Bringing Joy into Sickness | Ajahn Brahm | 7 June 2019

Ajahn Brahm observes that adding negativity to our physical illness makes it worse, so he encourages us instead to put happiness and joy into our sicknesses. Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon: / buddhistsocietywa
Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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[@lordbyron3603]

I listen to AB when I go to bed. His voice helps me to fall asleep.

[@Boyanadee]

💙Except when he cracks a joke, that’s when I suddenly wake up 😂

[@sobakakustovsky3909]

The monk on the left looks so blissful!

[@charliesemo9630]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm for your teachings 🙏🏼

[@IRG849]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm for your talks over the years 🙏 Your kindness, humour and wisdom has made me a happy and peaceful being :)

[@adrianna3944]

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu! Thank you so much once again, Ajahn Brahm 😊🙏

[@elizabethhjenkins6172]

Ajahn Brahm thank you so much for being so real. I needed this Dharma talk. Blessings in your next trip. So wish I could see you in CA,, USA. Take care of yourself. 🙏🙏🙏

[@yehyeh5066]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm 💙

[@Boyanadee]

Sadhu sadhu sadhu! 💙

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

video starts ~ @8:45 🙏😊🙋 Talk: ~ @42:24

[@poetryjones7946]

Beeble Brox thanks 🙏🏼

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

@@poetryjones7946 My pleasure, Southpark ;)

[@NigelTufnel1969]

Many Thanks🙏🏻

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

Twas no problem at all and you're quite welcome 🙏😊🙋

[@davidlist7507]

my mother on her own told me when I 22 now 62 that she would die in a week and I tried to cheer her up that she wasn't that she was going on vacation in a week but low and behold she died exactly in a week, and she wasn't sad but cheerful.

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

It was nice if her to give you advance notice. Not all parents can bring themselves to do that as the offspring might become extremely agitated and depressed, and many parents might decide they'd be sparing them somehow. Depending. on upbringing and culture, Death of a loved one can be...complicated. It seems to have worked out for you and I would reckon your mom knew you could handle the news well enough. :)

[@frankiecoppola609]

🙏🏼 thanks

[@lordbyron3603]

I have the flu. I think I’ve listened to over 70 hours of Brahm and Brahmali in 7 days ... including one from an unknown monk.

[@lordbyron3603]

I use loving kindness to heal myself when I’m sick or have physical injuries. It works !

[@mimir3i]

Are those flowers at the back… cauliflowers? Someone there has quite the sense of humour! 😂

[@poetryjones7946]

Ajahn Brahm has seemed ill over the past month - I hope he’s ok. 🙏🏼

[@nichole8030]

Its actually been about a year. . . but he'll be ok one way or the other.

[@annwilliams6438]

Hopefully he will have a bit of a break on the rains retreat. ;)

[@PSYCHOLOGYALEVELMsKerr]

Psychology research supports this....smile even when feel awful..impacts hormones and brain chemicals.

[@mariusciprianmihut7523]

Greetings from Romania

[@nichole8030]

Hi Eddie!

[@Boneyardbell]

Is little matesy on the left falling asleep?

[@ravenravella1000]

XD

[@jayantavva]

LOL

[@janmartin806]

I also have had the "Horse" virus it's been a real stayer lol it should take out the Melbourne Cup. I hope yours has turned the corner as I. You can't keep a good monk down 🙂🌻

[@lordbyron3603]

I now have cancer ! Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma DLBCL aggressive. “…. Enjoy my cancer ? …” Do I enjoy intense burning sensation around the heart . Do I enjoy not being able to walk 20 feet. Do I enjoy not being able to eat. Do I enjoy not being able to breath and gasping for air . Do I enjoy blacking out and fainting, falling and hitting the concrete floor with my head , cracking the skull in two places and getting a concussion. Do I enjoy having a tube in my body because I can’t urinate like a normal human being. Do I enjoy not being able to sleep because of the constant pain. Do I enjoy all the side effects that come with chemotherapy treatment. The word enjoy isn’t a word I would use to describe my cancer journey!

[@lordbyron3603]

There’s always an Eddie in every crowd or in a group where people meet who takes up valuable time. I would say to Eddie ... “ Eddie, don’t get hung up on your experiences, they’re transient .... impermanent. Let them go. They’re not that important. Otherwise, you get attached to them and begin to look for them.” I’m watching a recording and frankly, I’m not really interested in what he has to say. To me he’s just rambling nonsensically. I’m sure others reading my comment will say I’m being critical and that I should have more compassion. I would reply back, Eddie please have compassion for us and not subject us to your discourse. I came to hear AB not you. If you want to give a teaching, upload yourself on KZbin. Then you can talk all you want.

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

If you like mind science aka neuroscience, you might like to read a book called "The Master and the Emissary". Pretty interesting stuff. There's interviews with the author on KZbin.

[@lordbyron3603]

Indeed,, 98 percent of what we do is a WASTE OF TIME ! .... leading to nowhere.