Since I have been listening to you, my meditation when alone has become stronger than it has ever been alone before. I look foward to my practice rather than resist it. It has made a big impact in my life. Thank you for sharing the Dhamma. 🙏
I was a heavy drinker for many years. I needed the escape because I couldn't be content with sobriety. I stopped drinking after I started studying and practicing Buddhist teaching. Nowadays, I can't stomach more than a glass of wine or a can of beer. It has such a negative effect on me that I rarely bother to have one at all. I put it down to a kind of 'divine intervention'. Or I have just seen the suffering of false comfort through the use of substances.
10:34 thank you for your advice Bhante, i’ll be focusing on my mindfulness of daily activities including work as lately there has been quite a few distractions and I feel like this focus on the external world or the internal world to the exclusion of mindfulness is itself a cue to become mindful.
Please answer my question from previous video, my friend. I am confused about suffering. Another of my teachers says that suffering is grace. Suffering is the vehicle through which we can remove our attachment to suffering, and therefore come to know God. So if I make medicine for a living, to help ease the suffering of many people who cannot live without these medicines, am I prolonging their suffering? Sorry if question is unclear. I am new to this path in life
How odd?! I was going to ask a question reguarding a possible relapse (drink) after 7 months sobriety (1 week of which i stayed at chithurst monestary uk) anyway... i did relapse, and was extremely drunk 3 days out the last 8. However, once again, sat here (sober) fearing my health (liver damage from years of drink) and i see this video title haha. No idea why ive just rambled on writing that. Just found it "cool" and good timing! Thankyou :).
Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. ruclips.net/p/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.
Thank you Bhante. No disrespect but Alcoholism is a very serious medical condition. I myself could not quit on my own. Most people need help. My question actually was about Karma. You mention we are here based on causes and conditions. I gave you my conditions I was born into. And wondered why we even say based on causes and conditions .
Why do I say Im an alcoholic? I have not had a drink in 35 years. I worked minimum wage jobs until I was 40. I retired at 60. I have a 1969 impala resto mod, a brand new car, I have a new motorcycle, next year we are moving into a resort retirement community, I have a generous income, savings. It all started with admitting I was an alcoholic.Then I was taught basic spiritual truths, right thinking, meditation, right action and so on. All I have was given to me from teachers teaching me all started because I was an alcoholic.
Second, why do you say you are a monk? Why does a doctor say he is a doctor? I say Im an alcoholic because maybe someone might need my help with alcohol.
you are too attached to your identity as an alcoholic and how ‘serious’ it is … it is real because you are giving it reality… if it has legs and is able to walk, it is because you are carrying it on your head…
Buddhism is all about subtracting all the identities (labels) that we put on ourself one by one … and about forgetting, and dissolving, and letting go. Tilopa says to dissolve mind in mind itself, like smoke disappearing in the sky. That is the lofty goal, when there is not even a person left, let alone one who can be man, woman, gay, straight, engineer, doctor, left-wing, right-wing, alcoholic, or non-alcoholic. I have friends who have been through AA and this ‘I will always be an addict, it’s who I am’ thing is very anti-Buddhism. All of these friends take it for granted that there is a chance they will relapse again. And because they cling on so dearly to this thought (this identity), they probably will … As Bhante says, forget about the past, forget about labels ..
Hello Bhante. May I ask if Cittanupassana meditation is being taught in your lineage? I'm asking this because the only teachers I have heard teaching it are from Mahasi Sayadaw's lineage. I wonder why this practice is not taught or talked about more often.
Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon. ruclips.net/p/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj Be happy and stay well.
Since I have been listening to you, my meditation when alone has become stronger than it has ever been alone before. I look foward to my practice rather than resist it. It has made a big impact in my life.
Thank you for sharing the Dhamma. 🙏
You're welcome it's my pleasure. Be happy and stay well.
Sadhu sadhu sadhu
🙏Thank you!🧘🏻
Sukhi Hontu
I was a heavy drinker for many years. I needed the escape because I couldn't be content with sobriety. I stopped drinking after I started studying and practicing Buddhist teaching. Nowadays, I can't stomach more than a glass of wine or a can of beer. It has such a negative effect on me that I rarely bother to have one at all. I put it down to a kind of 'divine intervention'. Or I have just seen the suffering of false comfort through the use of substances.
Sukhi Hontu
Those birds in the background is music to me.
Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu
Thankyou. I love your straightforwardness. Makes for easier understanding.
Looking forward to your next talk.
Peace.
Sukhi Hontu
Namobuddhaya bhante can I visit you in Srilanka.I am from India
Namo Buddhaya, yes anyone can visit. Sukhi Hontu
Anyone here from UK?
me! Hi!
@@krielsavino5368 nice to meet you. Can I ask where you are from? I live in Stoke-on-Trent. I am hoping to find a sangha near here.
@@InsightToAlchemy I live in Halifax. I would love too. Good luck
@@krielsavino5368 thanks 🙏
Sukhi Hontu
10:34 thank you for your advice Bhante, i’ll be focusing on my mindfulness of daily activities including work as lately there has been quite a few distractions and I feel like this focus on the external world or the internal world to the exclusion of mindfulness is itself a cue to become mindful.
Sukhi Hontu
Please answer my question from previous video, my friend. I am confused about suffering. Another of my teachers says that suffering is grace. Suffering is the vehicle through which we can remove our attachment to suffering, and therefore come to know God. So if I make medicine for a living, to help ease the suffering of many people who cannot live without these medicines, am I prolonging their suffering? Sorry if question is unclear. I am new to this path in life
Yes, it is in today's talk. Be happy and stay well.
How odd?! I was going to ask a question reguarding a possible relapse (drink) after 7 months sobriety (1 week of which i stayed at chithurst monestary uk) anyway... i did relapse, and was extremely drunk 3 days out the last 8. However, once again, sat here (sober) fearing my health (liver damage from years of drink) and i see this video title haha. No idea why ive just rambled on writing that. Just found it "cool" and good timing! Thankyou :).
Dont drink and keep coming back. If you examine what actions were missing that led to the pick up will help you see what you need to focus on.
@@lonewolf4111 thankyou my friend :)
I hope it is useful. Be happy and stay well.
I would love to hear about the state of no Mind it happened to me back in 2017 and I still don't know how I wasn't meditating back then
Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon.
ruclips.net/p/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj
Be happy and stay well.
Thank you Bhante. No disrespect but Alcoholism is a very serious medical condition. I myself could not quit on my own. Most people need help. My question actually was about Karma. You mention we are here based on causes and conditions. I gave you my conditions I was born into. And wondered why we even say based on causes and conditions .
Why do I say Im an alcoholic? I have not had a drink in 35 years. I worked minimum wage jobs until I was 40. I retired at 60. I have a 1969 impala resto mod, a brand new car, I have a new motorcycle, next year we are moving into a resort retirement community, I have a generous income, savings. It all started with admitting I was an alcoholic.Then I was taught basic spiritual truths, right thinking, meditation, right action and so on. All I have was given to me from teachers teaching me all started because I was an alcoholic.
Second, why do you say you are a monk? Why does a doctor say he is a doctor? I say Im an alcoholic because maybe someone might need my help with alcohol.
you are too attached to your identity as an alcoholic and how ‘serious’ it is … it is real because you are giving it reality… if it has legs and is able to walk, it is because you are carrying it on your head…
Buddhism is all about subtracting all the identities (labels) that we put on ourself one by one … and about forgetting, and dissolving, and letting go. Tilopa says to dissolve mind in mind itself, like smoke disappearing in the sky. That is the lofty goal, when there is not even a person left, let alone one who can be man, woman, gay, straight, engineer, doctor, left-wing, right-wing, alcoholic, or non-alcoholic. I have friends who have been through AA and this ‘I will always be an addict, it’s who I am’ thing is very anti-Buddhism. All of these friends take it for granted that there is a chance they will relapse again. And because they cling on so dearly to this thought (this identity), they probably will …
As Bhante says, forget about the past, forget about labels ..
I do understand the concept and after some sobriety you can certainly no longer be an alcoholic if you like. Not my point.
Hello Bhante. May I ask if Cittanupassana meditation is being taught in your lineage? I'm asking this because the only teachers I have heard teaching it are from Mahasi Sayadaw's lineage. I wonder why this practice is not taught or talked about more often.
Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon.
ruclips.net/p/PLiX6s1kV1fRMCQyR6F7b6HxXuBUn9Zgck&si=7nWb2Y5dT2JpZjzj
Be happy and stay well.
@@englishmonk Thank you Bhante.