THE THREE POISONS, GREED, HATRED & DELUSION
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- Опубликовано: 13 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.
Sabe Satta Sukhi Hontu
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Wonderful talk. Thank you
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Thank you Bhante. What frightens me the most is delusion. I retired about 4 years ago. I had some financial work I needed done. Long story short the person I hired cost me 27K in mistakes. Thats a lot of money for me. I hired another person and it got even worse. I became very anxious and depressed. I could not get out of it ( depression) and thats why delusion scares me so much. It is hard for the deluded to see the delusion. When I was getting sober I would say for the first four years every time I called my sponsor with a complaint like: Im lonely or Im angry he would always say the same thing. Go to a meeting and help someone.Helping another gave me that hour or two where I was not the constant focus of my attention. Little by little I learned the value of helping others opens me up to my fellows and makes me feel Im a part of the human race.
PS I let the money go, not worth the suffering for it.
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Happy International Vesak…🎉thank you for another wonderful and timely talk. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
You're welcome it's my pleasure. Be happy and stay well
Thanks Phra Dan, online one encounters opinionated people frequently and this reminder of restraint is appreciated.
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So appreciated
DO you have favourite verses of the Dhammapda
Is this something you can speak about and recommend?
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, As I find myself swimming in the very selfish culture you describe like a fish in water that is unable to see it. You bring to our attention many of the unwholesome aspects of our society through this teaching of the three poisons. Yet this water we swim in isn’t nourishing and supportive but rather poisonous and destructive.
I can only hope as a householder to Find that unconditioned aspect of our self.
You're welcome it's my pleasure. Be happy and stay well
Greetings from Finland 👋 I enjoy listening your talks while working. I wish you happiness. 🙏
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Bhante, I printed out the Wat Marp Jan chanting book. Thanks for sharing it. Such a beautiful one 🙏 ☀️ Namo Buddhaya 🌴
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Bhante, could you chant the Mangala Sutta in english? There is a dearth of english chanting it seems. I would be most thankful. 🙏
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I found this to be a brilliant talk - thank you
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Hare Krishna 🙏🏻❤️
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Dear Bhante,
There is a section from Udayin sutta which I do not understand and hope you would expound on that:
“And further, the monk attends to the perception of light, determines on the perception of day, so that day is like night, night is like day. By means of an awareness thus open & unhampered, he develops a brightened mind.
“This basis for recollection, lord, thus developed, thus pursued, leads to the gaining of knowledge & vision.
Please advise on what did the Buddha meant by attending to the perception of light etc..
Regards
Paul
Seeing, as in the Bāhiya Sutta. Sukhi Hontu
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.
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🌼💨🌲The primordial spirits of moon frog and wind fish bless you Phra Dan, 🕊️🧘🏼🕊️Dao quickly come, ah! ❤️🔥👻👻🙏
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Greetings and happy Vesak to you and everyone! Is it not slightly misleading saying "there is no god in Buddhism," this is very commonly said about Buddhism, and by well respected Ajahn's too, and I personally don't understand what you guys are talking about when you say this. We all know Theravada Buddhism is full of a huge range and spectrum of deities/Devas, gods/Brahma's and all sorts of ranks and stations in heavenly realms and the pure abodes of the anagami's, and some of these beings indeed can be apart of our Dhamma practice. So again, I disagree that there "is no god in Buddhism," what I would say instead to correct this common mis-statement is "there is no Self in Buddhism, but there are many expressions of God/the gods/the divine." Why are so many Buddhists seemingly shy about or possibly afraid of the idea of the Divine?
If I said there is no God it is in the context that in Buddhism there is no need to believe in a single God. I talk about the heavenly realms, hell realms, gods and devas also. There is no denial of gods.
@@englishmonk Fair enough, I understand that there's no need to believe in a single God, I just personally feel like the way us Buddhist's can word these things can sometimes be confusing or a turn off to certain other people listening and trying to understand Buddhism.