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@Sirblinks2 жыл бұрын
Doug, your channel is one of the redeeming qualities of KZfaq. It has been so instrumental in informing my practice, and you explain complex topics in a way that people who are new to Buddhism can better understand. Thank you for all your work.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Very kind of you to say, Brennan. It's my pleasure!
@milascave22 жыл бұрын
I definetly have expereinced terror during meditation, and so have others I have talked too. All the stuff inside you comes out during meditation, including your fears.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
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@arupkalita45573 ай бұрын
Practice Vipassana meditation it is very effective
@xiaomaozen2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this splendid video, Doug! As a practitioner, it all makes perfect sense to me. Also I love your attitude: "Different practitioners, different experiences, different interpretations." Best regards... 😊🙏
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure xiao mao, and thanks for your comment! 🙏😊
@Simson6162 ай бұрын
Practicing with OCD-like symptoms and anxiety makes terror quite plausible to me. There also was a phase where fear of death (heart failure mostly) hit me at a certain depth of absorbtion.
@hammersaw31352 ай бұрын
I have found eight to be my biggest hinderance, I do not consistently make sufficient effort. I find your approach to explanation helpful, thank you for sharing your insight.
@DougsDharma2 ай бұрын
My pleasure. 🙏
@westsidesmitty12 жыл бұрын
I (and the rest of humanity) have never been in greater need of the three refuges and the panna that can only come from samadhi. ''Meditation vids'' are my favorite genre and inspire me to leave off reading books and get down to it on the cushion! I don't know the secular Buddhist perspective on gaining merit- but I will not hesitate to say that I believe your channel is a great merit field and the world needs all it can get, at present.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for your kind words as always Smitty! 🙏
@juanluislapuz7802 жыл бұрын
Thank you Mr. Doug 😊
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
You are very welcome Juan!
@riverezell39532 жыл бұрын
Great video as usual, Doug! A great suttra with great commentary.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Thank you kindly!
@leorivers77599 ай бұрын
Thanks for the link!
@DougsDharma9 ай бұрын
No problem!
@saintsword23 Жыл бұрын
Terror is relatable. Letting go completely and seriously looking through the delusion of self triggers the deepest, purest terror.
@DougsDharma Жыл бұрын
Yes, it certainly can.
@zenpig66052 жыл бұрын
Great educational video. Interesting discussion on hindrances. After decades of sitting, I can say that I have experienced all 11 of these hindrances, and this is the first time I have heard of all of them from the Buddhist traditions. Coming from a Soto Zen tradition, most Roshi's tell students to "Just Sit". Sit without expecting anything, wanting anything, not wanting anything, Just sit to sit. While I resonate with this advice, it took many years to really get it. The teaching of hindrances seems that it might make it left difficult seeing it piecemeal from a novice intellectual standpoint rather than "trying" to sit to just sit, (which cannot be done while "trying" to not try) LOL.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes exactly so! I find these teachings make things a bit simpler. "Just sit" is really a pretty advanced teaching! 😄
@wiseone10132 жыл бұрын
The middle way is the proper path hence the contradictory teachings. Too much or too little of a certain thing can cause us to become unbalanced in meditation. The right amount of mental energy/viriya is a nice example.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes, exactly. Thanks!
@sonamtshering1942 жыл бұрын
Just the awareness of the problems faced in meditation can be the first step to overcoming them
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes, it's a necessary first step.
@DPLS77 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video Doug! I feel more familiar with the hindrances whereas before I was vaguely aware of them. Perhaps there is no way to get rid of these hindrances by an act of will, but in my experience being aware of them when they occur seems to shorten the amount of time that they linger.
@DougsDharma Жыл бұрын
Yes that's right, we can't just force them to go away. It's only through long practice that they diminish.
@EnigmaticTao2 жыл бұрын
"enlightening" Doug! Great to go deep on these 11 hinderences
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure, Tao! 🙏
@jakubLonghorn2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Doug, great way to start the morning.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure, Jacob. Be well! 🙏
@theempyrean12272 жыл бұрын
I'm well, thank you.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear! 😄
@kraz0072 жыл бұрын
Love the practical focus on this one!
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it, Krasimir! Thanks for the comment. 🙏
@eleusis22862 жыл бұрын
You’re the man, Doug! Keep it up!❤
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Will do! 😄
@jasongibson6662 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I enjoyed your talk. Place looks like its coming along.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure Jason. The place I'm in now is a rental ... it'll be months before the house is done! 😄
@archiekennedy47412 жыл бұрын
Good, useful information once again. Thank you Doug
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@Ghatikara2 жыл бұрын
Terror may seem vague but I remember playing a horror game and at night it was really hard for me to meditate well because I was so scared of some ghost popping up :)
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes, the Buddha talked of a kind of antidote, at least the story comes across to us in the commentaries: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bsuBqs5ltKvJd4k.html
@titussteenhuisen88642 жыл бұрын
Longing is for me thinking too much about something, can be pleasurable thinking - constant process without much effort no other things in mind
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes it's a form of what's known in Buddhism as "mental proliferation" (papañca). It can seem pleasurable sometimes, or painful, but it's to no real end.
@janglestick2 жыл бұрын
super interesting Doug !! and such a good example of the potential literary divergence we probably all should be aware of. I think the main reason I joined mahayana was so that things would be a bit more consolidated, even if just for practical purposes. All concepts of simplicity must be illusions of some sort, I imagine, aside from energetic experiences. Ive been hearing this distinction more lately, about not assuming that everyone has the same experiences, it is very strange how phrases like "we are all one" and "we all share a common experience" could potentially have a negative or stifling effect. Thanks for the pointer for this Suta, something really speaks to me in there. This and lately the Rhino Sutta I think should be given a lot of leeway for creative interpretation, they almost seem of modern subtly.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes they really are sources of multiple interpretation aren't they. Jumping off points for our practice. Thanks janglestick! 🙏
@buddhismforchildren38072 жыл бұрын
great video
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
🙏😊
@paulomoreira9952 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Paulo. 🙏
@QuyNguyen-lm1gq2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for this great video. Could you give a talk about how to control the "monkey mind" ìn meditation ?
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! That's also known as "restlessness and remorse". I discuss dealing with it and the other four hindrances in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gc9lqpuivq-6haM.html
@engleharddinglefester42852 жыл бұрын
Holy cow this is your best lecture yet. Edit: !
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks! Glad you think so! 😊
@nordmende732 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
@SnakeAndTurtleQigong4 күн бұрын
🙏💙☯️
@MachielGroeneveld2 жыл бұрын
Conceit and longing could be similar if you see it as identifying with the enlightened person that you’re going to be. So you’re too focused on the end result and the ego’s image of that.
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Interesting point Machiel, sure could be!
@tranquil_dude2 жыл бұрын
Interesting 🤔 ... Is it possible that the opposite statements, about the last hindrance in the Pali vs Chinese versions of this sutta, might reflect a slight disagreement (based on differing experiences between individuals) about how to reach Jhana in the early Sangha? And the "one should contemplate the forms!" view influenced the lineage that eventually wrote down the Chinese Agamas, while the "one shouldn't contemplate the forms!" view influenced the branch that eventually wrote down the Pali Canon. This also ties in with what you've touched on in the discussion: different meditators could have different experiences on their paths, we should not expect one person's approach to be exactly applicable to everyone else 👌
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
Yes, agreed. As to your question, I'm not sure! It'd be interesting to see some research on this, though it might well be unanswerable. There are some questions for which there is so little data that it's little more than speculation ... 🙂
@LilwaynehiphopB Жыл бұрын
Hey Doug! Is it possible the hindrance of Terror could be related to MN 4? There seems to be some overlap between these two texts. Particularly with the Jhanas and mentions of fear and terror. Something worth thinking about!
@DougsDharma Жыл бұрын
Well it's always possible, MN 4 is about the fear of being in the forest at night and that's not mentioned in this sutta. This sutta seems to be talking about a generalized fear that arises during meditation -- something that meditators nowadays also talk about at times.
@LilwaynehiphopB Жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma Thanks for your reply Doug! I wonder if there is an understated implication that the fear from MN 4 is a hindrance. Perhaps the two types of fear in these two suttas overlap? From MN 4 Translated by Ven. Bodhi: “I considered thus: ‘Whenever recluses or brahmins unpurified in bodily conduct resort to remote jungle-thicket resting places in the forest, then owing to the defect of their unpurified bodily conduct these good recluses and brahmins evoke unwholesome fear and dread." Maybe this arising of fear is similar to how the meditator would experience terror in MN 128?
@monicaneves9836 Жыл бұрын
Does Buddhism believes in possession? If yes how to deal with it? Thanks 🙏
@acamapichtli.raul.suppachok Жыл бұрын
Terror, I think, it’s a panic attack or severe sudden anxiety. It has happened to me and that’s why I’m afraid of meditating. 😢
@DougsDharma Жыл бұрын
Ah, too bad! Maybe find a good, experienced meditation instructor to help guide you.
@user-ic4ce8xb5v2 жыл бұрын
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@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
🙏😊
@anton95832 жыл бұрын
Thanks Doug. Does the sutra have a name?
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
The sutta is linked in the show notes below the video. In Pāli it's called the Upakkilesasutta.
@anton95832 жыл бұрын
@@DougsDharma Thank you Doug. Your videos are great and are helping me on my path. Hope you are doing well after the fire
@slicktrickyes2 жыл бұрын
“If those who guide you say: Look, the Kingdom is in the sky! Then the birds are closer than you. If they say: Look, it is in the sea! Then the fish already know it. The Kingdom is inside you, and it is outside you. When you know yourself, then you will be known, and you will know that you are the child of the Living Father; but if you do not know yourself, you will live in vain and you will be vanity.” - Some Guy
@charlesdacosta24462 жыл бұрын
Hi Doug, about a year ago i asked you about looking into deeper forms of meditation past the accepted levels of jana. I don't remember your response but it was along the lines of there are none. If you play the following from 18:00 to 19:00 - this person spoken of engaged in those deeper meditation that i was trying to allude to: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eMlliKt8tJnbh5c.html
@DougsDharma2 жыл бұрын
The deeper levels past jhāna are the formless attainments, and the cessation of perception and feeling. I’ve done videos about those if you want to look them up. 🙏
@MassiveLib2 жыл бұрын
Probably, yes. As soon as a thought of me, myself, I is identified with there is an object that is separate. There is then a whole host of practices, including meditation to bring about non separation. Its entirely impossible to achieve. No thing needs doing, perhaps accept ignoring all thought, concepts. Denial of ourselves is no different from being completely absorbed by self, as you say, the middle way is The Way. I am and I am not. 🧘♀️🤏