Ajahn Brahm Guides Meditation on Patience, Offering Deeper Insight

Ajahn Brahm led an intermediate and advanced guided meditation class focused on patience on March 14, 2026, with the Buddhist Society of Western Australia releasing the recording across its podcast network and YouTube channel for public access.

The session centers on a teaching the BSWA describes with precision: "Ajahn teaches us the importance of patience and how it allows us to look more deeply into things." That framing positions patience not as passive waiting but as a contemplative tool, one that opens the door to deeper investigation of experience during practice.

The recording runs 1 hour and 21 minutes according to the YouTube listing, though the podcast episode descriptions on Apple Podcasts and Podbean characterize the class as "approximately one hour." The discrepancy likely reflects the difference between the full video upload and an edited audio version, though BSWA has not clarified the distinction publicly. Those wanting the complete session can find it under the title "Friday Night Guided Meditation" on the BSWA YouTube channel.

The episode is also available through the BSWA Podcast Channel, the BSWA DeeperDhamma Podbean channel, and Apple Podcasts. The BSWA podcast feed, which carries dharma talks from Ajahn Brahm and the Australian Forest Sangha of monks and nuns, has accumulated 14.9 million downloads across 4,161 episodes, making it one of the more substantial English-language Buddhist audio archives available to practitioners worldwide.

BSWA operates as a non-profit organization and publishes its site content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 license. The organization can be reached at tech@bswa.org for questions about the recordings or permissions.