Now I'm AFRAID of FEAR!!!😄😄😄 Thank you Ajahn Brahm, I feel so positive about life EVERYTIME I listen to you and I can't thank you enough....much appreciated!😊
As an American citizen, I've been trying to use social media to promote kindness as a necessary thing to embrace. Just as Brahm said, we are responsible for putting the ingredients together.
See the chances that something wrong doesn't happen, which is much greater than the chances that something wrong happens. Thank you so much, Ajahn Brahm.
When I was in an orphanage/Fosterhome as a kid there were many caretakers for us kids and all of them would enforce strict rules for bedtimes and moving around at night, locking all doors and they all cut electricity at night so we won't watch tv. But there was one of them who never did that. Never locked the doors or cut electricity. Only when he was there noone broke the rules, ever. It was simply cause he trusted us so much that none of us wanted to disappoint him. The trust made us be good kids not the fear/distrust. Very interesting experience.
I like to thank the today's talk with ,, can't remember his name soothing,,,, Brahma, I didn't want to get up facing the day. Now I ll get up have breakfast n go swimming to meet up with lots of people n exercise. Thank u for all your funny talkshow. God bless!! Or Budda give u his blessings
Ajahn Brahm and Buddhist Society of Western Australia, thank you very much for this amazing video. It is helping me. I have trauma and fear to go to the company. I became sick in the middle of work many times although i was healthy in the morning. It was too painful when you got sick in the company and managed to go home. Now, i think i am healthy but i am just staying at home because i am afraid i am gonna sick again suddenly and something terrible happen. I am trying meditation, watching many of ajahn brahm videos and letting go of fear, but i guess it does take time. I hope i can go back to work soon Ajahn Brahm please help me to brainwash my brain so i can let go fear, not stress and be in peace
Is true,my parents instill fear in me about meditation...as a result.. I miss out meditation 20years ago... Fortunately, I get to know and practice meditation now..
FEAR! Just fixing the plumbing, replacing the pipes, putting in a new toilet, replacing a leaking faucet creates a lot of anxiety and fear. Yes, we do have the tendency to over exaggerate. For me however, there was another emotion that was equally debilitating which only served to fuel my fear -- Hatred! , ill-will! It was extreme hatred for the man, extreme hatred for what he stood for, extreme hatred for the people who voted for him. What happened that night went against every fabric of my being. But it also opened my eyes to what I had been subjected to for many years -- Conditioning. I allowed this conditioning to intensify to a level I hadn't seen or felt before. And I didn't become aware of how much I was being blinded by both sides of the political spectrum. It has taken several days of reflection and meditation and listening to talks given by Ajahn Brahm, Ajahn Sumedho, Thich Nhat Hahn and others to put the fire out that was was raging in my heart. My daily and moment to moment goal is to simply stand squarely on the razor's edge without so much as slipping to either side by barrage of opinions, comments and judgements from others, from the the media, and from myself. To do so will cut me down.
I appreciated this video and the story of the woman worrying about her cancer coming back. The answer was brilliant: What if it doesn't come back? If I could make this video any better, I would like to hear more coping strategies please? I suppose meditation would help, but some people are really engulfed by their fear. They are deep in the hole, so to speak.
It was because the monks were on about 2 months retreat ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_(spiritual)#Buddhism ). I treated it as a reminder how important the practice is, not just listening to the videos :)
