Dharma and cats This is indeed the worthy life

It makes me so happy to see the very first frame master enters the video, the cat joins along. And cat looks so comfortable and calm.

Dear sir, I have tremendously enjoyed listening to every word you uttered. Thank you very much. Very auspicious.

“Once I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye Like a distant ships smoke on the horizon I tuned my head the dream is Gone .. I have become Comfortably Numb ..

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

The best and simple teaching about meditation as far as l expirence so far. On 20th this month I am going to Amaravanti Monastry for short stay and l going to make dedication it as offering to you my dear Banthe, you are blessed one.

Thank you venerable ❤️🙏🏻

I don't think what i had experienced was samadhi but still let me tell you my story. I recently started doing meditation and on my 3 or 4 day(i don't exactly remember the day) I did meditation for 10 mins. And nothing special happened everything was normal and then I got busy in doing my work after 2-3 hrs. I suddenly felt that my entire body is filled with joy( i didn't have any reason to be happy) and i also felt that this whole world is a stage and I am standing on a stage and doing acting(part given to me) and this feeling only lasted for a few seconds may be for a minute....but damn that was so great...before I used to think that orga*m is the greatest pleasure a human can experience but after that incident i realised I was so wrong. If i want to compare those two feelings then orga*m is a single dry bread and that feeling is a complete feast.

Dear venerable priest, I am so happy to see you in Sri Lanka and practicing towards nirvana would there be any video, that helps us to overcome the hindrances towards mediation, perhaps what sort of merits we should do. may the triple gem bless you and may you attain nibbana

Thank you Bhante. I enjoyed the talk and found it very meaningful. I don't have many questions anymore, because just like you pointed out in the talk we can read or ask about things but the only way to really know is directly. You'll still have to find out.

Looks like a beautiful painting

Thank you for this very clear and direct talk. It is so helpful.

All sentiment beings.

Jai, Dmt ( all else is an attribute of the waking & deep sleep Dream) . Nirguna. Jai, Buddha.

My dog does this when I sit

Bhante, I'd like to request a Dhamma talk on how how you faced and dealt with hate and anger please. I'm noticing if aversion arises I will pretend that its not mine while choosing from there to act/speak etc instead of seeing the states of anger, hate and not identifying genuinely. I think its this fear from Christian upbringing that told us we are evil and bad so the conditioning tells me I am bad and I should be ashamed which I have noted - feeds itself. How did you see these states arise and not identify and not try to get rid of them and not ignore them or become them being your conditioning also is similar? Thank you very much and blessings!

Much appreciated frankness and insight from experience! I appreciated the presentation of the experience very deeply. As a person of the sciences, my first inclination is to know what aspects of the neuronal functioning in the brain allows/accounts for, this experience. I feel as though terminology/labels from centuries past, meant to convey these experiences, hampers this understanding…or rather, reliance on these terms, rather than neurological understanding, is somehow antiquated. Do you know what I mean? Thank you for this treasure of expression and insight.

Love your commitment

I start watching the video because of the cat...

Animal feels your vibration ❤

Shariputra Breathing in a long breath he thinks “I am breathing in a long breath “ “Having sensual thoughts He thinks “I am having sensual thoughts “

Can we please have a video of an exposition of VIDURA JATAKA please?. I think we can learn a lot from that Jataka story about many frontiers of life. Please can you do it thank you.

Hello and thank you. Does jhanna exist off the cushion? Im a practioner of zen/chan who hasnt had that expierence

Thank you for this in-depth descriptive talk about the Jannas and meditation. It’s really being quite informative and helpful. In regards to the keeping of the five precepts do you have any suggestions for overcoming that of refraining from sexual pleasure? The most obvious one to me seems to truly see the impermanence of such pleasures, and I feel like some part of me does see that maybe the intellectual part however , the part of myself which seeks these pleasures seems unable to grasp this. Several years ago after discovering mindfulness practices I believe I stumbled upon the Jannas while engaging in daily activities and specifically use mindfulness of the breath initially to come to a place which at the time is described as the observer therefore it was a dualistic kind of detachment from All objects of experience mind and body included. There was much seeing through conditioning as I believe I was coming from the unconditioned place felt as if I was in a protective bubble self-absorption My awareness of conditioned states was like a laser and simply observing them seemed to eradicate them upon them being seen. Over the course of some months seems to fade away, that wisdom, and the drawer of the world seem to return again. It’s like I was being given a taste of what was possible however I feel like there’s something I’m missing in order to fully realise and actualise that potentiality. I don’t and haven’t in the past engaged very much in intentional sitting meditation, all of my practices were and still are done during daily life due to the busyness of my schedule and family obligations. Where I have attempted formal sitting meditation I’ve either fallen into states of oblivion due to me practising in the evenings when I am drained and tired or not being able to fully absorb into Jana. Your suggestions and thoughts would be appreciated as I can sense you know what you’re talking about, from experience. Thank you.

This is interesting...and somehow daunting to me. So, you are saying that you use anapanasati but don't use a specific, sustained point of contact with the breath? I reached access concentration only once, and it was through focus on the coming and going of the breath through the nose. Of course, it's been very hard for me to reach that state again. I feel like the air is too intense in the nose. It's like my nostrils are reaching out to touch the air; the air isn't touching my nostrils. Still, I'm worried about using the body of breath. Where do I focus? You're saying it's ok to feel the breath wherever I happen to feel it in that moment? Is that right?

What about a really clean acid marijuana buzz combo mixed with a lot of calmness n feeling light as a feather... Stone cold Sober... Maybe this vid has a little info on bindu banging like a drum with the force of a baseball bat. Mixed with above. Thanks on vid

Venerable Sir, I wish you health of the mind and body, as always. The following question may be unanswerable, or unnecessary to answer, which I accept entirely if so. I would like to ask, if you may so indulge me, what exactly happens to the consciousness of the enlightened upon the completion of their physical life? As I understand, the enlightened have completed the cycle of reincarnation when their physical life ends. The unenlightened, supposedly, are reincarnated, and thus, despite losing their physical body, their thoughts, and memories of this life, they indeed are reincarnated into another form of life, but maintain some very specific aspect that is the base of their existence as an "invidual," in a way - a piece of their consciousness. From my understanding, there remains an aspect of the "individual" (again, consciousness, I presume) that is placed into the new body. More to the point - I wish to know that when the cycle of reincarnation ends in an enlightened individual, does the "consciousness," or whatever it is that is reincarnated, simply cease to exist? Does it instead go somewhere else? Is this "consciousness" or spirit, or however it may be named, a physical thing - like energy, or purely a concept removed from anything observable? Or is there even, in fact, a "field" of consciousness that we are all connected to, each of us a little light in the web of lights that is consciousness, and when an enlightened individual dies, their one singular light fades and is simply never illuminated again? I understand this question is quite cereberal and verbose. Thank you for your time in helping me to better understand if you so choose to explore this question.

Bhante, with respect, samadhi is a feature of 2nd jhana onwards, and there is still some sensory awareness albeit with a processless and effortlessly stable mind. Its not correct to say it there is no awareness of sensations. There is, but it is subtle, in the periphery and no longer causes distraction of the mind. Sensory awareness disappears from 5th jhana onwards.

Sir how did you become a monk and how can one become a monk and live a Buddhist life I’ve seen its not easy to take this path and stay at home

The technique is simple. Sedate by meditation or alternative methods. Stay in the dream delta state we experience in sleep. By practicing relaxation and meditation you can go deeper as similar to hypnosis or yogandira. There is nothing wrong in sedation if you study but its not a sin. A normal human can not remain calm amidst of suffering and its pretending and nihilism if they just mention bliss and etc. its a selective conformation bias. Only a truthful man accesses all inner states because Hes nishkalanka or innocent and hes given authority to play cosmic leela or games to transform the external world and transcend ego . You must be trauma free and should have successfully released all inner traumas before than that. Jhana is dynamic awareness but samadhi is non dual state that is prior to consciousness. Again i repeat nothing is given you superman powers unless you been tested and qualified by aliens to angels to etc against your karma and truthful life. Samadi is not a state but stateless state . You cant live in that state in this world as its equal to death. You can however meditate or experience that state. It has the reverse of inner light. Jhana is inner light if anyone has access to it. The darkness is mind and matrix world. The drives are different depending on karma and life . There are three levels of drives . Mind consciousness and empty state or void. We were born empty minded and slipped into mahamaya the five senses illusion world of oneness or consciousness. Then a personal identity called mind. We born in samadhi state prior to consciousness. Cheers

How does one use mala beads in your tradition?

that's your cat's name

You've already missed the point lol, read the Upanishads again.