Very Very clear ! Thank you very much Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi ! You are the best teacher I ever had. I am very lucky having chance to listen to your teaching.
I have been learning original Buddha’s teaching for most of my life and listen to so many teachers both in English and my language, you give me the most precise explanation that is closest to the original texts that I study and continue to. Giving Dhamma is the ultimate gift of all. May I ask where is the temple you reside.
please allow me to answer this question as a reader.The Buddha had an intention which is to teach the people who want to learn. The Buddha show the Freedom from fear stress anxiety paranoid delusions etc.. .Buddha pointed how to practice in daily life to achieve theirselves .❤
if the mind leads or travels one body to another ,who is the travel guide ,who lays the roads,what is that intelligence that makes the mind jump from one place to another ,who is that master craftsman who doesn't leave the structures to chance but builds on a well thought design ,who is that behind the veil....
Buddhism is teaching in real life of nature and realistic. Peace life living being, not to tight, not to loose, but stay in middle (neutral) path. Human being rebirth is because of retributions. Rebirth could be Human being world, could be Hell world or Animals world. It's depend on each living being defilements. So, Lord Buddha teached in his Ovada Patimokkha is: Refrain from all sins, do good, purify the mind. Buddha don't believe that if you bring harm to others, kill others living being then you go heaven in you die. that is false. Same as human rule of laws, if you killing other people, you good person with no trail and you are free then escape from it?. When Lord Buddha Enlightenment, he has the ability to know pas, present and future and he knows accurately everything in the Universe and he has traveled to this land of Nirvana. In the Universe, he described there are eight (8) place for all world beings and souls are born. They are; 1. Way to Aveci World (Lowest Section of Hell) 2. Way to Niraya World (hell) 3. Way to Asurakaya World (demons) 4. Way to Derajjana World (Animals) 5. Way to Human beings world (world human live today) 6. Way to Deva World (Gods and Goddesses-Paradise) 7. Way to Brahma World 8. Way to Nirvana World (above all) and whoever is able
i think i have enlightment for 2 hrs, i felt this energy all over my body i even try to fly and i was the happiest person, if any one felt the same please contact me i really needs to know what happened that day.
+Ch Cha Energy and other sensations are common in insight meditation. Some of them are quite odd. Sometimes very pleasant sometimes unpleasant. Try to observe both pleasant and unpleasant the same in a detached way like a scientist viewing an experiment. Do not cling and do not push away. Watch the sensations rise and watch them pass away. Then move attention back to the breath (or whatever object you have chosen). Your experience is not enlightenment but you are on the right path.
महाराष्ट्रा मधे राजस्ताणी आले आज ते लाखो च्या संख्ये ने दुकानदारी करून घर बंगला लाखोंची सम्पती कमवली मग गुजराती व्यापारी आले ते पण महाराष्ट्रा भर पसरले लाखो च्या संख्ये ने आणि घर बंगला लाखोंची सम्पती कमवली , Bollywood जवळ जवळ उतर भारतीय नीच भरलय , मराठी माणूस वर दिल्याल्या संधी ला मुकला कुणा मुळे आम्हाला दाखवल गोरगरीब परप्रांती जे मजुरी करून आपल पोट भरतात . समाजाला एकदा ऐडा बनुउ शकता प्रत्येक वेळी नाही आज तुम्हाला भौंगा मुधा वाटत आसेल पण समाजा पुढे शिक्षण, आरोग्य , नौकरी , गैस सीलेनडर , पेटरोल हे सरव महाग करून ठेवलय आणि हेच्यावर तुम्ही मोर्चा काढत नाही सभा पण घेत नाही काहीच नाही मग विचार करा कोण वोट देणार तुम्हाला.
Per Buddhism, it is non-self; what we call I and self or even real self is impermanent and therefore is non-self. non-self unfolds as we realize impermanence and unravel all that seems solid which is not solid or permenant. I think by getting there, we get to know our Buddha nature or our true nature.
I came to Buddhism from Christianity, when I no longer believe in the Christian story. I have two comments based on the early part of this lecture. First, how is the passing of the death citta to a new organism not simply another way of viewing the concept of "soul"? Sure, it's defined here in terms of process and not entity, but some thing (the citta) is being passed on after death. That's really the essential definition of soul. Secondly, this notion that without any view of what happens after death we will indulge in greed, hatred and delusion only I find itself a greed, an attachment. It is also provably false because there are people who have given up thinking about what happens after live who live selflessly and skillfully.
It's not personal. The individual does not continue. This is why the idea of a soul is explicitly rejected as a form of delusion in Buddhism. Think of what continues as being more like a river, not a thing but a process.
I don’t really undrestand it how if I kill someone I will be killed by somebody in future. How does it makes sense ? Where is the free will then ? Where is the free will of that other person who is suppose to kill me ?
There is no such reuest or command as life existing from any Absolute one. The craving is not a request or command from an absolute one. It is only one's own mental quality.
Well for monastics that is true. As a parent one will have innumerable opportunities to resist craving and maintain a healthy relationship with the child. Desire is not the same as craving as there is a selfish component to craving and craving wants a certain outcome. I don't know what "craving" means to you but it sounds like it mean sexual relations. I don't think most, non renunciates in Buddhism necessarily see it that way. Through the middle way we can live our lives without unhealthy craving or it's opposite -- distaste for something.
Karma is basically saying actions have consequences, how is that not true? I agree with u about rebirth not having any evidence, but a true scientifically minded person wouldnt say ita true or not true before evidence shows itself, thus you are no different from the person that says rebirth is real.
basically birth and rebirth are natural. it is natural phenomena of processes you don t need to believe. our work is to learn to develop the realization of these natural phenomena and there are many subjects that are relating such as Physic, Chemistry, psychology, philosophy etc
It's fortunate that Dr. Ian Stevenson at University of Virginia had a more open mind than you and studied thousands of cases suggestive of rebirth - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stevenson
hi. what do you think the truth is? I have heard different things such as we agree to take on a human form and agree to go through certain situations in our life and experience all the emotions it brings? fascinates me😊
