Developing The Mind | by Ajahn Brahmali | 23 Jan 2009

[@djborap]

I find this microphone to be a great source of practicing patience and acceptance :)

[@Abornazine_]

Boris Penev it isn’t the microphone or the wind; it’s your mind you are wrestling with. 🙏🏼

[@cadearcher8887]

Yeah a little hot that mic.

[@lordbyron3603]

I would already be dead without the Buddha’s teachings. Sadhu...Sadhu...Sadhu !

[@trannguyennguyen]

The book is not enough, we need living manifestation of the teachings. Thanks Ajhan Brahmali.

[@savindaillangasinghe2533]

Thank you so much Ajahn Brahmali and BuddhistSocietyWA for these videos/talks, thank you for your spiritual friendship. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

[@RCVivek-ql3we]

Abstain from all unwholesome deeds and do all wholesome deeds and purify your mind ,that is best philosophy of lord Buddha

[@RamonMORALESCASTEL]

Sadhu! Greetings from Venezuela. Thank you, thank you for your Dhamma Talks. I have no Sangha here where I live. We don´t have even one Dhamma Center here. You are my precious Sangha!

[@vanityandpride82]

Wow this talk was Amazing. I love love love this Ajahn even more than Ajahn Brahm. He talks in a simple way and makes the Dharma simple. I learned a lot from this talk so thank you for posting it!

[@Baratgab]

Very good talk, thank you! :-) I'm really happy with Ajahn Brahmali's openness regarding the benefits of monastic life and seclusion. I often feel in other talks that there is too much babble about the trivial lay things, without the bigger perspective of development. But all in all it's very true that these talks are immeasurable support for people like me; especially the deeper ones, like Ajahn Brahm's "Emptiness" and "Stop Trying To Meditate", and Ajahn Brahmali's talk on mindfulness/metta.

[@DEREKinNYC]

Much wisdom in this lecture. It's just a great source of regret that I hadn't been exposed to this wisdom three years ago when I needed this perspective in the worse way!

[@stevenkok1926]

Shadu Shadu Shadu Purify the mind of a noble cause.

[@NewEarth25]

Kalyanamitta & Sangha is important for lay practitioners too....we are running through our conditionings. I realized that after I wihdrew from job & career...city is manifestation of kamaloka true. Thank u for Buddha stories Bhante

[@MsPinkgorilla]

Thanks! Very encouraging and inspiring. I take this with me from your talk: "Deal with the mind and you deal with the problems once and for all"

[@isabelkassan5244]

Thank you for sharing!

[@clearskymind]

Wise teacher. Hard to find a good spiritual community though.

[@Being48]

All reality is a function of the mind. Thank you for your teaching. Love...Peace...Joy :-)

[@petersilk]

Thanks : ) There's so much to know whith buddhism. I'll get there

[@Rachna888]

loved this video

[@falianshakya6477]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

[@isabelkassan5244]

Thank you You Tube Thank you technology

[@petersilk]

lol! you're never allowed any problems on this kind of comments board. maybe the person responsible for uploading the video's is also the person responsible for the recording for the sound, and maybe they will read the comments. I'm sure they're not doing it deliberately as i'm sure they're not qualified sound technicians :P

[@stevenkok1926]

Shadu Shadu Shadu Practical Dhamma Talk.

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

I wish I could ask him if Buddhism is about pushing the human experience away as something "bad" (e.g. "if it feels good,looks good,tastes good,sounds good then it must be BAD!" )? I agree we don't spend enough time entering our own minds or however you put it, but the idea of having to suffer and do without what is organic to ourselves, which includes the body btw not excludes it, demands that one have faith either that they're going to come back into a body after death (which you CANNOT prove objectively with science-based proof) or that they'll "level up" after death if they were totally denying themselves pleasures in and external to themselves. You can say Faith is "good", bahnte, but it ALSO deludes. I enjoy listening to Brahmli because he challenges my thinking and pov. And as someone raised and molded to be fiercely independent almost to the point of worship, ("the lone rider" a figure admired in the states), and I have achieved it better than most I meet. But, there is a price I suppose. As for that, I think every pleasure, *every single one*, has a "price" of some kind, and that I CAN prove. Sadhu, Metta, Wado.

[@MrMohamed1407]

wonderful thank you sir

[@RickEmmines]

I love these lectures but the microphone distortion is very distracting.

[@RCVivek-ql3we]

Follow all philosophy of Lord Buddha with true mind and behave others with true mind

[@alex630710]

Is there such a thing as finding a middleway between meditation and sensual pleasures ?

[@andry7350]

Sensual pleasures are hinderances to jhana, meditative absorption. The five hinderances are sense pleasure, ill will,sloth and torpor, restlessness or anxiety, and doubt. If any of these arise in the mind, they are distractions. At least thats how I have interpreted my readings of their literature.

[@Lamarckianism]

These are some Great Videos. I was just thinking if in this particular talk the monk wouldn't speak so close or directly into the microphone because it then just sounds muffled.

[@The3nlightened0ne]

imagine if we develop the mind as how we develop our bodies today.

[@ravenheartwraith]

@BipolarBowler s the mic bothering you... or are YOU bothering the mic?

[@maattttt07]

mic only bugs you after you think of it

[@petersilk]

Are the BSWA monks vajrayana, mahayana or hinayana/theravada? I am a little cofused by all the ways and the schools..

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

Peter Silk I'm very late but for future readers: they a Theravada

[@shunyotube]

I'm almost certain it's an oscillating fan that causes this. It can be heard on Ajahn Brahm's and other speaker's talks. Watch the candles for extra clues. Also, the suffering of heat tends to come up in many talks that feature this auditory disturbance. I understand what is being said by the speakers fine. I assume you were making a suggestion, but the speaker's vicinity to the microphone clearly isn't the issue.

[@skleelee6716]

sadhu +3

[@tedoymisojos]

This is all so strange sometimes. To be able to see life as it is, to be free of suffering, puts you in a different place in the cycle of rebirth... Its all very weird. Maybe the practice is just for the current life, for the quality of the current lifetime. And that is all. There are so many opinions in the different branches of buddhism.

[@drav1dan]

22:10 - "There is nobody in here. There is nobody controlling all this". Then how did Sansara originate? Shouldn't there be a basis for the Sansara, like the Hindu concept of Brahman in order to explain that?

[@NewEarth25]

Brahmans were claiming Atman is Brahman...Buddha said even the formless is conditioned. Check Biology of belief ...Bruce Lipton youtubes

[@horovarietyontv3249]

Shathu

[@sdesilva4139]

Hi

[@rohatsu]

mic,mic,mic..........!!!!!!!!

[@BipolarBowler]

It's only your desire that causes your suffering! You wish the mic was clear, but it isn't -- so you suffer!.. Yea, they should get better sound people that are MINDFUL about that microphone distortion. Maybe they're just testing us though. By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. Lao Tzu

[@markbrad123]

Seems superfluous creating a moral personal construct to in the end dissolve into nothing/everything of pure consciousness. Just be good and go with the flow.

[@fugazi0311]

Agh. So annoying all the wind blowing in the mic.

[@hairysuit]

I agree kirk! Ajahn Brahmali's "Uh" can be quite a distraction from his wonderful dhamma! However, as Ajahn Brahm would say, It is not the "Uh" that is disturbing you. You are disturbing the "Uh"! Metta

[@nitinandkharat871]

nice