In Search of Nirvana - Theravada Buddhist Documentary

[@sokratesvalas]

One of the greatest Buddhist documents I have ever seen. Every time I watch this video it brings peace in my heart. Thank you for your share.

[@AnneHarp]

Absolutely beautiful and precious. So much wisdom and wonderful teachings. Thank you for sharing ❤ 🙏

[@SwatiJoshi-g7m]

Thank you for this wonderful and informative video about Buddha's teachings...🙏

[@RaiseTheWorldProjectNow]

51:08 😌🙏🏼

[@Oops-Ops]

Lovely documentary with a captivating voice and narration. Gratitude from Montreal.

[@RaiseTheWorldProjectNow]

🙏🏼❤️

[@chuckhines459]

Going on my 1st Vippasana meditation course next month I believe it will be life changing for me.

[@marciestoddard730]

It absolutely will be

[@chuckhines459]

@@marciestoddard730 Thank you

[@amandahagsten2793]

Blessings. A humble request of the film maker. Myself and others that have commented here find peace in your voice. Would love for a soundtrack to the film and more of your beautiful chanting. 🙏🏻

[@erik198]

Thank you for this.

[@robertwilliamson922]

Thank you for a wonderful video. I also spent time in temples in south east Asia. In Thailand and Cambodia….during one trip of four months, and another trip of two months. Hoping to return before I die…..and spend the rest of my life there. Namo Buddhaya ….🙏🏼 ☸️ Sadhu…..Sadhu….Sadhu….. ☸️🌴☸️🌴☸️

[@vertbeke7977]

Buddhist ideas like the three marks of existence (anicca, dukkha, anatta), sunyata, nirvana and moha are and remain relevant to philosophy, spirituality and human thought ..

[@avinashpawar51]

phenomenal work!

[@mubassirrahman4401]

I have been listening to Alan watts and read a few books .. this documentary feels like a summary of what I found

[@fingerprint5511]

Where do you think Alan got the information from?! Just don't do as Alan did ... he taught it, but didn't practice what he taught. The entire point is to go within, not die as an Alcoholic as Alan did ...

[@noonespecial4171]

Nibbana 🙏🙏🙏 This is what the Buddha taught, Theravada

[@philmcdonald6088]

be here now do no harm help others be still close eyes listen to your breathing.

[@zoumzoumzou]

nice documentary

[@julioscar]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

[@dhammasource3370]

🙏

[@Divorcedhousemaid666]

මස් මරනවද😂

[@endritloshi]

Does anybody know the names of the buddhist chants in this documentary? Exspecialy the last one is so beautiful, but i can not find them.

[@jasoncastle]

I've never heard any of these chants (that is, melodies) before, although many of the words are familiar. According to the credits, the composer and chanter are John Preston, the film maker. So, I assume they are uniquely his.

[@endritloshi]

@@jasoncastle Yes i think so too. Thank you for your answer.

[@amandahagsten2793]

I too was searching for the chanting… I wish that he would make a channel of this… such a soothing voice

[@endritloshi]

@@amandahagsten2793 I even thought of writing him an e-mail, asking for a link or smth to that chant. But I don’t know if he would respond.

[@ciprianblaga-z2p]

where I can find the music?

[@bryandeperalta5335]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2fOnqmZqtR1rNEsi=u23ad4WyD6auqmCt

[@scirezpublishing4644]

Hi, there is a mantra being played in the video background. Could someone share the link to find it. Thanks! Namo Buddhay

[@jesse67347]

The maker of the video also produced the music, you can see it in the credits. He is chanting traditional Buddhist chants about the Buddha, Dhamma and the Sangha.

[@bryandeperalta5335]

Karaniya Metta Sutta Chant 50:30

[@praveenhg1731]

What is the monastery name.

[@LoiHo-ul4dv]

I believe you can reach nirvana without giving up anything.😄

[@sonamtashi-dk5vr]

Great intepretation

[@dduarte1979]

which monasteries did you stay at?

[@vertbeke7977]

Nibbana or nirvana ?!

[@sameerkdm43]

Nibbana, pali word Nirvana, english word

[@marciestoddard730]

Nirvana is what you're accustomed to, in Pali it's nibanna.

[@mickblock]

Look It's cool that y'all checked out, but there is also some value to be gained in persevering in mainstream society. How's that for a noble truth?

[@jvh2389]

You value the world as it is. That’s ok. Others value the pursuit of freedom from karmic cycles of life and reincarnation that extend far beyond the world as it is today, forwards and backwards in time, for the sake of liberation from a system that is out of touch with the natural order of reality. And that’s ok too. “Ensue the holy calm of poised indifference.” - Gautama Buddha And to bring that concept more clearly into focus, we need only shift forward a few hundred years to what was then the “mainstream society ,” predecessor of our modern zeitgeist i.e. Ancient Greece. See ‘stoic indifference’. It’s all good either way.

[@marciestoddard730]

Oh, how very sad your misunderstanding and your disrespect. What you call "checking out" is actually the opposite. You're checked out when you're lost in samsara in society.

[@fingerprint5511]

Was the music necessary? Its so ... typically American overkill. What you experienced is just reality, why turn it into Hollywood???

[@thevalper5822]

Maybe because the film was not for initiated people but for beginners ? Maybe because it's a good way to keep the attention of someone who've not yet learn how to keep it ?

[@JoeSmith-vs5sy]

Seeking Nirvanah is a selfish goal. So right off the bat they can never be selfless.

[@spiritofzen7022]

I disagree as all human beings ultimate goal is to be happy, happiness is not a selfless pursuit but a universal one and enlightenment is a path to that 🙏🏽😊

[@fingerprint5511]

There is no abiding self so it is YOU who are suffering from avijja. You project mindlessly, drowning in delusion.

[@austinhill5825]

How could it be selfish if the Buddha himself found the path and liberated many beings

[@JeffreyBaughman-fk8ld]

One must be selfish to be selfless. When one sets foot on the path of the Dharma he or she must be hyper focused on the self to realize there is no self.

[@jrvh2389]

This is a tangent from discussion of Buddhism, but Ayn Rand’s discourse on selfishness and the fallacy of our modern interpretation of the term might be worth checking out. That discourse can be found in the introduction of her book, The Virtue of Selfishness, pdf linked here - ikesharpless.pbworks.com/f/AynRand-TheVirtueofSelfishness.pdf Actually, thinking about it, the philosophy that she set out to share is potentially directly in line with the discussion of Buddhist teachings, specifically Theravada Buddhism, inasmuch as both schools of thought are concerned with the liberation of our species (comprised of individuals) from suffering as the primary mode of existence which can only occur by the action of each individual person. Herein I think the paradox is laid at our feet. Metaphysically, we are all the same, engaging in the same general experience of life in the same form i.e. here on Earth as a human. At that metaphysical level, the concept of Self loses its meaning. And yet we are all here together, but individually ourselves, trying to find and figure out some truth of the nature of our reality and our place within it, and it within us so that we (individually and collectively) might not have to carry on living from a place of suffering/samsara.