Ajahn Brahmali - Death and Impermanence

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[@dassavilokantara439]

Ajahn Brahmali is one of the best!! ❤️🙏🏼

[@dishnaranasinghe4280]

Keep coming back to the dhamma! Thank You Ajahn 🙏🙏🙏

[@lordbyron3603]

When my mom passed away, what little training and practice I did went out the window. I completely lost it when I saw them lower the casket into the ground. My brain had a difficult time processing what I was seeing. It took five years to finally accept the fact that she was gone.

[@JohnSmith-pw7ri]

Understandable mate.

[@amber1234304]

Wonderful teaching from great master. Thank you so much.

[@SanKissJuice]

I’m going to implement this practice in my daily life: with every interaction I will be mindful that this may be the last time I get to meet and interact with this person. It helps with detachment and good reminder of impermanence. Thank you, Ajahn Brahmali

[@HossainSalahuddin]

I keep coming back to this wonderful talk ❤️🙏

[@japplesin]

Sorry for your lost Ajahn Bramahli. You are right about our comtemplation of death and when the actual event actually happens. Especially if it is someone really close to us.

[@nalithal1416]

Thank you for the clarity with which you explain complex ideology. You do great credit to your wonderful teacher. My gratitude always.

[@noahwhalen3398]

Thank you for sharing your wisdom Ajahn Brahmali; you always have great insight into "reality".

[@scotriani]

Thank you Ajahn Brahmali. A brilliant talk. It makes me want to consider being a monk myself (at least to keep meditating).

[@IRG849]

Thank you Ajahn Brahmali. I really enjoy your talks 🙏

[@debbieflannery150]

Thank you..

[@kimgordon9427]

The dhamma talks from the BSWA and BSV have been life-changing for me. Thank you!!!

[@sujatavarma1904]

Thank you with all my heart, Ajahn Brahmali, for this magnificent and uplifting Dhamma talk. It means the world to me to listen to something this meaningful and enlightening. Thank you, BVS Dhamma Talks, for posting this beautiful video.

[@TheRealShadowX]

Very informative, and even motivational.

[@barbaraaellen6698]

Thank you

[@falianshakya6477]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu i wish all the best for venerable Ajahn Brahmali

[@thinlo1679]

The Buddha have to teach the people that every things are impermanence. Therefore Buddha have to go thru this.

[@lucypang5634]

Very enlightening,, Ajahn, Thank you.

[@johnt.inscrutable1545]

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu! Would that I had learned this before my parents passed away. My father passed in 1990 and my mother in 2004. In spite of a tremendous change in my own attitude toward life and the people around me between those two deaths, after hearing this, I realize I had learned exactly nothing of import. At least, not as it related to my mother and father. I’m sorry for not spending time with my mother who just needed me to be there with my siblings to see her off. I am sorry that my pride got in the way of understanding the pain of those around me when my father died. He and I had resolved our relationship at a minimal level, but there could have been so much more. In retrospect, I see that I was afraid and in pain and would not admit to that for I was the successful one (of us siblings). I was only successful on the surface and got more so between the two events. But I knew that I could not fall to such weakness as moaning, wailing or crying over their deaths, because it reminded me that I was, perhaps, no different than my parents whom I used to see as invincible and from whom I learned that I was invincible (though I misunderstood what they meant). Now after many more years I’ve started concerning myself with these teachings about death. It’s been hard to give up the idea that I cannot die, that there will come a day when I am not here. But through your teachings like this one I am aware that I am not here now. There is no I that exists today so when this body, this group of biological/chemical processes will cease and so the impression of me as an I will cease to be as well. Seeing the truth of the five khandas are just processed stacked on other process that result in this feeling, perception, cognition of a separate and everlasting person has caused my world view to crumble. Seeing how easily any of these processes can be interrupted has led me to reconsider who I am. Even if I am in the way I always thought I am. The teachings of the Buddha are so subtle that though one thinks one has understood them, on second look, or third, fourth, fifth…it is clear that I am peeling two onions. One that I think of as me (I) and one that I think of as the Dhamma., I find more and more subtle layers. The consolation being that I am getting closer to the truth and the subtlety of the triple gem and what it is that I am. It is my hope that others will learn from my mistakes and let go of themselves sooner rather than later so that all can embrace the beauty and love of being a part of this great process called the world and those others who are traveling through it with us. And that we will all be encouraging, supportive, giving, and exuding loving kindness for ourselves and each other without attaching to any of it, nor by pushing it all away to avoid the fear that we are not what we think we are. Though I often recall how much I wanted to “go forth” when I was young, and still would like to be able to devote myself full time to meditation, and learning the teachings of the Buddha in a monastic environment, I no longer “regret” that I took a different path. I used to say I got “sidetracked”. But my path had plenty of opportunity to learn what I needed to learn if I was not so wrapped up in myself. I am going to die. And I now realize that this is what is most important to understand in order to give up my attachments to my successes, but more importantly, my many failures, as well as my sense of a permanent unchanging self. For that was how I saw myself. Now there is no self and no I to see it. So what is left? Freedom. Nibanna. Perhaps this makes no sense, but there is an equanimity perceived and no fear, no desire, just thankfulness, and loving kindness. Thank you for your time sharing the Dhamma and your experiences living it. May you always find refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha. With Metta, JTI

[@BSVDhammaTalks]

Thanks you for sharing your story and insights. Sadhu.

[@user-zo1yh8nh8n]

🙏🙏🙏

[@bodhi9464]

Sadhu sadhu sadhu 🙏🏼🏄🏽‍♂️💦🇦🇺

[@thinlo1679]

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[@limlee1535]

Humans...have a tendency to speak from Experience. Parents, Have the Immunity given by all Faiths. An abusive Immunity. Similar to that of Immunity given to Holymen! Humans don't transformed into Devas... the moment they became parents- This is a Fact. Interpretation of the Scriptures should be done with Compassion for the whole. Two entities we should always protect, Children and animals because they are voiceless. The Voice of a revered Holyman thundered from the Heavens and beyond...mouthpiece of his Great Teacher! Out of Respect and Gratitude for his Great Teacher, Speak with very precise words. Speak less. Less is more 🙏🏼 Sadhu.

[@supercruiser4925]

Shut up

[@lordbyron3603]

I suppose there’s a lot of hatred in me. Because this is how I really feel .... It would be great if I never have to see that person’s ugly face again !

[@milsonyxrosequartz7194]

I don't like the questions.