Bhante Khippapanno’s Dharma Talks

Bhante Khippapanno, ordained a Buddhist monk in 1949, practiced vipassana in India and Burma with Dipa Ma, Mahasi Sayadaw and Shwe Oo Min Sayadaw. He founded Jetavana Vihara, Washington, DC, 1982, and Sakyamuni Meditation Center, CA, 1988. He helped establish Phuoc Son Meditation Center, Vietnam, 1994.

2016-06-27 Hand gestures of the Buddha and the Dhamma lessons we can learn from them 1:20:04 Download Listen The earth touching hand gesture and the moment of great enlightenment. The turning of the wheel of Dhamma gesture and the Four Noble truths. More on the inside knowledge is of quote body and mind” and “cause and effect” Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2016 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2016-06-23 Conventional truth an ultimate truth 61:22 Download Listen Noting the intention is one of the ways to develop the insight knowledge of cause and effect. The importance of the wholeheartedness and devotion in Vipassana meditation Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2016 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2016-06-20 The benefits of mindfulness of breathing and the importance of morality 61:06 Download Listen There are five benefits 1. having a peaceful mind 2. subtle and refined breathing 3. not being thirsty, no need of drinking water 4. having happy mind states 5. overcoming unwholesome mental state easily Morality is the foundation of concentration and wisdom Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2016 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2016-06-16 The benefits of the Vipannana meditation 62:08 Download Listen 1. Seeing the mind clearly 2. Keeping the mind in balance 3. Curing ordinary illness 4. Understanding the Dhamma teachings easily, deeply, and thoroughly 5. Not being reborn in the four woeful states…stream entry Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2016 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2016-06-13 Brief introduction to the contemplation of feelings, consciousness, and Dhammas 52:13 Download Listen Emphasis on the contemplations of the five hindrances and the sixth sense bases and six sense objects. Also a brief introduction to the path consciousness and stream entry (sotapana path and fruition) Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2016 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2016-06-09 Mindfulness of feelings and intentions 60:55 Download Listen Right attitude in noting painful sensations. How to note the intentions in daily activities and changing postures Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2016 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2016-06-06 More on the contemplation of the body 60:00 Download Listen What is the meaning of effort, clear comprehension, and mindfulness in the introduction of the Maha Satipatthana Sutta? Emphasis on how to contemplate he air element, vibration, expansion, Motion, movements Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2016 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2016-06-02 Contemplations of the body postures 55:31 Download Listen 32 kinds of eyes– Flesh eyes and wisdom eyes. How to go beyond the forms to observe the four material elements, especially the air or wind element in the body Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2016 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2016-06-02 Introduction to the conditioned world 60:20 Download Listen The conditions for this seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, to take place. The four nutriments for the body and mind: material nutriments, contact, and intention consciousness Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2016 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-30 The Seven Factors of Enlightenment and the Noble Eightfold Path. 1:26:47 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-28 The Five Powers 57:05 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-25 The Five Controlling Faculties. 60:18 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-23 The Four Roads to Power. 57:41 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-21 The Four Right Efforts. 56:48 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-18 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Contemplation of Mind Objects–the Six Sense Bases, Six Sense Objects, Six Consciousnesses. 64:32 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-16 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Contemplation of Mind Objects–the Five Aggregates 56:25 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-14 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Contemplation of Mind Objects (Dhamma)–the Five Hindrances 56:44 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-11 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Contemplation of Consciousness–the Sixteen Kinds of Consciousnesses. 63:22 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-09 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Contemplation of Feelings 58:28 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-07 Dhamma Talk 60:11 Download Listen The Method of True Living–Seeing the Operation of the Body and Mind Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-04 Dhamma Talk 58:14 Download Listen The Thirty Seven Factors of Enlightenment and The True Freedom of the Mind Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-02 Dhamma Talk 54:30 Download Listen Four Kinds of People and Three Kinds of Patients. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-02 Further Instructions 54:11 Download Listen Contemplation of the Body and Mind: The Four Elements, Space, and the Mind. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2014-07-01 Welcome talk 43:50 Download Listen Morality: The Initial Step on the Noble Eight-fold Path. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2014 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-30 Questions and Answers 1:50:21 Download Listen Coping with greed and aversion, contemplation of visual objects, standing posture, Issues of inequality of monks and nuns in the sangha. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-29 Questions and Answers 67:08 Download Listen How to address a Dharma teacher, different techniques in the Four Foundations Of Mindfulness Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-27 Questions and Answers 68:11 Download Listen Different gestures of the Buddha, The four elements, Bhante’s learning of the contemplation of consciousness. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-25 Questions and Answers 67:13 Download Listen Right attitude, dangers of sensual desire. How to note during walking meditation. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-23 Questions and Answers 1:15:41 Download Listen Pilgrimage to the Buddhist Sacred Sites Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-20 Questions and Answers 64:13 Download Listen Mindfulness and thinking, momentary concentration, kamma, how to develop the five controlling faculties. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-18 Questions and Answers 59:00 Download Listen Rapture, patience, true victory, Devas and human beings. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-16 Questions and Answers 61:42 Download Listen Differences between Samatha and Vipassana, clear comprehension, worldly beings and the Nobel ones, etc. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-13 Questions and Answers 69:45 Download Listen On tranquility meditation and vipassana meditation, clear comprehension, Arahantship and contemplating pain Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-11 Questions and Answers 65:21 Download Listen Explaining how to be mindful of “pain”, “changes”; on different realms in the sensuous world. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-09 Questions and Answers 62:25 Download Listen Explaining the “consciousness”, “mindfulness”, “knowing”, and “right attitudes” during practice. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-06 Experiencing The Dharma 55:35 Download Listen How to experience the Dharma and its benefits. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-04 Obstacles On the Path 62:20 Download Listen Explanations of various obstacles on the path with more emphasis on restlessness, sloth and torpor and self doubt. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-02 More on the four foundations of mindfulness. 55:09 Download Listen Explainations of the introductory chapter of the Maha Satipatthana Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-02 Different practical experiences of the four foundations of mindfulness 55:58 Download Listen General introduction to the methods of Mahasi Sayadaw, Shri Goenka, Shri Munindra, Shire Oo Min Sayadaw that Bhante learned. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2012-07-01 Introduction to the Noble Eightfold Path 29:10 Download Listen General guidelines to the middle path. Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-30 Questions and Answers 2:08:10 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-29 The Path We Are Practicing 64:22 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-28 Questions and Answers 1:22:07 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-27 The Seven Factors of Enlightenment 61:52 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-25 Questions and Answers 57:34 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-24 The Six External Sense Bases and the Six External Sense Bases. 53:24 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-23 Questions and Answers 61:58 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-22 The Five Aggregates 64:55 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-21 Questions and Answers 61:54 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-20 The Five Hindrances 63:45 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-18 Questions and Answers 1:12:30 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-17 The Contemplation of Mind 56:01 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-16 Ten Paramis 56:01 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-15 Mental State of Feeling – Vedana 52:40 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-07-13 Why We Come To Practice 64:37 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  July 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-06-12 Time and Practice 60:52 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-06-12 Bhante’s beautiful morning chant 6:31 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-06-10 Life Experiences Along the Path 1:27:27 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-06-08 Perceiving the World Through Chanting 49:49 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-06-03 Four Ways That the Noble Person Speaks 1:14:24 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-06-01 Practicing Mindfulness Of Mind 59:22 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  June 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-05-29 Questions and Answers 1:21:03 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  May 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-05-27 Questions and Answers 23:40 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  May 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-05-27 Guarding the Senses 51:16 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  May 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge

2009-05-25 Opening Talk 29:16 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge :  May 2009 at IMS – Forest Refuge