How Buddhist Nun Emma Slade Changed Her Life
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Some years ago, Emma Slade was in Jakarta on a business trip when she was held at gunpoint. After this profound trauma, she went on a journey that led her to make some fundamental changes in her life.
Emma shared the story of how the moment of intense fear made her aware that she wanted to do more with her life. It changed her priorities and gave her the sense that being alive is not to be taken for granted.
She talked about how yoga helped her in the process of letting go of many things and of the role that Buddhism played in her life from a young age. In 2014 she has ordained a Buddhist nun in Bhutan.
Points of Discussion:
00:00 Introducing
00:26 The change after trauma
03:59 About yoga, meditation, and Buddhism
10:54 How do you keep the continuity?
12:15 Do you believe in chance?
13:31 Becoming a Buddhist nun
14:47 Epiphany of motherhood
22:04 About happiness
24:04 Advice for the people who are trying to escape the prison of themselves
28:10 About change and uncertainty
31:50 How do you use your previous experience in your work today?
38:22 How can people find purpose today?
41:33 What is your biggest concern in the world today?
44:20 The question people ask you the most
46:49 Key takeaways
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A day of non-harm! How beautiful. Perhaps it could start with a moment, then a second, then a minute, then an hour?
It is indeed a beautiful idea
Gratitude to Ani la from Kathmandu Nepal.
What a great interview
Thank you 🙏
Om Mani Pad Mi Om - that feeling she said is on target. It is beyond description that allows your inner heart to flow your original purity. Everyone has it but most are covered up and don’t know. The answer is very related to your heart.
Namaste, Ani💖🙏
Thank you
Great that Emma mentioned Goenka because Vipassana 10day silent meditation courses as taught by S.N Goenka or someone from that Lineage, is the best option for a lay person to experience the true transformational purpose and potential of meditation in its purest form taught practically. Most folks dont know that the original teaching from Gautoma was completely non sectarian, free from philosophizing, dogma or rituals. He wasn't a Buddhist, also he was not a god and never claimed to be, he was just a man who aproached his own mind scientifically. His teaching is actually so simple and effective. This is where its at. Most go their whole lives not experiencing the truth of suffering/liberation for themselves. Its like discovering an entirely different faculty, or sense, thats been there the whole time without knowing. Like a blind man from birth seeing light, it's purely experiential thats why it has to be practiced. It's like training in the gym except for the mind so it's less obvious at first what the purpose is because theres no prior experience to refer to but with diligence it becomes clear. The reason I say this is because many people get turned off meditation before properly trying because it seems attached to some sect or belief system but the original teaching is more like being given a very simple workout routine that can be quite difficult at first but doesnt take that long, several days usually of continual practice, and it starts to make sense why this is invaluable and nobody should charge money to spread the teaching if they can avoid it. Good luck and may all beings be liberated.
BE HAPPY 🙏🙏🙏
Buddhism from Bhutan 🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹
Eight Verses of Training the Mind
by Geshe Langri Thangpa
By thinking of all sentient beings
As more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel
For accomplishing the highest aim,
I will always hold them dear.
Whenever I’m in the company of others,
I will regard myself as the lowest among all,
And from the depths of my heart
Cherish others as supreme.
In my every action, I will watch my mind,
And the moment destructive emotions arise,
I will confront them strongly and avert them,
Since they will hurt both me and others.
Whenever I see ill-natured beings,
Or those overwhelmed by heavy misdeeds or suffering,
I will cherish them as something rare,
As though I’d found a priceless treasure.
Whenever someone out of envy
Does me wrong by attacking or belittling me,
I will take defeat upon myself,
And give the victory to others.
Even when someone I have helped,
Or in whom I have placed great hopes
Mistreats me very unjustly,
I will view that person as a true spiritual teacher.
In brief, directly or indirectly,
I will offer help and happiness to all my mothers,
And secretly take upon myself
All their hurt and suffering.
I will learn to keep all these practices
Untainted by thoughts of the eight worldly concerns.
May I recognize all things as like illusions,
And, without attachment, gain freedom from bondage.
Buddhist from India
Yeah much respect to Buddhism👍
🙏🏻
Hello! How are you doing?
I am also pema wangchuk
🙏 🙏 🙏
Namo-Buddhaya
Found this interview a bit dribbly I would have thought with all the time to discover oneself the words would be more precise and clear n simple
You mean you don't want to do the work and wait to be told what to think.
@@noonespecial4171 lol sure
@@THE.GREEN.MUSLIMlisten to S.N Goenka. Hes mastered the skill of communicating dhamma to Lay people that havent discovered meditation's true purpose yet for themselves.
Emma even mentioned him during this talk. And his 10day courses are exceptionally well run and free of charge.
(They only accept willing donations from students who have completed at least one 10day course)
This is where its at folks. May all beings be liberated. ❤
Mam I want to be a nun 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 please help
I also want to become a nun im not happy with my present life
I'm the mother of two university students...please.
No harm to all beings which includes non-human animals too but the host keep focusing on people alone. Buddhists or any spiritual/religious people should therefore live a Vegan life or else it’s only hypocritical. Let’s not just agree to things, lets put ahimsa to action which everyone theoretically agrees to. Peace begins on your plates.
Technically everybody should be vegan.
I really feel like the interviewer was very insensitive to her trauma...regardless of the outcome that has come out of the trauma.
I think she didnt want to explore the emotional side of it, probably because the nun wouldnt be interested in it. Its just a fact of the past that lead her to the present. In buddhism only the present matters.
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You are pema deki I am pema wangchuk
Climate change
هذه المرأة لا يصدقها ولا يسمعها الا المغيبون في متاهات التحريف والتخريف والتزيف ، كفانا شر هذه المرأة وشر من كان مثلها ، حفظكم الله من كل مكروه وضر وشر ، كل عام وأنتم بخير .
Beautifully succinct. On target 🎯
She chose a uneasy life . But, it was her choice.
Its a hard road but makes life easier and easier each step of the way. As apposed to taking the easy road which only makes life harder each step.
@@constantchange1145 That's true . Hardship is a lesson . And as any Buddhist or Stoic would say " we dont live in a perfect world " . So to live in the way she did was to accept the imperfections
@@spmoran4703 Resillience through hardship, acceptance of imperfections, these are external realities and side benefits to the actual internal mental/physical transformation that Practicing Vipassana ultimately produces to anyone who keeps persisting with it. I learnt this on my first 10day silent Vipassana course as taught by S.N. Goenka. I learnt that before doing that course I actually had no way of knowing what meditation is actually for. I had to experience it through practicing it continually for an extended period of time, nobody could have explained it to me it would of been like explaining colour to a blind man. Bhuddist monks and nuns aren't just choosing a more simple yet difficult life and experiencing benefits from it. It's more that living a life full of distractions makes it a lot harder to experience first hand, the subtler realities of our own mind, to see/feel for ourselves the real cause of our suffering, this isnt exclusive to taking up robes, anyone can. But the 10day courses are often whats needed to have those first crucial insights. In other words, the Matrix is a documentary ;) haha.
May all beings be free from suffering 🌱🌳
Resilience through hardship, accepting imperfections, these are beneficial side effects of the far deeper, transformational insights that can only be understood through experience. People assume Monks and Nuns like this person choose this life because of these qualities that sacrifice and discipline bring us, these are side effects, in truth they choose that life because without being free from distractions it makes it so much harder to observe the subtle truths of the mind/body phenomenon. I discovered this on my first 10day Vipassana course :)
Long story short we are living in the matrix haha
The affairs of this world are an illusion , moreover , without God's will not even a leaf can move .Funnily, Gautama Buddha needed a financial analyst in his team ...........
law of nature, nothing else
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