Chapter Table of Contents 1. The Problem: 3:09 2. Storytime 1: 19:52 3. Why Sensuality Fails: 29:23 4. Why Few People Meditate: 35:58 5. Common Myths: 40:00 6. Benefits: 47:21 7. Buddha's Real Priorities: 57:09 8. What Really Matters: 59:06 9. Sense of Urgency: 1:04:45 10. The Practice in Brief: 1:07:25 11. Summary: 1:09:39 🙏
They are a book - it is linked in the channel banner and every comment^^ (once the lecture videos have all been released, I will also update the QR codes in there that link to the lecture)
Thanks a lot for your hard work and effort.. it’s of great benefit to all of us. I have 2 requests, if possible 1. Kindly provide a transcript of these presentations or the power point slides. It will be useful since it will give us more time to absorb the points in depth, when used along with your lecture. 2. Kindly make a epub version of your meditation book, may be at a later date when it’s possible for you. It will make reading in small screens/eink readers easier.
Hey rivet! The slides themselves are always available here: drive.google.com/drive/u/5/folders/1F_BwUShsEB2I1WduQztA0f72bQVhuujF Those are pdf only though, as I have generated them using the LaTeX typesetting engine and not PowerPoint. Concerning an e-book, I am afraid I have tried that before and it simple does not work in a somewhat simple way. Again, I have written the book in LaTeX too and due to the many figures, any "conversion program" results in a document that contains roughly 4000 pages and most of some contain only single lines of figures that I created^^ If you know of an easy/good converter, feel free to let me know but after a good 40 hours of research I could not find a solution.
I've watched this several times, along with some of your older videos for context. I keep getting stuck ~ 27:00. You often say that the cultivation of virtue and sense restraint is a prerequisite for uprooting craving. It naturally follows that one can eliminate all of the "surface-level defilements" but will eventually fall from grace. However I can't understand how someone can eliminate the roots and still have "surface-level defilements." Isn't the definition of uprooting that craving will no longer arise?
In my garden, I have a lot of voles. From time to time, they move to a fruit tree, eat all its roots and the tree is "technically dead". Yet, the following year and the year thereafter, it will still create new small leaves and will even flower mildly. Yet, it's fate has been sealed as soon as the roots have been severed. It is the same with our craving. The roots are one thing and the "habits" that we have created for a long time another. They cannot fully be separated but they are not the same thing either. Even an Arahant has to carry the "burden of the body" with its leftover Kamma (which is hollow to him). What we "see/experience/understand" upon understanding the Dhamma is the _principle_ of dependent origination but we have yet to apply it everywhere. This principle is the "deepest root" of suffering there is. Now when you move to more shallow rots and pull them (virtue), then the bad habits cannot regrow anymore as there is nothing left. Craving has multiple layers and an "internal hierarchy" so to speak. Does this help?
Yes it helps. I'm not much of a gardener, so I'm embarking on an exercise of translating your Dhamma to an analogy more fit for a working software engineer like myself. It involves watchdog processes, malicious executable, child processes and crontab entries. Don't worry, I won't elaborate here. My little gedanken naturally leads to what I think is the true insight of dependent origination, and the nature of the "stream leading to nibbana". It can even be summed up with a pithy mantra. I need to do some more reflecting as I may have unwittingly imported some of my own wrong view. The difficulty is in knowing whether my remaining substandard behaviors are the residual death throes of a withering weed, or if there is an untouched root lurking beneath the surface.
Thank you again for the lectures🙏I have a question about an answer to a comment below regarding seclusion. You stated: 'That there is a right time and place for seclusion. The Buddha only really recommended it after the attainment of the Right View'. Nyanamoli Thero of HH in a recent talk said that seeing the signs of the mind (citta-nimitta) was a crucial to obtain Right View and to do so required seclusion. I only ask to clarify. Many thanks.
It is a matter of degrees. From Stream Entry onwards, you can be alone for all eternity and be fine. Before that, you should find a good balance between being alone and sometimes talking about the Dhamma with more advanced individuals. That is basically what the Buddha recommended too
DR Florian I am attaching this comment to this video in the hope that you will see it since you just released this video. Your play list for this lecture series is out of order. The introductionary video is appearing in the fourth spot or currently the last spot out of the currently released four videos. Hope you see this comment so others who are not familiar with your work can understand better what you are aiming at. 🙏
Chapter Table of Contents
1. The Problem: 3:09
2. Storytime 1: 19:52
3. Why Sensuality Fails: 29:23
4. Why Few People Meditate: 35:58
5. Common Myths: 40:00
6. Benefits: 47:21
7. Buddha's Real Priorities: 57:09
8. What Really Matters: 59:06
9. Sense of Urgency: 1:04:45
10. The Practice in Brief: 1:07:25
11. Summary: 1:09:39
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You made it to the end! Good talk. I liked very much the miracle depiction and the urgency data that hit home.🙏🏽
Great lecture, Florian. You’re a great teacher. Beautiful Dhamma
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V v good Dr Florian...you have structured things you have been taking about exceptionally well. These can become a good book.
They are a book - it is linked in the channel banner and every comment^^ (once the lecture videos have all been released, I will also update the QR codes in there that link to the lecture)
Thanks a lot for your hard work and effort.. it’s of great benefit to all of us. I have 2 requests, if possible
1. Kindly provide a transcript of these presentations or the power point slides. It will be useful since it will give us more time to absorb the points in depth, when used along with your lecture.
2. Kindly make a epub version of your meditation book, may be at a later date when it’s possible for you. It will make reading in small screens/eink readers easier.
Hey rivet!
The slides themselves are always available here: drive.google.com/drive/u/5/folders/1F_BwUShsEB2I1WduQztA0f72bQVhuujF
Those are pdf only though, as I have generated them using the LaTeX typesetting engine and not PowerPoint.
Concerning an e-book, I am afraid I have tried that before and it simple does not work in a somewhat simple way. Again, I have written the book in LaTeX too and due to the many figures, any "conversion program" results in a document that contains roughly 4000 pages and most of some contain only single lines of figures that I created^^
If you know of an easy/good converter, feel free to let me know but after a good 40 hours of research I could not find a solution.
@ Thanks a lot for the slides. I understand the issue regarding the ebook. I’m also not aware of how the conversion works
Thank you. 🙏
Nice work.
Thanks 🙏
I've watched this several times, along with some of your older videos for context. I keep getting stuck ~ 27:00. You often say that the cultivation of virtue and sense restraint is a prerequisite for uprooting craving. It naturally follows that one can eliminate all of the "surface-level defilements" but will eventually fall from grace. However I can't understand how someone can eliminate the roots and still have "surface-level defilements." Isn't the definition of uprooting that craving will no longer arise?
In my garden, I have a lot of voles. From time to time, they move to a fruit tree, eat all its roots and the tree is "technically dead". Yet, the following year and the year thereafter, it will still create new small leaves and will even flower mildly. Yet, it's fate has been sealed as soon as the roots have been severed.
It is the same with our craving. The roots are one thing and the "habits" that we have created for a long time another. They cannot fully be separated but they are not the same thing either. Even an Arahant has to carry the "burden of the body" with its leftover Kamma (which is hollow to him).
What we "see/experience/understand" upon understanding the Dhamma is the _principle_ of dependent origination but we have yet to apply it everywhere. This principle is the "deepest root" of suffering there is. Now when you move to more shallow rots and pull them (virtue), then the bad habits cannot regrow anymore as there is nothing left. Craving has multiple layers and an "internal hierarchy" so to speak.
Does this help?
Yes it helps. I'm not much of a gardener, so I'm embarking on an exercise of translating your Dhamma to an analogy more fit for a working software engineer like myself. It involves watchdog processes, malicious executable, child processes and crontab entries. Don't worry, I won't elaborate here.
My little gedanken naturally leads to what I think is the true insight of dependent origination, and the nature of the "stream leading to nibbana". It can even be summed up with a pithy mantra. I need to do some more reflecting as I may have unwittingly imported some of my own wrong view.
The difficulty is in knowing whether my remaining substandard behaviors are the residual death throes of a withering weed, or if there is an untouched root lurking beneath the surface.
@@ryanhewitt9902 Those two are very difficult to tell apart, so be diligent in you reflections!
Sadhu!
Thank you again for the lectures🙏I have a question about an answer to a comment below regarding seclusion. You stated: 'That there is a right time and place for seclusion. The Buddha only really recommended it after the attainment of the Right View'. Nyanamoli Thero of HH in a recent talk said that seeing the signs of the mind (citta-nimitta) was a crucial to obtain Right View and to do so required seclusion. I only ask to clarify. Many thanks.
It is a matter of degrees. From Stream Entry onwards, you can be alone for all eternity and be fine. Before that, you should find a good balance between being alone and sometimes talking about the Dhamma with more advanced individuals. That is basically what the Buddha recommended too
Thank you for this. Can you share the source where it is said that monks "gather according to their elements" please?
in the Sutta "walking back and forth" - I forgot the number but that should be the name of it
SN 14.15, in case you didn't find it
DR Florian I am attaching this comment to this video in the hope that you will see it since you just released this video. Your play list for this lecture series is out of order. The introductionary video is appearing in the fourth spot or currently the last spot out of the currently released four videos. Hope you see this comment so others who are not familiar with your work can understand better what you are aiming at. 🙏
The presentation says loneliness kills as much as tobacco, yet the buddha recommends seclusion. What do you think?
That there is a right time and place for seclusion. The Buddha only really recommended it after the attainment of the Right View