Venerable Ajahn Chah - Selected Pointers for Meditation - Theravada Forest Tradition

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  • Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
  • A selection of key pointers and quotes by Ajahn Chah on Dhamma and Meditation practice. For all the range of teachings given by Ajahn Chah, which are made available for free, please see this great website: www.ajahnchah....
    Ajahn Chah was a Thai Buddhist monk and meditation Master. He was an influential teacher of the Buddhadhamma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition. He was reputed to be an Arahant.
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Комментарии • 33

  • @SamaneriJayasara
    @SamaneriJayasara  3 года назад +4

    All of my Theravada Forest recordings can be found under my Playlists for ease of access - go to my Home page to find the Playlists tab. If you would like to download any of my recordings, please see this link to my COMMUNITY tab - scroll to the bottom of the page: ruclips.net/channel/UCz6X8QK9_JG49hJxnzAu-1wcommunity

  • @richardmichael1445
    @richardmichael1445 3 года назад +3

    Venerable Ajahn Cha .My compass. My Teacher. I stray off the path. The Blessed one points the way back.
    Samaneri Jayasara. A voice far away yet right here and now in my practice. Holding the lantern and increasing the light on the path. Many thanks and blessings.🌻💚🌻

  • @shamanizing
    @shamanizing 3 года назад +20

    Ajahn Chan cuts to the essence, through all the fluff, down to the meat and potatoes. Thank you!

    • @Kimoto504
      @Kimoto504 3 года назад +3

      More zen than much of zen in my experience, even including Japanese zen in practice, really.

  • @jannie6359
    @jannie6359 3 года назад +7

    This was so nice for the time. Samaneri. So clear and concise. Just what i was yearning for. Thank you, Friend.

  • @drneetapai
    @drneetapai 3 года назад +10

    Pranam, Venerable one.Your expounding of the words of The Masters have benifited so many in us.Thankyou.

  • @charliekaiser482
    @charliekaiser482 3 года назад +8

    "Everything in the world is our teacher!" 🙏

  • @cosmiccreator
    @cosmiccreator 3 года назад +4

    That was pure magic! Thank you infinitely dear one. Namaste LoveLight Shanti OM 🥰🙏❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🙏🎄

  • @shadcrow522
    @shadcrow522 3 года назад +2

    This is a beautiful teaching that brings comfort. Thank you dear Sister.

  • @surayaji9950
    @surayaji9950 3 года назад +3

    So simple, so profound. Thank you.

  • @miekeplooijer4755
    @miekeplooijer4755 3 года назад +2

    Kort maar krachtig!
    Short but powerful!
    Greetings from the netherlands.

  • @babablitz
    @babablitz 3 года назад +3

    This is true. If mental clinging is there sure it will lead to suffering. The doer will enjoy and suffer too. Ashango ( non attached I am ) is the only way to go. I can say this all with absolute certainty that even Bodhisattva actions leads to clinging and suffering.
    But a Bodhisattva with all joy walks towards this suffering.

  • @garycox3841
    @garycox3841 3 года назад +2

    🙏❤️

  • @senmire
    @senmire 3 года назад

    🙏🍃🌈❤️🌺☀️

  • @dragonballzfanatic1053
    @dragonballzfanatic1053 3 года назад +1

    Thank you

  • @madhavangopalan7463
    @madhavangopalan7463 3 года назад

    🙏👍😀🌺

  • @VeganCheeseburger
    @VeganCheeseburger 10 месяцев назад

    Wonderful

  • @dr.kenmiller4227
    @dr.kenmiller4227 Год назад

    Helpful Wonderful Wisdom...☺️🎨👨‍🎨🥰💫

  • @silence7412
    @silence7412 3 года назад +1

    wow.. thank you sister:)

  • @macarius8802
    @macarius8802 3 года назад

    Thank you! This was very helpful to me right now.

  • @user-vk5ws3jl1l
    @user-vk5ws3jl1l 6 месяцев назад

    The nameless is the mother of all named (also look up verse 25&27)~ Toa te ching
    It means that all phenomena come from the act of naming, because naming is the process of discriminating and assigning some spatio-temporally extended duration of existence to discriminated elements.
    The root of naming is the first (naive) error; the discrimination of self from other. Once there is identification with only a part of reality (such as a body) a perspective is created. From this perspective the formless Self, misidentified as just the bodily self, is given a location in space and time and all outside this location are perceived as not-self.
    The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu is one of the most widely read and deeply cherished books in the world, a work many consider the wisest book ever written.

  • @mattsowden1105
    @mattsowden1105 3 года назад +2

    Do not be a human, do not be a speaker, do not be a mother, do not be anything at all. Do not be a meditator? Avoid suffering? Be nothing and be happy? Nothing comes from nothing.

    • @mattsowden1105
      @mattsowden1105 Год назад

      @@SolveEtCoagula93 for a time, eventually we must return to the mundane. The human experience.

    • @mattsowden1105
      @mattsowden1105 Год назад

      @@SolveEtCoagula93 mundane is not a limitation it is a word a symbol to describe a being of form which represents the basic activities we must perform on a daily basis to maintain the health of our physical organism. Chop wood, carry water. One cannot survive without this.
      The sad irony behind these type of videos is that people who seek knowledge yet lack wisdom believe there is some ultimate truth, a state of perfection to be maintained eternally... This is not possible whilst in human form.
      We are human, human is a label. A label which symbolises a form of energy.
      Where limitation is seen by some unlimited is seen by another. That is the beauty of the duality.
      The entire video is full of labels. Rather contradictory to the point being made by the quotation.
      Is life not a beautiful paradox?!

    • @mattsowden1105
      @mattsowden1105 Год назад

      @@SolveEtCoagula93 I feel you have misunderstood my words.
      I merely state certain things are not possible without others.
      One cannot transcend a state unless that state exist to be transcended.
      Maybe you misunderstand because I choose to use my own words as opposed to most who recite words and quotations from names of other egos. Drawing reference from the wisdom of following in anothers footsteps. Being a label.
      Be an author.... An authority to ones self. Walk ones own path.
      Avoiding scriptures they are scripts.
      Avoiding mantras
      Otherwise one may find content in doing as another did and getting what another got.
      Don't be scared friend!

    • @mattsowden1105
      @mattsowden1105 Год назад

      @@SolveEtCoagula93 simply. Because I choose to listen to all who have something to say. I choose to question all things those have to say.
      To believe we are at a point in time where we possess and understand all the answers? So to not struggle and grow.... In a field of infinite potentials the possibilities evolve to greater or deeper understanding the further we travel. To cease the journey believing we hold all the keys I believe is stagnation of development.
      The mind has brought us so far....
      The heart has brought is so far...
      Combining both, fusing the new with the old.. Exciting!
      Who knows which organ we deepen our Understanding of next!
      What states we will obtain and experience when we push the boundaries beyond the current!
      Or will we repeat the cycles of the past by walking in the steps of others?

    • @mattsowden1105
      @mattsowden1105 Год назад

      @@SolveEtCoagula93I see more of a perpetual state of awakening. Never complete.
      Not alone... An accumulation of all that was before and building upon, laying another foundation for what is yet to come.
      Fearing not what may come but embracing all that does. ✌️

  • @ArtandAlchemy
    @ArtandAlchemy 3 года назад

    So what if you suffer? How can you learn if you don't suffer? How can you have compassion if you don't suffer? I'm not afraid to suffer. You can't even be alive if you don't suffer. I tried to meditate and it's boring for the most part. What's so great about being divine? Maybe, I'm not getting it. Psychopaths don't care and biologically cannot prevent themselves from doing bad things. . Where is the science? I could meditate till the cows come home but science cured my depression.Chemical imbalances are not cured by meditation. Meditation doesn't do anything for schizophrenia. How about autism? I guess my point is that a lot has changed since Buddha. I do agree that it's good to take a break from thinking and let some space in. I do like mindfulness. I'm-not knocking meditation as much as it baffles me. I'm fully in the present when I create art. That's my meditation. Sitting around breathing and being empty is irrational to my mind. I'm speaking only for myself.

    • @golgipogo
      @golgipogo 2 года назад +1

      No worries bro

  • @dragonballzfanatic1053
    @dragonballzfanatic1053 3 года назад

    M v D R O Noel