations for heedfulness and diligence; specific remedies; and examples set by the Buddha and his disciples.

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The Buddha Smiles

The Buddha Smiles: Humor in the Pāli Canon, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 28, 2020) An analysis of the style and function of humor in the Pāli Canon along with translated passages from the Canon.

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A Burden Off the Mind

A Burden off the Mind, compiled by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) A study guide on the five khandhas (aggregates) emphasizing the importance of bringing the right questions to the teachings on the khandhas. If you use them to define what you are as a person, you tie yourself down to no purpose. But if you use them to put an end to suffering, your questions fall away and you’re free.

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Desires : A Study Guide

Desires : A Study Guide, compiled by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised May 13, 2023) The path of practice that takes you to nibbāna is rooted in skillful desires.

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Discernment

Discernment: The Buddha’s Strategies for Happiness II, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) This study guide is an introduction to the Buddha’s teachings on how to use discernment to find an unending happiness. The book consists of passages from the Pāli Canon and a substantial introduction by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu providing context. This book is a companion to Merit.

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Into the Stream

Into the Stream: A Study Guide on the First Stage of Awakening, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) For your practice to lead to Awakening, you must develop reliable standards for judging — which practices lead to stream entry, what indicates a true experience of it, and what its necessary results are.

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A Meditator’s Tools

A Meditator’s Tools, compiled by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) This is a study guide on the ten recollections, a set of meditation themes that highlight the positive role that memory and thought play in training the mind. They employ memory to sensitize the mind to the need for training, to induce feelings of confidence and well-being conducive for concentration, to keep the topics of concentration in mind, to produce tranquility and insight, and to incline the mind toward the deathless when tranquility and insight have grown sufficiently strong.

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Merit

Merit: The Buddha’s Strategies for Happiness I, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) This study guide is an introduction to the Buddha’s teachings on merit. The practice of merit (puñña) is often discounted by western Buddhists, yet the Buddha warns that higher levels cannot be practiced safely without merit as the foundation. This book is a companion to Discernment.

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Mindful of the Body

Mindful of the Body: A Study Guide, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) This study guide focuses on the primary sutta in the Pāli Canon dealing with the contemplation of the body: The Discourse on Mindfulness Immersed in the Body (Majjhima Nikāya 119). Early Buddhism teaches that the body can be used to develop mindfulness and concentration, which in turn can be used to free the mind of its attachments to the body. Then the mind and body can live in peace.

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Noble Conversation : A Study Guide

Noble Conversation : A Study Guide, compiled by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (published May 4, 2023) A study guide on the ten ideal topics of conversation among meditators listed in the Pali Canon.

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Recognizing the Dhamma

Recognizing the Dhamma: A Study Guide, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) The Buddha taught eight principles for recognizing what qualifies as Dhamma and Vinaya, and what does not. They form the standards against which the validity of any interpretation of the Dhamma or Vinaya must be judged. They are an indispensible guide in solitary practice and illustrate the application of his teachings in the well-known Kalama Sutta.

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The Sublime Attitudes

The Sublime Attitudes: A Study Guide on the Brahmaviharas, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) The sublime attitudes (brahmaviharas) are the Buddha’s primary heart teachings—the ones that connect most directly with our desire for true happiness. They’re the qualities of heart that motivated the Buddha to find awakening and then to teach the path of awakening to others. At the same time, they function as part of the path itself.

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Ten Perfections

Ten Perfections: A Study Guide, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) For people in the modern world facing the issue of how to practice the Dhamma in daily life, the ten perfections provide a useful framework for how to do it. When you view life as an opportunity to develop these ten qualities—generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, good will, and equanimity—you develop a fruitful attitude toward your daily activities so that any skillful activity or relationship, undertaken wisely and in a balanced way, becomes part of the practice.

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Treatises

The Buddha’s Teachings

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Buddhist Romanticism

Buddhist Romanticism, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 28, 2020) An in-depth study of the pervasive influence of early Romantic thought in shaping the way Buddhism is taught in the West, and of the practical consequences of following the Romantics rather than the Buddha in approaching the problem of suffering and stress.

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Four Noble Truths

Four Noble Truths. (revised May 20, 2023) An introduction to the Buddha’s central teaching, the four noble truths, explaining them in the context of the Buddha’s statements about truth in general, and as the context for all his other teachings.

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Karma Q & A

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The Mind like Fire Unbound

The Mind like Fire Unbound: An Image in the Early Buddhist Discourses, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Western Buddhists have usually understood the Buddha’s metaphor of nibbana (Sanskrit, nirvana) as “extinguishing” or “extinction”. This book, which includes an essay and readings from the Pāli Canon, examines ancient Indian theories on the mechanics of fire in order to understand the Buddha’s metaphor in its original context.

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Noble Warrior

Noble Warrior : A Life of the Buddha Compiled from the Pāli Canon, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu & Khematto Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) A biography of the Buddha using passages collected exclusively from the Pāli Canon. The translated passages are interspersed with a minimum of explanation, allowing the compilers of the Canon to speak for themselves. While the passages in the Canon are not sufficient for a strictly chronological account, they do contain ample material for a thematic one that highlights the Buddha’s three main accomplishments: 1) finding the path and attaining awakening, 2) teaching that path to his contemporaries, establishing a living apprenticeship for awakening, and 3) establishing the Dhamma and Vinaya to give structure to that apprenticeship so that the True Dhamma would last for many generations. Particular attention is given to the many accounts of the Buddha’s awakening and the role that his awakening played in shaping the Dhamma he taught.

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On the Path

On the Path: An Anthology on the Noble Eightfold Path drawn from the Pāli Canon, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) This book aims to provide a well-rounded picture of the noble eightfold path for people who are interested in taking guidance from the earliest extant records of the Buddha’s teachings on how to reach the end of suffering and stress. The format is that of a discussion and analysis of each element of the path followed by pertinent sutta excerpts, similar to Wings to Awakening. The cross-references to the suttas are also hyperlinked to the new sutta pages on this site.

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The Paradox of Becoming

The Paradox of Becoming, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) Although “becoming” is one of the most important concepts in the Buddha’s teachings, there is no full-scale treatment of it in English. This book attempts to fill that lack.

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Refuge

Refuge: An Introduction to the Buddha, Dhamma, & Sangha, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised cover art Jan. 12, 2023) A short introduction to the basic principles of Buddhism. Included are readings drawn from the earliest Buddhist texts and essays explaining aspects of the Triple Refuge that often provoke questions in those who are new to the Buddha’s teachings.

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Right Mindfulness

Right Mindfulness: Memory & Ardency on the Buddhist Path, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) For the past several decades, a growing flood of books, articles, and teachings has advanced theories about the practice of mindfulness which are highly questionable and—for anyone hoping to realize the end of suffering—seriously misleading. The main aim of this book is to show that the practice of mindfulness is most fruitful when informed by the Buddha’s own definition of right mindfulness and his explanations of its role on the path.

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The Shape of Suffering

The Shape of Suffering: A Study of Dependent Co-arising, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) An explanation of dependent co-arising through the analogy of feeding and pulling from the vocabulary of complex, non-linear systems.

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Skill in Questions

Skill in Questions: How the Buddha Taught, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) The content of this treatise has not changed, but all three eBook versions have been recreated from scratch to look and function better as well as provide Pāli diacriticals and hyper-linking. If you already have the previous substandard eBook versions in your library, you will want to replace them with these.

This is a treatise about discernment in action, centered on the Buddha’s strategic use of discernment in framing and responding to questions.

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The Truth of Rebirth

The Truth of Rebirth: And Why It Matters for Buddhist Practice, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) A short treatise explaining that the Buddha did not teach the doctrine of rebirth because he was blindly following the cultural norms of his time. Instead, our resistance to this teaching is pointing to cultural biases of our own that impede progress on the Path.

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Undaunted

Undaunted : the Buddha’s Teachings on Aging, Illness, Death, & the Deathless. (published August 26, 2022) How lessons drawn from the Buddha’s awakening can give guidance in how best to deal with the big problems of life: aging, illness, death, grief, and giving care to those who are sick or dying.

There is an accompanying mp3 audio recording of this book. It is a 379 MB zip archive containing eleven mp3 audio files.

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The Wings to Awakening

The Wings to Awakening: An Anthology from the Pāli Canon, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 13, 2021) The 37 Wings to Awakening were the Buddha’s own summary of his teachings. This book contains sutta translations organized by topic with relevant discussion by the author. Internal cross-references are hyper-linked in the ebook versions, and in the online version external ones, i.e. to the Suttas, are as well.

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With Each & Every Breath

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Retreats

Sublime Determinations

Sublime Determinations: a Retreat on the Brahmavihāras. (published July 13, 2022) A transcript from a retreat held in conjunction with the Sociedade Vipassana de Meditação of Brasília on the topic of the four sublime attitudes (brahmavihāras): unlimited goodwill, unlimited compassion, unlimited empathetic joy, and unlimited equanimity.

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Good Heart, Good Mind

Good Heart, Good Mind : The Practice of the Ten Perfections, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Sept. 2, 2020) A series of talks given at two retreats—one in France, the other in Brazil—on the topic of the ten perfections (pāramī): giving, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, goodwill, and equanimity. These perfections provide an excellent framework for understanding how to give meaningful and satisfying purpose to everyday lay life in a way that’s conducive both to genuine goodness and to genuine happiness. As they develop, they foster qualities both of a good mind—wise in understanding cause and effect—and a good heart: purposeful, well-intentioned, and strong.

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The Five Faculties

The Five Faculties: Putting Wisdom in Charge of the Mind, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) In May of 2017, members of Le Refuge, a Buddhist group located near Marseille, invited me to lead a nine-day retreat on the topic of the five faculties (indrīya): conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment. These are a set of qualities that the Buddha numbered among his most important teachings. When put in charge of the mind, they lead all the way to awakening. Taken together, they deal primarily with the practice of meditation, which makes them a good framework for a meditation retreat. However, the first faculty—conviction—focuses on questions of self and world: what kinds of happiness you believe you are capable of attaining, along with what kind of happiness you believe can be found in the world. This means that the five faculties also provide an excellent framework for covering the entire practice of the Buddha’s teachings, both on retreat and in the world at large.

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The Karma of Mindfulness

The Karma of Mindfulness: The Buddha’s Teachings on Sati and Kamma, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 21, 2021) A series of talks on the relationship between the two central Buddhist concepts of karma (kamma) and mindfulness (sati). The talks show how the Buddha’s teachings on kamma—far from being irrelevant to the practice of mindfulness—actually provide the essential ground for understanding how mindfulness best functions in developing the mind for the purpose of putting an end to suffering and stress. The series of talks was given on an eight-day retreat at Le Refuge, a Buddhist group located in Auriol, near Marseille, France.

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Selves & Not-self

Selves & Not-self: The Buddhist Teaching on Anatta, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised Feb. 21, 2021) A series of eight talks on anatta, or not-self, given at a ten-day retreat in Provence, France. Also there are relevant selections from the Pāli Canon at end of the book.

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Chanting

A Chanting Guide

A Chanting Guide: Pāli Passages with English Translations, by The Dhammayut Order in the United States of America. (revised cover art July 9, 2021) This expanded version includes dozens of additional chants. Audio (.mp3) recordings by the monks of Mettā Forest Monastery of a number of chants are available on the chanting page.

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The Divine Mantra

The Divine Mantra, by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) The Divine Mantra is a chant on the six properties that brings benefits to those who memorize and recite it, inasmuch as it deals directly with matters that exist in each of us, since, once we are born, we all dwell in the six properties. An audio recording of this chant is available from the chanting page, but it tracks the slightly different ordering of the Ajaan Fuang Version below.

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The Divine Mantra (Ajaan Fuang Version)

The Divine Mantra (Ajaan Fuang Version), by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) An audio recording of this version of the chant is available from the chanting page.

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Metta Luang

Metta Luang. (published November 7, 2024) A chant to aid in developing the sublime attitudes (brahmavihāras): limitless goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity.

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Tone Rules

Tone Rules: for Pāli Chanting in the Thai Tradition. The tone rules for Pāli Chanting in the Thai Tradition reflect the tones of the Thai language when reading Pāli written in Thai script. This short guide supplements the Pāli pronunciation rules at the beginning of A Chanting Guide.

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