Hva betyr egentlig ‘riktig oppmerksomhet’ i buddhismen? Ajahn Brahmali explains the concept of 'samma sati' and how it relates to meditation and the eightfold path.

The 9-day retreat in Lammi, Finland, exceeded all expectations for the 25 participants, and there was both a gold medal and a laurel wreath for the two instructors Ajahn Mudito and Ajahn Nitho.

The spiritual training is like aircon for your mind.

We had more than 50 registered for the Venabu retreat in the spring of 2025, and since spring came early and Venabu was free of snow, there was also the opportunity for a trip and practice out in nature. You can also find the teaching here.

One day our body doesn't want to hang around any more because of old age, then what is the continuation?

Focusing on the fact that our body is going to die, can arouse a sense of spiritual urgency, that again can help us developing wholesome states of mind.

We can waist lots of time, doing the same things over and over again in meditation, if we don't sometimes pull back and look at what we are doing.

Guided meditation on contenment, which is a universial antidote to our hindrances.

Loving kindness meditation or metta-meditation is a type of practice that fulfils the whole eight fold path. It is a type of unconditional love, committed to the wellbeing of everybody − it is radically inclusive.

A guided loving kindness meditation, or kindfulness meditation.

When we are happy inside, we get to sit for a long time, and the longer we meditate, the more stillness and clarity is created for our development of wisdom.

One way of looking at the training is called the gradual training, which is a gradual refinement of wholesome happiness and freedom.

Letting be meditation is really simple, and works wonders on an active mind.

Anukampa's growing role as a haven for deep practice, inner peace, and wisdom.

How does the mind work? Often we don't understand, and we create problems for ourselves and others. But it IS possible to develop wisdom and to be free!

Jhana has become popular, but often dumbed down. So then it helps to have an overview of how aspects of the path fits together.

A longing for freedom is the first of the four bases of spiritual strength—energy, awareness, and understanding are the other three.

This talk is about the process the Buddha went through learning to meditate, starting with an experiences he had as a child, which teachers he met and learned from and how he was conditioned by other schools.

Metta meditation is the practice to develop the mind in such a way that this feeling of metta, this most exalted of human potentials, becomes a reality.

Mindfulness is not really meditation, but can be used as a type of meditation where we simply are aware of what is happening in your body and mind.

Early Buddhism is the Buddha's teachings that all traditions have in common − and which are not connected to a particular tradition. What is this doctrine, and what has come later?

Guided meditation focused on care and patience.

In this guided meditation, the body is first allowed to relax and be free, then the focus shifts to the mind and we take on the role of an observer only, leaving everything as it is.

Etter et retrett, hvordan kan vi fortsette vår praksis, hvordan kan vi overføre ferdighetene våre til hverdagen?

In this guided meditation, given deep into a longer retreat, the focus is on programming your mindfulness, which is not so much a doing, but a seeing.

Ajahn Nitho describes in this talk what wisdom is according to the teaching of the Buddha.

This talk is about loving kindness − what it is, how it affects our mind, different ways of doing loving kindness meditation, and how it connects to deep meditation and awakening.

This is a guided meditation that first focuses on our sensory impressions and allows them to calm down.

In this talk, Venerable Canda talks about guarding the sense doors, and the hindrances that arise in relation to the sensory world, with the goal to create clarity of mind.

Often the meditation object, for example the breath, is too subtle to focus on, maybe because your life is bussy with work, responsibilities and being social.