In his fundraiser lecture for www.buddhistinsights.com/Bifundraiser Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi explains how cultivating happiness creates a foundation for Samādhi
Sādhu Sādhu Sādhu dear Bhante 🌸🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🌺 Finally, these most essential aspects of the Buddha’s teaching are brought to light. Pamojja, pīti, passadhi, sukha. Sukhino citam samādhiyati. Thank you Bhante.
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu! Thanks for sharing. Very inspirational, the talk but also to witness his humility, integrity and compassion. I sadly never met a monk in person. And crazy how long it took me to realize that wholesome qualities won't just magically appear by the mere act or mechanics of meditation alone, but that I need to actively cultivate and nurture them.. May you all be save and well..
Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu. Thank you, Bhante. I needed a nudge towards a new approach to practice, and suddenly this turned up in my recommended videos, more than 2-1/2 years after the original posting. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between RU-vid's algorithms and the hand of a Deva. ;-D
Sadhu sadhu sadhu! My reverence and respect to your holiness, Bhikkhu Bodhi! Thank you for all the teachings and wholesome contributions you made to further the teachings of the Buddha.
This is such an important talk to prepare the soil of the mind for good crops towards liberation. The cultivation of the wholesome qualities will gradually overcome the weeds of unwholesome tendencies present in the mind and facilitate joy and clarity of the way things are, to penetrate towards this clarity. As Bhanthe said all ten paramis starting from generosity one by one make the mind spacious towards universal infinity mind, that does not keep or hold but let's through phenomena, knowing their impermanence, non self and inherent nature to cause suffering if grasped. The way things are understood ( the cause and effect process) beyond this world of birth and death, conditioned by greed, hatred and ignored.There is knowledge and liberation.
Namo Buddhaya! Sadu Sadu Sadu this talk contains the clearest and best English definition of Shraddha. I venerate Bhikkhu Bodhi… May you realize the Four Noble Truths in this Gautama Buddha’s Dispensation l!!! 🪔🪔🪔🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Oh..bhante bodhi...what a profound way of understanding as well as teaching ..you are a gifted son of the supreme buddha ..every body who listen and see this discourses would definitely be encountered with realizations of the great nibbanic bliss ..this discourses which surely benefit as to the range of people in any part of the world in any nationals whome they are extended..sadhu...sadhu...sadhu....may you have long life for make the way to the needy people of doctrine of buddha from your profoundly delivered discourses ...buddha bless you bhante .....!!!
Thank you, bhante, for sharing the wholesome and joyful qualities of the Dharma. A beautiful, practical, inspiring and deeply transforming talk. Listening to this talk by ven bhikkhu bodhi could well be one of the most important moments in your life! Irregardless of your practice level, this talk will help, shed light and direct one to wisdom. I have listened to this talk more than a dozen times and each time i am able to pull out a new pearl of wisdom and understanding.
9:10 Faith is the condition for joy to arise 10:55 The meaning of Faith is “placing the heart with conviction in Buddha as fully enlightened teacher and placing trust in Dharma as the path to enlightenment and liberation”. 11:33 Condition for Faith to arise is suffering 15:18 Ways to strengthen the Faith
The volition sutta is very good, too. As Ajahn Brahmali says, it's our virtue or character (he would say and I agree, practicing kindness) overall that will lead to the beginning stages of happiness which is very palpable.
worte paroles : Paying Homage to the Buddha in Pāli language: “NAMO TASSA BHAGAVATO ARAHATO SAMMA SAMBUDDHASSA” (3 times) Homage to the Blessed, Noble, and Perfectly Enlightened One.
Do I detect a slight hint of criticism? If so, it is your right of course. If not my apologies. It seems that nothing - even the highest good - is beyond the reach of this corrosive, toxic habit of which, at times, I am the worst offender. I wish you all the greatest of health, wealth and happiness. Namaste soul mates. See you "over there..."
Joy is the feeling the man dying of thirst has when he first stumbles into an oasis. Happiness is when he's resting in its shades after drinking from its waters 🙏
