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@kzantal2 жыл бұрын
It is mind-blowing just how deep these dhamma talks are. I don't know what good khamma I've done to be worthy of coming across it! It's equally mind-blowing just how far from the Right view I was for so many years as a Buddhist. I was watching my nostrils hoping insight would magically manifest. Thanks for sharing the noble dhamma!
@XeLYoutube2 жыл бұрын
right view right speech right action right thought , bhavagadho savakasango! thai monk chant that i love
@kzantal Жыл бұрын
Love it too!
@darkknight-xr2 жыл бұрын
Far better than sovereignty over the earth, far better than going to the abodes of the devas, far better than ruling supreme over the entire universe, is the attainment of Sotapatti Fruition. Dammapada- verse 178
@cajuputoil34682 жыл бұрын
sadhu sadhu sadhu Bhante, thankyou for always reminding and pointing out the Right Context
@sirius_s20286 ай бұрын
The most practical talk I have ever heard. Underpinned by first hand experience. Not just reciting the dharma.
@manjushadubey2163 Жыл бұрын
🙏very useful dhamma talks giving me lots of answers of my questions.lots of mitta sadhu sadhu sadhu !
@johnandrewmunroe Жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful!!!
@ddeckers2 жыл бұрын
Hi Ajahn. When you talk about the shame and remorse experienced by a sotapanna, to what degree do they suffer ? Since a sotipanna cannot take any sankhara as permanent (nicca) isn’t that to say that they don’t take ownership of it? If there is an arisen feeling of shame or remorse for having not practiced rightly and they do not take it as their own, how can they suffer on account of it? Thank you for making the Dhamma so accessible.
@HillsideHermitage2 жыл бұрын
They don't take the bother as their own, but ultimately they know that no mental bother should even be arising in the first place for someone who has completed their practice. So, to that extent, they are bothered.
@chamalhe Жыл бұрын
@@HillsideHermitage , I love this answer 🙏🙏🙏 Oh, this procrastination! I see myself watching, reading, and writing comments even though I am supposed to be practicing at this very moment now! Should I even ask why this procrastination from you or should I go investigate by myself 😬😅 Oh, bhante, thank you, thank you, thank you. 🙏🙏🙏
@j.m.kocsis2557 Жыл бұрын
It was a good question. Thank you for asking it.
@vijjanandadhamma8 ай бұрын
Every beings in samsara are subject to suffering.What is suffering? The continuation of birth and to sickness before death comes. That is the real suffering buddha is talking about. So if any one talk about sotapanna is suffering infact everything breathing things are suffering. What holds the difference about Sotapanna? He is ready to let go of this suffering body when the times comes.This letting go will not be so smooth for others unenlightened beings. Buddhang saranam gacchami
@tonyjoyce51272 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the talk ajhan it was very wise and helpfull
@GirlsChase2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Just beautiful. Stream entry is just the start of the race. You automatically win becuz you started the race, but why not finish the job ASAP? but the fastest way to finish is to move your feet the way you know to go. It's probably gonna hurt. Youll probably keep getting distracted by pretty girls on the sidelines (BIG PROBLEM FOR ME), youll get scared about pain and dying, and you might HATE the fact that you have to run and despise every moment. But if you keep running, you keep running...eventually you get there. It sucks. It does. I'm definitely in the "slow and painful" category. I was quite close to dying in Ukraine and got so scared and ashamed that i was so scared. I was ashamed that im a terrible student of the Buddha. I've had terrible anxiety from ptsd having been near some explosions and also had a stomach ulcer which made me then develop health anxiety where any pain is a signal of my impending death. I've even had trouble eating for months because I was afraid of choking. I've been an absolute mess. But i've been practicing harder than I ever have. My mindfulness of death is so clear and abundant that its almost debilitating. But i have no choice but to transform it into urgency and sobriety. Even mid panic attack im telling myself to practice. I'm upset that my practice is accelerated even! But i'm also happy as can be that I'm swinging that axe everyday! Been sober 2.5 years now, got married and am widdling down my lust as best as i can, and metta is melting my anger away so fast it's ridiculous. I'm truly doing work. It's very painful but it has to get done. When you've had bombs land near your house, you realize "Idk how much time i have in this life so im gonna do my best with the time i have." I still get distracted. i play way too many videogames. But i'm still working. I can't NOT work. the dhamma is on my mind almost 24/7 whether i want it to be or not. Even when im distracted, the dhamma is floating in my mind ("oh having fun are we? well guess whats impermanent?") I hope this comment helps someone or inspires someone. It felt good to write. I salute you, Ajahn. I salute the sangha. I salute the dhamma. I salute the Buddha. And i salute myself. I'm gonna make it. Its painful but im gonna do it. I got no other choice. I hope you all make it, too:) metta to you all. Rip and tear until it is done.
@karrimzz2 жыл бұрын
@Chase, kudos for having a strong motivation. Video game is really bad having been a gamer myself. It puts you in a excited mind state full of concepts, especially the modern game with daily quest. The only way is to have a clean break, uninstall and be relieved of them so you have more time to practice, also the mind is not polluted from unnatural flight and reward system that video games creates.
@GirlsChase2 жыл бұрын
@@karrimzz Interesting! This is something i should probably consider. Though i didn't have many panic attacks and anxiety attacks before my experience of war. so they aren't the cause of my anxiety but maybe they're not helping. maybe they're causing me to spend too much time in my imagination and not enough time in reality which causes me to get "sucked into" my imagination (which is often what causes me to have so much anxiety and panic becuz i "believe" the fantasy situations in my mind).
@kzantal2 жыл бұрын
Very inspiring comment! Continue watching ajahn's videos, stop playing video games (I did it despite having a 3000eur PC, you can too), and right before your arahantship, change your username to Not Chase Girls 😂.
@GirlsChase2 жыл бұрын
@@karrimzz I just gave it some serious thought and a huge key to my development may be right here. I always wondered why I pretty much have conflict-ridden dreams almost every night of my life. And I often see how I get so sucked into my anxious thoughts, it's because daily I'm being "absorbed" into fantasy worlds. If that's my daily reality, then I'm easily absorbed into things without my control. So when pleasant dreams arise, I get absorbed. When scary dreams arise, I get absorbed. Tossed around in the wondrous unrealities....there might be something truly important here.
@GirlsChase2 жыл бұрын
@@kzantal Well, to be fair, lust isn't destroyed until Anagami :D But i make sure to teach guys wholesome means (no lying, being kind, etc) with their dating lives. But haha yes, eventually this must be dropped as well.
@atozdhamma42482 жыл бұрын
Wooden handle of an axe is a very good example for demonstrating how our improvements are happening in spiritual life. Like reducing the weight of wooden handle while axe is being used, we are reducing the weight of our life burdens by contemplating right view without knowingly. At 30 minutes onwards Ajhan has explained very well the difference between Sotapanna and Arahath. Also, saying that Sotapanna knows he is in a dark prison as others but only difference is that he knows without doubt the way out. He might not practise to the fully escape but its just a matter of time, he is fully aware of it too. I would add the right view top of the list we have discussed here. Then a question will rise, what is the right view? I like to share my experience if anyone need to research. Answer is simple in practice but we never want to maintain it each and every moment of activities. What are the actions? Any action is based on a moment of what we are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and thinking. That's the base of Satipattana. We never see this simple ultimate truth. Any of 6 actions above mentioned is based on a combination of touching, inner body and outer bodies (material). It is described in satipattana sutta as "Ajjaththa and Bahidhwa" but we should experience what it is by ourselves. Dhamma call it as PASSA or "THINNANG SANGATHI PASSO" reference MADUPINDIKA SUTTA. Then, PASSA PACHCHYA VEDANA, SANGYA, SANKARA editing part and finally VINGNANA recognition. This is a moment of recognition. We must experience this as truth by ourselves. Hearing from Ajhan is not good enough but definitely helps. Here we have two parts in a moment of recognition, NAMA and RUPA. RUPA part is until PASSA. NAMA is the rest four, feeling of RUPA PASSA generates a feeling (VEDANA) in a living body (never in a dead or sedative body). It can form a signal (SANGYA) via live eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or mind (brain). Then the signal will be verified and edited (SANKARA) for recognition (VINGNANA). So, there won't be an internal or outer material unless this moment of recognition (PANCHASKADA) occurs in a living being. It is completely a process of recognition moment, NAMARUPA PACHCHYA VINGNANA or VIGNANA PACHCHYA NAMARUPA moment. VIGNNANA is not exists unless NAMARUPA exists, and NAMARUPA is not exists unless VIGNNANA is exists. Paticcha samuppada ya. So, everything is clear, there is two ends, existent or non-existent, none of them is true. It is a moment at middle but ultimately the moment is passed away while we call it as a moment. Not even a single moment of existence is the ultimate truth. We can understand this in various angles and all of them are practically achievable, that's what is the real practice. So, NAMA will never be created unless at the same moment, there wasa PASSA. NAMA is a thought, created by me. That is the next common description after AJJATHTHA BAHIDHWA, "Samudaya Vaya dammanupasseewa" described in satipattana sutta. These 6 lines are absolutely the same in each practice parts in Satipattana sutta. If we understand this phenomenon and can contemplate it at each and every moment of our life, we stay focused whenever, whatever action occurs. This is real satipattana ultimate truth, really the right view. That is the right view to maintain in whole life which will eventually reduce and eliminate the current 'my self' view fully. Without this ultimate view we can talk hours and hours but we'll never grab the depth of this ultimate truth. It will not change the world but will change "myself" towards "there is nothing here unless a moment of creating a thought", so, should I be mad to have the wrong view, I have been practising so far? If so, it will definitely end up with suffering. Now we see the real cause for suffering. So we can definitely get out from suffering and this is the only way out to. Ultimate Four Nobel Truth is in practice. Just share if you agree.
@zanasrutkauskas21962 жыл бұрын
Is the practice described here watching the mind as much as we remember and seeing each craving/aversion, why it appeared, where it leads and finally choosing to not engage in it?
@andrews74148 ай бұрын
I’m having trouble understanding what’s the difference between this is just simply noticing the craving to become, non become or to destroy.
@thewanderer79382 жыл бұрын
I am confused regarding the relationship between seeing the necessary basis of craving regarding what is felt for suffering and the sotapannas insight of “whatever has the nature to arise, all that has the nature to cease”. How is Right View connected to that insight?
@HillsideHermitage2 жыл бұрын
That insight stands for sotapanna's understanding of the extent of non-ownership. Craving against thoroughly un-ownable NATURE of anything that is present becomes inconceivable.
@bhavanichandrasekhar36892 жыл бұрын
Namaste..bhante...I would like to know about neutral feelings.how will neutral feelings affect the mind? Is it important to know neutral feelings? Thank you
@hariharry3918 ай бұрын
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@Mojito99 Жыл бұрын
But how does a puttujana or (even stream enterer for that matter) contemplate the harm in a very mundane activity like 1 beer after work or a drink in order to exercise and practice sense-restraint
@noonespecial41712 жыл бұрын
I have a lot of problem with kama tanha, bhava tanha and Vibhava tanha
@abrlim55972 жыл бұрын
Hi Bhante, what is the difference between craving and clinging? And also, I heard some other Bhantes talking about the mundane and transcendent right views. Are these two kinds of right view discussed in Suttas? Thank you.
@bodhipala32 жыл бұрын
With gratitude Venerable. Three bows. It is interesting how powerful the temptation to stay and help others can be. The biggest split in the Sangha (Theravada & Mahayana) perhaps arose from this impulse (and maybe from those already in the noble sangha?) - a split between aspiring to arahantship and aspiring to the bodhisattva path. A beautifully motivated mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. Or at least a failure to value highly enough the Buddha's message of final freedom.
@vijjanandadhamma8 ай бұрын
Sotapanna do not have wrong views as regards to the buddha,the dhamma and the shangha He will still be subject to mundane suffering like everyone else's. But he is semi enlighten being and will not fall into woeful existence upon passing away from this life. He is destined to keep going up to the highest attainment Arahant and then to nibanna. But overall the last part of this talk is getting better when he talk about noble beings Suki hotu. Buddhang saranam gacchami
@vijjanandadhamma8 ай бұрын
So after you all have completed listening,how is your mind states. Can you know your mind states? Buddhang saranam gacchami
Hi Ajahn. I enjoy your talks. Can you speak from personal experience please? I don’t want to hear fairytales.
@TwoFoot2 жыл бұрын
You insult a religion, and then ask followers of said religion to cater to your demand. Very nice strategy.
@scheibermartin7382 жыл бұрын
It's not allowed to "confess" the attainment of Enlightenment to laypeople. Also not to monastics (if it's not the truth)
@VeritableVagabond Жыл бұрын
@@TwoFoot No insult intended actually. When we speak about something without actually experiencing it, that’s a fairy tale.
@brianthatweirdbarberguy Жыл бұрын
@@VeritableVagabond I suggest that you would be well served to listen as if he was claiming to speak from experience, and evaluate from there. if he claims experience, you still wouldn't know to believe his claim or not until you see for yourself, so just pretend he claimed and go from there
@vijjanandadhamma8 ай бұрын
@@scheibermartin738not requesting for confession but to tell his experiences in the meditation practiced so others can see how a meditation Sangha practice the meditation to be so knowledgeable so others can pick up the instruction meditation knowledge to progress faster By the way the meditation teacher tell his meditation experiences,others meditation yogi students will come to comprehend how this great beings manuve in the mind and to know the state of mind so that listerner and supposed to be dhamma student can mindfully try to follow and comprehend it so that they can progress faster. It is not an insult to ask for individuals experiences with the objective to follow it. Suki hotu. Buddhang saranam gacchami Suki hotu
@bsways Жыл бұрын
If the Buddha didn't need books and videos to learn this stuff then neither do we. It's within you already. If it wasn't then what would happen to people with brain injury or intellectually disabled etc? They can't be enlightened?