Practical Asceticism

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A useful excerpt from one of our old "Discussions from a Mountain Top" videos.
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@AghoriGhost 2 месяца назад

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@srimathisamarakone8535 2 года назад

An eye opener about my own practice and where I stand

@thesnakeandthewillow5702 2 года назад

Thank you for the extremely useful video, Venerable Sir.

@sompong2482 2 года назад

Much appreciated Venerables !!!

@harpreetsingh5545 2 года назад

Hello Bhante. Thank you so much for the teaching. Please help me with this gradual training and wrong view. I am trying to understand my dependence on activity. I want to break my dependence on activity. However, what confuses me is that if I were to break my dependence on activity, should I give up on all of my responsibilities? Because to do anything, you have to have an intention. because if I continue to do my responsibilities, I am still attached to external work for pleasure. Second question: how do you know if you are properly aware of your experience right here right now? when I try to recognize my currently enduring existence, I get confused by these thoughts of how I should be aware of my experience and how I should understand the context. is there some kind of vertical thinking? How do you know that you have properly recognized the situation without getting cause in thoughts? Thank you, sir. I will continue to improve myself on daily basis.

@krisissocoollike 2 года назад

Thank you for this; so helpful. Off topic: coffee trees?

@rajigunatilake2498 2 года назад

Good pick up Didn't know coffee tree existed in Srilanka but they do

@alecogden12345 2 года назад

Thanks Bhante, I was wondering if anagami/arahants' awareness penetrates through all the layers of sleep? Its common to be aware when in a dream, but to be aware in deep sleep?

@RubePhil 2 года назад

I've sometimes noticed that my dhamma practice even persists while I am dreaming. I would imagine that any other attainments would display the same phenomenon

@flowersarelovesome 2 года назад

That's a fascinating question. We could say that we 'experience' deep sleep in the sense that we are aware of it as a recurring event without any external means to tell us that there is a state other than dreaming and waking. Some degree of awareness, therefore, seems to be present during the 3 states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep for everyone. But if sati or mindfulness is a function of the mind, how could it persist in deep sleep when the mind shuts down? I suppose you could say that the knowledge resulting from mindful discernment during the waking state persists during all states, just as any other firm knowledge gained before going to sleep is not lost upon waking up.

@cliffmilbrun2803 2 года назад

Good question. I wondered the same exact thing. I assume you know more because of this kind of question. When we're running fast and just stop we have our heart beating extremely fast and we can't make it intentionally calm. But by staying put it calms itself because it's not being fed (exertion). The mind works like this too. I figured you asked this question because you realized this already. So we have to restrain ourselves more until the mind inclines towards awareness and restraint. I think you know that because you wouldn't ask that question. But as far as sleep were probably thinking the exact same thing. It's either lucid all the time or they close there eyes and reopen and it's morning already because arhant is free from asavas. There's no flood sweeping them with wrong order thoughts. were still in the water we're just not drowning and we know how to cross

@daniilkiselev1939 2 года назад

I would imagine the answer would ultimately be that this line of questioning is unskillful to begin with. Don't get me wrong, this question is very curiosity-inducing, but this curiosity itself does not originate out of wholesome states. The answer may lead to more desire/aversion/doubt/laziness/thinking and doesn't seem like it would have any net positive effect on one's practice. Probably the only wholesome way to know this is to see it for yourself. I know there are quite a few questions the Buddha had mentioned are not worth pondering, and based on my understanding - this question seems to be along the same lines. I may very well be completely off the mark here, so please do let me know.

@cliffmilbrun2803 2 года назад

@@daniilkiselev1939 I agree 100% it's irrelevant to freedom from craving and can lead to craving.

@tanyatindarowarren7119 2 года назад

👁️🙏👁️

@Spiritualitygonwild 2 года назад

Can you practice deeply through commitment to being a lay person family guy type .

@theinngu5560 9 месяцев назад

I guess if being a family type means being involved in the usual type of sense pleasures that families undertake and attachment, it would be difficult.

@craig01001 26 дней назад

The committments to that life require sacrificing many opportunities for proper practice. Given the example in the video - a few sleepless nights for a caregiver of children, or one with a highly demanding job can have detrimental consequences (falling asleep at the wheel, etc).

@yoooyoyooo 2 года назад

Is it practical to throw away perfectly good mattress? Just to add more asceticism in life. It seems wasteful to me.

@alecogden12345 2 года назад

You shouldn't throw away anything that you don't need, just recognise the intention behind having it (or throwing it away). Maybe you need it, maybe you don't. Maybe, having it results in more problems that you wouldn't have if you didn't have it. Then again, maybe not. Contemplate Anicca. (Btw, Bhante isn't suggesting that you should throw away anything. Any 'waste' would arise in buying anything that you didn't need.)

@cliffmilbrun2803 2 года назад

Bhante says this to strengthen your mind. For those that want to do it do it for those that don't just don't but if you want to increase your strength you have to step out of your comfort zone. Im not implying you don't understand but any body who does like brother Alec he's speaking directly to them. Why would he say this to people who don't understand. In short a sotapanna would know how it helps and exactly why.