Happiness and Wanting | Ajahn Brahm | 24 February 2023

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  • Опубліковано 23 лют 2023
  • Happiness is the absence of wanting, for example wanting something or wanting to not have something. Ajahn Brahm explains how the absence of wanting is true happiness.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 83

  • @tikagurung9338
    @tikagurung9338 17 днів тому

    🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹Wandana BhanteJiu Hajur Sashu Sashu Sadhu Bjawatu Sabba Mangalam!!!

  • @DanielAusMV-op9mi
    @DanielAusMV-op9mi 2 місяці тому +2

    Thank you Ajahn you warm our hearts ❤❤❤❤

  • @surajketansamal
    @surajketansamal Рік тому +19

    Very well said - Suffering is wanting to be happy!! 00:11:10

  • @asunraychan
    @asunraychan Рік тому +14

    This dharma talk is so deep yet well explained. Thank you Ajahn.

  • @herefornow9671
    @herefornow9671 Рік тому +9

    Thank You so very much
    Your talks have been so helpful in my life !
    Am very very thankful for all that you give 🙏💜

  • @jenswohlgemuth6961
    @jenswohlgemuth6961 Рік тому +10

    Love the story with the cat in the painting of the buddhas parinirvana❤😸🙏

  • @elizabethhjenkins6172
    @elizabethhjenkins6172 Рік тому +30

    Sadhu. Sadhu. Sadhu. Ajahn Brahm this is one of the most powerful Dharma talks I have heard from you. So much to unpack from it. Thank you. 🙏🙏🙏

  • @summerstyles8457
    @summerstyles8457 Рік тому +11

    Wonderfully profound. Thank you Ajahn Brahm. Needed this today 🙏

  • @jamesblack9382
    @jamesblack9382 Рік тому +7

    Keep up your work! Has helped me in my life and I try to spread what works to others. Blessings

  • @lawmaykhee1
    @lawmaykhee1 14 днів тому

    ✝️🤝☸️

  • @Free-vc7wb
    @Free-vc7wb Рік тому +6

    Thank you so much, Ajahn Brahm. _()()()_

  • @chomarhtun2942
    @chomarhtun2942 Рік тому +2

    Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu🙏🙏🙏

  • @chicagoliightsx
    @chicagoliightsx Рік тому +4

    Thank you 🌸🥰☸️

  • @lilbahadurchetri4361
    @lilbahadurchetri4361 Рік тому +3

    Thank you for jewel of buddhism preachings in the midst of chaos in this world.

    • @januszadamski9025
      @januszadamski9025 Рік тому +1

      Niech głosi swoje mądrości gdzie tylko jest to możliwe. Ogromny Szacunek...

  • @rjak187
    @rjak187 Рік тому +1

    I really need to change my ways my mindset

  • @1wiesehoefer1
    @1wiesehoefer1 Рік тому +1

    Ajahn Brahm 😊 We love you ❤ the Rolling Stones 😊

  • @gmouse1250
    @gmouse1250 Рік тому +8

    Thank you. You gave me the courage to embrace the silence.

  • @tomekjaglinski2123
    @tomekjaglinski2123 Рік тому +1

    Thank You Ajahn Brahm❣👌👋💤

  • @MemoryGray
    @MemoryGray Рік тому +3

    With bows of gratitude 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @blossoming_of_lotus_flower
    @blossoming_of_lotus_flower 3 місяці тому

    I learned that discipline or sila is needed to sustain life and that itself brings contentment

  • @lindalin6484
    @lindalin6484 7 місяців тому

    Thank you Ajahn Brahm🙏

  • @tinnasrelaxationchannel4563
    @tinnasrelaxationchannel4563 Рік тому +2

    顶礼🎉

  • @falianshakya6477
    @falianshakya6477 Рік тому

    Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu !

  • @WillieFourMilli
    @WillieFourMilli Рік тому +3

    🙏✨

  • @sarinirangedera7476
    @sarinirangedera7476 Рік тому

    Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!! Ajahn Chah no words for how amazing and wise he was! Long live the Buddha Sasana!

  • @vteckTan
    @vteckTan Рік тому

    Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

  • @maloumonsma3954
    @maloumonsma3954 Рік тому +1

    🙏💞

  • @lovelovelovehappyhappyhappy

    Thank you

  • @donsoutham6218
    @donsoutham6218 Рік тому +2

    🙏🙏🙏

  • @yehudahhachassid6191
    @yehudahhachassid6191 Рік тому

    Namo Amitabha Buddha !

  • @hemadamayanthi920
    @hemadamayanthi920 Рік тому +1

    🙏🙏

  • @poetryjones7946
    @poetryjones7946 Рік тому +3

    Not buying the account of the funeral-pyre monk showing up in the village with his robes unburnt - but it’s an awesome story❣️ 😹🔥👏🏽 Gotta love Ajahn Brahm!

  • @BinChhaya
    @BinChhaya Рік тому

    Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu! Ajahn this is the most knowledge from Dhamma

  • @vijithalalherath774
    @vijithalalherath774 Рік тому

    It was happening, hanging around all the time but not realizing. Sadu. Sadu. Sadu. Thank you Ajahn Brahm 😊

  • @dajhut
    @dajhut Рік тому

    Thank you AB and everyone BS 🙏🙏🙏 from expat in Warsaw. Peace to all. Wonderful feeling to have all of you around.

  • @dialsforstupid
    @dialsforstupid Рік тому +1

    Monk on the left at the start has strong arms! I bet he shares his gift of strength in charitable deeds

  • @liliksupiani8091
    @liliksupiani8091 11 місяців тому

    🙏🙏🙏Sadhu….Sadhu….Sadhu….
    Semoga semua mahluk berbahagia 🙏🙏🙏

  • @lindasapiecha2515
    @lindasapiecha2515 Рік тому +1

    💯

  • @siriusblack1002
    @siriusblack1002 Рік тому +1

    Oh wao! I also have a background in physics and I also left physics after I found Vipassana! Glad and so grateful:)

    • @kaveesha3213
      @kaveesha3213 Рік тому

      Loard Buddha is the greatest physician ever 🙏

  • @anurakalyada
    @anurakalyada Рік тому

    ven: bhanthe! thanks you lot for giving us sush a wonderful dhamma sermon.the reason for unsatisfactoryness is nothing, but chasing after mind without understanding.real happiness indeed in here in this present....

  • @winais6007
    @winais6007 Рік тому

    Sadhu. Sadhu. Sadhu.

  • @lindasapiecha2515
    @lindasapiecha2515 Рік тому

    Excellent I love theoretical Physics

  • @ShashikaFernando-jb2yd
    @ShashikaFernando-jb2yd 5 місяців тому

    Sadusaduajahnbrahm

  • @isabellamaschietto
    @isabellamaschietto 5 місяців тому

    A.A. the raves and the place i'm supposed to be and the things im supposed to be doing

  • @bowbayc4466
    @bowbayc4466 Рік тому

    Ajahn Brahm, thank you so much for your teaching. What exactly do you do at your cave during retreat? Only meditating? How is it going to be beneficial to you and others? 🙏🏼

  • @anousithinthaphone3897
    @anousithinthaphone3897 Рік тому

    🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @halinka8322
    @halinka8322 Рік тому

  • @Joe-rd3bg
    @Joe-rd3bg Рік тому

    Amazing I have had the outer body experience just like you explained. It was when I was about 12 years old.🙏

  • @miriamwilcox4123
    @miriamwilcox4123 Рік тому

    ❤❤❤🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💫💫💫

  • @primajump
    @primajump Рік тому

    This is how I felt after listening to the whole talk in one sitting. I have come down with a terribly painful form of influenza. It is not easy to comfortably concentrate on anything. However, I only realized this after Ajahn Brahm finished his talk. That says something about the power of his words, which he shares with us out of compassion. I realize that my past good deeds are paying off. But what about my sickness? Is it a result of my bad deeds?

  • @buddhaneosiddhananda8499
    @buddhaneosiddhananda8499 Рік тому

    The noble eightfold path is the end of suffering...

  • @cyberpunkworld
    @cyberpunkworld 10 місяців тому

    Fresh young blood always helpful. Like Casillas in '99...

  • @ip9117
    @ip9117 Рік тому +1

    Thats why my husband drinks alcohol so everything stops for him for a while.I can judge him, but its his personal choice. I am learning.

  • @gstlb
    @gstlb Рік тому

    A photo of you with the young women would be a great advertisement for encouraging young men to learn meditation! 😂

  • @dainahilaire7837
    @dainahilaire7837 Рік тому

    🙏🙏🙏🌷🌹🌷🌹🌷❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

  • @lindasapiecha2515
    @lindasapiecha2515 Рік тому +1

    😅😅👏👏👏

  • @ginatan5849
    @ginatan5849 Рік тому

    KANG SAY BEE JAVERN SIM JUN YAN JERONE SIM WEI JIE GINA TAN LAY ENG BE GREATLY BLESSED DAILY PLSEE. TQ

  • @myintmow7317
    @myintmow7317 Рік тому

    Want to read u r talks,any ways n means to have so.Much interested ashinphaya'talks since 2004!

  • @issac7787
    @issac7787 4 місяці тому

    34:00 when senses turn off

  • @buddhaneosiddhananda8499
    @buddhaneosiddhananda8499 Рік тому

    Woulda... coulda... shoulda... Buddha...

  • @atzmed
    @atzmed Рік тому

    When you are in a blissful state of not wanting anything (in Meditation or any other circumstances), actually you're wanting something: wanting nothing ELSE.
    I mean, you want to stay in that state.
    Only if you just experience the feeling, but don't care about losing it, would it be NOT WANTING.
    Well, maybe I'm wrong, but that's my opinion...

  • @ianyoung8392
    @ianyoung8392 Рік тому +3

    Definitely not Vajrayana. There's a problem with some Buddhism where true detachment breeds complacency. Hence why Neo Confucianism and Zen took off. There's also a misunderstanding of what happiness actually is. To meditate isn't to become happy. Happiness is a by product of success but contentment is far more renewable. Meditation is discipline to live in the present. Wants and desires are as part of nature as the hunger of an animal in a forest. Orientating your actions towards self development and benefitting society is far better than extremes of ascetics, celibacy and human detachment.
    Blue Pill) you go to a place of worship where everyone looks like the extremes of Daoism. Only trying to soothe, little to no building and waiting for life to end.
    Red Pill) you carve yourself into an individual worthy of kindness and benefits everyone through your actions as much as your words, to embody the Kami Vajrapani

  • @DennisMerwood-xk8wp
    @DennisMerwood-xk8wp Рік тому

    Why is it so hard for people to understand that "My book is true because my book says it is true" is not a valid form of reasoning?

  • @peaceleader7315
    @peaceleader7315 Рік тому

    It is call a rhythm of life old monk ...
    Human is all about energy and growing old 🧓 and moving on.. so simple..
    Yet planning and a fair amount of strategic planning must be implement within every stage of life..
    Old Monk .. hmmmm..

  • @azalia423
    @azalia423 Рік тому +1

    Creepy about women as objects

    • @Curtis.Carpenter
      @Curtis.Carpenter Рік тому +5

      Must have gone right over my head because I've watched this entire video through now and could not find what you are talking about

  • @otg1433
    @otg1433 Рік тому

    Does this pantomime ever end.. this is a rhetorical question, it goes on as long as mankind believes they are a person( fictitional character..imposter) walking through time and space with a history..the movie on the SCREEN.. and these so labeled Buddhist are just characters in a movie.. muddying the water.. Who ever you think you are, you are most definitely not....so many emperors with no clothes..pandemic of podcaster gurus....silence the only word which at least acts as a pointer.

  • @WhereShallWeGoToday
    @WhereShallWeGoToday Рік тому

    Bimbos? 🙁 Wow.

    • @Curtis.Carpenter
      @Curtis.Carpenter Рік тому

      does the word upset you? almost all modern women are "bimbos", so why would this term thats applies to tens of thousands of millions of women in 2023 make you upset? your not a masculine man , your not a traditional woman... your not a successful parent.. so why would anyone care about your dislike.

  • @whatiswhat924
    @whatiswhat924 Рік тому

    Not very inspiring the other monk’s posture 😢

    • @kaveesha3213
      @kaveesha3213 Рік тому

      Everyone cant stay in that same position

    • @whatiswhat924
      @whatiswhat924 Рік тому

      @@kaveesha3213 But everyone can use a chair. First time in my life I see a monk reclined on his back and legs strengthened with feet pointing to people while listen to the Dhamma, sorry, maybe it’s a cultural thing

    • @barbarabessone3205
      @barbarabessone3205 Рік тому +1

      We can’t know, maybe he has some condition that causes chronic pain and that’s his antalgic position, maybe is the only way he can sit without unbearable pain. It could be. I understand you noticing it, I noticed it too

  • @buddhaneosiddhananda8499
    @buddhaneosiddhananda8499 Рік тому

    Ajahn Brahm doesn't teach anything like what the Buddha taught...

  • @benfarrell52
    @benfarrell52 9 місяців тому

    Oh wow! I don't think the bimbo comment is very buddhist 😒

  • @achalaprabathachalaprabath3554

    🙏🙏🙏

  • @maloumonsma3954
    @maloumonsma3954 Рік тому

    🙏💞

  • @dishnachampika5345
    @dishnachampika5345 Рік тому

    🙏🙏🙏