Buddhist Society of Western Australia
Inducted in 2026
Why it is in the collection
This channel is not made for the algorithm, and that is precisely its virtue. It is a faithful record of what happens each week in a meditation hall in Perth: no editing, no hook, nothing trimmed. Publishing for years something nobody designed to circulate is a quiet form of integrity.
It is in the collection for its continuity. A single talk on meditation is forgotten; a guided meditation every Friday, sustained without a break, becomes something else — a companionship available to anyone with no community within reach. What is exceptional here is not any particular video but the steadiness of the whole.
It matters to us, too, that monks and nuns both teach, and that the sutta sessions are given over to reading the texts slowly rather than summarising them. Everything is offered freely, as this tradition has it, with no paywall and nothing asked in return. The teaching is given; those who can, support it. That order strikes us as the right one.
About this channel
This channel holds the dharma talks recorded by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia at the Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre in Perth. The monks who teach belong to the sangha at Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine, the nuns to Dhammasara in Gidgegannup; among those appearing regularly are Ajahn Brahm, Ajahn Hasapanna, Ajahn Nibbuto, Ajahn Sampasadana, Ajahn Mudito, Ajahn Pasada, Venerable Canda and Venerable Radha.
The material is, in large part, an archive of a monastic community teaching in the open. There is the Friday night guided meditation, week after week, with different teachers. There is the Boundless meditation group, with talks on concrete matters of practice and of living together: building a good culture, right intention, dispelling darkness, the feeling of coming home. And there are the sutta discussions, in which a text from the canon is read and unhurriedly commented upon.
There is no elaborate production and no concession to format: these are recordings of what actually happened in the hall, at their real length and real pace. What a newcomer finds is practicable meditation instruction, Theravada Buddhist teaching set out in plain English and with humour, and the possibility of following a practice continuously from anywhere in the world, at no cost and without needing to belong to anything. The archive is published with the date of each session, so it can be followed week by week or searched for a particular talk on a particular subject.