Changes to the Channel

Hey!
Just a quick update on how the channel will change in the future.
From now on, I will only do one video every other week.
Cheers
Flaus
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[@tracereaper]

Sad to hear we’ll be seeing you less here. But I think this will be better for you overall. Thank you for all you’ve done and will do.

[@birkmcclain6220]

I’ve only stumbled across your videos the past few weeks and already you’ve made a tremendous difference in my practice I can’t thank you enough

[@felasfa1]

I have learned a lot from your videos and book. Wish you the best on your goal.

[@yangliu4861]

Thank you so much for great work! It is a good idea to spend more time in talking care of your own practice. Hope you reach your final goal soon.

[@carotxauxi8409]

Feel sad when hearing this announcement, but understanding that it's necessary for your own practice. With all the contents from the time Dhamma discourses started till now, all is enough for everyone to listen and investigation to understanding it in their experiences. Thanks all for what you have been doing.

[@phatpurrly]

Thank you for the helpful content. As my teacher Goenkaji says, “your job is to do nothing” “Do Nothing! And it must be done properly” so difficult for the western mind to grasp. May your practice be fruitful!

[@ryanhewitt9902]

Your existing content is definitely enough to get someone started on the right path. I found your book to be very helpful - especially as I come from a very skeptical mindset and would never have investigated the Pali Canon if I hadn't found your channel. It turns out I was missing some deep insights on my own and you helped me to correct course. Thanks!

[@richardklauser5816]

We fully support your decision to concentrate on more on your own practice. One video every other weak is still more than enough. Thanks for the awesome content ❤

[@shelinahetherington4661]

Good decision. Thank you for all your teaching. May you reach the final goal soon. 🙏🏽

[@blackomega4061]

I always wondered how you reconciled channel growth and your own practice. Great to see you are prioritizing the path while still helping others (such as myself) to grow as well.

[@brianl9419]

Thank you for your teachings so far. They have been incredibly helpful to me. I wish you all the very best in your pursuit of fulfilling the Dhamma Path. 🙏

[@Dukkha-Bhavana]

Sounds like a good ideas. Go get it!

[@folie-n3t]

Thank you for your teachings. The True Dhamma lecture series has been a gift that surpassed all others to me. I am cheering you on in your practice!

[@marvbordello6047]

May your efforts be rewarded, may your mind slope and incline towards nibbana, may you gain path & fruition knowledge in this very life, for the happiness and wellbeing of all 🙏🏻

[@Jaystkz]

Thank u, for spreading the dharma

[@skiplee5490]

Thank you.

[@dschakaa74]

Lieber Herr Lau, habe gestern auf KZbin einen Vortrag im Buddha Talk von Ihnen auf deutsch gehört. Ich war sehr Inspiriert davon. Gerne würde ich noch weiter Vorträge von Ihnen hören.Habe leider nur die Hauptschule besucht und auf meinem weiteren Lebensweg nie richtig englisch gelernt, kann ich Ihnen leider nicht folgen. Das bedaure ich sehr. Mein Bruder ist aktuell wie damals ihr Vater an Krebs erkrankt. Für mich wäre es hilfreich an Themen wie Ethik/die vier edlen Wahrheiten und erinnern zu arbeiten. Vorab besten Dank! Martín aus Esslingen

[@TheDhammaHub]

Lieber Dschakaa, zuerst: mein Beileid zu der Krebserkrankung Ihres Bruders - ich wünsche eine schnelle und hoffentlich komplikationsfreie Genesung! Die Vorträge hier auf KZbin sind leider mit Untertiteln etwas schwierig zu verstehen, weil die Algorithmen die ganzen Pali-Worte etwas falsch "verstehen". Viele Deutsche Videos habe ich zudem leider nicht in petto. Allerdings kann ich immer gerne anbieten Fragen zu beantworten oder Themen genauer zu erläutern. Wann immer ich die Zeit dafür habe nehme ich mir diese gerne! Wenn also etwas spezielles ist, dann kann man mich gut via Mail erreichen - z.B. unter "[e-mail]" (der Channel hieß mal anders). Liebe Grüße Florian

[@dschakaa74]

Danke für die superschnelle Antwort und das Angebot an Sie Fragen zu stellen. Noch einen schönen Abend!

[@TheDhammaHub]

@@dschakaa74 Gerne!

[@fxm5715]

Thank you for the update, and absolutely, you need to look after your own progress, both for your own well being, and in the long run, that of everyone else you may be helping along on their journeys, too.

[@Middleman265]

I’m happy to hear that you are prioritising your own practice. This channel is a goldmine and so is the discord server. Thanks for everything you do! My practice has taken a whole different level ever since discovering your channel 🙏🏻

[@krenx]

Very good. All the best to your progress and Goal. Thank you.

[@stefanvidenovic5095]

The faster you free your mind, the faster you'll be able to do the work (for others), and probably even better. 😁 Good decision.

[@light1518]

Thank-you for your guidance and inspiration, brother. You have helped very much. Correct my understanding, though I am quite sure of this, having seen its truth in my experience: Craving, suffering is an attitude we hold towards the content of experience, towards the five aggregates. Whether these five aggregates may be, so called, “working” in the world, is not of irrelevance. It is our attitude towards the five aggregates, the “all” of experience, that determines whether we are craving, suffering - if we engage wrongly, unskillfully with experience. Of course, if we are working too much, and we recognize it comes from a place of craving, lust or aversion, restlessness, then we may not partake in as much work - but is it not better for us to also discern that we can continue to work without craving? Whether work is present before us, a person present before us, a thought, a feeling, an intention - it is insignificant, wouldn’t you say? If we would choose, we can distract ourselves and crave deeply thoughts of the Dhamma, if we would like, and even that now becomes a hinderance to non-craving. In the same way, if we approach the work that is present, purifying our *involvement* with it, our entanglement with it, the work may go in just as it is. When we are free of some greed and aversion, of distraction, we become a witness to whatever the body may do to fulfill its work and duty. Whether the five senes and the mind sense or cognize this or that - whether categorize it as “work” or not, it is a simple experience, a collage of colours, sounds, touches, with no inherent meaning. It is because no experience may force us to crave that we may be free of it, if we change our attitude. It is experientially possible and becomes commonplace, to abide in real non-activity *while* the work in the world continues on. I know you have mentioned this as well. Is it not, in your view, that craving with regards to the work is to be abandoned, rather than the work itself? Although, the secondary response is sometimes that work is indeed lessoned in intensity. What is your view on this? 🙏

[@TheDhammaHub]

Your understanding seems right to me! The 4 hindrances of a person in training I mentioned are not so much about craving craving, they are about being "busy" and not giving as much attention to the Dhamma as you otherwise could^^ In seclusion, womb attention arises automatically and stays strongly. In a social setting, in a work setting, or in similar situations, this kind of attention has to be carefully protected and sheltered. Progress in a forest, alone, would be much faster than it is in a crowd^^ There is a reason why the Buddha mentioned these kinds of "obstacles" for sekhas in the Suttas... because that is a frequent slow-down option. So in short: yes, you very much abandon craving which also includes work. But at some point, it is not "only" about the gross types of craving that one usually engages in but about subtle types that are not too visible when "busy". This kind of deeper work requires calm time alone and once you achieved a certain progress in that setting, you take it "with you" into everyday life. The Buddha's monk also went into the forest or any other secluded place for many hours each day^^

[@light1518]

Thank-you! It is helpful for me to hear from you, and to know that these deeper stages may be cultivated in seclusion and brought into the world. Of course, deeper stages may come also in the world, depending on one’s ability to sincerely come with real steadfastness, real alignment, putting the Truth above all attachments. This latter way of recognizing the world itself is not the problem, but I myself, my own insincerity, by pushing aside the naturally arising practice as it begins in me, among the busy world - that is a lesson that in me was hard won and took some time to learn. For me, it would not seem fitting to cast it aside, but to see where this understanding may lead. However, I understand what you say as well here and in your video. There is an inner knowing that, if we are true to, calls each of us by our own circumstances and stages in life. May the Goal and the true Refuge be with you. Thank-you, and Peace be to Thee 🤗

[@FRED-gx2qk]

Good Idea.😎

[@des5348]

Thank you. 🙏

[@StanleyFamilyFun]

Who is your friend (co-host) in the Q&A videos he’s seem to have deep insight. Does he have a web page ??

[@TheDhammaHub]

That is Saif. If you want to ask him something, you can best do that by joining our Discord. I don't think he has any other web presence apart from this

[@FlyOnTheMoon.]

My ongoing question is this: Is it possible for two consenting adults to have sexual intercourse and still attain complete liberation?

[@flyinghigh2646]

lol really that is doubt? ... no doubt this dude has to leave ....

[@grafplaten]

In other words, you wish to have it all, sensual experiences and liberation at the same time?

[@felasfa1]

I think a good question to ask with respect to this question is what liberation is achieved in such an activity. As long as the path of sensuality is chosen, one can not uproot suffering. And for this to happen, the first step is to truthfully acknowledge that what one desires in a sensual domain ; in lack of that honesty, any practice is not in good faith. With best wishes

[@MountainDharma]

Yes but the liberation only lasts about 30 seconds 😏