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Sutta Study: “The Honeyball Sutta” With Ayya Brahmavara This program includes reading and discussion of a sutta from the Pali canon. This week, we are delighted to be joined online from the UK by Ayya Brahmavara, who will be offering teachings on the Madhupiṇḍikasutta, “The Honeyball Sutta” (MN18). --- Dhammadharini is in Winter Retreat for the months of February and March. Our teaching and practice theme for the Winter Retreat time is “From Clear Knowing to a Boundless Heart”. See here for more details of our retreat time teaching program: https://www.dhammadharini.net/post/2026-winter-retreat Support programs like these: https://www.dhammadharini.net/support

Guided Meditation: "Continuous Awareness, Developing Right Attitude" with Ven Kaccayana Bhikkhuni --- Dhammadharini is in Winter Retreat for the months of February and March. Our teaching and practice theme for the Winter Retreat time is “From Clear Knowing to a Boundless Heart”. See here for more details of our retreat time teaching program: https://www.dhammadharini.net/post/2026-winter-retreat Support programs like these: https://www.dhammadharini.net/support

Sutta Study: “The Fruits of Recluseship” with Sayadaw U Jagara --- Dhammadharini is in Winter Retreat for the months of February and March. Our teaching and practice theme for the Winter Retreat time is “From Clear Knowing to a Boundless Heart”. See here for more details of our retreat time teaching program: https://www.dhammadharini.net/post/2026-winter-retreat Support programs like these: https://www.dhammadharini.net/support

Guided meditation with Ven. Kaccayana Bhikkhuni --- Dhammadharini is in Winter Retreat for the months of February and March. Our teaching and practice theme for the Winter Retreat time is “From Clear Knowing to a Boundless Heart”. See here for more details of our retreat time teaching program: https://www.dhammadharini.net/post/2026-winter-retreat Support programs like these: https://www.dhammadharini.net/support

Honoring the Parinibbana Day of Mahapajapati Gotami What is the significance of this anniversary? Nearly a week ago, we commemorated Magha Puja, on the full moon of the Indic lunar month of Magha. That day remembers several great events in the Sangha and the life of the Buddha: His appointment of his chief disciples, his teaching of the “Ovada Patimokkha,” and - in his 80th year of life - his announcement that his Mahaparinibbana would be coming in three months time. Canonical traditions tell us that, hearing the Buddha’s announcement that his Mahaparinibbana was near, she - along with 500 other arahant Bhikkhunis who had been with her since the founding of the Bhikkhuni Sangha - decided that it was time for her own Parinibbana. She commenced seven straight days of teaching, a final sharing of her wisdom with her community. Then, on the Atthami Uposatha, the lunar eighth day, which is the half moon day following the Magha full moon – the great arahanti Maha Gotami Theri and the Courageous Founding 500 Great Arahanti Bhikkhunis entered their final nirvana (their Parinibbana) together. The texts tell us that this event was more grand, even, than the final nirvana of the Buddha, because the Buddha himself was in attendance. The Buddha asked Mahapajapati to display miracles, to dispel the wrong view of any who doubt the spiritual attainments of women. The devas and brahmas and many other beings mourned her, as her body was carried to the funeral pyre. The Buddha himself offered Maha Gotami’s eulogy, her cremains held in her alms bowl in his hands, before their enshrinement, at the Buddha’s direction, in a stupa in Vaishali (Vesali). --- Dhammadharini is in Winter Retreat for the months of February and March. Our teaching and practice theme for the Winter Retreat time is “From Clear Knowing to a Boundless Heart”. See here for more details of our retreat time teaching program: https://www.dhammadharini.net/post/2026-winter-retreat Support programs like these: https://www.dhammadharini.net/support

Sutta Study: Sabbasava Sutta, With Ven. Kaccayana Bhikkhuni Dhammadharini is in Winter Retreat for the months of February and March. Our teaching and practice theme for the Winter Retreat time is “From Clear Knowing to a Boundless Heart”. See here for more details of our retreat time teaching program: https://www.dhammadharini.net/post/2026-winter-retreat Support programs like these: https://www.dhammadharini.net/support

Guided Meditation on “Receptive Awareness” With Ven. Kaccayana Bhikkhuni Dhammadharini is in Winter Retreat for the months of February and March. Our teaching and practice theme for the Winter Retreat time is “From Clear Knowing to a Boundless Heart”. See here for more details of our retreat time teaching program: https://www.dhammadharini.net/post/2026-winter-retreat Support programs like these: https://www.dhammadharini.net/support

Sutta Study: Satipaṭṭhānasutta, “Mindfulness Meditation” With Ven. Kaccayana Bhikkhuni Dhammadharini is entering Winter Retreat for the months of February and March. Our teaching and practice theme for the Winter Retreat time is “From Clear Knowing to a Boundless Heart”. Today's Sutta Study is the first of our Winter Retreat teaching programs on this theme Support programs like these: https://www.dhammadharini.net/support