Ajahn Jayanto’s Dharma Talks

Born in Boston in 1967, Ajahn Jayanto grew up in Newton and attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, during which time a period of world travel kindled a great interest in the spiritual life. A meditation class at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center led him to live for a while at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he made plans to join the monastic community of Ajahn Sumedho as a postulant at Amaravati Monastery in England in 1989. Taking bhikkhu (monk) ordination at the related Cittaviveka Monastery in 1991, he trained there and at Aruna Ratanagiri Monastery until 1997, at which point he embarked on a period of practice in Thailand and other Asian Buddhist countries. He returned to the UK in 2006, where he lived at Amaravati until moving to Temple in 2014. Since 2009 Ajahn Jayanto has helped to lead the efforts to establish a branch monastery in New England, and he now serves as abbot of Temple Forest Monastery.

2018-09-09 Afternoon Sit 50:41
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Dukkha, the Suffering that Leads to the End of Suffering
2017-04-12 This Precious Life 44:04
General reflections on practice.
Insight Meditation Society – Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2014-04-18 Heart Body 42:36
Reflections on body contemplation and loving kindness.
Insight Meditation Society – Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2014-04-15 Movement, Mirrors and Balance 49:47
Finding balance and consistency in using the stuff of life to learn how the heart moves and deepens the practice
Insight Meditation Society – Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2011-05-07 Bring Daily Life Into Practice 58:46
Reflections on themes of the retreat in the context of its ending; ways we can use the teachings practically in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society – Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2011-05-04 Being With It 69:00
Bring kindness to our practice by remembering that we care – and that we practice in relationship to ourselves and others.
Insight Meditation Society – Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2008-05-09 Taking The Practice Home 55:12
Tips towards expanding our practice to encompass the whole of our lives.
Insight Meditation Society – Retreat Center :  Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat