Lifetimes of Learning
Religion & Spirituality Podcas
The Lifetimes of Learning Podcast is a production of the Buddhist Discussion Centre Australia, a home-grown non-sectarian Buddhist Temple, founded in 1978. Buddhist Education Centre is a part of the Buddhist Discussion Centre Australia. Our vision and mission are to spread the Budda’s teachings to foster more wisdom and reduce suffering, to support the Buddhist communities and to help anyone who wish to learn and practice the Buddhist path. We offer the teachings and resources free of charge and ensure our volunteer teachers are easily accessible. We embrace a culture of professionalism, culturally adaptability, practicality, scholarship in all our activities. and Our current small community size has not limited us in our mission. You can find out more about our Centre and what we do to enable our vision and mission on www.buddhisteducationcentre.org.au We are a Regional Centre of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, a Member of The Buddhist Council of Victoria, and an Associated Institution of the World Buddhist University. Thank you for listening to our podcast. If you enjoy them and wish to support us and our mission to allow the content to reach those who connect with our style of teaching and sharing. We would welcome and be grateful of your donation and be our Patreon. Patreon page link- https://www.patreon.com/BuddhistDiscussionCentreAustralia
Location:
Australia
Description:
The Lifetimes of Learning Podcast is a production of the Buddhist Discussion Centre Australia, a home-grown non-sectarian Buddhist Temple, founded in 1978. Buddhist Education Centre is a part of the Buddhist Discussion Centre Australia. Our vision and mission are to spread the Budda’s teachings to foster more wisdom and reduce suffering, to support the Buddhist communities and to help anyone who wish to learn and practice the Buddhist path. We offer the teachings and resources free of charge and ensure our volunteer teachers are easily accessible. We embrace a culture of professionalism, culturally adaptability, practicality, scholarship in all our activities. and Our current small community size has not limited us in our mission. You can find out more about our Centre and what we do to enable our vision and mission on www.buddhisteducationcentre.org.au We are a Regional Centre of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, a Member of The Buddhist Council of Victoria, and an Associated Institution of the World Buddhist University. Thank you for listening to our podcast. If you enjoy them and wish to support us and our mission to allow the content to reach those who connect with our style of teaching and sharing. We would welcome and be grateful of your donation and be our Patreon. Patreon page link- https://www.patreon.com/BuddhistDiscussionCentreAustralia
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.bdcu.org.au/
Email:
wbu@bdcu.org.au
Episodes
Merit for Wellbeing and Happiness
8/15/2025
Length (41 mins) Level: All
How we live now produces our future, Not only produces the external environment we experience but it produces our internal mental world. We are a product of ourself.
If we understand merit we can contribute beneficially to the shift in our mental state everyday of our life. As long as we are contributing the right thoughts, the right words and the right actions which are positive and wholesome the shift will be positive, the shift will be beneficial for you, and it will be beneficial for the people you know because you are contributing positives to their world.
This is the nature of the journey that we are on in life, and its based on kamma. The good kamma we perform is called merit. How we live moment to moment is therefore very powerful.
Duration:00:41:21
How Karma Works
8/15/2025
Length (25 mins) Level: All
This talk introduces a Buddhist Teaching on the subject of kamma. What is the relevance of kamma to our life here and now? What is kamma and how does it work? How is kamma related to my wellbeing and happiness? These are some of the questions that are discussed in depth.
Kamma is not just about our external world, it is just as significantly about our internal world. Even the way we think, our perceptions and dispositions are direct reflections of how we thought and acted in the past. Understanding how kamma works gives us great power to fashion our future and who we will become.
Duration:00:24:47
Develop Your Good Heart
8/15/2025
Length (32 mins) Level: All
To develop our good heart may sound very good, but what does it mean? How do you develop your good heart and how does that help in your journey through your life?
This discussion of good heart starts with the basic underlying ground of our mind, which is our awareness. From cultivating and developing our awareness in the right way comes brightness, clarity and eventually wisdom, and brings with it many good qualities of mind, which together we could call our good heart.
Developing our good heart can offer us more meaning and understanding in our life, enabling us to be happier and helping us to look after our true wellbeing.
Duration:00:31:56
How to Give Up Doubt
8/13/2024
This talk is part of a series on 'How to overcome five hindrances' and it focuses on the hindrance of doubt and how to let it go.
The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states.
This podcast introduces the hindrance of doubt so we can understand how it functions as negative mental states we experience and what skills and methods we can learn and practice to reduce its intensity, let it go and eventually abandoning doubt completely.
Length: 74min
Level: Beginner
Duration:01:14:27
How to Give Up Sense Desire
8/13/2024
This talk is part of a series on 'How to overcome five hindrances' and it focuses on the hindrance of sense desire and how to let it go.
The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states.
This podcast introduces the hindrance of sense desire so we can understand how it functions as a negative mental condition and what skills and methods we can learn and practice to reduce sense desire, let it go, and eventually abandon it completely.
Length: 62min
Level: Beginner
Duration:01:01:08
How To Give Up Ill Will - Part Two
2/6/2024
The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states. This podcast introduces the hindrance of ill will, so we can understand how they function as negative mental states and what skills and methods we can learn and practice to let them go, reduce their intensity and eventually abandoning them completely.
Duration:00:32:40
How To Give Up Ill Will - Part One
2/6/2024
The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states. This talk introduces the hindrance of ill will, so we can understand how they function as negative mental states and what skills and methods we can learn and practice to let them go, reduce their intensity and eventually abandoning them completely.
Duration:00:48:56
Introduction To The Five Hinderances
2/6/2024
The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states.
Duration:00:27:20
How to Give Up Worrying
1/2/2024
This talk is part of a series on 'How to overcome five hindrances' and it focuses on the hindrance of anxiousness and worry and how to let it go.
The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states. When we understand how they function as negative mental states and learn the skills and methods to let them go, we can reduce their intensity and eventually abandon them completely and be free from their negative effects.
Length: 58min
Level: Beginner
Duration:00:58:35
How to Give Up Laziness
1/2/2024
This talk is part of a series on 'How to overcome five hindrances' and it focuses on the hindrance of sloth and torpor, or laziness, dullness and heaviness, and how to let them go.
The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states. When we understand how they function as negative mental states and learn the skills and methods to let them go, we can reduce their intensity and eventually abandon them completely and be free from their negative effects.
Length: 1hr7mins
Level: Beginner
Duration:01:07:00
Tolerance and Respect as a Buddhist
3/20/2023
In this podcast, we will cover a teaching titled "Tolerance and Respect as a Buddhist". This article includes a paper called “A Fair Go for All” by John D. Hughes, who was the Founder of The Buddhist Discussion Centre. It was a paper presented at the International Conference on Religious Cooperation, Taiwan, 2001.
Level: Beginners / Length: 14mins 04secs
Duration:00:14:04
Kesamutti Sutta
3/20/2023
In this podcast, we will cover a teaching titled "Kesamutti Sutta". In this sutta you will find an acid test of Truth which if used produces a conclusive result as to the worth of any teaching.
Level: Intermediate / Length: 20mins 14secs.
Duration:00:20:14
Is the door of your heart open to yourself?
3/20/2023
In this podcast, we will cover a teaching titled "Is the door of your heart open to yourself?". The article provides a detailed explanation of the dangers and difficulties associated with the unwholesome mind state of anger or hatred.
Level: Beginners - Intermediate / Length: 31mins14sec
Duration:00:31:13
Buddhist Practices for Peace and Solidarity in Times of Conflict
3/20/2023
In this podcast, we will cover a teaching titled "Buddhist Practices for Peace and Solidarity in Times of Conflict", a talk presented by Frank Carter, President of the Buddhist Discussion Centre Australia, on a scholar’s panel presentation held during the International United Nations Day of Vesak commemoration in Bangkok, Thailand on the 13th of May 2022.
Level: Beginners / Length: 30mins 37secs.
Duration:00:30:36
The Removal of Sceptical Doubt for a Buddha Dhamma Practitioner
11/28/2022
One of the first steps on the Buddha Dhamma Path for the practitioner is to access correct confidence, called saddha in the Pali language.
This podcast outlines why saddha is so important to real improvement and the disadvantages of it’s opposite which is doubt. Doubt is regarded as one of the Five Hindrances to spiritual growth.
If you wish to support us and our mission, we invite you to be our patron by following Buddhist Discussion Centre Australia Patreon link https://www.patreon.com/BuddhistDiscussionCentreAustralia
Duration:00:20:31
The Expedient Study of Chan
11/28/2022
(Length 25:11) (Level: Beginner)
In this podcast, we will cover a Dharma Teaching titled “ The Expedient Study of Ch’an" by the Venerable Pai Sen.
This teaching explains the practice of seated meditation, its importance particularly in relation to the needs of the beginner when applying themselves to the study of Chan, and the view of Chan School.
If you wish to support us and our mission, we invite you to be our patron by following Buddhist Discussion Centre Australia Patreon link https://www.patreon.com/BuddhistDiscussionCentreAustralia
Duration:00:31:34
Sati Protects the Citta
11/28/2022
Length (19:03) Level: Beginner – Intermediate
This podcast is a talk given by Luang Poo Thate at Wat Hin Mark Peng On November 15, 1980, titled 'Sati Protects The Citta'. This talk was translated by Steven Towler.
If you wish to support us and our mission, we invite you to be our patron by following Buddhist Discussion Centre Australia Patreon link https://www.patreon.com/BuddhistDiscussionCentreAustralia
Duration:00:19:03
How Buddhists Should Welcome the Twenty-first Century
11/28/2022
(Length 13:08) (Level: Beginner)
In this podcast, we will cover a Dharma Teaching titled “ How Buddhists should welcome the 21st Century"
On approaching the turn of the millennium (2000) renowned Buddhist scholar and author Dr.Ananda W.P. Guruge (Late) revisits the vast scope and breadth of mankind’s technological advances and asks of us to weigh up the existential threat to humanity and the profound inequities that have arisen from the concentration of wealth and power that has resulted.
Dr Guruge reaches back to the ancient past to look for a way forward for our world.
If you wish to support us and our mission, we invite you to be our patron by following Buddhist Discussion Centre Australia Patreon link https://www.patreon.com/BuddhistDiscussionCentreAustralia
Duration:00:13:12
The Proactive Mind
3/22/2022
In this podcast, we will cover a teaching titled "The Proactive Mind", it highlights the important qualities of a pro-active versus a reactive mind.
Duration:00:12:54
Thank you to Father and Ancestors
3/22/2022
In this podcast, we will cover a teaching titled "Thank you to Father and Ancestors", written by the Abbot of Buddhist Discussion Centre Australia, Anita Carter. It explains the importance of honouring our Fathers and Ancestors.
Duration:00:16:00