Understanding Depression & Anxiety a Public Talk with Lama Choedak Rinpoche
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- The darkness of depression and anxiety is experienced by many of us, if not personally, then probably by someone we love or know. Anxiety and depression impacts on our relationships, families, workplaces and the community at large. Buddhist teachings shine light on the causes of mental wellbeing in order to regain emotional resilience and inspiration. In this talk Lama Choedak Rinpoche will offer from his heart, succinctly and with humour, the profound Buddhist understanding of depression and anxiety and an explanation of their antidotes. Rinpoche will take us through the process of transforming the debilitating grip of these mental states into fulfilment, appreciative joy and confidence.
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What a wonderful teacher! - he's a real gift.
Great talk. Good to look at things from a different angle. But it is easy to say difficult to do. It take great effort for some. Key learning points are acceptance of suffering, letting go, have positive attitude and have love and kindness.
Thanks for sharing, always makes perfect sense :)
This applies to general anxiety and depressedness in life, and here it's really helpful against the rampant societal delusion that samsara can be optimised and "fixed" so it no longer frustrates, it does not apply to a major depressive episode, PTSD or an anxiety disorder.
No need to argue about the benefits of meditation but Lama Choedak has said in this video - or 'in dealing with depression & anxiety'' - that "most schools of meditation don't recomend meditating during a depression crisis" .. very very disincouraging...daunting.. ( I have, nevertheless, already heard about that.. That depending of the case depression could in fact increase...Oh god ! )
Could the owner of this video indicate me a video of Lama Choedak where he talks ESPECIFICALLY HOW to meditate ( according to his school of course...Thanks a lot ! )
rinpoche with all due honor and respect to your enlightened lecture, when i apply your insights to say, an innocent child languishing under the lash of, say a pedophile father, i believe your notions fail to offer consolation deep enough for that suffering. it strikes me, and please correct me if i am wrong, that your wisdom applies to a middle ground, where everyday sufferings, which beset all of us, who generally mean well, can be found. whereas, once you go to where real evil is manifest, i fail to see how one cannot conclude that the suffering is in fact external, and has zero to do with the one who bears the torment. to attribute such abuses otherwise would itself be a torment only increasing the suffering of the innocent. under such circumstances, where real evil is perpetrated against the innocent, for the pleasure of others, what can be done except to resist and to fight actively against such persons to put an end to it? i think jesus was at least smart enough in this one matter when he kept his mouth shut about its mystery, allowing himself to identify with those who suffer such atrocities in his crucifixion, knowing that he could offer no panacea deep enough to assuage the scandal, nor liberate the innocent from their torments by teaching them to view their torture from the right perspective. please correct me if i am wrong good sir. the question continues to plague me. i am grateful the buddha was at least intelligent enough to understand that the question of suffering is the lynchpin to grasping the nature of all that we know, don't know, and can't know. peace. peace. peace.
rinpoche, the sound of one hand clapping, one hand
fumbling for a lock, by chance encounter, in a night
of seventeen black eclipses, and a lightning strike, is:
fingernails torn off, two hands tortured, tortured boy
by day, and girl by night, in supplication to the gods,
two hands raised, one hand broken, one hand tapping
out in morse code and despair, for help that comes
from too many hands that suck on bleeding braids.
what is the sound of earth, of blood that cries like
howling sentinels before a door that leads to nowhere,
save ingenious ways and means to shape salvation
as a door prize, banging stone and stolen children
like a parlor trick? what is the sound of one hand
beating a silenced drum, beating a hidden war drum,
while you learn to meditate, adjust my insolent chakras?
it is the sound of two hands - cause, effect - my love,
renown, hypocrisy i offer up as sweet grass, sage
to smudge complicity with, sage to smudge a hand
that finds another groping in a night of long knives,
raising blade, after blade, after blade, like kisses
wet with radiance, truth Illumined in the lightning, truth
awakened as a river of light, rushing red to the seas.
Why UA-cam recommend this video after so long? Should have heard very earlier
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I get what he's saying but shouting at your kids occasionally is completely different to physically or sexually abusing them. Noone ends up with mental illness, depressed, self harming etc because their parents shouted at them a few times. Telling victims of abuse that they just need to forgive and think of the positive things is not really helpful. It's overly simplistic. Abuse causes physical changes in the brain that aren't easily fixed by trying to think positively.
These concepts have nothing to do with Tibetan Buddhism …. Depression is not caused by chemical imbalances these are effects of unresolved trauma and the secretion of hormones by the nervous system in response to perceived threats. Not worth listening to in my opinion if you are in search of some relief from anxiety and or depression. Try Ajahn Sumedho who teaches in Theravada tradition