Ajahn Chah - The Natural Mind (English Reading Audio)

[@deesticco1719]

I am so grateful to Ajahn Chan’s book “ Taste Of Freedom” ( Thanks to my cousin Sidath) which lead my quest for the truth of life and for the insight bliss’

[@AmitBhatia21]

Sadhu, sadhu sadhu! Thanks for sharing the great master teachings.

[@drake8846]

"we don't cling, we don't identify with wanting and not wanting, and simply see it as such. It is just the activity of the natural mind." 6:14 Equating clinging with identifying is helpful. I think Ajahn Sumedo learned a phrase from Ajahn Chah, "Conscious Awareness here and now, and the aggregates are like This."

[@lukasdohnal1229]

Ty Tyson, this may be what Buddhism is today for some, but it's core is no psychology in a sense of removing our internal problems so that we can solve the external problems better. It's core is happiness/content independent of any outer condition. In this blissful state it is highly likely that you will be inspired and energized to help others, but it's not the aim. The aim is for you to be happy, regardless of external conditions. In Buddhism, there are no "external problems" in the sense of something that should cause you stress and discontent (unless you want it, of course). All problems become problems in our minds. They are what they are, before we experience them as suffering. But they are not suffering, objectively. They become suffering when you internalize them as suffering. Ivan Raszl, Buddhism gives a solution to the problem of suffering. Buddhism sees suffering as a problem, not the external conditions. Aim of Buddhism, as I wrote above, is not to remove the suffering by changing the external conditions. The aim of Buddhism is to remove suffering by changing OUR INTERNAL RESPONSE to external conditions. Can such change liberate an individual from suffering completely and independently of outer conditions? I believe so. And I can't imagine anything more worthwhile, any greater universal solution to all of world's "problems", than a happiness/content which you can experience in any condition - whether cold or warm, whether hungry or fed... You don't always have food to feed the kid, but if you teach the kid how it can be happy regardless of whether it's hungry or not, you have done the kid a much greater service than delivering a lunch on the table for a day.

[@tahwsisiht]

+Lukáš Dohnal l Do you have a kid? I am not Buddhist. But I love the Buddha. I think Buddhism is good for teaching us that behind the "wail" there is much more than what we see, we are all connected/ all one, how important to understand our mind, understand suffering, the importance of compassion... etc. It is for me a religion that teaches the importance of looking for the truth but to know that everything is changes, even truth. Buddhism is not about how to parent, how to be a partner in a relationship, how to keep your relationship alive... Buddha once started his path never had a sexual relationship or didn't had to be reliable for his own family to make sure they survive. It was never his goal. I would say that he knew so much, I would say that it is amazing how deep he got into existence, cause and effect BUT NEVER about passing on one's genetics which is also EXTREMELY important for a species. That is the #1 drive once you are more than rocks, air and water. Sex and your offspring becomes very important for survival. But I would not turn to monks or even nuns to have those questions answered. Not even to the Buddha. And I think even he would agree on this. I had time when I had not much money for food. I drank milk with some bread for days. It is not the same once you have a kid. AND should not be the same. That kid does need to have nutrition to grow up healthy. At Buddha's time, it was may be a different scenario, but at modern times with more political influence we would not have Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Hugo Chavez etc... if we follow your line of thinking. Please do not use religion to justify yourself. You seem more like someone who is non-confrontational. Buddha WAS more like a nonconformist of his time.

[@lukasdohnal1229]

+alicevigh I do not have a kid, nor do I intend to have a kid. Other than that, I am perhaps a bit confused by your reply. I am not sure what is the main thing you wanted to say. Especially I do not see how it relates to my previous comment.

[@fingerprint5511]

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[@someoneelse6618]

Sadhu sadhu Thank you!

[@gihan5812]

Excellent...thank you

[@eliob3082]

Although impermanent is in us ..and it is a universal natural law. that everything has a begging and an end. .we still very much attached with the illosion of permanent state of being. .

[@chatb999]

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[@fingerprint5511]

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[@anetakrystyna]

Why translator used the word 'concentration' instead of 'stillness'

[@สมชายแก้วกูล-ฦ3ม]

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[@karmadekye1262]

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