@8:50 " ... we need to be more serious with sense restraint, more serious with avoiding distractions ... " This is so true. We are the problem when we are struggling with the dhamma. This is the brutal truth, but the truth regardless.

CThankyou for further explanation Bhante, sadhu sadhu.. 🙇🙇🙇

The most controversial disciple of Buddha Gotama. 🙂 🙏

Wonderful talk! Thank you for all these teachings 🙏

Wow, talks with such sympathy and pedagogy, while having a magnificent natural landscape... this channel is magnificent, thank you.

🙏 Thank you for showing the path

Thank you Venerable. 🙏🏻

This is worth reciting for me bhanthe..!! Last string of practice existing which is apparent for me. personally, inexplicably worth of instructions. so glad to have faith on you and dhamma this long. thank you,,,!!!!!

A meaningful conversation, hopefully one day I can meet him in person, May God bless you in everything Amen, greetings from us in Indonesia.😊🙏🙏

Dear venerable sir, thank you for the teaching. In my personal experience, as I try to learn to keep the precepts, being honest and taking responsibility feels like death. Sometimes I feel and think to myself, that I must accept death and destruction of my existence to not break the precepts.

Oba wahanseta kalyana mithra asrayama wewa.

This gives me the idea every being in samsara is a walking samsara within samara based upon my body which is samasara like a manderbrolt fractul

Vandhami compassionate bhantheji sadhu Sadhu sadhu 🙏🙏🙏

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Theruwansaranai Bhante! Where would it be possible to ask a question online that gets answered in a video such as this? Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

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Bhante, does reminding myself "what I'm about to do is akusala, don't do it" is already consider as acting out of the pressure?

Very interesting. just started familirizing with this topics, good to learn from experienced. BTW are you from Cech republic?

Long time listener here… what country is the hermitage in?

Ajahn is there any Arahant in Tipitaka story that has constant physical illness, but not choose to parinibbana immediately, but still endure it for the rest His life for long time.

So when stones was thrown at jesus he beared those actions as anguilmala beared them.

Theruwansaranai Bhante.... I know this is a very theoretical question but here goes 😅... What about people who were not raised by their biological parents? If they were to commit an anantarika papa kamma and kill those who gave them life, probably would not feel the same regret as someone who was actually raised by their biological parents? Basically does Mother and Father in this context mean - those who raised me, or those who actually gave me my life? Those who I know to be Mother and Father, who occur to my mind with that meaning, or those who I may very possibly not even remember experientially at all but are the cause for my experience here and now?

Makes one wonder, if he would have become an Arahant if he hadn’t been so severe in his wrongful actions

Voropitasutta - Taken Away Aṅguttara Nikāya 6.87 "Bhikkhus, possessing six qualities, even, while listening to the good Dhamma one is incapable of entering upon the fixed course [consisting in] rightness in wholesome qualities. What six? (1) One has deprived One's mother of life; (2) one has deprived one's father of life; (3) one has deprived an arahant of life; (4) with a mind of hatred one has shed the Tathagata's blood; (5) one has created a schism in the Sangha; (6) one is unwise, stupid, obtuse. Possessing these six qualities, even while listening to the good Dhamma one is incapable of entering upon the fixed course [consisting in] rightness in wholesome qualities."