There are probably hundreds of videos that claim they’ll teach you how to quiet your mind. Most just say to ignore the chatter. This is one of the very few that actually delivers. Thank you, Ajahn Brahm. 🙏
Ajahn Bram’s method of silencing the mind works for me. After doing meditation for some time already, the endless and compulsive inner chatter isn’t as bad as before. I wasn’t thinking of what he is going to say next. I also chant mantra slowly depending on the conditions of my mind. Thank you Ajahn Bram for pointing out the gap in between each thought. 🙏
Yes! : ) Intellectual knowledge is a different epistemology to insight knowledge. Both have their application but meditation requires personal experience.
Kudos for the Video! Excuse me for chiming in, I would love your opinion. Have you heard about - Marnaavid Unexplainable Intervention (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is an awesome one of a kind guide for learning how to hack your flow state without the hard work. Ive heard some great things about it and my old buddy Taylor finally got astronomical results with it.
@@typingsquirrel27 It's not a conspiracy. The purpose was explicit from the beginning. Inertia makes it difficult to chang now. Read The One World Schoolhouse by Salman Khan.
I love these teachings, however, public buildings, books and employees are paid for by the government with American tax dollars. Although, it would be convenient to teach this at public schools, it would be a form of government respecting an establishment of religion which is prohibited by the first amendment. Home (church, mosque, temple) is the appropriate place for these teachings.
@@andromedahearme63 -- These are not religious teachings. If you want to take it to the extreme, telling kids not to kill other kids would be a religious teaching and unconstitutional. The notion that killing is wrong or that it hurts others is a religious belief.
The only thing that worked for me. Tried so many different techniques, including breathing. Didn't work, until I started doing mantras and putting space between words. Thank you
Thank you so much for clarifying the space between talking and meditation. Nobody has ever talked about this. I am very grateful to make us aware of the space of silence between talking.
I never understood mantra. I was just repeating it again and again without pause trying to prevent the room for my mind to wander.i was aiming for sitting without music or mantras thinking theres nothing around to distract at all i have never made real progress with meditation and no one teaches you how to use mantras properly no one tells you to pause. but i see now how the mantra helps you get to the point of sitting in complete silence and we get to control the pace with how long the pauses are. I love this Thank you
As I've lengthened the duration of my daily meditation practices, I started introducing mantas. I hadn't realized that I was being too hasty with how I recite them, and this explanation really changed how I look at the mantra as a tool - thank you Ajahn Brahm for helping me deepen my practices. It will only get more profound from here. Namaste
I am a 74 year old man, humbled by a massive hemorrhagic stroke in 2008. It is joyously fascinating to me that, at this point in my life, what I apparently need to learn is the simplest of things.
This is so very powerful! Silence as a technique is profound. Simple and effective. Like the explanation and his delivery. Subscribed to his RUclips channel. Om
Finally! Something that makes sense and made things click with me! I always heard to clear your minds. Watch the breath. Nothing. I didn't think I could do it somehow. Then this make perfect sense. It reminds me when I used to hunt. Don't blast me, I can't bring myself to go hunt any more. My heart won't let me. But, I would sit there watching the whole time. You couldn't think very hard or you would miss the game you were hunting. You just wouldn't see it. The quieter I was, the more often I saw something. Same here. Just watch. Looking. No thoughts. Just observing. I suspect that knowing this now, then I'll actually start to make progress in seeing and understanding. Thanks!
When I get nervous or anxious, I often use my mantra, but I rush in repeating it, sometimes it works sometimes not, now this technique enlightened the whole thing.
I was waiting on the next word. I’ve developed that need for instant gratification. So in needing to wait for you to continue, I had a minute moment of tension and yes, I was silent. But, tripping out waiting.
So helpful and explanatory. I always wondered about those who can't sit in silence when they say they can and still fill the air with constant chatter.
Dear Ajahn Brahm, thank you so much for the guidence and effective training to silence. Putting space in between words. A great Sadhu to you, my beloved teacher.🌻🌺
sometimes when im meditating and Im at the point where my mind is blank of thoughts and in a deep relaxed place and even though my mind is blank of thoughts and im deeply relaxed the Physical body begins to snore . Yet my mind is awake and blank of thoughts and its a very odd state indeed to be blank of thoughts with a mind that is awake and yet the physical body is so relaxed its in a snoring state !!!! This does not always happen to me , but when it does and then I come out of the meditation it leaves me with a giggle feeling once Im up and about again . I enjoy meditating and i also enjoy many mind games in similar states of the mind . My interest in meditation began when I was 25 and I had an OBE and now Im 49 for me every meditation is different and so the learning must never stop .....
Thanks i had this problem where i had a headache and whenever i thinked it went worse so I kept thinking about it until I couldn't stop thinking and i just searched "how to stop thinking and this video saved my day now i...can.............just...................stop............................................thinking......................................................................like...............................................................................................................this...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
You are all here trying to stop your thoughts. Well, stop it already! Give your thoughts free reign and do not try to shut them down! The problems begin when you try to suppress your thoughts! DON'T! Just let them go whichever way they want. You can be an observer and listen to them too! Some are audio, others are visual. Some are fragments, some are complete. Let them go they way they want. Take this to heart and you will have gained quite a bit of freedom. Edit: You can be a slave to your mind (trying to suppress your thoughts) or you can be free (letting your thoughts do what they want)
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I found the same. In trying to be hopeful I think I could notice there was maybe a second of silence before that, though. I hope that's enough to get the point and build upon.
I am not sure if you can silence the mind by using a mantra, by default you are thinking about the mantra. To meditate, you have to think about meditation. To be in the present moment does not help if you do not like the present situation you are in.
so you pretty much repeat a mantra (a set of words) with pauses in between(lengthen as you gain more control) in order to replace the negative thoughts in your mind.
Kho Mam you "try to" silence the mind? the mind actually wants you to work with him.. accept the mind however they are, no matter what, and then you'll eventually make peace with your mind.. :) this is where silence come from
+Phan Truong Hieu-Studio what makes you think silencing the mind will make you a better person...... learn to become a better person and the mind will follow......
I'm Indian and you'd think it's easy to understand what the yogis here try to tell you, the truth is sometimes you need a guru to be able to understand the mind before going beyond it.
"Imagine" (from "Imagine: John Lennon" soundtrack) Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today... Aha-ah... Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Living life in peace... You... You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You... You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one Submit Corrections
I'd love to silence my mind, but I'm afraid there is an omnipresent, high pitched ringing (tinnitus) in there. For this reason I find it very hard to enjoy silence.
I have tinnitus too. It does quoted down and disappear. Tinnitus is counteracted in hearing aid by playing the opposite frequency to stop the vibration, but you can slowly still it yourself
+Michelle Koen I did spend a while trying it out on Saturday morning, I'd read a lot about focusing on my breath and that did seem to help me ignore it. That said; I've had it all my life, so I've become fairly adept at blocking it out anyway. I think I've been through the worst of it now (just accepted that it's there) so I'm not going down the treatment/hearing aid route until they become un-noticabley tiny. Thanks for the input though :)
+James Purvis i don't ignore it or block it out, I pay attention to it and nothing else. I use ajahn brahm's kindfulness method and can feel the vibration and tension slow down and settle. It's kind of a fun game to play in my meditation and the mindfulness aspect calms my thoughts
There are probably hundreds of videos that claim they’ll teach you how to quiet your mind. Most just say to ignore the chatter. This is one of the very few that actually delivers. Thank you, Ajahn Brahm. 🙏
Ajahn Bram’s method of silencing the mind works for me. After doing meditation for some time already, the endless and compulsive inner chatter isn’t as bad as before. I wasn’t thinking of what he is going to say next. I also chant mantra slowly depending on the conditions of my mind. Thank you Ajahn Bram for pointing out the gap in between each thought. 🙏
Gaps between words is very powerful way for me
Me too!
This monk explains mediation a hell of a lot better than the psychiatist/psychologist/neuroscientists I just listened too.
Scientists are generally people who are very attached to the intellectual mind and cling to their thoughts because that is what they get rewarded for
Yes! : ) Intellectual knowledge is a different epistemology to insight knowledge. Both have their application but meditation requires personal experience.
these ways of educating need to be incorporated in schools. especially the United States. bless those children.. lol
the same for Brazil! Students scream in the classroom
Kudos for the Video! Excuse me for chiming in, I would love your opinion. Have you heard about - Marnaavid Unexplainable Intervention (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is an awesome one of a kind guide for learning how to hack your flow state without the hard work. Ive heard some great things about it and my old buddy Taylor finally got astronomical results with it.
@@typingsquirrel27 It's not a conspiracy. The purpose was explicit from the beginning. Inertia makes it difficult to chang now. Read The One World Schoolhouse by Salman Khan.
I love these teachings, however, public buildings, books and employees are paid for by the government with American tax dollars. Although, it would be convenient to teach this at public schools, it would be a form of government respecting an establishment of religion which is prohibited by the first amendment.
Home (church, mosque, temple) is the appropriate place for these teachings.
@@andromedahearme63 -- These are not religious teachings. If you want to take it to the extreme, telling kids not to kill other kids would be a religious teaching and unconstitutional. The notion that killing is wrong or that it hurts others is a religious belief.
The only thing that worked for me. Tried so many different techniques, including breathing. Didn't work, until I started doing mantras and putting space between words. Thank you
Thank you so much for clarifying the space between talking and meditation.
Nobody has ever talked about this. I am very grateful to make us aware of the space of silence between talking.
I never understood mantra. I was just repeating it again and again without pause trying to prevent the room for my mind to wander.i was aiming for sitting without music or mantras thinking theres nothing around to distract at all i have never made real progress with meditation and no one teaches you how to use mantras properly no one tells you to pause. but i see now how the mantra helps you get to the point of sitting in complete silence and we get to control the pace with how long the pauses are.
I love this
Thank you
I can't believe this. Finally, I got the answer to my question lingering for about couple of months. Thanks a lot Maharaj Ji.
Pranams!
RUclips showing this vdo after 5 years to me. And I can tell from my experience this technique is effective and I still use it till date.
@@PsychologistSrajanS. really good man
@@PsychologistSrajanS. tell me how to do it
As I've lengthened the duration of my daily meditation practices, I started introducing mantas. I hadn't realized that I was being too hasty with how I recite them, and this explanation really changed how I look at the mantra as a tool - thank you Ajahn Brahm for helping me deepen my practices. It will only get more profound from here. Namaste
I am a 74 year old man, humbled by a massive hemorrhagic stroke in 2008. It is joyously fascinating to me that, at this point in my life, what I apparently need to learn is the simplest of things.
I would challenge us all to do so, young and elder...
🙏
God I love this. It is so simple and so effective. One of the easiest methods I have come across yet. Pure genius. Thank you Ajahn Brahm 🙏❤
Great great great value in this video!
This is so very powerful! Silence as a technique is profound. Simple and effective. Like the explanation and his delivery. Subscribed to his RUclips channel. Om
Silence is golden
when he first did the pushing mechanism, i began to laugh after. silence is so beautiful and reassuring!!!
Love you, Ajahn Brahm!
Never knew these tips before. Great video. Thanks for making and uploading the video
First time l know the importance of silence.Everything works.Thanks,thanks.
Finally! Something that makes sense and made things click with me! I always heard to clear your minds. Watch the breath. Nothing. I didn't think I could do it somehow. Then this make perfect sense. It reminds me when I used to hunt. Don't blast me, I can't bring myself to go hunt any more. My heart won't let me. But, I would sit there watching the whole time. You couldn't think very hard or you would miss the game you were hunting. You just wouldn't see it. The quieter I was, the more often I saw something. Same here. Just watch. Looking. No thoughts. Just observing. I suspect that knowing this now, then I'll actually start to make progress in seeing and understanding. Thanks!
That talk was empowering.... @A@
I'm so glad my grandfather introduced me to Ajahn Brahm's talks.
Great technique... thank you Sir
When I get nervous or anxious, I often use my mantra, but I rush in repeating it, sometimes it works sometimes not, now this technique enlightened the whole thing.
wow .................. i've..................... found............. my replacement.......... addiction! Beautiful!
MEtoButIstillhaveaproblemaddingspacesbetweenwords.
The_Monk_Weee! hahahahahahaha
Ajahn brahm you're teacher teacher
Jai bhim namo budday 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Brilliant series of these short outtakes, like gems of wisdom.. Thankyou for uploading these talks! // Dee from Sweden
Thank You very much for the video 🌹🌹🌹🌹
I was waiting on the next word. I’ve developed that need for instant gratification. So in needing to wait for you to continue, I had a minute moment of tension and yes, I was silent. But, tripping out waiting.
Thank you🙏🙏🙏
Thank you
I’m really grateful that I came across this video
It’s very powerful
Thank you again
Thank
You
Too
So helpful and explanatory. I always wondered about those who can't sit in silence when they say they can and still fill the air with constant chatter.
Dear Ajahn Brahm, thank you so much for the guidence and effective training to silence. Putting space in between words. A great Sadhu to you, my beloved teacher.🌻🌺
Best explanation on meditation!!!
That’s why I donate to monastery.
Modern pop psychology sometimes makes the mental disorder worse!
Dear Bante, thank you so much for this lesson. It was deeply helpful to me. Karen
Wow......thankyou .
This is an older video I know but it was so helpful to me, thank you! 🙏🏽
Awesome 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Medytacja wdzięczności i spokoju.
Awesome video!!!
Still... is the mind... that speaks to the soul...
Thank you!
Thank ypou 🙏💖
best teacher
So useful. Thank you Sir.
Meditation is relaxation + awareness.
Love this
Im so thankful
omg i love you i feel calm sensation
Thank you
sometimes when im meditating and Im at the point where my mind is blank of thoughts and in a deep relaxed place and even though my mind is blank of thoughts and im deeply relaxed the Physical body begins to snore . Yet my mind is awake and blank of thoughts and its a very odd state indeed to be blank of thoughts with a mind that is awake and yet the physical body is so relaxed its in a snoring state !!!! This does not always happen to me , but when it does and then I come out of the meditation it leaves me with a giggle feeling once Im up and about again . I enjoy meditating and i also enjoy many mind games in similar states of the mind . My interest in meditation began when I was 25 and I had an OBE and now Im 49 for me every meditation is different and so the learning must never stop .....
This is so helpful ❤
thank you. great
Thanks i had this problem where i had a headache and whenever i thinked it went worse so I kept thinking about it until I couldn't stop thinking and i just searched "how to stop thinking and this video saved my day now i...can.............just...................stop............................................thinking......................................................................like...............................................................................................................this...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
OM Shanti Shanti Shanti
this dude is good....when he got quiet ..... I was thinking where's my beer
Very nice to me
WOW!!!! HE EMANTATES A VIOLET RAY AROUND HIM!!! Does anyone else see this??!!! WOOOOWWWW
YEP
"There's no place like bone. There's no place like bone. There's no place like - SQUIRREL!"
great teaching
I never heard the advice about creating spaces for a mantra, going to try it
Wow
You are all here trying to stop your thoughts. Well, stop it already! Give your thoughts free reign and do not try to shut them down! The problems begin when you try to suppress your thoughts! DON'T! Just let them go whichever way they want. You can be an observer and listen to them too! Some are audio, others are visual. Some are fragments, some are complete. Let them go they way they want. Take this to heart and you will have gained quite a bit of freedom.
Edit: You can be a slave to your mind (trying to suppress your thoughts) or you can be free (letting your thoughts do what they want)
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Chup raho khush raho ❤️ Universe have better plans for me 💖
90 days challange starts from 8 jan 2021 ✌️
Thanks u new boy HUBBY for love and guidance ❤️ for saving my beautiful life 💖
Karmic debt mujhe maaf kar do aur release kar do 🙏
regarding the first method (the pauses) I found myself finishing his sentences in various ways, trying to think of what he's gonna say next
You found your mind finishing his sentences. You are not your mind... Search "Alan watts meditation". Sorry for the bad english.
I found the same. In trying to be hopeful I think I could notice there was maybe a second of silence before that, though. I hope that's enough to get the point and build upon.
4:00 Om mani padme hum
Thanks for the great techniques! Kind of like a ZeNLP kind of thing :)
Ohm Namah Shivaya is my favourite
Best mantra is equanimity.........equanimity .....equanimity....with breath awareness at the top lips near to nosetrils...
Thanks........!
Thanks a lot for sharing this video :D
Is anyone have/know the full title of this talk? It will be very appreciated if you can share it :)
the problem is when the gabs become to long your mind just starts filling the silence with it's own chatter
Be Here Now
This is awesome! I can do this..:-)
Kỹ thuật giữ tâm tĩnh lặng
When he paused I just got impatient and irritated. What does that mean?
The pauses at the start made me start hyperventilating and yelling get tot the point in my mind I have a problem 😂
what does he mean exactly by the reaction of my mind when he speaks ?
ah the video that started it all for me.
Can someone explain? I kept thinking what he was gonna say next in the pauses. Am I not suppose to think of anything?
Om so hum.
When I'm in my room at night and hear nothing it is peaceful right before I go to sleep
I think the best mantra is the shortest and simplest one.
I always use
Yes I can, I know I can, i know I will
bacon lettuce tomato will be my mantra
I am not sure if you can silence the mind by using a mantra, by default you are thinking about the mantra. To meditate, you have to think about meditation. To be in the present moment does not help if you do not like the present situation you are in.
Just observe what pops up in the empty space in between thoughts.
You may get a pleasant surprise. ^^
Hum many padme hum like a rhinestone cowboy 🤠
Thank U BE U T I FULL
so you pretty much repeat a mantra (a set of words) with pauses in between(lengthen as you gain more control) in order to replace the negative thoughts in your mind.
Mr. Serenity yep
Silence our mind is hard ... I try to silence but the more silence I am the more carry though I get . Please help me to become a better person
Kho Mam you "try to" silence the mind? the mind actually wants you to work with him.. accept the mind however they are, no matter what, and then you'll eventually make peace with your mind.. :) this is where silence come from
+Phan Truong Hieu-Studio what makes you think silencing the mind will make you a better person...... learn to become a better person and the mind will follow......
430 Namo Buddhaya
Hi, what is the direct follow-on video from this short extract? I got interested and then POP! it ended abruptly.
I think this is from a retreat
20.03.22
i was actually predicting what he was saying
Step 1: put your smartphone in the bin!
My mind started guessing words he was going to say :( Maybe there was silence for the first second or two though, I get his point.
I'm Indian and you'd think it's easy to understand what the yogis here try to tell you, the truth is sometimes you need a guru to be able to understand the mind before going beyond it.
"Imagine"
(from "Imagine: John Lennon" soundtrack)
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today... Aha-ah...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... You...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world... You...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
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asked God for an answer ended up here. mamtra thanks to the creator.
I'd love to silence my mind, but I'm afraid there is an omnipresent, high pitched ringing (tinnitus) in there. For this reason I find it very hard to enjoy silence.
I have tinnitus too. It does quoted down and disappear. Tinnitus is counteracted in hearing aid by playing the opposite frequency to stop the vibration, but you can slowly still it yourself
Sorry, I meant to write 'quieten down'' not quoted
+Michelle Koen I did spend a while trying it out on Saturday morning, I'd read a lot about focusing on my breath and that did seem to help me ignore it. That said; I've had it all my life, so I've become fairly adept at blocking it out anyway. I think I've been through the worst of it now (just accepted that it's there) so I'm not going down the treatment/hearing aid route until they become un-noticabley tiny. Thanks for the input though :)
+James Purvis i don't ignore it or block it out, I pay attention to it and nothing else. I use ajahn brahm's kindfulness method and can feel the vibration and tension slow down and settle. It's kind of a fun game to play in my meditation and the mindfulness aspect calms my thoughts
+Michelle Koen Is yours a high or low pitch?
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