Ayya Dhammadīpā’s Dharma Talks

I aspire to offer teachings that are encouraging, that support people to discover how they are an expression of Dhamma. I’m particularly interested in the interplay between stilling and settling the mind, and opening to greater kindness and generosity of heart.

2021-08-25 Morning meditation on the 6 sense bases 40:48 Download Listen Dharma Seed

2021-07-01 Anxiety Responsive Care (ARC) 8:03 Download Listen A standing guided meditation for moments of high anxiety Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-21 Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Fear and the Five Aggregates 30:09 Download Listen Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-05-07 The Buddha Has a Teaching for Them 21:46 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Protective Meditations: Developing Courage to Meet the Way Things Truly Are

2021-05-06 In a World Full of Mixed Messages 27:45 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Protective Meditations: Developing Courage to Meet the Way Things Truly Are

2021-05-06 Filling the mind with metta 44:06 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Protective Meditations: Developing Courage to Meet the Way Things Truly Are

2021-05-05 The Next Breath is Not Guaranteed 43:49 Download Listen Mindfulness of the breath, endings, and the nearness of death Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Four Protective Meditations: Developing Courage to Meet the Way Things Truly Are

2021-01-05 El Dharma Busca El Dharma 36:03 Download Listen una plática que trata del Sendero y la vida monástica para las mujeres Budistas Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-01-02 Awakening Within the Light of Metta 45:02 Download Listen A guided meditation, cultivation of the seven factors of awakening within the meditation on radiating metta in all directions Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery :  New Year Retreat 2020/21

2021-01-01 Morning Reflection on Mudita 21:00 Download Listen A short talk on empathetic joy in the natural world, and joy as a key aspect of the Buddha’s teachings Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery :  New Year Retreat 2020/21

2020-12-31 Bright Mind of Compassion 39:28 Download Listen A guided meditation on karuna, mudita, upekha Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery :  New Year Retreat 2020/21

2020-12-31 The Power of Loving Kindness 46:44 Download Listen A Dharma talk on metta as well as karuna, mudita, and upekkha, their inter-relationships, leading to jhana and transformation of the karmic stream. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery :  New Year Retreat 2020/21

2020-12-31 Reflection on the Four Elements as Food 8:54 Download Listen Meal reflection Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery :  New Year Retreat 2020/21

2020-12-31 Simple Compassion Meditation 12:29 Download Listen A guided meditation using brief phrases of compassion and the wish for beings to be safe Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery :  New Year Retreat 2020/21

2020-12-21 The Buddha’s Difficult Conversations 37:51 Download Listen Stories from the Buddha’s life as pointers for how to face failure, doubt, and have difficult conversations with faith, investigation, and compassion. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-12-12 Returning to Our Ancestral Roots 37:44 Download Listen Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-12-03 Like a Walk to the Park 1:24:40 Download Listen A guided meditation and Dhamma talk hosted by the West Seattle Sangha, Eastside Insight Sangha, and Seattle Friends of the Dhamma. The talk is on the role of desire on the Path and supports for maintaining the practice over time Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-11-18 The Royal Elephant’s Courage 46:15 Download Listen A Dharma talk given to the Sierra Insight Sangha on the sutta of the Royal Bull Elephant, Anguttara Nikaya 4.114, on listening, unwholesome mind states, patience, and intention. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-11-07 Grounded in Skin, Flesh and Bones 17:17 Download Listen A guided meditation on the earth element, part of a day of retreat online, hosted by Red Clay Sangha Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-11-07 A Platonic Relationship with Body and Mind 39:56 Download Listen A Dhamma talk on the 6 sense fields, part of a day of retreat online, hosted by Red Clay Sangha Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-11-07 Expansive Six Sense Fields 54:51 Download Listen A guided meditation on the six sense bases, part of a day of retreatonline, hosted by Red Clay Sangha Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-09-20 The Mind That Knows Itself 47:33 Download Listen A Dhamma talk on coping with environmental stress by practicing the third foundation of mindfulness – mindfulness of mind. This talk was given as part of the regular monthly series of talks to the Berkeley area Aloka Vihara community. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-09-20 How Captivating the Moment Can Be 34:43 Download Listen A Dhamma talk on the joy of practicing internal and external mindfulness. This talk was given as part of the regular monthly series of talks to the San Francisco Dharma Collective. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-09-07 Manifesting Metta in All Directions 27:19 Download Listen A guided meditation offered as part of the Sunday evening program of Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group (SBMG) Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-09-07 The Immeasurable Mind of Metta 56:54 Download Listen A talk given as part of the Sunday program at Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group (SBMG) Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-07-04 Celebrando Asalha Puja 54:32 Download Listen Homenaje al Buddha, refugio en las tres joyas de Buddha, Dhamma y Sangha, los cinco preceptos laicos del Budismo Theravada, y una plática acerca del Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, lo que hoy en día entendemos como el primer discurso del Buddha. Parte de un programa especial el 4 de julio, 2020, el día de la luna llena de ese mes. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-27 Inner and Outer Interact at the Point of Contact 32:25 Download Listen Guided meditation on the 6 senses, contact, impermanence, ends with chant of the 5 subjects for frequent recollection and a traditional Theravada blessing in English, chanting together with Ayya Santacitta. Offered as part of an online weekend retreat with White Heron Sangha. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-21 Investigation of the Breath 50:14 Download Listen a guided meditation given as part of the Third Sunday program with the Aloka Vihara community that usually meets at Berkeley Buddhist Monastery. June 2020 Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-21 Kamma Matters 46:38 Download Listen This is a talk on karma, the 5 precepts, right speech, Black Lives Matter, and the #MeToo movement. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-21 Four Elements in Every Cell of the Body 21:04 Download Listen A guided meditation given as part of the Third Sunday program hosted by San Francisco Dharma Collective. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-21 Know the Right Time for Right Speech 28:49 Download Listen This talk was given as part of the Third Sunday program hosted by San Francisco Dharma Collective. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-09 The Four Foundations Are a Complete Support (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 12:17 Download Listen Contemplation of dhammas, 7 factors of awakening, bringing all the foundations of mindfulness to bear on the Path Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The First Free Women – Original Poetry Inspired By the Early Buddhist Nuns

2020-06-08 Immeasurable Metta for Nourishing the Heart (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:40 Download Listen Guided meditation on radiating metta Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The First Free Women – Original Poetry Inspired By the Early Buddhist Nuns

2020-06-07 Feelings at the Six Sense Gates (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:20 Download Listen Guided meditation on vedana (feeling tone) as it is experienced with sense contact Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The First Free Women – Original Poetry Inspired By the Early Buddhist Nuns

2020-06-05 Fully Embodied Breath (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:53 Download Listen Detailed posture instructions, whole body awareness, in and out breath. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The First Free Women – Original Poetry Inspired By the Early Buddhist Nuns

2020-05-23 Wondrous Feeling 42:58 Download Listen Exploring how mindfulness and investigation of feeling tone is woven into many frameworks of practice given by the Buddha – the 5 aggregates, the 4 foundations of mindfulness, the 12 fold chain of causation, the 4 Noble Truths. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-04-18 This is The Whole World’s Problem 32:35 Download Listen why and how the Dhamma addresses anxiety about survival, six sense functions, seven awakening factors, Bojjhanga paritta, parenting, pandemic Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-01-30 Thought After Thought of Freedom Edited 16:38 Download Listen This thought has been edited for clarity. ~ How to practice with thoughts so that they become thoughts of freedom, five indriya, faculties, poem from The First Free Women, offered at the Saranaloka New Year’s Retreat 2019/2020 Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-01-29 The Six Senses Demonstrate Three Dhammas 23:56 Download Listen A guided meditation on the six sense functions and the way in which they demonstrate the three seals of reality – impermanence, suffering, and non-self. Offered at the Saranaloka New year’s Retreat 2019/2020 Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-01-03 Like Any Other Day Edited 38:33 Download Listen This talk has been edited for clarity. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-12-04 Worthy of Waking Up 47:13 Download Listen a talk given to the Sierra Insight Sangha Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-12-01 La sabiduría de reconocer el sufrimiento 40:06 Download Listen La sabiduría de reconocer el sufrimiento, una plática en español, ofrecido a la comunidad de Montaña Despierta en Xalapa, Veracruz, México como parte de un retiro sobre el tema de los 7 factores de la iluminación Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-12-01 Intimidad con la respiración 16:55 Download Listen Intimidad con la respiración, una meditación guiada en español, ofrecido a la comunidad de Montaña Despierta en Xalapa, Veracruz, México como parte de un retiro sobre los 7 factores de la iluminación Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-29 Meditación guiada sobre los 6 sentidos 17:17 Download Listen Meditación guiada sobre los 6 sentidos en español, ofrecido a la comunidad de Montaña Despierta en Xalapa, Veracruz, México Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-28 Meditación guiada sobre los cuatro elementos 20:27 Download Listen Meditación guiada sobre los cuatro elementos en español, ofrecido a la comunidad de Montaña Despierta en Xalapa, Veracruz, México Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-25 Encuentro con el Sexto Ancestro 40:55 Download Listen Una plática en español, ofrecido a la comunidad de Montaña Despierta en Xalapa, Veracruz, México Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-09 Metta for a World in Crisis 23:05 Download Listen Context for metta practice in a world full of delusion, guided meditation on loving kindness. Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-08 Metta for Climate Crisis 18:02 Download Listen Guided meditation Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-07 Metta Basics 25:04 Download Listen a guided meditation Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-09-22 The Three Joys of Giving 34:05 Download Listen given at San Francisco Insight sangha Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-09-15 Learning from Mistakes: practicing with the vipallasa in everyday life 29:35 Download Listen a talk given at a non-residential retreat at Dharma Zephyr Insight sangha in Carson City, NV Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-09-15 Loving Kindness guided meditation – metta 11:51 Download Listen a talk given at a non-residential retreat at Dharma Zephyr Insight sangha in Carson City, NV Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-09-14 Beginning, Middle and End: a guided meditation on breath 10:03 Download Listen a talk given at a non-residential retreat at Dharma Zephyr Insight sangha in Carson City, NV Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-09-14 The Path to Seeing Clearly: working with the vipallasa 35:12 Download Listen a talk given at a non-residential retreat at Dharma Zephyr Insight sangha in Carson City, NV Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-08-10 Rapping on the Coffin 25:23 Download Listen a talk on death and its teaching of radical honesty Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-07-06 Regaining Your Strength – Absence of the Five Hindrances 37:18 Download Listen Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-05-08 Day 3: Evening Dhamma Reflection (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 33:33 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Seven Treasures

2019-05-07 Face to Face with the Present Moment (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:40 Download Listen A talk on the 7 factors of awakening bojihanga Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Seven Treasures

2019-05-06 Let Loving-Kindness Shine (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:32 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Seven Treasures

2019-05-05 Day 1: Morning Dhamma Reflection (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:08 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Seven Treasures

2019-04-20 Not Missing the Opportunity of the Dhamma 30:13 Download Listen Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-01-04 Diving Deeply into the Ocean of Wisdom 33:57 Download Listen New Year’s Retreat Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-31 Breathing in Joy, Breathing out Joy 22:41 Download Listen Guided Meditation New Year’s Retreat Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-30 Enacting the Way of Non-Harming 40:45 Download Listen New Year’s Retreat Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-28 The Four Elements 24:49 Download Listen Guided Meditation New Year’s Retreat Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2018-11-25 Losing Fear of Formations Talk 2 of 2 38:39 Download Listen (Talk 1 here – https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/379/talk/53264/) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-18 Strengthening Our Intention 2 47:24 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-08-04 Recalling the Buddha’s Great Compassion 43:15 Download Listen Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2018-07-21 Not Obscuring Not Knowing 40:15 Download Listen Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2018-06-05 Compassion Sees the Multiplicity of Experience 21:00 Download Listen Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Sacramento Dharma Center)

2017-11-11 Giving and Receiving 28:06 Download Listen Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-10-28 The Abbot Sets the Robe Down 29:02 Download Listen Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-13 Knowing That Fish Need Water 18:51 Download Listen Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2014-11-08 Turning Toward Radiance 22:06 Download Listen Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery