Difficult Situations | Ajahn Brahmali | 13 October 2017
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Using the recent events in Burma regarding the plight of the Rohingya people, Ajahn Brahmali, talked about how to apply spiritual values when we are facing difficult situations.
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Very inspiring and courageous talk. Thanks from France.
17:00 intention based effort
It's horrible what's happened to those folks. I found the violence inflicted on the Muslims there by Buddhists incredibly shocking 😱😢 Self-defence is one thing, but inflicting that kind of aggressive violence and chaos on some group of people? Horrible. But it is impressive that you guys donated that money to the refugees and reflects well on you 😊
All religions experience violence by people who follow them. And you can find violence in the Christian bible, the Koran and the Torah among others. Violence is perpetrated by very unenlightened people. Blaming a specific religion is racism.
VidPro Surabaya I've lived in the middle eat and was treated humanly, ask things considered. You'll not get me on the anti-Muslim train, but good try. I don't condemn the Buddhists either. *I* don't condemn anyone.
Pennee101 I agree that blaming a specific religion is wrong. But to say its racism isn't correct given most religions will take just about anyone of any ethnicity. Brahmali isn't Asian, for example.
Can someone translate what they're chanting at the end?? I liked this talk. Pretty cool :)
Phoenix Chastaine
The first is a tribute to Buddha. The second is a tribute to his teachings and the third is a tribute to the community.
I have a direct translation somewhere but can't find it so I can only get the gist of it.
andytnurs sorry for the delay but I just now saw your reply and wanted to thank you so, thank you :)
Can you please explain punnya or merit. What is it? How do we develop? How and why do we share? How does it relate to kamma?
Hi Soma! I am not an academic -- just a 48-year old Buddhist practitioner from an old Korean Buddhist family. My father (who was a Professor, and taught Buddhism at Bryn Mawr College in the 1950's) explained punya/apunya to me in terms of "co-operating" with acts/people of kindness (punya) and "not co-operating" with hatred or ill-will -- on an emotional/mental level, to the level of what one says and does toward self and others, to the level of what stocks and bonds one invests one's money in, etc. My father said the Buddha defined 'right livelihood' (the fifth fold of the eighth fold path), as 1. not selling people (slaves, but also not trading in the prison-industrial complex), 2. not selling drugs (street or the pharmaceutical industry), and 3. not selling weapons (street or military industrial complex). He said that society would be stable if these 3 markets were avoided -- "not co-operated" with (punya)
Thank you very much, Suran. I appreciate the answer very much. I will reflect on it.
I am also hoping that the monks of BSWA will give a lecture on Punnya/merit one day. I was not able to find much on that topic.
Growing up in India, I have somewhat an understanding of punnya, but it might be clouded by wrong view as the conventional social definitions often are. So I want to understand this deeply.
"Can i have a hug" Hahaha
Ajahn gets all da bitches.Proper pimp
Ajahn Brahmali, with all respect, Buddhism strategy is not effective. Buddhism principle is kinder than another religions but it is not effective. Please learn from Robert Sapolsky. His lectures about behavioral biology are available on youtube.
Thank you for this talk. Leaving the positive and consensual side aside, I will concentrate on the critical. For what "Human Rights Watch " described as the worst abuse of human rights in the last 20 years in the world, an ethic cleansing of a rare cruelty and an half a milion deplaced people , your condemnation is not forceful enough. You seem more concerned with the reputation of Buddhism than the actual tragedy. Considering that most Birmans are in denial with arguments like "we don't have information", speaking up is important.Now, it is true that mankind and its institutions are very good at making a travesty of everything, of Buddhism in this case. Nonetheless, questions remain as to the practice of buddhism car, as you have so rightfully pointed out it is the practice that counts. But the anti rohingya Birmans have been exposed to buddhist teachings for a long time. 55 millions of people, 90% Buddhists ! Should we conclude that the cultural, ritual, nationalist, supertitious baggage attached to the core message played a more important role in these teachings? (symbiosis with the state, caracter of the donators etc.) In any case it hurts , to give one example, when I read in a very critical article about Aung San Suu Kyi in the French newspaper "Le Monde", that "the meditation Buddhist vipassana she has practiced for years has thought her to put reality at a distance " !!!