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Happiness Industry: Joy At Last! Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 3867 seconds Ajahn Brahm leads us into the Rains Retreat with this scorcher of a talk. The Buddha's teaching of acceptance and letting go of states leads to the kind of deep happiness that cannot be found by shopping in the 'happiness industry' of this world. As Ajahn Chah famously said: "Joy at last -to know there is no happiness in the world!" Related: buddhism, buddhist, dharma, happiness, joy, meditation

	Dealing With The Emotion by Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 4128 seconds Ajahn Brahm teaches us how to deal with difficult emotions and to learn how to experience more positive emotions, more often. Related: buddhism, dharma, emotions, happiness

	Buddhism and Sects by Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 3830 seconds Ajahn Brahm talks about different sects of Buddhism, how it all came to be this way and what it means. Ultimately it's all the same cake, just different icing on top. Related: buddhism, cake, dharma, icing, sects

"Superstitions" - dhamma talk by Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 3894 seconds A hint of irreverence for all forms of superstition, lashings of humour in this talk, serve to stress that it's ONLY our personal accountability and actions that make a difference. Trinket jewellery, mindless chanting and holy water do not. Is there heaven and hell? What is the mind? Ajahn's stories of the 'Samurai Warrior and the Monk' and 'The Cloaked Emperor' provide the answers... Related: ajahn, brahm, buddhism, dhamma, dharma, monk, nibbana, nirvana, sangha, superstition

Freedom: The Path To Happiness Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 3790 seconds Ajahn Brahm: For those abused and wronged is happiness actually possible? Attachment to painful emotions, such as grief, anger, bitterness, the notion of a wounded self with a distinct identity: all these can become a perpetual prison... Related: ajahn, brahm, buddhism, buddhist, dhamma, dharma, freedom, happiness, sangha

	The Right to Believe? - Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 3716 seconds Do we have a right to believe anything? Do some beliefs have priority over others? How do beliefs arise in the mind and how accurately do such 'intellectual fermentations' actually mesh with an Ultimate Reality? Related: belief, buddhism

Control and Freedom Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 4210 seconds Ajahn Brahm' talks about the control/freedom paradox. How much of our lives is *actually* controlled by us, how much by forces outside ourselves? How free are we? The relinquishment of our controlling impulse brings freedom, while the ego, with its judgement apparatus, leads to bondage and despair. Related: ajahn, brahmavamso, buddha, buddhism, control, dhamma, freedom, laughing, monk, nibbana, nirvana

Higher Criticism by Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 3523 seconds A penetrating look at how we react to criticism both when furnishing it on others and (at once more challenging) receiving it ourselves. Why are we often so hardened and totally stuck in our views and perceptions when softness of mind can yield much larger fruit? Related: ajahn, brahm, buddhism, criticism, dhamma, teachings

	Realising or Revealing Religion Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 3437 seconds Realising Revealing Religion - Ajahn Brahm Related: realising, religion, revealing

	How to Change The World Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 3624 seconds Ajahn Brahm - Buddhist reflections on social, political and environmental action leading towards the creation of a better world. Related: buddhism, change, dharma, interconnectedness, meditation, peace, social

	Impermanence: Everything Will Be Allright Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 2604 seconds Impermanace: Everything will be Allright - Ajahn Khemavaro Related: impermanace, khemavaro

	The Ultimate Question Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 2657 seconds Ajahn Brahmali Related: ajahn, brahmali

	The Secret Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 3242 seconds The Secret - Ajahn Brahm Related: ajahn, brahm

	Meditation Kamma Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 3332 seconds Meditation Kamma - Ajahn Brahm Related: kamma, meditation

	Below The Mist - Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA Video duration: 3975 seconds Ajahn Brahm Below The Mist Related: ajahn, below, brahm, mist, the