Have you seen the ad content Bhante? Yikes! Blessings to you 🙏🙏🙏

Sadu Bhante

Thank you so much for this! ❤🙏

Bhante, hope you don't have to pay royalties to the lawyers .. although it's a very good clip today . Thank you

Bhante, wonderful discussion today. I am currently experiencing my mother's decline in health issues. Thank you

Buddhism is a pathway, It is not a religion, However, Christ Jesus is the way , truth and life . And Mother Theresa is a Saint, period. No making is necessary.

This is not a competent monk

Bhante. Recently I had an experience

There are 3 interposed bodies for beings in the physical world. The body that requires food that we're most familiar with, the ethereal body that animates the physical body (our ghost, essentially), and the formless, mind-only "body" which performs all of the mental and cognitive functions using whatever brain that particular body has to work with. When the physical body dies, you're still left with the two remaining bodies which carry on the extent karmic tendencies since they're stored in the mind/mind-only formless body. Through meditation and attaining Cessation (of feeling and perception) you go beyond even the mind-only formless realm of being, which is why the mind stops and the karmic seeds of the defilements related to perception and feeling are destroyed. Take the batteries out, and they die. The battery is a mind that nurtures defilements through habitual tendencies. No mind, no habit, no tendencies. A full reboot. Fresh new mind.

Great to have these clips as a reference. Thank you

I answered this for myself by turning the question around. On retreats, in mediation, I looked for a self. Never ever found one. Only found sense doors, contact and conciousness arising. It's all just processes arising and passing away 🙂. This is described in depth in Dependent Origination, but is best experiened directly.

We're not going to find it intellectualizing about it.

Bet

Thank you, Bhante. I enjoyed the English today. It touched a little deeper. Laylife distractions and being a senior add their extra fetters, attachments and hindrances but enjoying the middle way. Sadhu

Love these excerpts "just like us" but.. Practice makes perfect!!

Good luck Bhante!!

Bhante, These are a wonderful. Thank you for posting them. Keep safe and well

Brother, I have no idea what you are doing here, but I think you are praying to Buda!

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Thank you for sharing and a nice outline of how to set wise aspirations. I’ll do the same!

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Having the teachings available in Spanish is a very good idea, that's projected to be the majority language of America in the soon approaching decades.

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5 aggregates subject to clinging, origins and passing away 👍 sadhu

thank you for the wisdom

I feel very grateful for these dhamma talks. Sadhu Bhante. 🙏

Investigate the journey of the food?

Hi Bhante, these clips are helpful tips and reminders. Thank you for posting them for all to use for their practice. Keep cool and well.

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Thanks

This is an ongoing problem for me. I don't garden, but ants literally PILE into my house through the front door when the weather gets too hot outside. I keep my kitchen very clean every summer, hoping this will deter them, but to no avail. Eventually, I always resort to placing bait. If not, they get into and onto everything to the point that I can't even cook in my home because the counter tops, stove, and EMPTY AND DRY sink are all overrun with ants.

Bhante J you are always spot on. Thank you for your continued wisdom and loving kindness. Talk to you later friend

Sadhu.. Shadu.. Shadu

Thank you Bhante. Very helpful 🙏

Those who claim Maitreya Buddha won't appear for millions or billions of years are false teachers who fear being exposed by His Light.

Thank you Bhante for these clips This one is timely since I have a room full of fleas. I am all bit up from a week of trying to keep from killing them. Instead they multiply and are harming others who use the room. I thought I was not harming the insects but now I am putting others in danger. I will use your thoughts to reflect upon my situation. Thank you

Wow Bhante...It is really inspiring and amazing ❤

If there is non self than who is making the choice, you said we have a choice?

The question remains is there a “something” that notices the anger arise and stops the emotion?

This is the bhante I’ve been searching for

In a world gone blind, I beat the drum of the deathless - Buddha The deathless is the Atman And There is, monks, an unborn[1] - unbecome - unmade - unfabricated. If there were not that unborn - unbecome - unmade - unfabricated, there would not be the case that escape from the born - become - made - fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn - unbecome - unmade - unfabricated, escape from the born - become - made - fabricated is discerned.[2] - Buddha And again, the Atman. The Buddha didn't teach there is no Atman. He taught the mind and the body aren't the Atman. The no self teachings are about the mind and body, not the Atman/Buddha nature/Primordial citta/Deathless/ etc etc. No Atman = after you become an Arahant, and pass away, you destroy yourself. If there's no Atman, what happens to you after you escape from rebirth? You just go out of existence. This is self destruction. Nihilism. The Buddha didn't teach that. The Buddhas Atman is alive right now. He came to visit Ajahn Mun after Ajahn Mun became an Arahant. Buddhism isn't nihilism.

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Hello Bhante

Thank you Bhante and Dhamma friends for the delightful Q&A. I did not feel well enough to participate live. 🙏

But if there is no-self who is doing the Karma and who is choosing?

This is interesting as I listen to Dhamma talks every night and during the day if I can. I never saw this as entertainment? I listen to understand as this Avija is strong, I seek specific subjects to listen to in order to understand as I don't have a teacher - no teacher, how else can we learn? The Buddha himsef said this takes a long, long time to understand and he's right. I suppose when I think of this I see what you are saying but you need to understand the layperson is subject to algorithms that hijack attention and Dhamma talks do not appear, so we must seek them ... If you don't know how to extinguish things, how to let go, you'll get stuck on every level of the path. If you get stuck on the delicious flavor of emptiness or stillness, that's delusion's version of nibbana. Upasika Kee Nanayon For me its reading Suttas and that quote there from the Upasika is useful. The practice itself can be difficult to grasp if we don't understand the 4 Noble Truths, 3 marks of existence, 3 poisons and 3 Tanhas, Dependent Origination, the 5 Hindrances, how these are all playing at al times. Thank you Bhante.