Bhikkhu Bodhi’s Dharma Talks

Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk originally from New York City. He lived as a monk in Sri Lanka for 24 years and now lives at Chuang Yen Monastery in upstate New York. Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator or editor, including The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya, 1995) and The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Samyutta Nikaya, 2000). A full translation of the Anguttara Nikaya is due out in 2011. In 2008 he founded Buddhist Global Relief, a Buddhist organization dedicated to providing relief from poverty and hunger among impoverished communities worldwide.

2018-01-13 Second Presentation – Exploring the Deeper Matrix- Afternoon 24:31 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Protecting the Future of Our Planet

2018-01-13 Third Presentation – Doughnut Economics – Afternoon 25:20 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Protecting the Future of Our Planet

2018-01-13 Q&A – Afternoon 26:47 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Protecting the Future of Our Planet

2018-01-13 Conclusion – Simple Practical Steps 12:23 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Protecting the Future of Our Planet

2018-01-13 First Presentation – Morning 37:04 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Protecting the Future of Our Planet

2018-01-13 The Four Elements – First Guided Meditation 23:20 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Protecting the Future of Our Planet

2018-01-13 The Four Elements – Second Guided Meditation 22:14 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Protecting the Future of Our Planet

2018-01-13 The Four Elements – Third Guided Meditation 16:12 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Protecting the Future of Our Planet

2017-04-09 Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta Sunday Afternoon part 2 1:40:32 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta with Bhikkhu Bodhi

2017-04-09 Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta Sunday Afternoon part 1 1:12:22 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta with Bhikkhu Bodhi

2017-04-09 Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta Sunday Morning 63:26 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta with Bhikkhu Bodhi

2017-04-08 Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta Saturday Afternoon part 2 1:27:58 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta with Bhikkhu Bodhi

2017-04-08 Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta Saturday Afternoon part 1 64:10 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta with Bhikkhu Bodhi

2017-04-08 Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta Saturday Morning 57:19 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta with Bhikkhu Bodhi

2017-04-07 Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta Friday Evening 1:24:37 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  Life’s Highest Blessings: A Study of the Maha-Mangala Sutta with Bhikkhu Bodhi

2014-03-12 Teachings on the Samyutta Nikaya and an approach to sutta study: A Conversation with Bhikkhu Bodhi 1:56:36 Download Listen In this conversational interview between Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, Shaila Catherine, and students in Insight Meditation South Bay’s online Samyutta Nikaya course (www.imsb.org), Bhikkhu Bodhi offers teachings that illuminate the collection of suttas known as the Connected Discourses of the Buddha. Venerable Bodhi explains the historical background of this collection, comments on the cosmological world view embraced by early Buddhism, and offers skillful tips for studying the Discourses. He recommends approaching this collection as an exposition of the Four Noble Truths. He shares insights gained through his translation process, including his reflections regarding the choice to translate certain terms such as dukkha (as suffering or unsatisfactoriness), rupa (as form or materiality), and nibbida (as disenchantment or revulsion). The conversation explores the historical influence of the commentarial texts, and Bhikkhu Bodhi offers practical advise for both the beginner and seasoned reader of the Buddha’s teachings. He recommends that readers take notes as they read, and nurture the five steps of contemplation: 1) listening to the teachings, 2) retain in mind what was heard, 3) repeat the teaching verbally, 4) examine the teaching with the mind, 5) penetrate it well with insight. The discussion concludes with reflections on how to approach a study of the Numbered Discourses of the Buddha (The Anguttara Nikaya). Insight Meditation South Bay – Silicon Valley

2012-11-08 What’s Going on in the Abhidhamma? part 4 69:51 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dedicated Practitioners Program 4

2012-11-08 What’s Going on in the Abhidhamma? part 3 64:04 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dedicated Practitioners Program 4

2012-11-08 From the Nikāyas to the Abhidhamma part 2 56:28 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dedicated Practitioners Program 4

2012-11-08 From the Nikāyas to the Abhidhamma part 1 50:30 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dedicated Practitioners Program 4

2012-11-03 Applied Compassion 1:17:47 Download Listen Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2010-11-04 Ascending and Descending Movements of Dharma Practice + Buddhist Global Relief 1:11:40 Download Listen Bhikkhu Bodhi discusses the Five Spiritual Faculties, the ascending factors that lead toward enlightment and the Four Brahma Viharas, the descending factors that lead toward engagement in the world. Following the dharma talk, Kim Behan, Executive Director of Buddhist Global Relief, gives a presentation on the founding, goals, and projects of the organization. Buddhist Global Relief is a Buddhist organization dedicated to providing relief from poverty and hunger among impoverished communities worldwide. Read Bhikkhu Bodhi’s provocative essay that led to the founding of BGR: “A Challenge to Buddhists” Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2010-11-02 An Evening with Bhikkhu Bodhi 35:37 Download Listen Insight Meditation South Bay – Silicon Valley

2009-04-21 Mind is the Core 47:36 Download Listen Mind (citta) as the Buddha’s focus of investigation. As both the cause of suffering and the means to its cessation The Buddha points to two states or tendencies of mind Akusala – unwholesome, unskillful Kusala – wholesome, skillful, beneficial Suffering follows the unwholesome mind, Happiness follows the wholesome mind like a shadow that never departs. Our task, step by step, is to train the mind and supplant the unwholesome state with the wholesome states. Greed, hatred and Delusion are the root causes for the unwholesome mind. We must cultivate the factors that are the cause for the wholesome mind at three levels. Coarse – Actions, bodily or verbal. We use the five precepts to prevent unwholesome tendencies at this level. Obsessive, compulsive patterns – Thoughts, emotions. We use meditation, deep samadhi directed to an object, to see the arising of these tendencies and still the mind. Underlying tendencies, attachments – the remaining defilements We use wisdom, insight, to investigate the body and mind and see their impermanence and stop the clinging to a false self to uproot these final tendencies. This is liberation. Insight Meditation South Bay – Silicon Valley

2000-07-27 Indriyabhavana Sutta: Development of Mental Faculties 59:53 Download Listen MN152 Sri Lanka BPS

2000-07-20 Chachakka Sutta—The Six Sextets, Part 2 61:03 Download Listen MN148.02 Sri Lanka BPS

2000-07-13 Chachakka Sutta—The Six Sextets, Part 1 52:20 Download Listen MN148.01 Sri Lanka BPS

2000-07-06 Rathavinitha Sutta – The Simile of The Relay of Chariots 63:51 Download Listen MN24 Sri Lanka BPS

2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 5 48:36 Download Listen MN1.05 Sri Lanka BPS

2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 4 62:13 Download Listen MN1.04 Sri Lanka BPS

2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 3 51:08 Download Listen MN1.03 Sri Lanka BPS

2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 2 46:18 Download Listen MN1.02 Sri Lanka BPS

2000-03-03 Mulapariyaya Sutta: The Root of All Things, Part 1 47:21 Download Listen MN1.01 Sri Lanka BPS

2000-01-06 Ariyapariyesana Sutta – The Buddhist Quest For Enlightenment, Part 5 43:52 Download Listen MN26.05 Sri Lanka BPS

1999-12-23 Ariyapariyesana Sutta – The Buddhist Quest For Enlightenment, Part 4 47:28 Download Listen MN26.04 Sri Lanka BPS

1999-12-16 Ariyapariyesana Sutta – The Buddhist Quest For Enlightenment, Part 3 43:45 Download Listen MN26.03 Sri Lanka BPS

1999-12-09 Ariyapariyesana Sutta – The Buddhist Quest For Enlightenment, Part 2 61:38 Download Listen MN26.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1999-12-02 Ariyapariyesana Sutta – The Buddhist Quest For Enlightenment, Part 1 54:48 Download Listen MN26.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1999-02-24 Anangana Sutta: Blemishes 57:02 Download Listen MN5 Sri Lanka BPS

1999-02-17 Dhammadayada Sutta: To Inherit the Teaching, Part 2 59:10 Download Listen MN3.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1999-02-10 Dhammadayada Sutta: To Inherit the Teaching, Part 1 60:08 Download Listen MN3.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1999-02-03 Sabbasava Sutta: All The Fermentations, Part 3 58:43 Download Listen MN2.03 Sri Lanka BPS

1999-01-27 Sabbasava Sutta: All The Fermentations, Part 2 58:58 Download Listen MN2.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1999-01-13 Sabbasava Sutta: All The Fermentations, Part 1 61:50 Download Listen MN2.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1990-06-01 Simile of the Saw 1 62:21 Download Listen date unknown, MN21-1

1990-06-01 Simile of the Saw 2 62:36 Download Listen date unknown, MN21-2

1990-05-01 Shorter Discourse to Saccaka, Part 1 of 3 59:16 Download Listen date unknown, MN35-1

1990-05-01 Shorter Discourse to Saccaka, Part 2 of 3 45:51 Download Listen date unknown, MN35-2

1990-05-01 Shorter Discourse to Saccaka, Part 3 of 3 1:19:47 Download Listen date unknown, MN35-3

1990-04-01 Shorter Discourse in Gosinha, 1 of 2 56:01 Download Listen date unknown, MN31-1

1990-04-01 Shorter Discourse in Gosinha, 2 of 2 58:35 Download Listen date unknown, MN31-2

1990-03-01 Maha-assapura Sutta: The Greater Discourse at Assapura 1 of 8 61:42 Download Listen date unknown, MN39-1

1990-03-01 Maha-assapura Sutta: The Greater Discourse at Assapura 2 of 8 58:17 Download Listen date unknown, MN39-2

1990-03-01 Maha-assapura Sutta: The Greater Discourse at Assapura 3 of 8 59:29 Download Listen date unknown, MN39-3

1990-03-01 Maha-assapura Sutta: The Greater Discourse at Assapura 4 of 8 54:27 Download Listen date unknown, MN39-4

1990-03-01 Maha-assapura Sutta: The Greater Discourse at Assapura 5 of 8 57:28 Download Listen date unknown, MN39-5

1990-03-01 Maha-assapura Sutta: The Greater Discourse at Assapura 6 of 8 51:49 Download Listen date unknown, MN39-6

1990-03-01 Maha-assapura Sutta: The Greater Discourse at Assapura 7 of 8 61:06 Download Listen date unknown, MN39-7

1990-03-01 Maha-assapura Sutta: The Greater Discourse at Assapura 8 of 8 61:18 Download Listen date unknown, MN39-8

1990-02-01 Greater Discourse in Gosinga, 1 of 3 59:52 Download Listen date unknown, MN32-1

1990-02-01 Greater Discourse in Gosinga, 2 of 3 46:42 Download Listen date unknown, MN32-2

1990-02-01 Greater Discourse in Gosinga, 3 of 3 53:36 Download Listen date unknown, MN32-3

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 14 63:13 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.14 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 13 60:49 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.13 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 12 58:10 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.12 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 11 58:33 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.11 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 10 65:37 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.10 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 9 1:21:47 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.09 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 8 63:57 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.08 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 7 1:11:56 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.07 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 6 1:16:21 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.06 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 5 51:53 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.05 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 4 63:13 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.04 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 3 61:12 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.03 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 2 1:19:36 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-11-01 Satipatthana Sutta, Part 1 53:53 Download Listen date unknown, mn10.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-10-01 Magandiya Sutta: To Magandiya, Part 2 65:12 Download Listen date unknown, mn75.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-10-01 Magandiya Sutta: To Magandiya, Part 1 59:46 Download Listen date unknown, mn75.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-09-01 Mahamalunkya Sutta: The Greater Discourse to Malunkyaputta, Part 2 52:50 Download Listen date unknown, mn72.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-09-01 Mahamalunkya Sutta: The Greater Discourse to Malunkyaputta, Part 1 52:06 Download Listen date unknown, mn72.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-08-01 Mahamalunkya Sutta: The Greater Discourse to Malunkyaputta, Part 2 58:22 Download Listen date unknown, mn64.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-08-01 Mahamalunkya Sutta: The Greater Discourse to Malunkyaputta, Part 1 53:08 Download Listen date unknown, mn64.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-07-01 Maharahulovada Sutta: The Greater Discourse of Advice to Rahula, Part 3 56:57 Download Listen date unknown, mn62.03 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-07-01 Maharahulovada Sutta: The Greater Discourse of Advice to Rahula, Part 2 57:38 Download Listen date unknown, mn62.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-07-01 Maharahulovada Sutta: The Greater Discourse of Advice to Rahula, Part 1 45:59 Download Listen date unknown, mn62.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-06-01 Brahmanimantanika Sutta: The Invitation of A Brahma, Part 2 1:33:51 Download Listen date unknown, mn49.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-06-01 Brahmanimantanika Sutta: The Invitation of A Brahma, Part 1 49:47 Download Listen date unknown, mn49.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-05-01 Cavedalla Sutta: The Shorter Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things, Part 6 48:25 Download Listen date unknown, mn44.06 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-05-01 Cavedalla Sutta: The Shorter Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things, Part 5 46:58 Download Listen date unknown, mn44.05 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-05-01 Cavedalla Sutta: The Shorter Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things, Part 4 57:59 Download Listen date unknown, mn44.04 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-05-01 Cavedalla Sutta: The Shorter Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things, Part 3 58:29 Download Listen date unknown, mn44.03 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-05-01 Cavedalla Sutta: The Shorter Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things, Part 2 54:13 Download Listen date unknown, mn44.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-05-01 Cavedalla Sutta: The Shorter Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things, Part 1 66:00 Download Listen date unknown, mn44.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-04-01 Dhatuvibhanga Sutta: The Exposition of Elements, Part 3 1:43:59 Download Listen date unknown, mn140.03 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-04-01 Dhatuvibhanga Sutta: The Exposition of Elements, Part 2 56:29 Download Listen date unknown, mn140.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-04-01 Dhatuvibhanga Sutta: The Exposition of Elements, Part 1 53:38 Download Listen date unknown, mn140.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-03-01 Mahasakuladayi Sutta: The Greater Discourse to Sakuladayin, Part 7 50:26 Download Listen date unknown, mn77.07 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-03-01 Mahasakuladayi Sutta: The Greater Discourse to Sakuladayin, Part 6 67:08 Download Listen date unknown, mn77.06 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-03-01 Mahasakuladayi Sutta: The Greater Discourse to Sakuladayin, Part 5 67:22 Download Listen date unknown, mn77.05 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-03-01 Mahasakuladayi Sutta: The Greater Discourse to Sakuladayin, Part 4 59:47 Download Listen date unknown, mn77.04 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-03-01 Mahasakuladayi Sutta: The Greater Discourse to Sakuladayin, Part 3 56:30 Download Listen date unknown, mn77.03 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-03-01 Mahasakuladayi Sutta: The Greater Discourse to Sakuladayin, Part 2 59:46 Download Listen date unknown, mn77.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-03-01 Mahasakuladayi Sutta: The Greater Discourse to Sakuladayin, Part 1 63:11 Download Listen date unknown, mn77.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-02-01 Mahacattarasaka Sutta: The Great Forty, Part 4 1:36:00 Download Listen date unknown, mn117.04 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-02-01 Mahacattarasaka Sutta: The Great Forty, Part 3 46:49 Download Listen date unknown, mn117.03 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-02-01 Mahacattarasaka Sutta: The Great Forty, Part 2 1:34:21 Download Listen date unknown, mn117.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-02-01 Mahacattarasaka Sutta: The Great Forty, Part 1 63:28 Download Listen date unknown, mn117.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-01-01 Bahudhatuka Sutta: The Many Kinds of Elements, Part 6 60:58 Download Listen date unknown, mn115.06 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-01-01 Bahudhatuka Sutta: The Many Kinds of Elements, Part 5 1:36:00 Download Listen date unknown, mn115.05 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-01-01 Bahudhatuka Sutta: The Many Kinds of Elements, Part 4 1:36:00 Download Listen date unknown, mn115.04 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-01-01 Bahudhatuka Sutta: The Many Kinds of Elements, Part 3 1:36:00 Download Listen date unknown, mn115.03 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-01-01 Bahudhatuka Sutta: The Many Kinds of Elements, Part 2 1:10:57 Download Listen date unknown, mn115.02 Sri Lanka BPS

1985-01-01 Bahudhatuka Sutta: The Many Kinds of Elements, Part 1 60:46 Download Listen date unknown, mn115.01 Sri Lanka BPS

1981-08-01 Introduction to Buddhism, Part 10: The Sangha 1:31:36 Download Listen date uncertain, mn153.10 Washington Buddhist Vihara

1981-08-01 Introduction to Buddhism, Part 9: The Social Dimension of the Buddha’s Teachings 1:24:21 Download Listen date uncertain, mn153.09 Washington Buddhist Vihara

1981-08-01 Introduction to Buddhism, Part 8: Meditation 1:34:27 Download Listen date uncertain, mn153.08 Washington Buddhist Vihara

1981-08-01 Introduction to Buddhism, Part 7: The Noble Eightfold Path 1:27:16 Download Listen date uncertain, mn153.07 Washington Buddhist Vihara

1981-08-01 Introduction to Buddhism, Part 6: Nibbana 1:34:12 Download Listen date uncertain, mn153.06 Washington Buddhist Vihara

1981-08-01 Introduction to Buddhism, Part 5: Rebirth and Karma 2:00:00 Download Listen date uncertain, mn153.05 Washington Buddhist Vihara

1981-08-01 Introduction to Buddhism, Part 4: Dependent Origination 1:27:02 Download Listen date uncertain, mn153.04 Washington Buddhist Vihara

1981-08-01 Introduction to Buddhism, Part 3: The True Nature of Existence 1:27:00 Download Listen date uncertain, mn153.03 Washington Buddhist Vihara

1981-08-01 Introduction to Buddhism, Part 2: The Four Noble Truths 1:33:13 Download Listen date uncertain, mn153.02 Washington Buddhist Vihara

1981-08-01 Introduction to Buddhism, Part 1: The Buddha 1:33:45 Download Listen date uncertain, mn153.01 Washington Buddhist Vihara