The End of all Suffering is the Realisation of the Truth of Emptiness!

[@trevorwhitaker6623]

What advice do you give to someone who’s been pursuing the Dharma for the past few years and - after watching your videos and those of the Dharma Bum - has begun to want to pursue it wholeheartedly. Find a monastery? Thanks for the content you put out. It has helped me tremendously 🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

A monastery isn't necessarily the best choice and your options are very limited in the West, especially in the Tibetan tradition. Ajhan Chan's group seems to offer the best options for Westerners. And if you travel to Nepal or India to join a Tibetan monastery you should learn Tibetan first 🙏🙏🙏

[@CarlTheSpud]

@ultimatemeaning in all fairness Tibetan Buddhism is very different than some other forms. I just state that as a matter of fact, not to disparage anyone.

[@trevorwhitaker6623]

@@ultimatemeaningThank you for the response, I will look into this. I’ve already left Western society, but not anywhere near Tibet. Thank you again. I’m very grateful for the content you share 🙏

[@johnhaller7017]

Look into your heart and mind and make the resolution to follow the Buddha's path to liberation. Whatever your external environment might be, your intention is the driver, moment by moment. Good luck.

[@spencermatheny4565]

Got the fidget spinner of inner peace

[@ultimatemeaning]

mani wheel There are three type of virtue, body, speech, and mind. The Mani wheel contains a scroll of 1008 Om Mani Pedme Hung mantras, the mantra of universal love. the physical action of spinning the wheel is bodily virtue. There are many negative things we can do with out body, but spinning prayers for love are at least a small virtue. Saying the "Om Mani" mantra while spinning the wheel it becomes a form of speech virtue. Most of the time we use our speech for negativity or idly engaging in gossip and mundane preoccupation, and saying the mantra is at least a small virtue. Bringing to mind the meaning of the Mani mantra makes spinning the wheel a form of mind virtue, and with the mind focused on love and compassion then there is no room for negative thoughts and meaningless mental chatter. And so at least this becomes a small virtue. In the dharma it says don't overlook the smallest virtue and avoid all negativity, so the wheel helps us to accumulate virtue of body speech and mind and also distracts us from negativity and wasting our time in meaningless pursuits. It also acts as a meditation aid and a reminder to practice. Hope that helps ♥♥♥

[@Bowie_E]

😂 😂 😂 ❤

[@LaetareIerusalem]

I watched some videos and there seems to be a moment where you let the circulating ball come down intentionally and then continue counting on the prayer rope and let the ball wander up again. Maybe there is a link to counting?

[@janwag6856]

Wishing you a safe and comfortable trip with your father. ❤

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks Jan ♥♥♥

[@thechosenwon6762]

synchronicity of what's happening in my life and your videos always gives me time to think

[@ultimatemeaning]

If we share interdependence then it is inevitable that this will happen ♥♥♥

[@docdisco42]

I think I now finally come to understand the truth of emptiness. The difficult part now is to remember this truth daily while living my life! Safe travels!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Keeping that in mind is really key my friend 🙏🙏🙏

[@Justjoey17]

How enlightened do I need to be to unlock that fun toy?

[@EpicMiniMeatwad]

Enough to want to have it.

[@ultimatemeaning]

♥♥♥ mani wheel There are three type of virtue, body, speech, and mind. The Mani wheel contains a scroll of 1008 Om Mani Pedme Hung mantras, the mantra of universal love. the physical action of spinning the wheel is bodily virtue. There are many negative things we can do with out body, but spinning prayers for love are at least a small virtue. Saying the "Om Mani" mantra while spinning the wheel it becomes a form of speech virtue. Most of the time we use our speech for negativity or idly engaging in gossip and mundane preoccupation, and saying the mantra is at least a small virtue. Bringing to mind the meaning of the Mani mantra makes spinning the wheel a form of mind virtue, and with the mind focused on love and compassion then there is no room for negative thoughts and meaningless mental chatter. And so at least this becomes a small virtue. In the dharma it says don't overlook the smallest virtue and avoid all negativity, so the wheel helps us to accumulate virtue of body speech and mind and also distracts us from negativity and wasting our time in meaningless pursuits. It also acts as a meditation aid and a reminder to practice. Hope that helps

[@fathermendozza]

@@ultimatemeaning amazing answer, thank you.

[@VirginMostPowerfull]

​@@ultimatemeaningWho are you praying to exactly?

[@metfan999]

Over 9000

[@shadowoffire4307]

The coincident and synchronicity of what you will think and what I will think and do is shocking and surprising. I dicided to comment about emptiness when your new video will come. And within 15 minutes you dropped a video about exact topic I was going to make comment. Shocking and surprising. There is no way someone can explain to me what's going on. This is too perfect to believe that it is just coincident I think this is synchronicity in work. Iam still shaken to my core. Its benn one day. What the h"ell is going on.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Isn't amazing how that works? 🙏🙏🙏

[@Krakon-k5d]

I've watched one video of yours that triggered me very intensly, but then i started to listen to you (on other videos) and now i fell inspired to live my life. Unfortunelly i live in a 3 world country and i will never get a chance to get into a temple, njor to find a in person teacher, but i fell i should dedicate this live of mine (accepting those conditions) for the learning i seek. I hope Buddha accepts me even thoug i dont have acess to a temple or a master. So i thank you, because it was trought you that i've gained the insight to start reducing my suffering. Thank you master Choga, i really thank you !!!

[@sophiafletcher314]

Hi Lama Choga. Give my blessings to your father and to your relatives at the cemetery. And to you of course. ❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

[@dreamingacacia]

everything can be your teacher. if you don't have a mean to make a retreat and meditate like people do, then I hope you learn from my way even if it's hard. "treat every actions as meditation" it doesn't matter where you live and what you do. if your heart seek liberation, you shall find it. meditation is not your action, but it is your state of mind. I hope you understand this. I pointed you to a source of light. follow it or ignore it, your choice.

[@Ttangko_]

you sound like a honorable character! where are you from? i hope the conditions are not as bad as it gets for you

[@acex222]

You do access to a temple, and a master: leave your country, find a temple, find a master; study, learn; return and spread the dharma.

[@Allplussomeminus]

You don't need a specific temple. You can find any peaceful spot and meditate and apply these practices to get started. God willing, the opportunity you to visit a temple will open up for you.

[@franzhaas5597]

Blessings to your father.🙏📿

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks Fran ♥♥♥

[@codyspinelli5609]

Safe travels, Choga. I look forward to the updates. 🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

Working on it ASAP Cody ♥♥♥

[@leetbus]

Thanks dude, The dream machine is beautiful and frightening.

[@PP-G]

Thanyou Lama choga your film was most timely as I meditated on these topics...Wishing Father and you a safe and comfortable journey..look forward to future installments ..take care friends 🙏🙏🙏🫡

[@ultimatemeaning]

Meditate well Paul I will be back in a week to check up on you ♥♥♥

[@PP-G]

@ultimatemeaning I will do Choga ...our sun and Moon is behaving favourably showering earth with proton storms..I hope it helps all here🙏🙏🙏

[@AdvaiticOneness1]

Suffering and happiness arise for those who identify with the physical body and mind. Wise men treat them both equally. Emptiness is merely a product of the analytical mind trying to grasp the ultimate reality. True fullness is what sustains even the emptiness perceived by the mind. This fullness is the Oneness, the ultimate reality that makes all experiences - suffering, happiness, and emotions in the waking state - possible. It is also the foundation for dreaming, deep sleep, the emptiness we perceive, and even the emptiness of enlightenment. Realize this Oneness and live life to its fullest! True Enlightenment is NOT a goal, destination, or something to be achieved through prayers or meditation; it's the journey of this Oneness itself through dispelling the ignorance of non-duality! Hari 🕉️ Tat Sat 🙏

[@AdvaiticOneness1]

@TheEmptyBeing Everything has a lesson to teach ❤️

[@AdvaiticOneness1]

@TheEmptyBeing truth is everywhere.

[@Blessedbuddha1911]

​@AdvaiticOneness1, may i ask what is ultimate reality according to you, and what do you understand by emptiness?

[@Blessedbuddha1911]

@TheEmptyBeing right... Thank you for your kind advice. I was just trying to annoy that person with good intention

[@AdvaiticOneness1]

@TheEmptyBeing Where did I said I know everything? Don't put words in my mouth.

[@EmptyWasabi]

We all struggle with different concepts as individuals, and we find particular concepts more profound. In my experience, emptiness is the most profound and least difficult for me to grasp. Whenever I get lost in trying to understand a particular idea in the scriptures, I go back to emptiness and can see things clearly. All of Buddha's teachings are interrelated, so I believe if you can truly understand one teaching, you can understand the whole Dharma. Thank you for another great video, Lama Choga. Safe travels!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks for sharing this. An important point to bear in mind is that understanding and realisation are very different things 🙏🙏🙏

[@EmptyWasabi]

@@ultimatemeaning Very true. True realization is something very different from concepts of the mind. aka "don't mistake my hand pointing at the moon (the teaching) for the moon (realization)"

[@alienaurochs]

Thank you. I may be near this state you are finding, or have found. It is for my family’s sake that I cling to the mundane. The god I know is guiding me, and friends like you lead me, too.

[@ultimatemeaning]

MAy emptiness swiftly arise to your mind! ♥♥♥

[@wolverwolf108]

This is the goods right here👇 “Really, meditation is nothing other than letting go.” Lama Choga This is the pith instruction of meditation! I LOVE seeing your Dharma content Lama!!! Sarvamangalam 🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

OK let's all do that 🙏🙏🙏

[@JasonMansonARTWORK]

Thank you ☸️🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏

[@Lumpof-y7q]

Thank you so much. This video came to me just when I needed it.

[@ultimatemeaning]

So glad to be of service my friend 🙏🙏🙏

[@EricJohnson-c4z]

"That which is not dependently originated, such a thing does not exist. Therefore, that which is not empty (of inherent existence), such a thing does not exist." -- Nagarjuna

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks for sharing the wondrous words Eric ♥♥♥

[@Dutchwheelchair]

Im actively back on the spiritual path. Just recently after years of neclecting it. I was captured by wanting the worldy desires. Mainly to forget the pain of having. A muscular disorder. i have a hurt alot of people in that time and before. I will pursue this path with all my heart. ive cause enough suffering and it pains me deeply.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Such wonderful news, thank you for sharing the inspiration friend 🙏🙏🙏

[@monical8325]

Thanks for the update Lama. Looking forward to learn more about Son!

[@ultimatemeaning]

♥♥♥

[@bardmadsen6956]

I was just commenting on some minor that got kicked of a plane flying alone. I started flying, commercial, at a very early age solo. My dad always bought the cheapest tickets with lots of change overs and 4-5 hour layovers. Watching this reminds me of tactics to avoid the Hare Krishna's at airport terminal intersections back in the 1960's. Just before the first Pan Pipe was blown, I found out airports don't have clocks or signs as to the layout or which way for whatever anymore. Must be in those things everyone is staring down at. Pilots don't know how to bleed of the cabin pressure properly either.

[@SethEvans-r2j]

TRI H vitamin's, Nitrogen gas explaination required decompression. G force suits help helmets all pro. Bagavagita nose bleeds. Batman sleeps up side down. Also Qigong meditation.

[@ultimatemeaning]

So hilarious, what ever happened to the Hari Krishnas? I haven't seen any since I got out of retreat? 🙏🙏🙏

[@bardmadsen6956]

@@ultimatemeaning Last that I can recall was around 1976, never caught it on the news on how it ended.

[@croft1999]

Safe travels!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Great trip, interview to be posted on Tuesday

[@Better-na-better]

I appreciate your wisdom shares.🙏🏼✨☀️

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks Debbie ♥♥♥

[@SARASTANLEY-dg2wu]

Inspiring, thank you 🌀Bon voyage 🙏🏻

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks Sara ♥♥♥

[@Dont-v7v]

I am picking my father up at the airport today. God follow you

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks for you blessing friend ♥♥♥

[@ShaneIsAlways]

Safe travels and safe return 🙏 🕉☸️

[@ultimatemeaning]

Its hot here ♥♥♥

[@andremartins1059]

Jai Guru!

[@ultimatemeaning]

♥♥♥

[@bibimaizoon7173]

Bon Voyage from Pokhara! Look forward to seeing you back in Nepal, it’s cooling off now but still a bit rainy.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Hello Pokhara I wish I was there 🙏🙏🙏

[@valvihk3649]

My suffering is ironically opposite. It's this permanent state/circumstance that I dread, and it hasn't changed in over a decade... I wish for change but its stagnant

[@badgerbusiness9059]

So, you asked me a question, and I meant no disrespect to cite books, or works...but the true answer, as you well know is ego death and I have experienced a dark night of the soul journey and I am thus reborn. The Alchemy is what I was pointing you to. It's been a combination of things, but I mention this one. Thanks for the videos, safe travels.

[@ultimatemeaning]

The death of the ego is synonymous with the realisation of no-self, or emptiness, and someone who has such a realisation not longer suffers any physical or mental pain. The example from Shantideva's text is that even of you were to have the flesh cut from your bones slowly you would not feel any pain but only bliss. This is why the 1st Bodhisattva level is called "utterly joyous. Quite an easy measure if you are in any doubt. Thanks for sharing 🙏🙏🙏

[@daren9718]

Have a Great trip Choga!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks Dorje 🙏🙏🙏

[@dericksozo1135]

Very clear! Safe travels!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks Derick 🙏🙏🙏

[@badgerbusiness9059]

The last attachment, and for me the hardest to let go.

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏 I've got loads 🙏🙏🙏

[@noneofurbusiness906]

This video is frickin awesome

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks friend for the friggin' awesome endorsement ♥♥♥

[@mapetlv]

🙏🙏🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

♥♥♥

[@icantsleeprightnow]

"Really, meditation is nothing other than letting go. It's not some special experience; some form of higher consciousness. It's merely appearances from perceptions that are completely free of clinging and identification. But if I say to you, 'okay meditate now. just sit down, and let go of all your clinging' It's not like we're able to do that. Even in our attempt to let go of our attachment, then all we do is cling even more strongly to reality. To the reality of suffering, to the experiences of joy and happiness, to notions of joy and liberation, to notions of bondage. But what you have to understand is that this freedom from clinging itself is a state of profound peace, uncomplicated, unstained by fabricated notions of reality."

[@icantsleeprightnow]

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. But what is this? This 'just'? They can't explain it. If only they could show it to you, if only they could make you see, you would be just as they are" -Alan Watts "That’s what consists in being a master. He’s not doing it because he wants to be superior and to put down other human beings. He’s doing it out of great compassion, because he feels he knows something which, if you could find out, you would just be so happy and would want to give it to everybody else. But you can’t give it away, because everybody’s got it. What you’ve got to make them do is to see that they have it, and that you don’t give it to them. And that’s the most difficult task." -Alan Watts

[@icantsleeprightnow]

Thank you, Lama.

[@ultimatemeaning]

I am in quotes "let me out, help" 😆🤣😆

[@jacksonm4247]

Ah yes, another video from the most epic monk around. Hope you have a good trip man!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks Jack, good so far but I am going to crash soon ♥♥♥

[@xeromp3]

Safe travels 🙏🏾

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks 🙏🙏🙏

[@donellacurley4941]

Dearest Lama thank you once again. Understand some of this, confused to a degree on the rest. All one can do is apply, let go and know that with true heart we can develop an inkling of what and who we are. So, staying in the moment is difficult but seeing all is impermanent does help. Thoughts negative and positive are just not there anymore unless we cling to them? Therefore, the thoughts we do cling to keeps oneself in suffering? In the end our clinging and attachments leave us on this wheel of samara, No liberty, no enlightenment. Or when we rid ourselves of clinging, attachment not until then can we have peace? 🤔💐🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yes this is it Donella, the problem is that when we here we shouldn't cling to thoughts then we conceptualise what that could mean in our head and so never manage to let go. Letting go is called "utter simplicity" if you find that, you have found peace, but it will still take a bit of cultivation ♥♥♥

[@donellacurley4941]

@@ultimatemeaning 🙏🙏🙏 Thank you!

[@lassywale]

wow master one year went so quick, i m daily searching emptiness trying to stay long as i can, same time watching how off track m going and what part emptiness i m not understanding 😊 struggling daily but year by year believing small improvement, enjoy your trip master 🙏

[@ultimatemeaning]

There is no need to stay or to leave, there is no coming or going, emptiness is how it is ♥♥♥

[@lassywale]

@@ultimatemeaning Laso laso yeah i heard before now i will pay more attention or look more closely thank you master la 🙏🏻

[@svlonestar7645]

Good to know, Meditation is letting go.. safe travels.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Yes ultimately it is "just that" ♥♥♥

[@00i0ii0]

❤️‍🔥☦️❤️‍🔥

[@ultimatemeaning]

♥♥♥

[@onibaba7826]

🙏🏻

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏

[@enviromad]

safe travels

[@AscendingGuru]

How was the plane cabin vibration? The reason why I am asking is because it gets a lot going for me. It puts me in an altered state, that I would absolutely classify as a welcome break from the mundane world. Quite literally getting high. I guess in Buddhism, this would be called the fun with equinimity. Hearing is just hearing, sound is just sound, so the plural self, the royal we, can use it to amplify imagination and hear a lot of cool stuff. I hear whole consorts.

[@effthamatrix]

This life just a blip on the radar, silly to take it too seriously, can’t take sh*t with ya ….I hope you have a great trip with your dad!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Not even a stick of clothing as they say! ♥♥♥

[@effthamatrix]

@@ultimatemeaning yes! 😅

[@StoneDeceiver]

can you please explain what the spinning thing is and why?

[@Ttangko_]

In Tibetan Buddhism, a prayer wheel contains mantras, and spinning it is considered an act of devotion equivalent to reciting those prayers. By using the prayer wheel u might engagie in a meditative practice in the present.

[@Ttangko_]

have a good time. enjoy the korean's food together!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Not much choice for vegetarians but I will be staying at a Sudoksa temple for 2 nights and they have the most amazing vege monks food I've ever tasted 😋😋😋

[@Ttangko_]

​@@ultimatemeaning hopeful that happy cow or similar apps works in south korea but yes time is limited and its always a struggle when comparing to koreans high food standards that in the end we cant even access be sure to not be too interactive during your travels! 😡 🙏😁

[@MacShrike]

❤ hi Choga, I am really confused about this. I understand the fallacy of clinging; but loving the mundane, what is wrong with that? Xxx Mac

[@ultimatemeaning]

Well according to the Buddha its suffering in sheep's clothing ♥♥♥

[@MacShrike]

@@ultimatemeaning Well we are all sheeple in our own way. But what I meant, even considering Buddha's comments, is: since all is love; how can you not love the sheepness/ mundane efforts/fallacies and what not. Isn't that a prime requisite for compassion?

[@cyber1377]

Some kind of vlog would be a great idea, safe travels

[@ultimatemeaning]

Not sure what a vlog is, can you help me out? ♥♥♥

[@cyber1377]

@ultimatemeaning video log, just a video record of travelling/whatever

[@SteveTheGhazaRooster]

I would love to have a conversation with you :) thanks for the content you post, its very much the thing i need ❤️

[@ultimatemeaning]

Any time Steve check the home page for my personal links ♥♥♥

[@BiggieChungulus]

So understanding that enlightenment is "neither this nor that", and to progress in the direction of attaining enlightenment generally means detachment because of the impermanent nature of reality... Is this done to avoid suffering?

[@badgerbusiness9059]

P.S. It's not a blockage, the energy field is strong, it's not an Atman integration issue either, I simply believe in an eternal struggle in order to maintain the Balance, and my multi life mission is to end communism in order to actually end some suffering in the here and now, as the cycle has kept me in eternal battle for 3,000+ lives.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Communism pretty much failed in the 90's but there are some little 3rd world versions about. I lived in a (3rd world) communist country for 8 years, and I have to say it benefited Nepal, and especially women and the poor ♥🧡💛

[@Rileysparadox]

Cletus Kasady : Basquiat kzbin.info/www/bejne/mX2YY3yPgM-qmdEsi=1KOwugG_IDGzkdg3 Edit... I left a comment stating a song from Clerus Kasady being iLL paradox, im sorry for the mistake the song I was referencing is in fact called Basquiat by Cletus Kasady. I will leave a link for anyone wanting to hear... kzbin.info/www/bejne/mX2YY3yPgM-qmdEsi=1KOwugG_IDGzkdg3

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks for the pointer friend ♥♥♥

[@khaisa4391]

lama, i have a question. how do you reinforce the buddha's teachings within my mind? i find myself forgetting useful teachings and experiences only to remember them again after i regretted my decisions in life. i'm firmly rooted in S. N. Goenka's Vipassana tradition but I have learned quite a bit from the Tergar community lead by Mingyur Rinpoche. i am also open to all sorts of teachings that are useful. i'm a firm believer of skillful means so i'm happy to consider all suggestions.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Hi Friend this is all part of the process it is the meaning of cultivation. There are three steps 1) Study. That is o listen to and read the dharma until you are clear about the meaning. 2)Contemplate. To make that new understanding personal and is part of this process of applying the meaning to your own life. 3) Cultivate (meditate). Once certainty has arisen then to remain with the truth and not to deviate.

[@khaisa4391]

@@ultimatemeaning thank you for your advice, lama choga 🙏 i will try to keep reinforcing the teachings within myself

[@dankyoutubes1120]

where can i get that monk fidget spinner?

[@ultimatemeaning]

They sell them on Amazon believe it or not but the best place is in NEPAL mani wheel There are three type of virtue, body, speech, and mind. The Mani wheel contains a scroll of 1008 Om Mani Pedme Hung mantras, the mantra of universal love. the physical action of spinning the wheel is bodily virtue. There are many negative things we can do with out body, but spinning prayers for love are at least a small virtue. Saying the "Om Mani" mantra while spinning the wheel it becomes a form of speech virtue. Most of the time we use our speech for negativity or idly engaging in gossip and mundane preoccupation, and saying the mantra is at least a small virtue. Bringing to mind the meaning of the Mani mantra makes spinning the wheel a form of mind virtue, and with the mind focused on love and compassion then there is no room for negative thoughts and meaningless mental chatter. And so at least this becomes a small virtue. In the dharma it says don't overlook the smallest virtue and avoid all negativity, so the wheel helps us to accumulate virtue of body speech and mind and also distracts us from negativity and wasting our time in meaningless pursuits. It also acts as a meditation aid and a reminder to practice. Hope that helps

[@freethinkeriam]

Machan your kundalini has risen. Ours are dormant. This is nature of oermanance.

[@ultimatemeaning]

♥♥♥

[@freethinkeriam]

@@ultimatemeaning your kind of zen is going to best us to meditation. My big heart to koreans. My respect to your family.

[@dakini365]

Emptiness dissolving into Emptiness.

[@smokingsnowman7838]

Permanence is death, change is life.

[@Prunesquallor]

Death facilitates change, and change is life, so is permanence really death or is death part of life?

[@David-dt6gv]

Meditation is seeing and feeling everything you can good and bad to understand the world and what way humans are going because they don’t see the other?!

[@ultimatemeaning]

Meditation isn't bout seeing and feeling is is about being ♥♥♥

[@juancervantes932]

Hello lama karma choga Sorry to be out of scope with the video My name is Juan and I had a question about nirvana. Is nirvana simply nonexistence,being unconscious. Or is one fully aware in nirvana? Is it a realm where one experiences a sublime happiness? Is nirvana eternal once it is achieved? I heard once by a westerner learned in esotericism that Buddhists practice very hard to essentially cease existing after death I am not sure if that is true. Any suttas that talk about this?

[@ultimatemeaning]

There is NIrvana as taught in the Theravada and there is transcendence as it is taught in the Mahayana and they are different. Some say Nirvana is the elimination of self, but transcendence in the Mahayana is a non remaining in Samsara and non abiding in Nirvana, it is Suchness (As it is) 🙏🙏🙏

[@juancervantes932]

@@ultimatemeaning wow. It sounds very mysterious… thanks for your time . Well wishes friend 💪

[@HermanLoud]

Nothing last forever, not even diamonds, so how real is this reality?

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks Herman 🙏🙏🙏

[@HermanLoud]

@@ultimatemeaning I like to write what I think, as I love philosophy I think is enjoyable and comfortable for random people to read and ponder, is not that I was trying to correct or to contradict... I also feel thankful I enjoy listening to your videos, those make me see the world and my personal problems from a refreshing point of view, I was not expecting an answer, but it is somehow wholesome and a little surprising as the Internet is frivolous. Now that I know that you read comments, best wishes on your trip and thanks for all your videos.

[@t.m.2415]

The end of suffering also requires material reality to conform to yourself to a certain extend.

[@chaptap8376]

Can you elaborate?

[@t.m.2415]

@@chaptap8376 What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter how good your mental is if your material reality is atrocious.

[@paulmorin1286]

WHAT ARE YOU SAYING ON YOUR BEADS,IS IT A MANTRA...AND CAN YOU SHARE IT OR ITS ONLY FOR INITIATES....

[@ultimatemeaning]

It is "Om Benza Satto Hung" open to all it is purification

[@paulmorin1286]

@@ultimatemeaning it is possible for a non buddhist to say it,you have to be initiated and be strict vegeterian ,,,because many gurus dont accept non vegeterian disciples and defend you to pronounce the om...im very attracted by the gayathry mantra and om nama shivaya , but cease to practice it cose im not a strict vegeterian for the moment...and the indian gurus said that its forbidden for non vegeterian,,,,

[@oxident-954]

Mechanically, when you state the realization of emptiness is the end of all clinging and suffering, is your contention that the path of seeing is not the full realization of emptiness or do you hold to the distinction between meditation and post-meditation, where the realization of emptiness is lost in the post-meditative state?

[@ultimatemeaning]

in the path of insight there is no separation between meditation and post meditation and the realisation of emptiness is synonymous with this state, but this is only the 1st of ten levels. The realisation of an Arhat is similar to the realisation of the 1st Bodhisattva Bhumi but there are differences.

[@oxident-954]

@@ultimatemeaning Well said my friend. Wishing you many blessings in your dharma journey

[@PhilosophicalHermeticstudy]

It wasn’t in emptiness we suffer the most. We suffer the most by not realizing your never alone and Gods spirit is always there glowing in your chest at heart region. To truly suffer is to not know what is within your own being. This to me is the suffering most face because it’s when we realize this fire within that we focus this fire to do amazing things in the body and outside of the body. I understand you lama but from personal encounters I speak from my heart because when we unify heart with mind then no obstacle will overcome you as you will understand you yourself creates the obstacles and choices. Then you start making conscious choices and from there find peace the golden light that is not yellow but it’s golden color is of a higher vibration. The heart light glows golden it seems but peace seems to follow this golden/purple light I noticed. To know the energy within and on the outside only creates more oneness. Through life of using this energy we witness a lot of things that we can do. The Bible says we are limitless beings which is true. Psalm 82:6-7 and John 10:34 but to find the Peaceful way is the path ahead is what’s important.

[@ultimatemeaning]

I nice to see you again ♥♥♥

[@PhilosophicalHermeticstudy]

@@ultimatemeaning 🙏❤️🌹 nice to see you again brother. My heart is lead to you from the light that guides from within. He told me I was ready to sit and learn and lead me to you. My brother I can’t explain my heart ❤️ but I feel and I would love to meet you soon enough. For now you replied. That was what I had wanted and the spirit within. 🙏☮️🌹

[@PhilosophicalHermeticstudy]

@@ultimatemeaning I’m going to meditate 🧘 on the Sun ☀️ this morning and feel the Sun as it rises. The energy of the air and our spirit is calling. I can feel the energy very high today. I’m going to go do some mantras I hope to see you soon but until then I sit with you all in Peace and in light. 🙏❤️❄️🌹☮️

[@TheGreyShaman]

If everything is nothing then nothing is everything Lol on a serious note, just leaving this comment to check the video out later while giving you interaction so you reach more people.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks that is very thoughtful friend ♥♥♥

[@Hanashibi]

If I may ask, what prayers are represented in the prayer wheel and beads? And if life is about the truth of emptiness, what is the divinity and end shape of Buddhism? What is the ultimate destination of the path? If all is emptiness and an escape from mortal attachment? Is there immortal attachment? Do you seek no longer to exist? Do you seek to break from a wheel of reincarnation? And if all is so empty? What is the point of the pursuit? Why seek to end separation? Is that not like a flower trying to stand and leave the garden because it is malcontent with the sun? Please don't misunderstand my questions as disrespectful, these are real questions I've been wrestling and I've heard several people who don't fallow the Buddhist way try to answer it, but I'd rather hear a real answer from a Buddhist.

[@acex222]

The goal of all Buddhists is to bring about the end of suffering. Some Buddhists believe in the end of just one's own suffering, others like our venerable host believe it's possible to bring about the end of all beings' suffering. Emptiness is not nihilism: there are still beings experiencing suffering in a relative reality even if there is nothing separating anything in the ultimate reality, and part of bringing about the end of suffering is those beings need to reach enlightenment/Buddhahood and as part of that deeply understand emptiness. The flower analogy has no mapping to our experience of samsara.

[@Hanashibi]

@@acex222 Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I'll take what you've said and consider it. It's a world view that's so radically different from my own. But I'm grateful to learn.

[@joroh-4403]

I don’t think Buddhism works for me and my depressed brain. Impermanence brings me joy, it means nothing will last forever… and yet I still suffer 😅 I don’t fear death, I’m accustomed to loss and change. Still suffering. What can soothe the suffering of the present moment?

[@samsarasuplex]

I keep thinking I get it, and then I realize I don't *really* get it. One day.

[@ultimatemeaning]

That's a sign yhou understand more than most! 🙏🙏🙏

[@Treck-j2u]

In this chaotic and compititive modern 21st century we are technologically and digitally so called hyper connected society but problem is that it has a bad and side effects and now we are socially and emotionally hyper disconnected society. And anti social media is just one of the problem of this side effects. We are loosing touch with ourselves and to others result is individuality which is scared of thinking of oneness and collectivism and belive that oness and collectivism as a illnesses, threat and crippling to individuality and compitition while the thing is exact opposite. And the outcomes of this is lack of humanity, love, affection,kindness and helping Nature,people don't care about people closer to them and other people. I think Japan is only country in the world who have mentained collectivism despite being transforming thier country hyper modern and hyper disconnected and lonely society. We desparately need wisdom and wisdom of emptiness to solve this problem. We have a very ancient solution to this modern problem and that is wisdom and wisdom of emptiness. Some think and says that the wisdom is just recent invention and came about some recent centuries 100/200 years ago but the fact is wisdom is ancient and ancient people invented wisdom and used to say wise things for a reason.

[@homeopathicfossil-fuels4789]

"Hat Gott, hat die Menschheit, wie Ihr versichert, Gehalt genug in sich, um sich Alles in Allem zu sein: so spüre Ich, daß es Mir noch weit weniger daran fehlen wird, und daß Ich über meine „Leerheit“ keine Klage zu führen haben werde. Ich bin [nicht] Nichts im Sinne der Leerheit, sondern das schöpferische Nichts, das Nichts, aus welchem Ich selbst als Schöpfer Alles schaffe." - Max Stirner, Der Einzige und Sein Eigentum I now understand why some people compare Max Stirner with Buddhism

[@ultimatemeaning]

Of what emptiness is, it certainly isn't nothing ♥♥♥

[@homeopathicfossil-fuels4789]

@@ultimatemeaning Indeed!♥Stirner seemed to have some insights you would normally associate with buddhism, even zen buddhism. Could you ever make a video about Stirner and Buddhism? From what I gather you do read german, :)

[@Fiendishfool]

I'm glad I found you brother, I hope one day we may all open our eyes to the great power of our own minds and bodies

[@orpheusP]

What is emptiness? What is it that's empty? And what is it empty of?

[@ryanjohnson7354]

Yes

[@acex222]

This is a language game. Emptiness in Buddhism means lacking intrinsic existence or essence. All conditioned phenomena, phenomena dependent on cause and effect for their existence, lack anything intrinsic that defines them. That is: when you assess all the causes and all the effects, they are shown to lack anything concrete to define them. It's easy to superficially understand, and part of the goal of the path is to understand it innately.

[@MajikalCowpoke]

The Transformer in the Background is quite ominous in this context

[@singlehanded1557]

I have a question, I have been trying to be carful about subscribing to religion. And I’m hesitant to even “subscribe” to any because I feel like I’ll be missing out on learning about other ways of life. But I’ve been learning Buddhism encourages us to challenge and be critical. And learning about emptiness has also helped me live through an arm amputation accident a couple years ago too. And emptiness has helped me become more compassionate, which really surprised me. I understand in Christianity, they go to church to learn, but I have no such Buddhist monastery near where I live. I have no teachers other than you, the plum village podcast and books written by his holiness the Dalai Lama. But even the books are quite random topics. So how does one become Buddhist? Is it a decision I make when I wake up? And I understand the Buddha did not become enlightened by reading books, he did by meditating. And I do try to meditate each day. But are there any books you recommend?

[@ultimatemeaning]

Hi friend there are two aspects to becoming a Buddhist 1) taking refuge, and 2) holding the Buddhist view, and for both of these some initial study is essential otherwise you will never know what you are getting yourself into. There are many books and resources, the best of these is the ancient scriptures, but the study of that is vast, so as you are interested in emptiness I suggest you read "Progressive Stages of Meditating on Emptiness" by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso. I is highly accessible in English and lays out the different Tenets of Buddhist Philosophy. And to understand the source of refuge then try one of the many English translations of "Buddha Nature" like the one translated by Rosemarie Fuchs

[@singlehanded1557]

Thank you 🙏

[@CarlTheSpud]

"Embrace impermanence." -Chipp Zanuff

[@systemcheck2769]

FGC heads turning to Buddha after going 0-2 at their locals.

[@CarlTheSpud]

@systemcheck2769 "Voting is your civic duty. CITIZEN." yes I made reference to a video game. But what Chipp says in that IK is EXTREMELY Buddhist. Pope John Paul II talked to many hindi and Buddhist around the world. Aw man... what FGC do you think a Polish Pope would play? Lmao

[@systemcheck2769]

@@CarlTheSpud Arcana Heart or Melty probably.

[@EllyCatfox]

♥️💜🩷💜♥️

[@elqi8129]

You keep asking questions about the movie. Why don't you try to figure it out based on the stuff in the movie?

[@omfgacceptmyname]

:)

[@elqi8129]

@@omfgacceptmyname :(

[@Insert31990]

what's the spinny thing :) ?

[@jerry-mind-sky]

From experience point of view it seems that English words for liberation like emptiness and nothingness are MISLEADING. Experience of ego- less aware spaciousness.! It is how Urgyen Tulku Rinpoche ( from Kagyu and Nyigma ) described it in two books ,, As it is ,,. All best❤

[@jerry-mind-sky]

@TheEmptyBeing :)

[@MichaelWMay]

​@TheEmptyBeingThis is why it is important for each to find their teacher. I would also suggest to anyone who has stumbled upon this channel to start watching Lama Choga's videos from the beginning. There is context lost concerning exactly those dangers you mentioned from a two year conversation.

[@David-dt6gv]

Be human and care ! That’s all!?

[@dreamingacacia]

emptiness is the most peaceful state I ever experienced. unfortunately I'm not fond of it to the point of seeking that state every moment. there are more things I can learn by living in the mundane world than living in the emptiness. just know it's exists is enough. I feels like it doesn't matter if I do or not do something, everything is in constant move anyway. that's why I'd just do whatever I want in a way that it won't lead to obvious troubles. people can have or say whatever they wanted. any profound wisdom has no meaning for me, there are many conflicts even within the same phases. words are just imaginary mean to convey messages beyond the mortal realm. no word can convey what it's mean to be enlightened.

[@omfgacceptmyname]

"you only need to see it once" taishen deshimaru

[@dreamingacacia]

@@omfgacceptmyname I can go there whenever I wanted

[@moomin8470]

Did you rawdog the flight?

[@ultimatemeaning]

UH? not sure, what does rawdog mean? 🙏🙏🙏

[@moomin8470]

@@ultimatemeaning Staring at the flight location app for 12 hours doing nothing else

[@Babalous]

All there is Love and Sorrow, once you realize that sorrow is just the room for love to be, it is

[@ultimatemeaning]

🙏🙏🙏

[@badgerbusiness9059]

I will also ask of you something. I am struggling with not allowing a deep hatred of Communism and Communists to grow a fire of hate, that's something I do not wish, however the hate problem comes from when someone gives you something you don't want. I have lived many lives, in many of them but especially the last I fought Communists and killed hundreds. I don't feel bad about that, I feel bad about knowing I have surfed the samsara, and have a multi life mission, and I have thus far not made any progress, so I feel I have failed. How can everyone ignore the past, and not see the evils of this ideology? More importantly the deeds of it's followers have upset the universal balance, and correct action is needed desperately to restore that balance. I can never forgive them, and they want me dead right now as I write this. I'm stuck on this hatred, well founded or not, but I suppose it's possible to carry water without the work, or shall we say the burden. So even though enlightened, the warrior in me won't let this go, but yeah if I so chose, this will be my last re-incarnation. Thank, I'm curious to hear your answer. Tae gu gi. As a concept...and the film resonate so strongly, also the war never ended and thus there is no peace.

[@chewbrocka6833]

You were in cyberpunk

[@badgerbusiness9059]

I didn't want to give you the cliche answer of "let go".

[@Happy_Limpet]

Atoms . pixels . 🤨

[@David-dt6gv]

Drums ! Are something sacred but not necessary

[@bigprovola]

πάντα ῥεῖ· οὐδὲν μένει

[@EarthWindFireable]

Humanity has run its course. B R E E D I N G is cruelty and selfishness. What humans have done to the poor animals.😿

[@Hanashibi]

Watch what animals do to each other as a simple matter of course, how the mantis treats its mate, how fleas treat their prey, how the hawk treats the snake, how the snake treats the mouse. How the bear treats the deer, how birds treat the eggs of other birds. Nature is cruelty made manifest, nature is strong eating the weak. We as humans have a unique capacity for non-selfish compassion. Termites don't care that they destroy a tree, we build parks. Snakes don't care that they're eating a baby, we view the child as having intrinsic value and innocence. And there's that word, innocence a concept alien to the animal world. A world without crime and punishment, where everyone is a killer or the killed, packed into gangs or alone. Where your niche in life is food, where your longevity is procreation, where your life is defined by every moment the fangs of another creature are not on your neck. Yet, if you do not bare your own fangs, you will starve and die in pain. This is the world of the 'poor animals'. This is the reality, nature itself Eats and Breeds, life itself is cruelty and selfishness by that definition. It is our human touch that creates morality beyond instinct, the desire to understand and surpass. You can remove yourself from the gene pool by not having children, but you aren't making the world better for your actions. Indeed one less being capable of compassion is a small suffering in the world. Life will continue to consume life, pain will always exist, cruelty is intrinsic in nature itself. The old Druidic Religions in reality where some of the bloodiest and cruelest you could find. The human mind recreating the animal and killing its compassion and empathy is a greater source of evil than if you never had it in the first place. And what of life, that life deserves to go on? Does it? Life eats life, life suffers, life creates suffering, life itself even if it wipes itself off the entire planet is what? Less than a fathoms breadth of the overall cosmos? If the earth got destroyed, would the universe miss us? Your tearful resentment for what has been done to the animal kingdom is shallow because it is not shared by the animal kingdom, and is wholesale unique to humans. If termites had the means and inventive skill of humans the world would be a hive. Don't off yourself, don't keep yourself from having children. The highest mortal calling is to leave this world better than you entered it. And if you have offspring, that they would seek to do the same.

[@zebra9072]

@@Hanashibi Dude what are you on about? Humans are the only animal which systematically destroys the environment. Lol. A-lot of highsounding words and empty concepts there... not saying I agree with the sentiment of "not breeding" though, nor am I saying that humans deserve to be wiped-out.. xp But to pose as-if humans are somehow the superior species on this planet is just delusional, that's the type of thinking which has gotten us into this mess.

[@Hanashibi]

@@zebra9072 My point is, it is wrong to assume nature is not cruel, and that animals, if they had our destructive capacity wouldn't use it solely for self advancement. This isn't a matter of superiority, it's a matter of capacity. We have a capacity for compassion that is all but unseen in the animal kingdom. Nature is rough, it is also a great treasure. Nature is brutal, but it is also real. That's all I mean Zebra. As for human superiority, we have the greatest technology, the greatest spread, the greatest capacity for both damage and good. So as far as 'reach and effect' we are at the top of the nature chain. As a species we are the indisputable rulers of this world. Rather it's fair or not, simply due to capability. I'm not saying animals are emotionless, and incapable of compassion. I'm saying in nature it doesn't happen often. I love my dog, I loved my cats, I've loved every pet I ever had and they're some of my dearest friends. Animals are simultaneously however the most cruel, and most innocent. Marvelous and interesting Creatures bound to the whims of instinct.

[@zebra9072]

@@Hanashibi we are animals. Lol. Also you think we are the rulers of anything? That is ignorance. Where does your sense of will even come from? Your capacity to perceive anything? To breathe? You are living in a world of ideas my friend.

[@zebra9072]

I wonder why my first comment got deleted. xp Lol..

[@williamkane880]

Lama Choga do you consider yourself an antinatalist? If we end all suffering, humans will cease to be as we currently are and that’s bad news for people like Elon Musk who is obsessed with selling cars, going to Mars and having as many children as possible.

[@omfgacceptmyname]

have you read the diamond sutra? it's free online

[@That_Freedom_Guy]

It is very interesting to observe the how most people are only impressed by the costume, not the message or the actions of the actual person. The empty costume may as well be all you need show, say some dharma and your job is done. When ordinary westerners wearing civilian clothes, speak, live and think according to the Buddha Dharma, no body can afford to acknowledge it. What a strange society we live in.

[@MichaelWMay]

I believe that describes a large chunk of the history of Western society. But never all of it.

[@systemcheck2769]

The "ordinary westerners wearing civilian clothes" are usually very quick to peddle their latest book so I tend to tune them out on principle.

[@ScientificGentlemen]

The same old bullshit.

[@julielewis1226]

safe travels

[@ultimatemeaning]

Thanks Julie 🙏🙏🙏