WHAT I LEARNED FROM 7 YEARS OF CELIBACY
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2022
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“What was is it like to practice with celibacy?”, is one of the most common questions I get. Here are three things that I learned from those years. Stay tuned to the end of the video, because the last one is the most important!
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Brother Dave Kenneally is a former Buddhist Monk in the Plum Village Tradition and an Ordained Disciple of the Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. He spent six years living in Buddhist Monasteries and Practice Centers, and now facilitates Sangha Ocean Beach, a community of mindfulness in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, on-line every Sunday via Zoom. He is a Certified Teacher of the Search Inside Yourself Program, a course in Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and Emotional Intelligence designed in Google for the corporate setting. He likes to say he spent all those years living in the monasteries so you don't have to! 👊🏼🔥❤️
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Such a amazing energy!!! Thanks for sharing your experience, I Will suscribe to your chanel inmedsitly!!!
Thanks so much for watching! You can check out the rest of my teaching here: www.davekenneally.com/ Together, WE GOT THIS!
I’m actually on year seven right now. First year went by involuntary and then I realized maybe it was a blessing and I could be onto something so I told myself to remain on course and be faithful to a woman I MAY meet one day and show dedication before hand. After 7 years and seemingly a completely normal man in the eyes of society, maybe even above average in many ways it has made me feel a bit weird. I enjoy it. I enjoy the relationship I have with myself and the will power I know I have. But I feel a little bit weird about the way I entered into celibacy. I’ve thought about the monastery route after about 5 years but I’m unsure how to even go about it. I just thought it’s something I could challenge myself with and succeed. Whatever my perception of “success is”. Proud of you and your journey. Also proud you made it out 😂. But the fact you took from it and grew is what matters the most to me who is someone who is on year 7 himself. I’m thinking the way you delved into it was much more pure than I, but I’m hoping I can still take as much from it as you.
Thanks for sharing. No matter what we do, or why, if we pay attention to it with LOVE, aka with mindfulness, we will learn and grow.
I'm a bit over 5½ years celibate myself. I had experimented with it by choice for a few months at a time before, and once for a year. It was those experiences that taught me to love it and to miss it when I wasn't on it. Finally, I had to acknowledge that I wanted deeply to go permanent with it, so I did. It doesn't matter how you got into it or whether you do it on your own or within some tradition of monasticism, brahmacharya, etc. If you want it, just do it. You'll be happier. I absolutely love it and don't consider going back.
Where did you go to practice the Buddhist lifestyle and monastery? Ive been thinking about trying out a term of at least 6 months to a year in a temple or monastery. Thanks for any info.
Hi! Here's a link to all the practice centers in my tradition, the school of the Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: plumvillage.org/community/monastic-practice-centres
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I been celibate for a year n i realize i dont have to look for anything.i cutoff alot of feiends
It changes things, that for sure! Thanks for watching!
@@DaveKenneally Like i don't have a lack, needy type mindet now.I might do this for life
Is this also seed retention like no fapping?
In tradition Buddhism, yes, a monastic is not supposed to masturbate. In my own practice, I lean more into a wholesome self discipline in all things, and less of a rule oriented or restrictive style of self-management. Great question!
celibacy should be for whole life not 7 years
Thanks for watching! Some spiritual traditions do hold that view, of course. In the Tradition of the Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, you can become a monastic for 5 years and THEN decide if you want to remain ordained for life. Different strokes for different folks!