MONK Q&A's "Jesus is the only way, Buddha is all lies, read your Bible and repent!" 

Blessings to you all and Phra TomTom

It's my pleasure

My pleasure. Thank you for watching and your comments

@@englishmonk Pleasure is all mine. 🙏

Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu

Not sure there have been any, if so I missed them

Sukhi Hontu

Yes, in England and it was sunny summer but even not doing videos it wasn't enough. I will find power outlets somewhere and maybe get an additional power bank before I set off.

My pleasure Sukhi Hontu

Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu

My pleasure. I'm not sure if I understand your question. If you are experiencing Jhānas where are you trying to navigate to? Many blessings with mettā

I was born in a Christian country and educated in a Catholic Monastery so where you are born isn't important. It may be being born in non Buddhist countries has some advantages

@@englishmonk thank you. i have a friend that we discuss matters like this. blessings

Good. Kalyan Mitra (Noble Friends)

Hi, I'm not familiar with the chanting styles you mention. Chanting should be only what you understand and mean something to you. So get to understand the meaning or find the chanting in your own language and chant just what is useful.

The 4 heavenly messengers. Ageing, Sickness, Death and the Samana... I'll talk more about this in the next Q &A's video. Thank you for watching and your question.

It's my opinion that there's much less of an authority structure and disciplinary structure in Buddhist monasticism versus Christian or Hindu monks. That's why many of our monks have very independent views on controversial topics, such as on politics or on the authenticity or authority of certain texts, or particular meditation practices etc.

Monks are renunciants. I have stayed in a Benedictine Monastery and was educated in a Catholic Monastery. Monks have discipline and faith which leads to renunciation. It is the theology that is the greatest difference.

Sukhi Hontu

You're welcome it's my pleasure. Be happy and stay well

Hi! I hope you don’t mind me replying to your comment - I have found a few solutions that might deter insects in a gentle and non-harmful ways. I thought it might be useful to you to share some of these methods. A bit of a long message, but feel free to ignore it if it’s not useful. I’m sure bhante will have a much more meaningful answer. These are just a few practical solutions I found to work: 1. Moving the plants to a different location is sometimes enough to discourage ants 2. Placing a barrier, like diatomaceous earth or a dish filled with water around the pots, can deter ants without killing them 3. Using natural repellents such as lemon juice, peppermint oil, or cucumber peels is a good deterrent that might even work as compost later With regards to the beehive - I would leave it alone if it’s not causing harm. Bees are not aggressive unless provoked. If the hive is in a location that poses a danger, you might contact a professional to safely relocate the hive without harming the bees. As for the concern of these insects multiplying out of control - I have researched about this and it turns out that while they can multiply, they're also a part of the natural ecosystem and have their predators and natural checks and balances. If conditions are right, they might increase in number, but they'll also stabilise once they reach the carrying capacity of their environment or when food sources become scarce. Personally, I have certainly made mistakes in the past and killed a good few insects. You are doing a lot better than what I used to do by asking for advice from a monk. But, as a lay Buddhist now, I try to take gentle actions to manage these creatures. It also feels great to reflect on acts of compassion in meditation (one of the great pieces of advice I’ve received from Phra Dan) - it is a deeply comforting feeling to all of us when we know we’ve tried our best. Good luck! Sending you love and best wishes! Marina xx

Thank your question and thank you Marina for your answers. What Marina says, yes. In addition, well to elaborate on point 2 - the ants don't usually cross water so just rinsing down the area works very well. Some may get washed away but no harm is done it's just like rain, they can cope. Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu

Thanks Phra Dan and Marina for your kind and informative advice. Will try to do just that. Glad to hear that rinsing them with water is allowable as it's certainly the easiest and fastest method.

@@marinatf-oy8rx Thanks for your kind and informative advice.

I'm only talking from experience and suffer no itching as a result. Maybe mosquitoes vary in different regions. Thank you for watching and your comments. Be happy and stay well.

Possibly

Namo Buddhaya

I understand you. It quite difficult to understand at first, however the intention of this concept is not actually 'reincarnation' of oneself. Since dharma teaches that there is non-self but things are forming due to all kind of elements and only exsist for a certain period of time before scatter. Dharma also teaches that what happening in our body both physical and mental are broken and reform every second. This process can be seen through Vipassana and one can understand the concept of reincarnation that is not kind of ME that die and ME that reborn again.

We can not prove the principal of rebirth to another but we can experience it for ourselves leaving no doubt and requiring no belief.

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I loves Buddha and his theachers but life is not about wisdom, truth and get set free from foolish and a attachment there is a main crucial problem where all of US can't avoiding it is name a death and we all must bow down while in fact our journey is going fall on it and there thousand unreveal mysteri behind of death only Jesus one of all teacher are ever lives on earth who rose from the death concuering the death he declare by powering and guarantee for all who belives him will have eternal life so there is no reason to don't trust him for he is owner of life as well he said i'am the way the truth and the life

i think you're all not getting the point

No. Be happy and stay well

@@englishmonk Why do you believe in Buddha? Jesus said "I am the way and a truth and a life. Buddhism believe dead person but Christians believe alive person he is Jesus. Come to Jesus. He loves you so much even he died for you on the cross. Also 3 days later he conquered death and resurrected. Jesus is the way. If you accept Jesus then you will be saved. Just accept him and you will be saved. Do you wanna find the truth? accept him. He is the truth. He loves you so much.

I don't. Siddhartha Gautama of Kapilavastu and Jesus of Nazareth both lived it's not a belief. Be happy and stay well.

@@englishmonk I wanna ask. Why do you belive in Buddha. He didn't said he is God but Buddhists made him God.

Buddha is not a God

Namo Buddhaya

I'm not sure I understand the two truths, it's more a Mahayana doctrine than Theravada which concentrates on one truth. As a nomadic monk there is little for me to identify with nationally or personally.

@@englishmonk Thanks for the response. Ajahn Chah spoke about it when he came to England in the 70s. The video is online. He said: 'when we say you're Thai or English or German etc we don't mean these things are real. They are language conventions, just like you and me.'' It was an application of the two-truths doctrine in respect of personal identity. I never forgot it.

Ajahn Chah talks about the self, and, I assume, the two-truths doctrine at 5:56 here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Exb-9vO1FF8.html

Thank you

​@@englishmonkThe two truths doctrine is used in Abhidhamma tradition.

Good question. It would appear to conflict with the idea of being a monastic, and living, I assume, outside of society.

I acknowledge that Phra is doing great, as it's the modern way of Journaling, like to write or record as you discover, and somehow I like it. But I feel the old way such as writing is less distractive than RU-vid. Words of others are hypnotic in nature, and take a toll if you pay attention to it. I want to learn how he blocks that sort of distraction.

@@umerafzal3330 RU-vid is quite new, but it is quite pernicious. It's addictive, and noisy for the mind, and questions and answers are circular, and not always beneficial. Just as the Monks, in the East and West, had to come to terms with TV in the 60s, they will have to come to terms with the Internet. It is like having TV in the monastery. It can not be useful to meditation.

@@MrResearcher122 it is only the attachment to such things. You can still live "in society" and be completely unattached

Bhante is an Alms Mendicant, he has gone forth, left the householder life, he lives by 227 rules of conduct, his time online is measured and is obvious by the fact he doesn't talk about world events or gossip. He mentions he didn't carry a phone around as a layperson, or was dependent on a phone, and he is using the phone for connection because this is the age we live in. I don't believe you'll find him doom-scrolling Instagram mindlessly, for example, why would he? This is a mature Monk who has lived many lives and has now given it all up to let go of everything to realise Nibbana.

No choice

How does that make you feel?

Sounds like a dictator trying to silence revolutionaries

That isn’t Jesus issuing a command that is the master character in the Parable of the Talents 😒