Don't Make It Harder Than It Already Is | Ajahn Cittapalo | 31 May 2020
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2020
- This is from a series of daily meditation and Dhamma teachings offered by the monks at Bodhinyana Monastery to support the community during the Coronavirus pandemic. See full series here: bswa.org/teaching/let-it-be/ Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon: / buddhistsocietywa
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One of the most important's lessons i've heard in life. Thank you so much Ajahn Cittapalo, Sadhu!
Ajahn Cittapalo, you are quickly becoming one of my favourite teachers. Sadhu sadhu sadhu!
I have never heard an Ajahn speak like this before …. Just so refreshing
Thank you, dear Ajahn Cittapalo, for this wonderful Dhamma talk 🙏
May all beings be well and happy,
and be free from suffering.
With Metta
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Thank you once again for such a wonderful teaching. I always learn something from your talks. It would be a pleasure to hear more talks from you.
I love the honesty of this talk
Thank you thank you Ajan Cittapalo for this wonderful Dhamma talk. Hope to see you hear you often. Sadu Sadu Sadu.
Really liking Ajahn Cittapano’s talks .
When I have been to retreats and meeting my raging mind and try to be with it, afterwards I always feel so light and happy (that I never have felt before). So learning how to just be with oneselves and not try to leap into deep meditations can lead to happiness and energy in oneselves. This little talk made me realize that again, Sadhu🌹
Thank you for this talk, I appreciate the honesty and the ability to laugh at the mistakes we all make . Very helpful and practical advice.
Thank you for your talks, all of you.
very true. spontaneous and down to earth. relatable.Thank you.
Sadhu sadhu sadhu. 🙇♀️This is an incredible helpful talk. I have been meditating for a long time now and I could not agree more. 👍❤️
Please make Ajahn Cittapalo talk more Ajahn Brahm!
Love his talks
My favorite Bond villian is back!
Yankee Apple, I know what you mean. there's something about this monk's talks and his attitude that is very appealing. He doesn't suggarcoat anything and he discusses how his and all other monks experiences are just as bad. I have been looking for him and his laughter about our errors -- that is humans --, is very calming
I think he is of German origin and the first talk I heard from him talk candidly about what it is like to be German after what the Germans did twice in the last century with all the suffering inflicted onto so many ppl. After that, I adore him. How amazing to talk like that and still be able to smile and have a heart full of love and forgiveness for his people.
I like that you are yourself..and ruff around the edges.. i think thats why i admirer Ajahn Brahm...
Love the title before I've heard the talk.
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Thank you! Just what I needed!
I friggin love this monk 👍🏼🙏🏼🌹 Ajahn Cittapalo, can you please talk on the subject of Renunciation?
Thank you so much. My mind has been on negative overdrive today.
just the tonic. thank you Ajahn Cittapalo
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Wonderful teaching 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼thank you Ajahn
Thank you Great talk
A brilliant speach! Thank you so much!🥰
Thank you! 🙏
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu ❤️☮️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Dear Sir, with as much respect for you and appreciation for your deeper message in this video, I would just like to say that I found the use of “bad” language such as shit or such likes far too aggressive and it actually comes across as a passive aggressive anger to a gentle soul like yourself. I just found the beautiful message was suddenly exposed to this crass language that caused me a sense of anxiety. These words are so often used in the context of anger and hostility in our world that actually it made me feel sad that even a gentle kind and loving monk has to throw them into his beautiful message. With respects and gratitude 🙏🏼
Ajahn Brahm used to support using such language as the Buddha said, when you teach your disciples, teach in the language they speak. Even though i knew that view of Ajahn Brahm, the use terms such as "shit" did make me feel bit weird.
Dear Phoebe, please bear in mind that Ajahn Cittapalo is a native German speaker, and in that language the word in question doesn't have such aggressive connotations as in English. It's even used occasionally in primary schools and is not a serious swear word. It's the equivalent of the word rubbish. So it would be great if you could forgive him, he surely is not passive aggressive. That's clear from the peaceful nature and subject matter of the rest of his talk. Thanks for pointing this out, though, it's a valid issue. Best wishes. Will 🙂
* Ajahn Cittapalo
No, it's not the same thing as you think. Eating, having a roof over one's head is not enough and the harshness you say has not really occurred is not absolutely unimaginable, even in the modern, supposedly happy positions. It would not be tragic at all to be with oneself if people could just take care of themselves. But even if you wanted to, you couldn't provide for your own food or a roof over your head, because we live in a foreign supply society. In the same way, the monasteries in this world live in it and from the fact that people give them food. These people, they are families and their children, who need a minimum of movement and touch to get through life to some extent and no, it is not just the time to meditate on their own. Many years ago, all-day schools were established here and what children find are offers in and around the school or clubs where the children do sports or music or other things.
None of this is available to the families anymore and the whole order breaks down because of this, which we have heard about over all these years that it is necessary so that "both parents can go to work". Most people, even if they have a certain amount of blindness and also greed, are far less greedy and deluded than they are said to be. They are cooperating people who have tried to adapt to the circumstances into which they were born. Because we humans are trusting and naturally believe what we are taught as children and because we believe that our way of life is normal. But we are told in mantra that we have to buy more, do better business, boost the economy, keep consumption going. We will not meet with approval anywhere if we do not accept this.
Whoever has parents and children is being coerced and subdued, especially in the supposedly modern nations. My son's life is reduced to the computer. He does nothing else all day long. School is now doing online learning and the newspapers write nonsense like "that we overslept digital learning". Now would be the hour when the computer would have to be turned off, when we shouldn't use the internet anymore, but try to do something different in a world and you will realize that life outside of technology has been made impossible for you. Try to undo the error of your adaptation and take the computer away from your teenager and you will find that you could only do this by force. And you won't do that if you are parents who do not want to do violence to their children.
@michael anthony Hello Michael Anthony, I don't understand your question. I said, that life cannot be lived in modern societies without computer. I would have to quit my job and find something else, but this "else" I cannot just decide as I have responsibility for a school kid. And no, I cannot plug out the computer or refuse my son his online times as this ist the only thing left in his world right now. If I would still do it, I would have to use violence. And of course, I am not violating my son.
Yes we live in a modern, computer-centric world in most places and cases.. but having grown up on computers myself, the immense wealth of information at our fingertips is incredible. Living in the states, I probably never would have come across Ajahn Brahm's talks that got me instantly hooked to buddhism. I've always been a very mellow sort but the default religion here is Christianity. I find that buddhism coincides with my personality very well/better and I only wish that more folks had compassion for our planet and its inhabitants in a way that buddhism helps us think about. My father doesn't touch computers, but he is your typical carpenter. He has body pain daily from working himself to the bone for a dollar for years, and advised me against doing the same type of work. But tradesmen will always have a duty to do, between carpentry, plumbing, and electricity.
I guess all I wanted to say is that the computer can be a curse, but it has been a blessing for me; we just gotta know what we're looking for.
Wishing u the best, peace ✌