It's people and technology like this that really bring Dhamma to the west.. all the way from Sri Lanka. With Gratitude
@flowersarelovesome
3 жыл бұрын
The straight and narrow path to safety is there available even in extreme circumstances! Sublime! Thank you for expounding the Lord's teaching with eloquence and clarity.
@bkhpanigha
3 жыл бұрын
SN 35.246 (Simile of the Lute) leaves no doubt that (right) sense restraint is a prerequisite for samādhi. It also says that seeing the danger in lust, aversion and delusion is how that restraint comes about. Also the discussion here about nimittas sheds light nicely on how that danger is to be regarded-not knowing that, one might mistakenly think it's about scolding oneself into 'fabricating' the significance of danger.
@SanditthikoAkaliko
11 ай бұрын
2:00 8 precepts bare minimum 31:00 be calibate for Jhanana
@alekzei5055
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Venerable Ajahn for telling thé truth about training. You are the only one who I know who font manage lays and say that their status is not an excuse. Personally I try to follow 8 precepts, just a bit lax with eating after midday and sometimes oversleep, but it's possible to live it in lay life and be comfortable and even enjoy it complitely ! Joy and happiness of sensual renouncuation is much more profound and easy to obtain, less unconditioned and long lasting as all kinds of coarse and disturbing sense stimulations... Often I compare pleasure of senses to 5 matchsticks and pleasure of renounciation to sunny beach... but even that simile don't make lay peoples defending their sensuality... after all 5 matchsticks is all that have to deal with dukkha... Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu ! 🙏🙏🙏😑
@kurtwagner6437
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Bhante. 🙏
@TheDhammaHub
3 жыл бұрын
There are certainly numerous "everyday activities" that make access to it quite difficult or lengthy
@srimathisamarakone8535
3 жыл бұрын
sadu sadu sadu Gratitude to Bhanthe helping to understand the difference between Sothapatti margaya and the Sugathi margaya.
@janetkocsis6419
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent Bhantes! Thank you
@randulafernando9850
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Bhante 🙏🏾
@hariharry391
6 ай бұрын
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@DN-ux3gf
Жыл бұрын
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏
@albertonandasilo
3 жыл бұрын
Dear Ajahn, some teachers teach that it is possible to develop pathway factors, Paramis and beneficial mental factors (kusala cetasikas) to some degree, as well as weaken the harmful mental factors (akusala cetasikas), without the need to comply with the 8 precepts. Although it is clear that complying with the 8 precepts will help in that objective, the eradication of suffering. Thank you for your teachings. Metta
@loganbrown9845
3 жыл бұрын
I am a lay person who lives by and slightly beyond the five precepts and would be curious to have a talk on this as well... just HOW FAR can a lay person who strictly adheres to the five (also with little entertainment, one sexual partner, a bed that isn't overly luxurious) go as far as cultivation? I expect the answer is as provided in this video: accumulation of merit, possibility of a better rebirth, not living like an animal. I will search the Suttas for passages on this.
@TheMinotaurWarrior
3 жыл бұрын
Bhante, Thank you for the talk. Apologies if this is slightly tangential, but I have always understood a connection between the precepts starting with the five, as thus: A layperson's sexual misconduct includes not engaging in sexual activity with one protected by their dhamma. Thus, it is a simple extension of this that if they become protected by dhamma (on Uposatha, or living by more precepts for life) they should train not to engage in sexual activity with this person (themselves) who is protected by the dhamma. Further, the rule against taking what is not given begins as a prohibition against stealing, but is naturally extended to a prohibition against dealing in coin, as well as any number of other rules (like the rule against assisting in smuggling precious items past tax / tariff collectors), as you embrace the mendicant lifestyle and literally only take that which is completely freely given to you, not using money because it is inherently a medium of exchange. And thus the only precepts not present in some form in the five are the precepts against luxuries (e.g. eating at the wrong time, and sleeping on high and luxurious beds for laypeople, or wearing certain colors of robe for a monk) Is this correct?
@ThaniyoBhikkhu
2 жыл бұрын
For the summarised transcript: t.me/HillsideHermitage/143
@junsukim2511
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you venerable! Can I ask what you mean by "signs and features" You say not to grasp at it. What is not to be grasped? For example, I see a woman and how do I not grasp at her face/body/etc? The mind immediately scans that and there is immediate arising of the lust. Even more there is constant grasping of signs and features even in my mind that it feels so difficult to constantly endure the pressures of the sensual objects that occur around me. I try to endure and observe without accepting/denying it but most of my day is then spent just observing the content of my mind. I feel a bit depressed. Any advice regarding this and what you mean by "signs and features"?
@fruitionapt
3 жыл бұрын
“You have one job”.
@logicandreason3812
3 жыл бұрын
Bhante, when you speak of the 5 precepts, are you speaking of the first 5? Because then there would be celibacy already included in lay life. Which would mean that most "lay people" aren't even that. And I don't see how the last 3 precepts, of the eight are the main distinguishing factors between practice and lay life.
@anthonychan3336
2 жыл бұрын
If it's not too late - 5 precepts : 1) abstain from taking lives. 2) abstain from taking what is not given. 3) abstain from adultery. 4) abstain from telling that which is not true. 5) abstain from taking intoxicants. 8 precepts: the 1 / 2 / 4 / 5 is the same. plus another 3 which I'm sure you already know. But the 3rd is changed to "no sexual activities of any kind." That includes masturbation. Keeping the 5 precepts - you can still have sex - just not adultery. This law is fluid and changes between societies and time. In Buddha's time, it basically means don't have sex with married women. BUT guys can still marry multiple wives. In today's society, it means staying loyal to one partner.
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