//podcastplus.net/feed/dhammapada-part-ii~2f4464f0 A series on the Dhammapada, a set of 423 verse teachings given by the Buddha, including explanation of the Pali verse, a synopsis of the background story and application of the teaching to our practice by Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu.This Dhammapada Part II podcast includes Chapters 18-26 (Verses 235-423). New episodes are published each week in this podcast. Verses 1-234 from Chapters 1-17 have already been published in Dhammapada Part I podcast. Please subscribe to Dhammapada Part I to listen to the earlier verses.Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu is a Canadian-born Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in 2001 under the guidance of Venerable Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo. He has taught meditation courses in the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition since 2003 and gives online teachings via YouTube, as well as Dhamma talks to both intensive meditators and by invitation to the general public. Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:09:09 +0000 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/HIM1yKvW2sg.mp3 Verse 291 Entangled by the bonds of hate, he who seeks his own happiness by inflicting pain on others, is never delivered from hatred. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp290-305/en/buddharakkhita#291 Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:01:29 +0000 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/HIM1yKvW2sg.mp3 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/TZ9PHpF7h60.mp3 Verse 290 If by renouncing a lesser happiness one may realize a greater happiness, let the wise man renounce the lesser, having regard for the greater. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp290-305/en/buddharakkhita#290 Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/TZ9PHpF7h60.mp3 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/76Ltp7iJTkw.mp3 Verse 288 For him who is assailed by death there is no protection by kinsmen. None there are to save him—no sons, nor father, nor relatives. Verse 289 Realizing this fact, let the wise man, restrained by morality, hasten to clear the path leading to Nibbana. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp273-289/en/buddharakkhita#288 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/76Ltp7iJTkw.mp3 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/g1ADQOVsnMM.mp3 Verse 287 As a great flood carries away a sleeping village, so death seizes and carries away the man with a clinging mind, doting on his children and cattle. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp273-289/en/buddharakkhita#287 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/g1ADQOVsnMM.mp3 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/XnTtM-zo7EU.mp3 Verse 286 “Here shall I live during the rains, here in winter and summer”—thus thinks the fool. He does not realize the danger (that death might intervene). (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp273-289/en/buddharakkhita#286 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:38:00 +0000 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/XnTtM-zo7EU.mp3 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/3r-FENe2Hxs.mp3 Verse 285 Cut off your affection in the manner of a man who plucks with his hand an autumn lotus. Cultivate only the path to peace, Nibbana, as made known by the Exalted One. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp273-289/en/buddharakkhita#285 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:57:00 +0000 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/3r-FENe2Hxs.mp3 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/3r-FENe2Hxs.mp3 Verse 285 Cut off your affection in the manner of a man who plucks with his hand an autumn lotus. Cultivate only the path to peace, Nibbana, as made known by the Exalted One. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp273-289/en/buddharakkhita#285 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:57:00 +0000 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/3r-FENe2Hxs.mp3 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/ZGA48LTLp0E.mp3 Verse 283 Cut down the forest (lust), but not the tree; from the forest springs fear. Having cut down the forest and the underbrush (desire), be passionless, O monks! Verse 284 For so long as the underbrush of desire, even the most subtle, of a man towards a woman is not cut down, his mind is in bondage, like the sucking calf to its mother. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp273-289/en/buddharakkhita#283 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:42:59 +0000 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/ZGA48LTLp0E.mp3 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/ZGA48LTLp0E.mp3 Verse 283 Cut down the forest (lust), but not the tree; from the forest springs fear. Having cut down the forest and the underbrush (desire), be passionless, O monks! Verse 284 For so long as the underbrush of desire, even the most subtle, of a man towards a woman is not cut down, his mind is in bondage, like the sucking calf to its mother. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp273-289/en/buddharakkhita#283 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:42:59 +0000 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/ZGA48LTLp0E.mp3 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/G5y2De2qujg.mp3 Verse 282 Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes. Having known these two paths of progress and decline, let a man so conduct himself that his wisdom may increase. (Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita) Our podcasts: https://podcast.sirimangalo.org/ How To Meditate Booklet: https://htm.sirimangalo.org/ Our Meditation Community and At-Home Meditation Course signup page: https://meditation.sirimangalo.org/ Our Website: https://www.sirimangalo.org/ Supporting This Work: https://www.sirimangalo.org/support Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp273-289/en/buddharakkhita#282 Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:55:00 +0000 https://sirimangalo-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast-mirror/G5y2De2qujg.mp3