I swear. I've read so many pages and seen so many videos on this subject and specifically the 5 aggregates. This video is probably the only one that made perfect sense to my pea brain. Thanks!
I've tried reading about the no-self and the five aggregates and never fully grasped the concept. Thank you for this video, it made things a whole lot clearer!
Thank you🙇 for this, it is really difficult to understand the 5 Aggregates at first. Even I as a long time Buddhist, I had to search videos after videos to fully understand it. So thank you for this. May you be well, may you be happy and may you be peaceful. May every sentient beings be well, may every sentient beings be happy and may every sentient beings be peaceful and rejoice in these merits. For us to search for this is us wanting to be on this path that Buddha had wanted us to be in. Namo amitofo 🙏.
Eye consciousness. That realization that you’ve been staring off into the distance; realizing what your eyes were focused on while you’ were actually seeing with your mind’s eye.
You guys may have more knowledge if you follow Vipassana meditation who found by the lord Buddha 2500 years ago. There are almost more than 130 Vipassana Meditation Centers in world-wide. dhamma.org I have done 4 of 10 day meditation courses and it changed my way of thinking & behavior completely ...
Wow, that was something! I've read about the aggregates however the way you presented them and explained the whole idea surrounding Anatta is just simple and fabulous! Thank you for exemplifying- really a jewel!
Every time I watch this video I want to relike it. This accerated my spiritual journey so much. I wish I knew this year's ago. Thank you so much for this life changing information.
i am just starting to learn about this and i certainly wish i had of received this information years ago. i am being persistent in meditating . i have no one to talk to about this but i am watching the monks learning every day and you also are very good in explaining it is very helpful. thank you. i needed this
Wonderful explanation of the teaching of the Buddha. Anatta is quite a different doctrine in comparison to the teachings of most religions. Your accurate explanation without interpretation appears to be exactly what the Buddha taught. Sadhu sadhu!!
Thank-you so much for making these videos on the teachings of the Buddha. They are helping me immensely understand concepts that were hazy to me before. Also, I experience an increased measure of calm after watching your videos. I am very grateful for the time you put into making these.
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh writes: ....The ascetic Vacchagotta's gotta's visit to the Buddha. Vacchagotta asked, "Reverend Gautama, please tell me, is there a self?" The Buddha did not say anything. Vacchagotta asked again, "Then you do not think there is a self?" The Buddha remained silent. Eventually, Vacchagotta left. -Afterwards, Ananda asked the Buddha, "Venerable Sir, when you give us Dharma teachings you often speak about no-self. Why did you not reply to Vacchagotta's questions concerning the self?" The Buddha replied, "The teaching of no-self that I give the bhikshus is a means to guide you to look deeply in your meditation. It is not an ideology. If you make it into an ideology, you will be caught in it. I believe the ascetic Vacchagotta was looking for an ideology and not for a teaching to help him in the practice. So I remained silent. I did not want him to be caught by the teachings. If I had told him there is a self, that would not have been correct. If I told him there is no self, he would have clung to that dogmatically and made it into a theory, and that would not have been helpful either. That is why I kept silent." --In the Vimalakirti Nirdesha Sutra (Taisho 475), the silence of the layman Vimalakirti is praised by the Bodhisattva Manjushri as a "thundering silence" that echoes far and wide, having the power to break the bonds of attachment and bring about liberation. It is the same as the lion's roar that proclaims, "It is necessary to let go of all the true teachings, not to mention teachings that are not true." -This is the spirit we need if we want to understand the Sutra on Knowing in the Better Way to Catch a Snake. -The first precept of the Order of Interbeing represents the same spirit: "Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. Buddhist systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth." Teachings that are received as doctrines or theories are no longer teachings. They do not liberate, and the person receiving them is caught. In most precept texts, the first precept is not to take life. Not taking life, however, is not unique to Buddhism. In the Jainism of the naked ascetic Nirgantha, for example, restrictions concerning the taking of life were far more severe than in Buddhism. But in the spirit of breaking the bonds of attachment to ideology, the practice of the precept not to kill goes much further in Buddhism. - A person caught in a doctrine or a system of thought can sacrifice millions of lives in order to put into practice his theory, which he considers the absolute truth, the unique path that can lead humankind to happiness. -With a gun in hand, a person can kill one, five, or even ten people. But holding on to a doctrine or a system of thought, one can kill tens of thousands of people. Therefore, unless the precept not to take life is understood in terms of breaking the bonds of attachment to ideology, it is not truly the precept taught by the Buddha. Thich Nhat Hanh. Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake.
Thank you so much for posting this! I think very, very few people understand this point. Isn’t this in many ways the same thing as the difference between “knowing about” something and actually “knowing” something?
@@Traderhood The mind is having this conversation not some unchanging Atma/Soul/Self which cannot change and therefore cannot function in anyway as any function like "having this conversation" implies change . Your Atman/Soul/Self by definition is unchanging ( Sankaracharya 's Tatva Bodha , Chapter 8 Verse 8.0-8.1
@@Vatulvasava My mind doesn’t have mouth to speak. My body does. But my mouth doesn’t speak whenever my mind thinks. Sometimes I (self) speak, sometimes I don’t. There is my I that is different from your I. I am a different self from your self.
@@Traderhood So is one mind different from the other . Also the mouth of a corpse doesn't speak , only a mouth whose mind wishes consciously or unconsciously speaks. . No self is required as it is just a concoction of the mind . If there is no mind there is no concept of a self . Thank You for your response 🙏🏼 And any way an unchanging Self cannot function as function requires change , which I notice you haven't answered properly ? The mind is changing so it can function . A corpse without a mind doesn't speak .
If only Buddhism had not been vanished from India, this sub-continent would have been so prosperous. I hope I gain the mental strength to help revive it to its full glory! And may peace & prosperity follow perpetually
@Barry Woods how much population of India is Buddhist? They have been masscared centuries ago. less than 1% of India is Buddhist and most of them are regugees from Tibet. Though there are lot of Buddist inscriptions, rock carvings in India the Dhamma and Buddhist population is vanquished.
@@nitin1947 simply dont spread false about india ..buddism is not masced like wht westren people thing .its diclined due to islamic invesion of india cos buddism are more non voilence religion ...at that time when islamis attacked just cant resisist.so they eithier converted or killed so plese do some reserch and come
Well, karma is fair and able to find its way. Look at the covid-19 pandemic and see who are those who died. Will you expect so many from Western countries that are hit later ? Why are they so foolish or unprepared ?
I love your content so much. You really have a gift for explaining the Dharma in a way that makes it easier to understand. My experience with the Dharma is that it seems really simple on the surface but man, it gets deep really quick! 😊
I've been a Buddhist for about 50 years and I have to repeat what the great Buddhist monk, Ajahn Sumano said a while back. He had been meditating all his life as a Buddhist monk and said, when asked about 'him' he said, "there was never anybody there in the first place!"
I've been wrestling with the concept of non-self and the five aggregates for a while. I've read a lot, I've listened to at least 5 or 6 dharma talks on podcasts, and though intellectually I got it, it didn't really change anything for me until now. Thank you, that was an amazing talk.
Think of it this way - First there was nothing. Then your parents met and married. Then they had sex and you were conceived. Look at progressive pictures of a fetus becoming a one day baby > one year. five year. ten year > twenty year until eighty years, dead body, skeleton and dust and then nothing. The whole world is maya or an illusion. That's why clinging onto life and material things bring pain. Things are moving continuously and cannot be held onto.
nayanmalig Thanks for your explanation. You made a lot such much clearer for me. I am trying to learn as much as I can and put into practice what I learn.
4Noble_Truths Very glad that the explanation was a help. Understanding impermanence is the key to happiness. It opens a lot of doors. It can make people wiser and generous. Ancient knowledge has much more depth than is commonly attributed.
Hello Mindah, thanks so much for helping of spreading the dhamma. You're doing a wonderful job. My Father from San Diego CA . forwarded me your video. Sadhu..............sadhu.............sadhu. May your mission spreads worldwide to all the beings.
I do appreciate your teaching very much. You have a wonderfully calm and joyful way of presenting these teachings, and its always a pleasure to learn from you. Thank you for this interesting video and all the others too. Have a lovely day with Buddha Blessings :)
You guys may have more knowledge if you follow Vipassana meditation who found by the lord Buddha 2500 years ago. There are almost more than 130 Vipassana Meditation Centers in world-wide. dhamma.org I have done 4 of 10 day meditation courses and it changed my way of thinking & behavior completely ...
You guys may have more knowledge if you follow Vipassana meditation who found by the lord Buddha 2500 years ago. There are almost more than 130 Vipassana Meditation Centers in world-wide. dhamma.org I have done 4 of 10 day meditation courses and it changed my way of thinking & behavior completely ...
It is. The most amazing is after more than 2500 years already, nothing in Buddha's teachings have been found to be wrong, illogical or incompatible with any scientific discoveries. Too bad this religion never proselytize or eager to spread and what most people understand of Buddhism is either just a little bit of it or twisted.
@@truth8307 Well, Buddhism does not share their belief with people who do not wish to know. Will anyone listen to something that they are not interested in? The first 5 followers of Buddha waited for him to be enlighted so that they could listen to his teaching. Thus, they stay silent to those who do not wish to listen, but share enthusiatically to those who do.
@@victorystar8586 I guess karma can find its way. People whose mental ability has not reached such level won't get to understand Buddhism too. This why despite that people studied science, still a large majority of are still ignorant(in believing a god). Due to karma and rebirth.
By far the clearest explanation I have heard. Would you agree that the five children climbing over the Budai represent the five aggregates ? They tease him, yet he remains unperturbed ! Thank you for looking after us by helping us on the Way.
I feel like this is so freeing in terms of not having a solid identity that is ours through letting go of who we thought we were and who we should be, we can just let ourselves be and be open to the changes. I've been an English teacher, and have decided to go back to school to study AI. When I think of my academic history and who I should be, this switch seems almost impossible, but when I let go of my past knowledge and work experience, I don't see why it's not possible for my mind to learn, given that I have the correct input. It's amazing how our identity is comprised of our surroundings, and can so drastically change if we let ourselves surrender to new surroundings.
Thank you. Very well presented. I would like for you to elaborate more in depth on the fifth skandha, six realms of patterns of psychological entanglement as you do so eloquently. Well done.
a difficult topic to relay to someone who does not at least practice meditation, a difficult concept that is experiential and rather beyond concepts. still we keep trying to explain. anicca dukkha annatta.
Thank you so much Minda-Lee! This video helped me so much to understand all these different things about Buddhism. I never understood Buddha's definition of Form until now! Namaste Minda-Lee :) I give you all my blessings.
Anata is a wonderful teaching. Several teachings are superb. Yet, teachings alone are not really adequate to experience this. Practical lessons are essential. Our of the many I found on you tube I discovered Rupert Spira. Meditations on this conducted by him are excellent. It's now been 2 years and much recommend that those wanting to experience no self can try the meditations by him. Best wishes
Wonderful video, thank you. Anatta seems like one of the most important teachings in Buddhism and this video is very well researched and clearly presented.
I'm glad you mentioned that once we are dispassionate and let go of desires, we will actually appreciate and love more. If you said the world is about us learning to feel nothing and do nothing, it would make me wonder - what's the point of creating this world in the first place?
thank you for this dharma-talk. very much appreciated. there were a few keypoints i really enjoyed, which differed in giving some more detail. such one would be the hint to the consciousness not fettered and thus not rooted from the skandhas. there were other details, which led me to a bit more deepened understanding... thank you...
Thank you, Mindah. There is so much information here, could you possibly create individual programs on these many pieces? What i mean is one for each aggregate, one for the senses, etc. I'm learning a lot from your work; thank you.
Thank you so much for your awesome explanation of the 5 aggregates. Most unexpected and enlightening insight into how we believe in the me identification. Love and peace.
Great video. Although in my experience, along with a feeling of liberation is a sense of loss, depression, and confusion linked to the sense that if I'm "no self" than what am I other than a stream of experiences.
from what I gather.. unrestricted awareness would be when individual consciousness dissolves into the situation, the circumstance(s), or the field of action and potential.. what this means is that the Consciousness is not centralized to any particular being, rather is shared amongst all beings as the 'field' of experience..
Could you make a video on resolving the problems of shyness and low self-confidence in a buddhist way. Mindfulness awareness helps as does this knowledge of aggregates. I thinking the removing myself of negative self perceptions helps, but exuding self-confidence to others seems to be so important to success and relationships in this world. Great video! Thanks.
+Silver Marlon Self confidence increases when you hit your 30s because you've go to the point you just don't give a crap what people think about you anymore. You could try putting on that attitude, but might not be easy. Comes with age.
Fantastic explanation, as you say yourself I wish western modern psychology would come to realize this already for it seems like it is lagging behind what was already known for millenias in asia. CBT is losing ground as being too simplistic and my own psychologist was advocating for detached mindfullness when facing with difficulties, so maybe they are slowly getting there haha.
You guys may have more knowledge if you follow Vipassana meditation who found by the lord Buddha 2500 years ago. There are almost more than 130 Vipassana Meditation Centers in world-wide. dhamma.org I have done 4 of 10 day meditation courses and it changed my way of thinking & behavior completely ...
I had a rough landing after I got out of the military in 2015. My rampant alcoholism ended that career. I finally got the VA to send me to rehabilitation and there was no choice. Everyone attended the mindfulness classes. I don't know what/how it did, but after the first session, I've been practicing everyday since then. Haven't had a drink, nor the desire to, either. My experiences inside the mental health machine of the government is that they are keenly aware, as well. They're doing all they can, but it's like curing cancer. They don't make enough money curing people. I think it's going to change rapidly over the next few years. We've had a rough couple of years and there's a lot of hurt people.
Thank you Mindah, this is the best and most complete explanation of emptiness on the entire internet, I listen often, and you've helped me no end to deepened my own understanding of this very subtle topic of Sunyata.. Thank you and best wishes..
wonderful video.. there is no universal/constant consciousness. conaciousness arises and passes at such a fast speed that it is perceived to be continous.. instead consciousness is in a constant flux..
To be enlightened, someone has to become no one. We are already enlightened ( Pure Self) but have become confused with the personal self, the conditioned ego.....It doesn't exist as an entity. its just an idea. The Prince Siddhatha the person became the BUDDHA ,no one. Likewise we all can do the same. Its very simple. Most have a waking experience ,a sudden flash of heightened awareness which can last for hours even months,which is non other than Pure Self, or Self without an egoic person,but it goes away. We actually see ourselves without an "I" Enlightenment is simply Pure Awareness or Pure Self without a person idea, the hallmark of which is peace of mind or only faint thoughts. But the mind has to be used in the world still, to do ones duty,the mind is a tool ,a collection of thoughts and ideas,it is not who we are,it forms a mind made self, the egoic person as a doer which causes confusion, active when not needed.
No, no one has to become no one to be enlightened. Understanding no self does not mean to say nothing exists, we recognize it's existence but understand there is no permanent identity
Derek Ward Its just words,I never said nothing exists, how can nothing exist? there is no one to become no one, there is no one to be enlightened. And who recognises existence? Before liberation, chop wood carry water,someone does it . After liberation chop wood,carry water, no one does it. If we can see there is no person here, that is a start to liberation,nothing changes,only an idea of someone is seen to be false. Again who or what knows this? But letting go of the idea of self is very difficult, because of conditioning and Vasanas, impossible for most, sooner or later it resurfaces.The mind is very powerful as it is actually Being itself,but attached to the body and memories of a person, deluded into a conditioned self. Only one truth not two,cant have two truths. It may take many lives to be liberated, only a handful out of billions escape Samsara,and we all know who the famous ones are. Many we never know ,they could be anyone we meet. It is not so easy to be liberated as some Non dual teachers say. Yes, one can instantly know nothingness by Grace,but it doesn't last for most..... one can understand intellectually, lets be honest,that's not it..only the beginning.
Religion aside one can quickly understand intellectually there is no self,no person,its all conditioned in the mind. Its not a theory,its a scientific fact, even Neuro scientists agree there is no self in the brain,just memories that constantly change ones idea of oneself. You have to remember who you think you are on awakening from sleep,there is a second or two when there is no person there, just an awareness, but most do not realise this, now you do. Try and find it,there is no self to be enlightened, the only constant there is,is the knower or Awareness behind the knowing process and no one can describe it, we can only know that it is. Awareness cannot be changed or enlightened. its the eternal mystery of who we really are and realising that it is freedom from the egoistic self that never existed anyway.. That is what the Buddha discovered . Prince Siddhartha was just a label for the conditioned mind,he was just acting a part life's circumstances had made for him. A Buddha is someone who has woken up to that fact,Siddhartha is not the only Buddha. If you practice deep meditation one becomes aware of just Awareness,there are no thoughts,no person there, no self. But of course we have to act in the world as a person in order to maintain the social systems.We are just actors on the world stage playing a part in the play. We are not the characters we are playing.
+John Smith u are right but in this realistic world u must have basic self to protect your self from cheated, harm, beaten, to survive in lay world unless u have become a monk let go of everything
please explaining about the ignorance, craving and fortune this three kind of buddhist's teaching should be the cycle of rebirth for any living beings.
I swear. I've read so many pages and seen so many videos on this subject and specifically the 5 aggregates. This video is probably the only one that made perfect sense to my pea brain.
Thanks!
Love this way of perception...gives us more room to grow rather than labelling our selves.....
I've tried reading about the no-self and the five aggregates and never fully grasped the concept. Thank you for this video, it made things a whole lot clearer!
I could try to help you go into it and figure out what it means just let me know.
Thank you🙇 for this, it is really difficult to understand the 5 Aggregates at first. Even I as a long time Buddhist, I had to search videos after videos to fully understand it. So thank you for this. May you be well, may you be happy and may you be peaceful. May every sentient beings be well, may every sentient beings be happy and may every sentient beings be peaceful and rejoice in these merits. For us to search for this is us wanting to be on this path that Buddha had wanted us to be in. Namo amitofo 🙏.
ATA kari Sutta
Best exposition of the five aggregates I have seen, very understandable, thank you.
Eye consciousness. That realization that you’ve been staring off into the distance; realizing what your eyes were focused on while you’ were actually seeing with your mind’s eye.
We must think comfort, the end of suffering the closer we get to being comfortable with our selves & others. "He came to send US the🕊️Comforter"!
I have listened to Minjur Rinpoche's exlanation on no self in tibetan and your presentation compliments the concept clearly. Thank you very much.
She has such a gift, explaining this all so well.
This was the most cogent explanation of the aggregates I've found so far.
You guys may have more knowledge if you follow Vipassana meditation who found by the lord Buddha 2500 years ago.
There are almost more than 130 Vipassana Meditation Centers in world-wide.
dhamma.org
I have done 4 of 10 day meditation courses and it changed my way of thinking & behavior completely ...
@@pasanperera6460 I have done it too. I met students who are recommended by their doctors too.
One of the best Dharma talks ever made
Wow, that was something! I've read about the aggregates however the way you presented them and explained the whole idea surrounding Anatta is just simple and fabulous! Thank you for exemplifying- really a jewel!
This is one of the clearest explanation of Anatta and the five aggregates I have heard! All in only an half hour. Thank You Mindah-Lee.
After watching a few other videos on the 5 aggregates, this is the most understandable. Your presentation is easy to grasp. Thank you.
Why I am here after 4 years , thanks for all these thoughts !!
These thoughts make us calm and encourage us to see always forward in our life !!
Every time I watch this video I want to relike it. This accerated my spiritual journey so much. I wish I knew this year's ago. Thank you so much for this life changing information.
I really like you eloquent way of explaining the aggregate part of the self. So enlightening.Thanks!
Many thanks Mindah-Lee. I enjoyed your calm and indepth analysis. Your presentation is simply beautiful. Thx.
We're not our names that only describe US to a certain extent but "a life of no questions needed" is the true goal in knowing "knowledge passes away"!
Thank you for putting the link to part 2 in the description!
i am just starting to learn about this and i certainly wish i had of received this information years ago. i am being persistent in meditating . i have no one to talk to about this but i am watching the monks learning every day and you also are very good in explaining it is very helpful. thank you. i needed this
Beautiful explanation 👌😃your passion for Buddhism shines through!
This is the clearest explanation on this topic I've ever seen, thanks!
Had near death when I was 16 in a gray area fleet like I was myself but also not myself total calm and peace no thoughts
Thank you for the clear teachings. With gratitude and appreciation, I am looking forward to part 2! :)
Wonderful explanation of the teaching of the Buddha. Anatta is quite a different doctrine in comparison to the teachings of most religions. Your accurate explanation without interpretation appears to be exactly what the Buddha taught. Sadhu sadhu!!
Thank-you so much for making these videos on the teachings of the Buddha. They are helping me immensely understand concepts that were hazy to me before. Also, I experience an increased measure of calm after watching your videos. I am very grateful for the time you put into making these.
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh writes: ....The ascetic Vacchagotta's gotta's visit to the Buddha. Vacchagotta asked, "Reverend Gautama, please tell me, is there a self?" The Buddha did not say anything. Vacchagotta asked again, "Then you do not think there is a self?" The Buddha remained silent. Eventually, Vacchagotta left.
-Afterwards, Ananda asked the Buddha, "Venerable Sir, when you give us Dharma teachings you often speak about no-self. Why did you not reply to Vacchagotta's questions concerning the self?" The Buddha replied, "The teaching of no-self that I give the bhikshus is a means to guide you to look deeply in your meditation. It is not an ideology. If you make it into an ideology, you will be caught in it. I believe the ascetic Vacchagotta was looking for an ideology and not for a teaching to help him in the practice. So I remained silent. I did not want him to be caught by the teachings. If I had told him there is a self, that would not have been correct. If I told him there is no self, he would have clung to that dogmatically and made it into a theory, and that would not have been helpful either. That is why I kept silent." --In the Vimalakirti Nirdesha Sutra (Taisho 475), the silence of the layman Vimalakirti is praised by the Bodhisattva Manjushri as a "thundering silence" that echoes far and wide, having the power to break the bonds of attachment and bring about liberation. It is the same as the lion's roar that proclaims,
"It is necessary to let go of all the true teachings, not to mention teachings that are not true."
-This is the spirit we need if we want to understand the Sutra on Knowing in the Better Way to Catch a Snake.
-The first precept of the Order of Interbeing represents the same spirit: "Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. Buddhist systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth."
Teachings that are received as doctrines or theories are no longer teachings. They do not liberate, and the person receiving them is caught.
In most precept texts, the first precept is not to take life. Not taking life, however, is not unique to Buddhism.
In the Jainism of the naked ascetic Nirgantha, for example, restrictions concerning the taking of life were far more severe than in Buddhism. But in the spirit of breaking the bonds of attachment to ideology, the practice of the precept not to kill goes much further in Buddhism.
- A person caught in a doctrine or a system of thought can sacrifice millions of lives in order to put into practice his theory, which he considers the absolute truth, the unique path that can lead humankind to happiness.
-With a gun in hand, a person can kill one, five, or even ten people. But holding on to a doctrine or a system of thought, one can kill tens of thousands of people. Therefore, unless the precept not to take life is understood in terms of breaking the bonds of attachment to ideology, it is not truly the precept taught by the Buddha.
Thich Nhat Hanh. Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake.
Very convenient answer. But really, if there were no selves who was having that conversation?
Thank you so much for posting this! I think very, very few people understand this point. Isn’t this in many ways the same thing as the difference between “knowing about” something and actually “knowing” something?
@@Traderhood The mind is having this conversation not some unchanging Atma/Soul/Self which cannot change and therefore cannot function in anyway as any function like "having this conversation" implies change . Your Atman/Soul/Self by definition is unchanging ( Sankaracharya 's Tatva Bodha , Chapter 8 Verse 8.0-8.1
@@Vatulvasava My mind doesn’t have mouth to speak. My body does. But my mouth doesn’t speak whenever my mind thinks. Sometimes I (self) speak, sometimes I don’t. There is my I that is different from your I. I am a different self from your self.
@@Traderhood So is one mind different from the other . Also the mouth of a corpse doesn't speak , only a mouth whose mind wishes consciously or unconsciously speaks. . No self is required as it is just a concoction of the mind . If there is no mind there is no concept of a self . Thank You for your response 🙏🏼 And any way an unchanging Self cannot function as function requires change , which I notice you haven't answered properly ? The mind is changing so it can function . A corpse without a mind doesn't speak .
If only Buddhism had not been vanished from India, this sub-continent would have been so prosperous. I hope I gain the mental strength to help revive it to its full glory! And may peace & prosperity follow perpetually
@Barry Woods how much population of India is Buddhist? They have been masscared centuries ago. less than 1% of India is Buddhist and most of them are regugees from Tibet. Though there are lot of Buddist inscriptions, rock carvings in India the Dhamma and Buddhist population is vanquished.
@@nitin1947 simply dont spread false about india ..buddism is not masced like wht westren people thing .its diclined due to islamic invesion of india cos buddism are more non voilence religion ...at that time when islamis attacked just cant resisist.so they eithier converted or killed so plese do some reserch and come
Well, karma is fair and able to find its way. Look at the covid-19 pandemic and see who are those who died. Will you expect so many from Western countries that are hit later ? Why are they so foolish or unprepared ?
@@karthikbhat84 Ever heard of pushyamitra shunga or Shashanka of gauda ? Learn some history
@@Modammm Lol kumaril bhatt debated buddhist and defeated them in arguments
This is the best talk on this subject that I know of - so clearly explained.
I love your content so much. You really have a gift for explaining the Dharma in a way that makes it easier to understand. My experience with the Dharma is that it seems really simple on the surface but man, it gets deep really quick! 😊
Wow, I've been listening to lectures for years and yours was by far the best! Thank you so much.
You are an amazing teacher and speaker. Blew my mind.
You are amazing! I have been having so much trouble grasping this idea and you have perfectly explained it. Thank you so much
This is VERY good and I learned a great deal. You've wonderfully explained things I've listened to in the past.
I've been a Buddhist for about 50 years and I have to repeat what the great Buddhist monk, Ajahn Sumano said a while back. He had been meditating all his life as a Buddhist monk and said, when asked about 'him' he said, "there was never anybody there in the first place!"
What is it that believes there-was-never-anybody-there?
@@Teller3448 good question,and answer!
I like that you quote directly from the suttas..thank you
I've been wrestling with the concept of non-self and the five aggregates for a while. I've read a lot, I've listened to at least 5 or 6 dharma talks on podcasts, and though intellectually I got it, it didn't really change anything for me until now. Thank you, that was an amazing talk.
Think of it this way - First there was nothing. Then your parents met and married. Then they had sex and you were conceived. Look at progressive pictures of a fetus becoming a one day baby > one year. five year. ten year > twenty year until eighty years, dead body, skeleton and dust and then nothing. The whole world is maya or an illusion. That's why clinging onto life and material things bring pain. Things are moving continuously and cannot be held onto.
nayanmalig Thanks for your explanation. You made a lot such much clearer for me. I am trying to learn as much as I can and put into practice what I learn.
4Noble_Truths Very glad that the explanation was a help. Understanding impermanence is the key to happiness. It opens a lot of doors. It can make people wiser and generous. Ancient knowledge has much more depth than is commonly attributed.
Hello Mindah, thanks so much for helping of spreading the dhamma. You're doing a wonderful job. My Father from San Diego CA . forwarded me your video. Sadhu..............sadhu.............sadhu. May your mission spreads worldwide to all the beings.
I do appreciate your teaching very much. You have a wonderfully calm and joyful way of presenting these teachings, and its always a pleasure to learn from you. Thank you for this interesting video and all the others too. Have a lovely day with Buddha Blessings :)
You guys may have more knowledge if you follow Vipassana meditation who found by the lord Buddha 2500 years ago.
There are almost more than 130 Vipassana Meditation Centers in world-wide.
dhamma.org
I have done 4 of 10 day meditation courses and it changed my way of thinking & behavior completely ...
Agree that she is good, hope she carries on sharing. She earns good karma for herself too.
Thanks Mindah, much easier to hear you teach on this than try to understand from the traditional texts.
Beautifully taught -- perfectly clear. Thank you.
wow, i never knew Buddhism was so interesting.
You guys may have more knowledge if you follow Vipassana meditation who found by the lord Buddha 2500 years ago.
There are almost more than 130 Vipassana Meditation Centers in world-wide.
dhamma.org
I have done 4 of 10 day meditation courses and it changed my way of thinking & behavior completely ...
It is. Peerless
It is. The most amazing is after more than 2500 years already, nothing in Buddha's teachings have been found to be wrong, illogical or incompatible with any scientific discoveries. Too bad this religion never proselytize or eager to spread and what most people understand of Buddhism is either just a little bit of it or twisted.
@@truth8307 Well, Buddhism does not share their belief with people who do not wish to know. Will anyone listen to something that they are not interested in? The first 5 followers of Buddha waited for him to be enlighted so that they could listen to his teaching. Thus, they stay silent to those who do not wish to listen, but share enthusiatically to those who do.
@@victorystar8586 I guess karma can find its way. People whose mental ability has not reached such level won't get to understand Buddhism too. This why despite that people studied science, still a large majority of are still ignorant(in believing a god). Due to karma and rebirth.
By far the clearest explanation I have heard. Would you agree that the five children climbing over the Budai represent the five aggregates ? They tease him, yet he remains unperturbed !
Thank you for looking after us by helping us on the Way.
Thank you for this beautiful Dhamma...🙏
I feel like this is so freeing in terms of not having a solid identity that is ours through letting go of who we thought we were and who we should be, we can just let ourselves be and be open to the changes. I've been an English teacher, and have decided to go back to school to study AI. When I think of my academic history and who I should be, this switch seems almost impossible, but when I let go of my past knowledge and work experience, I don't see why it's not possible for my mind to learn, given that I have the correct input. It's amazing how our identity is comprised of our surroundings, and can so drastically change if we let ourselves surrender to new surroundings.
I never understood this concept, though I had read about it several times, until watching this video. Thank you.
This Vedic perspective is Just like cbt thoughts, core beliefs feelings and behaviour.
Thank you very much for this helpful and informative video. It makes this seemingly-abstract subject much more real.
Your voice is so sweet . And thank u for this video , i really got advantage of no self in my work :)♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
Thank you. Very well presented. I would like for you to elaborate more in depth on the fifth skandha, six realms of patterns of psychological entanglement as you do so eloquently. Well done.
Hi.. I like your teaching from 🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰.. As born buddist. You are right.. It is true.. Namo buddhaya..
a difficult topic to relay to someone who does not at least practice meditation, a difficult concept that is experiential and rather beyond concepts. still we keep trying to explain. anicca dukkha annatta.
I only grasped that sense of unrestricted identity at the end of this video - and this was the second time I watched it. Thanks 🙏
Thank you so much Minda-Lee! This video helped me so much to understand all these different things about Buddhism. I never understood Buddha's definition of Form until now! Namaste Minda-Lee :) I give you all my blessings.
Dear daughter, your presentation is great! You deserve much merits!
In other words, the ignorance towards EGO causes all these sufferings. Nicely put together video.
Beautifully explained!...Would love to see a complete series of videos on Buddhist teachings.
My aggregates are getting a warm fuzzy feeling ...please continue.
🙏for explaining the five aggregates in such simple term. Finally I fully understand it and the importance of Anatta.
Please when are you writing a book 🫢 this is beautiful. Very clear!!!
You're an awesome teacher. I list to this as a lead into my zazen pratice. Thank you, I love it!
Mindah, thank you for changing my life....also, its so cute when you're laughing at your own jokes.
Wonderfull clear and genuine. All the Buddhas from the 3 times and ten directions bless You.
Karmapa Chenno. May we all become victorious!
This is a great video for anyone who is new to buddhism or the five aggregates. :)
Thank you so much! Namaste!
This was very insightful. Thank you so much for this wonderful video.
Anata is a wonderful teaching. Several teachings are superb. Yet, teachings alone are not really adequate to experience this. Practical lessons are essential. Our of the many I found on you tube I discovered Rupert Spira. Meditations on this conducted by him are excellent. It's now been 2 years and much recommend that those wanting to experience no self can try the meditations by him. Best wishes
Wonderful video, thank you. Anatta seems like one of the most important teachings in Buddhism and this video is very well researched and clearly presented.
Thank you for your diligence in mastering the teachings and your clarity in explaining the concepts.
Thank you and So good for watching this video file about Anatta or No Soul the Buddha 's teaching.
I'm glad you mentioned that once we are dispassionate and let go of desires, we will actually appreciate and love more. If you said the world is about us learning to feel nothing and do nothing, it would make me wonder - what's the point of creating this world in the first place?
I have just found the path your videos are amazing may they plant great karmic seeds
My english listening skills isn't good, i hope subtitles will appear in next times to i can know more about what you say. Thank you so much.☺
One of the best explanations! Thank you so much!
as someone trying to grasp these concepts I really like your videos
thank you for this dharma-talk. very much appreciated. there were a few keypoints i really enjoyed, which differed in giving some more detail. such one would be the hint to the consciousness not fettered and thus not rooted from the skandhas. there were other details, which led me to a bit more deepened understanding... thank you...
So beautifully explained Thankyou Thankyou ❤️❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thank you, Mindah. There is so much information here, could you possibly create individual programs on these many pieces? What i mean is one for each aggregate, one for the senses, etc. I'm learning a lot from your work; thank you.
Thank you so much for your awesome explanation of the 5 aggregates. Most unexpected and enlightening insight into how we believe in the me identification. Love and peace.
Good explaination about Anatman (Anatta).. Much thank to Mindah-Lee-Kumar. I am from from Bangladesh.
Great video. Although in my experience, along with a feeling of liberation is a sense of loss, depression, and confusion linked to the sense that if I'm "no self" than what am I other than a stream of experiences.
Very good Mindah-Lee.Clearly and articulately explained.Thank you
from what I gather..
unrestricted awareness would be when individual consciousness dissolves into the situation, the circumstance(s), or the field of action and potential..
what this means is that the Consciousness is not centralized to any particular being, rather is shared amongst all beings as the 'field' of experience..
Thank you so much for your knowledge and dharma teachings...
Hi Mindha, I realy needed this reflection this evening. Thank you for your very insightful presentation. Very very clear......
One of the best explanation.. Thank you. Keep it up
Could you make a video on resolving the problems of shyness and low self-confidence in a buddhist way.
Mindfulness awareness helps as does this knowledge of aggregates. I thinking the removing myself of negative self perceptions helps, but exuding self-confidence to others seems to be so important to success and relationships in this world. Great video! Thanks.
+Silver Marlon Self confidence increases when you hit your 30s because you've go to the point you just don't give a crap what people think about you anymore. You could try putting on that attitude, but might not be easy. Comes with age.
Fantastic explanation, as you say yourself I wish western modern psychology would come to realize this already for it seems like it is lagging behind what was already known for millenias in asia. CBT is losing ground as being too simplistic and my own psychologist was advocating for detached mindfullness when facing with difficulties, so maybe they are slowly getting there haha.
You guys may have more knowledge if you follow Vipassana meditation who found by the lord Buddha 2500 years ago.
There are almost more than 130 Vipassana Meditation Centers in world-wide.
dhamma.org
I have done 4 of 10 day meditation courses and it changed my way of thinking & behavior completely ...
I had a rough landing after I got out of the military in 2015. My rampant alcoholism ended that career. I finally got the VA to send me to rehabilitation and there was no choice. Everyone attended the mindfulness classes.
I don't know what/how it did, but after the first session, I've been practicing everyday since then. Haven't had a drink, nor the desire to, either.
My experiences inside the mental health machine of the government is that they are keenly aware, as well. They're doing all they can, but it's like curing cancer. They don't make enough money curing people.
I think it's going to change rapidly over the next few years. We've had a rough couple of years and there's a lot of hurt people.
Excellent video. This is the best explanation I have heard! Thanks for posting it.
Thank you Mindah, this is the best and most complete explanation of emptiness on the entire internet, I listen often, and you've helped me no end to deepened my own understanding of this very subtle topic of Sunyata..
Thank you and best wishes..
Thank you, you ex[plain with simplicity and eloquence
wonderful video..
there is no universal/constant consciousness.
conaciousness arises and passes at such a fast speed that it is perceived to be continous..
instead consciousness is in a constant flux..
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To be enlightened, someone has to become no one.
We are already enlightened ( Pure Self) but have become confused with the personal self, the conditioned ego.....It doesn't exist as an entity. its just an idea.
The Prince Siddhatha the person became the BUDDHA ,no one.
Likewise we all can do the same.
Its very simple.
Most have a waking experience ,a sudden flash of heightened awareness which can last for hours even months,which is non other than Pure Self, or Self without an egoic person,but it goes away.
We actually see ourselves without an "I"
Enlightenment is simply Pure Awareness or Pure Self without a person idea, the hallmark of which is peace of mind or only faint thoughts.
But the mind has to be used in the world still, to do ones duty,the mind is a tool ,a collection of thoughts and ideas,it is not who we are,it forms a mind made self, the egoic person as a doer which causes confusion, active when not needed.
u are awaken
No, no one has to become no one to be enlightened. Understanding no self does not mean to say nothing exists, we recognize it's existence but understand there is no permanent identity
Derek Ward Its just words,I never said nothing exists, how can nothing exist? there is no one to become no one, there is no one to be enlightened.
And who recognises existence?
Before liberation, chop wood carry water,someone does it .
After liberation chop wood,carry water,
no one does it.
If we can see there is no person here, that is a start to liberation,nothing changes,only an idea of someone is seen to be false.
Again who or what knows this?
But letting go of the idea of self is very difficult, because of conditioning and Vasanas, impossible for most, sooner or later it resurfaces.The mind is very powerful as it is actually Being itself,but attached to the body and memories of a person, deluded into a conditioned self. Only one truth not two,cant have two truths.
It may take many lives to be liberated, only a handful out of billions escape Samsara,and we all know who the famous ones are. Many we never know ,they could be anyone we meet.
It is not so easy to be liberated as some Non dual teachers say.
Yes, one can instantly know nothingness by Grace,but it doesn't last for most..... one can understand intellectually, lets be honest,that's not it..only the beginning.
Religion aside one can quickly understand intellectually there is no self,no person,its all conditioned in the mind.
Its not a theory,its a scientific fact, even Neuro scientists agree there is no self in the brain,just memories that constantly change ones idea of oneself. You have to remember who you think you are on awakening from sleep,there is a second or two when there is no person there, just an awareness, but most do not realise this, now you do.
Try and find it,there is no self to be enlightened, the only constant there is,is the knower or Awareness behind the knowing process and no one can describe it, we can only know that it is.
Awareness cannot be changed or enlightened.
its the eternal mystery of who we really are and realising that it is freedom from the egoistic self that never existed anyway..
That is what the Buddha discovered . Prince Siddhartha was just a label for the conditioned mind,he was just acting a part life's circumstances had made for him.
A Buddha is someone who has woken up to that fact,Siddhartha is not the only Buddha.
If you practice deep meditation one becomes aware of just Awareness,there are no thoughts,no person there, no self.
But of course we have to act in the world as a person in order to maintain the social systems.We are just actors on the world stage playing a part in the play.
We are not the characters we are playing.
+John Smith u are right but in this realistic world u must have basic self to protect your self from cheated, harm, beaten, to survive in lay world unless u have become a monk let go of everything
16 unlikee? Really ?! Wonderful work and educational!👍🏽👏🏽 thanks ! ☸️🕉
please explaining about the ignorance, craving and fortune this three kind of buddhist's teaching should be the cycle of rebirth for any living beings.
very comprehensive and informative. really clarified a concept i've been having trouble understanding. thank you!
Loved this thank you so much for your incredible videos eloquently described and easy to understand this really helped out.
Brilliant teaching. Thank you.
Vast gratitude for explaining so clearly….❤😊