Bhikkhu Bodhi - 5 - Rebirth And Kamma

Bhikkhu Bodhi (born December 10, 1944), born Jeffrey Block, is an American Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in Sri Lanka and currently teaching in the New York and New Jersey area. He was appointed the second president of the Buddhist Publication Society and has edited and authored several publications grounded in the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
In 1944, Block was born in Brooklyn, New York, from Jewish parents. In 1966, he obtained a B.A. in philosophy from Brooklyn College. In 1972, he obtained a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate University.[2][3]
In 1967, while still a graduate student, Bodhi was ordained as a śrāmaṇera (novitiate) in the Vietnamese Mahayana order. In 1972, after graduation, Bodhi traveled to Sri Lanka where, under Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero,[4] he received sāmaṇera ordination in the Theravada school and, in 1973, he received full ordination as a Theravada bhikkhu or monk.
In 1984, succeeding co-founder Nyanaponika Thera, Bodhi was appointed English-language editor of the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS, Sri Lanka) and, in 1988, became its president. In 2002, he retired from the society's editorship while still remaining its president.
In 2000, at the United Nations' first official Vesak celebration, Bodhi gave the keynote address.
In 2002, after retiring as editor of BPS, Bodhi returned to the United States. He currently teaches at Bodhi Monastery (Lafayette Township, New Jersey) and Chuang Yen Monastery (Carmel, New York) and is the chairman of the Yin Shun Foundation.
Bhikkhu Bodhi is founder of the organisation Buddhist Global Relief, which fights hunger across the world.
In the fall of 1979, while living at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi gave a series of lectures on the fundamental teachings of Early Buddhism. Bhante Gunaratana, at the time the President of the Buddhist Vihara Society, suggested he record the lectures so that the Vihara could distribute them as a set of cassette tapes.
In the summer of 1981, Ven. Bodhi recorded his ten lectures in the basement of the Washington Buddhist Vihara, using an ordinary, nonprofessional recorder. An enthusiastic lay supporter had the master copies reproduced in large quantities for expanded distribution. They have continued to be distributed on tape and as CDs for over twenty-five years, and are considered “public domain” for anyone to copy and distribute freely. The one condition is that they must not be sold.

[@chriskaplan6109]

The analogy of the flame as a process without self-identical conditions broke my mind! Excellent talk. Thank you for sharing.

[@Earth-360]

His teachings are Supreme. We are blessed to listen to him.

[@wtf6070]

Excellent talk!!!! May you be free from suffering. Thank You!

[@nbhatt5481]

Superme knowledge only can be understood by Samadhi Statue. Ven Bhikkhu Bodhi explain this as acedimic level so normal human being can understand. Thank you sir 🙏🙏🙏

[@stevebarber8501]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@robbiepeterh]

Extremely clear presentation: many thanks 🙏

[@chakmavlogvideo9572]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu...Bodhi Bhante...

[@investmentprofessor2620]

Great speech

[@crbravo13]

Thank you for posting these talks. May you be well!

[@dromgarvan]

Thank you

[@srinivasanrengarajan3911]

Thank you Ajahn for the lessons

[@nobleanicca4464]

Many thanks for this a very great teaching .... it seem it just cut off before its end..want to request ...could you please check out and update...please..

[@freefrommatrix8597]

impressive

[@galaxymetta5974]

Modern research on Near Death Experience by Raymond moody, reincarnation memories by Ian Stevenson/Jim trucker and past lives regression by Brian Weiss all independently but coincidentally show that our consciousness survive death, we live many lives and our thoughts and actions matter in the hereafter. This is in line with Buddhist teachings. So be kind and helpful to others, be virtuous, meditate and cultivate ourselves to higher spiritual levels. Cheers.

[@beamixab]

Thank you for uploading these files to share with us!

[@binodroka1]

🪔👏🧘‍♂️

[@unyuntthaung1953]

We shouldn't look at all things from materialistic point of view. After all, as Issac Newton , said, what we know of the world we live in is a drop . "What I dont know, " he said, ' is an ocean. "

[@poetryjones7946]

But wait - he first said that the gitta comes and disappears without leaving any trace of itself! ....? How then could the death consciousness gitta continue into the new ovum? Not criticizing, just desperately trying to understand 🙏🏼

[@theisheep2676]

The death citta conditions the arising of rebirth linking citta. Citta flows like water. It always has a result.

[@moviewisdom5595]

citta is translated as consciousness, so consciousness comes and goes. for example, you hear something with your ears, you see something with your eyes, you feel something with your body, you smell something with your nose, and taste something with your tongue, so whatever your five senses feel, it just arising and passing away, it's not always the same all the time. your consciousness arise through these five sense organ. with eyes you see an external object arise eye-consciousness. if you see a pleasant thing you feel happy, if you see an unpleasant object you feel disgusting. suppose you see something now and later you smell something then your consciousness changes.

[@theisheep2676]

@@moviewisdom5595 citta is translated as consciousness in a distorted way. The proper translation would be emotive side of mind. Consciousness is vinnana

[@fredrikpetersson6761]

This is philosophical speculation with religious/metaphysical undertones/claims. The speaker and followers should educate themselves in molecular reproductive physiology (among other things). Reproduction has been (and is being even more) well studied empirically in great detail. Please don't push a 2500 year old dude's perceptions as ultimate truths. This talk flows over of delusion-ignorance 😀

[@chriskaplan6109]

@@fredrikpetersson6761 your statement is couched in a dualistic, discriminatory, and fundamentally western ego-logical mindset and framework, which you are presupposing to be final and absolute in authority. Engaging this content from that perspective will naturally result in ignorance and confusion.

[@branimirsalevic5092]

The last flame of a burnt out candle becomes the first flame of a brand new candle...that rebirth? P.S. Fantasy theories require fantasy "explanations".. .

[@hojongsk670]

We cannot say that there is nothing moved to other candle. There is one that is moved or moves. It is the fundmental essence with its light of it. It is the heat. The heat is moved to the other candle. And he,Ven. Boddhi said that the citta, the mind is moved to the next birth or the being. This mind is the one that is moved or moves to the next being. If then, we can say that there is something that is moved or moves from this being to the next one.

[@jamesbuttery3862]

"There is what IS moved" " we can say there is what IS moved" These two sentences make no sense. I'm not sure if English is your second language or not but these two sentences are illogical.

[@kumu2613]

@@recliningbuddha Your explanation is very correct, and the Mahathanhasankaya sutta is the sutta to understand how we operate. Just read the sutta two days ago.🙏

[@hojongsk670]

@@jamesbuttery3862 Thank you for your kind consideration. English is my second language, not the mother tongue. I tried to correct it as 'the one that is moved or moves'.

[@hojongsk670]

@@recliningbuddha If heat is not moved to the other candle, the other one cannot be ignited.

[@hojongsk670]

@@recliningbuddha Please see the suttas, SN 22-54,87.