We do 3 Live Streams Every Week: SATURDAY MORNING 7:30AM Buddhist Morning Chanting in Pali and English Taking Refuge in Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha (Tisarana) Taking the 5 or 8 Precepts Q and A on Meditation SUNDAY NOON 12:00PM Dhamma Talk and Discussion SUNDAY AFTERNOON 3 TO 5 PM Evening Chanting in Pali and English Guided or Silent Meditation Short Dhamma Reflection Teachings are given by Ajahn Dhammasiha, founding abbot of Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, and by other experienced Buddhist senior monks of the Theravada Forest Tradition in the lineage of Ajahn Chah. AUDIO PODCASTS In addition to these videos, we also publish about two new Dhamma talks and guided meditations every week as audio podcasts. The latest podcasts, and some 300 earlier ones on a wide variety of subjects, are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/itunes, Castbox, Google Podcasts, and many other podcast apps. Just search for "Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts" on your favourite podcast app. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 Or you can simply listen with with your browser directly from the Dhammagiri podcasts page: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast MORE INFORMATION Dhammagiri Website: https://www.dhammagiri.net /news Pics: https://latest-pics.dhammagiri.net Dhammagiri Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Dhammagiri Podcasts: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast

We do 3 Live Streams Every Week: SATURDAY MORNING 7:30AM Buddhist Morning Chanting in Pali and English Taking Refuge in Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha (Tisarana) Taking the 5 or 8 Precepts Q and A on Meditation SUNDAY NOON 12:00PM Dhamma Talk and Discussion SUNDAY AFTERNOON 3 TO 5 PM Evening Chanting in Pali and English Guided or Silent Meditation Short Dhamma Reflection Teachings are given by Ajahn Dhammasiha, founding abbot of Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, and by other experienced Buddhist senior monks of the Theravada Forest Tradition in the lineage of Ajahn Chah. AUDIO PODCASTS In addition to these videos, we also publish about two new Dhamma talks and guided meditations every week as audio podcasts. The latest podcasts, and some 300 earlier ones on a wide variety of subjects, are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/itunes, Castbox, Google Podcasts, and many other podcast apps. Just search for "Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts" on your favourite podcast app. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHWfWEGkO8OAtSWNJlqyD Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dhammagiri-buddhist-podcasts/id1534539834 Or you can simply listen with with your browser directly from the Dhammagiri podcasts page: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast MORE INFORMATION Dhammagiri Website: https://www.dhammagiri.net /news Pics: https://latest-pics.dhammagiri.net Dhammagiri Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Dhammagiri Podcasts: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast .

SATURDAY MORNING 7:30AM Buddhist Morning Chanting in Pali and English Taking Refuge in Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha (Tisarana) Taking the 5 or 8 Precepts Q and A on Meditation SUNDAY NOON 12:00PM Dhamma Talk and Discussion SUNDAY AFTERNOON 3 TO 5 PM Evening Chanting in Pali and English Guided or Silent Meditation Short Dhamma Reflection Teachings are given by Ajahn Dhammasiha, founding abbot of Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, and by other experienced Buddhist senior monks of the Theravada Forest Tradition in the lineage of Ajahn Chah. AUDIO PODCASTS In addition to these videos, we also publish about two new Dhamma talks and guided meditations every week as audio podcasts. The latest podcasts, and some 300 earlier ones on a wide variety of subjects, are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/itunes, Castbox, Google Podcasts, and many other podcast apps. Just search for "Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts" on your favourite podcast app. Or you can simply listen with with your browser directly from the Dhammagiri podcasts page: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast MORE INFORMATION Dhammagiri Website: https://www.dhammagiri.net/news Pics: https://latest-pics.dhammagiri.net Dhammagiri Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Dhammagiri Podcasts: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast .

Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to connect with nature, and to contemplate the 4 Great Elements externally as we experience them in the natural environment. 1. Earth Element (Hardness, Rocks, Stones, Sand, Feeling the Ground while Walking or Sitting) 2. Water Element (Wet soil or grass or sand or beach; Ocean; Rain; Streams/Rivers) 3. Fire/Heat Element (Sunshine, warm air, warm breeze) 4. Wind Element/Energy Movement (Wind, Energy of Rocks and Trees, 'Chi') It's difficult to contemplate something only in the abstract, something that we don't really feel or experience. Once we can clearly feel and perceive these elements in our own direct experience, it's much easier to contemplate them as impermanent, unsatisfactory and not-self. Once we can clearly feel and perceive these elements in our own direct experience externally, it's much easier to also feel and contemplate them internally. Even apart from contemplation, just connecting with nature in direct experience is a grounding experience very helpful in itself, to balance our artificial live with its screens and virtual reality and internet, and bring consciousness back to physical reality in the here and now. More pics from our outing to Mount Ngungun, Glass House Mountains, are here: https://latest-pics.dhammagiri.net AUDIO PODCASTS In addition to these videos, we also publish about two new Dhamma talks and guided meditations every week as audio podcasts. The latest podcasts, and some 300 earlier ones on a wide variety of subjects, are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/itunes, Castbox, Google Podcasts, and many other podcast apps. Just search for "Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts" on your favourite podcast app. Or you can simply listen with with your browser directly from the Dhammagiri podcasts page: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast MORE INFORMATION Dhammagiri Website: https://www.dhammagiri.net Dhammagiri Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Dhammagiri Podcasts: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast .

Ven Jinaratana There offers guidance how we can experience and contemplate the four elements ('Cātu-mahā-bhūtikā') in in our own bodies. 1. Paṭhavī-dhātu = Earth Element /Solidity 2. Āpo-dhātu = Water Element / Liquidity 3. Tejo-dhātu = Fire Element / Heat (or lack of heat, i.e. cold) 4. Vāyo-dhātu = Wind Element (energy movement) AUDIO PODCASTS In addition to these videos, we also publish about two new Dhamma talks and guided meditations every week as audio podcasts. The latest podcasts, and some 300 earlier ones on a wide variety of subjects, are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/itunes, Castbox, Google Podcasts, and many other podcast apps. Just search for "Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts" on your favourite podcast app. Or you can simply listen with with your browser directly from the Dhammagiri podcasts page: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast MORE INFORMATION Dhammagiri Website: https://www.dhammagiri.net Dhammagiri Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Dhammagiri Podcasts: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast .

💧🐲🎆 Happy New Year to our Sri Lankan, Thai, Myanmar, Cambodian and Lao Supporters! 💦🐉🎇 This is a little video circumambulating our Bodhi Tree near the Dhamma Hall at the bottom of Dhammagiri hill. As you can see, our Bodhi is growing vigorously, after the very wet summer it's positively thriving. Background audio plays the 'Jaya Paritta / Victory Protection Verses', celebrating the Buddha's supreme victory against Māra under the Bodhi Tree: "Mahā-kāruṇiko nātho, Hitāya sabba-pāṇinaṃ, Pūretvā pāramī sabbā, Patto sambodhim-uttamaṃ. Etena sacca-vajjena Hotu te jaya-maṅgalaṃ! Jayanto bodhiyā mūle, Sakyānaṃ nandi-vaḍḍhano; Evaṃ tvaṃ vijayo hohi, Jayassu jaya-maṅgale! Aparājita pallanke, Sīse paṭhavi-pokkhare Abhiseke sabba Buddhānaṃ Aggappatto pamodati." (English Translation: "The Saviour of Great Compassion, For the welfare of all beings, Having completed all spiritual perfections, Attained supreme perfect enlightenment. By the power of this truth May you too be blessed with victory! As He gained victory at the root of the Bodhi Tree, The 'Bringer of Joy' to the Sakyans, So may you too be victorious, May you be blessed with victory! In invincible meditation posture Sitting on the most exhaulted spot of this whole earth, The location consecrated by all Buddhas in this aeon, He rejoices in the supreme attainment.") This is the Sangyog chanting style as usually used in the tradition of Ajahn Chah (taken from paritta chanting at opening of new Uposatha Hall Wat Pah Nanachat). You can compare the same verse being chanted in Makhot style in the Dhammayut tradition here: https://youtube.com/shorts/rEZcbpzkVs8 AUDIO PODCASTS In addition to these videos, we also publish about two new Dhamma talks and guided meditations every week as audio podcasts. The latest podcasts, and some 300 earlier ones on a wide variety of subjects, are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/itunes, Castbox, Google Podcasts, and many other podcast apps. Just search for "Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts" on your favourite podcast app. Or you can simply listen with with your browser directly from the Dhammagiri podcasts page: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast MORE INFO: Dhammagiri Website: https://www.dhammagiri.net Dhammagiri Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Dhammagiri Podcasts: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast .

Venerable Jinaratana Thera was born in Toronto, Canada. He became interested in meditation while studying at university for a double degree in neuroscience and mathmatics, and started attending numerous meditation retreats, mostly in the Mahasi tradition. After graduation, he decided to further expand his education by completing a teacher's degree in Brisbane. During that time, he stayed for long retreats at Dhammagiri, and finally decided to go forth as a Buddhist monk. He ordained at Na Uyana monastery in Sri Lanka, becoming a novice in 2011, and receiving his higher ordination as a bhikkhu in 2012. Na Uyana is the main monastery of the Shri Kalyani forest tradition, the same lineage where Ajahn Dhammasiha originally ordained. Bhante Jinaratana spent many years at Na Uyana, before going to Pa Auk Monastery, Pyin Oo Lwin in Myanmar, to practice meditation under the guidence of Pah Auk Sayadaw and his senior disciples from 2019-2021. He arrived at Dhamsuwa Monastery near Melbourne at the beginning of the 2022 rains retreat. Bhante has kindly accepted our invitation to visit Dhammagiri for 10 days. In his talk, Bhante Jinaratana explains how we can starve the 5 hindrances ('anāhāra pañca-nīvaraṇa') in order to gradually weaken and overcome their obstructive influence on our mental development. Like all sankhāras, the five hindrances are conditioned, i.e. they depend on some form of nutriment for their existence. If we reduce the nutriment that's feeding the hindrances, they will become weaker and weaker, allowing our samādhi and wisdom faculty to overcome and finally completey eradicate them. AUDIO PODCASTS In addition to these videos, we also publish about two new Dhamma talks and guided meditations every week as audio podcasts. The latest podcasts, and some 300 earlier ones on a wide variety of subjects, are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/itunes, Castbox, Google Podcasts, and many other podcast apps. Just search for "Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts" on your favourite podcast app. Or you can simply listen with with your browser directly from the Dhammagiri podcasts page: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast MORE INFORMATION Dhammagiri Website: https://www.dhammagiri.net Dhammagiri Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Dhammagiri Podcasts: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast .

This short shows our Dhammahall at the lower property of Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, at 10 Ben Varden Avenue, where we have our Almsoffering, Dhamma Talks, Chanting and Meditation Sessions. You can also see the area in front of the Dhamma Hall, with grass, plants, flowers, and tables for eating. Background audio is part of the 'Mettā Sutta', the Buddha's discourse on Loving Kindness, in the Amaravati version, as we chant it every Sunday afternoon: "...Even as a mother, protects with her life, her child, her only child; So, with a boundless heart, should one cherish all living beings. Radiating kindness over the entire world: Spreading upwards to skies and downwards to the depths, outwards and unbounded, freed from hatred and ill-will. Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down, free from drowsiness, one should sustain this recollection. This is said to be the sublime abiding..." AUDIO PODCASTS In addition to these videos, we also publish about two new Dhamma talks and guided meditations every week as audio podcasts. The latest podcasts, and some 300 earlier ones on a wide variety of subjects, are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/itunes, Castbox, Google Podcasts, and many other podcast apps. Just search for "Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts" on your favourite podcast app. Or you can simply listen with with your browser directly from the Dhammagiri podcasts page: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast MORE INFO: Dhammagiri Website: https://www.dhammagiri.net Dhammagiri Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter Dhammagiri Podcasts: https://www.dhammagiri.net/podcast .