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eBook:

1. Encouragements Towards Awakening

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2. Daily Life

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3. Towards the End of Forgiveness plus Angulimala audio file

Essays by Bhante Bodhidhamma:

1. Vipassana as taught by the Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma
2. Is Armed Intervention Ever Justified?
3. Free will: is it available or useful?
4. Could I be a fundamentalist, even a terrorist?
5. Perfection, Elitism and Excellence
6. What benefit is there in becoming a temporary monastic?
7. The ‘Unlucky’ Death of a Two Year Old Boy
8. Expectation, Aspiration and Hope
9. Assisted Suicide (PDF document)
10. Vipassana, Therapy and Medicinal Drugs (PDF document)

Introductory essays about Buddhism by Bhante Bodhidhamma:

1. The First Noble Truth of Suffering -- Dukkha
2. The First Noble Truth of Suffering -- The Five Aggregates
3. The First Noble Truth of Suffering -- The Three Characteristics
4. The Second Noble Truth -- Desire
5. The Second Noble Truth -- The Wheel of Dependent Origination
6. The Second Noble Truth -- Kamma Vipaka
7. The Fourth Noble Truth -- Morality
8. The Fourth Noble Truth -- Perfections
9. The Fourth Noble Truth -- Right Understanding
10. The Fourth Noble Truth -- Mental Development
11. Meditation in Ordinary Daily Life

Satipanya - the Retreat

1. How Satipanya Buddhist Retreat Came About
2. Opening Day Celebration
3. The Guests at the Opening Ceremony

   See the pictures of the Opening Ceremony in the Archive Gallery.

Introductory essays about Buddhism by Noirin Sheahan:

1. Satipanya Porridge
2. The “Ouch” that hurt!
3. Coming down to earth (PDF document)
4. Extending the limits of good-will (PDF document)
5. Metta for a Cold Heart(PDF document)
6. The Fourth Noble Truth (PDF document)
7. Struggling with Anatta (PDF document)