Amazing talk!! When things get tough, I use to drink or overeat to deal with trauma on a very bad day. Now I watch this talk instead and it makes me feel at peace. Thank you so much Ajahn Brahm.
I got cancer several years ago, probably most people thought cancer was bad for any one, yet I think cancer was the best gift to me in my life that it reminded me to learn how to love myself and love the world, and I changed myself to become more happier and healhier after.
Just so beautiful ❤ reinforcing that suffering is the nature of samsara and bringing us back to the past with even more determination to liberate ourselves and others. ❤
Weird, I always looked at my tragedies and traumas as just things that happened and a lesson on what to do to avoid those particular things in my personal future. I cannot however always help anyone else avoid their own traumas. I only know my own path well enough to do so. Those pesky negative emotions that cause so much human trauma are what we all should try to change and we all would live a happier life. Wise teachings from the Buddha.
As usual I'm grateful that these talks are available however old they are, after listening to another one of your talks a couple of weeks ago I realized that when I left my fundamentalist Christian lifestyle a few years ago it was much more traumatic than I cared to admit and it was the reason why I was depressed, specifically it was a Catholic background and many people know those guys as being full of guilt (in some aspects I was back then). If anything this talk looked pretty existentialist to me and it reminded that in one of the books about Buddhism I've read so far it said that essentially salvation is within ourselves, that is we're the only ones who can save us. I found the dung example to be hilarious and it did help me see the problems in my life in a new way (my father grows an actual garden so I could see how it all looks like, still I'd never imagine ever hearing a sermon like this one in a church), I still disagree with the whole karma thing (which is why I don't consider myself a Buddhist, at least not yet) and I might still go to therapy but I very often find your talks to be some of the most helpful things I've heard in my life.
Very extraordinary talk Thank you so much We have followed your path now following and will follow till our last breath% we get pease and happiness by this 🙏👍😄😀🌹🌹🌹
My family has been in a homeless shelter and been homeless again last year. My husband and my daughter suffered in front of me and it was horrible. On top of the awful trauma, the people that did help us were nasty and cruel as selfish monsters. We were first filled with shock by that but we knew we couldn't go on with our lives filled with hurt and hate. He's not talking about money and bills. He is talking about our inner heart.
@lamdawave I'm a buddhist from Thailand. What Ajarn Brahm taught is the real core of Buddhism. Buddha teaches us that Karma is a consequence of a cause. Many monks in Thailand taught that bad things happens now because of bad things done in previous life due to some cult of Buddism is influenced from Brahma religious and it's a strategy to teach people not to do more bad karma. But by believing in the blame of the past life, it is not going to solve any problem .
Acceptance is the answer. As long as these tragaties are rejected by us "How could this happen to me? Why me?" then they will be something seperate from ourselves. There is no opportunity to grow from these painful experiences until we embrace the true nature of suffering and tragedy. None of us are immune, but we can benefit others with our experience and strength.
Very profound - very difficult to see what is painful for you. The nature of the mind to only filter what is good and filter out the bad.....self-blame can rip the inner soul apart as well as allowing anger to sit in kind, hurts us more than the intended recipient. Thank you for this teaching, this was very needed to be heard.
There was a man who stopped at the house today. He said he was doing a special on pest control and showed me a pamphlet of bugs and critters he eradicates. I think it took only 5 seconds for something in me to say “oh no.... I can’t do that.” I said I was a Buddhist and we regard all life as sacred.
@lyntonio Anger is the fume of an frustrated mind. It's caused by the thwarting of desires. It feeds the limited ego and is used for domination and aggression. It aims at removing the obstacles existing in the fulfillment of desires. The frenzy of anger nourishes egoism and conceit. Anger is a form of entanglement. Yes, we all get angry. It's hard to rid ourselves of our own expectations and wanting it all to go according to plan. There's a skillful way to deal with it though.
Those type of people may be wealthy in money but are almost never truly happy or content with themselves, others, or the world. A friend once told me: if you want to know what God thinks of money, look who he gave it to.
I remember Ajahn Brahm talked about karma caused half by the past and half by present life. But this is not the key point. Buddha's core teaching is everything is uncertain (Brahm taught us too), it can be good or bad in the lay people's view, yet in fact nothing is really 100% bad or good, it depends where do you see and how do you feel, even the death is either good not bad, and good things can turn to bad, bad things can turn to good in the future too. No craving no cling, no suffering.
It's complicated. The techings of Buddhism evolved in an environment, we're almost everyone was sure that the Hindu view of the world was correct. And so old buddhists texts adress issues based on these assumptions. As secular Westerners we ask why to introduce the concept of a soul only to negate it again shortly after? For Hindus, the concept of soul is a given and must be adressed. But today many believe that you can remove the hindu world view and the teachings still work with any other.
@lyntonio One doesn't have to go along with one's mood of anger when it comes -- you have a choice. Why can't we come from a peaceful place of understanding? We could just fess up to ourselves and/or to the one(s) we are angry with? Say "I am my angry, I don't want to be. I am angry because it shoulda coulda woula been like this. Let us settle this now, for the longer I keep it in the dark, the greater it will burn." Any good?
I feel very hopeless and extremely depressed after being sick for 2 year and the suffering from a serious blood clot on Christmas. I am very negative, angry and in terrible pain. I do not know how to get out of this very dark place when in such terrible and unrelenting blood clot pain. I have been isolated. I can't go out because of the pain and because of covid, I cant have visitors. I tried to reach out to the Monastery by email, but I'm in Canada and its too expensive and difficult to call during the hours i was told to call.
I know many people with wealth . They are arrogant mean selfish . They live a life of luxury and pleasure treat the not so fortunate with contempt. No one gave them a little bit to see what they did with it . Living how you do where you do is all well and good but try surviving here with no or little money you live a life enslavement and inescapable stress . As much as there is wisdom in your words but no answers for the reality no amount of spiritual wealth pays the bills here unfortunately
paul gibbins ,,,, Get over yourself dude. Your life situation is the result of your karma. The reason why You’re not wealthy in this life may be because you were a damn greedy Bastard in a previous life ... and we’re doing the same thing these rich people are doing now to the so called poor folks. Whatever is being done to you is because you’ve done it unto others.
I don’t remember what video it was sorry but I think about this a lot basically he told a story about someone who was told they had to euthanize it, and what they did is took the dog outside and looked into it’s eyes and asked if it was ready to die, and they could tell the dog wasn’t, so they waited a couple weeks and asked again and she could tell that the dog was now ready to go. 💜
@lyntonio nothing wrong with that. The Buddha said never to trust or believe his words, or any words, out of respect for him or belief in a system, but only if it fits with your own common sense and if it is useful in your life.
Ajahn is trying to inject his own opinions into traditional Buddhism.Talk to any Buddhist, he or she will tell you if you suffer a trauma/disaster its because you did something bad in your previous life (i.e. bad karma). Ajahn is saying Buddhism is NOT blaming trauma on ANYTHING. If fact Buddha said one should build good karma in order to escape the cycle of rebirth (to suffer).
That depends on who you ask. Different people have different levels of understanding. To some, Buddha had to say that their kamma is dependant on their previous life. To others, he wouldn't say a word about the matter. What did he teach, however? That there is suffering. And how to free oneself from it.
Amazing talk!! When things get tough, I use to drink or overeat to deal with trauma on a very bad day. Now I watch this talk instead and it makes me feel at peace. Thank you so much Ajahn Brahm.
I got cancer several years ago, probably most people thought cancer was bad for any one, yet I think cancer was the best gift to me in my life that it reminded me to learn how to love myself and love the world, and I changed myself to become more happier and healhier after.
beautifully said
You really are so beautiful Ajahn Brahm. The world is a better place because of you. The world needs more Ajahn Brahm!
He's one of a kind they broke the mold with him.
I feel if everyone listened to such talks, the world would be a kinder place
Buddhist Wisdom in overcoming negativity. Thank you Ajahn Brahm, I have learnt so much from you.
Thank you Ajahn Brahm for all of the beautiful talks, smiles, and laughs. Your happiness has helped many people relieve suffering.
Just so beautiful ❤ reinforcing that suffering is the nature of samsara and bringing us back to the past with even more determination to liberate ourselves and others. ❤
Weird, I always looked at my tragedies and traumas as just things that happened and a lesson on what to do to avoid those particular things in my personal future. I cannot however always help anyone else avoid their own traumas. I only know my own path well enough to do so. Those pesky negative emotions that cause so much human trauma are what we all should try to change and we all would live a happier life. Wise teachings from the Buddha.
I thoroughly enjoyed this talk, you have definitely given me a very different perspective on life❤🙏🏼
As usual I'm grateful that these talks are available however old they are, after listening to another one of your talks a couple of weeks ago I realized that when I left my fundamentalist Christian lifestyle a few years ago it was much more traumatic than I cared to admit and it was the reason why I was depressed, specifically it was a Catholic background and many people know those guys as being full of guilt (in some aspects I was back then). If anything this talk looked pretty existentialist to me and it reminded that in one of the books about Buddhism I've read so far it said that essentially salvation is within ourselves, that is we're the only ones who can save us.
I found the dung example to be hilarious and it did help me see the problems in my life in a new way (my father grows an actual garden so I could see how it all looks like, still I'd never imagine ever hearing a sermon like this one in a church), I still disagree with the whole karma thing (which is why I don't consider myself a Buddhist, at least not yet) and I might still go to therapy but I very often find your talks to be some of the most helpful things I've heard in my life.
i love listening to these talks
Very extraordinary talk Thank you so much We have followed your path now following and will follow till our last breath% we get pease and happiness by this 🙏👍😄😀🌹🌹🌹
One of the best lectures. I will learn to dig in my “shit.”
My family has been in a homeless shelter and been homeless again last year. My husband and my daughter suffered in front of me and it was horrible. On top of the awful trauma, the people that did help us were nasty and cruel as selfish monsters. We were first filled with shock by that but we knew we couldn't go on with our lives filled with hurt and hate. He's not talking about money and bills. He is talking about our inner heart.
Hope you okay now.
Thank you Ajahn Brahm for your teachings 🙏
@lamdawave I'm a buddhist from Thailand. What Ajarn Brahm taught is the real core of Buddhism. Buddha teaches us that Karma is a consequence of a cause. Many monks in Thailand taught that bad things happens now because of bad things done in previous life due to some cult of Buddism is influenced from Brahma religious and it's a strategy to teach people not to do more bad karma. But by believing in the blame of the past life, it is not going to solve any problem .
I love listening to his talks 😊🙏🏼
Acceptance is the answer. As long as these tragaties are rejected by us "How could this happen to me? Why me?" then they will be something seperate from ourselves. There is no opportunity to grow from these painful experiences until we embrace the true nature of suffering and tragedy. None of us are immune, but we can benefit others with our experience and strength.
Thank you ajan brahm 🙏🙏🙏
Very profound - very difficult to see what is painful for you. The nature of the mind to only filter what is good and filter out the bad.....self-blame can rip the inner soul apart as well as allowing anger to sit in kind, hurts us more than the intended recipient. Thank you for this teaching, this was very needed to be heard.
There was a man who stopped at the house today. He said he was doing a special on pest control and showed me a pamphlet of bugs and critters he eradicates. I think it took only 5 seconds for something in me to say “oh no.... I can’t do that.” I said I was a Buddhist and we regard all life as sacred.
here here, great response, one I have used myself
it raises my level of awareness
13/1/23.
Thankyou 🙏🏽
@lyntonio Anger is the fume of an frustrated mind. It's caused by the thwarting of desires. It feeds the limited ego and is used for domination and aggression. It aims at removing the obstacles existing in the fulfillment of desires. The frenzy of anger nourishes egoism and conceit. Anger is a form of entanglement. Yes, we all get angry. It's hard to rid ourselves of our own expectations and wanting it all to go according to plan. There's a skillful way to deal with it though.
His last sentence was beautiful
"Thank you all for listening"?!
Thank you
fills in all the gaps
I know people that are very wealthy and have never given in service to anyone. So, this set me confused.
Those type of people may be wealthy in money but are almost never truly happy or content with themselves, others, or the world. A friend once told me: if you want to know what God thinks of money, look who he gave it to.
You say i need to do something with this trauma, but have no idea what that means or how to stop crying from the pain,
I remember Ajahn Brahm talked about karma caused half by the past and half by present life.
But this is not the key point. Buddha's core teaching is everything is uncertain (Brahm taught us too), it can be good or bad in the lay people's view, yet in fact nothing is really 100% bad or good, it depends where do you see and how do you feel, even the death is either good not bad, and good things can turn to bad, bad things can turn to good in the future too. No craving no cling, no suffering.
It's complicated. The techings of Buddhism evolved in an environment, we're almost everyone was sure that the Hindu view of the world was correct. And so old buddhists texts adress issues based on these assumptions.
As secular Westerners we ask why to introduce the concept of a soul only to negate it again shortly after? For Hindus, the concept of soul is a given and must be adressed.
But today many believe that you can remove the hindu world view and the teachings still work with any other.
Jun Z...how can I get access to your system training program that healed you of serious illness?
@lyntonio One doesn't have to go along with one's mood of anger when it comes -- you have a choice. Why can't we come from a peaceful place of understanding? We could just fess up to ourselves and/or to the one(s) we are angry with? Say "I am my angry, I don't want to be. I am angry because it shoulda coulda woula been like this. Let us settle this now, for the longer I keep it in the dark, the greater it will burn." Any good?
These things happen to us because Life Sucks !! I had no choice in becoming a human being.
If you believe in reincarnation, perhaps you did have that choice?
What about children?
I feel very hopeless and extremely depressed after being sick for 2 year and the suffering from a serious blood clot on Christmas. I am very negative, angry and in terrible pain. I do not know how to get out of this very dark place when in such terrible and unrelenting blood clot pain. I have been isolated. I can't go out because of the pain and because of covid, I cant have visitors. I tried to reach out to the Monastery by email, but I'm in Canada and its too expensive and difficult to call during the hours i was told to call.
What is the word for "bent thinking"?
I know many people with wealth . They are arrogant mean selfish . They live a life of luxury and pleasure treat the not so fortunate with contempt. No one gave them a little bit to see what they did with it . Living how you do where you do is all well and good but try surviving here with no or little money you live a life enslavement and inescapable stress . As much as there is wisdom in your words but no answers for the reality no amount of spiritual wealth pays the bills here unfortunately
paul gibbins ,,,, Get over yourself dude. Your life situation is the result of your karma. The reason why You’re not wealthy in this life may be because you were a damn greedy Bastard in a previous life ... and we’re doing the same thing these rich people are doing now to the so called poor folks. Whatever is being done to you is because you’ve done it unto others.
Ajahn Akbar!
App he gives a talk on when you have a pet and have to euthanise it, can anyone give me the link please!
I don’t remember what video it was sorry but I think about this a lot basically he told a story about someone who was told they had to euthanize it, and what they did is took the dog outside and looked into it’s eyes and asked if it was ready to die, and they could tell the dog wasn’t, so they waited a couple weeks and asked again and she could tell that the dog was now ready to go. 💜
@lyntonio nothing wrong with that. The Buddha said never to trust or believe his words, or any words, out of respect for him or belief in a system, but only if it fits with your own common sense and if it is useful in your life.
whipalazza?
Ajahn is trying to inject his own opinions into traditional Buddhism.Talk to any Buddhist, he or she will tell you if you suffer a trauma/disaster its because you did something bad in your previous life (i.e. bad karma). Ajahn is saying Buddhism is NOT blaming trauma on ANYTHING. If fact Buddha said one should build good karma in order to escape the cycle of rebirth (to suffer).
That depends on who you ask. Different people have different levels of understanding. To some, Buddha had to say that their kamma is dependant on their previous life. To others, he wouldn't say a word about the matter. What did he teach, however? That there is suffering. And how to free oneself from it.