Grant Yourself A Moment Of Peace | Ajahn Brahm | 19 May 2020

This is from a series of daily meditation and Dhamma teachings offered by the monks at Bodhinyana Monastery to support the community during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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[@fingerprint5511]

Bless you Ajahn Brahm for setting me on the Dhamma path. Because of you I am able to be with effects of trauma and study Dhamma and Pali terms which help separate 'me' and reflect on Anatta and Dukkha and Anicca and I assure anyone reading this the the Buddha is a miracle if you trust the Budda, the awareness 🙏🏽🙏🏼🙏🏻

[@NeilG0]

Your relaxing talks kept me company through so many of these long lonely anxious nights. You are the wise lovely uncle I came to for comfort, and you never dissapoint. You have found the exact place to be in this lifetime. Peace and blessings be yours. Thank You. Neil.

[@robertdobie8680]

I’ve watched this particular video many times already. I’ll stop watching it one day when I no longer need a moment of peace. :)

[@Thomas-mz9tn]

Herrlich, wunderbar, so weise, so klug- und so überraschend einfach, so geht es, so funktioniert unser Leben

[@bnosnebkram]

"Supermonk" indeed. The nicest possible meaning, you are, you are, don't go anywhere, bless you

[@gregpantelides1355]

Thank you, Ajahn Brahm.

[@boloyeung1107]

🇵🇱 LOVE FROM POLAND You my ” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ” peace 🙏

[@nicholasbishop6731]

Keep doing them Ajahn, you are a tonic in these troubled times.

[@maralynfarber2068]

Amen

[@peacefulpeaceful3481]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm🤗🤗🤗🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💐💐💐🇨🇦

[@dorotawiaderna9248]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏 Put me in right place us always

[@dromgarvan]

What a kind teaching.Thanks to Ajahn Brahm.

[@renatab4588]

I've been listening to Ajahn Brahm's talks for 2 years now, his words and meditating truly changed my life for the better🙏🏻💗🙏🏻

[@louiseblakley3540]

Your kindness and love is as sweet as candyfloss opening my heart-

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[@kristatraumavictor]

Thank you for the wisdom, kindness, and humor. I always smile when I listen and sit with you. Sadhu sadhu sadhu

[@oldlinhead]

While sitting near a small wood on a grey cold morning it started to snow. I watched the flakes gently falling on each flake I imagined the word peace and soon all around was blanketed with peace.

[@tomaszcodasz]

Love and kindness for all of us, give me Ajahn Brahm afterworld

[@IndiraFernando]

Thank you so much Ajahn Brahm... it was a wonderful talk.. Very smoothing.. May you live long...for all our sake too.

[@juntan2338]

Thank you Ajahn for your precious gift of peace 🎁

[@progtopaajbr2961]

Thank you, Nobel prize in peace 🙂 for you! This is the present you deserve 🙂👍

[@victorialeanne9618]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm, important reminder to take a break and find a moment of peace. Really needed this reminder today. Thank you, wishing you well and good health.

[@joannecritchley6116]

Thank you 🙏 your talks are the easiest to follow . I love your humour also. You’ve helped me through some hard times and changed my perspective on life for the better .

[@Itbelikethat333]

Thank you 🙏

[@FeministRain]

Saadhu saadhu saadhu 🙏

[@frebuton2016]

Sadhu! Sadhu!! Sadhu!!!❤️☮️. Thank you and your monks, for giving your time to make these wonderful 1/2 hr guided meditation videos. They are so helpful 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@jagritishankar9577]

Same stories , but I love listening to them again and again from AB .. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu !!!

[@darkchoco9395]

I learned a lot and improved my life after listening to your talk! Thank you

[@katarzynarybotycka5240]

Thank You Ajahn Brahm for the gift of peace. And thank You all volunteers for uploading recordings on youtube. Sadhu!

[@vegetariankitchenmagicaljo4948]

Thank you AB and all other Venerables' talks. I learnt a lot from each of your talks.

[@dfoijnwe]

No such word as learnt. Learned

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I’ll

[@camelotenglishtuition6394]

@@dfoijnwe Actually yes learnt is used in British english and is as valid as learned.

[@annacekiera8547]

The good thing covid caused is that we can hear Ajahn so often. Please keep doing these short sessions, they bring so much peace during a busy day. Thank you!

[@catlinbn]

My life is hell if I stray to anything bad. This helps keep my life better.

[@jolantadzialecka5054]

Thank you AjahnYou are the best I send you greetings from Toronto,Canada

[@fairpastelfairy1681]

I love how you can teach practice and love at the same time, which such sincerity and effortlessness. Thank you so much. May you live long and healthy

[@propsdirector]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm for your message of the gift of peace. Best wishes from Toronto, Rob.

[@ishachowdhary3510]

Ure talks keep me sane Ajahn. 🙏

[@dfoijnwe]

Your

[@RescueNurse]

Thank you again. Don't know "how you did it" but that was exactly what I needed. Highly appreciated. I myself like very mouch this shorter mediation right now. So also thank you for this!

[@denny2457]

I am proud being a Buddhist. Dhamma is a wonderful teaching.

[@tomnubdharmaphm8729]

Sathu Sathu Sathu Good dharma for explaining🙏🙏🙏🌼🌼🌺🌺

[@lindachurchill17]

Thank you to this beautiful meditation this morning.....my heart and head are at peace. Namaste!

[@valiroxana5079]

You saved my life, too. THANK YOU🌼

[@elizabethhjenkins6172]

I must have needed a repeat on this. Second time I have watched, listened and learned. Thank you, Ajahn.

[@avtar4385]

Thanks Vanerable!!! What a experience of attachment that you shared with us. Wonderful... very very simple and true .. this is what we heared that truth is always simple .. 🙏🙏🙏

[@mauricebuma7573]

Thank you for sharing your Energies of higher dimensional Wisdom's

[@catherineiliff1985]

Much appreciation from Minnesota! A peaceful way to start a peaceful day... Another day in Paradise

[@anjalitanda5386]

Thank you Ajanh Brahm..million thanks🙏

[@mentrinh209]

A di da phật. Chúc sư nhiều sức khỏe

[@michaelareim4250]

You are so inspiring and such a great teacher! Thank you for giving us so much joy😊

[@cc1eve]

This beautiful! My 8 year old is listening to this one every night before bed. It's now part of routine. What a blessing!

[@beciabecia7675]

Thank You👋

[@geoffreyofanjou6974]

Thanks Ajahn Brahm. ✌️

[@thuydang852]

So grateful for your kind teaching! 🙏❤

[@kimiimore]

Thank you. I hope you all stay healthy and well so you can keep helping all of us :)

[@lamontjohnson2788]

I enjoy these talks and the meditation.

[@eileensolim]

Thank you, Ajahn. 🙏🏻 This really helped my anxiety today. 🙏🏻

[@bijoybarua6406]

Venerable Vante respect to You from Bangladesh.

[@ursulaansbach2244]

Honesty...simplicity. making it real thank you!

[@theproofessayist8441]

Bless you Ajahn!

[@lynkent677]

Hello Ajahn ....Thank you as always for your podcasts....You are looking well my friend...UK

[@Kevin-hb5rk]

Thank you so much for this AB and BSWA

[@jennifermiceli5608]

Thank you Ajahn - I woke up today feeling quite anxious and am now starting to feel better

[@tomsenduro9135]

Sensationell!!!

[@ABCDEF-xl5sz]

Wow. Thank you Ajahn. 🙏

[@elizabethhjenkins6172]

Keep doing them, please.

[@feline223]

bless you, you're helping me cope with all my heavy stuff

[@singaporevirtualtours1101]

Ajahn Brahm is my vaccine. I really want to find out more about Buddism.

[@tonyluan1391]

Great Monk. AB

[@revinar5838]

Would it be possible for these to continue after covid? Some of us don't have a local sangha nearby.

[@tedlanz5038]

The Sangha is everywhere! Anyone or anything that teaches you about the impermanence of things, their unsatisfactoriness and their inherent lack of self is part of the Sangha. Guided meditations are everywhere in youtube but if like me, you would prefer the style of Ajahn Brahm and his merry monks and nuns of BSWA and BSVIC then their channel is chockablock full of them. You probably noticed as well the variety of meditation techniques his monks have been sharing daily with us. We are indeed lucky to have them.

[@janeyd5280]

Do Buddhists have any way of coming to terms with the death of a close family member who died a month ago and would have been her birthday next week. I cannot get my head around it.x

[@dfoijnwe]

Tons of videos. Search ajahn brahm death dying

[@janeyd5280]

@@dfoijnwe Many thanks.

[@tedlanz5038]

@@janeyd5280 Most religions have rituals that serve the purpose of cleansing the soul/heart/psyche of grief. Funeral services are an example of that. Other cultures have other fascinating ways. Buddhist cultures as well. Cremation, burning the deceased belongings, chants, prayers, etc..you get what I mean. This rituals are supplemented with stories of hope like 'he/she is in a better place', or 'the person is going to heaven where he/she is with his/her loved ones'...where they will happily live forever and ever. For a lot of people, this would work and that will be the end of that. Hopefully. But what happens when the next death comes along as it surely will? Well, let me tell you what the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha taught me. If Death is that pile of excrement on the ground that people avoid, step over and generally ignore then the Triple Gem is that teacher who grabs your head and slams your face down on that mound of s**t until you learn wisdom from it. The teacher calls this 'Death Contemplation'. Now, guided by the Three Refuges let me tell you what I learned from being 'intimate' with Death particularly when it came to the passing of my own parents. I will share just 2 things. There are a lot more that I learned but seeing that this is already going to be a horrendously long post and I bet that the BSWA is starting to take notice of troll posts and has probably coined a term for me already... 'One Who Posts Too Much On KZbin'…I will keep it brief. :) Compassion. You and I am not the only one who are grieving or will do so. There are roughly 150,000 people who dies in the world every day. And much more of those they leave behind who loves them and mourns them. You and I are not special. This is common to all humans. And the Buddha says, this is not the first time I have cried for a loved one. I have done this again and again repeatedly across time spanning aeons and aeons of incarnations. (Of course, this part you don't have to believe but Buddhists do and I do as well and not because it is dogma. I believe the Buddha because in the years I have studied his teachings, challenge his teachings and put his teachings to practice I have learned that this man is a knowledgeable, compassionate, truthful and trustworthy teacher.) So knowing this, that there are many more like yourself who grieves in this world every day, then come join us and drown yourself in our combined ocean of tears. In our collective sadness. It's okay. It's part of being human. You are in good company. Hope. I bet you want to see that person again? To relive old memories? To put right those past mistakes, eh? To say sorry? To start all over again? Well, you can. It is through the magic of wishes. Just make a wish to see this person again and keep it in your consciousness until you have no doubt about your intentions. This comes from the idea that this Universe fulfills all wishes. But it is also a Universe of Karma. So you will get your wish but your karma will either make you cherish it or regret it. So be careful of what you wish for! 😉 It may also prevent you from seeing your wish fulfilled right in front of you. My suggestion is to be kind, generous and above all to be honest and truthful. I always have had the gut feeling that many wishes that people make of being able to see their loved ones who have passed away from long before are being fulfilled right before their very eyes but that the karma that comes from a habit of lying shrouds this very fact from them. As it frequently happens to me. That kind lady or that man who instantly has a grudge on me even though I have never met him in my life? Who knows? Finally, my suggestion is one of letting go. A heart full of grief is also the best heart to extend loving-kindness from and onto your family member. He/she, like yourself and myself, are on a journey through the endless ocean of samsara. We cannot control each other's destinies or the paths we each choose to walk on. But we can send each other Metta and the blameless wish that we each find our way home. May you and your loved ones find an end to your journey and reach the far shore.

[@davidcraze1654]

Great stuff

[@buddhaneosiddhananda8499]

The purpose of life is to have fun.... I wonder how happy Brahmiac is....

[@tonybowers6913]

Thanks , I wish I could figure out how to show you a picture of me sitting in front of the TV meditating with you, Thank you for the positive energy. Thank you

[@tomsenduro9135]

Hello,a German Translation would be wonderful!! I have so many Friends who would listen to it - but struggle with good Understanding Superfriendly Greetings, Thomas

[@Brooksnation1]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm 🙏

[@juntan2338]

Sabba-roga-vinimutto Sabba-santāpa-vajjito Sabba-veram-atikkanto Nibbuto ca tuvaṁ bhava. May you be: freed from all disease, safe from all torment, beyond all animosity, and unbound. Sabbītiyo vivajjantu Sabba-rogo vinassatu Mā te bhavatvantarāyo Sukhī dīgh’āyuko bhava. May all distress be averted. May every disease be destroyed. May there be no dangers for you. May you be happy and live long. Abhivādana-sīlissa Niccaṁ vuḍḍhāpacāyino Cattāro dhammā vaḍḍhanti Āyu vaṇṇo sukhaṁ, balaṁ. For one of respectful nature who constantly honors the worthy, Four qualities increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

[@WayChuangAng]

sadhu, sadhu, sadhu

[@calebtot]

Wow.

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🙏🙏🙏

[@Fer-De-Lance]

Can you please provide a direct reference if you can to the story of the tea story? Thanks.

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