AJAHN AMARO - ADDICTION TO EXISTENCE

[@hecate6432]

This is very well done.I need to hear it again.

[@xwdogg]

Thank you so much for this talk. It put concepts together in a clear and meaningful way for me.

[@erajliyanage]

Thank you very much for sharing this dhamma talk

[@lordbyron3603]

Thank you for this teaching. Sadhu 3X.

[@Abornazine_]

Got to feel sorry for the christians who seek out other religions talks to dislike. How holy they are in their hate.

[@murtazachishti962]

Wow!

[@DurgaDas96]

But consciousness is there. Take away everything else and consciousness remains. Is that not so?

[@nigelsheppard2953]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

[@sizzla123]

John 10:16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. Anattā Metta

[@TheWorldTeacher]

A much more intelligent talk than the usual Buddhist monk I listen to here on KZbin (mentioning no names AB ;-)

[@psikhyobar]

Yes, but they had the same teacher. AB does say that he intentionally doesn't talk too much about the intellectual side. He chooses to focus on the emotion of the teaching. While this talk does point out what is written in the Magavagga, which Ajarn Amaro explains very well, most will not understand, nor take the time to listen. They both have their jobs within the Sangha. Once one has progressed from Ajarn Brahmali's similes to come to an understanding of what samadi is, then they will naturally gravitate towards the original suttas. They work hand in hand to bring the message. As the Buddha said, "This doctrine will not be easy to beings that are lost in lust and hatred." The Buddha was reluctant, but finally looked into it at the request of the Brahma Sahampati, and decided, "Wide opened is the door of the Immortal to all who have the ears to hear; let them send forth faith to meet it. The Dhamma sweet and good I spake not, Brahma, despairing of the weary task before men." At this point, the Buddha began to teach the Dhamma. He did not initially want to share anything, but because of his knowledge to look into the matter, he knew that some could understand it. Now, there are those that must come to learn the Dhamma from the emotional level. So much more could be said about it. It is only that both of these monks are carrying on with the teaching. The Buddha has removed the dummy from the path.

[@horridedifice]

Reverend Eslam ajahn sumedho could sit there for 3 hours and just say it is what it is and im completely content

[@HtetHtetAung92]

All Theravadin teachers under Ajahn Chah are pretty amazing. Depending on your mood at the time, different teachers will be able to cater to your mind at different time. I first started getting addicted to talks by Ajahn Brahm, Ajahn Brahmali and then Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Achalo. I guess once you start listening to too many talks by the same monk, you need a change once in a while due to some repetitive messages.

[@AcesGaruda]

Htet Htet Aung Mingalar par Sis. I’m curious as to how you came into contact with the Thai forest tradition.

[@TheWorldTeacher]

@Peter Flood One who has found TRUE peace has no need of technicalities. 😇 ॐ Om mani padme hum!

[@penguin0101]

I got a birthday card from my friends a few days ago. It felt nice knowing that people are thinking about us and that we are loved. There was that degree of mindfulness that “i” making arises. But I don’t know whether I should accept or reject those feelings. Given that acceptance and rejection arises from desire and aversion, I could only just recognise that feeling and do no further. Will still admit that it was a nice feeling regardless :) im so confused haha

[@nimeshaperera8819]

I think the Buddha described it like if we find delight in whatever forms, internal or external , past, present, future , subtle or gross, it attaches us to existence. It's because we find delight in it that we feel happy when someone loves us..

[@MountainDharma]

Beautiful talk except that vinyana is not consciousness. It is perception. Sañña is sensation. Consciousness is not part of the khandas

[@aniccaanattadukkha]

Wrong.

[@MountainDharma]

@@aniccaanattadukkha If consciousness were part of the khandas, then there would be no experiencing their cessation. Experiencing the cessation of form, feeling, sensation, thinking, and perception is the very thing that leads the knowing (consciousness) to break its identifications with those mental and physical activities. Experience is consciousness-the “what it is like to be”-ness that we all are. The Buddha taught us to look at the khandas, the sense bases, the foundations of mindfulness, etc. all components of experience, as impermanent, unsatisfying, and not who or what we are (anatta) so that we can not identify (to see as identical) ourselves with them. This is a major gap in understanding in modern Dhamma. By giving up craving (doing things to get things), your sense of identity with the khandas will fade away and an unconditional freedom will be revealed. If you practice in this way, as the Buddha taught, rather than simply adopting views that have become prolific, then the path from where you are to Nibbana will be short (the distance between one thought and the next).

[@penguin0101]

I got a birthday card from my friends a few days ago. It felt nice knowing that people are thinking about us and that we are loved. There was that degree of mindfulness that “i” making arises. But I don’t know whether I should accept or reject those feelings. Given that acceptance and rejection arises from desire and aversion, I could only just recognise that feeling and do no further. Will still admit that it was a nice feeling regardless :) im so confused haha

[@veroreyes3826]

Only observe your feelings and let them go. You should look at satipatana sutta, vedanupassanā is to observe manifestation yo bodily sensatios and feelings (pleasant, unpleasant ir neutral). Cittānupassaā is to observe the manisfestation of emotional states that arise from the sensations of the body.