Suffering Leads to Liberation | AjahnBrahm | 12 May 2020

This is from a series of daily meditation and Dhamma teachings offered by the monks at Bodhinyana Monastery to support the community during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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[@thorrasmussen7655]

Checking in from Denmark to wish the world well and safe

[@carolinedunleavy6398]

☺ Right back at ya 😙 stay safe luv frm UK 🇬🇧

[@morganconway1342]

Love from Ireland ❣️☘️

[@priyangakp]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm! You are a great gift to the world. You've changed my life, helped to heal so much pain in it. I've been able to let go of so many things painful and painless and feel liberated as nothing seems to have so much power over me. I have no words to express my gratitude but only feel..I wish I could get the chance to bow to you in real life. Thank you innumerable times! Hope you feel our gratitude.

[@Mattias8612]

I have been listening to Ajahn Brahm for the last eight years, I'm so thankful that this old grumpy and fat monk has been at my side, sharing his wisdom through thick and thin, calming me down when I was stressed out, and giving me life changing advice on how to relate to other human beings, no matter how much I experience and learn, I always enjoy his talks, thank you so much for your service, Ajahn Brahm.

[@rubyrose8]

He is not a grumpy fat monk. How insulting you are. Are you skinny stick insect

[@mumblerocks77]

@@rubyrose8 lol beefing on a buddhist channel. Chill. Out.

[@Mattias8612]

@@rubyrose8 It was irony, though it did not function well in text :) Ajahn Brahm always refers to himself as old, fat and grumpy, I love this monk.

[@cmisita]

I love him too.

[@damindadineshimaduwagamage9044]

Mattias, it is great you learn from Ajahn. Let Dhamma become your true Ajahn .

[@1Chongs]

Thank you Buddhist Society of Western Australia for these wonderful teachings. May the world be at peace, inner happiness, harmony, loving, compassion, generosity, kindness to all beings. Also know the ultimate truth of life, truth of this almost infinite milky way from all corners of the milky way.

[@lifern1437]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm. I've feeling blue and decided to tune in. So very grateful that you and your monastery are around to guide us during this pandemic. Sadhu, sadhu,sadhu🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙂

[@Time364]

I have lived with anxiety most of my life, this meditation helped me to relax. Thank you!

[@kristatraumavictor]

Ajahn Brahm, so grateful you are on the planet at this time. What a gift it is to hear your stories and guide us into meditation. Kindfulness to the body often brings tears of gratitude for this rest and peace Is what the body and mind longs for. Much peace and well being to friends reading this.

[@raquelconsejo8859]

I just cant stop smiling, thank you ! Sadhu , Sadhu, Sadhu ! 🙂🙂🙂🙏 good morning from Mexico

[@revinar5838]

Aussie brother and sisters, stay safe and well!

[@sivarajaratnam8052]

Talks with a great sense of humour makes it interesting 👍🏽

[@b.techkumar548]

I am so distressed that I am unable to sleep even at 2:45 am. This talk of yours Ven Ajahn is so soothing that it reach out to my heart. Thankyou very much! Namo Buddha! Namo Dhamma! Namo Sangha! Homage to the Ven Ajahn Brahm!

[@singaporevirtualtours1101]

Whenever i listen to Ajarn Brahm, enlightenment HAPPENS! Amazing

[@IRG849]

Love you Ajahn Brahm. Thank you for these valuable teachings 🙏🙏

[@MissNoserious]

Thanks so much for the people that work to film, edit, upload, etc. These videos are truly helpful. And thanks to Ajhan Brahm for doing this talks!! Know that from the other side of the camera lense it's a beautiful huge audience

[@gilliancripps9896]

Thank you for sharing such wonderful wisdom . My body was gone , Im back in now but think I will do it again… most needed and appreciated.

[@peacefulpeaceful3481]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😊😊😊💐💐💐

[@SR-mo6mt]

No future, no past, just NOW🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@judithweymark8643]

Very grateful for your teachings during this time.

[@sagewillow4406]

You have changed my life with your teachings. I love you.

[@1Chongs]

No matter where you are from we are all united as one as a massive family throughout the milky way. What counts is in your heart to know what is right from what is wrong as well as placing loving and kindness to all being from small to large, compassion, generosity, honesty, harmony and other positive values of life.

[@joycemansfield2819]

I love you ajahn brahm!!

[@angelafromaustria2251]

Thank you from the bottom of my heart that you put yourself at the service of your followers in speaking to them and teaching them although I know you would much rather be in retreat and sit in deep meditation. Thank you for your wisdom and your humour, Ajahn Brahm. Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu. 🙇‍♀️ ❤️

[@peiquedq]

Every time I listen to this dude my meditation goes easy and my mind goes still and cheerful. He always remembers me when I forget. Thank you so much ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@frebuton2016]

Sadhu! Sadhu!! Sadhu!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️☮️ thank you and your monks very much for these daily guided meditations. I’m struggling sooo much with negativity and anxiety lately. I’m trying hard, to keep the course of calmness. These clips help.

[@fantyfang]

Namo Buddhaya Ajahn Brahm. Sotthi hontu kalyanamitta 🙏😊

[@goldensolar6281]

I Listen to Ajan Brahm everyday early morning while I do my work and that really make me refreshed for the day.

[@ChE2003YY]

Love Ajahn Brahm💜🙇 He can always bring a smile to my face😊

[@stephanieboschFlute]

Amazing..thank you warmly🙂 Felt like cozy and wrapped by myself..like wrapped in many cuchons and blankets...felt as a child in the arms of the mother, the feeling of safety, all is fine 👶👼🍼

[@fredrikbeckker125]

He is so Good!👍 I have had severe anxiety and I find out that One solution is just to be kind to it and learn how to relax in the moment. Relaxation combined with smiling is very blissful.

[@catherineiliff1985]

Thank you for this teaching. You hit the nail on the head with this one!

[@ladendaisl888]

I truly appreciate your work. Many thanks from Ohio, United States.

[@OPKP1982]

Ajahn Brahm thank you for this awesome meditation 🤩, you're the best !

[@IndiraFernando]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu... Thank you Ajahn.

[@MaryLeighLear]

I love you Ajahn Brahm

[@jennifermiceli5608]

I feel so much better - thank you

[@syamsyamansyur6280]

Exactly what I need to hear.

[@junglelibrary4630]

Grateful for your videos

[@alicelennard]

I don't remember when I was happy last!

[@happymarigold4467]

Thank you! Perfect timing & really helpful! Grateful for this short meditation, just right for tonight.

[@janeyd5280]

Blessings to you Ajahn and fellow monks. please make sure you have plenty of rest.x

[@1wiesehoefer1]

Thanks from Germany, really helps!

[@fwcourse]

Gruß aus Niedersachsen

[@ip9117]

Thank you Ajahn Brahm

[@geromeponch6248]

Good wishes

[@moonbeam.00.]

Words cannot express how your words guide me. 💖

[@YTMatrixWakeUp]

Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu. Beautiful 🙏

[@thandimadinganyoni4690]

Thank you so much ajahn brahm for the encouraging meditation, at least I have something to look up to. Saddhu Saddhu Saddhu

[@marcelalmeida4497]

Thanks again Mr.

[@lordbyron3603]

I needed to hear this!

[@cmisita]

Did my favorite monk lose weight? Wow! Good on you!!! I need to follow suit. 🙏🙏🙏🌷

[@niccinoonar]

I love you so much ha!! Awesome monk 🌟💪

[@AnnaIsokoski]

Thank you Venerable 🙏🌹💎💖

[@saraday4300]

love your teachings

[@francescabornello3119]

Stupendo Ajahm

[@michaeldo1988]

From Hawaii - thank you

[@eessa1727]

🙏 thank you ajhan brahm

[@10014amanda]

🙏 Thank you. Everything you say makes sense, you have helped my way of thinking for the positive. I listen from uk 🇬🇧

[@aakshnavneet9175]

From Mumbai

[@tomnubdharmaphm8729]

Sathu Sathu Sathu Good dharma for explaining🙏🙏🙏🌼🌼🌺🌺

[@marcelalmeida4497]

Thanks

[@corneliusleonardo322]

Awesome from Indonesia

[@reamariasimola]

Love You 🙏

[@ekasetiawanlim516]

🙏🙏🙏

[@peacerespect98]

Fearless! Love you ❤️

[@lorrisnyder8329]

Thank you

[@sheilalll9547]

Sadhu. 🙏🙏🙏😊

[@matthewholden1784]

I enjoy your talks and they've helped me and reassure me. Especially when I'm doing the house work! Knowing you are doing well and there is hope for us all. However, when you have an addicted brain - opiates and benzodiazepines, it's hard to feel hopeful as the brain is sick. Can the mind heal the brain? And have I just answered my own question? Lol. Thank you for the great support and love you give us

[@bodhi9464]

process of realisation 📖

[@lhamu]

🙏🏼

[@GabrielNLaera]

"The ending of the defilements is for one who knows and sees this. I say that this knowledge of ending has a vital condition, it doesn’t lack a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Freedom.’ I say that freedom has a vital condition, it doesn’t lack a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Dispassion.’ I say that dispassion has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Disillusionment.’ I say that disillusionment has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Truly knowing and seeing.’ I say that truly knowing and seeing has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Immersion.’ I say that immersion has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Bliss.’ I say that bliss has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Tranquility.’ I say that tranquility has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Rapture.’ I say that rapture has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Joy.’ I say that joy has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Faith.’ I say that faith has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Suffering.’ I say that suffering has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Rebirth.’ I say that rebirth has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Continued existence.’ I say that continued existence has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Grasping.’ I say that grasping has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Craving.’ I say that craving has a vital condition. And what is it? You should say: ‘Feeling.’ … You should say: ‘Contact.’ … You should say: ‘The six sense fields.’ … You should say: ‘Name and form.’ … You should say: ‘Consciousness.’ … You should say: ‘Choices.’ … I say that choices have a vital condition, they don’t lack a vital condition. And what is the vital condition for choices? You should say: ‘Ignorance.’ So ignorance is a vital condition for choices. Choices are a vital condition for consciousness. Consciousness is a vital condition for name and form. Name and form are vital conditions for the six sense fields. The six sense fields are vital conditions for contact. Contact is a vital condition for feeling. Feeling is a vital condition for craving. Craving is a vital condition for grasping. Grasping is a vital condition for continued existence. Continued existence is a vital condition for rebirth. Rebirth is a vital condition for suffering. **Suffering is a vital condition for faith.** **Faith is a vital condition for joy.** Joy is a vital condition for rapture. Rapture is a vital condition for tranquility. Tranquility is a vital condition for bliss. Bliss is a vital condition for immersion. Immersion is a vital condition for truly knowing and seeing. Truly knowing and seeing is a vital condition for disillusionment. Disillusionment is a vital condition for dispassion. Dispassion is a vital condition for freedom. Freedom is a vital condition for the knowledge of ending. It’s like when it rains heavily on a mountain top, and the water flows downhill to fill the hollows, crevices, and creeks. As they become full, they fill up the pools. The pools fill up the lakes, the lakes fill up the streams, and the streams fill up the rivers. And as the rivers become full, they fill up the ocean." suttacentral.net/sn12.23/en/sujato

[@manioktapioka9362]

Kocham tego mnicha!

[@daokungfuschulekoblenzmyk7922]

This was wonderful and I wanna thank you so mouch! :-) Enjoy the day! Carpe diem

[@celiamiranda485]

Ajhan Brahm, could you share your Physics- Cambridge knowledge with us and show us how it blends with your Buddhist/Oriental teachings. How does everything mix up to be spiritual? (perhaps a little like Tao of Physics book style...💕 but on and on...)

[@joycemansfield2819]

Im in ct close to nyc weve been hit hard from covid last month i heard sirens all day going to hospital near i also saw people praying with outreached hands i see so much brotherhood during this global pandemic its unreal that the whole world is going through this.

[@EarlOf9]

😎 awesome...🙏

[@NK-xc6he]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@chaththa85]

💐🙏🙏🙏💐

[@lestatlekorbat]

🙏💖sadhu sadhu sadhu

[@fwcourse]

Hallo, I want to ask, how about if this channel activate the community contributions to translate the videos on many different languages so everyone can read the Dharma. Honestly I don’t know about that very well, but I know that it is possible. Of course it would be better if everyone can hear it on his mother language. It is maybe not for young people who can speak English too, but for old people who cannot.

[@YellowPineappleHoyas]

I do not see how endless suffering, isolation and no sign of recovery can lead to liberation, unless i die and start over in a new body that works

[@AliciaMarkoe]

sahdu SaHdU SAHDUUU ♡

[@avanikole4285]

Question. Does anxiety depression medication make you unable to truly heal, feel for yourself, forgive on your own, prohibit you from becoming enlightened, etc?

[@chloen3020]

Hi! There's a talk online somewhere titled dealing with depression by ajahn Brahm which covers medication and the need for it in clinical depression. Psychiatrists recommend psycho-therapy alongside medication and I've found Buddhism a wonderful form of therapy.

[@erasmus9511]

Medication doesn’t prohibit you from having mindfulness. Your body needs it and anti-depressant works wonders! Although medication doesn’t make you to be more “enlightened”, but it does help in bearing the anxiety and or depression and it has a much more instant effect than say, forgiving or healing on your own. Forgiving and heal have a long-term effect but it also needs time and more effort and usually people don’t have enough energy to do this. And this is where medication could help.

[@jennifermiceli5608]

I've been on medication for several years and my experience has been is that the medication calms the mind and opens the path

[@virenderyadav707]

Namaste

[@geromeponch6248]

Good wishes

[@calmless1749]

Can I become a monk at your monastery? I'm from Vietnam.

[@Fer-De-Lance]

Good sirs/madams can you please cite an official source for the cup of tea to evade the Japanese Army story? One that can be legitimately referenced?

[@corosam1851]

2020 Nepal

[@joycemansfield2819]

You give me much comfort!! Thankyou sweet monk no your not grumpy and fat i.dont know were anyone would get that from lol

[@FinnMoveYT]

I got super scared when he started talking again wow what happened

[@brucenenke-vk5nk]

So how was it for you was it universal?

[@YellowPineappleHoyas]

I appreicate what you are saying, but i have been in severe pain and housebound for 10 months because i can not find any health care in Canada. I cry every day and have no hope. i want to die. I cant mediate because its so painful. I don't have any hope for my life andI am only 40. Maybe you had support from a community or family, but i have no one because i have been sick so long.I find what you say is too simplistic and I used to find your talks helpful, but now i find nothing to be helpful.

[@dong1872]

Thank you, Ajahn, but DO look up the meaning of "simile". It has nothing to do with your "anecdote". :)

[@corosam1851]

Shadhu Shadhu Shadhu

[@geromeponch6248]

Good wishes

[@GoodPennyYHWHsaves]

buddah's bones are in the earth & he's dead... WAY TRUTH LIFE = JESUS CHRIST ...since (ODDLY) this showed up in my suggestion I thought I'd share that this religion is a deep, deep deception & it's literally time (time's almost up, too) to get right with God. The One God, Most High who created everything. Yes, He created light with a Word. He breathed the stars...don't u want to spend eternity with THE creator who breathes out stars, speaks light and gathers your tears in His bottle? Writes your sorrows behind those tears in HIs Book? Psalm 56:8-9 " You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. 9 My enemies will retreat when I call to you for help. This I know: God is on my side! " Look, seek, knock... He will come in.

[@gillesancelin8916]

🙏🙏🙏