Don't just sit on your butt meditating go and help the poor people of Gaza!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Sorry everyone but the video is really dark looking, I think I messed up the picture profile. I guess it is karma, because this is a very dark and depressing issue ♥💚🧡

[@juanitoviejo2121]

Perfect---leave it as it emerged. Is dark and depressing more nearly true than light and uplifting?

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@juanitoviejo2121 One must never give up hope my friend ♥♥♥

[@ofirsam7561]

I almost was killed when the ppl of gaza att israel i was 40km from gaza

[@MalkuthEmperor]

16:40 i want to add something to this, not from a budist perspective as i dont understand it yet, but from my version of a leftist perspective. The mistake made is resentment, but id say specifically its the resentment towards a superficial caracteristic. I.e. the resentment towards every person which shares the superficial caracteristic of the opressor group. If there were two peoples, and the first one, group green, opressed the second one,group purple, then if group punple fights back, thats fine, but if they then not only fight back, but decide to blame every member of group green for their opression, then they have started blaming many inocents as well. No matter how we look at it, every large enough group that tries to opress others, has many people within it who do not opress, who do not wish to opress, and infact, who go against the attempt to opress, and so if we dont realise this fact, that groups are made of individuals, and not a hivemind monolith with the singleheaded purpoce to destriy us, then we are at risk of doing the same thing to them that they did to us- because it seems to me that every evil that a large group comited after another was done out of " good intent", and out of a feeling that the other group will hurt them if they dont destroy them first- this is how faschism works, this is how imperialism works- the ruling class, often convinced of thease ideas themselves, radicalise the population which has already has the seeds of nationalism within them, and takes their real suffering and instead of telling them whare it really comes from, they look for a group to blame, a group to make the out group and then tell their supporters that this outgroup is the cause of all of their strife, and that the outgroup does this not for some gain per say, altho that too, but moreso because that group is is intrinsically, genetically evil and monsterous, even beast like, and that thease caracteristics are not able to be changed through any kind of education of experience ( and yes, they include children) This logic btw, is the same mechanically as is sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphibia, aracnophobia ( okay im kidding with the last one, but even that one works on the same pronciples altho its not as severe in concequence ) And the other problem is when we dont realise that even every person that is within a group for the explicit person to opress others for superficial reasons, did not really have a choice in becoming indoctrinated by their parents, and their parents did not chose to be brainwashed by their parents and on and on. This does not remove culpabuility, and we should try to restrain them from murdering and causing harm if possible, or if not possible unfortunatelly, we will be forced to take their life if ours or a loved ones live if threatened, or of the whole group we are a part of- but, if we had the choice to capture them, we should do so while realising that the reason this person did the horrible thongs they did, is because they never were given another choice- since the arbitraety of their birth, till the moment of capture, they lived a life in which they were not thought how to interpret material reality well enough to know that their problens would not be solved by harming others based on their superficial caracteristics like race, ethnicity, sex, gender, religion and so on. The only time i would justify predjudice is against people who are predjudied towards others based on superficial caracteristics- as the old saying goes( with a small twist from me) tolerance for everyone except those who are intolerant based on superficial caracteristics. The reason i altered it is because in order to protect ourselves we need to be intolerant to the group that is intolerant to us, but we mustant be intolerant to them based on the same reasons, but rather, based strictly on their caracteristic of wanting and/doint material harm to us based on no good material reason. ( i apologise for the redundancy, but i really want to hammer in that main point, because people oftain misunderstand this because of the terminology typically used) And even those people, we must then realise they can be rehabilitated, they cam be thought, they can become kinder and less hatefull. Sure, some of them will be unable to, but its not on them, because they never had the means, whille some of us do, and if we do, then its on us to try to help them. Aught implies can. If someone had no money, and someone to take care of, then if they steal bread or money, it would be justofiable- and this is because in order for us to expect someone to act in a moral way, they first must have had the option to do so, and infact, must have had the option to do so relatively easly. And when it comes to a faschist soldier, or murderer, the same is the case only on a far more complex series of events that lead them to be unable to understand some aspects of reality, which made them volnerable to the type of propaganda, and then the type of actions from the propaganda. Again, this doesnt mean that we should let them do whatever they want- no, we should restrain them whenever possible, or if someones life is imediatelly threatened and there is no out, then to take their life, because the same rule applies to us, "aught implies can", and if we do manage to restrain them, then its in the best interest of frankly all life to keep them alive and to help them understand- and not in order to make them feel guilty, but in order to make them learn, and to allow them to make a mense through their actions and ideas. I also think we should humainely research thease peoples psychology, so that we can learn how to prevent the same mindsets in other people before they getit, or to know how to rehab them if they do get it. Also goes without saying that torture and prison sexual assault makes rehab nerely impossible, so we should try to prevent it as much ss possible, and to also give a way for the prisoners to earn their survival through some work which they will get all of the money from except for taxes, so this eay they contrjbute to society but are not exploited. Ofc, goes without saying that there shouldnt be someone who profits off of the prisoners, especially not some warden or ceo of the prison. Taking racism as an example again- If an initial brainwashed racist is hateful towards an inocrnt person, and if that inocent lerson also becomed racist ad a result of the others racism, then anyone from the initial racists group who is inocent and not a racist happens to meet the secong guy who become racist, then the inocent person might now experience racism from the first victim of racism in the story. This is then for some people used as justification why they should be racist " since if they were inocent and still targeted then maybe the racists did have a point after all" A lot of people who dont understand why racism is bad, and who cant define it well become racists because of this reason- you know, some got bullied by a kid of a different race in a racist town and etc. Tho we can say it is some part spiritual problem, it moreso a philosophical one, or better yet, a problem of ignorance, because actually educated people about racism do not become racists no matter what, becajse racism, sexism and so on, all the ones under that category, are just that bad as ideas , they hold no material justifications to exist, nor spiritual, not intelectual justification, but only an emotional one from the lense of someone indoctrinnsted. I think we should be pacifictic concequentialists, because that way, we have the highest chance of eventually reaching world peace and advancing humanity to a point whare suffeing is scarser the contentment and pleasure. ( hope i made a new term and didnt repurpoce an old one😅) Have a good day

[@ultimatemeaning]

Hi people please note I will not tolerate hate speech in the comments section, if you want to give me a hard time that's OK but if you are making racist comment then I will remove them from the thread, thank you for your understanding♥♥♥

[@groovusgregus3008]

This is *the* video that I needed to see. I don't have the words in my vocabulary to express how thankful I am for this. I was once, and to a degree still am, radicalized by these atrocities along with many others. The guilt I've felt for years around my comparably high quality of life in the midst of tragedy has suffocated me. I only now realize that my hateful rage does not come from a place of kindness, but is merely a projection of that guilt and a selfish attempt to absolve myself of it. It is self serving, and the opposite of altruism.

[@ultimatemeaning]

And friend this is the first step the next is to learn to love yourself and other by generating Bodhicitta ♥🧡💛 kzbin.info/aero/PLu8Rw0r4aAhQlxR879XgovOJy3cj-Oz6p

[@EllyCatfox]

❤❤❤

[@valeriepaul8542]

Very wise words! Action is inevitable and necessary in this world, but action without wisdom just leads to suffering. Thank you for pointing the way to the right path 🙏🏻

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks Valerie I will try my best with my limited means! ♥

[@arthurolimpio5739]

May Chenrezig extend a hand to all beings that are suffering and may he touch the hearts of people who can help the palestinian people ❤

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thank you Arthur!

[@maryfreund4957]

Om mani padme hum 🙏💚

[@j.9383]

May we all grow in our ability to always see the other side and where those we dislike are coming from. May we be strong enough to be open to their pain. May we have the courage to see them as brothers and sisters as this is what they are. May we be in touch with the love that shines forth when all other lights are gone.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thank you for your wonderful aspirations J ♥

[@mistymint7983]

So beautifully said ❤

[@horse433]

Thank you for you’re service

[@ultimatemeaning]

♥♥♥

[@mipsungvuclam]

This tread of understanding that you have articulated, very well in my opinion, describes the outlook that I do my best to balance upon within myself as conflicts of this nature arise in this world. There seems to always be the same various responses that I have seen throughout my time here and the same various outcomes. And this wheel just keeps on rolling down the hill that has no end in sight😢

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thankfully the Buddha taught the escape trajectory from mundane suffering! May you find peace and wellbeing! Thanks for sharing ♥🧡🧡

[@mistymint7983]

Thank you for your honesty and insights on these difficult topics

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks Misty. I see you recognise the difficulty of opening up publicly on this topic! I hope it doesn't cause my family concern♥♥♥

[@Crispy656forever]

Its a blessing to listen to you!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Not sure if I have any blessing to share but for sure your positive mindset is a blessing to self and others ♥

[@Lambda_Ovine]

I fear that we risk holding a false sense of neutrality here, of accidentally rationalizing this tragedy as a consequence of two forces opposite to each other but in equal standing in power and morality. While I agree that holding resentment after a traumatic event risks adopting the attitudes that begot the trauma in the first place and that just causes a cycle of suffering and one should be careful with falling pray to that, I don't think we can uphold the plight of the Palestinians in equal footing with the interests of the Israeli state, I think history makes it clear that the founders of Zionism and early involvement in the movement was made by people that identified more with white colonialism than Judaism, needless to say that one side seems to have all the unconditional support and protection of some of the most powerful nations, while the other has nothing close of the likes. There may not be any use in pointing out fingers to see who's to blame, but that does not mean that we ought not to recognize that the Palestinian people have been the major victims of colonialism (which includes the Zionist movement) through out. It's on those grounds that I think we can't hold a neutral position in this issue.

[@虎达]

THIS!!

[@虎达]

THIS!!!!

[@ultimatemeaning]

As long as we do not lose our empathy or become cold to the suffering of others 🧡❤💛

[@Moe_Posting_Chad]

Yes. The are demons and are those that call themselves jews but are not. They are the synagouge of Satan. Took me a long time, but it turns out that the Bible is far more accurate than atheists insist it isn't.

[@InhabitantOfOddworld]

Sadly it's Jews doing what they have always done

[@davidm1149]

Gregg Braden relates his experience of working with a group of people in Israel in a prayer project. They imagined the violence and conflict dissipating, and replaced it in their minds with a calm situation. During the time of their project, which I believe was a month or more, the crimes and violent acts did recede! It is many times more productive to sit on your butt and meditate!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yes I agree David. There was an earlier case in Washington DC where 500 transcendental meditators got together to meditate on peace. The police chief sent them a thank you at the end of the day because of the noticeable effects of their practice on the peace and harmony of the people of DC.

[@davidm1149]

@@ultimatemeaning DC is a nightmare city. I've lived nearby for 7 years, and learned about the structure which has been hijacked for evil purposes. It would take a lot to dismantle the mess these politicians have created. People have no idea what's really existent in their country. But prayer does work. I went to a church begun by an ex-drug dealer in Delaware. He and a small group of dedicated people prayed over a small town in the northern part of the state. He said he saw two "seats" above in the sky, one of which was empty, the other occupied by an evil entity. They prayed, and after 10 days, it left. That was where the church began. Today, he builds churches in Nigeria with Bishop Benson Idahosa. There is also a man named John Anosike from Cape Town who has been coming to major cities in the US and "exorcising" the major demon princes over them. This is actually far more serious work than people know. I was only involved in that one church, (I've always tried to keep up my prayer life), and this is a monolithic effort to do what Anosike does. These entiities produce an atmosphere that spurs people to be evil, or at least to give way to corruption and crime. I'm not a "christian", just try to follow what I think is right. I've been coming across so much information that I scarcely can believe even exists.

[@Moe_Posting_Chad]

None of this matters unless we do this as consistently as we commute to work. Nobody cleans the house once a year and insists this is good enough.

[@franzhaas5597]

An eye for an eye blinds the whole world.

[@ultimatemeaning]

our world is becoming toothless and blind!

[@franzhaas5597]

@@ultimatemeaning true

[@strangecurrency]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpqrgId4hKekobM

[@That_Freedom_Guy]

So I keep hearing. But what if that saying is for judicial decisions. How to decide what is a fair punishment for a certain crime. As a rule of thumb, it sounds as fair as you could get. And just as we have jails for punishment, doesn't automatically follow that we will all end up in jail, so it is with this eye for an eye. For everyone to end up blind and toothless would require half the population to blind and take teeth from the other half and then for the perpetrators to receive the just punishment. Think about what we keep repeating, perhaps. ✌🏻🧡

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@That_Freedom_Guy So to give you the Buddhist perspective on judicial punishment: As you may know Bhutan is a Vajrayana Buddhist country and even the money is decorated with Vajrayana symbolism. When a criminal is sentenced he may very well be expected to carry a basket of live fish (who were destined to be slaughtered) up the mountain to be released in a remote lake to live out the rest of their natural lives in relative peace. 🙏🙏🙏

[@SARASTANLEY-dg2wu]

Thank you Lama Choga! Courageous and compassionate. Glad to see your warrior spirit alive and well. In order to be able to defend the truth l have been practicing/training with our Shaolin friends. Buddha heart - demon hand. ❤🐯🙏🏻

[@ultimatemeaning]

Oh how wonderful! One of our Tibetan lamas is the (spiritual) head of the Shaolin apparently

[@SARASTANLEY-dg2wu]

@@ultimatemeaningwonderful indeed! I love their direct, practical approach. ❤

[@jimmusamma1635]

“I know this is going to offend some people” 🍿🍿🍿 Do go on 😂

[@jimmusamma1635]

Thank you for this video. I’ve been walking a similar mental path. Recently I’ve become really disenfranchised with my religious community about all these topics. My previous leader is a well respected abbot with many books published and a year spent in airplanes touring the world giving talks. But on these topics you’re talking through, I’ve found him to be immature. You mention that mendicants leave society. That by taking on the robes, you desire to shed your connection with the world. I have not really seen that happen. I’m not sure that mendicants can exist independently of the world. That mendicants learn to live with the world in a different way. I’ve mainly seen this manifest as mendicants becoming obsessed with themselves to the point of narcissism. They took off the gold and finery of the physical world and adorned the gold and finery of the world in their heads. I’ve tried to engage with my religious community on the topics you’ve talked about and only run into this narcissism. You had a previous video on llamas with gold thrones but I ran into monks with big travel budgets. They would not say anything that would effect that budget materially. So now I don’t know what I am. Their dharma is not good in the beginning, good in the middle and good at the end. Yours is. Thank you.

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@jimmusamma1635 Hi Jim, it is rare to find anyone with true renunciation, and this is the prerequisite for becoming a true mendicant. It is a well documented fact that most famous teachers become spoilt by their fame and are often more worldly than the ordinary laity. thank you for sharing ♥🧡🧡

[@kadalo4544]

u made a lot of points i never even thought about, its weird how it makes some things a lot less complifcated, and some more than ever?

[@hansenmarc]

17:14 "However much happiness there is in the world, all of that arises from the wish for others’ happiness, however much suffering there is in the world, all of that arises from the wish for one’s own happiness." -Shantideva I looked in The Way of the Bodhisattva but couldn’t find that beautiful quote. Could it be in some other work of his?

[@ultimatemeaning]

It is from the root text in Tibetan let me look it up because it was quoted by the Dalai Lama in a Tibetan teaching and may be translated very differently in English. The term དོན་ means purpose or benefit not really pleasure

[@hansenmarc]

@@ultimatemeaning thank you. I’d also seen the term translated as happiness. I’ll update the quote.

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@hansenmarc Hi friend here is the full quote from "Way of the Bodhisattva" in the Tibetan: །འཇིག་རྟེན་བདེ་བ་ཇི་སྙེད་པ། །དེ་ཀུན་གཞན་བདེ་འདོད་ལས་བྱུང་། །འཇིག་རྟེན་སྡུག་སྔལ་ཇི་སྙེད་པ། །དེ་ཀུན་རང་བདེ་འདོད་ལས་བྱུང་། And to give you a more comprehensive translation: "however much happiness there is in the world, all of that arises from the wish for other's happiness, however much suffering there is in the world, all of that arises from the wish for one's own happiness" Hope this helps 🙏🙏🙏

[@hansenmarc]

@@ultimatemeaning thank you again. I was finally able to find it: Chapter 8, verse 129. 🙏🙏🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@hansenmarc Its really gratifying to make a textual connection with the past masters! 🙏🙏🙏

[@yvonneseihu5764]

I have always wondered ....if those who decide to start a war... for only a split second think about the suffering and trauma they will bring about their human fellows...especially to the most vulnerable... the children and elderly.

[@ultimatemeaning]

I think those that start war are well aware of the suffering they will cause but do it out of self interest based on their negative emotional tendendencies. For status, power and greed! ☮☮☮

[@paulbendall1238]

My grandfather told my dad, never get involved with polotics or religion and of course he told me that cos it's how I know.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yes it is a good piece of advice ♥

[@MonkLife]

Very very sweet ☺️🎂🎉

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thank you bhante. I am interested in your story, I must watch a few of your video 🙏🙏🙏

[@kadalo4544]

if i understand it correctly, by breaking the cycle of samsara it means when ur soul leaves this circle is one less person that gets caught in negativity? Like its just a drop in the ocean less, but thats the only real change u can do, change urself, so u dont add to the bill, and by that u change the world?

[@moonless_children]

I dont see what's controversial about your opinions. You seem to have a level head, and i think most people will recognize that. In this video, you acknowledged the suffering and hatred spit out by both sides of the aisle, and your tone was thoughtful and speech concise and meaningful. Idk i just hope you dont catch too much shit from this drama because, honestly, it's nice to hear an even handed, educated, stances on world politics and stuff.

[@ultimatemeaning]

🧡❤💛 Some topics are taboo these days because of the intense polarisation in the world, but we need to speak our peace and learn to see the other's position 🧡❤💛

[@iachtulhu1420]

Kudos to you sir! That's what we need. Engagement, not cloistered passivity, resignation and thinking noble thoughts will improve the state of the world. There is no compassion if it's not manifested and used as a skillful means. If it's not manifested, then it's entirely virtual, no better then imaginary self-congratulating touchy-feely, bubbly aspirations totally divested of any reality and connection to the actual. We should use compassion, Boddhichitta, and our our learned and cultivated attitudes and skills from the cushion to real world out there. I am maybe biased, being a Marxist, but I do think engaged Buddhism is really a thing, not just a activist fad. Even if put Buddhism as philosophy, religion or particular movement aside, still, we have a very human, moral obligation to reach for other human beings.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thank you for sharing your insights sir. ♥♥♥

[@LucysSonarDreams]

all actions have a ripple, we may not be able to fix the world ourselves, but we can have an effect, if I help one person who helps another, who helps another and so on, I will have helped many by helping one, pass it forward.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Sounds like a wonderful plan thank you for sharing ♥

[@charlesbeaudelaire9693]

Well said.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thank you Charles. This was a tough one, and so it is heartwarming to have your support ♥♥♥

[@nellymurkthewitch]

You're so based for this ❤️

[@npc2794]

why do leftists use the word based wrong it's not your word

[@ultimatemeaning]

🧡❤💛

[@lucian1985]

​@npc2794 woke is to the right as based is to the left, and language is made up. Pick your battles

[@stephenowen5229]

🙏🙏🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

♥

[@kha0s616]

Interesting. I also believe there must be a balance for everything in this life, but given the facts that for so long the Palestinian people have been repressed and deprived of basic needs not only by Israel but by those who were supposed to be taking care of them, I think this battle is much much more complicated than it seems. Palestine was never peaceful, people were prosecuted and judged in accordance to the Quran. Their government is more than corrupt and it's laws are also based on the Quran, which is not very familiar with human rights. Which leaves people dependant on mercenary groups thinking it might lead them to freedom. It is a very complicated situation with prejudice from both sides. But if there is a Truth, is that Islam is not a religion of peace and these people deserve better. I pray everyday for people in the middle east, they are constantly in my mind, it's almost like I can feel their pain from miles. I cry everytime I watch or listen to stories of women from Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and others. I also find it amazing that you have no prejudice whatsoever for those who condemn Buddhism and had blown up Buddhist Temples and Statues for years. It's truly admiring.

[@kha0s616]

🤝🫂🙏🏼

[@ultimatemeaning]

I will not tar all people of one religion as the same in the same way I wouldn't say that all people from one nation are the same. This is where all our suffering comes from- identification. What we need is to see things with fresh eyes and without prejudice What do you think there is so much suffering in the world? With one side saying "all jews are bad" and the other "all muslims are bad" Why can't we learn from our past mistakes?

[@kha0s616]

@@ultimatemeaning probably because Islam as a whole (which is not a nation but wishes to be one as we've seen with ISIS) thinks it is the only way and other religions must be erradicated. It does have a plan for global Islamification and has as a priority the destruction of the State of Israel, but it doesn't stop there. They have managed to conquer 1/3 of the world already.

[@DuongTran-mh7ci]

What you say makes sense, thank you.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thank you for saying so Doug 🙏

[@obiwanceleri]

I humbly disagree with your position on Russia but I am very grateful for your video. Brave words. I also agree with most of the other arguments you brought forth. Thank you! By the way, after much seeking, I have come to the conclusion humanity is actually a biological computer. Individually we don't know, but together we do. The problem, however, is that most large political powers know this and try to jam our collective compute power. If you input the wrong information, you are unlikely to get a proper answer. Some input is actually made to lead people astray or stand by and become passive. Let's be careful out there!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yes of course, we are all entitled to our own opinions. The main point regarding 💛💙 in the context of the Buddha Dharma is that peoples have a right to self defense but not to impose their will on others. And the greatest danger is that if we are radicalised by conflict to the point where we lose our humanity then this will only perpetuate our own suffering fr generations to come. The same goes for the Israeles and Palestinians Best wishes my friend 🤍💙♥

[@obiwanceleri]

@@ultimatemeaning Thank you for your wishes, they are really appreciated :) A question. About 25-30 years ago (my temporal memory is no good LOL) I lived in Longueuil, Québec. Right around the corner of Lemoyne street there was a Buddhist temple, I would see monks coming out of that building all the time. One of our friends had a chuckle one day saying "there are monks on Lemoyne street!" (in french Lemoyne means "the monk"). Have you ever been there? Anyways, thank you for your videos, I was always curious about spirituality and meditation and I find anything on that specific topic very interesting - it's as if I was remembering something very distant :)

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@obiwanceleri I have not been but this is a Gelugpa centre and these are always the best places for studying the Buddha Dharma!

[@paulbendall1238]

Charity begins at home, within it is the key, each has a within what comes out from it is the manifest world the outside is distanced from the within in that the outside is messy to say the least. Figting some one elses war is how we create and so perpetuate wars, and those that know that keep you fighting them by the very nature of the caring soul within; know you will do exactly what they know you will do because of the care the soul is. What comes out is only from what is within so each must become wholly soul working from within. When we incrementally multiply we then incrementally reduce those increments of illogical behaviours from those that have not acted from souly within. Once the egg has broken then we see the broken egg and how it broke, the egg still remains broken.... what do you do with the broken egg....make omelets, what we see as a negative there always lays the positive....ugly it may be to see but something positive can be made from it, it is where we are amidst the ugly and beautiful. Etrernally we be and only reside here for a short season and what we learn is both sides are a part of the one eternally learning the creation of it.....the real answer lays with each and words only speak to those who hear their within.❤

[@ultimatemeaning]

👍

[@MonkLife]

Please continue sharing the Dhamma 🙏🏼🌍🪭📿

[@Josephbrownbear]

I had a 💥 in my head and they came to take me away for three days they asked where I was from I told the truth I am from the land of compassion I think they knew more then me and told me go go home to my children So wars and greed land I am from the land of compassion where is it ? Where I am there right there and all are welcome when the land they stand on and claim takes them to those try rotted to compassion will see there place unfold . So me the son of a sea hound in the house of tabudda the daughter and I had a child she said born in love , Sophia Divine wisdom And I was also able to become a Joseph to my miracle child who is from the tribe of gad the tribe who build city's of refuge where those dipped in blood could flee to seek refuge.and Christ the high priest the king the budhisattva the man the son of man and Joseph the hidden father are all with me in me as me . Tell all the truth Emily Dickinson

[@thomasj.loebel9809]

Be You De the De received and a Heaven you see

[@ultimatemeaning]

♥♥♥

[@wolfk2258]

I thought from the title I'd be guilt tripped into going to Gaza.

[@ultimatemeaning]

It was a comment someone made to me that inspired the title. We are all free agents. thank you for sharing!🙏🙏🙏

[@gulaschnikov5335]

Call out bullies everywhere! "Never again" meant never again anywhere!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Amen to that 🧡❤💛 Don't remain silent 🧡❤💛

[@strangecurrency]

Lama Choga, Are you looking to better yourself in future lives, are you seeking personal liberation from samsara, or are you looking to become a fully enlightened Buddha for the benefit of all sentient beings?

[@ultimatemeaning]

I aspire towards the Bodhisattvayana, but my inspiration is Mahamudra. Why? what journey are you on?

[@strangecurrency]

I wanted context in light of some of your comments in this discussion and others. As for my journey-I am still trying to clarify my motivations for dharma practice. Your videos and interaction have been helpful in this respect. And I just finished reading a talk on Ngondro by Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche that inspired me to go deeper and trust the process.

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@strangecurrency The Ngondro is a fantastically effective method for entering the path of direct insight if practised authentically. It utilises the three gates of virtue to transform ordinary perceptions on a profound level. But much of this depends of the sincerity of the one practising (Is this Clinton?)

[@strangecurrency]

@@ultimatemeaning yes

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@strangecurrency 👍

[@thesjkexperience]

People love their opinions. Sadly, most opinions are fact free and many are projections of the owner.

[@SethEvans-r2j]

Way much sense. Alurian symbol of a swastika combined with a star of David. When I saw it made me think of the story you just deep monk.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Are you talking about the Tibetan (tantrik) symbol that resembles a star of david?

[@SethEvans-r2j]

No it was, didn't resemble

[@horse433]

This guy is the worst monk I love it.

[@badgerbusiness9059]

Damn this autocorrect, the oblask region.

[@Josephbrownbear]

Past is present future be is "now".

[@ultimatemeaning]

Now is never

[@Josephbrownbear]

@@ultimatemeaning still haven't figured out the meaning 😂

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@Josephbrownbear 😆🤣😆

[@revolutionaryfoxinist2377]

How can all beings be be free of suffering when systems (that can be changed and defeated) drown them in propaganda and throw them into cycles of violence? When one is able to sit in a monastery, that is good. But for whom is this possible? Not just in the sense of finding a place, but in the sense of being able to even cultivate the desire to do so? My point is, I suppose, that these human-made, systemic tragedies are not like landslides and earthquakes. There are structural properties of particular, alterable social arrangements. I firmly believe that there are environments conducive to the flourishing of the dharma, and environments that are not. Flowers can bloom in hostile environs, but are less likely to do so. It's also important to realize that not every place at every time has been a place of negativity. The systems that perpetuate literally earth-shattering violence have been kept back, arrested, and on the back-foot before. A flood, a landslide, a plague might make cultivation hard, but it is repairable. A social, psychological sickness that is all pervasive and ever growing, however, is not quite like that. Repairing it will not simply arise from people doing what is ordinary for them; repairing, healing, learning. The rot is deep. We aren't just dealing with a cycle, but with an expanding system. On the spiritual path, we require an understanding of how the real world works, and the reality, the concreteness of violent systems, is a part of that. You acknowledge that a teacher is required. You acknowledge that a Sangha is very important. Your practice occurred in a spiritual place, and you developed the skill to take that with you elsewhere. Situation matters. To heal the deepest wounds, spiritual places, teachers, and communities are important. If one lacks these things, then we advise they seek them out. We advise they change their circumstance. But as soon as we want to change the circumstance of people more generally, outside of the mos individualistic, disconnected view, then it becomes political. Because we come up against systemic issues that are antithetical to this kind of movement on a large scale. When you say to someone 'find a teacher, find a place, find a community'. You say to them 'change your situation so as to make it more conducive to cultivation'. But in front of millions of people, can you say the same to them? It doesn't seem so. Because to say to a nation 'change your situation so as to make it more conducive to cultivation' is political. You come up against a system that instead throws people into violence, paranoia, racism, sadism, greed and delusion, and you see this as outside of your purview, because it is political. I don't believe anyone can avoid being apolitical anymore. It is a terrible mistake. Those of wisdom and stalwart spiritual constitution should not choose to treat atrocity as if it were a natural, inevitable phenomena, when in reality, it's perpetuation is such a fragile thing. To oppose atrocity on a large scale as a Buddhist, I think, should be no different than helping someone out of a drug habit. The big isn't different from the small. A sick person is not different from a sick society. The divide between 'political' and 'individual/spiritual' is a toxic dualism that provides us convenient, impotent refuge. Buddhism has existed for millennia. Atrocities have been, and still are, committed in its name. Are we a force for the betterment of everyone, or are we nothing? How much of the promise to liberate all beings was hot air? If we can't touch the 'political', what are we? It's true that the problem isn't 'not enough people giving aid'. That's obviously true. To minimize the symptoms of the problem as a means of treating the problem is backward. I think at some point, some problems that can be solved MUST be solved. Unlike with earthquakes, the problem of systemic atrocity is solvable. I'm sure you would cure cancer if you could. But not atrocity? At any rate, I feel it's worth saying that this video is very sober, and that my discomfort is on a rather small point. Specifically, about how the political is to be viewed and treated, as distinct from the personal.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts friend. To clarify, freedom, in terms of the spiritual path, isn't dependent on external conditions. For example someone in the deepest dungeon can be more free than the king who put him there. If you look at the history of the Chinese invasion of Tibetan many spiritual teachers were subjected to the most terrible and inhuman treatment but because of their internal realisation were never anything but free. 🙏🙏🙏

[@revolutionaryfoxinist2377]

@@ultimatemeaning Thanks for the response. I certainly appreciate the fact that there is always a path no matter what happens in the external world. But is that not a contingent fact? Like, if the dharma can't be transmitted, then people locked in dungeons will have a much harder time cultivating anything useful in such a place. And suppose they don't even know how to meditate? That a teacher of buddhism could be put into horrible conditions and still remain free is intuitively true to me, but that's the thing, we're talking about someone for whom the space and time existed to become skillful in that sense beforehand. I should also note that I'm aware that some people come out of horrible situations with more clarity than they entered them with. But I don't think that's close to the norm. If everyone could be tormented or tested into awakening then the dharma wouldn't be important, no? I do apologize for the length of my posts, I just find this to be a very difficult topic to discuss with precision.

[@Nedalumas]

Freedom and liberty to Tibet

[@ultimatemeaning]

Pray for the poor downtrodden Tibetans ♥♥♥

[@JvicyKisses]

It would take a planet wide effort to untangle the abrahamic religions. Idk how outside of converting to one or the other… ie.. Hell would have to freeze over.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts friend 🙏🙏🙏

[@hallroney]

you re wrong, if everyone was altruist the society would still have major problems because there s no way of agreing about what is right for everyone (a lot of people do awful things believing its for the better). Selfish people are not always a bad thing because their behaviour is usually pretty predictable thus they re good blocks for some areas of the society.

[@ultimatemeaning]

"if everyone was altruistic" Have you considered the implication of this statement BTW? 🧡❤💛

[@jeanthornton2107]

❤

[@ultimatemeaning]

🧡❤💛

[@bodhicitta108]

Hard for me to find the right words Choga, I'm being a bit 🙄by some of the comments you have to read. The ignorance and lack of decent speech is challenging; then again, this is of course the ground to practice: patience, compassion, emptiness and so forth. It's pretty simple though: YOU TAKE CARE OF YOUR PARENTS (whilst building meditation huts with little help). This is your priority! Being a Buddhist AS YOU ARE means using wisdom & compassion! Bird needs to wings, right? Clearly and naturally you choose to take care of your parents. So to all those out there sitting on' their butts' scrutinizing others who put themselves out there publicly in honesty and with the sole purpose of benefiting ALL sentient beings (including you, that commenter)..do think before you speak. do check your facts and maybe, just maybe put yourself in the others shoes.. would yo go fight a war when your almost 90 year old mom is in and out of the hospital with no one to look after her? In addition, what appears to be more beneficial; Choga on KZbin spreading the dharma, opening converstions to now 2,38k people (and rising I would suggest) or stitching up people in Gaza? Just saying... Anyhow; be well Choga, thank you for your videos. May your parents be well and happy and same to you and to all in this community and of course extended to all sentient beings. **and bravo for having balls 💪🏼☸ B O D H I C I T T A. Afterthought: helping people in Gaza is of great importance and demands great urgency, it is a human crisis of outrageous scope! I stand with Palestine and at the same time try to have great compassion for Israel who creates unimaginable negative karma.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, may all beings be free from suffering in the ocean of suffering that is Samsara 💛💙

[@PP-G]

parthied is wrong as is genocide. My heart goes out to all people who are suffering this horror..I have met some of the young people from gaza in 2014 and I wonder how many if any are alive now..a heavy sadness covers me when Palestines people suffer..I pray for an end to all suffering 🙏🙏🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yes Paul it is very sad and thank you for your love and compassion. Now the question for someone on the path is "What can I do to help end the suffering?" ♥♥♥

[@PP-G]

@@ultimatemeaning by helping others and as you say retaliation is the momentum that perpetuates violence..the west coast of Scotland is still scarred by sectarianism...growing up in the 70s and 80s it was a different experience..rivalism sectarianism aparthied and all these ate tools of oppression to cause fear and to control..I suppose the cure is the complete opposite ..🙏🙏🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

Hi friends here is the full quote from "Way of the Bodhisattva" kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJrNnmxmnbKNibcsi=xXjGhJvNRl6MfjAX&t=1034 in the Tibetan: །འཇིག་རྟེན་བདེ་བ་ཇི་སྙེད་པ། །དེ་ཀུན་གཞན་བདེ་འདོད་ལས་བྱུང་། །འཇིག་རྟེན་སྡུག་སྔལ་ཇི་སྙེད་པ། །དེ་ཀུན་རང་བདེ་འདོད་ལས་བྱུང་། And to give you a more comprehensive translation: "however much happiness there is in the world, all of it arises from the wish for the well-being of others, however much suffering there is in the world, all of it arises from the wish for one's own well-being"

[@prismatis_TV]

❤‍🔥

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏

[@JacobWilkins-pw6yb]

16:00 Two of Shahak's books on the subject are eye openers. Fundamentalism and the weight of three thousand years. Japanese Tengu match the stereotype. So does the old testament and many accusations made about them since the time of the ancient Egyptians in the Amarna tablets, and later on with several Greco-Roman writers.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks for sharing this. You have to excuse my ignorance but who is Shahak? 🙏

[@JacobWilkins-pw6yb]

@@ultimatemeaning His first name is the name of the country bombing Palestinians. You may want to disassociate yourself from this on the surface.

[@JacobWilkins-pw6yb]

@@ultimatemeaning His name is the name of the country oppressing Palestine.

[@robertkneisel1360]

Thank you for sharing your personal struggle, it was a very helpful video. I did finally find something to talk with you about that isn't simply my own suffering, my own desires for myself or others. You used the idea of rights, several times, such as the right to defend oneself the lack of a right to impose one's beliefs on others. I suppose, I think of rights as granted. And, I would agree, that we are divinely granted the right to defend ourselves from attack to the best of our ability. This is apparent, in life. Even in situations where one is "defending" against a threat that does not in reality exist, as happens when someone is killed by a police officer due to their feeling threatened, or thinking they saw a gun. In the same way, it does seem we are granted the right to impose our beliefs on others, if we so choose, to the best of our ability. Yes, resistance is possible, but in practice, it is not often such an easy decision. This isn't to say that I am for imposing one's beliefs on others. It is honestly more, my thoughts on what a "right" is, conceptually. And that, what is a right granted "from on high" so to speak via the nature of our existence is different from a right granted by a governmental body of any size or scope. I think about how, these complex sets of ideas that equate to rights and laws and procedures and hierarchy and responsibilities, that we call government, are constructed by humans to help ease the existence of humans. I am for government, if government is trying toake life better for those that it claims or claim it. However, there is the underlying anarchy of nature. The power of free will, to ignore the rules of one's society or religion, or government or whatever system we choose to follow, for good or for ill. I see many people getting caught up on choosing sides in the war of concepts and truth that humanity seems to never get over, at least, historically. I am no different. I live in the US, so it is very much a place where it seems everyone is choosing one side or another, or throwing up their hands and choosing to try to ignore the whole thing. And, even the good hearted people, who only have the best intentions get lost in trying to make the right or moral choice. Even those of us who do not think that there is such a thing as good and evil, ultimately, we still experience the righteous fury of seeing something and calling it wrong or evil, we still get that holy contentment and gratitude of seeing what we call good in the world. It is part of being human to do so, I think. But, I do believe that you are right, that to solve these problems on the level of the mundane world we all live in requires internal changes from individuals, otherwise we are only doing triage, saving the ones we can, healing the unjust injuries that we can, but the ingredients for more injustice are closer to us than our own skins. Anyway, not even a criticism really. I feel much the way you do. But, English and Philosophy are kind of my wheel house, and I do think considering the concept of what we mean when we use words is super useful to greater understanding, if in the more backwards route that I feel on. It is my hope, that through continued communication between tribes a greater acceptance can be achieved. and, it does make me feel useless that unnecessary suffering and injustice continues in the meantime.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Not an easy decision true, but also when one is committed to this ideal one often finds that this determination itself protects one from fear and abuse. Bullies smell fear ans shy away from confidence.

[@That_Freedom_Guy]

Buddha was a warrior, so I have heard. In fact, he was the best of warrior prince's at all forms of martial arts in the land. His calmness while under attack as he sat beneath the bodhi tree is the very epitome of martial composure especially when he was the target and focus of the egregore of all egos and his vast army of emotions and distractions, Mara, to keep the would-be escapee chained to this prison realm wheel of samsara. His discipline and honesty are expected in all genuine armed forces, and those qualities are in abundance. Changing ourselves is changing the world! If you can become more like Buddha and less like Mara, the world has indeed changed to that extent. The outside world that we perceive is really a reflection of our own internal state. A crazy person really believes that evil aliens are going to kidnap him, and he is acting rationally under those circumstances. We all assume that the world view we already have is the only right and sane view that could sanely exist, which means alternative views must be necessarily wrong. Usually mad or bad. We are all in an eternal battle of one sort or another, until the self illusion is dropped. If we are empty of self, like a hoop instead of a dartboard, what will the insults hit? Anyway, Buddhists are making the world better from their metta! The world would be worse than it is right now, if it wasn't for all the spiritually advanced people. Also, what about considering how karma comes about. What sort of karma gets you existance as a Palestinian in a war zone? Imagine if it was the nastiest Zionists who are focusing strongly on Palestinians that are reborn as Palestinians after they die! What an example of an eye for an eye, and how useless it all is, to wish harm and death upon others.✌🏻🧡 (Sorry about how long this is. I won't do it again!) 😔

[@ultimatemeaning]

PLease share as much as you like my friend. Karma is indeed a strange thing and when when one disregards it one is inviting a proliferation of suffering. The way it is taught in the Buddha Dharma it sounds a bit strange because we are taught to have greater compassion for the perpetrators of evil acts than their victims. This is because those suffering injustice are exhausting their previous stores of negativity whereas those perpetrating evil acts are accumulating to cause of future torment! 🙏🙏🙏

[@That_Freedom_Guy]

@@ultimatemeaning Genuine kindness is like a priceless jewel! 💖 I am humbled to have have met you. What a treasure you and our digital sanga really are. Thank you for being so kind and tolerant to us all. You are a living example to emulate.✌🏻🧡🙏🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@That_Freedom_Guy You are very kind my friend but really I am nothing special! I am just luck to have met some genuine teachers♥♥♥

[@That_Freedom_Guy]

@@ultimatemeaning Your contact with genuine teachers is blatantly obvious to me. Your words and deeds are tempered by a wholesomeness, wisdom and love that is rare to experience today on this kind of platform. So, much gratitude and respect is due to the Buddha, Dharma and Sanga through you as the human messenger today on the global web. I am privileged and happy to take refuge in all three. How can we make a donation to you, because my bowl is full and I wish to share. ✌🏻🧡

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@That_Freedom_Guy Thank you, you are so kind, but I seek no donations, only that others are able to change their minds and by that achieve self benefit and the benefit of others. ♥🧡🧡 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKOpnGqnZrOUqNUsi=aOgDnSeRdpk4RKYa ♥🧡🧡

[@fjibreel]

I think this topic is the most important of our day… free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yes my friend it is so incredibly important, and in the context of the Buddha Dharma the question is "Why is it in the world that we create so much suffering?" ♥♥♥

[@corywashko]

Didn't the Buddha pick up sticks and leave his family?

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yes I understand that in the West there is this misconception that the Buddha was and absentee father/ husband but if you understand the story this isn't the impression one will get. In the East people never come to this conclusion and see it only as an exceptionally virtuous deed, but a lot of this has to do with cultural interpretation. I might do a video on this topic now that you mention it. It is a good idea to address this point you made. Thanks for sharing 🙏🙏🙏

[@VisibletoanyoneonYoutubes]

@@ultimatemeaningI’d like to hear this

[@avrog1315]

The Buddha was a prince from a wealthy extended family. His wife and child were not left helpless. There's also the matter of his being the Buddha.

[@baṭo_saṅsārin]

Chinese playing Tibetan monk 😂

[@Josephbrownbear]

I met Scott again the day after Putin steeped into Ukraine Not spelling mistake he wroth this. M y Your guardian angels keep you and protect you in the days weeks and months ahead Scott 25 2 2022

[@ultimatemeaning]

May the angels protect all sentient beings!

[@BlackonBlack-]

🇺🇦 💙💛 🇺🇦

[@ultimatemeaning]

💛💙💛💙

[@RichardBRiddick-n7x]

I guess you even find a Buddhist now and then that’s arrogant. 😂

[@ultimatemeaning]

For the most part Buddhists and likewise followers of any religion are only human, and so naturally they have all the faults of human beings in various measures. Thanks for participating 🙏🙏🙏

[@RichardBRiddick-n7x]

@@ultimatemeaning I’m sorry, i misspoke when i said arrogant. I meant incorrect.

[@uncleurda8101]

@@RichardBRiddick-n7x That's ironic lmao

[@steved6413]

If the enlightened one chooses a side he chooses duality, hence unenlightened. True enlightenment would be the peaceful solution !

[@djamalyoutube230]

All i heard was tge reference to " I " repeated over and over again. So the repeated pronoun reflects what the author is trying to portray to the audience. Who is this " I " ?

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yes quite right, and an important point to consider as we attach so much importance to the notion of an "I" 🙏🙏🙏

[@boomerang0101]

Umm… 🤨 no thanks.

[@Moe_Posting_Chad]

Based. Even a bhuddist knows the jew is a linage of demons. The sad part is they could choose to stop being this way, and they seemingly have refused at every opportunity for all of the surviving written histories. I guess when your little g gods tell you to sacrifice babies to a burning fire, the idea of ever trying to go back is no longer in the question. I hate the anti-christ. I hope what the one man said was accurate. That this Kali Yuga has been so heavy with sin that the duration is ending early... I don't exactly understand the full implications, but at least there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. I'll keep coming back to post this. Because there is no if ands or buts about this, western expat. This is the fact, and any other testimony is actually evil.

[@horse433]

Skill issue

[@calinative5302]

Lol a monk that is only practicing a religion because of a sword. Help the Jews!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Help all beings without prejudice especially the downtrodden

[@calinative5302]

@@ultimatemeaning yes then we should see the same for time for the other side.

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@calinative5302 Sorry friend you must be using google translate or something I am having difficulty understanding your comments clearly. 🙏🙏🙏

[@calinative5302]

@@ultimatemeaning a monk attempting to gaslight through language using a typr. If you were unbiased you would alot the same amount of time to both sides. Your heart isn't true, I think you are using your place to steelman your argument. Again, your religion has out millions under thr sword, why must you of " peace" speak of war as if you would fight in it? You are only able to practice your peace because of this fact.

[@ultimatemeaning]

@@calinative5302 Of course you are entitled to your opinion, I respect that 🙏🙏🙏