From Iraq-war veteran to Jain monk: How I became nonviolent | Sadhvi Siddhali Shree | TEDxCUNYSalon
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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“If you want to change the world, you must first change yourself.” It’s a cliché and it’s true! But changing yourself is no simple task in the face of death, divorce, depression, self-harm, and war. In 2002, Sadhvi Siddhali Shree enlisted in the California Army National Guard looking for discipline, and instead found herself training to shoot & kill strangers. Today, she’s an Iraq-war combat veteran, Jain monk, and teacher of non-violence. In this talk, she’ll teach you why and how to practice non-violence in your life. Sadhvi Siddhali Shree is the first North American Jain female-monk, a US Army Iraq-war veteran, an international speaker, author, activist, and an award-winning filmmaker. Her first documentary is STOPPING TRAFFIC: The Movement to End Sex Trafficking (2017) and her second documentary is SURVIVING SEX TRAFFICKING, which will be released in March 2022. Driven by her deep-seated devotion to humanity, she uses her talents and skills to raise awareness about violence in the world and ways to change it. She serves as the Spiritual Director of Siddhayatan Tirth & Spiritual Retreat based near Dallas, Texas and is executive director of Stopping Traffic, a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sex trafficking. Sadhvi Siddhali Shree is passionate about social movements that focus on non-violence, human rights, gender equality, and anti-trafficking. She is currently working on a spiritual memoir. Sadhvi Siddhali Shree is the first North American Jain female-monk, a US Army Iraq-war veteran, an international speaker, author, activist, and an award-winning filmmaker. Her first documentary is STOPPING TRAFFIC: The Movement to End Sex Trafficking (2017) and her second documentary is SURVIVING SEX TRAFFICKING, which will be released in March 2022.
Driven by her deep-seated devotion to humanity, she uses her talents and skills to raise awareness about violence in the world and ways to change it. She serves as the Spiritual Director of Siddhayatan Tirth & Spiritual Retreat based near Dallas, Texas and is executive director of Stopping Traffic, a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sex trafficking. Sadhvi Siddhali Shree is passionate about social movements that focus on non-violence, human rights, gender equality, and anti-trafficking. She is currently working on a spiritual memoir. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I'm Buddhist and I love Jainism. Buddhism and Jainism are very peaceful. Hopefully Jainism will grow in the future with Buddhism.
I'm a *PROUD JAIN* myself. But, I am Not Against fighting Wars for the sake of defending our country, people, family, and friends. As a *Proud Jain,* I strongly believe that, we should "never, ever initiate violence from our end." But, if a war has been waged against us and our country, then, as JAINS, it is our Prime Duty to defend ourselves and our country, by fighting, defeating, and *destroying* our enemy's troops. As a Jain, I strongly believe that, Non-Violence and Violence should be SUBJECTIVE to each situation. If a problem can be solved without violence, then, *we must avoid violence !* But if a certain problem cannot be dealt with Non-Violence, then, as a Jain, *I would NOT hesitate to use violence* to solve that problem. Because, "we cannot let injustice take place in society, in the name of Non-Violence" *!!* Last but not the least, we must never forget that historically, and in Reality, *many Jain Kings* have fought wars and Won wars against other Kingdoms, during necessary times. So, the conclusion is: *"a True Jain doesn't believe in an offensive violence."* But, a True Jain surely believes in *"Defensive Violence"* !!
*JAINISM FOREVER* 👍👍😊🙂
@@nih8679 The point is, JAINS are allowed to use violence while defending themselves. And, in the past, JAIN KINGS have fought wars to defend their Kingdoms !! Even today so many Jains are in the Indian Army.
@@nih8679 Of course, there is defensive violence in Jainism. And it is called as "Virodha Hinsa" as per Jain terminology.
@@nih8679 Yes. There is. Go educate yourself more about Jainism. Don't just be a troll.
oftentimes the people leading the war frame it as defensive and necessary when it is in reality offensive, unnecessary and motivated by greed, control and/or the desire to scapegoat another group of people
@@intellectualendeavors7194 JAINISM allows violence in Self Defense !! And, *there were Kings who were born as Jains from birth. And, yet, they have fought wars to defend their kingdoms !* Go learn about *King Kharavela, King Amoghavarsha, Rani Abbakka Chowta, and King Samprati Maurya !!* These were Jains from birth, till their death. But, *even though they were Jains, they fought wars and defeated all their enemies.* So, this is the FACT !! Violence is a necessary tool for survival in this world. The concept of *100% Ahimsa in this world* is really foolish, and many Jains need to grow up in regards to this matter.
Jai Jinendra 🙏
So proud of her and choosing this path. Acharya Shree Yogeesh is incredible, and I would have wanted to stay with him too. ❤
JAINISM IS THE WORLD'S OLDEST MOST BEST POWERFUL BEAUTIFUL PEACEFUL RELIGION 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Just wearing white clothes , speaking about one topic of jains , and calling yourselve a jain sadhvi is will not make any one a Jain monk
She literally lives in an ashram and had given up seriously comforts for life along with worldly relations. I've met her and she is as monk as a monk can be
At least someone is realising what Jainism is, one of the oldest religions in the world followed by billions of people before and just vanished due to radicalism and terrorism of other extremists groups!
Jainism is the oldest religion and father of faiths in india, and once jain dharm occupied eintire subcontinent but as time degraded people started worshipping animlas.
😢 yes several jain temple are converted to other religion temple Jain religion is dominating till 9th Century but after that other religion people destroyed this peaceful religion
Wow iam truly inspired.i needed to hear that talk.God bless us .iam also new believer in jain beliefs.i love that.
As a jain who know 4 accents & 3 languages i want to endorse and spread awareness in the world for Jainism 👍
As if most of the people understand & follow this religion world can be a peaceful place soon!❤
Let's spread the righg way of life...Jainism ❤ Jai Jinshashan
I've been a JAIN all my life and I didn't know it.
Same😂
It's not only about non violence... You couldn't even eat Grassroot vegetables which causes violence to the plant and also the micro organism surrounding it such as potato onions ginger carrot etc
Non-violence is the biggest religion
Yes peace and non violence is the best religion and that is jainism
As someone who wants to practice non-violence, how is killing plants to eat not violent? They are JUST AS ALIVE!
It's certainly better in some ways. But yes, plants scream when their leaves or roots are ripped out.
True Jain monks only eat fruits, nuts, seeds, pollen, nectar, etc.. which plants give freely and regenerate.
I personally eat eggs and milk too if the animals are treated well.
All matter is animus though, internal microstate buzzing is the E=mc^2. So even a rock is alive but just doesn't have many degrees of freedom in space or time, it's low entropy/energy from human macrostate slice
That's why Jains don't eat whole plant
They don't eat root vegetables
They only eat few parts of plant which didn't harm the plant.
It is not NO KILLING. Its MINIMUM KILLING, only killing that is enough to make us live living. Thats it.
Many people confuse it with no killing, actually it is minimum too minimum killing we can do while we live.
Who is killing plants to eat?
What we get from plants is either fruit or flower or root
Fruit and flower have to fall one day,talking about root which completely kills plant is never allowed in jainism.
@@SJ-kp2hq just agriculture in general is killing plants that already live there so we can grow our own crops (often times we genocide people to get their land to grow crops)
I don't know Gandhi mother is a jain.
I believe real non- violence is followed in Jainism ❤
I needed this ❤
Aren't they supposed to be bald?
very interesting 👌🏻
Namostu🙏🙏
God bless Jain monk sister 🙏
That's the beauty of Indic Religion & that's what makes it different from abrahamic faiths
As a Jain, TEDx has made a mockery of the Jain religion by invinting this group on stage.
Inspiring 👏👏
Taste the thunder of compassionate love and realisation of nonviolence by attending 10 days course of "Dhyanadhiraj Vipassana meditation"
You mean a "Nun".
Maha hai ye sant. Ab samajh mein AA Raha hai Bharat ka ye haal kaise hua? Bus juta khoj Raha hoon sar per Marne ke liye. Kiske ye mat puchna😂.
tum chinduo ki itni jalti kyu hai dusre dharmo se?
Very respectfully Loving ❤️ ING You One and All * divine* NOW and HERE in this Light and Moment Experiencing HAPPINESS and Freedom from Pain Fear Anger
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खुप खुप शुभेच्छा आभार
Lovely massage sister God bless you 🙏 now you are in New creation of God.
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THANKS SO SWEET MESSAGE RAM LAL SOLANKI PRBHUDAS RETD H.M AANTER NAGARI CHRISTIAN GANJ AJMER RAJASTHAN INDIA
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V ery good message paster
I hear this because my teacher told me to hear this type of lacture and after i heard it i feel more confident in myself
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हिन्दू धर्म सभी धर्म का जनक है
jain dharm hindu dharm ka bhi baap hai.
@@esotericwanderer6473 beta hindu dharam tere jain dharam se pehle aya tha
JAY SHREE RAM SATYA SANATAN DHARAM KI JAY
@@NAKULJOSHI-zi2le Hinduism was assembled in 1856 AD by Britishers using 1000s of cults, factions, offshoots, tribal, regional systems. - Hinduism is a foreign word. Sanatan was another name given to barbaric vedic practices of manuvadi by removing practices like Deu Dasi, animal sacrifice,dalitism, Sati system, female genocide etc. it was done by people like Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramhans, so Sanatan dharma is just 100 years old approximately while yoga, spiritualism, ayurveda, ahimsa stolen, copied, and appropriated from Jain system, including many recent gods renamed from Jain temples of indigenous people.💯🙌
@@NAKULJOSHI-zi2le Sanatan dharm is created by Vivekananda recently to revive barbaric vedic practices. It is offshoot of Jainism, as they copied ahimsa, Yoga, Spirtualism, Vegetarianism, meditation, Karma from it, to hide their original practices like Animal Sacrifice, devdasi system, yagna, Homa, Widow burning, casteism, dalitism, untouchability and oppression. Now new name" Sanatan" is given to Saivism/ vaishnuism/ Vedic/brahiminic/ Hinduism/ Aghori and other cults to improvise the past practices. But still one religion cannot have ahimsa and Animal sacrifice in same religion (self contradictory philosophy on doctrines)!!!! Same way Yoga and Yagna/ havan do not go together. So is Spiritualism-harma and offerings-appeasing gods. Now efforts are made to erase Jainism under the banner of Sanatan (revived Hinduism). though Sanatan was just born in the era of Vivekanda and swaminarayan. Besides hinduism word iteself is a foreign word and it is more to do with geographical identity.💯🙌🙄
Isi sanatan ki baat kar raha na tu
@@esotericwanderer6473 yesss 💯🙌🙏
Jay jinendra 🙏
Jesus is Lord
For you , he is.
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