It sounds like we need to make decisions in our life and make changes toward a more helpful and happier life. Many of us probably don't realized it. But today is the day to make a difference in life in general for you and people. Saadhu, Saadhu,Saadhu
Another great talk by Ven. Ajahn Brahmali. Explains nicely how the happiness & sadness makes the state of the mind vary. If you are wise enough to grasp it, this gives a clue of how some born as animals or deamons after life as a human & some with a better human life or a life as a god. Actually, the correct term he should have used was the 'better state of mind' instead of 'happiness'. The state of mind improves when you do meditation or good acts like loving kindness,give away things etc..
Thank you Ajahn, now i understand why i feel a certain joyfulness when i think of a kindness done 40 years ago; the act did leave an enduring residue!!!. There will always be people who find fault, because the "Ego cannot accept the TRUTH".
Thanks for talk. I feel sorry for the people who search for the things they don’t like as their purpose in life. Ex. I rarely give a thumbs down ( i only have 👎🏼 when a viewers comment is obviously mean spirited -but i have never 👎🏼 a posted video).. if I don’t want to watch, or learn about particular subject i move on... as it is not that something is bad or good...it is about personal search. So back to my point... people do seem rather hateful and pathetic searching for things to thumbs down just to feel a fake “powerful”. Because most don’t really care about their thumbs down and the spirit of the giver.... find what you like man...life is short. Catch on. Don’t be the problem; be the solution. Thanks for talk, posting it and Ajahn Brahmali freely giving his best intentions.
All in all, this is a very nice, valuable talk, based on a beautiful, positive mindset. If you ask me, I would say that Ajahn Brahmali is clearly advancing. :) Thank you for your contribution.
...(from prev) and also the state of mind weakens when you do bad things or when u lead a sorrowful life. Hence, this state or the power of mind at the end of your this life determines what sort of a life u can get in your next. If the power is very high you get born as a god or too low as daemons or as animals according to the status of the mind. Real happiness is when u develop the mind, u tend to see the worthlessness of things we attach and get hurt in life and so u let go of them.....
My take on the meaning of life: It's a question that only a self-conscious being could come up with, just like the need for a god. At the moment i'm strongly leaning towards the answer being the state in which you aren't caught up in such questions. It seems like an unnecessary, even artificial burden, and the nature/mind/experience of the "human animal" looks like an elegant solution to that.
one moment is different from other and a eon different from other, to think that "is always the same" gives a sense of existence of a object ( "mental process of existence that does not depend on conditions) that gives support to the speaker ego to quickly answer a much more complex question of what to manifest in the worlds.
i saw a programme rescently on uk tv where they took several day to day professionals, architects, teachers, doctors etc and taught them how to meditate and made them do so for 2 months.. each week they did a cat skan of their brains. they also did the same with similar people but with no meditation. The results were the growth and thickening up of a part of the brain towards the back near the neck and 100% of the people who took part continued to meditate as it maid their lives so much better.
Once you die you will feel sorry for not sparing time to think about where we are from and where we are going! With these questions I am just trying to make the intligent ones who ended up following Buddism blindly, and never got a chance to know about Islam. This is also a humble effort to help the Westerners to take up Buddism who walk the streets in Sri Lanka dressed in rags begging for food, while local monks whiz pass them state of the art Beemers and Merc.
The ultimate question to the meaning of life is, "What can *I* do to make this a better world? What can *we* do to make heaven on earth, in a world based on greed? What are the little things that I might have overlooked, yet may be more important that I could do or have done to play a part in the larger scheme of things for this purpose?" Ask not am I important, but how can I be important in society even if you are just the wind flowing away from the butterfly's wings. And, the *answer* is to Do Selflessly and with reverence, forethought, and ultimately by nature. This is how you can clap with just one hand (high five!).
I agree that the idea of god it is not the problem, the problem is the idea that we make of God. The problem is the duality, is the observer-object separativiness that gives support to the idea of a separated "I" and God "out there". Again: it is not the idea that is the problem is what we use it for. In opposite to think that is "all illusion" and that "repets itself over and over again" can be also used as a support to duality because gives intense reality to "mind", just like "God".
...(from prev) and the ultimate happiness is when the mind is so developed it can see how everything is formed in life and that there is no happiness or anything to gain in these physical and statuses of mind. Which means when you reach that level the mind can see how the mind is formed and the mirage or the emptiness of everything we grasp. So you then able stop the formation of the mind even, hence ending re-birth, which is the ultimate state - the Nirvana!!
About Spiritual Happiness The change of level of satisfaction does sure lead you to a better mind flow and might lead to a favorable rebirth. But to have as a goal of meaning of life and of spiritual practice to attain satisfaction (fulfillment) is to work in a limited perspective caused by hope of gain.
@lyntonio When I have with me the religion: 1. That makes the most sense 2. Explains the purpose of life, 3. Gives the best description of after life and tells me exactly how to succeed I dont need to waste my time studying other religions and philosophies that are nothing but a set of confusions.
I love Bhante's talk and that is why i am not so interested in sensual pleasures. but i am living my life with a real sense of mortality and want to contribute something or something to humanity that is for the greater good and the effects reverberate even after i am gone.
Nature is never wasteful (well, let's ignore new-guinean birds), we do use more than 10% of our brain, and of course not every areal is employed equally throughout the changing situation of daily life. About the world having a purpose: I think it's purely optional. Some people feel incredibly free, not having any purpose to fulfill, others excel in the fulfillment of their principles and believes. Let's not make a definite statement on that, for everyone.
because is in getting involved with the world and with people needs is very high practice and to be involved with suffering leads to wisdom and to be over involved in personal fulfillment my lead to a state of blindness towards the suffering of others. Finally the idea that you are going to have life after life to work on this is overoptimistic and based on a idea of continuation independent of conditions, intrinsic existence of a individual mind or mind flux.
@novemberainy There is no Grande explanation separated from language, culture and individual self. But to say that there is NO purpose… is just another extremist position. The Buddha thought the middle way, not falling into extremes of nillism and essentialism. That´s my view… Thanks for commenting…
Sorry if in any way I sound disrespectful, that is not my intention, English is not my mother language and this might be a problem expressing myself. Hope you find the Buddha path you seek very soon. Light, Peace and love, Julio
@novemberainy Ideas are Ideas, are inseparability of emptiness and appearance. If one believes in an idea ignoring its transient nature. Than consequences comes, the idea of gaining polarizes and limitates ones view. The Venerable monk said that at the time of this video, but than he affirms that the “There is no outside purpose”, the “purpose of life is happiness” falling in a subtle extremist position. Meaning is thought. He than chose his meaning of life. Is he alware of that? Maybe
This hope of personal fulfillment does get in the way of true wisdom. My be that a better description of meaning of life is to attain wisdom ( that necessarily comes with compassion and love because those are the activity of wisdom). Also to look for happiness in this sense of personal fulfillment you put can be very spiritually dangerous
Is it possible to transmit this comment to Ajahn Brahmali? I disagree in two points: The existence is not better described as a cycle, it has a strong cyclic aspect, but it has a "forward" aspect also, to see it as a cycle would be to chose one extreme and not the other... I would say that it is a spiral. We are living life after life is these existences and making up selves to create, to be part of things, to gain awareness of conditions
I think that the point of that statement is to address the basic question typical people ask themselves, which is not the thesis of his discussion. I suggest listening further, not just in this video, but in life.
@lyntonio So in a nutshell you are saying: Its OKAY for the US, Australia, Europe to bar people from entering (the lands their forefathers stole from the natives), if they are of the wrong color, race, social status, nationality, etc., and have the full authority to enslave them, put them in jail without trial, kill them, etc. BUT It is NOT OKAY to bar people from entering a place based on their faith. IN LAYMEN'S TERM THIS IS CALLED FIRST DEGREE HYPOCRISY.
ADVICE TO ANYONE WHO IS THINKING OF TAKING UP BUDDISM! Please read the comments of devout Buddists. If the most devout among them are like this you can imagine about the common Buddists! Every human is born with dignity! And you have the right to keep that. Don't end up walking the streets of Asia barefoot, begging for food, and kissing the feet of monks!! There is a purpose of our lves! Islam is the ony way for success in the life after death. Look past the negetive stereotyoes.
In Islam we are taught ear for ear and eye for eye! If someone uses bad language I too can use a similar language! I AM staying out of others business! I just use my freedom of expression to publish my thoughts! which one "good Muslim" started to speak up? In any case you did not respond about what is expeted off you according to Budism. you are supposed to meditate in your quest of enlightment! So please leave us alone and concentrate on what you HAVE to do!
You have to speak in a language that they will understand! I spend time exposing the absurdities of Buddism, because I feel sorry for the apparantly educated Western men and women walking the streets of Asia barefoot, begging for food in their "quest for enlightment"! This is a just a humble effort to explain to them what Buddism really is, to the missguided!
Dreamers…AH!,…….The Buddha Said,…..That's not you ...Ha!…..The Buddha! said " Meditate upon the world of the opposites"…What would he mean by that?….He is telling you!……..What is the meaning of that?……By the way!……Do not worship Monks, they know as little as you do,……They are there to preserve the Dharma,…..that is there purpose and nothing more!……………..Here is my Revelation regardless of Dogma!……..In the World of The Opposites there can be no such thing as an Absolute because if some thing were to be or become an Absolute it would also by Virtue of existing in a Duality have to be or become it's own absolute Opposite!………Merry Xmas!
I am not forcing you to read my comments, am I ? Every atom and living cell is a proof of God! Till you come up with the explanation with regard to the irigin of matter and life there is no other option but to believe in God!
By reading your comment, it is clear that u understanding nothing about 4 nobel truth. Know nothing about buddhism. Study first before claiming against other religion. When Buddha enlightened, hinduism has no place to raise their head. Go and Study history. (p.s. I am replying to a ranker called "computermaster" below).
religion is just a cloak , men cant be judged by it. every single man has a diff. mind set . so whether he is muslim or buddhist , he can be good nd @ th same time his another fellow can be bad . u agree?
By reading your comment, it is clear that u understanding nothing about 4 nobel truth. Know nothing about buddhism. Study first before claiming against other religion. When Buddha enlightened, hinduism has no place to raise their head. Go and Study history.
@lyntonio How come all of a sudden you stopped talking about freedom and Western values when I mentioned about the scores of Mexicans killed while trying to cross into the US. Please lets tackle one subject after another, and stop making a mess out of it all.
I ahve lookd around, and found all the replies in Islam, with full explantion and proof! Since you too seem to be lost and dont know the answers, give a try with Quran and Islam!
@lyntonio And it looks you have given yourself all the rights to insult Islam and Muslim as you want, and expect the Muslims to just keep quiet? Those days are over my friend. You insult, YOU WILL GET INSULTED!!
Better to be silent. And that will not harm the great teachings of the Buddha. Else first try to see the path before preaching about things u have no clue what so ever. What u say here is just rubbish.
No! No! No! This is one teaching I will have to digress and disagree with Ajahn Brahmali as to the “ purpose of life”. The purpose of life is not to seek happiness in any form ... Worldly or spiritually. There is nothing in this world that can give one ... “lasting happiness.” Because any form of happiness is in the realm of Impermanence. The absolute “PURPOSE OF LIFE” is to GET OFF THIS MERRY GO ROUND we call life. The purpose of life is to get off this “hamster wheel” ... to get off the cycle of birth and death. There is no other reason or purpose for being here. And how one gets off is given in the 8 fold path or something similar. This is why we are born as a human being. To give us the opportunity to get off this merry go round. Only in the human realm can we become enlightened. And while we’re on the subject of “practice”.... why do we practice? Why ? The answer is to get off this merry go round. And it takes enormous effort to get off this hamster wheel. It takes humongous effort to end the cycle of birth and death. And sadly, most of us are not up to the task. We fall short for a variety of reasons. I am surprised at how Ajahn Brahmali totally missed this question completely. This question cannot be sugar coated. Hahaha... LOL... Ajahn Brahmali did say what I’m saying or alluded to what I said, but only after someone asked a question at the end of his talk. 98 percent of the talk was given on the subject happiness and only 1 percent to Nibanna ... and it was an after thought. Why is that? It should have been stated in the beginning of the talk that ... “ the purpose of life is to get off this merry go round.” And that happiness is simply a by-product of our effort on getting there. He turned it around. He made happiness the goal and enlightenment the by-product. I don’t agree with it. And I don’t think he should have done that.
@lyntonio 1. You said everyone should be allowed to enter Medina. 2. I said every country has the freedom to bar anyone from entering the country or parts of it. 3. You argued everyone should be able to go anywhere in the world 4. When I brought up the case of US barring poor Mexicans (no problem for the rich) from crossing the border you jump subjects and talk nonsense and beat around the bush. THIS IS CALLED DOUBLE STANDARDS AND HYPOCRISY!!
When arrogant Buddists spill their profanity in Islamic channels it becomes my business! We are duty bound to react on any provication. And thats exactly what I am doing! Whereas you are doing what you are NOT supposed to do! Nowhere in Buddism it is allowd to attack! And this is first degree hypocricy! Moreover I never use profanity UNLESS I was insulted with profanity!
Thre are millions of Buddists working in Saudi and Gulf. Show me ONE who has been killed for not converting! I can explain to a fool. But I can never explain to one who acts like a fool. Stop reading books out of context!
You are supposed to go to a jungle if you have have to do real meditation. Dont fool yourself by meditating in front of the computer playing You Tube! You hypocrites make me laugh!
What is your problem? Is the faith of Buddists so weak that a few comments in You Tube could get them to convert?? I just want to let the misguided people know that there is happier life and afterlife than the "happiness" they know of. Also to get happiness you dont need to humiliate yourself and live as a beggar, kiss the feet of monks and worship trees! There is ONE way you could be happy WITHOUT LOSING YOUR DIGNITY: ISLAM
In Islam we are told to defend out religion! Seeing Devout Buddists spilling utter filth and profanity in Islamic channels I started to defend my faith! Whereas your Budda has told you to go to jungle and wait there! But look at what you are doing! Stop meddling with others' business, go the the jungle, and stop being a hypocrite!! And by the way I am not learning Buddism. I question to show the INTELLIGENT ONES how stupid and absurd Buddism really is!
Ajahn Brahmali is one of my favourite Dhamma teachers.
Bravo! I listen to this nearly every day, many thanks
I've watched this so many times, and I stll really enjoy listening to it many times over.
It sounds like we need to make decisions in our life and make changes toward a more helpful and happier life. Many of us probably don't realized it. But today is the day to make a difference in life in general for you and people.
Saadhu, Saadhu,Saadhu
Thank you very much Bhante for this excellent talk. Greetings and gratitude from South America.
this is such a great teaching on a daily basis.... if i can listen to it while driving wil be great
Another great talk by Ven. Ajahn Brahmali. Explains nicely how the happiness & sadness makes the state of the mind vary. If you are wise enough to grasp it, this gives a clue of how some born as animals or deamons after life as a human & some with a better human life or a life as a god. Actually, the correct term he should have used was the 'better state of mind' instead of 'happiness'. The state of mind improves when you do meditation or good acts like loving kindness,give away things etc..
Thank you Ajahn, now i understand why i feel a certain joyfulness when i think of a kindness done 40 years ago; the act did leave an enduring residue!!!. There will always be people who find fault, because the "Ego cannot accept the TRUTH".
Beautiful, Thank You.
Wonderful talk! Thank you:)
Thanks for talk. I feel sorry for the people who search for the things they don’t like as their purpose in life. Ex. I rarely give a thumbs down ( i only have 👎🏼 when a viewers comment is obviously mean spirited -but i have never 👎🏼 a posted video)..
if I don’t want to watch, or learn about particular subject i move on...
as it is not that something is bad or good...it is about personal search.
So back to my point...
people do seem rather hateful and pathetic searching for things to thumbs down just to feel a fake “powerful”. Because most don’t really care about their thumbs down and the spirit of the giver....
find what you like man...life is short. Catch on. Don’t be the problem; be the solution.
Thanks for talk, posting it and Ajahn Brahmali freely giving his best intentions.
All in all, this is a very nice, valuable talk, based on a beautiful, positive mindset. If you ask me, I would say that Ajahn Brahmali is clearly advancing. :)
Thank you for your contribution.
this video is the best yet
...(from prev) and also the state of mind weakens when you do bad things or when u lead a sorrowful life. Hence, this state or the power of mind at the end of your this life determines what sort of a life u can get in your next. If the power is very high you get born as a god or too low as daemons or as animals according to the status of the mind. Real happiness is when u develop the mind, u tend to see the worthlessness of things we attach and get hurt in life and so u let go of them.....
thank you so much to compare short suffering to the long run relief
Good morning 🙏🙏🙏
My take on the meaning of life:
It's a question that only a self-conscious being could come up with, just like the need for a god. At the moment i'm strongly leaning towards the answer being the state in which you aren't caught up in such questions. It seems like an unnecessary, even artificial burden, and the nature/mind/experience of the "human animal" looks like an elegant solution to that.
one moment is different from other and a eon different from other, to think that "is always the same" gives a sense of existence of a object ( "mental process of existence that does not depend on conditions) that gives support to the speaker ego to quickly answer a much more complex question of what to manifest in the worlds.
Wow ❤❤❤
i saw a programme rescently on uk tv where they took several day to day professionals, architects, teachers, doctors etc and taught them how to meditate and made them do so for 2 months.. each week they did a cat skan of their brains. they also did the same with similar people but with no meditation. The results were the growth and thickening up of a part of the brain towards the back near the neck and 100% of the people who took part continued to meditate as it maid their lives so much better.
GOAT
Because truth hurts!
If truth hurts it is not the fault of the truth!
Someone has to keep telling the truth!
Once you die you will feel sorry for not sparing time to think about where we are from and where we are going!
With these questions I am just trying to make the intligent ones who ended up following Buddism blindly, and never got a chance to know about Islam.
This is also a humble effort to help the Westerners to take up Buddism who walk the streets in Sri Lanka dressed in rags begging for food, while local monks whiz pass them state of the art Beemers and Merc.
The ultimate question to the meaning of life is, "What can *I* do to make this a better world? What can *we* do to make heaven on earth, in a world based on greed? What are the little things that I might have overlooked, yet may be more important that I could do or have done to play a part in the larger scheme of things for this purpose?" Ask not am I important, but how can I be important in society even if you are just the wind flowing away from the butterfly's wings. And, the *answer* is to Do Selflessly and with reverence, forethought, and ultimately by nature. This is how you can clap with just one hand (high five!).
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I agree that the idea of god it is not the problem, the problem is the idea that we make of God. The problem is the duality, is the observer-object separativiness that gives support to the idea of a separated "I" and God "out there". Again: it is not the idea that is the problem is what we use it for. In opposite to think that is "all illusion" and that "repets itself over and over again" can be also used as a support to duality because gives intense reality to "mind", just like "God".
...(from prev) and the ultimate happiness is when the mind is so developed it can see how everything is formed in life and that there is no happiness or anything to gain in these physical and statuses of mind. Which means when you reach that level the mind can see how the mind is formed and the mirage or the emptiness of everything we grasp. So you then able stop the formation of the mind even, hence ending re-birth, which is the ultimate state - the Nirvana!!
About Spiritual Happiness
The change of level of satisfaction does sure lead you to a better mind flow and might lead to a favorable rebirth. But to have as a goal of meaning of life and of spiritual practice to attain satisfaction (fulfillment) is to work in a limited perspective caused by hope of gain.
@lyntonio Please keep the discussion within the original topic:
BARRING PEOPLE FROM ENTERING PLACES AND COUNTRIES.
6 x 7 is the question. I know I was sitting on a park bench when I mysteriously learned it.
@lyntonio
When I have with me the religion:
1. That makes the most sense
2. Explains the purpose of life,
3. Gives the best description of after life and tells me exactly how to succeed
I dont need to waste my time studying other religions and philosophies that are nothing but a set of confusions.
@lyntonio Can we have the full sentence in its full context please.
I love Bhante's talk and that is why i am not so interested in sensual pleasures. but i am living my life with a real sense of mortality and want to contribute something or something to humanity that is for the greater good and the effects reverberate even after i am gone.
Nature is never wasteful (well, let's ignore new-guinean birds), we do use more than 10% of our brain, and of course not every areal is employed equally throughout the changing situation of daily life.
About the world having a purpose:
I think it's purely optional. Some people feel incredibly free, not having any purpose to fulfill, others excel in the fulfillment of their principles and believes. Let's not make a definite statement on that, for everyone.
states of God conciousness are still impermanent
because is in getting involved with the world and with people needs is very high practice and to be involved with suffering leads to wisdom and to be over involved in personal fulfillment my lead to a state of blindness towards the suffering of others.
Finally the idea that you are going to have life after life to work on this is overoptimistic and based on a idea of continuation independent of conditions, intrinsic existence of a individual mind or mind flux.
exactly :) and this is idiota :D
@novemberainy There is no Grande explanation separated from language, culture and individual self. But to say that there is NO purpose… is just another extremist position. The Buddha thought the middle way, not falling into extremes of nillism and essentialism. That´s my view… Thanks for commenting…
Sorry if in any way I sound disrespectful, that is not my intention, English is not my mother language and this might be a problem expressing myself.
Hope you find the Buddha path you seek very soon.
Light, Peace and love,
Julio
@novemberainy Ideas are Ideas, are inseparability of emptiness and appearance. If one believes in an idea ignoring its transient nature. Than consequences comes, the idea of gaining polarizes and limitates ones view. The Venerable monk said that at the time of this video, but than he affirms that the “There is no outside purpose”, the “purpose of life is happiness” falling in a subtle extremist position.
Meaning is thought. He than chose his meaning of life. Is he alware of that? Maybe
This hope of personal fulfillment does get in the way of true wisdom. My be that a better description of meaning of life is to attain wisdom ( that necessarily comes with compassion and love because those are the activity of wisdom).
Also to look for happiness in this sense of personal fulfillment you put can be very spiritually dangerous
unbelievable. he speaks more then 44 minutes about "42"!
42 !!!!!!
That's the answer, not the question...
@novemberainy Check out video " The Right to Believe? - Ajahn Brahm " and " end of faith- Sam Harris"
Is it possible to transmit this comment to Ajahn Brahmali?
I disagree in two points:
The existence is not better described as a cycle, it has a strong cyclic aspect, but it has a "forward" aspect also, to see it as a cycle would be to chose one extreme and not the other... I would say that it is a spiral. We are living life after life is these existences and making up selves to create, to be part of things, to gain awareness of conditions
why not 21 times 2?
Okay tell me then who controls the VIPAKA?
So if one kills an animal what is the vipaka he will get?
i just completely forgot the sense of this question. the meaning of life is to take over the universe by all means and override it.
What would Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin say about Islam?
The Ultimate Question: Can it Blend?
09:18 Why should the purpose of life be fulfilling our innermost want? Why not complying with our utmost duty, instead?
I think that the point of that statement is to address the basic question typical people ask themselves, which is not the thesis of his discussion. I suggest listening further, not just in this video, but in life.
Stop the suffering and fast track way to nirvana!
Do what this monk has done!
Watch
"Self-Immolation of a buddhist monk"
the answer is 42
Islam is the one true religion.
Quran is the instruction manual for humans.
@lyntonio So in a nutshell you are saying:
Its OKAY for the US, Australia, Europe to bar people from entering (the lands their forefathers stole from the natives), if they are of the wrong color, race, social status, nationality, etc., and have the full authority to enslave them, put them in jail without trial, kill them, etc.
BUT
It is NOT OKAY to bar people from entering a place based on their faith.
IN LAYMEN'S TERM THIS IS CALLED FIRST DEGREE HYPOCRISY.
ADVICE TO ANYONE WHO IS THINKING OF TAKING UP BUDDISM!
Please read the comments of devout Buddists. If the most devout among them are like this you can imagine about the common Buddists!
Every human is born with dignity! And you have the right to keep that. Don't end up walking the streets of Asia barefoot, begging for food, and kissing the feet of monks!!
There is a purpose of our lves! Islam is the ony way for success in the life after death. Look past the negetive stereotyoes.
In Islam we are taught ear for ear and eye for eye! If someone uses bad language I too can use a similar language!
I AM staying out of others business! I just use my freedom of expression to publish my thoughts!
which one "good Muslim" started to speak up?
In any case you did not respond about what is expeted off you according to Budism. you are supposed to meditate in your quest of enlightment! So please leave us alone and concentrate on what you HAVE to do!
You have to speak in a language that they will understand!
I spend time exposing the absurdities of Buddism, because I feel sorry for the apparantly educated Western men and women walking the streets of Asia barefoot, begging for food in their "quest for enlightment"! This is a just a humble effort to explain to them what Buddism really is, to the missguided!
Dreamers…AH!,…….The Buddha Said,…..That's not you ...Ha!…..The Buddha! said " Meditate upon the world of the opposites"…What would he mean by that?….He is telling you!……..What is the meaning of that?……By the way!……Do not worship Monks, they know as little as you do,……They are there to preserve the Dharma,…..that is there purpose and nothing more!……………..Here is my Revelation regardless of Dogma!……..In the World of The Opposites there can be no such thing as an Absolute because if some thing were to be or become an Absolute it would also by Virtue of existing in a Duality have to be or become it's own absolute Opposite!………Merry Xmas!
pointyfinger t
I am not forcing you to read my comments, am I ?
Every atom and living cell is a proof of God! Till you come up with the explanation with regard to the irigin of matter and life there is no other option but to believe in God!
By reading your comment, it is clear that u understanding nothing about 4 nobel truth. Know nothing about buddhism. Study first before claiming against other religion.
When Buddha enlightened, hinduism has no place to raise their head. Go and Study history. (p.s. I am replying to a ranker called "computermaster" below).
religion is just a cloak , men cant be judged by it. every single man has a diff. mind set . so whether he is muslim or buddhist , he can be good nd @ th same time his another fellow can be bad . u agree?
By reading your comment, it is clear that u understanding nothing about 4 nobel truth. Know nothing about buddhism. Study first before claiming against other religion.
When Buddha enlightened, hinduism has no place to raise their head. Go and Study history.
@lyntonio How come all of a sudden you stopped talking about freedom and Western values when I mentioned about the scores of Mexicans killed while trying to cross into the US.
Please lets tackle one subject after another, and stop making a mess out of it all.
I ahve lookd around, and found all the replies in Islam, with full explantion and proof!
Since you too seem to be lost and dont know the answers, give a try with Quran and Islam!
You are wasting your time typing away!
Why dont you leave us alone and go meditate and attain nirvana!
@lyntonio Loosing your language again?? HEH?
Read my comment again, it can be understood by even a 6 year old.
@lyntonio OH now you are being a cry baby!!
I have already told you the key to this verse is in the verse that follows. READ Quran 9:6
@lyntonio
And it looks you have given yourself all the rights to insult Islam and Muslim as you want, and expect the Muslims to just keep quiet?
Those days are over my friend. You insult, YOU WILL GET INSULTED!!
Because that's not the question. You wanna start a religious war over it? lolz
Better to be silent. And that will not harm the great teachings of the Buddha. Else first try to see the path before preaching about things u have no clue what so ever. What u say here is just rubbish.
Anura Jayatilake why - because he makes a difference in die world - what do you do?
No! No! No! This is one teaching I will have to digress and disagree with Ajahn Brahmali as to the “ purpose of life”. The purpose of life is not to seek happiness in any form ... Worldly or spiritually. There is nothing in this world that can give one ... “lasting happiness.” Because any form of happiness is in the realm of Impermanence. The absolute “PURPOSE OF LIFE” is to GET OFF THIS MERRY GO ROUND we call life. The purpose of life is to get off this “hamster wheel” ... to get off the cycle of birth and death. There is no other reason or purpose for being here. And how one gets off is given in the 8 fold path or something similar. This is why we are born as a human being. To give us the opportunity to get off this merry go round. Only in the human realm can we become enlightened. And while we’re on the subject of “practice”.... why do we practice? Why ? The answer is to get off this merry go round. And it takes enormous effort to get off this hamster wheel. It takes humongous effort to end the cycle of birth and death. And sadly, most of us are not up to the task. We fall short for a variety of reasons. I am surprised at how Ajahn Brahmali totally missed this question completely. This question cannot be sugar coated. Hahaha... LOL... Ajahn Brahmali did say what I’m saying or alluded to what I said, but only after someone asked a question at the end of his talk. 98 percent of the talk was given on the subject happiness and only 1 percent to Nibanna ... and it was an after thought. Why is that? It should have been stated in the beginning of the talk that ... “ the purpose of life is to get off this merry go round.” And that happiness is simply a by-product of our effort on getting there. He turned it around. He made happiness the goal and enlightenment the by-product. I don’t agree with it. And I don’t think he should have done that.
@lyntonio
1. You said everyone should be allowed to enter Medina.
2. I said every country has the freedom to bar anyone from entering the country or parts of it.
3. You argued everyone should be able to go anywhere in the world
4. When I brought up the case of US barring poor Mexicans (no problem for the rich) from crossing the border you jump subjects and talk nonsense and beat around the bush.
THIS IS CALLED DOUBLE STANDARDS AND HYPOCRISY!!
When arrogant Buddists spill their profanity in Islamic channels it becomes my business! We are duty bound to react on any provication. And thats exactly what I am doing!
Whereas you are doing what you are NOT supposed to do! Nowhere in Buddism it is allowd to attack! And this is first degree hypocricy!
Moreover I never use profanity UNLESS I was insulted with profanity!
Thre are millions of Buddists working in Saudi and Gulf. Show me ONE who has been killed for not converting!
I can explain to a fool. But I can never explain to one who acts like a fool.
Stop reading books out of context!
You are supposed to go to a jungle if you have have to do real meditation.
Dont fool yourself by meditating in front of the computer playing You Tube!
You hypocrites make me laugh!
What is your problem? Is the faith of Buddists so weak that a few comments in You Tube could get them to convert??
I just want to let the misguided people know that there is happier life and afterlife than the "happiness" they know of. Also to get happiness you dont need to humiliate yourself and live as a beggar, kiss the feet of monks and worship trees!
There is ONE way you could be happy WITHOUT LOSING YOUR DIGNITY: ISLAM
In Islam we are told to defend out religion! Seeing Devout Buddists spilling utter filth and profanity in Islamic channels I started to defend my faith!
Whereas your Budda has told you to go to jungle and wait there! But look at what you are doing!
Stop meddling with others' business, go the the jungle, and stop being a hypocrite!!
And by the way I am not learning Buddism. I question to show the INTELLIGENT ONES how stupid and absurd Buddism really is!