Buddhism is not religion but it’s a philosophy. I heard lot of Buddhist teaching and it’s main point is training your mind and heart to kind and compassionate person. Anyone can be Buddhist as long as you are kind and compassionate. And care about well being of all the sentient beings. Never depend on material things for your inner happiness.
Thank you. Interesting new information for me. He knows what he talks and is very humble and transparent. In the comments here people thought was important to disagree with RW concepts or these comments need to clarify some RW statements. It will take few seconds to start our comments with appreciation of RW and google efforts to share high quality information that urge right now to we all have. Appreciation express with a thank you.
I think he dint answer it correctly. having a tooth ache and not going to doctor is kind of procrastination and inability to delay gratification. Meditation does help with procastination and make you realistic with life.
....I think I can answer your question posed at the beginning of your talk....most people are unaware of the law of cause and effect and, therefore, don't understand why things are happening the way they happen in one's life or in societies collectively....Christianity tries to deal with it through the obedience to the 10 Commandments but fails to enlighten their audience that "as one sows, so shall one reap".....add to that the over-arching need for people to continue to look to government to solve our problems, and we have chaos in the making....as an SGI member for 30 years, I am doing my best to have dialogue with members to understand we must get that the law is already functioning in our lives and the chant is performed to change "poison into medicine" (our karma) to stop suffering brought on by greed, anger, and foolishness.....the only true way to understand how strict the law of cause and effect is, is to understand we've lived before and will live again - SO, no action (good or bad) is ever lost on the law of cause and effect meaning, you might evade man's law (in any country in this world) but you can never evade the effects of the law of cause and effect -- it is exact and that should be very comforting for those thinking someone got away with something, for example.....
I follow Wright on a number of his other channels as I like and appreciate them for the badly-needed reason, education, positivity and mutual understanding he promotes to his audience (myself included) in this fractious world we live in. As a practising buddhist myself, however, I sincerely hope Wright would be a bit more active in putting it out there front and centre that he's still an elementary-level buddhist as some of his previous videos/talks have, due to their brevity, risked inadvertently providing some misinformation or misperception of buddhism. One of the most starkly misleading piece of information he's previously provided in a talk in Washington (5 years or so ago) is that most or all of the buddhist monks in Asia don't meditate. Long story short, that's far from reality or the truth; I suspect Wright may have come to that conclusion by his own observation or, in any case, couldn't have done a reasonably representative job of speaking to buddhist monks in Asia. The other possibility is that he may have gotten that impression by speaking to followers/adherents of Daoism which counts a very dominant following across Asia and which includes Buddhism in its multifarious spiritual doctrine. Daoism is equal parts folk tradition and spirituality so it is true that the far majority of Daoist practitioners do not meditate. But the assertion that most if not all buddhist monks in Asia do not meditate is truly a bombshell of a misinformation and anyone who commits such an obvious faux pas puts in grave doubt his/her qualification to speak on/for/about buddhism. There's a glut of UA-cam videos by practising monks from across the spectrum of Buddhist traditions and I greatly encourage the audience here to view them in order to get the proper understanding of Buddhism. Wright has done a stellar job of bringing Buddhism to the attention of the wider western audience but I sincerely hope that that audience, having now been introduced to Buddhism, will now spend some time listening to practising Buddhist monks who are very accessible on UA-cam. Disclaimer: this is not a criticism of Robert Wright who has done a wonderful job of introducing buddhism to the wide western audience.
It's unfair to comment on un referenced material. Bob's observation of casual buddhism in Asian culture is clear in this video. He's clearly NOT stating meditation is not central to the Buddha's teaching, there is no "bombshell of mis-information or obvious faux-pas" here at all. To publicly evaluate someone's "level" of Buddhist-ness IS obviously non-cannonical and to criticize while denying that very criticism is... clinically diagnostic.
Self and not self are falsifiable (but unprovable) statements that have been and are argued for thousands of years without resolution. That misses the point. When dissected and looked deeply: there is no thing there that is the self.
There is no reason why you need to waste another day trapped in the Matrix of self-deceptions. After your Enlightenment, come join the rest of us on the front lines. i would love to hear your proposal to move us all on planet Earth from the way things are today to a Whole New Way of Living rooted in Love and Wisdom. Total Enlightenment NOW! facebook.com/groups/1551365565178063/
If buddhism is true in the sense the disarmament is effective then why buddhism disappeared in the area of afghanistan and was replaced totally by Islam?
VidPro Surabaya budism is not like the other religions in the name of allah or christ to conquer ! Budism is something else another way of thinking and teachings than other teachings.
I honestly feel that any endeavor, Islam, Christianity, objective science and especially physics, will converge upon Buddhist truth, if pursued humbly and diligently. Buddhism itself can be a false path, as in the horror with the Rohingya. Domination cultures can arise for a time but like a hurricane they will succumb to impermanence, the seeds of their own demise are sown from the beginning. We see this with Trump in America. Democrats don't need to do anything about that, ultra-conservatives are doing an excellent job of undermining themselves. A fabulous job. Tyrants always do. In the end they are the universe, they are arisings, comings and goings, and with a certain perspective one can see this happening everywhere, all the time. What is the definition of a conservative? One who hangs on, conserves. That's impossible. Often the attempt to conserve brings an even swifter end. Unfortunately, a lot of people end up suffering in the process.
Verily Buddhism is a very much confusing & complicated Concept that has no logic// Purpose of life// Goal// Target. But Digha Nikaya Says God Has Exist. Why shall we follow with out an aim in life ???????????????Many man says many things about Buddha's Teachings. With out Desire how can we develop we don't under stand????. Again 4 th Desire is God itself not???Digha Nikaya says about God . Now it is nothing but Paganism. Reply
Let me spare you a week's time and the pricey expense of a Buddhist retreat: His big epiphany is when he realizes the beautiful foliage on the retreat center path are the same as the weeds he's been pulling out of his backyard. But then if you're over 17 you probably already knew that.
Buddhism is not religion but it’s a philosophy. I heard lot of Buddhist teaching and it’s main point is training your mind and heart to kind and compassionate person. Anyone can be Buddhist as long as you are kind and compassionate. And care about well being of all the sentient beings. Never depend on material things for your inner happiness.
Thank you. Interesting new information for me. He knows what he talks and is very humble and transparent. In the comments here people thought was important to disagree with RW concepts or these comments need to clarify some RW statements. It will take few seconds to start our comments with appreciation of RW and google efforts to share high quality information that urge right now to we all have. Appreciation express with a thank you.
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Very accessible book from a very fine author. Really Impressed. Much better than Sam Harris's book!
Albert Eintein once says Buddhism Wii be future religion.
Sati, translated by Rhys Davids, a British civil servant in Sri Lanka, founder of the Pali Text Society.
Best question at 30:00
I think he dint answer it correctly. having a tooth ache and not going to doctor is kind of procrastination and inability to delay gratification. Meditation does help with procastination and make you realistic with life.
Truth should go together with wholesomeness. Then its beneficial. Unnecessary truths sometimes harmful. Greetings from sri Lanka
....I think I can answer your question posed at the beginning of your talk....most people are unaware of the law of cause and effect and, therefore, don't understand why things are happening the way they happen in one's life or in societies collectively....Christianity tries to deal with it through the obedience to the 10 Commandments but fails to enlighten their audience that "as one sows, so shall one reap".....add to that the over-arching need for people to continue to look to government to solve our problems, and we have chaos in the making....as an SGI member for 30 years, I am doing my best to have dialogue with members to understand we must get that the law is already functioning in our lives and the chant is performed to change "poison into medicine" (our karma) to stop suffering brought on by greed, anger, and foolishness.....the only true way to understand how strict the law of cause and effect is, is to understand we've lived before and will live again - SO, no action (good or bad) is ever lost on the law of cause and effect meaning, you might evade man's law (in any country in this world) but you can never evade the effects of the law of cause and effect -- it is exact and that should be very comforting for those thinking someone got away with something, for example.....
Love the book
I bought his book...
He's actually a good writer and fun too. This doesn't come off as much in this talk.
Microsoft surface used for Google presentation 😐
Your point being....
I follow Wright on a number of his other channels as I like and appreciate them for the badly-needed reason, education, positivity and mutual understanding he promotes to his audience (myself included) in this fractious world we live in.
As a practising buddhist myself, however, I sincerely hope Wright would be a bit more active in putting it out there front and centre that he's still an elementary-level buddhist as some of his previous videos/talks have, due to their brevity, risked inadvertently providing some misinformation or misperception of buddhism. One of the most starkly misleading piece of information he's previously provided in a talk in Washington (5 years or so ago) is that most or all of the buddhist monks in Asia don't meditate. Long story short, that's far from reality or the truth; I suspect Wright may have come to that conclusion by his own observation or, in any case, couldn't have done a reasonably representative job of speaking to buddhist monks in Asia. The other possibility is that he may have gotten that impression by speaking to followers/adherents of Daoism which counts a very dominant following across Asia and which includes Buddhism in its multifarious spiritual doctrine. Daoism is equal parts folk tradition and spirituality so it is true that the far majority of Daoist practitioners do not meditate. But the assertion that most if not all buddhist monks in Asia do not meditate is truly a bombshell of a misinformation and anyone who commits such an obvious faux pas puts in grave doubt his/her qualification to speak on/for/about buddhism. There's a glut of UA-cam videos by practising monks from across the spectrum of Buddhist traditions and I greatly encourage the audience here to view them in order to get the proper understanding of Buddhism. Wright has done a stellar job of bringing Buddhism to the attention of the wider western audience but I sincerely hope that that audience, having now been introduced to Buddhism, will now spend some time listening to practising Buddhist monks who are very accessible on UA-cam. Disclaimer: this is not a criticism of Robert Wright who has done a wonderful job of introducing buddhism to the wide western audience.
It's unfair to comment on un referenced material. Bob's observation of casual buddhism in Asian culture is clear in this video. He's clearly NOT stating meditation is not central to the Buddha's teaching, there is no "bombshell of mis-information or obvious faux-pas" here at all. To publicly evaluate someone's "level" of Buddhist-ness IS obviously non-cannonical and to criticize while denying that very criticism is... clinically diagnostic.
Not trying to be meta, but this lecture really affirms my worldview (i.e. cognitive bias). lolz
meditation is one way to do it. just try to understand life is another way - the selfless way.
Self and not self are falsifiable (but unprovable) statements that have been and are argued for thousands of years without resolution. That misses the point. When dissected and looked deeply: there is no thing there that is the self.
Do Jacob's Ladder for at least 90 minutes.
There is no reason why you need to waste another day trapped in the Matrix of self-deceptions.
After your Enlightenment, come join the rest of us on the front lines. i would love to hear your proposal to move us all on planet Earth from the way things are today to a Whole New Way of Living rooted in Love and Wisdom.
Total Enlightenment NOW! facebook.com/groups/1551365565178063/
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If buddhism is true in the sense the disarmament is effective then why buddhism disappeared in the area of afghanistan and was replaced totally by Islam?
VidPro Surabaya budism is not like the other religions in the name of allah or christ to conquer ! Budism is something else another way of thinking and teachings than other teachings.
VidPro Surabaya maybe the elite care more about power and control opposed to personal freedom...
I honestly feel that any endeavor, Islam, Christianity, objective science and especially physics, will converge upon Buddhist truth, if pursued humbly and diligently. Buddhism itself can be a false path, as in the horror with the Rohingya. Domination cultures can arise for a time but like a hurricane they will succumb to impermanence, the seeds of their own demise are sown from the beginning. We see this with Trump in America. Democrats don't need to do anything about that, ultra-conservatives are doing an excellent job of undermining themselves. A fabulous job. Tyrants always do. In the end they are the universe, they are arisings, comings and goings, and with a certain perspective one can see this happening everywhere, all the time.
What is the definition of a conservative? One who hangs on, conserves. That's impossible. Often the attempt to conserve brings an even swifter end. Unfortunately, a lot of people end up suffering in the process.
because they're don't know what's Buddha is teaching...
VidPro Surabaya Buddhism was not forced on anyone. Islam and Christianity was forced on people with sword.
.."most"..!
( meaning 'fool')
Verily Buddhism is a very much confusing & complicated Concept that has no logic// Purpose of life// Goal// Target. But Digha Nikaya Says God Has Exist. Why shall we follow with out an aim in life ???????????????Many man says many things about Buddha's Teachings. With out Desire how can we develop we don't under stand????. Again 4 th Desire is God itself not???Digha Nikaya says about God . Now it is nothing but Paganism.
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Please get your facts right google. Shakyamuni was a prince from Nepal not India.
true now, no? I think in Buddha's day it was India.
It was India in the past, just as Pakistan and Afghanistan and parts of Myanmar were included in India
Yes, get your facts right. There was no Nepal in those days. It was part of an Indian Kingdom.
There was no Nepal or India back then 2500 years ago.
st.THOMAS = DHARMA.
Let me spare you a week's time and the pricey expense of a Buddhist retreat: His big epiphany is when he realizes the beautiful foliage on the retreat center path are the same as the weeds he's been pulling out of his backyard. But then if you're over 17 you probably already knew that.
this guy is obsessed with politics
I love Trump.
No
was buddha a nasty political gossip like robert wright?
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Sati, translated by Rhys Davids, a British civil servant in Sri Lanka, founder of the Pali Text Society.