What is Buddhist Enlightenment?

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  • @DougsDharma
    @DougsDharma  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

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    • @smlanka4u
      @smlanka4u 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The word SUNNA/SUNYA (zero) existed in early Suttas.

    • @grndragon7777777
      @grndragon7777777 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Although I can't do that I can like and watch every video.

  • @wriptag3
    @wriptag3 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    The quote from the sutras that I like about enlightenment is, “There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned, no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.”

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Yes, I did a video on that passage: th-cam.com/video/-Wz3N5IAGDM/w-d-xo.html

    • @austinbrown7574
      @austinbrown7574 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's kind of a meaningless statement though, because it's not evident that there must exist some escape from what is "born, become, made, conditioned." It kinda sounds like "I want this thing to be true, because my life sucks if it's not, therefore it is true."

    • @wriptag3
      @wriptag3 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@austinbrown7574 It's either true or not, wishing has nothing to do with it. When they say Buddhism is a come and see religions, this is what it's talking about. Do not have faith, work to have experience.

    • @shantanushekharsjunerft9783
      @shantanushekharsjunerft9783 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@austinbrown7574keep in mind that language is a very poor tool to explain the working of the minds. What Buddha meant was there is an unconditioned process that you can access. Since you have not experienced it, words won’t be very effective.

    • @branimirsalevic5092
      @branimirsalevic5092 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Stripped of mysticism, it is very simple: that what is "born" is dukkha, and just as it can be born it can also be unborn - not born; just how we can cause dukkha on ourselves, we can also not cause it.

  • @Johnoines
    @Johnoines 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    It seems to me that enlightenment for me is a matter of degree. The more that I am able to remove greed, anger and delusion from my life, the more that I consider myself enlightened or awakened. It doesn't matter how someone else judges me.

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes, I think that's how it's felt while we are practicing.

    • @nyannasari4585
      @nyannasari4585 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It’s a right path to enlightenment

    • @mayakashisagan4025
      @mayakashisagan4025 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It sounds like a very healthy approach too it, specially when we accept that learning is gradual

  • @hansenmarc
    @hansenmarc 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is one of the best discussions on the meaning of enlightenment in Buddhism that I’ve heard. Thank you for sharing it.

  • @valeriog8780
    @valeriog8780 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great video! With peace from Italy ☸️🙏

  • @Daniel-Strain
    @Daniel-Strain 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thanks for this. Again, when we say "knowledge of..." this and that, we do not simply mean what can be learned in a book or video, but a deep kind of intuitive grasping such that it is known 'through and through' and has become a natural part of our being and how we reactively interact with reality.

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes, for the Buddha true knowledge was of this sort.

  • @alakso777
    @alakso777 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Awakening is simply the quenching of Dukkha. 🙏🏼

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes I think that's a good way to approach it.

  • @grahamh3796
    @grahamh3796 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Really appreciate you taken this talk beyond what is found in early Buddhism to include much later and still prevalent ideas.

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      🙏😊

  • @stevebelzer4758
    @stevebelzer4758 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Doug ❤thank you ! You REALLY unpacked “Awakening “ with fantastic historical context - very good visual aids too !
    Doug uses Skillfull means !
    Sharing with you delighted to find The Berkeley Buddhist Monestary- with daily English practice on TH-cam
    Abbot is a banjo playing PhD “regular dude “ and Prof at Berkeley . good Sanga - They are affiliated with “City of 10,000 Buddhas in Eureka - I can make a field trip .
    Best Steve the stream toe dipper 😂

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Great, thanks for your comment Steve. 🙏

  • @xiaomaozen
    @xiaomaozen 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Love and peace from Germany! ❤️🐱🙏

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      🙏🐈

  • @redbaron2455
    @redbaron2455 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I don't think i will ever reach enlightenment in Buddhist terms, i think its too difficult. But I'm happy that some people do

    • @someoneelse6618
      @someoneelse6618 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      At the moment you want to become aware, awakened or enlightened, it will happen.
      It's a process that you don't control, or initiate, you simply participate when you're ready.
      If you're happy where you are then don't move.

  • @mitrabuddhi
    @mitrabuddhi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Dear Doug! In my opinion, The most important knowledge obtained by liberation is that: before liberation, the bottom-to-top processing of the brain is more active and the lower brain centers play greater role in the movement of the will and attention, but in a liberated person, brain's top-to-bottom processing is more active and the higher centers of the brain (or wisdom) plays a higher role in decisions making. So vedana does't affect the will and wisdom is the leader.
    I have a question too: What is the difference between joy in metta and joy in Jhana? If the jhana is cultivated by meditating on the meta-feeling, when the subject of meditation is the meta-feeling and Ekaggata (one-pointedness) is obtained; in relation to the metta, is the jhanic joy that arises at this stage the same as the meta-joy that is intensified or is it of a different quality?

  • @spiritualanarchist8162
    @spiritualanarchist8162 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I started with Transcendental meditation age 16, and I remember asking without any sense of irony : 'Do I get enlightened if I do this ?'
    The teacher burst out laughing , and said : 'I've been meditating for 40 years, and I'm still not enlightened'
    I was rather disappointed , but still decided to give it a try ;)

    • @DS-rd9qn
      @DS-rd9qn 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Personally I'd find a better teacher, many are awake. Jack Kornfield for example

    • @spiritualanarchist8162
      @spiritualanarchist8162 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DS-rd9qn Says who .. Jack Kornfield ?

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      🙏😊

    • @spiritualanarchist8162
      @spiritualanarchist8162 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@reedwill953 No ,I think I didn't make myself clear. He was laughing spontaneously , because my teenage directness surprised him.
      I rather have someone laughing about offering enlightened, then those who claimi to be enlightened ,while making millions selling books and giving talks to the 'seekers'
      If I learned something in my 50 years meditating, is that the harder you seek enlightenment ,the less probable it is you find it. '

    • @abrlim5597
      @abrlim5597 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      At least the teacher is honest. It is rare and worth appreciating.

  • @arupkalita4557
    @arupkalita4557 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sir you have progressed a lot in spiritual path.

  • @aeg.ch68
    @aeg.ch68 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Matters concerning this world can be approached physically, like reading literary masterpieces in the library, visiting cultural or natural sites, museums or beautiful buildings, or contemplating great Art.
    But 1. the details of the unfathomable unknown past, where historic and archeological evidences are insufficient,
    and
    2. the afterlife - Where do living beings go after they die? Do they go to bliss or torment?
    are the two major subjects of a Buddhist enlightenment (วิชชา3).
    Physically, it is only a sitting, but spiritually, speaking of the development of the meditative intuition, it is not quite easy.

  • @someoneelse6618
    @someoneelse6618 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Sadhu sadhu sadhu
    Thank you!

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      🙏😊

  • @martinolsen5040
    @martinolsen5040 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great talk! Great channel!

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you kindly!

  • @oleksandrs6957
    @oleksandrs6957 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank You for this video. You haven't mentioned specifically any Abhidharma literature or commentary to it. Have those texts elaborated further on the notion of awakening/enlightenment?

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Good question, my focus is rather on the early (sutta) texts rather than the later abhidhamma/abhidharma. It would perhaps be topic for another video, though would take a good deal of research ...!

  • @Jacques.dAnjou
    @Jacques.dAnjou 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Doug thanks again for another beautiful video. What is your personal experience with enlightenment?

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I can't say I have personal experience with the complete drying up of the underlying tendencies to greed, hatred, and delusion. In my experience however practice does lessen these tendencies.

    • @Jacques.dAnjou
      @Jacques.dAnjou 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DougsDharma thank for replying. I have the same experience. I know in my meditations how to live in the present moment, feel humble and grateful, detach from many concepts and mental formations. That has been a wealth of wisdom, grounding, and profound regard of nature. It is, as I see it, as close as I can get to awakening. Thanks sir I hope we meet some day. I’m much less a theorist than you though, I think I followed the Buddhist path and it has “enlightened “ me

  • @stevebelzer4758
    @stevebelzer4758 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    PS ❤best EVER explanation of “sensuality = sense desire “ and what that means - excellent excellent Shariputra !

  • @donovansnyder2898
    @donovansnyder2898 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Ignorance" should not be glossed over. The question is "ignorance of what?" Ignorance of the true nature of reality, which is not, what it seems to be to us.

  • @mr.morrist4975
    @mr.morrist4975 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My crazy thoughts.. the start point is to learn and understand the 5 aggregates. There might be something about Vijnana and vipassana. There are “vijnana” element (the 6 elements ) and “vijnana” aggregate ( the 5 aggregates). Vipassana might be the practice to go deep to the core. 🤔

    • @someoneelse6618
      @someoneelse6618 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sadhu sadhu sadhu
      As Rumi once famously said, we are all sort of searching in the branches for what can only be found in the roots.

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  • @hashi856
    @hashi856 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Can you do a video on Dzogchen?

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's a much later practice. I may do a video on it eventually, but need to find good historical research.

    • @archiekennedy4741
      @archiekennedy4741 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DougsDharma I would also appreciate this Doug. You spoke recently about failure, about not becoming a professor. It may not be formal, but I think you've succeeded in becoming a professor of Buddhism. I would like to meet the person with more complete objective knowledge than yourself.

  • @scottm2553
    @scottm2553 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is the thumb nail an orange rind that was converted into a candle?

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I believe so!

    • @scottm2553
      @scottm2553 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DougsDharma Ooo very cool! Maybe I'll try to make one.

  • @highwaytothesun
    @highwaytothesun 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Doug, I have a question unrelated to this video. Does the presence of the arupa jhanas validate mind-body dualism? Thank you kindly.

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I wouldn't say so. The formless attainments (they were not called "jhanas" in early Buddhism) are without perception of form, but dualism is a metaphysical claim that might or might not be true in that circumstance. See also my earlier video: th-cam.com/video/WlAVNOiNj8g/w-d-xo.html

  • @kricketflyd111
    @kricketflyd111 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder how the enlightenment differs between people, I have heard of different clairvoyant experiences. Example, some see spirits once in while and others experience the unseen realm of the elementals beginning their alchemical understandings.

  • @KhushiSingh-zn1zv
    @KhushiSingh-zn1zv 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sir I have a question is this world joy or suffering is this world good or bad what did Buddha said about this

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The world is what we make of it. Suffering is bad for the person who suffers.

  • @LogosFlow
    @LogosFlow 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What's the speed of quiet?
    Where is counterspace?
    When is eternity?
    The Zen master will see you now.

  • @SnakeAndTurtleQigong
    @SnakeAndTurtleQigong 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🙏

  • @sonamtshering194
    @sonamtshering194 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well according to both the Buddhist and Non-Buddhist spiritual teachings I have gone through, enlightenment is just fully grasping how plain and simple reality is. In other words, seeing that the ordinary itself is extraordinary but we are unable to realize this since we kinda cage ourselves in a metaphorical or psycho-spiritual cage that limits our experience of the world as it is

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, seeing things as they are. But there must be internal changes associated with this seeing, otherwise it isn't really enlightenment.

    • @sonamtshering194
      @sonamtshering194 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DougsDharma True

  • @rafaelecattonar1506
    @rafaelecattonar1506 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Doug in your opinion if Buddha was alive today how would him deal with the political situation in Ukraine, Israel and the possibility of a new world conflict?

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Buddha would most likely have been relentlessly in favor of peace, and against violence. How in particular he might approach it however is impossible to say for sure.

    • @rafaelecattonar1506
      @rafaelecattonar1506 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@DougsDharma I remember when I read the book of Thich Nhat Hanh about Buddha's life. There were two Indian kings that wanted to start a war against each other and the Buddha became a diplomat. He solved the situation. The war never started.

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@rafaelecattonar1506 True, he tried to solve the problem without warfare. That won't always be possible.

  • @slohmann1572
    @slohmann1572 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If there was the possibility of rebirth or reincarnation, I’d want it to happen. Life is great, even with all problems we face. So in a way I don’t want to achieve enlightenment if that means no more rebirths. On the other hand, if I understand well, once enlightened, we gain a knowledge that allows us leave all that behind. Does that make sense? I think Buddhist in general view rebirth as an evil, even if they’re not enlightened, is that right? That’s a concept I still struggle to grasp.

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      As a secular practitioner, I leave aside questions of rebirth as not central to my practice. That said, on the traditional understanding if you want to be reborn, you will be. It's the craving that makes it happen. Giving up craving means in part giving up the craving for rebirth.

  • @swanepoel4714
    @swanepoel4714 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    hi, thanks for this video. did you reach enlightenment yet?

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh gosh no.

  • @branimirsalevic5092
    @branimirsalevic5092 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Enlightenment is waking up ( "Buddha" means awake as in not sleeping, doesn't it).
    On waking up we realize that we've been living in a dream, we've mistaken dreams and fantasy for reality; the dreams, sometimes pleasant, sometimes not, and sometimes outright nightmares, but dreams nevertheless . Seeing this and seeing all the consequences of this insight - that's enlightenment.

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I did a couple of earlier videos on what “Buddha” means. See for example: What Does "Buddha" Mean? A Recent Article May Change Your Mind
      th-cam.com/video/c_R2Y2P1sjI/w-d-xo.html

    • @branimirsalevic5092
      @branimirsalevic5092 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DougsDharma any Slav can tell you what "BUDdha" means.
      "Awake" in
      Czech: proBUDit
      Polish: oBUDzony
      Serbian: BUDan
      Macedonian: BUDen
      Slovenian: BUDen
      Bulgarian: BUDen
      Russian: BODrstvuyushchiy

  • @Sheshnāga-x1k
    @Sheshnāga-x1k 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think buddha said belief as birth because everyone have there mind and body nothing more than that and Buddhism focuses on mind and that's why buddha called belief as birth that's why when buddha get his ultimate truth no one can Change his beliefs because now hi get truth but common people easily changes their beliefs because they don't knows truth but from time to time what buddha said totally changed

  • @Anshulhe
    @Anshulhe 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So Buddhist enlightenment is all about knowing there's nothing after death 💀??

  • @luizr.5599
    @luizr.5599 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think the topic is interesting, but, from a secular perspective it's a mere historical kind of debate. Realistic psychology demands of us that we let go of the idea of enlightenment and the demonizing of normal human impulses.

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The point of practice is to minimize suffering.

  • @Sheshnāga-x1k
    @Sheshnāga-x1k 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sir there is not enlightenment but knowing ultimate truth I think and there was not only 1 buddha but 27 other Buddha (in ancient india) sakyamuni buddha was 28th buddha there were buddha Sanskriti

  • @markbrad123
    @markbrad123 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You are quite right there is no fixed self. However I tend to agree with Jordan Peterson that there are the authentic views that are compatible with our conscience. You could call that the authentic transient 'self' - passing views and attitudes that make us comfortable in our own skin and help us respond appropriatly if we participate in the moment. We all have our filters of compatability with ideas that arise, and discard ideas that are incompatible. That is what the four great efforts are all about.

  • @saralamuni
    @saralamuni 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    tryadhvavyavasthitah sarvabuddhah prajnaparamitam asrityanuttaram samyaksambodhim abhisambuddhah

  • @playmesalsa
    @playmesalsa 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    ''My freedom is unshakeable; this is my last rebirth; now there are no more future lives''. This was his polite way of saying that intelligent people don't believe in reincarnation.

  • @dexterj5615
    @dexterj5615 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I experienced satori and all I got was this stupid shirt

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They gave you a shirt?? 🥳🤪

  • @danielpincus221
    @danielpincus221 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In my humble opinion, there's no such thing as Buddha enlightenment. What there is is Buddhist awakening. The very word Buddha is about awakening, not about enlightenment. It's a misnomer with serious consequences.

    • @DougsDharma
      @DougsDharma  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes I mentioned this controversy over how to translate "bodhi". I made two videos on the subject awhile back. The first one is here: th-cam.com/video/c_R2Y2P1sjI/w-d-xo.html , the second is here: th-cam.com/video/14ghdkSddK8/w-d-xo.html .