The six ways of squandering wealth... oh dear! They read like a pretty good summary of my university days. Mind you, I didn't have much wealth to squander back then. Fortunately, I still attained a degree (somehow) and have grown up (a bit) since.
Watching videos of traffic accidents and other gorey, yet accidental happenings on the darker parts of the internet has helped me get over the trauma of my own accident which permanently hurt my body. It made me realize that many things are not anyone's 'fault' and the most disastrous things can simply 'happen' seemingly for no reason. So the part where you talked about a teacher showing videos of animals being cooked live to stir a righteous disdain against such practice resonates with me. We need to realize suffering and its consequences to stop it.
Tank you so much for bringing these important points about the Buddha dharma to us. The best part about suffering is that it really hurts! Big time! It is not some lofty philosophical concept instead it hits us like hell, literally. That’s is the visceral experience of reality! I believe the Buddha set the tone for the coming 45 years of his teachings by first talking about our present situation of sufferings, dissatisfactions, misfortunes and the like. That’s where we can really feel it! That’s where it really hurts! Like you so eloquently said, no one is going to be liberated or reach true transcendence through philosophical studies alone. It is in the reality of tangible experience we learn. Since the world of temporary appearances is inseparable with ultimate reality we will reach insight and transcendence through skilful engagement with the reality we meet, not the reality we fantasies about. Karmapa Kyenno
Let me tell you something that is pretty on the nose here. I dreamed I was with a friend. With injury to his foot, to his butt and did not talk, he communicated with signs. Just like these cows you mention. But I could not help him, because I was not lucid. You see, I can only skillfully heal someone in the dream realm if I am awake there, I was just looking at it. I can sometimes heal someone on autopilot if it mimics something I did during the day, but I need to be lucid to do it at my will or someones request. I would actually have liked to heal him, but I could not. Because the collection of what I am, my gatherings, was not there. I am currently working on my throat chakra to get a little deeper into the dream. I also found the imagery of vajrayogini to be correct. The top of the head is cut off, it pulls into the void of dreamless sleep and no self from there. Thus, I must hide in the nose and throat area. Not every night, but most often.
Ephesians 2:8-9 BSB For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, [9] not by works, so that no one can boast.
@@ReadJohn1421 We are saying the same thing my friend. We are the channel that life/God flows through us. It is through us that Grace and Faith can be experienced.
I'm working to transcend right now. I'm putting away food for the winter and then need to go cut another load of firewood. I wish to transcend hunger and the cold this winter!😂🙏 Thank you Mr. Llama for reminding me to stay away from the fairy tales and stay focused on the real world.
🙏 Nirvana and samsara are one, like water is both formless and form. _Undharmic;_ that is the transcendental in murky, dysfunctional oneness. _Dharmic;_ that is the transcendental in clear, functional oneness.
Thanks for clarifying, Lama. For a while now, I have questions more than answers. May be I am an old school. Growing up in Asia, even I couldn’t handle the wet market animals torturing.
@@ultimatemeaningIt’s only those awake to a certain level of consciousness that will understand your messages in its entirety. One day they too will awaken to the truth. Much love to you, brother ❤️
Those who crush the many sorrows of existence, wish to quell the pain of living beings, who wish to have experience of a myriad joys, should never turn away from bodhichitta. Shantideva 💖
I’ve been pretty annoyed with certain new-agers and mystics before, whenever they fixate on notions of “ascension”. At least one of them is addicted to meth now. The only transcendental dimension in my experience is death itself. No other veil to part. Maybe a balance between the immanent and the transcendental is ideal, but generally I think we should do our best to live while we’re alive, and die when we’re dead.
A sight unseen from my perspective; and which, when I can see it, I will find I'm not in the same position at all. I ( the ego) will never find it......but if it is found, I'll no longer identify with I (the ego) This is why it's been said by many that you can NEVER realize it intellectually; but rather, it must be EXPERIENCED
Thank you for sharing that my friend. I will add one important point, in the Buddhist teachings there is a distinction between experience and realisation.🙏🙏🙏
Another very useful and interesting video, Lama. As soon as you started talking about relevant cultural examples, my mind instantly went to Jesus’ parables. Growing up in the church, I would hear some of them and think, “what does that mean, I know nothing about ancient farming in the Middle East”. 😆😆😆
I was reading the Siṅgālasutta today, I am surprised to see it mentioned from a Tibetan Buddhist monk as it's part of a different canon, and saw it has a parallel in the Chinese agamas but couldn't find one in the Kangyur
"There is, oh monks, an Unborn, Unbecome, Uncreated, Unconditioned. And oh monks, if it were not for this Unborn, Unbecome, Uncreated, Unconditioned, there would be no escape from that which is born, become, created and conditioned. But because there is an Unborn, Unbecome, Uncreated, Unconditioned, there is an escape from that which is born, become, created and conditioned. --- From the Samyutta Nikaya
How do you know the importance of this mundane realm without appealing to the transcendent realm? It’s only from the expanded consciousness of those realms you can make a statement regarding the importance of this realm
Awakening has nothing to do with the various different iterations of observable phenomenon. Enlightenment is not a place and is not dependent upon appearances whether the human realm or the realm of the Devas we are still trapped in Samsara as long as we have clinging to the notion of substantial reality and fixed identity. 🙏🙏🙏
Straight and meaningful talk, dear Lama! Thousand Thanks! - as they say in Norway. I do have one question for you or this wholesome community of this channel. I have had experiences thorugh meditation that gave me profund insight into the nature of things. That caused years of interest in spiritual paths and especially buddhism. A month ago I decided to take on the three jewels and started going to a buddhist centre. And though I recognize the wisdom in the Buddhas teachings and the dharma I had the feeling that my possible future teachers (a married couple in their late 60's that run the centre) did not really understand some profound practices and approached the buddhist practise with a (from my perspective) christian mindset (good, bad, dualistic, clinging to inherent existence) even after being buddhist since the 80's. My question is: Given the circumstances should I go to another buddhist centre in order to take on the eightfold path or is it perhaps my own defilements such as subtle arrogance that I should overcome through continuing to go there? I want to keep this comment as short as possible so I can not get into details, but thats the essence of the situation. I do want to connect with fellow buddhists and exchange over the dharma and the buddhas teaching and get into the practise but the current situation discourages me a bit as I feel like I continue to find deep ad profound wisdom from Dharma teachings in books and RUclips than from the "buddhists near by". I am looking forward to responses. Blessings and greetings from germany.
There are people, including practitioners with initiation, who instead of focusing on the basics, simply ignore them, giving much more importance to the cultural aspects of Buddhism. For example, in a Telegram group I'm in, created by a Brazilian monk to answer questions from people who follow his videos, most of the questions are directed towards things like what happens after death, what powers an enlightened person has, what the monk thinks about monk X or school Y, and so on.
Note to Buddha: never tell someone after they lose someone that death is the most normal thing in the universe. Even the word "lose" is weird in this context.
Always appreciate your teachings. There are horrors in the world that are extremely unsettling, as contrasted with peaceful coexistence. We can center our thoughts and behaviours according to values whether Buddhist or the 7 Grandfathers ( Indigenous). Question for you: we humans have the capacity for reflective thinking ( to think about our thoughts)…is our reflective thinking ( self awareness) just as conditioned as our reactive thinking? If so how do we clean mud with mud?
@ I remember an old saying that if you don’t stir the water, the mud will settle to the bottom, thereby clarifying the water…perhaps the mud can fertilize our growth…✨
Dear friend, please know if there was always hope. Where there was consciousness there is Buddha nature and where there is Buddha nature there is the potential for liberation and awakening. Consciousness is a continuum and death is not the end, however much suffering one experiences it is impermanent. Suffering is impermanent happiness is in permanent the lasting truth is enlightenment and final buddhahood. My prayers go out to all those trapped in the ocean of Samsara, may they swiftly achieve liberation and go beyond suffering in the mundane world ♥🧡🧡
I was where you are a few years ago. My body is tortured by movement I don’t control and prevents sleep for weeks at a time. My ribs were run over by a 6000 pound f150 trying to save my son 7 years ago and I Saw the Light ❤. I was 55 then. I’m in severe pain everyday. Someone gave me a copy of the book The Dahlia Lama’s Cat a year ago and I read it and put the wisdom into my own life. It worked! I read all 6 books of the series and I finally realized I CREATE MY REALITY ❤. For the first time in 40 years I’m not depressed 🎉. It’s not silly affirmation. If the Dahlia Lama’s can view the wonton destroyer of life (Chinese government) as good, (his home and many spirits died and were tortured) because millions (and eventually billions and hopefully everyone) will someday receive the teachings, wisdom and potential for their own enlightenment. ❤❤. Don’t ask for help, help others. I help animals and nature so my love can lift them in their next incarnation. You have to work at it. Western medicine sucks. The Buddha has a 2,500 year head start. Stick with the expert ❤😊. The love and light on the other side are worth whatever growth pains your spirit may be going through. Don’t be violent with yourself 😢. Look up spiritual awakening. You might not be as crazy as you feel ❤😊. You can do it 🎉🎉😊😊❤❤
@@ultimatemeaning What's funny is that if I believed consciousness was a continuum without start or end, I would happily chop wood and carry water. And make art, lots and lots of art. The problem is I don't know how to believe that. I tried psychedelics to see if I could separate myself from the view that consciousness is just an emergent property of advanced computation in the brain, and it just reinforced it tremendously and traumatically. It's funny, isn't it? Needing peace to escape the knot you make of your mind that prevents peace from happening?
Thank you for the video. I have a question related to transcendental experiences. What do you think about Near Death Experiences, and how are such experiences understood or interpreted in the Buddhist tradition? I ask because I had an NDE when I was 19, and I am interested in your view on this. Thanks.
Yes, one wouldnt teach a high lama the 4 Noble Truths, and one wouldnt teach an uneducated peasant high tantric practices.. But I agree that one must understand, (and live) the relative truth, to have a chance at realising the Ultimate Truth. And so, the mundane world is the proving ground, a perfect mirror to see if ones heart and mind are working in harmony with Dharma.
Well, that’s interesting. It reminds me of some stories from Tibet. We’re just this sort of thing happened. A famous. Lama came to see khenpo Munsel and asked for instructions on the Dzogchen. Khenpo Munsel said to him I will teach you if you could answer a simple question and he asked the famous lama what the four powers were, what is considered to be a very, very basic teaching in the Buddha dharma. The famous lama couldn’t remember what the four powers were and so khenpo Munsel chased him away, and never taught him the Dzogchen 😂😂😂’
I think I understand what you are saying, but I can't help but think something along the lines of "you better get all this low level earthly stuff figured out BEFORE you start focusing on philosophy and higher realms". Almost like it's a prerequisite course for taking the more advanced classes in college. Something like, don't try to attend the quantum physics laboratory if you haven't even passed basic algebra class yet. At least that's my current best guess🤷🏼♂️ (but admittedly, this is coming from someone who hasn't graduated from algebra class yet, so im not really qualified to be making such claims😅)
Such a prerequisite would be great indeed, but clearly there is no such thing and we don't expect our scholars to necessarily even be decent people. Also, it's an ungovernable standard. The difference between worldly education and spiritual development is primarily about this point. Because in the world we don't expect our philosophy teacher for example to embody these philosophical qualities we just expect them to be knowledgeable. However, on the spiritual path it is essential for a spiritual teacher to embody what they preach thank you for sharing.
8:24 can you provide me some informational sources for these things ? i could not find any , and i never heard of those practices , even from vegan/activist people who i believe should know about this , please
cut wood with chainsaw, carry water? Seriously though, thanks for sticking up for animals and this message in general. I also like how you pointed out Buddhism is more than ritual practices or the clothes of a Monk.. going through the motions, memorizing procedures does not in itself create understanding and is actually harmful without compassion or conviction/sincerity etc
Happy Daikinie day to jou Lama. I think we can wake up, well im willing to go for awareness on different traditions under femina. Tara 🙏 its seems i named one of my kids to Tara (unconsious 😝) maybe femina live in their dreamlands more then most man expect. But. Anyways. Thank jou for all jou teach us 🎉💛🍑
Great video, I like your no-nonsense approach. 🙏 One (two) question/s though : What are your thoughts on Trungpa Rinpoce? Was he a legitimate teacher? There’s probably no short answer to that.
I couldn't find any information on current industrial farming practices and whether what was mentioned is a standard practice in cattle farming. I already follow a plant based diet, so the information wouldnt change anything for myself specifically. I just haven't heard of that before.
Yeah, the point I’m really making is that you don’t have to focus on mythical stories but of course this is especially the case in Tibetan Buddhism there are many supernatural accounts❤❤❤
Woah, I was a little worried about evil friendships for a second, but I guess it's not about being alignment evil. And ah, going out at odd hours can certainly help with evading public spectacle! haha... ha.
In the past, the preliminary practises were almost never done by late people. Sanger Nyenpa Rinpoche even said that when he was young, there were some Tibetan monks who hadn’t even heard of them as the. Mahamudra teachings were kept very secret.
@@ultimatemeaning Thank you for your response which I find both surprising and encouraging. At age of 78 there is no way I could do 100,000 prostrations!
This is so wrong in many ways. If this was true, Siddharta would haver never left his royal condition, since there would be nothing to attain other than hapiness in our birth condition. How can people not see the falsehood in this teaching? This goes against all dharmic doctrines of Índia, whereas the Buddha merely reformed them. The mind is a great tool indeed, but associated with the body and its limitations, it is the source of many deluded thoughts, philosophies, and sufferable incarnations. Asura, Asura, Asura, the one that tries to flip everything upsidedown, the devas to earth, themselves and their material reality to heaven, as if that were possible. Impermanence.
@@ultimatemeaningthe internet is a giant ego competition. Your video is very helpful and clear. I studied for over a year with a vajrayana monk and then practiced sadhana for 13 years now. Thank you for this very informative video
@@gnomikon7836 I believe in what I desperately don't want to believe. It makes my life miserable. I can see why other people don't do that and I would too if I could.
If I may add my own personal observations I am well aware I fall hard into the hyperfixation on transcendence and somehow "escaping reality". No matter how many times I'm told it's a dead end, I can't help it. The reason, in me at least, is fear of death. The fear of death feels like a transcendent experience, one that recontextualises all experience. It erases all feelings, because there isn't room for anything aside from pure terror. Even if I manage to push it aside somehow and live for a few brief days or even sometimes weeks, it returns with a vengeance as I notice time is still passing and breaks apart any positive habits I'm forming, and erases all feelings aside from fear again. I hyperfixate on some form of escape, because the moment I have a box I can put "Everything just stopping forever" into - such as "That isn't something that will happen" - I find I can focus on everyday life again. The world feels richer. I don't want money or fame or anything, all I want is to make art and nurture children. But that feels hollow and empty when placed beside death. When I feel like my subjective "experience of being" won't just disappear forever, my addictions disappear. I stop eating meat, I stop playing so many video games, the world feels free. And I can "chop wood and carry water", or the urban, modern equivalent. But the fear of eternal death is too paralysing. My body won't respond to me, it won't leave bed. I believe the desire for "More" comes from a desperate craving to find something equal to the fear of death to place on the scale and even it out. The moment I no longer have that hanging over me, that deep craving disappears. I think that's why so many people are perpetually dissatisfied in the modern day. We all have an eternal oblivion hanging over us, and we have nothing to weigh against it that feels as though it weighs anything by comparison.
Did you know keanu reeves has one more movie on matrix and tai chi with tonny jaa and tom cruise? Spiritual nuances are sometimes boring so take a break before nuclear-geddon. Thervada says (?) the world will be over by 2400 with rudra cakrin. Did 25 kalkins lived up to 120 years per head ? Otherwise the time of vishnu rudra cakrin is right now. 20 years extra life time span given per head would give me 400 years surplus so 2430-400 = 2030 roughly! Anyway what was for the breakfast is going to make everyone happy 😂? 👍
spirituality and troubles makes me realized that life is a cosmic joke and laugh on your suffering and missery instead of crying on it and at the same time let it go. The more you try to controle it the more it will get out of your control..the secret is letting it go out of your control and everything will be in your controle..believe and trust me it works. Dont take this cosmic joke seriously.
Just Because The Old People Did something DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT... We Evolve just like all animals on this planet. And we Grow Beyond the Teachings of the Ancients. Grow .... Do not get lost in the roots. The Roots must move on to new grounds to continue growth.
The six ways of squandering wealth... oh dear! They read like a pretty good summary of my university days.
Mind you, I didn't have much wealth to squander back then.
Fortunately, I still attained a degree (somehow) and have grown up (a bit) since.
😂😂😂 that’s so funny. I should’ve used that example in the video.😂😂😂
Lol that's funny, He is awsome tho 👍
Synchronicity as always honestly these video leave me speechless I'm left with a sense of Internal perception .
I'm changing in the most profound ways
Watching videos of traffic accidents and other gorey, yet accidental happenings on the darker parts of the internet has helped me get over the trauma of my own accident which permanently hurt my body. It made me realize that many things are not anyone's 'fault' and the most disastrous things can simply 'happen' seemingly for no reason.
So the part where you talked about a teacher showing videos of animals being cooked live to stir a righteous disdain against such practice resonates with me. We need to realize suffering and its consequences to stop it.
I cant take such shit anymore i break down
Thank you so much for sharing this, my friend🙏🙏🙏
Tank you so much for bringing these important points about the Buddha dharma to us. The best part about suffering is that it really hurts! Big time! It is not some lofty philosophical concept instead it hits us like hell, literally. That’s is the visceral experience of reality! I believe the Buddha set the tone for the coming 45 years of his teachings by first talking about our present situation of sufferings, dissatisfactions, misfortunes and the like. That’s where we can really feel it! That’s where it really hurts!
Like you so eloquently said, no one is going to be liberated or reach true transcendence through philosophical studies alone. It is in the reality of tangible experience we learn. Since the world of temporary appearances is inseparable with ultimate reality we will reach insight and transcendence through skilful engagement with the reality we meet, not the reality we fantasies about.
Karmapa Kyenno
Yeah, we learned so much for more suffering. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, this was very important and instructive for me to understand the reason for a few of your earlier videos on current affairs.
I am glad to hear that this has helped to clarify some matters 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you! May you happy! May you be at ease! May you be free from suffering!!!
Thanks for your kind wish♥♥♥
Let me tell you something that is pretty on the nose here.
I dreamed I was with a friend. With injury to his foot, to his butt and did not talk, he communicated with signs. Just like these cows you mention. But I could not help him, because I was not lucid.
You see, I can only skillfully heal someone in the dream realm if I am awake there, I was just looking at it. I can sometimes heal someone on autopilot if it mimics something I did during the day, but I need to be lucid to do it at my will or someones request.
I would actually have liked to heal him, but I could not. Because the collection of what I am, my gatherings, was not there.
I am currently working on my throat chakra to get a little deeper into the dream. I also found the imagery of vajrayogini to be correct. The top of the head is cut off, it pulls into the void of dreamless sleep and no self from there. Thus, I must hide in the nose and throat area.
Not every night, but most often.
Thank you for healing others friend💚💙💚
The way of the Buddha is practical, honest and sincere. Learning from the very experience that we are 🙏🔥🌱
Thanks for sharing that my friend❤❤❤
Ephesians 2:8-9 BSB
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, [9] not by works, so that no one can boast.
@@ReadJohn1421 We are saying the same thing my friend. We are the channel that life/God flows through us. It is through us that Grace and Faith can be experienced.
Deep and Rich. A Great place to start study and practice, Thank you 🙏🏼
You are too kind, my friend❤❤❤
Smallest worm here - thanks for the shoutout 👍
You crack me up😂😂😂
Oh, I've been watching Tai Situ Rinpoche teachings recently and they quite direct and sincere, really liked it
He has a very special teacher, and he speaks well to westerners❤❤❤
I'm working to transcend right now. I'm putting away food for the winter and then need to go cut another load of firewood. I wish to transcend hunger and the cold this winter!😂🙏
Thank you Mr. Llama for reminding me to stay away from the fairy tales and stay focused on the real world.
😆🤣😆 Watered, well-fed, and warm 😆🤣😆
Before enlightment chop wood fetch water after enlightenment chop wood fetch water
I appreciate this talk. straight to the point.📿🙏
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🙏 Nirvana and samsara are one, like water is both formless and form.
_Undharmic;_ that is the transcendental in murky, dysfunctional oneness.
_Dharmic;_ that is the transcendental in clear, functional oneness.
So true 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for clarifying, Lama. For a while now, I have questions more than answers. May be I am an old school.
Growing up in Asia, even I couldn’t handle the wet market animals torturing.
Yeah, it’s very sad. The way that some people treat animals with no❤❤❤
I see here, an excellent and much needed, direct yet undirected response to the comment you received on your last video ❤️🙏🏻
Yeah, its funny, I do tend to do this 😆🤣😆
@@ultimatemeaningIt’s only those awake to a certain level of consciousness that will understand your messages in its entirety. One day they too will awaken to the truth.
Much love to you, brother ❤️
Those who crush the many sorrows of existence,
wish to quell the pain of living beings,
who wish to have experience of a myriad joys, should never turn away from bodhichitta.
Shantideva 💖
Thanks for sharing friend❤❤❤
@@ultimatemeaning 🙏🙏🙏
Namah Ratnatrayaya..
Many thanks for your talk, Venerable Lama. You sem to be animated by a wholesome intention
I hope so, and that it will bring more benefit than harm♥♥♥
God bless you.
Thank you, my friend❤
I’ve been pretty annoyed with certain new-agers and mystics before, whenever they fixate on notions of “ascension”. At least one of them is addicted to meth now.
The only transcendental dimension in my experience is death itself. No other veil to part. Maybe a balance between the immanent and the transcendental is ideal, but generally I think we should do our best to live while we’re alive, and die when we’re dead.
And to be a decent human being before worrying about Buddhahood❤
Impeccable teaching - as always - many thanks 💧🙏🏻🔥
So kind SARA❤
Thank you for sharing the wisdom of NangChoe 🌸🙏💙 Katre che
Thanks
Welcome❤
@@ultimatemeaning cheers, love (arohanui) to you too from NZ ❤
Need this
1500 volt enlightenment! 😆🤣😆
A sight unseen from my perspective; and which, when I can see it, I will find I'm not in the same position at all.
I ( the ego) will never find it......but if it is found, I'll no longer identify with I (the ego)
This is why it's been said by many that you can NEVER realize it intellectually; but rather, it must be EXPERIENCED
Thank you for sharing that my friend. I will add one important point, in the Buddhist teachings there is a distinction between experience and realisation.🙏🙏🙏
Trying to realise it intellectually is natural though when all you ever experience is being an ego.
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Yeah, for sure. That's the paradox.
Hence my conundrum !
Thanks for another great video ❤
Great video as always
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Balance the paradox, embrace the moment.
Nice!❤❤❤
Another very useful and interesting video, Lama. As soon as you started talking about relevant cultural examples, my mind instantly went to Jesus’ parables. Growing up in the church, I would hear some of them and think, “what does that mean, I know nothing about ancient farming in the Middle East”. 😆😆😆
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I was reading the Siṅgālasutta today, I am surprised to see it mentioned from a Tibetan Buddhist monk as it's part of a different canon, and saw it has a parallel in the Chinese agamas but couldn't find one in the Kangyur
Yes, I think that we don’t have it in the Tibetan cCanon❤❤❤
@@ultimatemeaning so you consider the pali canon buddhavacana or you don't think about it that deeply?
"There is, oh monks, an Unborn, Unbecome, Uncreated, Unconditioned. And oh monks, if it were not for this Unborn, Unbecome, Uncreated, Unconditioned, there would be no escape from that which is born, become, created and conditioned. But because there is an Unborn, Unbecome, Uncreated, Unconditioned, there is an escape from that which is born, become, created and conditioned.
--- From the Samyutta Nikaya
Thank you very much for sharing that❤❤❤
How do you know the importance of this mundane realm without appealing to the transcendent realm? It’s only from the expanded consciousness of those realms you can make a statement regarding the importance of this realm
Awakening has nothing to do with the various different iterations of observable phenomenon. Enlightenment is not a place and is not dependent upon appearances whether the human realm or the realm of the Devas we are still trapped in Samsara as long as we have clinging to the notion of substantial reality and fixed identity.
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Straight and meaningful talk, dear Lama! Thousand Thanks! - as they say in Norway.
I do have one question for you or this wholesome community of this channel.
I have had experiences thorugh meditation that gave me profund insight into the nature of things. That caused years of interest in spiritual paths and especially buddhism. A month ago I decided to take on the three jewels and started going to a buddhist centre.
And though I recognize the wisdom in the Buddhas teachings and the dharma I had the feeling that my possible future teachers (a married couple in their late 60's that run the centre) did not really understand some profound practices and approached the buddhist practise with a (from my perspective) christian mindset (good, bad, dualistic, clinging to inherent existence) even after being buddhist since the 80's.
My question is: Given the circumstances should I go to another buddhist centre in order to take on the eightfold path or is it perhaps my own defilements such as subtle arrogance that I should overcome through continuing to go there?
I want to keep this comment as short as possible so I can not get into details, but thats the essence of the situation. I do want to connect with fellow buddhists and exchange over the dharma and the buddhas teaching and get into the practise but the current situation discourages me a bit as I feel like I continue to find deep ad profound wisdom from Dharma teachings in books and RUclips than from the "buddhists near by".
I am looking forward to responses. Blessings and greetings from germany.
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There are people, including practitioners with initiation, who instead of focusing on the basics, simply ignore them, giving much more importance to the cultural aspects of Buddhism. For example, in a Telegram group I'm in, created by a Brazilian monk to answer questions from people who follow his videos, most of the questions are directed towards things like what happens after death, what powers an enlightened person has, what the monk thinks about monk X or school Y, and so on.
Most people like their ghost stories and all about miraculous powers as you say, the most important thing is to be a good human being❤❤❤
It depends upon who is asking.
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Note to Buddha: never tell someone after they lose someone that death is the most normal thing in the universe. Even the word "lose" is weird in this context.
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Always appreciate your teachings. There are horrors in the world that are extremely unsettling, as contrasted with peaceful coexistence. We can center our thoughts and behaviours according to values whether Buddhist or the 7 Grandfathers ( Indigenous).
Question for you: we humans have the capacity for reflective thinking ( to think about our thoughts)…is our reflective thinking ( self awareness) just as conditioned as our reactive thinking? If so how do we clean mud with mud?
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@ I remember an old saying that if you don’t stir the water, the mud will settle to the bottom, thereby clarifying the water…perhaps the mud can fertilize our growth…✨
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What is real when a specific consciousness desires to not exist? What would you say to talk them off that cliff? So to speak.
Dear friend, please know if there was always hope. Where there was consciousness there is Buddha nature and where there is Buddha nature there is the potential for liberation and awakening.
Consciousness is a continuum and death is not the end, however much suffering one experiences it is impermanent. Suffering is impermanent happiness is in permanent the lasting truth is enlightenment and final buddhahood.
My prayers go out to all those trapped in the ocean of Samsara, may they swiftly achieve liberation and go beyond suffering in the mundane world
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I was where you are a few years ago. My body is tortured by movement I don’t control and prevents sleep for weeks at a time. My ribs were run over by a 6000 pound f150 trying to save my son 7 years ago and I Saw the Light ❤. I was 55 then. I’m in severe pain everyday. Someone gave me a copy of the book The Dahlia Lama’s Cat a year ago and I read it and put the wisdom into my own life. It worked! I read all 6 books of the series and I finally realized I CREATE MY REALITY ❤. For the first time in 40 years I’m not depressed 🎉. It’s not silly affirmation. If the Dahlia Lama’s can view the wonton destroyer of life (Chinese government) as good, (his home and many spirits died and were tortured) because millions (and eventually billions and hopefully everyone) will someday receive the teachings, wisdom and potential for their own enlightenment. ❤❤. Don’t ask for help, help others. I help animals and nature so my love can lift them in their next incarnation. You have to work at it. Western medicine sucks. The Buddha has a 2,500 year head start. Stick with the expert ❤😊. The love and light on the other side are worth whatever growth pains your spirit may be going through. Don’t be violent with yourself 😢. Look up spiritual awakening. You might not be as crazy as you feel ❤😊. You can do it 🎉🎉😊😊❤❤
@@ultimatemeaning What's funny is that if I believed consciousness was a continuum without start or end, I would happily chop wood and carry water. And make art, lots and lots of art.
The problem is I don't know how to believe that. I tried psychedelics to see if I could separate myself from the view that consciousness is just an emergent property of advanced computation in the brain, and it just reinforced it tremendously and traumatically.
It's funny, isn't it? Needing peace to escape the knot you make of your mind that prevents peace from happening?
I think relationships are very important, it is just about making the right ones.
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Thank you for the video. I have a question related to transcendental experiences. What do you think about Near Death Experiences, and how are such experiences understood or interpreted in the Buddhist tradition? I ask because I had an NDE when I was 19, and I am interested in your view on this. Thanks.
Yes, one wouldnt teach a high lama the 4 Noble Truths, and one wouldnt teach an uneducated peasant high tantric practices.. But I agree that one must understand, (and live) the relative truth, to have a chance at realising the Ultimate Truth. And so, the mundane world is the proving ground, a perfect mirror to see if ones heart and mind are working in harmony with Dharma.
Well, that’s interesting. It reminds me of some stories from Tibet. We’re just this sort of thing happened.
A famous. Lama came to see khenpo Munsel and asked for instructions on the Dzogchen.
Khenpo Munsel said to him I will teach you if you could answer a simple question and he asked the famous lama what the four powers were, what is considered to be a very, very basic teaching in the Buddha dharma.
The famous lama couldn’t remember what the four powers were and so khenpo Munsel chased him away, and never taught him the Dzogchen 😂😂😂’
I keep sleeping through these
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I think I understand what you are saying, but I can't help but think something along the lines of "you better get all this low level earthly stuff figured out BEFORE you start focusing on philosophy and higher realms". Almost like it's a prerequisite course for taking the more advanced classes in college. Something like, don't try to attend the quantum physics laboratory if you haven't even passed basic algebra class yet. At least that's my current best guess🤷🏼♂️ (but admittedly, this is coming from someone who hasn't graduated from algebra class yet, so im not really qualified to be making such claims😅)
Such a prerequisite would be great indeed, but clearly there is no such thing and we don't expect our scholars to necessarily even be decent people. Also, it's an ungovernable standard.
The difference between worldly education and spiritual development is primarily about this point. Because in the world we don't expect our philosophy teacher for example to embody these philosophical qualities we just expect them to be knowledgeable. However, on the spiritual path it is essential for a spiritual teacher to embody what they preach thank you for sharing.
8:24 can you provide me some informational sources for these things ? i could not find any , and i never heard of those practices , even from vegan/activist people who i believe should know about this , please
In the UK these practices would be illegal.
It was a teaching from Tai Situ Rinpoche and I can only guess that it is a practice done in India
Hey man, wanted to ask, have you had an awakening or are you speaking from your knowledge on the topic?
cut wood with chainsaw, carry water? Seriously though, thanks for sticking up for animals and this message in general. I also like how you pointed out Buddhism is more than ritual practices or the clothes of a Monk.. going through the motions, memorizing procedures does not in itself create understanding and is actually harmful without compassion or conviction/sincerity etc
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Happy Daikinie day to jou Lama.
I think we can wake up, well im willing to go for awareness on different traditions under femina. Tara 🙏 its seems i named one of my kids to Tara (unconsious 😝) maybe femina live in their dreamlands more then most man expect. But. Anyways. Thank jou for all jou teach us 🎉💛🍑
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Great video, I like your no-nonsense approach. 🙏 One (two) question/s though : What are your thoughts on Trungpa Rinpoce? Was he a legitimate teacher? There’s probably no short answer to that.
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I couldn't find any information on current industrial farming practices and whether what was mentioned is a standard practice in cattle farming. I already follow a plant based diet, so the information wouldnt change anything for myself specifically. I just haven't heard of that before.
I don’t know if it’s your voice or the camera slowly zooming in thats making me feel more calm 😂
People say I have a calming voice, so I guess I should use that to help people feel more relaxed. At least that’s something isn’t it❤❤❤
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Shambhala?
Yeah, the point I’m really making is that you don’t have to focus on mythical stories but of course this is especially the case in Tibetan Buddhism there are many supernatural accounts❤❤❤
Woah, I was a little worried about evil friendships for a second, but I guess it's not about being alignment evil. And ah, going out at odd hours can certainly help with evading public spectacle! haha... ha.
Hit me with more of that Roger rabbit style imagery on the caption
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But the preliminary practices insist on renunciation?
In the past, the preliminary practises were almost never done by late people. Sanger Nyenpa Rinpoche even said that when he was young, there were some Tibetan monks who hadn’t even heard of them as the. Mahamudra teachings were kept very secret.
@@ultimatemeaning Thank you for your response which I find both surprising and encouraging. At age of 78 there is no way I could do 100,000 prostrations!
I was shown 5 ads during the video 😕
but life is suffering I suppose.
This is so wrong in many ways. If this was true, Siddharta would haver never left his royal condition, since there would be nothing to attain other than hapiness in our birth condition. How can people not see the falsehood in this teaching? This goes against all dharmic doctrines of Índia, whereas the Buddha merely reformed them. The mind is a great tool indeed, but associated with the body and its limitations, it is the source of many deluded thoughts, philosophies, and sufferable incarnations. Asura, Asura, Asura, the one that tries to flip everything upsidedown, the devas to earth, themselves and their material reality to heaven, as if that were possible. Impermanence.
Putin and, vaccines good, conspiracy theories are dangerous!
I quote a sutra from the Theravada tradition, did you notice?❤
@@ultimatemeaningthe internet is a giant ego competition. Your video is very helpful and clear. I studied for over a year with a vajrayana monk and then practiced sadhana for 13 years now. Thank you for this very informative video
@@ultimatemeaning I suppose we all believe in what we want to believe.
@@gnomikon7836 I believe in what I desperately don't want to believe. It makes my life miserable. I can see why other people don't do that and I would too if I could.
If I may add my own personal observations
I am well aware I fall hard into the hyperfixation on transcendence and somehow "escaping reality". No matter how many times I'm told it's a dead end, I can't help it.
The reason, in me at least, is fear of death. The fear of death feels like a transcendent experience, one that recontextualises all experience. It erases all feelings, because there isn't room for anything aside from pure terror. Even if I manage to push it aside somehow and live for a few brief days or even sometimes weeks, it returns with a vengeance as I notice time is still passing and breaks apart any positive habits I'm forming, and erases all feelings aside from fear again.
I hyperfixate on some form of escape, because the moment I have a box I can put "Everything just stopping forever" into - such as "That isn't something that will happen" - I find I can focus on everyday life again. The world feels richer. I don't want money or fame or anything, all I want is to make art and nurture children. But that feels hollow and empty when placed beside death.
When I feel like my subjective "experience of being" won't just disappear forever, my addictions disappear. I stop eating meat, I stop playing so many video games, the world feels free. And I can "chop wood and carry water", or the urban, modern equivalent. But the fear of eternal death is too paralysing. My body won't respond to me, it won't leave bed.
I believe the desire for "More" comes from a desperate craving to find something equal to the fear of death to place on the scale and even it out. The moment I no longer have that hanging over me, that deep craving disappears.
I think that's why so many people are perpetually dissatisfied in the modern day. We all have an eternal oblivion hanging over us, and we have nothing to weigh against it that feels as though it weighs anything by comparison.
When Sherlock finds the pig's chemical armament factory 😮.
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Chop wood, carry water!
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If you ever did shock anyone into enlightenment, you could explain it with your electric personality! Haha
Sudden enlightenment is possible, and the cause for that is uncertain, it could very well be something shocking
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Did you know keanu reeves has one more movie on matrix and tai chi with tonny jaa and tom cruise? Spiritual nuances are sometimes boring so take a break before nuclear-geddon. Thervada says (?) the world will be over by 2400 with rudra cakrin. Did 25 kalkins lived up to 120 years per head ? Otherwise the time of vishnu rudra cakrin is right now. 20 years extra life time span given per head would give me 400 years surplus so 2430-400 = 2030 roughly! Anyway what was for the breakfast is going to make everyone happy 😂? 👍
spirituality and troubles makes me realized that life is a cosmic joke and laugh on your suffering and missery instead of crying on it and at the same time let it go. The more you try to controle it the more it will get out of your control..the secret is letting it go out of your control and everything will be in your controle..believe and trust me it works. Dont take this cosmic joke seriously.
putin is what lol propaganda skanda much
Putin is what? Well an ex- KGB head for one. In his own words once KGB always KGB, and I am old enough to remember what the KGB were like 😆🤣😆
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Ancient schizophrenia
Western typical innate lol
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Just Because The Old People Did something DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT... We Evolve just like all animals on this planet. And we Grow Beyond the Teachings of the Ancients. Grow .... Do not get lost in the roots.
The Roots must move on to new grounds to continue growth.
Let’s hope that we evolve into a kinder and more compassionate iteration of humanity❤
@@ultimatemeaning We are ... Slowly. It won't be a smooth transition and we're several hundred years from realization of population control.
See you next time.🫶
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Ppl wanna flee reality; their own feelings etc.🥲 And yea generally spirituality as a whole is enormously misunderstood...