Accepting Life's Imperfections | Ajahn Brahm | 3 February 2023

[@ayeshkasamararatne8323]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm.

[@phuonganhnguyen384]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm and BSWA for making the talk available to everyone. I’m from Vietnam, but thanks to the video recording, I somehow can still feel his metta and kindness in my heart. It’s such a blessing. Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!

[@thisisbob1001]

Thanks from leicester uk please come visit uk again soon

[@fingerprint5511]

Finally we see Eddie, bless you Eddie!

[@tbell9392]

Ajahn brahm I don’t know what I would do with out you. You are my guide.

[@elizabethhjenkins6172]

Great Dharma talk. Thank you. Sadhu. Sadhu. Sadhu. 🙏🙏🙏

[@annapietrzyk8014]

Thank U Buddhist Society WA

[@verach7084]

Замечательный человек и учитель! Недавно познакомилась с книгами Аджана Брахм- это кладезь мудрости, доброты, сострадания!

[@racingeye3826]

Thank you venerable monk. You are a gift to humanity. I'm grateful for your guidance

[@riteshshaw8582]

Sadhu Sadhu Saaaaadhuuu ♥️🌸

[@siddharthakoirala8841]

Thank you Venerable Mahāthera Ajhan Braham🙇🙇🙇, I am now monk and its been very motivating and inspiring to listen to and share the way of letting go

[@MemoryGray]

Thank you Ajahn for your teaching and compassion. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@MsLeenite]

Thank you for sharing the beautiful and exciting Lion Dance with us! Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu! Happy New Year to one and all.

[@howardcohen6817]

Just got my bicycle back from the shop to repair my light. It's taken about two weeks and riding the bike to my first pupil, today, made me very happy. My body seems to be working well and I enjoy the light exertion (no pun intended). Love to all and I'm looking forward to tonight's teachings. The announcements commence at about 9:10 and Ajahn Brahm begins the short greeting and meditation at about 12:19. to about 42:02 Most of the time, as a musician playing a piece that's new (or even not so new) for me, I spend on seeing/fathoming what's beautiful about the piece. When I can do that, the people who are listening will very likely hear this wonderful music, too. Thank you for a wonderful evening. Love.

[@sachinthaherath4902]

@Howard Cohen great to hear you enjoyed your bike ride, mate😌😎

[@justinwalker4475]

@@sachinthaherath4902 hmm ok

[@Elegance191]

I hope my husband of 30 years will be ok after divorcing me. He asked for divorce as he got very angry that I found out he cheated. Poor him. I wish him well. I cannot contest the divorce as in th UK ist is no fault divorce since 2022. I hope he will be ok.

[@evelynefortune5779]

Thanks a lot Ajahn

[@nurunnobi7489]

I avidly appreciate your talks. They lend a unique perspective. Not only do I laugh at your innocent yet funny jokes, but I feel moved by your words of compassion, kindness, and solace. Please accept my gratitude to you, if not for all of your talks, then at least for the one that addresses "what to do when everything falls apart." Its exquisite inner power healed my lacerations; it gave me the sensation of being transported from that whirlwind of excruciating emotional pains into a divine luminosity of lights. In this video, however, I listened to you say, "We don't allow Bangladeshis to have an administrative position at your good monastery." I also watched your expressions and verbal cues. These appear to allude to ethnic and racial discrimination or an attempt to destabilize a large nation of 20 million people championing the ideals of diversity, inclusivity, and heterogeneity regardless of the color, race, or origin of its populace. It also contradicts Bhuddist philosophy, which you propagate and I admire. Let us not forget that Bangladesh has been home to over 10 million members of the Rohingya sect, who have faced extermination from fellow countrymen, regardless of which sect the terrorists and millitants belong to. And by any standard, it is a real-life example of championing humanity. I am a Bangladeshi by birth. I also acknowledge that I might have misunderstood you or simply failed to follow and interpret you correctly. I, therefore, respectfully request that you address the matter in a few words.

[@riverpavuddhabalo]

Listen to the bit beforehand, and you will understand the context was reverse psychology to make someone want to do something just because they have been told they can't. It was more of a jokey example, no discrimination. I hope that clears that up.

[@quitruiningtheplanet]

Starts about 12:00

[@johninman7545]

I did wonder. Is Mara up to his old tricks?

[@geenaee4772]

With metta from Kuala Lumpur, MY.

[@sachinthaherath4902]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm for that gentle reminder on the value of gratitude😌. Loved the vibrant Chinese Lion Dance as well🥰. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu🙏🙏🙏

[@MrKoepoekoepoe]

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[@TashiroSato]

Master Buddha

[@chikutwemaybin317]

How can i join you? I want to become a full time monk

[@jasonvotaw5966]

I watch these over and over because I keep making same mistakes! :) 🤣

[@justinwalker4475]

there was an accident here years ago someone was injured ...a crowd gathered. rather than help people started filming the ordeal ... :(

[@frederickstewart6217]

Dharma talk 42:20

[@justinwalker4475]

obsessed or possessed i think both. monks are great :)

[@steevo211]

Maybe Ajahn Has Changed His Diet Vegan Fam!! He's Looking Lighter Around The Chops, Somehow!! Anyone Got A Custard Fart Joke?

[@justinwalker4475]

the monks keep trying but you don't listen

[@xenomyr]

Imperfections ? I'd rather say it has always been pure CHAOS !

[@EricKVanHorn]

The Zen story that Ajahn Brahm tells in this Dharma talk seems to have the message that it is OK to commit an act of vandalism if the motivation is “Zen.” Zen has a mystique about it, and this often leads to atrocious acts. But it is OK if it is “Zen.” Let me state the obvious. There is nothing commendable about destroying something that is beautiful. Yet that is a defilement that many people-perhaps most people-have. This leads to the defacement of public art in the physical world, and the destruction of much that is good in the human world. The effort to ruin Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy in India is a current example of this. It is very hard to create something good, and it is very easy to destroy, and being a bully isn’t a good thing.

[@jestermoon]

Religion poisons everything. Man-made designed to control the gullible and male-dominating systems we still see today. I like this guy, he genuinely makes sense. Stay Free 🌐

[@MatsUnden]

Hmmm , can’t really follow your reasoning here. Isn’t it simply about appreciating natural beauty and balance? About developing gratitude.

[@justinwalker4475]

you alarm me o0

[@MarkBonneaux]

Whether or not the story actually happened is irrelevant. It's a parable, a story with a moral lesson, in this case, about accepting imperfections. No where in the story does anyone slander or vandalize, in fact with the Zen monk asking for instruction, he has given the Old Monk permission to do what he does. To tie it to your issue regarding Gandhi, yes, there are those who wish to tear down our leaders of the past (we're having similar issues here in the US), but we can also be accepting that those people are just people with imperfections. Thomas Jefferson was a great writer and a very effective statesman but he still owned slaves. That doesn't negate the work he did founding our country, it just means he wasn't perfect. Namaste.

[@aouclamnguoi6239]

This was the Hut of the Elder Thich Thong Lac. His mind was always Unshakeable, peaceful, blissful and carefree even though He had no material at all. Today monks have pillows, mattresses, fans, air conditioners, ... A person is unconditionally happy, one is happy with conditions A, B, C... So which person is easy to last happiness forever? Whoever teaches you to enjoy desire, you believe; whoever teaches you to abandon desire, you slander. It is a pity for your life that even though you have read the scriptures, you do not understand anything about the Buddha's teachings.😊

[@fingerprint5511]

Very embarrassing for you to even utter Elder Thich Thong Lac and use him to express your hatred, what did Elder Thich Thong Lac do to you to deserve to be included in your delusion?

[@justinwalker4475]

a shame people live life through the lens of a phone.

[@halinka8322]

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