'Our Real Home' - Venerable Ajahn Chah - Thai Forest Theravada Buddhism
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- Our Real Home - A Talk to an Aging Lay Disciple Approaching Death by Ajahn Chah
translated from the Thai by The Sangha at Wat Pah Nanachat.
Ajahn Chah was a Thai Buddhist monk. He was an influential teacher of the Buddhadhamma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition.
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I am a firefighter & i use these beautiful teachings & your beautiful reading of them as part of my routine on shift. Your work touches many though many, thank you
That's lovely to know that you can integrate them on your shift Lindsey. I am so touched you are finding them supportive and thank you always for your Bodhisattva work. 💜🌺
Even in the ashes life finds a way to rise again... Thanks for your service, phoenix Lindsey! 🔥 🕊️
I find so very little comfort in many of the Buddha’s teachings. But then, comfort is impermanent. I get it. But those here, suffering from the loss of a loved one, might I recommend the Christian mystics. Joel Goldsmith’s Unfolding Consciousness, pages 80-84 has provided great solace and peace to me. You see, God is Love. God is Consciousness. And both are Eternal. Don’t think of consciousness as the mind. It comes from the heart. As long as your beloved is in your consciousness, she is still with you. In fact, your loved ones who have passed are closer in many ways, without this “Dharma” in the way. Let go of the sorrow. Hold onto the love. Grief is the price of love. You grieve as deeply as you loved...Love is the great experience of life itself.
I hope this helps some of you here.
Namaste
@@jondavid968 ah it seems the hafiz smiled and uttered, "stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive"and thanks god he seems to not make it utterly boring, so there's a thing for every heart out here, love you dear love you.
I'm in a process of evolution. my life has changed in short time strongly. I started looking with "fresh eyes" into things. now that I found the forest dhamma I am able to see more clearly and find healthy ways of how to adapt and accept reality as it is.
thank you so much for uploading such gold worthy content. may the Buddha's light always be with you 🙏
This is such a comfort for me.
And I'm surrounded by people who think I'm insane for finding comfort here.
It's always been this way...
It maybe that were wondering around in one massive asylum?
....and those who were seen dancing 💃 were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music - Friedrich Nietzsche 💖
Same here...
They just don't know.... because they afraid to practice the Dharma and look into themselves
The Path to God has many roads. Seeking ENLIGHTENMENT in order to KNOW GOD, is food for you mind and for the ability to create PEACE and SOLITUDE within yourself.
Those that share negative responses because you seek knowledge, should be forgiven. The worse sin, is GLORIFIED IGNORANCE.
I always tell those who embrace their closed minds…. I say: There are many ways to kneel to God. As said by: RUMI
Bless you 🙏 My father passed in 2012, and my mother who is 87 is still with us, but nearing her end as well. These teachings , and your reading of them brought me great peace. Thank you 🙏
I am so grateful for this, I am a Christian, I am lead here, even by my morning prayers. I find all these paths of truth are coming into one stream. This helped me so much! Your very voice brings me goodness and blessing
All streams eventually lead to the ocean
i am interested in your opinion my friend ants me to go to her christian church s that is her belief now i had not long met her but i feel bad for saying i cannot go to her church as it is not all my belief and i feel a bit sad as i loved the church but i know of many other beliefs but i am learning God is inside me
The therapeutic élément of Bouddhism stems from psychological truth and hardwired wisdom not faith.
SJ, You really help me with my chronic pain and illness... Blessings! ❤️🙏❤️
May you continue to heal with the Dhamma Paul. 💜🌺
How beautiful, these readings mean so much tot me, i cant even explain. Thanks Samaneri Jayasara 🌈
This is beautiful and I love the chirping of insects and the sounds of birds. Thank you Sister.
🙏🏼🌿"all that can help you is clear awareness.......so let go'
Thank you samaneri jayasara for your beautiful and humble givings
Words of wisdom for us to integrate into our lives and practice .
I will be passing on this wisdom teachings to my adult children and hope they will find time to listen to it .
It will be my Mother's Day gift to them .
Sadhu 3x
Thank you for Ajahn Chah's wisdom. It is so helpful. What a blessing.
Yes , i was once doing the mediation at night training.. the peaceful sound of the night creature.. sudden become such a big noise that i cant concentrate !! and it getting louder !! there u can see yr anger grow and hatred grow.. just by this small small insects , can create so much anger and discomfort within me ..! a good reflection to learn on..
I agree David. This sound in the background was hugely irritating at first, but I wanted to hear the entire lesson, so i managed to set the discomfort aside all the way to the end. I marvelled at the fact that I could do it. THAT was my teacher!
This is read beautifully. Thank you.
It is so great.It is just to be simple. It is just to accept what is true.It is just to late go which has come to pass away only. It is just things are happening on their own accord. We suffer because we think to suffer. The body pains because we take it as pain. Thanks a lot Samnerji. You're my mother who is singing to make asleep in vast awareness.
Disciple:"Master, I experience suffering." "No," said the master:" you suffer from your experiences."
That was really lovely. Thank you 🙏🌸🦋
Love the background. Very calming.
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A heartwarming and reopening journey for the real self
I am not sure how many times I have listened to this. I feel the forest sound really make every word that much powerful. Please use the nature sound more in your beautiful work. Thank you for all you do🙏
great teacher.. !
I listen this one everyday to come back home to rest and relax and start over
Thank you so much 🙏
🙏✨🌺 Thank you
Thank you for this beautiful and inspiring reading. I truly appreciate your work in creating this channel. May your own practice flourish.🙏🏻
This was great thanks for uploading
Thank you 💕🙏🏻
Beautiful.
Thank you😊
pure wisdom
This one hit hard. Thanks for all your work Jayasara ❤️
The perfect teaching. I always return to this one.
Thank You Ajahn
Amazing 🙏🏻❤️ thank you
Does anyone know of more Ajahn Chah teachings read by Samaneri Jayasara? I know that Ajahn Amaro has read the whole book but I really like Samaneri Jayasara’s tone and pacing, helps me get into meditation
Hi Michael, I have only read and recorded one Ajahn Chah talk as yet. However, I will do some more soon as I am ordained in his tradition! Glad you hear that you appreciate his wonderful wisdom. Much metta, Jayasara
Samaneri Jayasara how’s progress with giving full Bhikkhuni ordination in the the Dhammayut/Kammathana tradition?
Hi Michael, I'm not all that up to date with that as I am in the Theravadin tradition.
Samaneri Jayasara Am I mistaken thinking the Thai Forest Tradition is within the Theravada Tradition?
Samaneri Jayasara I just looked you up and now have made a firm goal to visit your monastery in the near (post-Covid) future. I’m happy to see that your community supports a Bhikkhuni sangha.
Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu!
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Without hearing this teaching I've always expressed the idea that when were born we actually die and when we die were actully reborn.
Wow!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️
A great teacher indeed. WV
Korb Khun Krab 🙏 Thank You
Thank you
You know what's funny? I am annoyed by the clicking insect sound in this video, but fortunately for me I read the quote "Anything that is irritating you, that is your teacher".
And just as I type this, I hear you say "A grating discordant sound is simply that".
Thank you. To all of it, For all of it.
I felt the same way initially, but as the talk continued, I didn’t”t even notice it.
Still, I would prefer the words and silence alone.
Ha3. We’re so used to our old habits of clinging to good sounds that we react heedlessly. Only when an enlightened teacher like LuangPor Chah highlights this defilement do we wake up to Sati Panna.
Well, it is Thai Forest Buddhism, you don't want the full experience? :P
Comfort and love to you.
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Samaneri dear it's feels ok when death seems something farway but i dont know how many times but whenever i hear her footsteps outside my doors i feel panicked and desperate to somehow avoid this meeting by all means inspite of all the courage i use to feel when she's far away maybe due to this major shift due to grace which thankfully keep me out of the little prison i was in before most of the time, but i don't know why inspite of all the peace, i myself choose or i get tricked back in the prison,old habits possess me and seems to convince that all this peace n stillness are boring , i distroy it all by my own hands and initially it seems a great fun but gradually it leads to misery n pain as it always did, i suffer and is lucky to have not been dead yet as all this can very easily be fatal, ah, but now after being in this circle of being peaceful, burning it all off, suffering, nearly dying, grace somehow reviving me off getting back to peace basking in the freedom, old habits coming in , back to misery again and then....... Same story,
I am tired now please guide me somehow to not get tempted back in the hell.
Sadhu sadhu sadhu
The quote hit me i feel very guilty teacher knows what the student want place the talk and i feel teacher talk with me instead sadhu sadhu sadhu 🙏🙏🙏
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Loved the insect sounds
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🏵🍁🏵🍁❄️Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Sadhu Sadhu SADHUUUUUUUU ❤️
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Dear Samaneri Jayasara I do believe some attachment has arisen concerning your readings of Thai Ajharn mun and Cha.
This I can accept as a necessary part of my practice currently.
I wonder... Would you have any recorded Teachings from Ajharn Sao?
Blessings in the Dharma. 🙏🌹
Ajahn Sao left no written records of his teachings. Another of his students - Phra Ajaan Phut Thaniyo - did, however, record some of them in Ajahn Sao's Teaching: A Reminiscence of Phra Ajaan Sao Kantasilo. Here is the link: www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/phut/sao.html
Many thanks.
@@richardmichael1445 Michael thank you for your observation, this morning after listening to Samaneri Jayasara's reading I perceive some refuge for a little while, the raft feels solid even though I can't see the other side. And thank you for asking about Ajahn Sao, I look forward to reading what Kantasilo wrote and so grateful for translations by all translators, in this case Thannisaro Bhikkhu (though I do not understand some of his views- just more dhamma I guess).
@@SamaneriJayasara Thank you so much Samaneri Jayasara, this morning I listened to the full dhamma talk- "Our Real Home." It is helpful and timely. How, I wonder, did Samaneri Jayasara choose this particular dhamma talk by Ajahn Chah out of so many others. I too see, thanks to Michael's observation, that I am attached to the this dhamma talk- like I'm attached to going for long walks, and striving to keep the precepts, work through the hindrances, working of daily expressions of goodwill. Thank you and may you be well.
@@thomasolson2831 The mist surrounds the island now and then yet as we practice we do sail closer. Blessings to you Thomas.
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
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Hi Samaneri. I bless the day I came across your You Tube channel♥. I try and apply the teachings in my everyday life.
As for the lesson today about nursing/ take care of the elderly particularly our parents: I want to think that everything you read with regards to our parents having raised us and us having to take care of them when they are older is true. But what if one's parent(s) neglected one at birth and now are struggling and needing one to take care of them? How can one possibly find forgiveness in one's heart to be able to move past the pain of having been neglected themselves so that one is able to take care of their elderly parent(s)?
Yes, this is a difficult but very worthwhile challenge to face as it can release lifetimes of negative karma if approached with wisdom. We have to reflect skillfully that nothing happens without causes, but we do not need to take these 'happenings' personally, as 'me' or 'mine'. The Buddha taught that we owe our parents a huge karmic debt for raising us and bringing us into this world, perhaps regardless of how well we judge they did this. There are so many valuable Dhamma lessons on offer for you now with this situation that presents, so if you can approach it with that attitude then so much letting go can happen - of resentment, guilt, grief, anger, pain, confusion, etc.. We can't force forgiveness either, but with developing Awareness and equal taste towards all appearances, we may find that a natural metta (loving kindness) begins to swell in our hearts. Sending you and your parents much love and warmest wishes for this opportunity for healing. 💗🌏🌻
@@SamaneriJayasara Thanks a million for the response, from the bottom of my heart❤❤❤
Ouch
Great advice for someone who is dying.
ie..All of Us😅
Our possessions and body dont belong to us..Hmm.. this body is steadily degeneration.. hard to accept when very attached.
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. . . . 'worn out' . . . . Oh yeh!
Always think it must be confusing to many that there are supposedly no gods in Buddhism, but they have many deities and even mistakenly call the buddha “lord buddha”. He never referred to himself that way.
Having investigated this teaching and compared it to my experience I have concluded that the Buddha was not wrong.
When truth is expiernced and tasted, falsehood, manipulation and mind games might not be interesting to us.