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November 12, 2023 Buddha is Freed From 10 Things | Sutta Exploration | AN 10s #81 | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Sutta Study with Ajahn Dhammasiha, Anguttara Nikāya, Book of Tens, No 81, 'Bahuna'.
Reading from the English translation by Ven Bhikkhu Bodhi: "Numerical Discourses of the Buddha", page 1440
The Tathagata describes himself as freed from 10 things:
1. Form (Rūpa)
2. Feeling (Vedanā)
3. Perception (Saññā)
4. Intention/Will/Volition (Sankhārā)
5. Consciousness (Viññāṇaṃ)
(These are the 5 Groups of Clinging - Pañcupādānakkhandhā)
6. Birth (Jāti)
7. Aging (Jarā)
8. Death (Maraṇaṃ)
9. Suffering (Dukkha)
10. Mental Defilements = Greed, Hate & Delusion (Kilesā)
Released, detached, and emancipated from these ten, the Tathāgata dwells with a mind free from restrictions; just as a lotus flower, though born in the water and gorwn up in the water, rises up above the water and stands unsoiled by the water.

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November 07, 2023 GUIDED MEDITATION | "Like Water Rolling off a Lotus Leaf" | Buddhism | Ajahn Dhammasiha
10 min short guided Buddhist meditation.
The Buddha used the Lotus in many similes. One amazing quality of the Lotus flowers and leaves is that they are totally water repellent.
Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to let all the various disturbing thoughts, worries, memories, images, feelings and emotions bubbling up in our meditation simply run off of our heart like water of a lotus leaf.

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November 01, 2023Asking for Feeback | Pavarana | Buddhism | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma
On the full moon in October, the monks complete their annual 3-months Rains Retreat with the 'Pavāraṇā Ceremony':
They invite constructive criticism from each other regarding anything heard, seen or suspected that one may have done or said against the rules of discipline ('Vinaya') laid down by the Buddha.
It is difficult to see one's own weak points, because delusion tends to hide our own shortcomings from ourselves. Therefore, external input can be extremely helpful for improving oneself.
Naturally, it will only really work if the person providing the feedback is
Knowledgeable

Speaking out of kindness or compassion
And if the person receiving it is amiable to instruction.
If that's the case, we can all grow by mutual admonition as a support for our spiritual development.

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October 30, 2023Count Your Blessings | Buddhism | Dhamma Talk | Dhammagiri | Ajahn Dhammasiha
On Mahapavāraṇā Full Moon, which ends the annual Rains Retreat period for Buddhist monks, Ajahn Dhammasiha reflects on the many blessings we receive here at Dhammagiri.
It is rare to be born as a human being.

It is rare to be born when the teaching of the Buddha is available

It is rare to have a Forest Monastery like Dhammagiri, with such excellent conditions for meditative practice

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Reflecting on all the good things we can be grateful for doesn't mean denying all the bad things happening in the world. However, if we're only focussed on the bad stuff, our mind is in danger to become angry of depressed.
If we acknowledge all the good things we receive, our mind will be uplifted and joyful.

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October 26, 2023Oh Dear, We've been HACKED! | Dhammagiri | Buddhist Dhamma Talk | Ajahn Dhammasiha
We're worried about getting hacked, or becoming victims of identity theft. Nefarious actors may scoop up all our private data after getting access to our computer or online accounts in a 'hack'.
However, compared to a hacker getting into our email our bank account, it is far worse that our mind has been 'hacked' by Mara.
Defilements, craving, ignorance and delusion have managed to gain access to our mind, and are now executing their neferious activity.
Like a firewall can help us to ward of hackers from our computers, so can sense restraint protect our mind from Mara (= kilesas/defilements) getting into it.

Like an 'air-gapped' device with no access to the internet at all can no longer be hacked, so the mind in samādhi has gone beyond the range of Mara.

Like a antivirus program can delete viruses from our devices, so can wisdom remove all defilements reminderless from our heart.

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October 23, 20234 Elements: Contemplating Loss of Loved Ones | Dhamma Talk | Buddhism | Ajahn Dhammasiha
At the moment of death, the person doesn't vanish into nothingness. What really happens is that what we call 'consciousness' or 'mind' seprates from the body, and then is 'reborn', i.e. connects to a new body due to craving and attachment, depending on the karma one has created in the last as well as previous lifes.
In fact, we can already notice how consciousness' ability o control the 4 material elements that constitute our body gradually weakens:
Earth

Water

Fire

Wind
As we age, the bones (earth-element) become more brittle and less flexible

The eyes may get teary or dry, the skin may suffer from dryness, we may dribble saliva... (water-elemet)

We're less tolerant to heat and cold, can't regulate body temperature very well (fire-element)

The breath becomes shorter and more laboured, and when consciousness can't even hold on to the breath anymore, 'we breathe our last' and die (wind-element)

If we contemplate the impermanence and out-of-control nature of these elements, we understand it's impossible to hold on to them. The more we try to cling to them, the more we will suffer. Knowing and seeing thus, we abandon attachment to both our own body, and the body of loved ones, and we will not be reborn in a course material body again.

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October 19, 2023 Diligence | Appamada | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhist Dhamma Talk | Dhammagiri
The Buddha stated that he doesn't see any other Dhamma that is so conducive to the arising of wholesome mindstates, and to the abandonment of unwholesome mindstates, as 'Appamāda'.
We can translate 'Appamāda' as diligence, heedfulness, carefulness,
earnestness.
It has such a poowerful positive aspect on our meditative development, because we're cultivating virtually all wholesome qualities while we're practising diligence. They are all included in 'appamāda'.
In the following, Ajahn Dhammasiha discusses how generosity, virtue, precepts, effort, mindfulness, sense restraint and wise investigation of impermanence, are all part of being diligent.

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October 16, 2023Compassion Prevents Our Heart to Sink or Harden | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Buddhism | Dhammagiri
As we witness so much suffering, war, calamities and atrocities due to our exposure to media, there's a danger that our heart responds by:
Sinking: We may become depressed, embittered, hopeless.

Hardening: We just close off our heart, and no longer feel any empathy. We just don't care, we don't bother anymore.
Both reponses are unskillful and unbeneficial for both ourselves and other beings.
Ajahn Dhammasiha describes how compassion (karuṇā) can prevent our heart from either sinking or hardening.
Compassion is the intention for all beings to be free from suffering. We wish all beings, without distinction or discrimination, to be free from all pain, sickness and problems.
This goes beyond empathy. We don't stop with feeling the suffering of others empathically, but we focus on the wish for them to be free from that dukkha. That intention is a very wholesome mindstate, connected with a positive, uplifting feeling. It enables us to still care and wish well to others in misfortune, but at the same time keeping out own mind bright and wholesome.

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October 13, 2023 Just Observing? | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma Talk on Buddhism | Dhammagiri
Ajahn Dhammasiha enquires from a newcomer to Dhammagiri if there's anything he'd like to ask or discuss. He answers: "Not really, I''m just observing!"

Ajahn really likes that answer, and points out that
'Just Observing'
is actually a very profound point of Dhamma.

If we can truly 'just observe', without distorting our experience through liking and disliking; without being influenced by aversion, greed or delusion; without identifying and making it 'me' or 'mine'; we can see things as they rally are and develop profound insight, enabling us to let go and experience the true Dhamma in our heart.

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October 09, 20233 Principles for Meditation | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhamma Talk on Buddhism
Ajahn Dhammasiha explains 3 principles that provide the foundation for smooth and steady progress in our meditation practice:
Grounding our awareness in the body

Present moment awareness

Internal silence
Additionally, he recommends not to use force in applying these principles, but rather to train our mind to recognize that they lead to deeper happiness and contentment.

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