Dhamma Talks for download:
Metta Meditation
(6Mb mp3) - uploaded 07.08.2008
Right Effort
(14.5Mb mp3) - uploaded 07.08.2008
Sila - Five Precepts
(17.4Mb mp3) - uploaded 07.08.2008
Anapanasati
(4.9Mb mp3) - uploaded 09.07.2008
May I Abide in Well Being
(11.5Mb mp3) - uploaded 09.07.2008
Mindfulness of the Body - Body Sweeping
(10.8Mb mp3) - uploaded 09.07.2008
What to Pay Attention To
(3.2Mb mp3) - uploaded 05.06.2008
Five Hindrances, Seven Factors of Enlightenment
(7Mb mp3) - uploaded 05.06.2008
Dealing With Uncertainty
(4.5Mb mp3) - uploaded 05.06.2008
Vesak Talk 2007
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 03.06.2007
What's Important?
(10Mb mp3) - uploaded 09.07.2006
Ten Recollections
(12Mb mp3) - uploaded 09.06.2006
Waking Up
(10Mb mp3) - uploaded 09.05.2006
Causality
(16Mb mp3) - uploaded 07.04.2006
Perverted Views
(11Mb mp3) - uploaded 08.03.2006
Where Does the World End
(10Mb mp3) - uploaded 08.03.2006
Protecting Oneself One Protects Others
(8Mb mp3) - uploaded 06.02.2006
Right View
(4Mb mp3) - uploaded 06.02.2006
Take a Look at Your Body
(10Mb mp3) - uploaded 03.01.2006
Vesak Talk 2002
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 03.01.2006
Freedom From Birth and Death
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 13.12.2005
Four Noble Truths and Eight-Fold Path
(12Mb mp3) - uploaded 13.12.2005
Biography
Venerable Vajiro (Phil Gunton) was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in
1953. He was educated at Lancing College in England, and went on to
study Economics at Bath University. Upon graduating in 1974, he took up
a career in accountancy. During this period, a friend encouraged him to
go on a ten-day meditation retreat with John Coleman at the Oakenholt
Buddhist Centre near Oxford. He attended further retreats there in 1976
and 1977.
Hearing about the visit Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho
made to Oakenholt in 1977, he went to meet them at the Hampstead Vihara.
He eventually moved next door to the vihara, while continuing his
training as an accountant. In 1978, however, he asked to join the
community as an anagarika; he left for Thailand just after the community
moved out of London to Chithurst in June 1979. In October that year he
became a samanera, and he received upasampada from Ajahn Chah in June
the following year.
Venerable Vajiro returned to England in 1984, and assisted with the
establishment of Amaravati Buddhist Centre. From 1985 to 1986 he resided
at Harnham Buddhist Monastery and from 1986 to 1993 he lived at
'Cittaviveka'. Then between 1993 and 1998 he led the community in
'Bodhinyanarama' Wellington, New Zealand. He spent the following three
years living quietly in the hermitage 'Sanghaloka' near Melbourne,
Australia. Before moving to Amaravati
Buddhist Monastery, where he presently resides.
