Uncertainty | Ajahn Brahm | 15-07-2011
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- Often we reject or ignore the reality of uncertainty. Yet the only thing that is certain about life is that it's uncertain. This uncertainty (anicca) is according to Buddhism a fundamental and universal quality of existence. Ajahn Brahm explains how best to relate to the uncertainty of life.
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This guy has changed my life forever better
Mine too...so glad I bumped into here😊
Same! What a gift! We are all so lucky to have him!
Still has the same Humor 11 years later. Still the best 11 years later
Relistening during the pandemic. 💕
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Me too
Clicked on this video by mistake.
What a great mistake it was :)
Thank you!
Love this guy. He's made my life a lot better x
Thanks, I would have probably blown my head off a few nights without your videos, no matter what my problem I can always find you covered it. Thank you!
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You still can! Go for it!
Open the heart to uncertainity. How beautiful. Thanks Ajahn Brahm and BSWA
Thank you to building this society. You changed my life.
The depth of your teachings within the humour is so full of compassion and wisdom ... I would call you the most inspirational living teacher today. Thanks for everything that you do, I always feel so much more clarity when I've listened to you.
Thank you soo much, I will embrace uncertainty!!!
yes i can see that all of my sufferings come from uncertainties. thank you for your profound teaching
Ajahn Brahm I've been watching all your videos for days. Thank you, I like your jokes and teachings. Everything you say makes sense - putting it into practice is another story but your encouragement and compassion is meaningful to me and your words have changed me - good karma. :)
Yes....changed my life!
Thank you Teacher. Time to tend the garden.
Thank you for sharing and teaching all of us embracing life.
I hope you and the the other monastics have a good rains retreat. Thanks for a wonderful talk!
thank you.
Asking from the world, what it cannot give me. That's a very beautiful and insight wisdom. Thank you very much.
This monk is simply brilliant.
Bless this man, his videos have helped me a lot.
What a lovely guy you are. I enjoy your talks and find them very helpful and amusing. Thanks for your effort.
The world and all its activities exist based on assumptions which we have built in our minds. These assumptions may or may not come true. So don't get attached to either of ends but take your mind to middle where the happiness exist.
Very nice talk about uncertainty and the importance of living without planning
Thank you Dear Ajahn- you are beautiful funny and always offer wisdom & compassion 🙏🏻 Sally
One of the classic...!
I need to listen to this talk at the least every day and then again. So I continue my gratitude to u and your teachings and for finding Buddism at 71y.o. and to know the comfort that is here listening. So much listening to words that did predict the future 😳 instead of the truth u speak of that is the only reality that is certainty is not. reality at all for this life of ours
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Very good dhamma talk!!Just what I needed to listen at this time of my life!Sadhu,sadhu,sadhu!
Thanks for the message!! Really put me in peace of a situation.
I'm an Uncertaintist. Thank you Ajahn Brahm.
After getting Covid my health went downhill. I often get flare ups of my now chronic illness and different painful symptoms of unknown origin. I get so much anxiety from not knowing exactly why I'm in pain😣 I always think that if only I knew why I'm hurting - it would be so much easier to go through it. If only I knew certainly why I'm in pain - I could take it with less suffering. If only, if only...
I really appreciate theses talks thank you for posting... they have helped tremendously over the last difficult week.
peace be with you.
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This is a great topic and handled very deftly, with insight and humour. Fantastic! 🙏😊🙋
I like this one particularly. Great thoughts Sir...I wish the whole world would run like that. thanks for the enlightining.
Love the coffin story!
this is my fav talk of him
I am not a buddhist but i really love listening to your talks.
Like change and uncertainty
Is the only reality
So embrace
The present moment
NOW
I enjoy listening to the talks he makes me laugh at the same time makes me to think and ponder about my life.Thanks for inspiring me i hope when he comes to singapore i get a chance to meet him and listen to his talks. THANKYOU
even Osho says mankind has the ability to adapt himself no matter what situation they are in. Thanku Ajahn ❤️👍✌️
The Art of Accepting.
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Phra Visuddhisamvarathera
พระวิสุทธิสังวรเถร,
Ajahn Brahmavaṃso,
or simply
Ajahn Brahm
lightness of being
Satu Satu Satu
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Thank you!
Thank you for the reminder!!!
Thank you.
This is what gets me through
Very good info i can practice
thanks ajan brahm
The best talk yet !!!!
i needed this!! perfect timing :0))
Great personality
Thankyou very much
Thank you
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏
I love your comedy you are my wonderful friend not many humans laugh or make 😄 😆 me laugh enough HA HA THANK YOU ALWAYS
A wise counselor told me something which sort of ties into this a bit. The anecdote was: "Why is cry". What that means is that if we always ask why, it leads to sadness.
Besides uncertainty that's certain, there's another certainty, eventual death.
+meltingEyeballs
As much as our illusions of life's attachments are, are attachment to life creates an illusion of death. What science is unable to explain, doesn't mean an explanation doesn't exist. Death represents your final stage of development into the next experience.
meltingEyeballs You can't even be certain of that. We might invent ways to be immortal and it may turn out that the universe will never end.
Thank you! Is it possible to the BuddhistSociety maybe put the portuguese`s subtitle option? Please?
okay I can try to translate for you..
I'll do my very best! :)
謝謝和尚
@dbch80;
Thanks much! That certainly cuts down the footage to search through :)
I have a dog that doesn't BARK :)
She was like that when we got her and we don't know why she doesn't BARK but she doesn't.. And she is a breed known for Barking quite a lot.. She is a Blue murle border collie LOL :)
I need cd of these talks of Ajanh Brahm ..How can I buy them.?
when says its the last talk, it terrified me.
If only the followers of Jesus were as compassionate and happy as the followers of Bhudda!!
✌🏼Buddha✌🏼
Anyone know in which youtube video Ajahn Brahm tells the story of "The Worm"?
I agree with this almost completely, but I am still really stuck on how to make peace with the fact that I might be tortured. I have a fear of a sociopath abducting me (for whatever reasons in their mind they have) and torturing me in any numerous ways. How can I make peace with this possibility at all in any way? How can I be happy with the idea of being tortured in numerous countless sadistic ways???
Rather than panicking, buy a personal panic alarm and let it do the panicking for you. Mobiles also help.
Why are you so afraid? Don't worry, it will most probably never happen. Go back to the source. Where this fear generated and why? But.. it could be a fear generated from another life. In this case, consider doing and hypnosis or autohypnosis session. Many things may come up and you can get rid of this fear. :Good luck
Why is it bad to have fear of a possibility of something very painful, even if the likelihood is "small"?
opticrainbow I'm not sure I understand, are you asking why is it bad to have fear? It's not bad if that's what you choose and want to do, but I wouldn't choose that for myself. (I am someone who has lived with the fear of being kidnapped as a child because I lived in a country where these things happened often. But I chose to stop being afraid when I was 10 no matter what, because it stopped me from living my life.. I couldn't even go out to play with my friends because I was contstantly terrrified of being taken away from my parents.) According to what I have learned (it might be wrong of course) but fear is bad because it generates more fear. We create our realities with decisions made out of love or out of fear and most of the time they are unconscious (unless we're always mindful). It's not about the likelihood.. it's about living with fear. Quoting Ajahm Brahm's words from his talk on fear: " When we're afraid, we panic and when we panic we made what we're afraid of come true." I'm not saying you'll be kidnapped or something and even if you are it will probably be so much less painful that the one you're already imagined. The advice I always give to myself is to solve the problems once they happen. If nothing is happening now yet, there's nothing to solve so I might as well not think about it at all. :)
I don't what level someone is feeling or thinking Hopefully this should cover most bases. On an mental level with or without fear: There are negative possibilities; of these,they may be irrational or rational. If irrational- just realize and affirm that whatever is safe(e.g harmless spiders). If rational there ones one can do something about(e.g, lock your door) or ones you can do nothing about(e.g. I get on a bus and it crashes) -so just accept- so what if it happens it happens- tough shit.
From a conceptual level it is better to think in a more positive focus; for example ,I want this to be safe, rather than I don't want this to happen. Otherwise, you may be making a rumification into a negative mind set
On an emotional level(unless it is a migraine) make friends with your emotions and tame them. - Thank you fear(from kidneys) for looking out for me, its fine now you can chill, Anger(from liver) is a bit like calming a barking dog -easy boy it will be OK. Some spiral belly massage may help to calm, tame these bringing Unity of this energy into the center(tantien).
@UU361 When?
i am your god of beauty .
@DearsRenRen he usually says he doesnt have email, but you could check out their website bswa(dot)org and see what you can find
@beavisandbutthead104 And my question was "when". To which the person would have to reply, it's uncertain.
@porpoisepork I'm thinking he meant in the future sometime
he should sing this truths with Reggae Band
20/7/22.
Life is certainly uncertain; go figure
Court; the only place you are forced to live in the past!
@MrGodkid hmmm, then why comment?
What horrible things most one have done when losing a child? This feels a little unsensitive towards things that happen that are beyond a speeding ticket.
jozina1 What seems insensitive to you about this speech?
Its been a while since I watched it. But I remember him talking about mundane everyday "bad" things that happen. Like getting a speeding ticket. He talks about it being a recation to somethig you have done. But when you lose a child... or some other terrible thing happens. Then how does it help to know you must have done something really bad to deserve it? And thinking that way will only make things worse.
jozina1 I don't think he's referring to losing a child as something a person deserves. He's referring to karma in regards to those mundane things, not losing a child, no one deserves that.
Late reply, If possible read: Journey of souls, Destiny of souls and Many lives many masters( audiobook available in YT)
And you should watch more of his videos because you are judging her for that (so am I now, but you get the point)
Why don't they give the poor guy a chair ?
Don't feed the Sorcerer.
Is it wrong for me to take pleasure in seeing Rupert Murdoch's empire crashing around his ears? ;-)
what if I don't won't to be free from corny humor?
@MrGodkid ok then :/
Your Emptiness,(i think u like this way of announcing to you) Ven Ajan Brahmavanso.I Really LIKE ur way of speech(damma talk's )IF u See this Please Do a Dhamma talk about Masturbation.will it be Good or Bad Kamma for everyone who do it.THIS Is NOT a Joke. Please try 2 do Programme about Good and Bad Sex.I want 2 Know Ur Opinion.Thanks
Make use of the cow 💩 of life 👏
Legend!...wish we could throw Trump in the bin & replace him w Ajahn...this crazy world would be so much better
Karma is not real