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- Dhamma talk offered by Venerable Ajahn Sucitto, former abbot of Wat Cittaviveka in England, a monastery in the Thai forest tradition of Ajahn Chah
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'Nibbāna (Nirvana)'
10th December, 2014 (18.30 - 20.00)
Meditation Hall
Buddhadāsa Indapañño Archives, Bangkok
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About Ajahn Sucitto:
Ajahn Sucitto was born in London in 1949. Before entering monastic life, he graduated from England's University of Warwick with a degree in English and American Literature in 1971. He spent a few years following the lifestyle of the alternative culture of the time, before heading overland to India in 1974 on a spiritual quest. This eventually landed him in Thailand in 1975, where he was inspired by a meditation class in English in Wat Meung Maung given by an English monk, Phra Alan Nyānavajīro. Sensing an important turn in his spiritual journey, Sucitto entered the monastery where Phra Nyānavajīro lived: Wat Kiriwong in Nakhon Sawan. On 25 September he took samanera precepts and on 22 March 1976 he was ordained as a bhikku, both in Wat Potharam in Nakhon Sawan.
A chance sojourn at Wat Umong in Chiang Mai in December 1976 brought Ajahn Sucitto into contact with (now) Luang Por Sumedho, who was passing through Chiang Mai at the time. This was an auspicious encounter, as it prepared the ground for Ajahn to visit Luang Por in Hampstead when he visited England in 1978. Luang Por had taken up residence in the Hampstead Buddhist Vihara in 1977, and readily accepted Ajahn Sucitto as a disciple. Ajahn trained under Luang Por for much of the ensuing fourteen years.
In 1979, Ajahn Sucitto was part of the group that established Cittaviveka Forest Monastery in Chithurst, West Sussex (www.cittaviveka.... He lived there for the greater part of his monastic life and was its abbot from 1992 to 2014. He began teaching retreats for laypeople after the Rains Retreat of 1981 and has continued to teach retreats in Britain and overseas ever since.
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This man is enlightened. Thank you for your generosity in giving this talk.
Ajahn Sucitto you are truly a beautiful person inside and out. I'm enjoying listening to this talk again. Thank you!!! Wishing you health, happiness and Many Many Blessings.
thank you so much its one of the best dhamma talk i ever listened ,
What an amazing talk! If only all of us could simplify our lives by wanting less and less, it would be our contribution to the future generation on the earth.
Best ever Dhamma talk. Thank you.
Thank you, Ajahn! 🙏🙏🙏
Wow! One of Ajahn's best talks!
For years I thought nibanna is something esoteric, out of reach
You have expressed the Dhamma most skillfully and expediently
Profound gratitude! 🙏
This is the best lesson I've ever heard on Nibbana! (and I've listened to over 250+ hours of Dhamma talks).
However, he brought up a few things that really bug me about most Buddhist teachings, that stuff is related to the body.
There is recent research showing that our thoughts and emotions have major effects on our body. They can make us healthy or sick. As for the stuff about the body doing stuff without us telling it how to do it, that is technically true and is the default way of living for most animals (including us). However, it doesn't have to be. We humans can learn how to control every single muscle and tendon in our bodies. We can learn how to make each muscle required in walking to function BY our will.
---I've seen videos of people with exceptional muscle control where they ripple their muscles up and down their back individually.
Taking all this further, I bet we could actually learn to change our hair color as well as body structure with thoughts.
I've actually heard other teachers talk about it. Some of the teachers are Buddhist and some are Hindu.
Hindus tend say that that stuff is a befit along the path but can end up being a distraction and a hindrance.
Buddhist teachers typically say that it's just a distraction and a hindrance. However, some though embrace it the same way Hindus do.
The reality is that we can learn to have super normal powers. (to what extent I don't really know).
The thing that matters is the Unsatisfactory aspect of Dukkha. It is something that is have NOT found many teachers talk about. Ajahn Succito kinda talks about it with the story of the king.
The understanding I feel I've gained from the teachings I've listened to on unsatisfactoriness is this: Nothing physical will ever truly be satisfying. We will always end up wanting more or being afraid of what we have being taken away somehow. That also, it is pretty pointless to ever try to make the world be a better place because being in the world will always evolve suffering. That you can never make the world be a better place for everyone.
I feel like that last part is a hard pill to swallow. I myself have some super normal control over various bodily functions. Gaining that control has made my life better. Part of me feels called to teach it to people as well as gain more control and teach others that and so and on so forth.
The whole most teachers saying that body control doesn't exist is a real turn off for me. Either they are ignoring modern psychological medical research or don't know about it.
I feel like it might depend on the teacher.
But then I admit that I have a part of me that is saying why bother, just sit, let go and be joyous... And maybe start teaching others that down the road.
To me it seems that Buddhism is the ultimate nihilist religion in the world that says that Nonbeing is the best thing humanity can ever do...I could be wrong about that though and want to be.
Idk.. Maybe non being is the best thing.
What a radiant personality the Ajahn is.
Hideous more like
Fantastic talk!Thank you so much.You have an amaizing personality. I wish you would do more videos.Your expressions, like your talks are priceless.
Thank you Ajahn Sucitto.
Thank you Ajahn :)
Thank you for sharing 🙏😊
thankyou for this upload !! Anumodana
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Thanks Ajahn🙏
I have no Sound here , seems something is going wrong . Please ckeck .
کیست؟ It seems to work only with headphones.
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Something went wrong. Not a sound from beginning till end. Please rectify, I very much want to hear what is explained. Thank you for your effort so distance doesn't matter
Wow Thats so inspiring Sadhu
Beautiful
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3 Sadhus! People going to meditation without cultivation of dana, sila, nekhammma struggle more with hindrances
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Things that work at one level sometimes dont work on other levels. Geopolitics and structuring large societies is complicated. The economy would surely benefit from more loving and wise participants, but short of perfection it is still important to align incentives.
There are sometimes limits to the ability of even great sages to comment on such systems. They should stick to their wisdom about individual and small communities, or at least recognize there are indeed things they dont know. This guy did better than some, but it can be a problem. And by the way, EVEN according the the ipcc, it is in no way accurate to summarize the situation as “we are destroying the planet”. Even the worst case probability scenarios, under the worst case emissions scenarios, there is no possibility of extinction or planetary destruction projected. Period. You can stop scaring people with that inaccurate phrase. Im not denying that there’s ANY problem, but you should really check out the projections. And I certainly agree about humane animal treatment.
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Shadu Shadu Shadu
sadhu :)
He's a hyprocrite of the highest order.
why?
Yo Ya, please explain why you said that.
what kind of nonsense are you saying here? How can you say such words ....
@@Dhammavaro1 Quite easily when one has witnessed it in person.
The only person writing nonsense is you, based on nothing but blind belief. Without any rational basis.