Putting The Body First

[@priwitanachchi]

Listen to this sermon daily because it helps to readjust the wrong perception. 🙏🙏🙏

[@FredericMoreauful]

I had to listen to this and contemplate it a lot, just want to clarify my understanding because I swear I hear more each time I listen. So… allow thought-feeling-perception to endure, that’s the restraint. Recognise it is there dependent on the body. Realise the body is there independent of you/your wishes, i.e it is subject to change outside your control, hence old age, illness, death. So, just because thought-feeling-perception is currently there/arisen/enduring, doesn’t mean it’s there FOR YOU. It’s just there. Hence if nothing can be for you, there is dispassion/non-craving while everything worldy remains the same - and that is pleasant due to the absence of dukkha? The only thing that changes is your knowledge/understanding/seeing/non-ignoring of the true nature of phenomena/the right order. Form continues to de-form, feeling continues to change unreliably.

[@HillsideHermitage]

Yes. And "you" slowly but steadily fade away from that whole picture.

[@FredericMoreauful]

@@HillsideHermitage thanks for the reply! All this is incredibly helpful.

[@NothingTheGreat]

Ever get this reconciled to your satisfaction?

[@dantechersi6056]

If you dont grasping you or create idea of you them just dont know no idea arise what is this what im only dont know keep all the time so then mind become clear like miroor clear like space red apieras is just read sun in the sky apear is just sun honey is sweet if you test is truth salt salthy this is tatagata zen just like that no think abut no try to do somthing abut just percive clerlywhat is what. Dont grsping words like sufering hepines forget abut those idea when some one happy just become one with them no separate no distance jus doit acting together some one hungry give them food simple like this is corect budisam

[@benjaminmiller3075]

This question/reflection has aided my understanding. Now practice

[@ditty777]

Excellent Q&A, very much appreciated. Sādhu sādhu sādhu 🙏🤍

[@fruitionapt]

understanding that you are confined within a container that is not own-able and is subject to ruin at an given moment

[@shelinahetherington4661]

Poof. Strong. Straight Truth. Indebted, Bhantes. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@shelinahetherington4661]

Listening to this again. Full of gratitude 🙏🏽

[@pinkifloyd7867]

... Thank you.... Love those 🐶🦮🐕... peacefulness too. 🥰

[@designbuildfirmvisionstar1750]

Wow sawaminwahanse, your gave the best answer for what I am seeking, oba wahanseta mage namaskaraya wewa. thank you for uploading your understandings.

[@sandhyamam578]

Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu!!! Bhante ji🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@eastxeast]

Much appreciated, it made clear some misconceptions and the dead ends where they would lead. 💚

[@dantechersi6056]

form does not difefer from emptiness emptiness does not differ from form. That wich is form is emptines that wich is emptiness form When eyes se the form flower in field is truth 100% when sound arise birds make kukukuku is truth buda nature tatagata no inside ande outside just ones no separatin is corect nirvana. Talk abut sufering no sufering is just bola bola when some one happy become one with them some one tirsty give them drink this corect perciving corect function acting like this is what Buda and patrijarh discover and teach

[@googleuser9624]

Thank you

[@googleuser9624]

Would GREATLY appreciate a discussion about Nibbana, as "the unconditioned." A great diversity of teachings and views about this topic.

[@googleuser9624]

Is that some kind of absolute being, in the philosophical sense? Some kind of awareness? Something inconcievable? Is it right to call it a something at all? Thank you very much for all the videos and talks

[@dominikrusiecki3928]

@@googleuser9624 There is some discussion of Nibbana here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qH2rmZejhtpqr6M

[@kfr3823]

@@googleuser9624 You might have already seen it, but they have a talk about it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYmuhImrgMprlcU

[@Kaveenga]

Sadhu Bhante.

[@hariharry391]

🙏

[@pondererpromeneur6741]

Why is it incorrect to see awareness as the common denominator of all experience, the unchanging substraum that is necessary for any contemplation or discernment, including the body? Are there any suttas that include a thourough-going critique of other schools of Indian thought like Vedanta which affirm Consciousness as the unchanging bed-ground of reality. Thank you, Venerable Sirs.

[@sumedhaindika9277]

Theruwan saranai shadu

[@atozdhamma4248]

🙏🙏🙏 It is all about creating me and mine. If one feel without a doubt, there is no me or mine unless make feeling out of senses. It is naturally empty. Nothing will retain.

[@cfsVchris]

Sadhu

[@AD-bf4tb]

How does one deal with noise? I live in Singapore and it is very difficult for me to find a quiet place for meditation. The only exceptions are late night or very early in the morning. However, at any other time I am constantly "bombarded" by construction, piano, TV or music sounds. I've read that Buddha once told his students that sounds are a torn and the first Jahna can only be achieved when there is no noise. Is true or did I misunderstand something?

[@HillsideHermitage]

No, that's a common misconception based on later ideas of what jhana is, ideas that are not found in the Suttas. Noise being a "thorn" (kantaka) for jhana means loud sounds are uncomfortable for a mind in jhana. That's all. (In a same sense it says sights of women are a thorn for the life of celibacy. If "thorn" were to mean "abrupt end" then it would be enough for a monk to simply see a woman and lose his celibacy. But that simply wrong.) What such sights/sounds are, for the respective mental states, are a source of discomfort and nuisance. The way to practically deal with noise is to remove your aversion towards it when the noise is there. Furthermore, also remove the view and idea that you will not be able to practice until you find a perfectly silent place. The reason why your mind is not developing itself in meditation is not the noise, it's your aversion towards the noise (senses in general), that you carry even when the noise is not there. So, yes, get up early or stay late, when it's relatively more quiet. But don't do it so to quickly experience jhana or merely enjoy the peace, but instead use the time to make the effort and see through the gratuitousness of your aversion towards discomfort (of any kind). And then endure it until you become non-averse to it. Then you can find peace WITHIN that non-resistance that you sufficiently cultivated, while in the heard there will be just the heard.

[@AD-bf4tb]

@@HillsideHermitage Thank you!

[@gehanwadigasinghe6955]

🙏🙏🙏

[@harryk812]

Dear sir, could you please help me with these two question? could you please help me understand what right compassion is? What does it mean to be Compassionate without craving for pleasure and ill will? Just being nice but without caring for others??? Second question: when one is trying to understand the right view, is it beneficial to understand that others are also acting out of greed, aversion and delusion? I usually discern my own experiences and understand the bases of my experience. But I often also see other people trying to do certain action to get pleasure and for their own selfishness.

[@pinkifloyd7867]

Listen again, it's all in there 😘

[@krisissocoollike]

Does this mean that thoughts are within the body? Or that the body must be present for thinking to occur? So when the body dies, thinking stops?

[@exitsamsara]

👁️🙏👁️

[@justbecause7278]

While you spoke, the dogs played a hirearchy around you. They clearly favor you. That's a weird dynamic. Then all 3 are behind you- peacefully. Except for one. But that one stayed beside your apprentice- and you kept it away. Why?

[@pinkifloyd7867]

That one just clings with love for the master lol 🥰

[@cfsVchris]

Sadhu∞