How to desire without suffering - Ajahn Amaro

[@Parivattita]

I learned so much from this talk....thank you! Sadhu!🙏🏽

[@amarok5048]

Have heard Ajahn Amaro speak at the Buddhist Society Summer School on several occasions. A warm, engaging and experienced gentleman. Thank you for this.

[@gihan5812]

Wonderful talk...Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

[@franzcox6643]

🙏🙏🙏

[@JoyceChor]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

[@haroldcheeseburger]

This is great, thank you.

[@jatupornsheppard1634]

Very nice talk satuh kha

[@jatupornsheppard1634]

Sadhu SaDhu

[@woodyexplorer]

Two kinds of desires: 1. Craving 2. Chanta The second is a desirable kind.

[@alanhussey]

Why is it necessary not to eat after 11am or there about; also to rise early in the mornings to meditate; lastly what is that one discovers or learn from practicing meditation?

[@FullpeaceOrg]

Friend, in short, the rule to not eat after noon, was set by the Buddha so that monks would not go begging for food at all hours, day and night, which was an inconvenience to lay people.

[@FullpeaceOrg]

About rising early, it's part of the practice of wakefulness - to be aware at all times. Sleepiness and drowsiness are hindrances on the path to letting go of the causes of suffering and dissatisfaction.

[@FullpeaceOrg]

Ultimately, the goal of Buddhist meditation is to learn to know discontentment (or suffering, dissatisfaction, stress), discovering the cause of discontentment, and letting go of those causes.

[@alanhussey]

what do you mean by discontentment, as an answer this sounds rather ambiguousas opposed to the questions of Why is it necessary not to eat after 11am or there about; also to rise early in the mornings to meditate; lastly what is that one discovers or learn from practicing meditation?

[@FullpeaceOrg]

Naropa Ananda the attempt was to reply to each of the three questions in separate replies. Regarding discontentment, it was to translate Dukkha, from the Pali, which means suffering, dissatisfaction, stress, or discontentment. What one discovers from meditation can be a lot of things, but from the Buddhist perspective, the point is to get to know suffering (or discontentment, from the previous reply), in order to let go. We want to let go, to be free from suffering.

[@stevenkok1926]

Shadu Shadu Shadu

[@alanhussey]

Why, when taking the commitment to work toward to enlightenment, do individuals change there name, as by the practice of meditation no name is required; further what is it that meditates?

[@woodyexplorer]

One receives a new Pali name after one is ordain. This is to distance oneself from the old one.