Ajahn Amaro - Don't Cling To Anything
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
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Ajahn Amaro was born Jeremy Charles Julian Horner in Kent. He was educated at Sutton Valence School and Bedford College, University of London. Ajahn means teacher. He is a second cousin of I.B. Horner (1896-1981), late President of the Pali Text Society.
Apart from a certain interest in the theories of Rudolf Steiner-to which he had been introduced by Trevor Ravenscroft,Amaro's principal enthusiasms on leaving university were, by his own admission, pretty much those standard-issue among sceptical students of the day: sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
Having completed his honours degree in psychology and physiology, in 1977 he went to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand on an undefined "open-ended" spiritual search. He somehow found himself in northeast Thailand, at the forest monastery of Wat Pah Nanachat. Ajahn Chah's charismatic impact and the encouragement of the senior American monk Ajahn Pabhakaro were decisive. It changed his life. Having become a lay renunciate, four months later he became a novice and in 1979 he received upasampada from Ajahn Chah and took profession as a Theravadin bhikkhu. He stayed in Thailand for two years. Amaro then went back to England to help Ajahn Sumedho establish Chithurst Monastery in West Sussex. With the blessing of his abbot, in 1983 he moved to Harnham Vihara in Northumberland. He made the entire 830-mile journey on foot, chronicled in his 1984 volume Tudong: The Long Road North
In the early 1990s Amaro made several teaching trips to northern California. Many who attended his meditation retreats became enthusiastic about the possibility of establishing a permanent monastic community in the area.
Amaravati, his mother house back in England, meanwhile received a substantial donation of land in Mendocino County from Chan Master Hsuan Hua, founder of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Talmage. The land was allocated to establish a forest retreat. Since for some years Ajahn Sumedho had venerated the Chinese master, both abbots hoped that, among its other virtues, the center would serve as a symbolic bond between the otherwise distinct Theravada and Mahayana lineages.
Care for what became Abhayagiri was placed in the hands of a group of lay practitioners, the Sanghapala Foundation.[2] Ajahn Pasanno was appointed founding co-abbot of Abhayagiri with Ajahn Amaro. The latter announced on 8 February 2010 that he would be leaving Abhayagiri and returning to England, having accepted a request from Ajahn Sumedho to succeed him as abbot at Amaravati.
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The talk by Ajahn Amaro has made me realise how my life is. I practised Buddhism up until approx 10 years ago and then left for unknown reasons but the talk has confirmed that I need to go back . Thank you Ajahn Amaro
JULIE LINDUR did you?
Buddha teaching is wonderful. I never leaves this teaching. It has awaken my concious. Truely is nonself.
Non attachment to six senses one will experience nibanna the awaken state. It is so wonderful to experience when the six senses is momentarily shut down and one realise there is unexplainable freedom.
The AWKENING STATE IS BEAUTIFUL. One will and can experience it when one practice simple awareness, not to attached to body pleasant feelings and unpleasant feelings, not attached to pleasant mind object and unpleasant object. Let everything that arise let it just passes by itself. This is the practice of non attachment. This will make the mind become empty and free from greed, hate, delusion. In this way one will one day experience the ceaseation of the six senses and it is the experience one will never forget.
One of the best Dhamma talks I have listened to. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Thanks for this talk. It's made me reflect on my habit of clinging to things and wanting things to be the way I want them to be. Now to carry on with the practice. 🙏🙏
Wonderful man, wonderful talk.
Yea.. These talk of you are just another level. They are the perfect balance like they have it all. Wisdom but also peace, this glistening precision, they're entertaining. Truly amazing. This is go great it makes me feel like some time ago I'd feel if I won the lottery without even buying the ticket. 😁
Thank you Ajahn Amaro for sharing your wisdom and the Buddha's wisdom.... 🙏🙏🙏.....priceless and very beautiful
Love the beginning chant, So calming and gives me goosebumps sometimes.....
One of the best dharma talks I've ever heard.
Thank you Rev Sir!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
What an amazing human being
Fantastic talk, must listen to it again
Sadhu sadhu sadhu!
Very helpful teaching. Thanks
I am so glad to have found this talk on UA-cam. Thank you for putting it up!
The time is now and the present is auspicious and important. What your mind filled up with now will be answered.
Thanks for uploading this video,very insightful and helful
thank you
thank you !
One of the best talks. Thank you Ajahn Amaro! something to work on :)
Thank you,...
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Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu !
Thank you, very helpfull
Don’t cling to the Dhamma gift and you will be offered what one deserves.
Psalm 91:5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
Saṃvega Metta
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54:50 i thought it was funny that this women allegedly gave birth standing up and her child walked as soon as he was born, but what Ajahn Amaro struggles with the most is the lotus flowers growing on land instead of in water
SADU SADU SADU !!!! ANUMODAMI !!!!
Sathu Sathu
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It is impossible to not cling. It is impossible to let go. So please tell me how it might be done. Show me a technique that I can use. Sadhu 3X!
Lord Byron Start by noticing clinging. Try to pay attention when you cling to something. In time, you will become better at it. When you notice clinging, try to let go. After enough practice, you will grow to see clinging; this is how it arises, this is how it fades away.
practice samadhi (=jhana) and find bliss in yourself. contemplate the impermanence of things and that clunging to impermanent things causes suffering
it is a step by step to reach that point. you have to gradually follow buddhism from the begining. ex. generosity>morality>mental development
Does anyone have a written version of the words that mean “don’t cling to anything?” It sounds beautiful but I can’t seem to get it down. He says it at 7:27
sabbe dhamma naalam abhinivesaaya
@@metalbelt1 That is correct. 🙏
@@metalbelt1 thank you!
Intro too long ..., careful not to loose people who want to be entertained.
thank you