Ajahn Nissarano - Blue Sky Mind

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[@ip9117]

Beautifull talk.Thank you for helping clearing up my mind 😊

[@asishbarua5374]

Excellent "Buddha Dhamma talk" by Venerable Ajahn Nissarano. 🙏🙏🙏. Sadhoo- Sadhoo-Sadhoo. Please accept my "Bandana".

[@meloneypalihakkara10]

Thank you Ajahn !!

[@muditapinikahana3484]

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[@yongsuanlin6255]

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[@dallasford5735]

yesss thank u !

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

How do you folks develop close friendships if you're so afraid of "attachment"? You DO believe in attachment of some kind, because you have dependency between your sanghe and community, right? That's "attachment", isn't it?

[@tedlanz5038]

The Buddha had very close friendships with his disciples particularly Ananda, his attendant. This is a friendship without attachments because such things imply 'self' or 'other selves' which does not exist. How can you be attached to something when there is no such thing as you to do the attaching and no such thing as them to attach to. Such concepts are mental fabrications that have evolved in the human mind (and other animals as well) for the express purpose of keeping us alive. In other words, it is a survival mechanism that we inherited from our ancestors in its billions of years of adaptation. Of course it is much more complicated than this. But that is the gist. The Buddha did not have an attachment to his friendship with Ananda but I think that the reverse was not true. Ananda's closeness to the Buddha made him complacent and too attached to the idea of the Buddha as a 'self' that when the Buddha died, he was still unenlightened. Ironically, the Buddha's death spurned him on to success.

[@jason6360]

How did Buddha become enlightened if he didn't exist? LOL

[@indrananayakkara7104]

@@jason6360 it's not about attachment or non attachment. Buddha realised there is nothing there to attach. It's the realisation. Keep Loling but this is the reality

[@thinlo1679]

The only wife to follow him is Mdm Karma.