SIMPLE LIFE of SIMPLE TRUTH
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- MAN GIVES UP EVERYTHING
In 2015, aged 47 an English businessman gave up everything and travelled Asia to find true happiness. Now a Buddhist Monk, living a simple life in Thailand, he shares the continuing story.
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Phra Dan (Bhante Dhammarakkhita, Bhikkhu) is a Theravada Buddhist Monk who lived in India from 2020 and Thailand from 2023. Born in Sussex, England in 1967. Educated by French Catholic Monks. A successful businessman in Estate Agency and Financial Services during the 1980's and 90's. Married, now divorced with 3 adult son's. 2000 marked change and travel including South Africa returning to the UK in 2003 to continue different work and business activities until 2012. Gradually materialistic values turned to renunciation, simplicity and meditation, living nomadically in an old Ford Transit van full time for 3 years. Vanlife and meditation led to Buddhism and a Thai Forest Tradition, Theravada Buddhist Monastery in the UK. During 2015 travelling the Buddhist Holy Sites of India, deep faith reinforced desire for Ordination. In 2020 after 5 years of intensive meditation practice between Thai Forest Monasteries in Thailand and England he was Ordained in India where he lived for 3 years until returning to Thailand in 2023.
Sabe Satta Sukhi Hontu
Escape from matrix and establish in true can be big adventure
or just reality...
Thankyou Phra Dan every Dharma talk is such a blessing 🙏🙏🙏
You are welcome as always. Thank you for watching and your comments. Be happy and stay well
Thank you for this beautiful Dharma talk.
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
You are welcome. Anumodana Sukhi Hontu
Another great video, I've started to do my own Buddhist experiment by living as closely to as many precepts as possible, I also think this would help me if I were stay at a monastery. Thank you for sharing, my peace be with you.
This week I'm talking about my monk's routine, how to become a monk and my own experience of this in response to one of your previous comments. Hopefully it will be useful to you. Anumodana Sukhi Hontu
@@englishmonk I'm sure it will and thank you. Anumodana Sukhi Hontu
Thank you again Phra Dan for your talk and reminders. I'm still trying........🙏
You're welcome. Keep up the good practice. Sukhi Hontu
🙏 🙏 🙏 Anumodana sadhu sadhu sadhu. Beautiful just beautiful dharma talk … I am on the path 😊
I am very happy to hear that from you. Keep up the good practice. Sukhi Hontu
Vandami bantheji 🙏 Namo buddhaya 🙏 ☸️ Living life with simplicity is not a easy task but reality is the journey of life will be filled with happiness for getting satisfied with what we have currently.Being compassionate towards others,living with humanity, kindness, truthfully being gratitude these are enough for a perfect life because we born with nothing and die with nothing.The truth is all are materials including our body.Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏
Anumodana Sukhi Hontu
would love to see the dogs 😂❤
I am not there now. Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Anumodana Sukhi Hontu
Simply put. Thank you.
You're very welcome. Sukhi Hontu
Bang Bang 🤓 and Bong Bong 👌
Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu
This is so good and relaxing ❤
Good to hear that. Thank you for watching and your comments. Anumodana Sukhi Hontu
You verbalised what I already knew Tan Phra Dan. You were undoubtably a Thai Forrest Ajahn in a previous life, though I actually suspect lives, and that you were a Sotapānna in previous lives. I can say this without sounding patronising as you are aware, that I am aware, that you saw through the illusion of Sakkāya ditti a very long time ago!
If I may make two mentions for your consideration in future dhamma talks.
The first is time spent in Samadhi in relationship to depth of Samadhi.🙏
The second is deep, and only if you think it suitable for a wide audience who perhaps have not encountered it experientaly: Sunyāta!
Btw: I have zero doubts about temple dogs finding their way home…I have heard the same said about cats, though I do not feel the same affinity perhaps due to a previous existence…
With metta Bhante…🙏🙏🙏
Thank you. Yes I have made a note of your points for future talks. However Sūnyatā is a Sanskrit Mahayana term referring to emptiness of meditative states. In the Theravada Pali Tradition there is Sunnatā which is non self referring to the absence of the 5 khandhas. Emptiness implies enclosure or restriction, an empty vessel. I prefer infinite spaciousness which is true freedom in the absence of the 5 khandhas.
@@englishmonk Thank you so much for both your reply and correction. I did indeed mean Sunnatā: it is difficult to find information on this and I have apparently confused the two terms, as “ Heartwood of the Bhodi tree “ also discussed Mahayana philosophy…
Your definition as an absence of five khandhas, and the awareness of infinite spaciousness: should that happen in meditation, then is that the actual experiential realisation of Annatā ?
If so Bhante, is that experience a factor of enlightenment?
It can lead to its understanding but not abandonment until conceit is eradicated.
Maybe you mean stages of enlightenment not factors in which case conceit is abandoned at the fourth stage Arahant.
Result of non virtue mental karma is mental suffering or physical suffering ?
It can be both, I'll talk about this more in the next Q&A's video. Thank you for watching and your comment. Sukhi Hontu