Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni’s Dharma Talks

Ven. Dr. Pannavati is Co-Abbot of Embracing Simplicity Hermitage. An African-American Buddhist monk ordained in the Theravada and Mahayana traditions and with transmission from Roshi Bernie Glassman of Zen Peacemakers, she is both contemplative and empowered for compassionate service. More than 70 homeless youth between the ages of 17 and 21 have resided at the hermitage over the past 2 ½ years and that effort has evolved into a separate 501(c)(3), MyPlace, Inc. which has its own accredited high school, jobs training program, youth center and residential program. An international teacher, she advocates on behalf of disempowered women and youth globally; and insists on equality and respect in Buddhist life for both female monastics and lay sangha. She was a 2008 recipient of the Outstanding Buddhist Women’s Award. In 2009, she received a special commendation from the Princess of Thailand for Humanitarian Acts and ordained the first Thai Bhikkhunis, on Thai soil with Thai monks as witnesses. In May 2010 she convened a platform of Bhikkhunis to ordain 10 Cambodian Samaneris, performing the ceremony in a Cambodian temple, witnessed by Cambodian abbots and sanctioned by Maha Thera Ven. Dhammathero Sao Khon, President of the Community of Khmer Buddhist Monks of the US. Finally, Venerable is a founding circle director of Women of Compassionate Wisdom, a 21st century trans-lineage Buddhist Order and Sisterhood. She recently ordained their first American oblate.

2021-05-05 All worldly dharma is Buddha-dharma! 43:40 Download Listen Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-07-01 The Dharma Is a Bridge over Troubled Waters 44:00 Download Listen Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-03-03 The Quick Path to Nibbana 41:21 Download Listen Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center, Hendersonville, NC. https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/retre… Embracing Simplicity Hermitage http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/esm/ Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2019-02-12 The Practice of Fours 66:08 Download Listen Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center, Hendersonville, NC. https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/retre… Embracing Simplicity Hermitage http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/esm/ Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2019-02-05 There Is No Mono Culture 42:02 Download Listen Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center, Hendersonville, NC. https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/retre… Embracing Simplicity Hermitage http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/esm/ Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2019-02-03 Come What May 40:53 Download Listen Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center, Hendersonville, NC. https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/retre… Embracing Simplicity Hermitage http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/esm/ Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-12-30 A New Year’s Wish 63:38 Download Listen Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center, Hendersonville, NC. https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/retre… Embracing Simplicity Hermitage http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/esm/ Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-12-25 Let This Mind Be in You, a Christmas Message 49:32 Download Listen Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center, Hendersonville, NC. https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/retre… Embracing Simplicity Hermitage http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/esm/ Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-11-20 True Happiness 55:23 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-11-14 Friends, Enemies, and Strangers 48:51 Download Listen Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-11-06 Stinkin Thinkin 50:18 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-10-16 Joy, Happiness and Rapture 12:39 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-10-09 The Exertion That Brings Confidence 42:29 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-10-07 Cultivating a Mind Fit for Action 62:55 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-10-02 Let No One Despise Another 52:06 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-09-30 The Perfection of Compassion 67:32 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-09-25 Ego, Your Imaginary Troublemaker 39:31 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-09-23 Craving For What Is Not Present Causes Discontent 56:05 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-09-09 There Is No ‘Highest’ Dharma 61:29 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-09-04 Dharma for All Kinds of Minds 67:10 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-08-12 Being a Good Friend 32:48 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-07-26 Appropriate Attention 41:21 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-06-14 Distinguishing Consciousness from Wisdom, Part 2 65:29 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-06-05 Distinguishing Consciousness From Wisdom Part 1 46:29 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-06-05 Distinguishing Consciousness from Wisdom 46:29 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-05-10 Heart Path 38:00 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-05-06 Wilderness In the Heart 53:40 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-03-13 Working on Your Inside Game 38:07 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-03-06 Warning Against the Use of Force 44:11 Download Listen Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-03-01 Ven. Pannavati Our Truest Self Is in the Heart 68:52 Download Listen Venerable Pannavati explains that the head and heart are two different seats of knowing, and, although they exchange information, it’s often hard to bring them in sync. But when we release all grasping to the aggregates that we take to be a self, we are left with a fullness, an abiding place in the heart that is Nibbana. http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-02-11 Ven. Pannavati Homage to the Teacher 67:00 Download Listen Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center. How do we grow our spiritual aspirations and cultivate beyond the earthly sensory realm? How do we invite and cultivate experiences that set us free of habitual patterns of perception and behavior? http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-02-06 Practice and Gifts in the Worldly Realms 61:18 Download Listen Dharma talk at Heartwood refuge and Retreat Center clarifying the 10 Realms and practical guidance on to support awareness. http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-01-30 Coming Out of the Basement, Building on Our Practice Foundation 55:33 Download Listen After establishing a strong practice foundation , we must rise to the call to build upon it. HeartwoodRefuge.org Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-01-14 The Essence of Practice 1:10:08 Download Listen Dharma talk about foundational aspects of practice. Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-01-07 “Forgiveness” 62:30 Download Listen This Dharma talk focused on conflict, misunderstandings, and the Hoʻoponopono forgiveness practice, Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2017-12-25 Know What Hinders You 51:15 Download Listen A talk between meditations given on day 2 of an 8-day meditation retreat by Ven. Pannavati (after a teaching on the 10 impediments by Ven. Pannadipa), followed by a song by Dr. Hall “It’s in Stillness that Truth Abides” Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2017-12-24 Covetousness and Greed 66:08 Download Listen The identification of covetousness and greed and ways to approach in our daily practice. Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2017-12-03 Our Attachment to Suffering 61:31 Download Listen Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2017-11-19 Dharma as Heart Training 45:30 Download Listen A talk regarding the heart-center aspects if the Dharma. (Heartwoodrefuge.org) Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2017-11-08 Happy Indeed We Live 67:41 Download Listen Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-09-24 What It Takes to Help the World 1:14:12 Download Listen Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center Beginning song by Maureen Hall. http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2015-02-17 The Virtuous Life 1:29:22 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2011-11-04 Dwell, You are the Light Itself… #1 1:58:47 Download Listen New York Insight Meditation Center :  NYI Regular Talks