The Existential Context of Mindfulness --- by Nyanamoli Thero

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5 жыл бұрын

Being able to see the CONTEXT of one's present situation as a one and only basis for mindfulness-and-comprehension...
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@Mountain_Dhamma 5 ай бұрын

I finally understand why the Buddha compares the path to skilled labor so often. A skilled mechanic knows what he knows and is confident in what he knows. He looks at an unskilled worker trying to take apart an engine the wrong way and knows “this guy doesn’t know what he is doing.” He’s knows, as my dad used to say, “there’s a right way of doing things and there’s a wrong way of doing things.” There is no doubt. In the same way, a Sotapanna knows suffering, its cause and cessation, and the way out of suffering. He sees one who lacks right view doing things to feel good or feel better, to avoid a feeling he doesn’t like, and knows “this guy doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s causing more suffering.” That’s how true knowledge is. It is accompanied by clear, calm, confidence.

@fernandoorozco5968 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@crossfade4099 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video A few questions: So discerning the context is about discerning kusala as kusala and akusala as akusala. When I practice this I find that a lot of things which I took to be kusala were simply agreeable experiences and were neither good nor bad, but just experiences. Then when I pressed further I found that my craving for it was akusala (because it led to suffering). And in the understanding being somewhat established the craving diminished. Is this a correct thought process? Is right view essentially understanding what craving is and isn’t and that it’s unwholesome? In understanding thoroughly that it is unwholesome will the mind abandon craving? Edit: is it almost like how when the mind sees that sensuality is only ever painful it will abandon it?

@HillsideHermitage Жыл бұрын

1. Yes, that's correct way contemplating it. 2. Correct 3. Thorough understanding of what is unwholesome and a livelihood that does not fuel it further, will result in complete abandoning of craving 4. It is. You can 'decide' to abandon sensuality. But you can see the danger and peril of it deeply enough that will make the mind turn away from it on its own.

@kurtwagner6437 3 жыл бұрын

First

@cliffmilbrun2803 3 жыл бұрын

10:11-10:24

@cliffmilbrun2803 3 жыл бұрын

Some people may not want to admit that during there attempt at anapanasati a pleasent feeling arises while breathing in and out and they may act to prolong that feeling, and if that feeling becomes to much and they feel pain and they want to get rid of it. But being self trans- parent about that means there yonisomanisikara is being devolped or has now been established. One time i did meditate and after some time my vision with eyes closed zoomed in like a microscope x3 and in that space like lens that surrounded the blue light i saw a spining dhamma wheel. Never understood why but that night i remember i was determind to free myself form suffering even though i didnt have the right view. Now that experince is completly irrelavent to the body being the bases for that dhamma to manifest in the first place.

@nadeekadilshan4226 2 жыл бұрын

@@cliffmilbrun2803 that experience always relevant when it comes to understand the context of it though.

@sadasivam123 3 жыл бұрын

There are enlightened people who just stumbled on to it. Ramana Maharishi. U.G. Krishnamurti.

@dicsoncandra1948 3 жыл бұрын

depends what your definition of 'enlightened' is

@nadeekadilshan4226 2 жыл бұрын

If the enlightenment is another existential/ non existential “context” , of course it can be stumbled upon or gained with “yourself”

@InojSameendra Жыл бұрын

Its not possible, the only type of "people'" that can "stumble" upon enlightement is "Pachchekha Buddha" which won't be possible within the existence of a Lord Buddhas order.

@fingerprint5511 Жыл бұрын

Krishnamurti was not realised, he had a public face, persona he was forced to maintain and a real life that was like the average unenlightened worldling

@Limemill Ай бұрын

Krishnamurti did study extensively Hinduism, Buddhism and Western philosophy, didn’t he? And I think he ended up a good enough philosopher, not sure about enlightened at all. If anyone did stumble upon *something*, it would be Eckhart Tolle, who was in such massive depressive pain that his brain switched and kicked him out of self-association into the non-dual experiential field. Where he claims to have been residing at least in so far as he always sees his mind as separate from ‘himself’. I don’t think it’s enlightenment in the original Buddhist sense of the word, but is probably close to what Zen and some Yogic methods seek to achieve