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Ajahn Dhammasiha provides some advice for those who are just starting their meditation practice:
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This talk gives an overview of the Anattā-Lakkhana Sutta, the Buddha's second discourse and how we can use the Buddha's teaching on Non-Self (Anattā) to free our hearts from clinging to what is impermanent, decaying and inherently unsatisfactory and suffering.
For a complete playlist of "The Life of the Buddha" series on YouTube, click on the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbxbuMjfRsvxKRNGf2OpxFD322oyZzfWk
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to the Discourse on Non-Self
3:16 Overview of the content of the Discourse
10:02 The purpose of the teaching on non-self
10:24 What creates our sense of "I'am"?
15:28 The perception of non-self can be developed
17:45 How can the perception of non-self be developed?
18:23 Giving/Sharing
20:10 Contentment
28:13 Body contemplation
45:03 Seeing Will/Desire (Sankhārā) as non-self
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After the Buddha realized awakening he remained for several weeks meditating at Bodhgaya to fathom his realization in all aspects. Hear more about how the Buddha reflected, how he saw the cosmos and who were the beings who met the Buddha first after his awakening.
0:00 The first week after awakening: The Buddha reflects about dependent origination.
15:54 The second week after awakening: The Buddha surveys the cosmos and sees all beings burning with desire, aversion and delusion and afflicted by becoming.
24:25 The third week: The Buddha meets a Brahmin and gives him a short teaching about how to become a true Brahmin.
26:02 The fourth week: A great rainstorm comes and the Naga-King Mucalinda (A Serpent or Dragon like spirit from the lowest heavenly realm) protects the Buddha from the weather.
28:24 The fifth week: Two Merchants, Bhallika & Tapussa, meet the Buddha, offer him the first meal after his awakening and become the first two male lay disciples of the Buddha.
31:46 The sixth week: Mara, the evil one tries to challenge the Buddha, but has to leave sad and dejected because he has been defeated.
33:56 The seventh week: The Buddha reflects about the practice that lead him to awakening The five spiritual faculties (Indriyas) and the four foundations of mindfulness (Satipatthana).Brahma Sahampati, a non-returner from Suddhavasa realm appears to the Buddha and expresses his approval.
42:53 The Buddha sees that there is no other being with a higher spiritual attainment than him that he could honour, so he decides to dwell honouring and venerating the Dhamma, the law of nature that he discovered and taught.
47:41 Brahma Sahampati requests the Buddha to teach.He surveys the cosmos with the eyes of a Buddha out of compassion and sees that there are being that are easy to teach and difficult to teach, some with good attributes and some with bad attributes. Just like lotus plants in a pond where some lotus plants are growing under the water and some have emerged from the water and stand unsullied by the water.After the Buddha sees that there are beings who are capable to understand him, he makes the momentous decision to teach the path to awakening that he found himself to others out of compassion, which influenced the lives of billions of people in the last 2500 years.
The Suttas can be found in Udana 1;1-4, Udana 2;1 and Udana 3;10.
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/index.htmlIn
the Mahavagga of the Vinaya Pitaka:https://www.dhammatalks.org/vinaya/Mv/MvI.html#burmese4
Samyutta Nikaya 4;1 and S 4;24 and 25
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN4_1.html
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN4_24.html
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN4_25.html
Samyutta Nikaya 47;43 and 48;57 where the Buddha reflects about the practice that led him to awakeningSamyutta Nikaya 6;2 where the Buddha decides to live revering the Dhamma itself
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN6_2.html
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The account of the Buddha's awakening according to the most ancient sources, the Sutta and Vinaya Pitaka told by Ajahn Moneyyo. Hear how the Buddha was striving and succeeded in his quest to realize awakening - the deathless, ultimate liberation.Chapters:0:00 Introduction and the practice of the Budhisatta before awakening30:33 The first true knowledge - remembering his previous lives37:41 The second true knowledge - seeing how beings arise and pass away according to their kamma39:53 How did the first two true knowledges lead to the knowledge of the destruction of the taints, the third true knowledge and the four noble truth, unshakable liberation?49:00 What are the "taints" (Pali: Asava)?54:52 Bodhgaya - The place where the Buddha realized the supreme awakeningFor more Dhammatalks about the life of the Buddha, click on the link below:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbxbuMjfRsvxKRNGf2OpxFD322oyZzfWk Quoted discourses where the Buddha talks himself about his practice and his realization of awakening:Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya) Sutta Nr. 4, 12, 26, 36, 128https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN...https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN...https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN...https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN...https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN...Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Anguttara Nikaya) Sutta No. 5;28 and 10;81https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN...https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN...Udana 1:1-3Long Discourses of the Buddha (Digha Nikaya) Sutta Nr. 9Two recommended Sutta Anthologies about the life of the Buddha are available for free download:"The Life of the Buddha according to the Pali Canon" by Bhikkhu Nyanamoli Therahttps://www.bps.lk/library-search-sel..."Noble Warrior" by Ajahn Thanissarohttps://www.dhammatalks.org/books/#No...If you are interested to visit the places where the Buddha lived, walked and taught you can read "Middle Land, Middle Way" by Ven. S. Dhammika, the best travel guide about the buddhist holy sites in India:https://www.bps.lk/library-search-sel...
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Hear about the spiritual quest for awakening of the Buddha - His noble search for peace & liberation beyond birth, ageing and death. What motivated the Buddha to leave behind his life in luxury as prince and his family and kingdom and become a spiritual seeker?
A few discourses where the Buddha himself relates his life story that are quoted in the Dhammatalk:Middle Lenght Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya) Sutta No. 26 and 36
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN...https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN...
Numerical Dicourses of the Buddha (Anguttara Nikaya) Sutta No. 3:39, 5:57https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN...https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN...
Sutta Nipata SN 3:1, Verses 407-426https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN...
For more Dhammatalks about the life of the Buddha click on the link below:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0N6FD5zQpY&list=PLbxbuMjfRsvxKRNGf2OpxFD322oyZzfWk
Two recommended Sutta Anthologies about the life of the Buddha are available for free download:"The Life of the Buddha according to the Pali Canon" by Bhikkhu Nyanamoli Therahttps://www.bps.lk/library-search-sel...
"Noble Warrior" by Ajahn Thanissarohttps://www.dhammatalks.org/books/#No...
If you are interested to visit the places where the Buddha lived, walked and taught you can read "Middle Land, Middle Way" by Ven. S. Dhammika, the best travel guide about the buddhist holy sites in India:
https://www.bps.lk/library-search-sel...
MORE INFO:
Dhammagiri Website: https://www.dhammagiri.net
Dhammagiri YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724
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The story of the birth of the Bodhisatta (the being who would become the Buddha) in Lumbini told by Ajahn Moneyyo.
The appearance of a Buddha, a perfectly awakened one who teached the path to liberation is the rarest event in the universe. The Buddha says from his recollection of previous lives that sometimes for 30 or 60 eons no Buddha will arise in the universe. So it is not surprising that his conception and birth was accompanied by special events.
This is a summary of the account of the conception and birth of the Bodhisatta according to the Middle Length DIscourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya) Sutta Nr. 123:This Dhammatalk is part of "The Life of the Buddha" series by Ajahn Moneyyo. For a complete playlist click on the link below.
It will be gradually expanded to about 20 talks that recollect the life and outstanding qualities of the Buddha: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbxbuMjfRsvxKRNGf2OpxFD322oyZzfWk
Two recommended Sutta Anthologies about the life of the Buddha are available for free download:"The Life of the Buddha according to the Pali Canon" by Bhikkhu Nyanamoli Therahttps://www.bps.lk/library-search-sel...
"Noble Warrior" by Ajahn Thanissaro
https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/#No...
If you are interested to visit the places where the Buddha lived, walked and taught you can read "Middle Land, Middle Way" by Ven. S. Dhammika, the best travel guide about the buddhist holy sites in India:
https://www.bps.lk/library-search-sel...
MORE INFO:
Dhammagiri Website: https://www.dhammagiri.net
Dhammagiri YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@dhammatalksatdhammagiri8724
Dhammagiri Newsletter: https://www.dhammagiri.net/newsletter
Before his supreme awakening, the Bodhisatta tried to reach enlightenment by extreme self mortification. He becomes so emaciated and weakened that he collapses and almost dies.
At this crisis moment, he remembers how he attained the first jhāna as a child, and recognizes that the rapture and bliss of samādhi are actually the way to enlightenment.
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Ajahn Dhammasiha leads a guided Buddhist meditation on the subject of Buddhānussati, recollection of the Buddha and his unique qualities.
Ajahn suggests to use his favourite Buddha-mantra, silently repeating:
"Bhagavā, Araham, Buddho - Buddho Araham Bhagavā"
Ajahn explains that it's not about the words that we're repeating, but that it's really about the emotion of faith / confidence / devotion / conviction that the words are meant to generate in our mind.
This emotion is wholesome and uplifting, and connected with a very pleasant feeling. As the emotion of faith/confidence in the Buddha grows, the pleasant feeling gets stronger, developing into rapture and bliss.
The expereince of rapture and bliss allows our mind to let go of the external senses und to unify internally in samādhi.
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On occasion of the consecration of our Saddhamma Cetiya and Relic Enshrinement Ceremony, Ajahn Kalyano shares the story how Buddha Relics appeared in Ajahn Anan's shoulder bag while meditating on top of Sri Pada (Adam's Peak), the famous pilgrimage site in Sri Lanka with a footprint of the Buddha on top of a steep mountain.
Luang Por Kalyano very kindly offered nine of these precious Buddha relics to Dhammagiri for enshrinement in our Stupa.
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Ajahn Dhammasiha leads our community on Vesak Day in asking forgiveness from Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha;
and in reciting the passage in Anguttara Nikaya / Numerical Discourses, Book of Ones, extolling the uniqueness of the Buddha:
"There is one person, who arises in the world, for the welfare or the multitude..."
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