HOW to FACE SUFFERING & NOT ESCAPING
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- MAN GIVES UP EVERYTHING
In 2015, aged 47 an English businessman gave up everything and travelled Asia to find true happiness. Now a Buddhist Monk, living a simple life in Thailand, India and Sri Lanka, he shares the continuing story.
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Phra Dan (Bhante Dhammarakkhita, Bhikkhu) is a Theravada Buddhist Monk who lived in India from 2020, Thailand and now Sri Lanka. Born in Sussex, England in 1967. Educated by French Catholic Monks. A successful businessman in Estate Agency and Financial Services during the 1980's and 90's. Married, now divorced with 3 adult son's. 2000 marked change and travel including South Africa returning to the UK in 2003 to continue different work and business activities until 2012. Gradually materialistic values turned to renunciation, simplicity and meditation, living nomadically in an old Ford Transit van full time for 3 years. Van life and meditation led to Buddhism and a Thai Forest Tradition, Theravada Buddhist Monastery in the UK. During 2015 travelling the Buddhist Holy Sites of India, deep faith reinforced desire for Ordination. In 2020 after 5 years of intensive meditation practice between Thai Forest Monasteries in Thailand and England he was Ordained in India where he lived for 3 years until returning to Thailand in 2023 and now Sri Lanka.
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Good talk thank you. 🙏
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Excellent Talk Sir 🎯
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Namo Buddha....may everyone be blessed with peace and tranquility
Namo Buddhaya Sukhi Hontu
This is Timely i am under stress at the moment 🙄
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Once again thank you for these wonderful talks
You're welcome it's my pleasure. Be happy and stay well
Vandami bhanteyji
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Changing oneself is selfish and becoming Arhant whereas changing the life of others and the human system is a Boddhisatva
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Beloved Brother MEDITATION, PRACTIONER ,THE two Buddhist Books In English Are In The Dharma Talks of Ajahn Brahm please Focus one talk giving The name and Authors and where we can find them online & order hard copies, Also IM looking for the same for patatanjalis vyasas Yoga Sutras thank you Yogi Steven Mcfarling Ashland Oregon USA
I think people interested in reading books can find them easily enough.
I heard about the three watching times, does the night watch happens every day? 5:30pm-12:00am?
Three watches of the night means this in Buddhism
MN 53 Sekha-patipada Sutta: The Practice for One in Training
And how is the disciple of the noble ones devoted to wakefulness? There is the case where a monk during the day, sitting & pacing back & forth, cleanses his mind of any qualities that would hold the mind in check. During the first watch of the night [dusk to 10 p.m.], sitting & pacing back & forth, he cleanses his mind of any qualities that would hold the mind in check. During the second watch of the night [10 p.m. to 2 a.m.], reclining on his right side, he takes up the lion's posture, one foot placed on top of the other, mindful, alert, with his mind set on getting up [either as soon as he awakens or at a particular time]. During the last watch of the night [2 a.m. to dawn], sitting & pacing back & forth, he cleanses his mind of any qualities that would hold the mind in check. This is how the monk is devoted to wakefulness.
Also the 3 watches pertains to the night the Buddha awakened under the Bodhi Tree - knowledge of all his previous lives, the cycle of life, death and re-birth (samsara) and that all beings suffer due to desire.
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Venebrable monk are you enlightened or have you unlocked any stages of awakening ???
What's the point of asking that? Would it help you at all in your training?
The Vinaya (Monastic) rules do not allow Bhante to answer this question for you. Monks are not allowed to tell lay people their levels of attainment
Unlocked stages ... 😂
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Are you familiar with the reincarnation studies made by Dr Ian Stevenson?
No I'm not
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