Ajahn Brahmavamso (often simply called Ajahn Brahm) is a highly respected Buddhist monk, teacher, and author in the Theravada tradition, particularly within the Thai Forest Tradition. He ordained as a monk in Thailand under the renowned meditation master Ajahn Chah. Later moved to Australia, where he became the abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery. Ajahn Brahm is widely known for his humor and warmth - he uses jokes and relatable stories to convey deep teachings.

Contents

1. Exploring My life, My Options

2. Learning about Family, Friends and Folks

3. Engaging Ethics, Enriching Life

4. Surfing the Waves and Winds of Life

5. Enobling the Mind, Enabling Freedom

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1. Exploring My Life, My Options

1. In Search of Meaning & Truth

• Putting Meaning Into Life

• The Meaning of Life - Peace of Mind

• Big Bang Buddhism

• What Is Truth?

• The Way To Ultimate Truth

• Of Arguments and Truth

2. Need for Religion, Need for Beliefs ?

• Buddhism, Religion?

• 5 Types Of Religion

• Realising or Revealing Religion

• Modern Religion

• Buddhism and Atheism

• The Right to Believe?

• Conversion

3. Following Buddhism or Buddha?

• Buddhism and Sects

• Tradition and Truth

• Demystifying Rituals

• Rituals How And Why

• Devotion

4. In Search of Happiness

• The Pursuit of Happiness

• Motivation

• Talk Your Way To Happiness

• Peace Is The Highest Happiness

• Happy Buddhamas

• Happiness Industry: Joy At Last!

• The Three Most Important Things

5. In Search of Life-Work Balance

• How To Be Positive

• How To Be A High Flyer

• Success Without Stress

• Serve and Be Hopey

• Reasonable Resolutions

• The Power of Silence

• Prosperity

• Power

6. Striking a Balance

• The Middle Way

• NOT Always Greener On The Other Side

• Expanding Your View

• Living With Nature

• Putting Ideals To Work

• Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

• The Buddhist Attitude to Sensuality

7. Be Gentle to Yourself

• You Dont Have to be Perfect!

• No-Self Sufficiency

• No-Self Esteem

• Buddhism And Bananas

• 70 Not 100

• Right View

• Be Hopey

• Freedom: The Path To Happiness

• Beyond Boundaries

8. Engaging Community, Celebrating Life

• Inspiration

• Loving Life

• Get Real

• Bodhisattva

• How to Change The World

• Building the House of Peace

• Harmony

B. Learning about Family, Friends and Folks

1. Alone, Naturally, Connected Happily

• To Be A Happy Hermit

• Singles Dhamma

• Friendship

• Friendship and Community

• Interconnectedness

2. Shaping Relationship and Partnership

• Forms of Love

• Building Hearts Not Halls

• Listening

• Right Speech

• Just Praise

• Dealing With The Emotion

• Jealousy

3. Marriage, Children and Family

• Bringing Up Children

• Teenagers Are Aliens

• Instead of Attachment

• Duties to One's Parents

• Hissing But Not Biting

• Gay Marriage, Why Not?

4. Coping with Different People and Situations

• Dealing With Difficult People

• Dealing With a Loved Ones's Suffering

• Living With Non-Buddhists

• How To Cope With Bullying

• Reconciliation

• Hypocrisy

C. Engaging Ethics, Enriching Life

1. Nature of Wholesome & Unwholesomness

• What Do You Want?

• Buddhist Values

• Buddhist Way Of Purity

• Kamma without Belief

2. At Crossroads, Pondering Choices

• Wisdom and Stupidity

• Gaming Not Gambling

• The Negativity of Positivity

• Why Is It So Hard To Be Kind?

• Why Do People Do Bad Things?

3. Avoiding the Toxic of Unwholesomeness

• The Secret

• Anger-Eating Demons

• On the Other Side of Anger

• Internet porn addiction

• Sex and Booze

4. Embracing the Beauty of Wholesomeness

• Giving is Winning

• The Gift of Nothing

• Skilful Speech

• Listening

• Patience

• Kindfulness

• SAKs Rule

• Justice

• Trust

5. Embracing the Joy of Sublime Virtues

• Wanting For Nothing

• Much To Do About Nothing

• Thanks A Lot For Gratitude

• "F" Is For Forgiveness

• Forgiveness & the simile of two chicken farmers

• Comfortable In Silence

• The Power of Mindfulness & Compassion

6. Pondering Ethical Issues

• Three In One

• Investigation Into the 'Ethics of Murder'

• Celebrating Celibacy

• Suicide

• Tolerance Explored

D. Surfing the Waves and Winds of Life

1. Understanding the Winds and Waves of Life

• Living With Nature

• Uncertainty

• Does Life Suck ?

• Out of Control

2. Changing your Mind, Changing Your Life

• Oh What A Relief

• Loving Your Sufferings

• This Too Will Pass

• Below The Mist

• Only The Body Is Sick

• Don't Be Disappointed

• Ignorance is Bliss

• I don't own my past

3. Relating to Conflict and Suffering

• Conflict

• Ending Conflict

• Depression

• How to fall asleep

• Irritation

• Arguments

• Winning and Losing

4. Letting It Go, Letting It Free

• No Complaints

• Fear

• No Fear

• Letting Go of Fear

• Toilet paper exercise to letting go

• Four Ways of Letting Go

• Freeing Problems in Life with Metta

• Control and Freedom

• A Taste of Freedom

• Aspects of Freedom

5. Separation and Death

• What Happens After You Die ?

• Trauma and Tragedy

• Transcending Disasters

• Living To Die

• Coffins and Living

6. After Death, Whats Next ?

• One Life, Many Lives

• Is there heaven and hell ?

• Reincarnation - Here We Go Again

• The Process of Rebirth

• Evidence of Reincarnation

• How is Buddhist Heaven ?

• In Between

E. Enobing the Mind, Enabling Freedom

1. Getting to Know Buddhist Meditation

• What is Meditation ?

• Right Perspective on Meditation

• What is Mind ?

• Where is the Mind ?

• Opening the Mind

• Doing Mind and the Knowing Mind

• When to Teach Children to Meditate

• A Meditation Joke

2. Useful Tips in Meditation

• How to Motivate Oneself to Meditate

• Attittude during Meditation

• Putting Happiness into Meditation

• Important posture in Meditation

• Relaxing the Body & Mind

• Present Moment

• Letting Go in Meditation

• Let Go of the Body

• Not What You Do, But How You Do It

3. Developing Stillness and the Subject of Jhana

• What is Samadhi and Mindfulness?

• Meditation is stillness and not concentration

• Stillness Give Clarity & Energy

• Strong samadhi and heavy body sensation

• Do we need all 4 Jhanas?

• Viriya - Right effort in the 8 fold path

• Nimittas & Jhanas

• What to do after coming out of Jhana?

4. Developing Insight and the subject of Mindfulness

• Insight Meditation

• Insights along the way

• Insight into craving and happiness

• Insight into the Path

• Mindfulness

• Establishing Mindfulness

• Mindfulness With Compassion

• Mindfulness - Don't Even Bother

5. Support for Insight, Subjects of Insight

• Between Observer and Observed

• Nama-Rupa (Mind-Matter)

• Investigate Your Way to Freedom

• Being No one Going Nowhere

• Non-Self (Anatta)

• Emptiness

• Empty Process

6. Guided Meditation on the Breath

• Breath Meditation

• Beautiful Breath

• Meaning of Body of Breath in Satipatthana

• Adding Loving Kindness to the Breath

7. Other Guided Meditation

• Guided Meditation

• Guided Metta Meditation

• Guided Body Sweep Meditation

• How to do Walking Meditation ?

• Is "Standing Still" a Meditation ?

8. Dealing with Negative Thoughts during Meditation

• Dealing with negative memories

• Dealing with mental defilements

• Dealing with bad thoughts

• Dealing with runaway mind

• Dealing with the chattering mind

• Taking value away from thinking

• Techniques to silence the mind

9. Dealing with other Challenges during Meditation

• Overcoming obstacles in meditation

• Dealing with fatigue

• Dealing with pain

• Dealing with headaches

• Dealing with bodily twisting and turning

• Dealing with noise and other disturbances

• Spiritual Pride

10. Satisfying Curiosity, Gaining Confidence

• How stillness is achieved

• How the mind stops

• Intelligence is not wisdom

• How Buddhist awakening happens

• Why not Us?

• How to get enlightened

• Can layperson get enlightened?

• How long does it take to get enlightened

11. Venturing into Meditation Retreat

• Introduction to the meditation retreat

• Retreats

• How to stay in the present moment

• Happy to be here

• Can I read a books during the retreat

• What is Nibbana?

• Is Nibbana Guaranteed?

• How to stop meditating

• Closing talk - Going back into the world