Death and Eternal Life | Ajahn Brahmali | 1 May 2020
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Ajahn Brahm discusses about death and eternal life. Ajahn explains how Buddhism views death and how death contemplation can help you live a wiser and happier life. Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon: / buddhistsocietywa
Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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Me too
Ajahn Brahmali gave a brilliant talk on a difficult subject, especially difficult for one to understand if for e.g. without understanding the 4 noble truth first. This is the reason why Buddhism can sound pessimistic to someone when in fact it is optimistic it shows us how to lessen our suffering in this life and after life both, have a beautiful life while accepting inevitable death one day, if only one can practice virtue along with stillness/mindfulness, compassion/wisdom which is a continuing learning process in life. With Metta and Karuna to all beings
I love the flickering Vesak lights and am also feeling the world come together and can understand now how it worked in ww 2. Also love how the Buddhist society of western Australia is having so many postings. It helps me keep on track with my meditation and paying attention to what my body is feeling.
No greater nightmare than living forever in this same old boring body, especially in Heaven with all my relatives. A living a million different lifetimes as a man, a woman, a cat, a bird.... That's so awesome. I'd love that.
Only Two options; Heaven or Hell.
Virgin Birth, Death by Crucifixion, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus prove that Buddha's teachings are 100% wrong.
Watch this video "What did I do to deserve this?"
ua-cam.com/video/WDQ1VmYMT7o/v-deo.html
You are a gem Ajhan Bramali. Always directly to the point. Thank you so much for your service.
I agree! He is direct and not disrespectful at all of any other views, beliefs or opinions of anyone! No one is forcing any BELIEFS here, NOTHING /ZERO is the best that is the only thing he missed saying lol not the CRAVING for NOTHING, ETERNAL LIFE or SENSUAL DESIRES the big 3 he touched on that brilliantly! He talked out of compassion, wisdom and ability to teach if not he would have just maintained his noble path in solitude 24 hours lol He pulled it off in simple English!
I also see this talk as a fearless talk, thank you Ajahn Brahmali Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Thank you Ajahn Brahmali--death contemplation is one of the most powerful mechanisms that helps me on the path to enlightenment. Sadhu!! I always appreciate it when you choose this topic
"And if you're not there, that's ok, too." :D
Thanks for the talk and the kindness
Thanks for your teachings , it will be very helpful to many people at this difficult time .
What a great talk. Thank you 🙏🌸❤️
Thank you Rev. Sir 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you Ajahn Brahmali - Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu🙏🏽
Wow...well done Bhante! I've listened to this a few times, I get something new with every listen. Even though I know recording on UA-cam must be daunting, the silver lining is that this wisdom is available for a long time.
Thank you Ajahn Brahmali. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu!
Thank you, I find a lot of wisdom in your speech. I often contemplated about death and came, after thinking it through and through to the same conclusions.
I did turn away from the world, as you say it, in a way that I do not make myself too attached to it. Created a form of life in which I detach from many things like status, wealth, money and so on. But what saddens me deeply is that once you became a parent (and I am) you cannot turn back. People are having children and with children you have a very deep and engaged social life on which you depend a lot. You cannot choose social distance, in fact, your survival depends on having some habitual meetings like on Christmas or Easter, to see regularly parents and the rest of the family. To give your child stability and regularity. There are family protocols in the same way as you do have them in the monastery.
You Buddhists too easily forget that once children are there, social distancing is a really bad idea.
Even though I reduced my life in a capitalist world to its maximum, there is still a rest of boundary and it must remain until my son is old enough to decide for his own life.
I am right now about to fall into a deep depression, signs are coming and scare me. Social distancing - literally not touching anybody - is for me a nightmare.
Yes, it is a good chance right now to contemplate. But I don't know if I can live it through.
I do not fear death ... I fear a live under the joke of people who seek for eternal life and immortality.
Thank you very much for this talk, Ajahn 🙏🙏
Buddha's words are not just for monks/nuns, for lay society as well and certainly about how to keep harmony between the 2 societies and a brilliant system to ease off suffering in all beings how deep one wants to figure it out is optional! Up to Samadhi or beyond Samadhi it is all good no pressure depends on the individual. Buddha Dhamma Sangha saranam gachhami! Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu!
1:44:34 Ajahn Brahmali's explanation is impressive! Sounds like herd/group mentality/energy with wisdom for good causes Increased happiness in the society with increase in wholesome actions/ good karma and decrease in unwholesome actions/bad karma and Ven Canda adding insight no good or bad people only good karma and bad karma happening around us Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Wonderful Talk
Thank you 🌸🌺🌸🌺
Thank you for this interesting talk!
I like the talk so good
Thanks so much monks & the Anakampa Bikkhuni Project. AWEsome Sci-fy Dhamma Ajahn Brahmali! Hey has anyone ever said how much you look like Lawrence Olivier?
Now u mention it, yes!
Very true. The only thing we can brings along is mr karma.
While its obvious you can't take this life with you; I get confused about the issue of friends and loved ones. If they're all just wiped away from the universe and from your perspective, then why care about them at all? The Buddha clearly cared about people, or he wouldn't have bothered to teach. He would have just stopped eating and moved on from this impermanent universe. So, clearly he didn't look at others sentient beings as illusions(except in the general sense of the "illusion of self"), but he also said that nothing transfers over at death. I really think the translation to English messes with the meanings in bad ways sometimes.
Lovely to see you :-)
Thx
46:00 to 54:00 minutes, the audio seems to be messing up... Anybody else?
Start from 1:26:20 hv video speed problem.
Thanks Venerable 💙
To have children means to have sex. And sex is an expression of sensual desires which the Buddha said is the cause of rebirth in samsara. No sex no procreation! It is not whether having children or bringing up a worthy being is good or bad or neither; rather what is suffering and the end of suffering!This is why monks and nuns refrain from sex and to tune their mind inwards to understand the cause of suffering and to end it! A celibate life is free and jovial; the enjoyment for monks and nuns is the jhanas.
Yes also to my understanding monks/nuns can disrobe leave monasticism any time, join the lay society if they want to have children and the lay folks have the 3rd precept for a guideline for a beautiful life before death!
Prince Sadarta had a son
@@alexgorchkov3844 Nobleman Gotama had a son. He was not perfect before he was awakened. A great inspiration for us...Sadhu
Yong Jie An You make several good points, and so does DY. Thank you both! May everyone’s practice bring us all to better understanding of the Dhamma.
@@alexgorchkov3844 His son and his wife later followed him as monastics. I believe his son's chosen name was "Ananda"
Now that I have informed myself further on the subject of "anti-natalism", I have to contradict straight out! This is quite a clear delusion and also ignorance towards the living and I have been asking myself for a day now whether a large part of the Buddhist teaching itself has not fallen victim to ignorance and resists the change it teaches.
I can agree with everything, with the four noble truths, the eightfold path and all the valuable teachings that Buddhism provides me with. But the question of rebirth and the reason for not being reborn seems to me to be open to criticism, and above all it could be a self-hatred of man for himself, hidden deep under the layers of alleged reason. Life means suffering, is really no secret, and that we all get sick and old and die at some point is the most natural thing in the world. But to deduce from this that this suffering life is not even worth living and that one should therefore step out of the cycle of existence is a point of criticism for me. Above all, because I cannot check the teaching in the same way as I can with the other aspects of the teaching. Any teaching that encourages self-examination of the scholar is to be welcomed. Any religious institution would do well to take a very critical look at itself and open itself to its own mistakes and hidden unconscious desires that we all have.
Far too seldom is the question asked why the subject of giving birth and procreation through sexual contact still has such a shame attached to it that the biology of the human being, who is now also an animal, finds vehement negation in Buddhist circles. There is nothing unnatural about giving birth and nurturing babies. The world does not suffer from overpopulation but from lack of love. The negation of what I call motherhood, the expulsion of midwives from the lives of women giving birth and their placement in clinics, speaks volumes.
Buddhism - and the dominance of alleged reason over what is also compassion, namely showing one's grief through tears and affection through physical contact, has always been tangible to me. As if you can't be clear mind when you cry. As if open tears somehow make you look dumber. In reality, many of the monasteries and their teachers are just helping to strengthen the social distance. If you Buddhists were really so serene about your mortality, why do I have to hear so many people say so hastily that the tradition of bowing to each other is preferable to shaking hands or hugging? How many hidden messages of know-it-all I have heard in recent days on the channels of teaching is almost unbearable to me.
The purpose of Buddhism is happiness
@E. RH One has to bear in mind that many of the talks conducted by the monks are towards a strictly spiritual life leading to a higher level of consciousness. While the five precepts is a good guide to the layperson and a reflection of Buddhist principles, it would help to read/listen to talks inorder to develop intuitive knowledge of Buddhism, bearing in mind that many of the notable monks did not have the literacy of the western world, yet they were able to grasp the essence of Buddhism to achieve happiness in this life and the next. Perhaps a discussion with a senior monk could provide you with what you seek. Thumbs up for your attn.
@@MustAfaalik Thank you, I would love to talk and come into touch with a monk. But in this online-world there is nobody to talk to. I've sent a letter to a monastery a couple of days ago. I did that some years ago, too. I never received an answer. We don't have a monastery here. Only some Buddhist centers who anyway do not have deep knowledge in giving support to the communities. A weird mixture between western superficial understanding of the doctrine and self centeredness. I study Buddhism for quite a while and, according to the Buddha, I stay critical to teachings. A religion must always be also open to self critisism. Every institution is prone to be oblivious to its own flaws.
Nam mô a di đà phật
Audio issues !!! What went wrong. It is so annoying and difficult to listen to.
The video became choppy.
Brahmali has made it clear to me that he has not understood vinnana (commonly translated as 'consciousness') properly, the way that he addressed the frozen people situation demonstrates that he thinks in a similar pernicious way that the Sati thought in Mahātaṇhāsaṅkhayasutta suttacentral.net/mn38/en/sujato If the organ of the sense (in this case all organs) are frozen / incapacitated there is no 'consciousness' arising there at all. because it depends on the organ. More so the consciousness does not transmigrate. The sutta makes it clear even with the imprecise translation.
@Danny B I did not say 'mind consciousness'.
@Danny B That is imprecise. You can only somewhat call mano-vinnana 'consciousness' not the rest of them. You don't understand vinnana. I Also did not say "There is one consciousness not six". This is the second time you misrepresent me and put words in my mouth.
@Danny B Thanks
I think you're not understanding consciousness properly if you think that there is no existence without it. The Buddha was not teaching nihilism!
@@GamingKeenBeaner You neither understand what im saying nor you know what nihilism is.
I could not follow along with this talk or meditation.
I admire Ajahn Brahmali, but unfortunately, I have to say that his knowledge of Hinduism seems to be limited, and, as a result, he partially ends up attacking a strawman. Samadhi as a state akin to Buddhist meditative states is the final goal of the Yoga Darshana school of thought (Patanjali) and of the Samkhya Darshana (Kapila), not of Advaita Vedanta (Gaudapada, Shankara, etc.), whose view of liberation is far more complex, and not that far from Tibetan Dzogchen's idea, or so some believe, including some Tibetan Buddhists. Hinduism has evolved since the time the Pali Suttas were written, but many Buddhists seem to think that what is written in the Suttas refuted Hinduism once and forever, therefore there is no need to read what Hindus have written in the following 2500 years. This doesn't mean Ajahn's arguments are not valid, but it means that as such they do not address Advaita Vedanta's view of eternity.
Then your knowledge of Buddhism is negligible too! Samadhi is a means to an end of suffering not the end goal. The idea of union with Brahman or universal consciousness comes from meditative experience which the yogis interpret as union, merger, totality, oneness. But this is merely existence in the form realm, and isn't the real goal of Buddhism. Instead Buddhism examines the root of suffering and how to overcome it. In MN 1 the Buddha precisely levelled his criticism of anyone who posit there is a root or source immanent in any experience which the being comes from or returns to. The monks were not happy at what the Buddha said precisely because they were brahmins previously!
Excellent posts by both of you. Truly a productive discussion and one being engaged in maturely. I would tend to agree that liberation is more complicated than simply achieving "god mode" or any other sort of master status in this form realm. What allows us to be happy or prevents us from it is ultimately internal, because we cling to a realm that fundamentally cannot provide permanent peace, joy, or anything else.
@@yongjiean9980 I am afraid you didn't read carefully my words. I wrote that samadhi is the final goal of Yoga and Samkhya Darshana, I never said that it is the goal of Buddhism. However, samadhi is not the goal of Avdvaita Vedanta either, and this was my point. I never even wrote that the Buddhist position is wrong ("This doesn't mean Ajahn's arguments are not valid") I just wanted to say that in the 2500 years after the Buddha Hinduism has evolved and has responded to Buddhists' criticism. One cannot dismiss those 2500 years of Hindu thought as just being a meaningless repetition of what was before the Buddha, unless you think Hindus are all stuid or "brahmins" with an agenda -- which is a very discriminating, unkind, and un-Buddhist attitude.
True.. I guess people like to lie to themselves and see what they want.
I don't like all the rituals, uniform robes, shaving heads preaching and questions afterwards. Too churchy culty serious distracting confining. Just everybody meditate and inspire each other, that's all that's necessary.
sh we yu do not need to watch it or listen. You are free. I do like seeing monastic people in robes, with shaved heads, teaching about what the Buddha talked, and he talked quite a lot during 45 years after his enlihgtment. 🙏☸️🙏
I remember feeling the same way as you do. However I have come to the place in my mind that I need to allow them this ritual. I will just take what serves me (like the talks) and leave the rest. Peace to you friend.
@sh we. Bear in mind that nothing in Buddhist practice is done without purpose as everything is Dhamma in this world. Even the preliminaries to meditation is a ritual of sorts and has Dhamma in it. I hope it helps.
A very profound Talk wich insprired me very much, don't improve end things, whats done is finished. Live forever means Dukkha will never end...cruel...
Buddhist monks shave heads because they want to detach from looks as hair forms a critical part of bodily looks.
Buddhist monks wear robes, not fancy clothes because robes are the most basic clothing that doesn't lead to any attachment.
Preaching and questions are important because they lead to right knowledge.
Therefore, nothing is worthless
I love the flickering Vesak lights and am also feeling the world come together and can understand now how it worked in ww 2. Also love how the Buddhist society of western Australia is having so many postings. It helps me keep on track with my meditation and paying attention to what my body is feeling.