Ajahn Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu ~ 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ~ Theravada Forest Tradition
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- Solitude (Viveka) by Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu - A Dhamma lecture given at Suan Mokkh on 8 February 1990. Interpreted into English by Santikaro.
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu (Servant of the Buddha) went forth as a bhikkhu (Buddhist monk) in 1926, at the age of twenty. After a few years of study in Bangkok, which convinced him “purity is not to be found in the big city,” he was inspired to live intimately with nature in order to investigate Buddha-Dhamma in study and practice. Thus, he established Suan Mokkhabālārama (The Grove of the Power of Liberation) in 1932 near his hometown of Pum Riang (now in Chaiya District).
Ajahn Buddhadāsa worked painstakingly to establish and explain the correct and essential principles of what he called “pristine Buddhism” or “the heart of Buddha-Dhamma,” that is, the original awakening realizations of Lord Buddha before it was buried under commentaries, ritualism, clerical politics, and the like. His work was based in extensive research of the Pāli texts (Canon and commentary), especially of Buddha's discourses (suttas), followed by personal experiment and practice with these teachings. He then taught whatever he could say truly quenches dukkha (dissatisfaction, distress, suffering). His goal was to produce a complete set of references for present and future research and practice. His approach was always scientific, straight-forward, and practical.
(Extract of biography taken from Suan Mokkh website - www.suanmokkh....)
You can find the transcript of the talk here: www.suanmokkh....
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Wow!! I just keep finding incredible gems on this channel!! I could never thank you enough, Jayasara 😍 This one has been especially helpful, as I am one who craves lots of alone time and solitude to cope with this overwhelming world. I now have much clearer guidance in this whole area of being alone - thank you for recording this amazing talk!! And my deepest thanks for all the other comments below - which have been the icing on the cake for me personally 🙏❤❤
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Much love and respect from Scotland 🙏🏻💖
Great listening,very insightful.Hope giving..Thanks again,very grateful to you.
@@one497 Much love and respect to you also ;)
@@chrisrossi5176 sorry did,nt mean to write to you rather wanted to correspond with Samaneri..
Wish you all the best,take care.
Greetings Yan
Wisdom and knowledge put in de mind becomes poison, practiced and implemented on the body becomes cure and ailments. Unknown Guru
Beyond brilliant. The clarity.
Everything becomes an industry in this world.
Spirituality becomes spiritualism.
"The human being is a device that detects "waves," much like a radio is a device through which waves pass. The waves are present regardless of whether there is a device. The fundamental assumption of (almost) all human beings is the inherited idea that "I Am. I think. I do." This is like the radio device claiming: I create and make muse-ic.
"The more "intelligent" the device, the more deluded, for it sees a world that it can "do something about" and is often so certain of it's "reality" that it is willing to destroy other radio devices if they fail to "get in line." In REALITY, it is only a device that blinks "on" and "off" in a non-moving field of motion. Yet, this device, when switched "on", is convinced (imagines) that it sees a world. It further imagines that this world is chaotic and that it can straighten this world out. That is why the mystic sometimes rolls on the ground in laughter or hangs on a cross in compassion and humility.
"It is the nature of the device to "pick up" these waves. It is identifying with the waves, the delusion (idea) that the device is producing the waves, that causes problems (completely imaginary). There are waves of all sorts. The device is "bound" to pick them up. Nothing compels the device to cling to the waves.
"Where are "you" in all of this?"--anonymous
Much love and appreciation
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Thank you 🙏
Alone - All One 🙏💜🙏
One dwells in the spiritual solitude of peace and baths in the fountain of tranquil aloneness
thank you so much for reaching so deep into your library. this is really something.
🙏🙏❤❤ Thank you for providing a haven of sanity in this mad world.
Ooooooo! Upon listening the second time. It’s so funny how resistant my ego is to the truth! Without I, the one who argues and debates these words entered my heart ❤️ May the four guards be nurtured and coddled to protect my mind from dukkha! May all sentient beings find this solitude 🙏🏾
Dear samaneri, thank you, thank you , thank you, feeling your untiring contious efforts to let us truly know ourself so be free as we really are fills the heart up with gratitude and love, since through grace I have found you to be honest old one is just an eco now, you have let the prisoner have a good laugh waking up on his own bed, in his own home, with no prison, with no prisoner, with dream and sleep departing together
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Pranams Ajahn Jayasara
Hope you are doing well these days......Just a little thank you for all you are doing,truly feeling much gratitude .This Dharma talk was so beautifully laid out by Ajahn Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu so very thoughtful and easy to grasp......I will listen again,Thank you again......
Extremely important discourse for the aspirant of peace
Wonderful. Thank you Jayasara.
Thank you, a very valuable and clear teaching 🙏🏼
Thank you Pinned Samanara Jayaseri of master Master teaching 🙏🙏😇
Thank you Samaneri 💖
Best Birthday gift EVERRRRR (%
Happy Birthday dear Tony!
Very beautiful. Thanks
The world wants us to play a certain role, in complete solitude all roles fall away. Complete stillness of mind and imagenary delusions and suffering.
What a beautiful lecture.
Thankyou for this recording as I mentioned him to you earlier a few months ago 🙏🏻
This is a high level of the teaching deep in thanks for your helpings us
Simplemente buenisimo !!! GRACIAS
Detachment from likes and dislikes!
Difficult so difficult. Why come here if to be liberated we have to detach from all positive and negative experiences. Beloved Jayasara I appreciate your readings and I acknowledge that I am hopelessly lost in the clutches of samsara, Maya, or whatever delusion I’m experiencing at any moment! Thank you for your eye opening reveals. 🙏🏾🌺
So as to not keep coming back here again and again! It is this very clinging and identification with sense experiences that binds us to the wheel of samsara. But one can only see this with the clear eye of penetrating wisdom and insight.
@@SamaneriJayasara what is the product of penetrating wisdom and insight…nothing…the void?
@@binta6275 peace of mind, nirvana
maybe we come here just to experience things we can't experience on the other planes? I dont know @@SamaneriJayasara
I keep asking the question that why is universal consciousness/love making us go through all these journeys. Why is the truth so hard to find/discover/experience during a human life? Wouldn’t it have been kinder and better for us to all live through love more easily? Imagine how different the world and our individual lives would be if it hadn’t been made so hard to work out the truth? That’s the bit which doesn’t make sense to me. It’s almost like we are pawns in the game of the universe.
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Thank you for making this talk available to the public. In this talk, ajahn dhammadāsa mentioned that one may cling to an object of attachment in four basic ways. One may cling to an object of attachment (i) sensually, (ii) ideologically, (iii) superstitiously, or (iv) egoistically (14:31-16:15). I wonder if clinging to an object of attachment superstitiously really means clinging to an object of attachment fearfully, where the fear is that of making a mistake. Some superstitions are indeed based on fear, hence substitution of "fearfully" for "superstitiously" may not be totally off. The reason I am thinking in this way is that one may cling to objects of attachment in the forms of kukkucca (aka anxiety, remorse), vicikicchā (aka uncertainty), and uddhacca (aka restlessness), all of which seem to involve endless flip-flopping between the alternatives, none of which seem flawless, out of the fear that one may be making a mistake. Did ajahn dhammadāsa give any examples of clinging superstitiously? They may shed some more light on the matter. Also, are the aforementioned four basic ways of clinging mentioned in sutta and/or commentaries too? Thank you.
Highest truth, thank you Sister ❤🙏
Buddhadassa also said the higher level of gives is giving dharma
I came here to request readings of Ajahn Buddhadasa and was pleasantly surprised to find you have one already.
Thank you 🙏🏻 💕
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Absolutely grateful for this video
I really like his teachings, simple, direct and humble.
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Samaneri Jayasara, I so appreciate you and your efforts 🙏❤ so don't take this as anything critical but..,
"Solitude" is all but impossible for most people today in the modern world - UNLESS you redefine "solitude."
And maybe that's the point here, we have to generate an "internal" form of solitude.
In my life, I have to work 5 or 6 days a week, have to pay a dozens different bill's all due on various dates, have mandatory meetings to attend weekly, have children to tend to, have health aspects that need attention including doctor visits and prescriptions, have to maintain and fuel, and license my vehicle which is needed for my work, have to update my various certifications needed for my job, etc etc.. I think you get the point.
The older definition of "solutude" is IMO literally not possible for me or for most (all?) people that I know. I get it though, we are not really talking about that old definition. It's just that there is a particular challenge that we face today that was perhaps not as present even just a few decades ago. Our life is getting more and more complex it seems and at an ever accelerating rate. It's getting to a point where quick, shallow thinking is almost an essential ir more valued survival skill as opposed to a calm, stable and focused mind. I wonder sometimes if we are increasingly headed for social insanity, a truly crazy society?
And so I appreciate what you do here beyond what I can say to you, it's just that the struggle of day to day survival stands in notable contrast to your words at times.
May All Beings be at Peace🙏
I hear you David and appreciate your point about the current state of affairs and the complexity and superficiality of our world; as well the difficulty for many people (especially lay people) to get alone time.
However, just a few points to note. These are not my 'words' but the words of an Arahant, Ajahn Buddhadasa, so they are worth really contemplating over and over until we see clearly for ourselves the Truth of what he is pointing to. He does make the crucial point that "solitude" at its depth relates to abiding free from the ego self which constantly reacts with liking and disliking to the phenomena arising in the internal and external world. For example, he says that:
_If there is ego in the mind, even if we go and sit in a cave in the mountains or stay at the charnel grounds or deep in the forest, there will be no solitude. No matter where we go, if there is ego in the mind, then there cannot be any lasting or real solitude. But if the mind is void of ego, even if we go and sit in the middle of the theater or stand on a busy street corner, the mind will have solitude. To get rid of the ego that is in the mind, any ego that arises in the mind, to get rid of it is to experience solitude immediately. One doesn’t have to go up in the mountains and live like a hermit or hang around funeral grounds or anything like that. To find real solitude, what one has to do is to drop ego, to toss the ego out of the mind. And then wherever one is, whatever one is doing, there immediately is viveka (solitude or aloneness)._
Therefore, there is no guarantee that a monk or hermit who has complete solitude will actually be liberated if their minds are still rooted in the delusion of self/ego.
The reflections you share about your busy personal life and the "crazy" world in general can serve as an impetus and catalyst to deepen your Dhamma practice, so I would encourage you to use these with wisdom as they can provide great insight into Dhamma, allow us to get our priorities in order, and motivate us to simplify our lives as best we can.
Death is coming - that is the only certainty in life - and the reality of that is in our faces all the time now, as is the upheaval and instability of this phenomenal world. Again, these disturbing times can be a great gift for insight/wisdom if we use them skillfully.
Ajahn Buddhadasa offers some wonderful tools to see clearly how and where we cling so as to come to a deeper understanding of why we suffer and how to release the mind from that suffering. It is possible (though perhaps difficult) to do that in the midst of a busy life when one sees clearly, keeps putting things down, until finally one lets go completely.
Sending all good wishes your way
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Awesome 😘
This was such a precious recording, Samaneri Jayasara. I enjoyed listening to it so much that I experienced a momentary disturbance when it ended. Would this be considered an attachment to positivity that caused desire and therefore dukkha ? :) Thank you so much for your continued guidance and noble service.
Perhaps. It will all depend on how quickly you put it down. You have noticed the clinging which is great and now you can simply let it dissolve in the light of your mindfulness. Another way of looking at this though, is that you rejoiced and delighted in the pure Dhamma. Something within us knows when we are hearing or contacting pure Truth or Dhamma which is what a Master (Arahant) like Ven. Buddhadasa is conveying. We want more - which is actually a noble desire so long as with work with it skillfully. I take much delight in your noble delight of the Heart 💖
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I greatly appreciate your detailed, insightful and prompt response. This certainly helps 😊🙏🌸
@@SamaneriJayasara A skilful & beautiful reply! 💙
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful text. It was just what I needed. 🙏❤️🌹
thank you this was clarifying may I ask if you can do a mediation focused on emptiness and a talk on what the rainbow body is and the practice. thank you just found your channel after finishing 6 week week retreat in Thailand Wat Ram Poeng. Your videos are most helpful for the continuation of the practice. Thank you
Dear Friend, this seems very current for the time. And may be useful for the coming full moon.On the 17th here. 18th, there?
This is so richly layered. What year was this.Anyone? A timeless piece.
1990
I desperately need to find this place. 33 min.
Simple 123 !!!
Viveka is discernment, discrimination...between real, unreal, good/bad...etc..
In Sanskrit yes, but in Pali it means solitude. However, it comes from the same root: "to separate. In order to judge or to discriminate between things, you must separate them. In Pali the usage is more concrete, to separate yourself.
@samanerijayasara do you know where I can find the audio of just the wind chimes in the beginning of this recording?
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Sorry. Viveka is not solitude, but, 'discernment '
Thanks for pointing this out Prema as viveka does mean that in Sanskrit. However, Viveka means something different in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, Marathi, Hindi. In Pali, and thus Theravadin Buddhism, it means detachment or seclusion both in a physical and mental sense. Here are some more details from Wisdom Library for your reference: www.wisdomlib.org/definition/viveka
to be "insulated"from the effects of life
Thank you so much. I enjoy your presentations
I suspect the English word “awake” comes from the Sanskrit word Viveka or discernment. Through Viveka one reaches a state of non attachment or complete inner solitude. So the two words solitude and Viveka can be used interchangeably to mean the same thing in the context of this development of mindfulness or inner discernment that is solitude
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