"Why Were We Thrown Into This World?!" Dhammatalk by Ajahn Martin (1/11/20)

"Why Were We Thrown Into This World?!" - The Importance of Seeing a Samana… // Look After the One Who Operates This Body!-
A Dhamma talk in English given by Ajahn Martin Piyadhammo on the 1st of November 2020 in the Forest monastery of Phu Khongtong - Thailand (1440p)
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00:00 Intro
01:33 start
02:49 talk
28:46 midTalk
52:20 EndTalk
53:03 End

[@ricklanders]

These talks are like a lifeline to sanity and motivation. Don't think I could do without them! Thank you Luang Por !

[@joannefairweather2839]

yes--the talks sustain the practice and give further inspiration and joy in the practice---with gratitude and respect to all those in the monastery whose visible efforts show generosity. with metta

[@lindabllim7141]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Very wonderful n excellent talk 👏🏻👍 can really feel n appreciate Luangpo’s metta n compassion in trying to hammer into us n waking up the zombies so that we can make the most of our precious human life n try to jump out of this hamster wheel 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Ultra tough journey but no one can walk the path for us ☹️😫🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 But we are truly blessed n extremely lucky to have Luangpo constantly giving us encouragement n pushing us along the path ... thank you so very much Luangpo 😁🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@prithachaudhuri9490]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu anumodami. Thank you venerable Ajahn for your compassionate teaching. I am really grateful.

[@greensbeans6542]

Anumotanamie sadhu sadhu Verenable Ajahn Martin your teaching is on point most people still live in the dark and most some of the Monk still not clearly understand about the Lord of Buddha teaching I am so blessed to have heard your teaching 🙏

[@noonespecial4171]

Sadhu! 🙏🙏🙏

[@aveluvan738]

This is very important and interesting part of Dhamma's introduction. Thank you Luangpor. Sathu

[@tspoh7578]

Thank you very much, Luangpo Martin for a good talk on purpose of our lives and methods to stream entry. Very helpful talk, clear and most excellent. It is very very important, Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

[@joewoodistiller]

Very good and clever Bhanthe. May you live long and prolong the BUDDHA SASANNA. BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

[@forrestwheeler916]

very wise and straight forward this great monk. I Hope someday to go see him in thailand and to practice.

[@Dome108]

Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu!

[@alexb3565]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

[@namratam3814]

🙏🙏🙏

[@ramthian]

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[@jen-jenchen5619]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 ( Australia )

[@user-ln5hc1rs5w]

It seems easy but it's very complicated to me ...Luangpho.. I will not give up.

[@user-ln5hc1rs5w]

ขอบคุณมาก ...สาธุ

[@user-ln5hc1rs5w]

I can completely keep the 5 precepts in Wat Phu Khongthong but at home I sometimes hurt mosquitos by no intention.

[@mariri_]

@@louiseemmanuel247 Actually from what I learned it's still wrong. Just because you kill someone by accident doesn't mean it's not wrong, still it's much less karma then doing it intentionally. If you know it's not right to kill other living beings then practice being mindful of your actions...after swatting mosquito, then try to catch yourself when swatting, lastly catch yourself before you swat, when the thought comes. It's a gradual process, but practice everyday and results will come.

[@joewoodistiller]

So when one practice vipasanna meditation it is like having a very special sharp saw cutting the log of samsara. One do not need to ask is the saw is cutting the samsara log. When one carefully aware of in breathing out breath it is similar to sawing. This vipassana saw when use properly it will suddenly cut thru the samsara log. This is the end of samsara birth. So use vipasanna saw with confident and use it properly. It cut all kelisa from your heart once and for all. BUDDHAM SARANAM

[@OgdenM]

I'll add that most people actually don't learn how to control the car (or body) at a finer level. You can learn how to force an automatic transmission to shift by controlling the gas peddle more accurately. You can do the same thing with the body..... And more and more with both. You can learn how to lessen allergies, pain, control the heart rate, change the body temperature, how to move tinny individual muscles instead a whole body part etc etc. You can learn how to age more slowly or more fast. You can even learn how to make wounds heal faster (and potentially some wounds even immediately. Or, you can learn how to NEVER get a wound or have any pain or allergies etc etc.) You can learn how to have "super human" strength and speed.. And who knows what else. You can learn that these bodies are pretty much puppets.. Or vessels if you want to call them that. Of course, the things that we can do with them is limited. Of course they wear out after a while and die. All of that points to indeed, we are not our bodies. The fact that you can tell your body to change its breathing and it happens points to it... Rest of the above drives it home. Tibetan Buddhism even talks about Rainbow body (turning the body into light) or making the body go into stasis for long periods of time. ... But really, what's the point of those? It's just further evidence that we are not the body. But hey.. It's kinda interesting... And the more you investigate it the longer you are trapped in the hamster wheel of Samsara. But, it's important to go as far as you need to learn wisdom... An to leave the body alone after awhile.

[@spiritualmonkey3858]

Hello Venerable Ajahn Martin, May i ask a question. Are we living in the perpetual now ie permanently in the present moment?🙏🙏🙏

[@ForestDhammaTalks]

About Dhamma questions and practice, Than Ajahn said only by email. Thanks for your understanding. www.forestdhammatalks.org/en/contact.php

[@deepikakedare2141]

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[@exit281]

an interesting opener...the times of growing up and the responsibility by law after 18.makes me think..how about kamma...? the way i understand it this law never takes a break on you...always motivations out of the I position ( cat bites tail situation the vicious circle )so always actions ( body mind speech ) so always new kamma created...the mind like a monkey...no chance for stillness for stopping...my question: carry deeds performed by childrens or by young adults a lesser karmic response than with full grown adults ? and how about the mental ill or disadvanced ? do they get a pass of some kind because often they have no way of control or of reflection.... and the other form of life which is visible for us the animal world...as it is described as one of the stages of beeings I guess kamma works in them also of some kind ( they are born ) but their nature is of following instincts only ...no way to reflect...but in this case maybe i am completely wrong and animals have this window of deciding and the opportunity of good..( guardian dogs for the blind, avalanche dogs etc ) ..???? about retired: I was surprised when I told a older friend ( 80 ) to learn to meditate....explained him how to observe the breath..he has the time to develope this diamond in his mind..I observed no way no stillness full of back orientation ( always into things and situations that have past already a long time /photos from the sixty's etc etc )..once he tried it out his thoughts and his energy fly up and down all over the place in the blink of an eye...it could be so easy...there is time....connect your walks with the breath...walk two hours feels like flying a completly draw..this immediate flash of happiness contenment and freedom ... doors closed for many.. they should teach annapana and sila in schools with an one hour opening every day...same they teach physical exercise..its a skill - set that can be learned by everybody...and be of good use all life long ...start in kindergarten with it..better this than to teach religion ( a complete waste of time )

[@ryantingley9592]

Read the section on Kamma in the Buddhadhamma by Bikkhu P.A. Payutto. He gives a well studied exposition on the dynamics of Kamma. And yes, go answer your question there is Kamma that has more weight than some.

[@christiaanvanhoutte590]

Some times i think my live has no meaning, why?

[@ForestDhammaTalks]

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[@joewoodistiller]

Attainment of sotapana and free from being born in 4 woeful existence. How one experience it? Entering magga phalla(disconnections of samsara existence) and emerge from magga phalla. The moment when it occure: My personnel experience while in vipasanna sitting meditation this occur and I will share to those who may find interesting. Vipasanna meditation on the moment of magga phalla and then return to samsara existence again on how it occur during that moment. From Samsara to magga phalla to samsara. 16 Vipasanna nanas or 16 mindfullness knowledge aroused while contemplating the breath explaination made simple. Nibanna is like walking up 16 stairs step to reach the top floor. One will start from the first stairs. Lifting the right foot stepping on the first stairs letting go of the left foot from the ground to let it step on the second staircase. Upon the second foot secure stepping on the second staircase one has to LET GO of the first staircase to use the right foot to step on the 3rd staircase until one reach the 16th stairs. Similar like from first samadhi to second samadhi to third samadhi to upeka. Similarly the practice of vipasanna apply the same way as like walking up the stairs till step 16th(16 vipasanna nanas) Upon reaching the top floor one can now take good rest in his room. One will have to return to the ground floor, the first step to begin now will be the last stair which is the 16th stairs. The way to decent is from the 16 to 15 to 14 stairs and so on. Similarly when one attaiment of magga(fruition) it is like one already on the highest step. After magga(path simile of the 16th stairs) it will reach phala(fruition simile as reaching the top floor) one is an enlighten being. Usual occurance after magga phalla, one will have to return to presant samsara conditions and that means like walking down the stair case start from the 16 steps to lower stairs. Similarly one who practice vipasanna and reach the highest path will need to return from the path back to this samsara existence. In this case he has to return from the magga phalla to continue to live in samsara until his balance karma energy are exhausted. So to say, one can realize very clearly these steps to magga phalla where the mind shuts down and he know when he is stepping down (start from the 16th) to return to mundane existence is similar to the simile of the 16 staircase walking up and walking down again. So one can know in this way one is a sotopana after nirodha(Ceesation of conciousness or concious shuts down) reaching magga phalla(mind now completely shuts down while in vipasanna sitting meditation) and nibanna(magga phalla is not a state of mind. It is out of human conciousness nothing in relation to mind and body and the buddha explain it in this way that nibanna simply is unborn, deathless and uncondition) No sufferring exist in NIBANNA. CONCLUSION: The 16 stairs we refer to the 16 vipasanna nanas: And after attainment when the mind shuts down you enter into nibanna(you will not know as you are momentarily already cut off your existence from Samsara) Now you are in nibanna(as conciousness already vanished at magga you do not know as already no existence conciousness) When after nibanna, you return to reawaken in this dream of existence in samsara and in the state of vipasanna samadhi, and here at this moment you still do not know you have return from nibanna to samsara dreams of existence as you are dwelling in strong state of samadhi where your mind now is filled with whole body pleasurable vibrating sensations and you are fully adsorption into it. This whole body pleasure sensation will gradually subside and you will now be in lower samadhi where your mind is bright(still in the mind state of samadhi) mind is free and relaxing no problems with regards to keep focusing on the breath as now what so ever on breath to watch rising falling all seem automatic.(in samadhi or in jhanna absobtion filled with whole body pleasurable sensations) At this moment the mind is free bright and peaceful just like driving with(in samadhi) Then suddenly there is occurance of recollection when one start to remember. One begin to remember there was a break in his sitting vipasanna meditation where the mind are suddenly shuts down. Here is very important and the most difficult to explain because this is the moment of the last truth of the 4 noble truth one has reach and now realised its taste. My attempt to explain it will be like telling a story that ends with possibily nobody will understand it. But that is the real story of the moment of reaching magga and phalla. When the moment the mind enter path or magga is 14th vipasanna nana and phalla 15 vipasanna nana it shuts down. No more existing in samsara existence so no more mind and thinking are stop. No thinking thus there no more mind. After that occurance is over, one will return from the top stair to walk down again from my simplified explaination on how one will see at that moment. He saw before and after and he remember it now as in his mind everythings is very clear. He now realise he has reach enlightment or he has attain to magga phala and the mind is now peaceful, happy and bright. The happiness feeling of that attainment can last numerous days.And all dhamma now aroused in one who is Ariya. He is now a SOTOPANNA. May this sharing be the road map for everyone and as the ariya of the past phrase it in this way they say 'WORTH IT' Wish everyone will strive one digently. Vipasanna the sure way leading to nibanna. The BUDDHA say this is the only way and no other way. And he say 'AHEPASIKO' Come friends and experience it yourself and you will know like I have known. And the last advise of LORD BUDDHA..... APAMADE SAMPADETA meaning Behold, O monks, this is my last advice to you. All component things in the world are changeable. They are not lasting. Work hard to gain your own salvation." Apamadesampadeta. BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI.

[@anandradhakrishnan1302]

So the Buddha had a desire to teach, to spread, to uplift, to enlighten …..that was His dukka?

[@lazydaisy649]

Why were we thrown into this world? Sex and conventions and expectations

[@liamvandeth9055]

How does ajhan consider the fact that yeshua full filled 300 bible prophecies which is mathematically impossible. A virgin birth pretty much impossible, hundreds of accounts of him healing people, disciples died rather than reject him and also the fact that the Buddha matches up to the standards of the bible by 98% using ai processing, meaning he is very much like Jesus. Idk there seems to be a disparity. Like I’ve heard of practitioners of Buddhism seeing seraphim