Reincarnation | Ajahn Brahm | 3 Feb 2017
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Ajahn Brahm
3 February 2017
Ajahn Brahm gives a talk on one of his favourite topics - reincarnation - and challenges us to reevaluate our doubts about reincarnation. Understanding reincarnation can help us understand our lives and to make peace with death.
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I admire Ajahn Brahm's sheer dedication to giving these talks, even when his tiredness and busy schedule are hitting him hard. He will never fail to provide this community with intriguing talks and wonderful little meditations. Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu!
What you give to all❤️helping humanity become sane for those who watch or hear you. Love all your talks so helpful so uplifting❤️you are a light in the darkness in this world. 😊
Transmission: 03:37
Meditation: 08:30
Talk: 36:14
Carlos Faria Thank you! 😊
You and me both. Lol. Its a process I guess. The thing to do I suppose is to try to love yourself each day because when you truly love and accept yourself u will be less likely to react to others. Anger is really anger towards oneself but projected upon others. Its a journey but know you are not alone
Bobbi Jo M.
Your fantastic sense of humour makes me laugh so much, you put me to sleep every night, I listen to you religiously. The reason why other countries get you to hold your teachings is because your wisdom is beyond the universe. Much love & light xx
Listening to you eases a part of me that is destructive. Thank you.
Cheerful presence
i have always thought that about Ajahn Bhrahm n.n
I wish I could afford one of Ajahn Brahm's island meditation courses, that would be brilliant! One can only dream.
make it an intent. then do your best to make it happen. how much is it? i thought the retreats did not cost. then i am new to this and i do not know tht much abt it.
Spiritual Recovery they are free,or donation,Aj. B doesnt touch money.Look up the precepts of a Theravada monk.
Beware of people who want money
Beware the feelings.
The meditation course cost money. How else could Ajahn Bram’s bodhiyana gets the money to provide the course participants with the meals and pay for the upkeep of Bodhiyana and the monks’ and nuns’ meals etc?
Wow! In 543 AD the Pope was put in jail for a year for refusing to deny the existence of reincarnation.
BroccoliRocks those were the days!
Love this talk! Thanks Ajahn Brahm.
So Great! Thank you Ajahn Brahm.
Saw you in Birmingham uk such a wonderful experience. Thank you so much for coming to see us
Jan Callow I lived in Selly Oak birmingham back in 2013
This talk was disappointing. He hardly mentioned reincarnation at all. He has had talks in the past about reincarnation that were fascinating and useful. I would gladly settle for fewer talks if AB had a chance to be rested and think about the talks before the talks. Rest, AB!
BroccoliRocks Dukkha,the noble truth of unsatisfactoriness or craving.Google dukkha.
Reincarnation is not a Buddhist belief! The Tibetans adopted it from Hinduism. Refer to the Buddha's teachings - Anatta: there is no enduring soul. Go back to the suttas for authoritative texts.
Thank you for this talk, glad your back x
At 1:14:00 the dead are estimated to outnumber the living by about 15 to 1 including all homo-sapiens.
When we die all the matter and energy that makes our body and our consciousness gets recycled into matter in the universe to make new things. Sounds like reincarnation?
Colin to quote the dude "yeah well that just like, you know, your opinion man."
People like u make Christianity look bad. At least Catholics are more open minded not evangelical though. Why are u here then?! U must be questioning your own faith because u are here
That is something I can live with. Thank you. My thoughts exactly.
Read about the Dead Sea scrolls... there used to be references to reincarnation in the Bible until they were taken out specifically to change the doctrine
Aww. I would have loved to see what "monsters" Ajahn Brahm was talking about at the end of this video.
I cant imagine a thought more imprisoning than reincarnation. If truly believed, it takes ones whole enthusiasm about life away. Just contemplating it creates a substantial suffering in my mind. Who would believe it ?
that's why the Buddha's whole method is to end the cycle of reincarnation: if you become an arhat you are never reborn again
thank you
Regarding the levitating flower pot, I'm just wondering, if they were all scientists in the audience, how is it so hard to figure out that this was a trick by electromagnetism?? I would expect their first guess to be electromagnetism... Is that too high an expectation from an audience full of scientists?
Nevertheless, great talk, as always! Much love and respect to Ajahn Brahm.
Ajahn wasn't it year 553 when the Second Council of Constantinopol took place? I think I remember it quite well :-) All the best !
Amazing talk!
Was this somewhat meandering talk around reincarnation helpful to anyone ?
No sure for myself but I'll stick to "don't reject the evidence of life" at the end.
Patrick Leclercq U found the talk imperfect or unsatisfactory,this is the noble truth of dukkha.
whoa what is that at the end?
Awesome
Whats the time frame of days months or years that people reencarnate and whats the longest it culd take for someone to reencarnate ! Dose the soul walk around or dose it see there new life its that how we temple new thought in a consinse of the past and do we look like are new selfs because this might have happend to me and peoplesaidthat they saw me around the house before i reencarnated i did use to look like my self and my new self and shapeshift in to a baby ! I remember many past lives ! Cuban egipsian a gold ship many things bathing in milk native taino live rivers of blood ! Many things
Where can I find the levitating flower pot video ? Or was it an analogy
Joe Kinsella That was an example to illustrate the point that because of our convictions, sometimes we cannot see what is right in front of us. Ajahn said the pot actually levitated (because of a strong electromagnet), and still some professors denied it.
Richard Upton Pickman ohhh thanks bro
Regarding the levitating flower pot, I'm just wondering, if they were all scientists in the audience, how is it so hard to figure out that this was a trick by electromagnetism? I would expect their first guess to be electromagnetism... Is that too high an expectation from an audience full of scientists?
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Why do you guy pick orange monks suit ! Is there a reason sr
Each sect of Buddhism has its own robes. He comes from the Thai Forest tradition and that is their robe color
Is Ajahn Brahm a vegetarian ?
Monks are vegetarian but if food is scarce they can eat meat because after all they can't buy their own food so I guess it depends where they are. Bhuddha never said you couldn't eat meat . He did say it's better not to. But not everyone has that priveledge
I don't know about him personally, but Therevada monks don't have to take a vow to be vegetarian because they beg for food and eat anything that they are given (they DO reject meat if they believe it was slaughtered for them). Chan/Zen/Seon/Thien monks tend to grow their own food because the tradition comes from China where people did not give food to wandering spiritualists, so they eat vegetarian food that they grow themselves.
Ajahn Brahm, I had read your book, Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond, for more than ten times already, and loved every moment of it. I thought only a true Arahant could write something as phenomenal as this. It gave me so much hope. But then I watched this video. All hopes are gone. I was a liberal for most of my life, for I thought entitlements are making the world a better place to live. I did not realize socialism creates laziness and dishonesty. Why work when we don't have to? Why telling the truth when the truth won't qualify you for the free stuffs that you are applying for? About five years ago, I finally realized that I, like most people in the world, was being brainwashed by the liberal media... Not only socialism evil, it's also not sustainable. Every country practicing it is heading slowly but inevitably toward bankruptcy... Donald Trump is not a perfect man and he was not my first choice, but he's lots better than any socialist out there, for he wants to save America from bankruptcy ( did you know that the US is now more than 200 trillion dallars in debt, not 20 trillion as reported? www.usdebtclock.org/) For this, the media hates him. I thought you are above that, for you can see things clearly...
Listening from the US......and I feel very sorry about Donald Trump...he does not representing all Americans though or me
wht is with all the electric candles and such?
So many Theravadan Buddhists are into this kind of kitsch. I find it dismaying. But what to do?
Sol Hanna wht are thervaden buddhists? and why are they doing this. this seems antithesis to buddhism
sharon anderson Buddhists from non Buddhist lands are often strict and pedantic,many of AjBs followers in Perth are from South East Asia or Srii Lanka,born Buddhists thats thier culture.
sharon anderson Theravada,the type of Buddhists in Thailand,Laos,Cambodia,Myanmar,and Sri Lanka.AjB ordained in Thailand over 40yrs ago.
sharon anderson oh,lunar new year decorations,year of the rooster,c him too the right of AjB?Many Singapore n Malaysia Chinese in Perth,they d have bought the rooster.
there is only incarnation samsara wheel but nobody reincarnates as such because there is no soul to reincarnate = anatman. So please explain why this is not explained here. Please understand I appreciate Ajahn Brahm alot and frequently listen to him.
One analogy that is often used is that of using one candle to light another candle. They are two different candles, and you can't say that the flame is the same flame that has passed over. However, you needed the first one to light the second one. So, there is no unchanging soul or essence inside of you that "gets reincarnated"...just like there is no soul or essence inside of you that was there when you were born, and is still here now. However, there is a single, unbroken contiguity of cause and effect which we experience as form, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness.
Brad Garrison niether alike nor unalike
Determination
Session, Session, Session
I wanted to see the monsters!! 😕
I laughed at your KFC joke, Ajahn. ^.^
Who or what are those monsters who arrived at the end of the talk?
Wow, what happened at the end of the video? Someone, let's discuss...that was.....
Ajahn Brahm you where to tired.....
Typo.
Sorry to say, but i am unsatisfied with this talk.
Alex the Parrot.. LOL. I googled it!!!
I remember Ajahn Brahm said reincarnation's based on how much sum good & bad karma one's in this life & what he wanna be reborn to or not reborned, but what in case of animals w/ no consciousness how it can reborn to a least ~intelligent as human species, it couldn't do good as it's no will allow it transcend to a higher species?
All animals are conscious beings. It is form of speciesism to say that human animals are superior to non-human animals. Only if you choose the criteria to judge!
Does one really have to believe in re-incarnation to believe in Buddhism? I don't think re-incarnation is that important a matter? Or am I wrong. I also disagree that humans, chimpanzees etc. are the same species. Attempting to use science (or pseudo science) to justify Buddhism is to my mind a sign of extreme ignorance, something that the Buddha would have frowned upon. Let me know, as a person who is studying Buddhism, if I am wrong in thinking this way.
Hey Bernard,
If you read the Buddhist scriptures, rebirth (or "reincarnation") emerges as an obvious fundamental teaching of the Buddha. If you don't believe in rebirth, or a continuation of life after death, then you don't really believe in the law of karma. If you don't believe in karma then you are close to not believing in the moral efficacy of action. If you don't believe any of those things, and you think humans and animals are just physical organisms whose consciousness is merely a temporary function of a brain and nervous system, then you have the view of the materialists and don't actually believe in the mind. The Buddha said that the mind comes first, it is the forerunner of all things. The Buddha was not a nihilist, and yes he taught rebirth. The Buddha also taught that your job is to test out what he teaches, not to accept it on blind faith.
I don't think the thing about humans and chimpanzees is meant to "justify Buddhism." Furthermore, Ajahn Brahm was merely clarifying something that Carl Linnaeus actually said, which has nothing to do with "pseudo science." Here is a quote attributed to Linnaeus, from Wikipedia: " As a natural historian according to the principles of science, up to the present time I have been not been able to discover any character by which man can be distinguished from the ape." Ajahn Brahm studied theoretical physics at Cambridge University before ordaining as a Bhikkhu. I don't see that as a sign of "extreme ignorance," nor something that "the Buddha would have frowned upon."
Of course, there are people who say that reincarnation/rebirth doesn't matter. They also might even say karma doesn't really matter. Personally speaking, I think they do, and my wager is that the Buddha knew what he was speaking about.
Be well,
Brad
Brad Garrison thank you for your patient note. I might have been hasty in speaking and it was not my intention to offend. I am a cynic at heart which is why I gave up on the faith I was brought up in. Whilst I will accept most of what you said in good faith, knowing that I am but a novice, I do have some misgivings still. For one I am extremely uncomfortable when science is dragged into the realm of spirituality. And while I respect the Venerable Ajahn Brahm's knowledge about Buddhist scripture and acknowledge his training in a branch of science, we have to recognise that it has been a while since he graduated. Evolutionary biology has moved a long way since Linnaeus. Quoting something that is now outdated, while not intended to misguide, can still be ignorant.
Lastly, we will never know what the Buddha really thought about rebirth. I do get the logic you have laid out and will require some time to think it over. Thank you once again. Peace.
In my previous post I mentioned I needed some time to think about it. I may not have fully understood what rebirth means in the Buddhist context and might be confusing it with Hindu and Christian ideas of the soul moving on ... Whatever the case, for now, I cannot for whatever reason seem to wrap my head around the fact that the Buddha actually wanted us to believe in rebirth. He was, in my opinion, just placing things in context for the benefit of those who lived around him.
The reason being that he was way beyond them intellectually. I still need time to come to any definite conclusion on this. Thank you for your patience.
Brad Garrison if you want to jump off the wheel of samsara,(the cycle of death n rebirth)every Buddhists aim,you must believe there's a wheel.
Mike Berg
Is there any belief system in Buddhism???
Please don't say 'master' Ajahn
he has either misunderstood or is misinforming the principle at play. reincarnation 1. people who say they can remember a past life are either mistaken or making it up. 2. the true understanding of Buddhism is that there is no true tangible self,soul, or ego, either in this life or that transmigrates death3. your pattern and life is a whirlpool ever changing and ever affecting the universe ie your pattern was always implied into the fabric of this universe since the beginning of time. 4. your action or karma ripples out eternally like an echo forever after your specific pattern passes 5. your pattern is part and parcel with the whole universe and are an aperture through which it looks at itself6. imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never ever wake up7. remember when you were a little kid and everything was new8. the universe is playing hide and go seek with itself in order stay surprised. death Is around to make sure the party of life doesn't go stale. life is around because there can't even be a notion of non-existance without it9. ajahn Brahn Is a Theravada Buddhist which in his school I thought reincarnation into samsara is not something to find comfort In but Theravada consider that they can escape reincarnation old age and death somehow reach a different plain called nirvana and leave this world behind nirvana the word that means "blow out" or "let go" or to pass away.10. Mahayana Buddhists consider the role of the bodhisattva which is the man that realizes the nirvana world and the samsara world are actually the same place. so the bodhisattva appears again and again in the world to guide all sentient beings
I like ajahn and I respect a lot of what he says but, reincarnation is not meant to be taken as spooky occurances where you remember that time when you were george Washington and your mom caught you jerkin it
I watch all of his programs and I appreciate them. The only thing I don't get is his criticism of Donald Trump. This president does all that he promised, works on criminal justice reform, on the decriminalization of homosexuality across the world although he's a Christian, protects our borders and refused to kill 150 Iranians over an unmanned drone(although the hawks in his cabinet wanted him to). What was he in his last life? He must have had good karma to be wealthy with a good family. This reminds of what the Buddha said. Don't take what anyone says(even the Buddha himself)as the truth, investigate for yourself.
Amen
If a monk has Trump Derangement Syndrome is he really practicing compassion and non-attachment?
My friend told his wife the truth about his infidelity .......... his wife threw him out and filed for divorce ! 😂😝🤪🤣
AB mentions Trump’s name and everybody laughs.
Bless you my lord Ajahn Brahm, even though I worship you I know none is perfect. I am saying this because I do not see why you are picking on Mr Donald Trump, that man, in my observation has not done anything to harm anyone. I really do worship you as my teacher and master and I love your jokes. Bless you my master Ajan Brahm.
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