How can we not end up hating the world in the sense of aversion when practicing? Sometimes I fail in my practice and end up seeing the misery of my life and it can be so overwhelming because I wonder if that is how I feel all the time or I just woke up to my clinging. This can lead to depression and negative cycle for me sometimes I just want to give up and even have sucidal thoughts and suffered from this almost all my life but alot less as the years pass. But it seems that I can't do anything right. I want to be a monastic but I feel as though so tired of everything in my life and I can't imagine myself living for so long in the life I am know because I genuinely see no point in it. The pleasures the pains it's all like a snowball effect. Please help me I really don't know what to do the feelings of isolation and resentment are not something that I wanna live with forever.
@HillsideHermitage4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you'd have to improve on your sense restraint practice. If your senses are well restrained over a longer period of time, it will be impossible to get depressed, regardless of what your environment throws at you. Aversion towards the world would fade too.
@anattasunnata34984 жыл бұрын
Dear Bhante: I've learnt so much from listening to your perspectives on the Dhamma, and it has helped me to see the suttas in a new light. There are, however, a lot of older discussions I haven't listened yet, and I'd really love to listen to them in the near future. I'm trying to reduce the time I spend on KZbin, because it seems I'm slowly becoming addicted to its distracting content. I'm trying to listen to your talks on Spotify, instead. Sadly, your old talks are not in that platform yet. Are you planning on uploading those talks in the near future? I'd appreciate if you do so. Thanks for all your wisdom time and effort. Kind regards from Chile!
@HillsideHermitage4 жыл бұрын
No, I'm afraid we don't have time for that. The talks that are on Spotify at the moment are uploaded by a volunteer who manages that page, not us.
@anattasunnata34984 жыл бұрын
@@HillsideHermitage Thank you for answering. I understand. May all of you have a good day. Kind regards!
@qkt8794 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the dhammatalk. I have a question to my sense of self. Sorry my English is not that good and some things are not easy to grasp for me . I can learn to understand that my feelings, my body and my perceptions are not permanent, not under my control in the end. But how do i undermine the permanence of consciousness? I somehow think (although it is wrong) that „my“ consciousness is there permanently and will still be there when the body is gone and so will I. Like an observer that is present all the time, although it is said consciousness is only there when nama-rupa is there. It doesn‘t feel like that for me. Ok there is nama-rupa everywhere, maybe that‘s why? It is as if „i am still there present“ I am not sure if the body can undermine my perception of „consciousness is mine“. Or do i have to see perception, feeling and consciousness together to see consciousness as not mine? Hope it makes sense.
@alecogden123454 жыл бұрын
Consciousness doesn't exist apart from what there is consciousness of, as far as im aware (sorry, pun intended). Forgive me for answering, we need Bhante's clarification
@HillsideHermitage4 жыл бұрын
You undermine consciousness by fully understanding (not just 'learning') that your feelings, your body and your perceptions are not permanent and not under your control. If your assumptions regarding consciousness are still there, it means you haven't understood/undermined your feelings and/or the body. Also, thinking of consciousness on its own is impossible, and when you think you are thinking about it, you are thinking about the five aggregates. (My-consciousness-will-be-there-permanently-after-the-body-is-gone). All these are mental images, including an image of "my consciousness", however vague it might be. Images that you have on account of this living body.
@anattasunnata34984 жыл бұрын
Consciousness is always consciousness of something, as Bhante has said.
@rajwarnakulasuriya59354 жыл бұрын
Consciousness exists in cosmos as part of the five aggregate, which acts as the medium to the sense sphere to receive/transmit information, which gives rise to feeling, perception, and mental formation as ongoing interactions
@qkt8794 жыл бұрын
After discerning the muddle i have written, i had some thoughts about that too. I will keep trying to understand. Thanks alot for reviewing my views, bhante.
@kianteiklee62934 жыл бұрын
Does your kuti have a bed for I wonder how you sleep or what does your kuti looks like or you sleep meditate?
@rihhard10723 жыл бұрын
I would imagine they sleep rough on the floor
@unkn0wn_4164 жыл бұрын
These perceptions and correcting our views 24/7 leads us to jhana? There is the belief that jhanas are a matter of "technique"; that anyone, with any lifestyle, beliefs and even without knowing nothing about buddhism can achieve.