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Thank you for taking the time to answer my question Bhante, the adverts are just at the beginning thankfully, I just wondered how Ajahn Sona and Amaravati Buddhist Monastery and a few others had managed to turn them off even at the start of the video. Thanks for the heads up on youtube premuim, sadly I can't afford this, but thanks all the same. Anyway I will continue to watch, as your teachings are very helpful. I look forward to your next teachings, take care and much gratitude.

Namo Buddhaya

enjoying your monkhood, bhante

23:39 Some of my best meditations as a youngster, was whilst cutting a sloped field with an old petrol lawnmower, the lawnmower taught me quietness, peace and tranquility! 🕊

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

I'm a Buddhist. Please be a guest on my podcast.

They did brain scans of meditation experts and they showed brain wrinkles associated with higher cognitive function and a lower primate or undeveloped human will have wayyy less wrinkles. Meditation works just do it

one hour long lecture about advance Buddhist DAMMA IS , recorded by me and listened to it, while l am in meditation, is it o.K.'''?

වන්දනා කරමි නමස්කාර වේවා බුදු සරණයි

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

I like the natural background sound, it's reverberating.

Thanks Bhante for answering my questions. Sahdu Sahdu sahdu. Simon UK

THANK you VERY much Sadhu Thanks

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

Dear Bhante, Sometimes when I try to meditate longer than 20 or 30 minutes I feel tired and start falling asleep during my meditation and it's very discouraging to my practice, do you have any suggestions on how to be more awake? will be very helpful.

Namo buddhaye 🙏🙏🙏

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thank you VERY much Sadhu Thanks

I really like the part of the metta sutta from "let none deceive another" to "freed from hatred and ill-will".

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Dear Bhante I attend a monastery where nearly all the lay community are of a different nationality and speak to each in their own language even though the majority speak English. I know words and situations are impermanent, I just feel quite like sometimes I'm intruding.

Your videos are a blessing to me and so many others. I am a christian and newly also a buddist. I think you can be both. Chistians are called to love others, however my experiance is that christians do not quite grasp the meaning of that love, and often act in hatful ways and i found it difficult to be part of that community. I found buddisim because it supported what i believe to be the truth of the bible, a truth that western christian churches are moving further away from. I also am very interested in religions and enjoy studying and learning about other religions even those i dont agree with. Many religions have more similarities then differences and i suspect that they are all leading us on seperate spiritual paths to the same destination. I have always taught my children to be open minded and tolerant of others and to embrace cultural and spiritual differences. We now live in an area that has many Christians, Buddists, Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims, I am glad that my children get to grow up in a way that they get to experiance and appriciate the diversity of others. While we live in such a diverse area i have had a very hard time finding a temple that offers anything in english and so i learn mostly on youtube, i enjoy and have been greatly blessed by your wise teachings. May you and tom tom be blessed in the same mesure that you have blessed others 🙏

Dear Bhante as I understand it, **Anapanasati** is an ancient technique that existed even before Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, and there was Hinduism before his time. Siddhartha also studied under two renowned teachers, **Alara Kalama** and **Uddaka Ramaputta**, who had already claimed to have attained the higher meditative states (Jhanas). Given that he left these teachers to pursue his own path, what makes it significant that Siddhartha later recalled his childhood experience and chose to practice Anapanasati again? Does this imply that he hadn't fully explored it before or that his earlier practices were incomplete in some way? ❤ Saadu saadu saadu 🙏🙏🙏 I really would like to see you discuss this if possible thank you🙏🙏🙏

Saadu saadu saadu,🙏🙏🙏

Ah yes, I am chakra guy, but I also do classical buddhist stuff, like bodyscanning. When it is first taught, its usually very funny, the teacher can deliver like a comedian "On top of my head. Look at this, this is my body. Very dukha, so let's go through it. Here is my toes. Very odorus, maybe you can smell it? Fish? Is that fish? Now, barely moved on to my legs, allready lots of hair. Make sure you feel it. Spiders, this is almost like a trantulla, this will be slightly lower under your nose keep your mouth closed". But as it gets more perfected by the practitioner, it might start with some really nice lotus feats instead. That smell nice. But the chakras are not real, they can not hurt you. So if it cannot create suffering, it is not real. Because all is suffering. This is just a way to relax and let go. It is like a pleasant dream, also not real. The cycle of suffering is more important. That is why I blindly believe everything I see here.

For people who like to read(Not my favorite thing). Lotus position can be achieved by getting a stack of books, until the shin points down, no pressure on the knees, because the legs are at an eleviating angle, then simply read and remove books. If I had to do it, I would get a bunch of Donald Duck comics, those are very thin, very smooth for daily progress. Also, pictures.

Thank you for such a detailed answer about eyebrows Bhante ☸

WORSHIP WITH greatest honour and reverence

වන්දනා කරමි නමස්කාර වේවා බුදු සරණයි

Would Buddha be mad if you put mosquito nets on the windows and door?

I have been on three month courses in India where we do see our mobiles for three months🎉🎉🎉

Namo Buddhaya

I'm also an English Buddhist monk trained in China but now living in seclusion in Wales. I like your style please keep posting your practice for us to learn from 🙏

Your concept of perfection is perfectly wrong. 🙃 There is nothing but perfection since Buddha-Mind is all there is. ❤ So, whenever we encounter something we don’t prefer, we must recognize that it’s a perfect representation of what it is, whether we like it or not. 🐉

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Thank you!

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏 Greeting from Thailand.

Thank you. 🙏

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Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu WORSHIP the GREAT sangha WITH reverence

How does one become a monk?

Did buddha really believed in rebirth as you say

Arhant is doing everything for himself hence its selfish wheras Bodhisattva does much to change the misery of creatures and humans on the planet hence he is better

From your dedicated life as a monk and the defilements you have come over and the attachments and cravings you have overcome the tough life you lead proves that you have attained Arahant level.Thanks for guidance

❤have a Fantastic night an day tomorrow 😊

So one concentrates on how things actually are to break the illusion that things are purely enjoyable and sufficient?

Who are you, and wat are you doing here...? Is a very deep Spiritual question.... And I dont care about Boudhisme as à Religion ... Is a recognition of Emptiness.... You are Lucky to have such a meeting ... OM BUDHAYA SATYA HUM .....xxx

Thank you Bhante, I guess I would call my practise "good enough". I ask myself if this is good enough and if the answer is yes ,Im doing just fine, If the answer is no I have some work to do. Look first though at actions, generosity, truthfulness, asking for help and so on. Its usually a basic act that Ive laid off of. But I never look for perfection in my practise. Am I doing good enough is actually pretty good. I really dont shoot for much more than that. Ive tried many years and Im just glad Ive reached good enough.

A tube full of unpleasant stuff, with a hole at either end and a ganglion of neurons on top - I've known people like that! Peace.