SOCIAL MEDIA & BUDDHISM
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- MAN GIVES UP EVERYTHING
In 2015, aged 47 an English businessman gave up everything and travelled Asia to find true happiness. Now a Buddhist Monk, living a simple life in Thailand, India and Sri Lanka, he shares the continuing story.
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Phra Dan (Bhante Dhammarakkhita, Bhikkhu) is a Theravada Buddhist Monk who lived in India from 2020, Thailand and now Sri Lanka. Born in Sussex, England in 1967. Educated by French Catholic Monks. A successful businessman in Estate Agency and Financial Services during the 1980's and 90's. Married, now divorced with 3 adult sons. 2000 marked change and travel including South Africa returning to the UK in 2003 to continue different work and business activities until 2012. Gradually materialistic values turned to renunciation, simplicity and meditation, living nomadically in an old Ford Transit van full time for 3 years. Van life and meditation led to Buddhism and a Thai Forest Tradition, Theravada Buddhist Monastery in the UK. During 2015 travelling the Buddhist Holy Sites of India, deep faith reinforced desire for Ordination. In 2020 after 5 years of intensive meditation practice between Thai Forest Monasteries in Thailand and England he was Ordained in India where he lived for 3 years until returning to Thailand in 2023 and now Sri Lanka.
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This was a very helpful talk Bhante, thank you 😊🙏
You're welcome it's my pleasure. Be happy and stay well.
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I want to reassure you that your presence on social media is not on its own a cause of distress for people, Bhante, and it would not be your fault even if it on occasion was, but instead speak to a disturbance in the mind of the beholder, projected onto your likeness. Every one of the videos you have uploaded so far, I feel has led to harmlessness, to understanding, and to a stilling of worries rather than the arising of new ones.
Whenever I do see your videos pop up in my video feed, I use them as a conscious reminder to return to practice and put aside these beautiful distractions.
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The first question in this video is very similar to my situation. I am largely alone, nobody close to me at all. Most others are tribal in their attitudes to groups and communities, my family is distant, and my work situation is cold and isolating. My cats are close to me, but that's it. I am on social media a lot, but this actually makes my mental state worse at times. The 'thrill' at engaging with others can take a dark turn very rapidly. I think it's best to limit social media usage as much as possible. It is the new opiate of this modern age.
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Spot on Bhante. Wise words as always.
Social Media - where intelligence and the truth go to die!
Your channel is a beacon of light, shining out amidst the doom and gloom. Long may you continue.
Thankyou and Peace 🙏🏻
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Right speech, is good in all situations not just off line but online as well....🙏
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Social media is another level of living in your head.
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Phra Dan this is beautiful. I recall in the Ajahn Chah tradition the practice of making something beautiful. You are beautiful and the Dhamma you have transmitted, beautiful. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏
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Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
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WORSHIP WITH greatest respect
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22:35 -- Are you sure there is no group kamma? I heard a Tibetan monk say there is but I take everything they say with a grain of salt. It seems as though there should be such a thing logically and in practice. If you are part of a group and some members of that group perform an action you may receive some of the fruit of that kamma. It's through the inaction of not leaving the group that you permit being part of the group kamma no? This may be getting into the weeds a bit. I think I remember in MN somewhere the buddha going through all the variations of good, bad, and neutral karma with good, bad, and neutral results. Well if there is neutral kamma with negative results then perhaps that comes from the group kamma. Seems like a topic worth expanding on. (PS I hope you've been well bhante)
Thank you for watching and your comments. I will talk about this in a Q&A's video coming soon.
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Be happy and stay well.
There is collective karma. For example, japanaese people are considered for the rest of the world as polite and kind, but it doesn't mean everyone are, but if a rude japanese travel to other country due his belonging to Japan will be perceived as kind as polite (at least at the first seeing) which will grant him some benefits due the positive collective karma of japaneses which is the the sum of the karma of all its members.
Now you can extend this understanding to other collective groups as religous, political groups, etc... according the positive or negative deeds of their deeds, the members as some extents will experience the consequences, but at the same time is true that each one has his own unique karma.
If you want to understand collective karma from a more scientific perspective I would suggest to check about the explanations of 'morphic fields', Dr. Rupert Sheldrske is a preeminent scholar about this topic.
Theravada tradition and teachings focus in his individual liberation, probably that's why Bhante said that there is no such thing as collective karma because early buddhism are centered in the individual more than the society or the world as Mahayana or Vajrayana traditions.
This vrajayana priest wish you all the best, from Japan with love 🤍