Learn & Practise
Recordings & reflections
Ours is a pragmatic tradition: a teaching you cannot use is a teaching you have not yet understood. Every piece we publish ends with an experiment you can run before next week’s talk.
Applied Dhamma — test it this week
Ours is a practical training: every piece we publish ends with something you can try before the next talk. Written reflections are being prepared and will appear here.
A reading guide
- Start with one discourse, not a book. Read a single short sutta slowly, twice. Ask what it asks you to do, rather than what it asks you to believe.
- Use a translator you can follow. Translations differ. Read the same discourse in two, and the difference will teach you something.
- Keep a note of what you tested. A line or two after a week of practice is worth more than pages of notes on theory.
Where to read the suttas
- dhammatalks.org — translations and talks by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
- Access to Insight — a long-standing library of translations and study guides.
We deliberately do not reproduce sutta text on this site. The translators' own pages carry the notes and context that make a discourse readable, and their work is theirs.