How to Deal with Sickness | Ajahn Brahm | 29 June 2018
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- "Even though the body is sick, the mind does not need to be sick," says Ajahn Brahm. Ajahn teaches us to not fear sickness. Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon: / buddhistsocietywa
Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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"You either get well or die." That helped me cope with bad stomach pain before. When I came to realization that pain is just a pain and nothing more; that it will probably not going to kill me, but if it does, it does, the pain faded away and became localized. In other words, pain was in the stomach but not in the mind, and it was bearable. I think that more than half of pain is fear, and if you don't fear it, it loses most of its potency.
I have been diagnosed with lung cancer . This means so much Thankyou Ajahn suck good guidance as a Buddhist 🙏♥️
What a life force this guy is.. Damn
came down with a cold today and i looked up to see if he'd done a sickness talk im so glad ☺️ i can rest listening.
Amazing talk! I love it, that's what I needed right now. I'm currently sick, but allso with several chronic illnesses and recently it's been especially hard. Dealing with the illnesses and somehow making a living and being productive...the pressure has been huge. Thank you so much for reminding me I should take care first and let myself rest and understand what's going on with me. I literally cried throughout the talk and it was very cleansing and refreshing. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
lovley xxx
get well ajahn brahm, you are an inspiration
I pray you will get well soon Ajahn Brahm
Thank you for your talk for the effort
i have multiple sclerosis..i needed thia
Be a sicko! Brilliant Ajahn Brahm!
Ajahn Brahm, please take care 🙏🏻💐
Take care Ajahn Brahm 🙏🏻
I laughed out loud when he was laughing at himself chanting at the end. Thank you Ajahn for helping me remember to not be so serious 🙏🏻
45:50 Ajahn Brahm talk starts
love that monk
Hope u feel better!
He's the Ricky Gervais of Buddhism
AB, take care of yourself. 🙋
👏មានន័យល្អណាស់ទាន👏
I totally love this one! 😆
I used to have OCD (O part only without the C). High school era was the worst, as it developed into host of other mental problems.
I say "used to" because now, some 20 years after the onset, it is mostly dormant. You can never be cured of OCD (unless intense psychotherapy is done I guess), but you can let it go. You can tame it, and live with it like a domesticated beast. The only way to live with it is to learn the sign of it waking up, and avoiding it, to let it go and let it be, knowing that it will not kill you.
🙏🙏🙏
You now have immunity AB😁
Keep warm get well soon.
a lot of people who are called hypochondriacs are just people who have serious symptoms but have yet to get a diagnosis that explains them. calling people hypochondriacs can be incredibly ableist and cruel. also anxiety disorder is an illness.
i agree with the idea of investigating your illness and pain though. just the idea that people are pretending or confused is outdated and ableist.
Me deshanava sinhala translate karala denna puluvannam obata bohoma pin.
I have the flu too.
17:40 Ajahn's meditation starts.
Whats the approach to take when you are not "sick" as such. But have continual health problems, or niggles which just wont go away. In my case the doctors dont understand whats going on, so its down to me and the relationship I take with my health problems. Andy advice from anyone. thanks! ;o)
Video Master I have found that when the doctor's don't know it's best to begin educating yourself on the common denominator root causes across illnesses and work on each layer. So true the importance finding cAre vs cUre and letting go of fear. Dr. Klinghardt has resources and treatment plan for chronic illness that you may find interesting. Oddly, the most caring practitioners I have found are chiropractors and I suspect this is because their education model is not tainted by pharmaceutical funding.
@@romainecalm1108 Thanks. Yes I have found Chiropractors very caring to.
That's a good opportunity to make a commitment to self-love
Shatu
I have Diffused Large B Cell Lymphoma Aggressive. I’m being prepped for CAR-T treatment because the first chemotherapy treatment EPOCH-R didn’t completely eradicate the cancer. The CAR-T treatment is more intensive and expensive ($500K) . Why am I going to put myself through this treatment? I’m going to eventually die anyway. I’m ready to go.
Have to say I found this frustrating talk that doesn’t address those who really suffer frequently to the point that it is miserably hard for the sufferer. We are not talking a couple of colds a year. Some people have chronic awful sickness frequently that is debilitating and very very hard. Not to be made jokes about or fobbed off as being normal. It’s not necessarily normal at all.
This talk is for those who get a cold a few times a year that lasts for
A few days.
I agree with you. I think we have to ask ourselves: What would we do, how would we live life if we had the faith and the belief that even these awful chronic sicknesses would pass within a couple of days if we only stopped resisting them?
It may sound offensive but a lot of times these chronic conditions are chronic because we resist the experience they give to us. It is close to impossible to surrender to some sicknesses, the amygdala in your brain is just so strong. But I know from experience when you stop resisting the concept of "being that sickness" and when you stop resisting the experience / feeling of the sickness, the body tends to heal.
The problem is just that we humans are very bad at "surrendering". Again, the amygdala is just so strong.
All this started at the point where we stopped having external threats. Animals wanting to kill us; environmental factors threatening us such as storms etc. All these threats are gone but our fight or flight mechanism is still there. It's not bad per se but for people who are chronically sick it is turned on 24/7.
That's why it is very important that we train our minds in letting go. Most "chronic" sicknesses don't go away because we try to control them. And control is based on craving and fear.
No matter how you put it, we have to investigate our cravings and observe mind and body. Through deep looking we start to understand what creates sickness.
But again, I agree with you. This talk is very on the surface and not very "enlightening".
@@bastian6173Thank you 🙏
I am B+ 😂