Six Senses Meditation Course with Bodhirasa Bhikkhu
24 Dec 2026 – 2 Jan 2027
Venue: Sāsanārakkha Buddhist Sanctuary Retreat Centre
Application & Info: https://tinyurl.com/six-senses-retreat
Closing date: 24 Nov 2026
Enquiry: [email protected]; +6011 1601 1198
About the teacher
Bodhirasa Bhikkhu was ordained in Sri Lanka in 2015 and took higher ordination in 2017 at Na Uyana monastery. He has taught 10-day and 40-day meditation retreats in India. This is his first time teaching in Malaysia.
A student of Pāḷi, he continues to develop the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary, a resource used worldwide by monastics, scholars, and meditators to support the study and translation of the ancient Indian language and the ideas contained in it.
As a sāmaṇera he was fortunate to meet Āyasmā Ariyadhammika, and has ever since followed a path of meditation in harmony with the earliest strata of Pāḷi texts.
He is fascinated by the evolution of Buddhist ideas, from the proverbial handful of leaves the Buddha held up, to the vast forest we have today.
Course Schedule
Everything you have ever known comes through the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. In this ten-day retreat we build up, step by step, continuity of awareness in all activities. Then we examine in detail what we find there, seeing, understanding, and changing our habitual responses. The approach is direct and experiential, suitable for beginners and experienced meditators alike.
Introduction to six sense meditation
Coming back to your senses
The first sense — eyes and sights
The second sense — ears and sounds
The third sense — nose and smells
The fourth sense — tongue and tastes
The fifth sense — body and physical sensations
The sixth sense — mind and mental phenomena
Cultivating open awareness
Noting what is happening
Overcoming the hindrances
Continuity of awareness
Progress in meditation
Phassa — how each experience arises dependently
Vedanā — the tone of every experience
Habitual responses to vedanā
Craving, aversion, and ignorance
Indriyabhāvanā — developing the sense faculties
Cultivating equanimity to experience
Every experience is changing — anicca
Every experience is unsatisfactory — dukkha
Every experience is impersonal — anattā
Integrating the meditation into daily life
Going deeper into the six senses
