This video is a replacement of the old version with a spelling mistake that had over 1K views. To honour the comments that disappeared with it, I'll copy/paste them here: @Kaoniao 4 days ago Gratitude to Ajahrn Punnadammo and team for sharing this uplifting insights. 👍3 @anniechua8985 4 days ago 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Aligning our mind with the divine ... instead of getting caught up with our narrow petty concerns ❤❤💖🙏🙏🙏 👍2 @MsLeenite 4 days ago Thank you, Bhante. Contemplating the Shining Ones eems like a good meditation for uplifting the heart when ugly thoughts are crowding in. Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu. 👍2 @Parivattita 4 days ago (edited) Very revealing.....and so enlightening for the mind. Especially when sharing merits. Much gratitude to you Bhante; always be well 🙏! 👍1 @TheJosephHammond 3 days ago Thank you for this great gift Bhante. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu! Anumodami. 🌻☀🌻 As one who has read H.P. Lovecraft, It’s a great Joy to know there are actually quite the opposite kind of beings to “Eldritch Horrors” abiding in the depths of Space & Consciousness. What a relief. 😌🙏 I find recollection of Queen Samavati foremost in Loving-kindness, as a Non-Returner Ariya Deva in the Pure Abodes fantastically inspiring. Are Non-Returners also considered Brahmas & therefore gender-neutral? Would Queen Samavati still be known as such in the Pure Abodes? Thank you & Be Well Venerable Sir. 💐💐💐🙇🏻🙇🏻🙇🏻🙏🙏🙏 @bronsonstone725 2 days ago I asked a question in my mind, "breath meditation is the type promoted as the meditation taught by the buddha, I wonder if he also taught visualisation, mantra or others", and today you appeared in my suggested videos, and so good, thank you, I am going to enjoy going through all of your videos. Since my last samadhi I don't watch much of anything unless it is this type of talk, I am fortunate in that I also live alone. @goofyduder2604 5 days ago Thank you Bhante you are a legend 🙏 👍4 @5piles 5 days ago anyone who mistakes the negation of functioning existent persons as authentic vipassana is to be spurred. correct view as lord buddha explained it is that the existent person exists, and is not the same as body and mind nor separate than body and mind. nevertheless the existent person functions in the world and with their own experiences. whereas those who negate functioning persons assert that only impersonal processes exist in the world devoid of 'i', mistaking the existent 'i' as the self to be negated, which the buddha taught is nihilism and extremely harmful. 👍1 @goofyduder2604 5 days ago @5piles thats great 👍1 @NORMADAUER 5 days ago Thank you, Ajahn P.. 🎉 Sardhu 🎉 there's so much we can't see. I get a glimpse and emensely enjoy fairies and joy when conditions are right. Are we stardust? @pewin7 5 days ago Very good graphics because experience is personal explaining to others who has not experienced with Dewas becomes difficult 👍2 @DinkaPignon 5 days ago @pewin7, The images are culturally bound (Thai in this case) and they are imagination of various artists. Your own imagination is as good as anyone's. It is the qualities of devas that count, not the looks, but having a graphical reference may be helpful to some people. 👍1 @pewin7 5 days ago @DinkaPignon yes Sangha in Myanmar visited to listen to his dharma talks said d Dewas were dressed as humans 👍1 @surajbadwal2601 5 days ago 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 👍2 @fingerprint5511 5 days ago 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 👍2 @bahadursunny1674 4 days ago sadhu sadhu sadhu
I don't understand the graphic at 17:05. It says "4th Jhana Brahmas" and that there is "one only for entire cosmos". But how can that be if it says "brahmaS" (plural)? Ajahn also said "brahmaS (of great fruit)". So, are there more than one or not?
Hi @JayBowen, I saw your comment only now, and I don't think Ajahn looks here often. I'm the one who made the video but the schematic that I used, with Brahma & Jhana levels, is Ajahn's, and even though I think I can answer your question, I don't think it should be me -- maybe you can ask Ajahn at one of his live-streams (on Thursdays at 6 pm ET, here: th-cam.com/channels/xFJivkktIisM6wFxkNFS_Q.html)
Very helpful 🙏
This video is a replacement of the old version with a spelling mistake that had over 1K views. To honour the comments that disappeared with it, I'll copy/paste them here:
@Kaoniao
4 days ago
Gratitude to Ajahrn Punnadammo and team for sharing this uplifting insights.
👍3
@anniechua8985
4 days ago
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Aligning our mind with the divine ... instead of getting caught up with our narrow petty concerns ❤❤💖🙏🙏🙏
👍2
@MsLeenite
4 days ago
Thank you, Bhante. Contemplating the Shining Ones eems like a good meditation for uplifting the heart when ugly thoughts are crowding in. Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu.
👍2
@Parivattita
4 days ago (edited)
Very revealing.....and so enlightening for the mind. Especially when sharing merits. Much gratitude to you Bhante; always be well 🙏!
👍1
@TheJosephHammond
3 days ago
Thank you for this great gift Bhante. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu! Anumodami. 🌻☀🌻
As one who has read H.P. Lovecraft, It’s a great Joy to know there are actually quite the opposite kind of beings to “Eldritch Horrors” abiding in the depths of Space & Consciousness. What a relief.
😌🙏
I find recollection of Queen Samavati foremost in Loving-kindness, as a Non-Returner Ariya Deva in the Pure Abodes fantastically inspiring.
Are Non-Returners also considered Brahmas & therefore gender-neutral? Would Queen Samavati still be known as such in the Pure Abodes?
Thank you & Be Well Venerable Sir.
💐💐💐🙇🏻🙇🏻🙇🏻🙏🙏🙏
@bronsonstone725
2 days ago
I asked a question in my mind, "breath meditation is the type promoted as the meditation taught by the buddha, I wonder if he also taught visualisation, mantra or others", and today you appeared in my suggested videos, and so good, thank you, I am going to enjoy going through all of your videos. Since my last samadhi I don't watch much of anything unless it is this type of talk, I am fortunate in that I also live alone.
@goofyduder2604
5 days ago
Thank you Bhante you are a legend 🙏
👍4
@5piles
5 days ago
anyone who mistakes the negation of functioning existent persons as authentic vipassana is to be spurred.
correct view as lord buddha explained it is that the existent person exists, and is not the same as body and mind nor separate than body and mind. nevertheless the existent person functions in the world and with their own experiences. whereas those who negate functioning persons assert that only impersonal processes exist in the world devoid of 'i', mistaking the existent 'i' as the self to be negated, which the buddha taught is nihilism and extremely harmful.
👍1
@goofyduder2604
5 days ago
@5piles thats great
👍1
@NORMADAUER
5 days ago
Thank you, Ajahn P.. 🎉 Sardhu 🎉 there's so much we can't see. I get a glimpse and emensely enjoy fairies and joy when conditions are right. Are we stardust?
@pewin7
5 days ago
Very good graphics because experience is personal explaining to others who has not experienced with Dewas becomes difficult
👍2
@DinkaPignon
5 days ago
@pewin7, The images are culturally bound (Thai in this case) and they are imagination of various artists. Your own imagination is as good as anyone's. It is the qualities of devas that count, not the looks, but having a graphical reference may be helpful to some people.
👍1
@pewin7
5 days ago
@DinkaPignon yes Sangha in Myanmar visited to listen to his dharma talks said d Dewas were dressed as humans
👍1
@surajbadwal2601
5 days ago
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
👍2
@fingerprint5511
5 days ago
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
👍2
@bahadursunny1674
4 days ago
sadhu sadhu sadhu
Thank you for attending to these details, Dinka. Sadhu.
🙏🙏🙏🙏
Ajahn i realy like listening your story🙏sadu sadu sadu
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Is there any method of contacting a Deva, at least in a manner that has direct reciprocity?
Only by attain the 4th jhana with clairvoyance
Is Saka aka Indra ?
I don't understand the graphic at 17:05. It says "4th Jhana Brahmas" and that there is "one only for entire cosmos". But how can that be if it says "brahmaS" (plural)? Ajahn also said "brahmaS (of great fruit)". So, are there more than one or not?
Hi @JayBowen, I saw your comment only now, and I don't think Ajahn looks here often. I'm the one who made the video but the schematic that I used, with Brahma & Jhana levels, is Ajahn's, and even though I think I can answer your question, I don't think it should be me -- maybe you can ask Ajahn at one of his live-streams (on Thursdays at 6 pm ET, here: th-cam.com/channels/xFJivkktIisM6wFxkNFS_Q.html)