It is wonderful to live now when the Buddhist philosophy that was formerly only common among venerable monks and nuns is now shared openly to lay people. Spreading not just the idea that there is a wheel of dharma, but the many subtle philosophical ideas around it. Also wonderful is the ecumenical spirit among monks representing different traditions. I've helped out on technical duties presenting venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi for the Buddhist Global Relief events and then as now it is always a pleasure to hear him speak.

This talk is so clear and easy to grasp. Thank you so much to Ven Bhikkhu Bodhi and your staff for posting it.

Very clear and an excellent teacher. I really appreciate him so ,much because of his skill and humility. I love to listen to him because I learn so much better.

Blazing Dhamma from Bhante Bodhi ! For the benefit of all 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu … thank you all for this profound yet simply explaining of Paticca Samuppada 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Thank you, bhante, for clarifying dependent origination, non-self and emptiness. Wonderful to be listening to this talk again a year later. So much wisdom to absorb. Thank you, bhante.

21:18 Theravada vs Mahayana traditional - similar; 58:00 questions about differences; 1:18:54 Theravada - boddhicitta

As usual Bhante Bodhi does a phenomenal job at teaching a challenging topic.

🙏🙏🙏👍 May paying homage to the great Venerable PhraAjahn....❤your Dharma talk is so wonderful worthy benefit 🙏🙏🙏

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏

I could listen to this all day.

I am familiar with both Ven. Bhante Punnaji's and Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi's explanation. It's a challenge to explain dependent origination at all, let alone to a wide audience. I think they both do wonderful work, yet they bring their own perspectives and choices to the teachings. My sense is that Ven. Punnaji is concerned with a line of reasoning. Ven. Bodhi seeks a global structural representation. He answers one question with specific reference to the kammic perspective of the structure of cause and effect. Just my take, anyway, and benefit from both

Great teachers. Enlightening talk by both teachers. I was wondering, how profound the Buddha’s teachings are. 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you, bhante, for clarifying dependent origination

Thank you, Venerable 🙏🙏🙏

thank you for making this available 🙌

Thank you!

Valuable upload.

Thankyou thankyou Happy blessings -

@ 1:31:00 "To those who don't believe in rebirth, how do you explain Dependent Origination, when one cycle needs minimum 2, maximum 3 lifetimes?" (from memory) Well, I explain it very easy. The "three lifetimes explanation" actually never made any sense to me at all. Are we talking about geological or human time scale when we talk Dependent Origination? Consider this: Dependent Origination doesn't require 3 lifetimes to complete one cycle; it is lightning fast : when my mind starts burning in hatred or in rage or in jealousy, at that very moment my mind becomes Hell realm. If I act while my mind is in this state, whatever I was until this moment that version of me will cease, disappear, "die", and a new version of me will be born: Demon-me. Everyone around me can witness this death of the old me, and the birth of the Demon-me. When I stop acting as a Demon, my mind will cool down, exit the Hell realm, and the Demon-me will cease - "die". What my next "birth" wil be, that depends on what I do next and how I do it and how that doing will change my mental state. In dependence on that, my next "birth" will be decided. So "death" and "birth" happen all the time in exactly this way - sometimes I am a human, sometimes an animal, other tines a demon or hungry ghost. So, when anger was burning in my mind, I didn't have to wait 50 years to die, enter the coffin, be buried, and only then to be reborn as a Demon - no, it happened straight away with lightning speed. These psychological births and deaths, these are the births and deaths we should concern ourselves with; it is these that we can influence right here and now - not after death, in a thousand next lives. It is here and now that we decide whether we will live our lives as demons, or hungry ghosts, or humans... As for the biological birth and the related death of this organism , those happen once and that's all there is to it. We cannot not be born, and we cannot not die, so why wory about it? Our attention is needed in all the births and deaths we undergo in-between these two terminal points. --- Here are the 8 links of Dependent Origination when Ignorance is in the background: 1,2,3: When a sense organ meets its object, consciousness arises - this 3 are Contact 4: When contact is present, feeling arises 5: When feeling is present, craving arises 6: When craving is present, clinging arises 7: When clinging is present, becoming arises 8: When becoming is present, "birth" of the sensed object as "me, mine" arises. What is really being born is Ignorance, reinforced, and priming the next cycle of Samsara... --- See? Absolutely no need for "rebirth after death" to explain how ignorance coupled with ignorant feelings and craving are keeping us in Samsara through Dependent Origination . 3 of the 12 links are afflictions (ignorance, clinging, craving) 2 of the 12 links are kamma (mental formations, becoming) 7 remaining linksare all suffering (sukha-dukkha) From 3 come 2; from 2 come 7; from 7 come 3 again... Repeating in lightning speed, right in this very lifetime.

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Sadhu sadhu sadhu

Thank you of Said 😇

Wish I could grasp this advance golden dharma.

I want to like this video but its at 777 right now and i can't bear to break the symmetry 😊 Clearly still have attachments.

Vandami bhante ji

Shorter, appropriate subtitled version : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mchklq6F2LWliWg.html

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu!

Sadhu, Sadhu,Sadhu

Thank you Bhindu 🙏

Good teaching

36:12 😳

IMHO, Dukkha is not "unsatisfactoriness", satisfactiory or unsatisfactory are feelings - vedana - and vedana is NOT a mark of existence. The Three Marks of Existence are not vedana. Just like how Anicca and Anatta are "facts of life", the way things are, so is the third mark - Dukkha. It's neither satisfactory or unsatisfactory, it is simply the way things are. So then what is Dukkha? Dukkha is the tendency of all assembled causes (therefore of all phenomena) towards falling apart, drifting away from each other. What is concentrated tends to deconcentrate. And what is deconcentrated, evenly distributed in space and time tends to stay that way - unless causes force a concentration. Dukkha is Entropy.

58:47

I wonder whether the audience has enough grasp of the English language to follow the presentation... 🤔

There are at least 5 existing ways so called "Dependent Origination" has been interpreted and explained. Personally I found Ven. Bhante Punnajis explanation unmatched by any other teacher the only problem is that it is incredibly subtle and hard to see and Bhante was quite old when he (thankfully) decided to speak out about it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNGHg9Fm0sfQcmg.html

Extremely difficult to hear clearly. Attempting to use captioning but haven’t found it as helpful as I’d hoped as captioning isn’t correct ..... :(

Can a monk get enlightened without knowing how to teach and can a great teacher of the Dhamma not know how to become enlightened?

What is this teachers name? He looks enlightened

5 aggregates are not " self "

this discussion at which location?

Oh, I want to battle You, Bikkhu Bodhi in the Dhammapada. Do you know why You should not drink water when You are dieing? Did Buddha prepare you well???