Goodwill for the Real World
A Theravada monk explores the application of boundless metta for a broken world.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Thanissaro Bhikkhu is an American Theravada Buddhist monk trained in the Thai forest tradition. He currently serves as abbot of the Metta Forest Monastery in San Diego County, California, and is a frequent contributor to Tricycle. Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s talks, writings, and translations are all freely available at his website, dhammatalks.org.
A Home for the Mind
If you’re going to let go of defilements, you first need something better to hold on to.
Make Your Practice a Continuous Stream
A lesson in disenchantment from one of the Thai forest tradition’s most influential teachers
Freedom Over Justice
Karma may not be just, but it offers a path to freedom.
The Buddha as a Farmer
How the farming culture of the Buddha’s day may have shaped his ideas on patience
The Broken Gong
A Theravada monk on silencing the inner commentary that permeates our lives
On Ajaan Lee’s ‘Keeping the Breath in Mind’
Theravada monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu on the timeless importance of a classic Forest Tradition meditation guide.
Suffering and the End of Suffering
Did the Buddha only teach one thing?
The Buddha’s Alternative to Acting out in Anger
Thanissaro Bhikkhu explains how to use the three fabrications—bodily, verbal, and mental—to understand and skillfully work with anger.
Podcasts
Did the Buddha Really Teach That There Is No Self?
According to Thanissaro Bhikkhu, the Buddhist teaching of not-self functions as a strategy rather than a philosophical position.
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Dharma Talks
Skillful Approaches to Anger
Led by meditation teacher Thanissaro Bhikkhu, this Dharma Talk discusses how to use the Buddha’s teaching on the three fabrications (sankhara)—bodily, verbal, and mental—to break down anger and replace it with a perspective that’s more conducive…
Working and Playing with the Breath
In this retreat, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, abbot of Metta Forest Monastery, offers instruction and guidance to develop our awareness of the breath and discover its benefits to both body and mind.
The Ten Perfections
The ten paramis or perfections provide the most useful framework for guiding Dharma practice in daily life. Any activity or relationship approached wisely with the primary purpose of developing the perfections in a balanced way becomes…
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