Buddha Bodhivana Monastery

Buddha Bodhivana Monastery Buddha Bodhivana is a Buddhist monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. It's located in East Warburton, about a 1 1/2 hours drive from Melbourne.

Daily Schedule
10:15 am - Pindapata and Food Offering
10:45 am - Meal
11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Dhamma Teaching
PLEASE NOTE GATES CLOSE 12.00pm

For online donations, visit: https://www.buddhabodhivana.org/support

Clean Up The Monastery, Clean Up Your Mind !We express our Anumodana and appreciation to all the volunteers who helped w...
13/09/2026

Clean Up The Monastery, Clean Up Your Mind !

We express our Anumodana and appreciation to all the volunteers who helped with gardening, painting and cleaning up at the monastery today.

A River Always Flows DownhillSo the Buddha taught us to probe and examine the body, from the soles of the feet up to the...
03/09/2026

A River Always Flows Downhill

So the Buddha taught us to probe and examine the body, from the soles of the feet up to the crown of the head, and then back down to the feet again. Just take a look at the body. What sort of things do you see? Is there anything intrinsically clean there? Can you find any abiding essence? This whole body is steadily degenerating. The Buddha taught us to see that it doesn't belong to us. It's natural for the body to be this way, because all conditioned phenomena are subject to change. How else would you have it? In fact there is nothing wrong with the way the body is. It's not the body that causes suffering, it's wrong thinking. When you see things in the wrong way, there's bound to be confusion.

It's like the water of a river. It naturally flows downhill, it never flows uphill. That's it's nature. If a person was to go and stand on the river bank and want the water to flow back uphill, he would be foolish. Wherever he went his foolish thinking would allow him no peace of mind. He would suffer because of his wrong view, his thinking against the stream. If he had right view he would see that the water must inevitably flow downhill, and until he realized and accepted that fact he would be bewildered and frustrated.

The river that must flow down the gradient is like your body. Having been young your body's become old and is meandering towards its death. Don't go wishing it were otherwise, it's not something you have the power to remedy. The Buddha told us to see the way things are and then let go of our clinging to them. Take this feeling of letting go as your refuge. Keep meditating even if you feel tired and exhausted. Let your mind be with the breath. Take a few deep breaths and then establish the attention on the breath, using the mantra word Bud-dho. Make this practice continual. The more exhausted you feel the more subtle and focused your concentration must be, so that you can cope with any painful sensations that arise. When you start to feel fatigued then bring all your thinking to a halt, let the mind gather itself together and then turn to knowing the breath. Just keep up the inner recitation, Bud-dho, Bud-dho.

Venerable Ajahn Chah

We thank the monastery supporters and volunteers from LinC Yarra Valley who helped distribute a gift of food items to those in need today.

MonkeyLet me give you an example. Suppose you have a pet monkey at home. It doesn't sit still. It likes to jump around a...
20/08/2026

Monkey

Let me give you an example. Suppose you have a pet monkey at home. It doesn't sit still. It likes to jump around and grab hold of things. That's how monkeys are. Now you come to the monastery. We have a monkey here too, and this monkey doesn't stay still either. It jumps around and grabs things just the same, but it doesn't irritate you, does it? Why? Because you're acquainted with monkeys. You know what they're like. If you know just one monkey, no matter how many provinces you go to, no matter how many monkeys you see, they don't irritate you, right? That's someone who understands monkeys.

If we understand monkeys then we won't become monkeys. If you don't understand monkeys, then as soon as you see a monkey, you become a monkey yourself, right? When you see it grabbing this and that, you think, "Grrr!" You get angry and irritated. "That damned monkey!" That's someone who doesn't understand monkeys. Someone who knows monkeys sees that the monkey at home and the monkey in the monastery are the same monkey, and so why should they irritate you? When you understand what monkeys are like, that's enough. You can be at peace. If the monkey runs around, it's only the monkey running. You don't run around with it. You don't become a monkey too. If it jumps in front of you and behind you, you don't get irritated by the monkey — because you understand monkeys, and so you don't become a monkey. If you don't understand monkeys, you become a monkey — understand? This is how things grow calm.

Venerable Ajahn Chah

We express thanks and appreciation to the monastery supporters and volunteers from LinC Yarra Valley, who collected a donation of food items to be given to those in need in the Yarra Valley.

พิธีถวายมุทิตาสักการะหลวงพ่อกัลยาโณ (พระโสภณภาวนาวิเทศ)เจ้าอาวาสวัดพุทธโพธิวัน ประเทศออสเตรเลีย รองประธาน สหภาพพระธรรมทู...
14/08/2026

พิธีถวายมุทิตาสักการะ

หลวงพ่อกัลยาโณ
(พระโสภณภาวนาวิเทศ)เจ้าอาวาสวัดพุทธโพธิวัน ประเทศออสเตรเลีย รองประธาน สหภาพพระธรรมทูตไทยในโอเชียเนีย ได้รับมอบหมายจาก พระราชวชิรธรรมวิเทศ (เศรษฐกิจ สมาหิโต) เจ้าอาวาส วัดนาคปรก ประธานสหภาพพระธรรมทูตไทยในโอเชียเนีย ให้เป็นผู้แทนคณะสงฆ์พระธรรมทูตไทยในโอเชียเนีย ถวายรายงานต่อเจ้าประคุณสมเด็จพระวชิรสิทธาจารย์ (ธงชัย สุขญาโณ) เจ้าอาวาสพระอารามหลวงวัดสระเกศ, กรรมการมหาเถรสมาคม ในพิธีสามีจิกรรมถวายความเคารพคารวะ เนื่องในเทศกาลเข้าพรรษา และถวายมุทิตาสักการะเนื่องในโอกาสที่ท่านได้รับพระราชทานสถาปนาเป็นสมเด็จพระราชาคณะ

Luang Por Kalyano was invited by Phra Rajavajiradhammavitet (Sethakij Samahito) to lead the Sanghas of Australia and New Zealand in paying respects and expressing mudita for Somdet Phra Vajirasiddhiajahn (Tongchai Sukhanyano) of Wat Saket (Temple of the Golden Mount) on the occasion of entering the annual rains retreat (vassa) 2026.

Address

780 Woods Point Road
East Warburton, VIC
3799

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 12pm
Tuesday 9am - 12pm
Wednesday 9am - 12pm
Thursday 9am - 12pm
Friday 9am - 12pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm
Sunday 9am - 12pm

Telephone

+61488993899

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