Karma - Bond to Past and Future
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2012
- Why is my life the way it is? This film tries to answer this question. Please watch in HD.
This is my third film with Acharn Tippakorn. It was filmed in 1080 50p using a Panasonic SD707 and edited in Final Cut Pro.
life is about letting go - one of the hardest things ever.
Thanks for the video, the effort and the time to produce it. Great!! Sadhu-
Miguel Pelusi thank you for watching! thank you for your kind words!
collective karma is a very interesting point. since everything is connected and all is one, this should not be overlooked. good point, thank you.
What a great film!
one step at a time, my friend.
this is great! life is here and now! keep going!
You reap what you sow. 🙏 May ALL beings be free and happy 🙏
KJ - If you are British then we have Remembrance Day for the fallen in WW1, lest we forget so many who died so young on both sides. They shall never grow old. I am uses this just as an example, sometimes there are no rules.
This is the only video makes me proud of being humble. Karma is true.
hi jomairy, thank you for commenting!
the buddha said: 'don't blindly believe what i say. don't believe me because others convince you of my words. don't believe anything you see, read, or hear from others, whether of authority, religious teachers or texts. don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. don't infer or be deceived by appearances.'
so, keep your mind fresh. and follow your path.
hi noodles, thank you for commenting.
yes, it is all karma. BUT: stalkers and killers are not your problem (are there any in your life anyway?). your problem is your fear of them. deal with your fear - and you will be fine. most often, it is not life that makes us suffer. it is our mind that makes us suffer.
Thank you for allowing me to shine a new light. This will help immensely.
Ifyouask.us thank you for your encouragement!
Beautiful video.
Thanks.
Ajahn Chah a very wise monk from Thailand said it is better not to be born - so in a way you are right. But having been born we are responsible for making the moast of our lives and helping others along the way.
I completely agree.
Then why do you think we are born? The problem with life is that it doesn't
'work' the way we believe or want. We are just part of something much
greater that is oblivious to most of our desires, comfort, pain & personal
existence. Suffering usually involves not accepting our fate.
beautiful pictures...wonderful movie.
Thank you so much for sharing.
I really like the metaphor about clean water, I've been thinking about this a lot too. I have a lot of hateful and violent thought constantly, and the way to deal with that is to do good deeds and try to have nice experiences, until eventually those pleasant thoughts can dilute the unpleasant ones.
Glad i found these videos. Honestly enjoy them. Much wisdom passed on...
I love my Buddhist practice
thank you for commenting. you are right - misunderstanding the buddha's sayings about suffering is very common. i admit that there is a danger of sounding too negative in the wording i chose. on the other hand, i find your wording too general: the only thing troubling our mind in this life is suffering, even if our life may be 90% joyful. so, our mind usually is busy suffering even though it might not be necessary at all. so, in my experience, life IS about suffering. but i agree to your point.
oh my goodness💙💚those dogs are simply adorable🙏🏼
Wonderful video! Thank you.
These are really well made videos, thank you for making them. Do you plan on making more?
One of the best Buddhist lessons which simply explains the "WHY" Karma is important in all our lives and why 'what is …..is'
thank you! i am glad you find this film beneficial.
hi bowmaker,
thank you for commenting. this film is for you!
please listen to the film: it never talks about 'good' karma, 'bad' karma, 'reward' or 'sin'. simply because these things are not existent in buddhist thinking. you project something into this film that simply is not there, your conclusions origin from a way of thinking that is not connected to buddhism. and not connected to this film. i propose you watch again - with an empty mind. and you will see what this is all about. thank you!
one of my favorite videos about buddhism.
I love this documentary very eye opening NMRK
Thank you for sharing. Such a beautiful video and it is true indeed regarding Karma and the Karma which you've build within you.
@vegascine
thank you! and thank you for sharing on your channels!
hi carsch, thank you for commenting again. you are confusing two things: the freedom to choose (free will). and the options you have (karma). example: cheat on your girlfriend. after, the both of you can decide whether to stay together or not. this is free will. but whatever you decide, your relation will be different, for a very long time. neither she nor you will ever forget what happened. the painful experience will still influence your interactions. this is cause and effect, this is karma.
Great video! Thanks a lot for sharing this.
Beautiful video.
Thank you so much.
Really well said
Karma is the justice balancing in all Universe. All the living thing related causes & effects for their balancing.
Nonsense!
I hope you find what you are looking for in life.
Nice film. I hope to see your other films.
beautiful film
Choosing loving, kindness, a compassionate way of life now; choosing the noble way, the way of God. We already choose the suffering kind of experience, and now is the time to choose loving and kindness. Understanding karma and keeping the qualities of God will make us nearer to the Kingdom, our Home.
Picking up $20 from the street, one can be really happy, one can be really sad. Sad because someone else had lost $20. It's all in your mind. You're in pain because you believe that the person can't die and nothing can happen. You are in pain because you are so used to the history shared and frighten before the coming future without that person. You let emotions take control because the thinking didn't have enough time to prepare for it. The key here is the awareness of your Karma.
Very nice edit, You got me interested in the camera
and an excellent teaching Sir.
good understanding of what karma is...thanks
I love yhis video it really helps me, especially after losing my little dog.
thank you
deep meaning - great movie.
Adding to mdesignffm answer, I would agree that the past doesn't indeed exist, but our memories, which are our own personal view of our past, certainly do. And with that, we have our feelings that drive our actions - that's how karma builds.
I shared your video, thank you for posting
hi trevanorusso, thank you for commenting. the titles with monks' faces are a matter of taste, i admit. not everybody likes didactical things like that. if the pace is too slow, your monitor is too small. this film is full HD, and it should be watched on a screen as big as possible. i recommend 50"-60". then the pace is just right.
thank you for commenting on karma. this is what this thread is for.
karma is just a concept, as is the physical. the buddha taught that there is no real truth in any concept. a concept can be a useful thing, it can give us direction on a certain part of our way, like a map would do. but eventually, we will arrive at the edge of this map. then we have to leave it behind - it is not useful any more. we have to proceed without it. so, karma can describe certain things. and the idea of the physical can do so. they look on the same universe from a different angle.
thank you for commenting. yes, whatever we do will affect the world around us - and so eventually will come back to us, even though not as a direct 'return'. but we should be careful with words like 'good' or 'bad'. the film intentionally does not use these words, because they can be misleading. different persons will define differently what is good and what is bad. so buddhist terminology prefers the words 'wholesome' (ie decreasing suffering) and 'unwholesome' (ie increasing suffering).
Every morning we are born again,what we do is what matters the most.
Karma should be instant instead of passing it to the next life. I wouldn't be fair for the next life to experience any punishment when they have no knowledge of what they have done in their past life. Imagine what if karma is instant, then no one will be committing a sin, because the effect of the karma is felt instantly.
It's not about fairness!
I agree with you wholeheartedly..
That's greed and expectation mate.
If you know that your father was the one who killed you in a previous life, would you change your attitude towards him? Your views are too simplistic. In order for karma to work, it must transcend several lifetimes. Not all your debtors or creditors are born at the same time as you for the karma to be balanced.
well, you should stay mindful and loving to anyone, no matter what they've done. The Buddha still loved Devadatta as much as he loved his son. It's through right view in order to have a pure mind. But I can see how the average person would react by treating the person definitely. But ultimately, you shouldn't. Unless it's for a good cause, like to help them become better. Just keep a pure mind.
you are right, we are not responsible for every single detail in our life. but obviously, the decades behind us have brought us to where we are now. so change will take time as well. we cannot change in 6 weeks the way we have been living for 25 years. still, we can start to do so. and eventually, we will succeed in improving our situation. this is the good news of karmic thinking: our life is not dependent on some higher being - most of our future is up to us. but it will take some persistence.
Doch mein Lieber, wir sind für unsere Taten verantwortlich...
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I HOPE YOUR DAY GETS BETTER.
Back at you and everyone else
great :)
we all feel pain, meditation does not make us zombies. the point is to learn how not to suffer too much from pain. some people suffer very long and lose their balance. others feel pain, but still keep their inner peace - and so can get back to normal again soon. a calm and peaceful mind can take pain as what it is - something that exists only in our own mind, nowhere else. so we can let go of it. this is not easy to achieve, but if we practice we can do.
Wonderful
Harsh thank you!
Hi, I enjoyed this film, but if I could just offer one suggestion: the Buddha did not say "life is about suffering", but rather, he pointed out "there IS suffering in life", and how to alleviate this. We have to be careful how we phrase this or people hearing it for the first time might think that we are basically down on absolutely everything - and that is not true. Life, if lived with virtue, awareness and wisdom, becomes a joyful experience.
metta
opinions are perfectly fine. critiques, too. ;-)
this film was entirely filmed in ban sawang jai (aka wat dhammakrissana) near pak chong, korat province, thailand. this is close to kao yai national park, 2-3 hours by car from north of bangkok.
very interesting iv gained a little more wisdom and knowledge about karma and i thank you 4 it.
to live is to suffer to suffer is to find the meaning of suffering to grow better and wiser from past actions
sathu beautiful picture
What does the Diamond mean?
exactly
i am afraid life is not that simple: do A, get A. don't do B, don't get B. this is neither karma nor my experience in life. also, there is no 'good' or 'bad', just more or less suffering.
think about this: every morning, you walk down a street. if you want people to smile at you, this is a lot more likely to happen if you smile yourself. and if you keep smiling every morning, it is very likely that more and more people will smile back. this is neither reward nor punishment. it just happens.
Thoughts spring forth from our mind, choosing to act on it will trigger the law of cause n effect (Karma) into action.
We need to be in control of our thoughts not let thoughts control us.
This is the way to cut down on bringing sufferings to the world thereby improving our lives in the future.
not all things are created as we tend to see them. very true. anyway, it is not necessary to know all the deeps of the ocean your boat is swimming on.
but in one important point our beliefs are different: right or wrong are not existent in the real world. they only (!) exist in our minds. this is why this film never uses terms like right, wrong, good, bad, sin, guilt, punishment, reward. cause and effect is not about that. karma is just about increasing suffering or decreasing suffering.
Budhnam Sarranam Gachami
Those are just my personal opinions. The critique I had of the film may be what someone else appreciated about it. My personal opinions aside, a curiosity: where was this filmed? This video has anthropological value, you've captured the lifestyle of these monks. I am personally interested in different cultures and ways of life.
Living in the moment actually mean living out the past. We are the way we are now because of the doing of our past.
karma is the action u do, if you are bad ypu get it back, if you are good , we belive that you will reborn and have a better life. thats why buhda says always do unharm things to other because u are doing it to you to.
I am going to do an experiment to see if karma is true. I will start encouraging wholesome thoughts and dismiss negative thoughts, speak kind and encouraging words and do positive, helpful actions. I wonder if I will feel any better?
good idea! good luck!
It's the intention that creates karma not just action. If you say that you're going to do something good expecting good, then that's bad karma. If you do something good and receive good, acknowledge it and and keep doing good for the sake of being good. If you receive bad when you have good intention, acknowledge it and keep doing good. That leads to good karma.
do not be too strict with yourself. start with what you can do right now. and maybe work your way up from there. do not criticize good things for a bad intention. just be aware of it, and try to do better next time. be kind to yourself, too.
Man, Matthew, 10 months have gone. How was yout experiment? did get feel better? did yr life improved? i firmly believe and try to practice this wisdom. i strongly hope you did well....
Hi Alfonso. Yes the experiment dd bring benefits but its a work in progress and I was already on this path when I wrote this. I had been diagnosed with a serious mental illness 15 years ago and I have realized that part of my problem was being spiritually open but with a bad attitude. With a more positive attitude I have been able to understand what has been going on and grow from the experience. My mental state, my thoughts has been my karma. I know that the rewards often aren't material but inner but I can enjoy what I have more than others who have more. Good karma seems to build on itself. But there is still a long way to go but I am learning not to immediately react to negative incidents because I only feel worse and probably create more negative incidents for myself if I do react.Its an ongoing process.
I read somewhere life rewards action. Is it true. Thanks.
sorry, there are no rewards. but life will be what you make it. nobody will be friendly if you are not friendly. you will not be happy if you make people around you unhappy. you will reap what you sow.
Jai ho karma
Is this your voice narrating the video?!
Also, you say you can prevent future suffering. What about the pain you feel when someone close unexpectedly dies?
is this avail on dvd?
+Eric Phimphrachanvongsoth
i am sorry, my films are not available on DVD. but for non-commercial purposes you are free to download them from youtube. this is better quality than DVD anyway.
Karma is the universal spiritual law of moral causation, a belief system preceding back to India and eastern-philosophy. Many spiritual societies have formulated karma into their teachings, and adapting to ideas such as; the belief of all experiences is a result of our influence, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Cause and effect and other sorts of vague metaphorical mumbo-jumbo. The philosophical implications of karma seems to be surrounded by alot of hazy unjustifiable elements. The idea of subtlety predicating universal events in the bigger spectrum of things is a principle for causation, the relationship between cause and effect, not karma.
Bullshit!!! Karma is the unquie concept of the genius of Hinduism!!! Buddhism and Jainism come from Hinduism.
you don't know what you are talking about.
Does Karma try to explain how for every action there is a reaction? As opposed to every good action is rewarded with a good reaction, every bad action results in a bad reaction. I think a lot of people have adopted the latter understanding.
it's truth
02:30 What the Buddha really says is be happy, why suffer. Enjoy the pleasure and the pain unless you want to follow the suffering path.
In fact, I asked myself if this video was intended to be didactic. The aesthetic made the film seem to me to be more in the vein of pure entertainment; however, if it is meant to be a didactic video then I agree that cutting to the titles is an effective choice. I do want to say, the fact there is no speaking during those titles, for me, disrupts the momentum. I feel the momentum would be maitained if the narration continued over them, and the titles would still serve their didactic purpose.
hi guz, thanks for commenting. i am sorry to disagree.
karma is something from the outside world. it is the echo of our actions. it is not our memories.
and, please consider this: as we change over time, our memories change as well. we re-interpret and re-evaluate our past each time we think about it, we reconnect past experiences with newly acquired ones and adapt them. being 50 yrs old i see my life as a teenager not as i saw it as a 20 yrs old - although all is based on the same memories.
“Karma is from the outside world,”-
I think it is the product of interaction between us and the outside world but also between the inside and the inside, also the outside with the outside. 🙏🏼 our inside can be in Turmoil and show in our outer body or the opposite in relation to peace within. Also bad outer systems left to follow by the masses can affect the outside world in a very direct outcomes for all.
@@goldenmeanphaseconjunction313 yes, karma is cause and effect.
countries and states, places and times. have stronger good and bad karma, than the individual humans soul or spirit can easily overcome. a time on earth is a collective of billions of souls.
Life is about suffering❓
I don‘t suffer❗️
I‘m always relax❗️
Raimund Hiegemann congratulations.
Have you ever gotten hungry, thirsty or sleepy. If you don't, then you can say you didn't suffer. Suffering isn't just feeling pain ( physical as well as mental). It also include the needs to able to exist. That is why buddists aim to reach navana.( I hope i spelt it correctly)
The advertisements really detract from this beautifully made film. I'm pretty sure that monetizing dhamma is unskillful action.
Jeff Pearson thank you for your comment. i am not monetizing any of my films on youtube. but youtube is a commercial platform, so they do. this is the world we live in.
karma is fucking real. I squashed a fly that was bothering me, and the next morning I dropped my retainer in the tiniest open hole of sink. No one knew that was very possible. I always drop it when I'm washing myself, but it never went into it. i notice luck comes my way when I make people others happy though..
the buddha said: life is suffering. this means, suffering is in everything - not only in the 'bad' things. if we love someone, we miss this person (suffering). giving birth to a baby is painful (suffering). so, referring to suffering as 'bad' is not correct. suffering is part of our life, as is joy and happiness. it is inevitable and inseparable from human life.
this why, in terms of karma, we should not categorize in 'good' or 'bad'. we can only talk about increasing or decreasing suffering.
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The first part of the video stated "we can not escape karma".
I disagree, and I live my philosophy of life based on balancing good actions with bad actions, or bad with good.. Good and evil. Staying neutral in karma is the most important thing to understand. Once you're able to balance your life in such a way, everything is left to fate, and karma has been cheated. Problem is, when someone like me discovers how to cheat Karma, you suddenly realize you can be as evil as you want, so long as you balance it out with something equally good.
Everyone either takes one side on the issue of good or evil, and deal with absolutes. There is a gray area you know, and that's what I deal with. Neutrality.
Fate however was something that according to mythology, not even the God Zeus could change or escape from. So I am leaving my life to fate. Destiny as some would call it.
Also, one thing video did not mention is that Buddha taught not everything caused by Karma. So we need to remember that as well.
Karma means action within the law of causality... its simply Buddhas explanation of "why" . within the context of interdependent origination which is similar to the matrix , " where there is this, there is that.. where this is , that will arise . All phenomena arise from its causes and conditions .. karma is neither judge , nor punishment, nor reward ... its simply the result of a cause... and our actions which create the causes are all we really own :)
well said. thank you.
I agree. Karma isn't a judge. It is just results.
How does mental illness fit into Karma? If a person is incapacitated by their mental illness and unable to make changes what becomes of them?
being a buddhist is about walking the path. everybody has his own path to walk, whatever the challenge. never think about the path of others. think about your one. lift the stone in front of your feet. there is progress for everybody. even a small ant is walking its path. why shouldn't a sick person do so?
It's all the consequences of actions. There's many aspects of mental illness:
1. Those generated by defilements of the mind. This is based upon delusion. Buddhism helps one to shatter the delusions.
2. Biological, which one has permanently for their lives. This is the consequences of bad Karma. One caused a lot of suffering, and hence is reaping what they sowed.
Regardless, one must seek enlightenment, as it's fundamental to living a life, as one seeks. Everything else is secondary, and one must transcend their situation, so they can receive peace and contentment. Everything else is superficial, and regressive towards what one seeks.
I don't know how to meditate. I've tried ocean waves, rain and other nature sounds and to focus on the sounds. My mind wanders. I need help to be a better person.
Beth D hi beth, meditation does not mean having a peaceful mind. meditation is being mindfully aware of your wandering mind. if you see what your mind is doing, you are meditating already. just watch it, but try not to get envolved. just watch, don't follow. don't give up.
easiest thing to do is find a teacher or a meditation group in your area. there are many.
and maybe check out 'on meditation' and 'our mind is not our friend' on my channel here. good luck!
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Karma 101. There's light at The end of the tunnel.
why you got these people on here if they aint gonna talk I wanna hear them
i don't know why they are using the word 'karma'. entirely different thing.
Hello :) I am not sure that "moral" was a correct word for the karma law. Explanation : karma law is like the gravitation law. This is fundamental, mechanical law of cosmos. All what we think, speak and do have consequences. We talk about "good" or "bad" because we are in samsara, our perception is corrupt, we see things has dualistic, so we think karma law is moral. But "good" or "bad" are relativ concept. From a bad situation can birth a good thing and from a good situation can birth a bad thing. Of course the 8 noble path of buddhism seems to be moral : no murder, no rubbery, no hard words to others etc... But this is only semblance of "moral" code, because the way of enlightment push us to a state of no production of karma, no good one, no bad one. This is the karma production that maintain in samsara. A buddha ceased to produce karma, and became free from samsara, free from rebirth. Enlightment is above good and evil. A buddha stay in samsara only by choice and for compassion to all sensible beeing, not beacause this is "good". A buddha see all the suffering of all sensible beings, is only reaction possible is compassion.
Michel Guy yes, absolutely. karma is cause and effect, nothing more. karma does neither reward nor punish. i very much hope the film tells this clearly.
By just chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, you can get rid of all the bad karmas,