Sry to here about your dismissal, had a similar thing happened to me years ago in a large organization that they wouldn't rehire after someone left...they were secretly terminating the plant which is now no longer there. You deserve much better...all the best!
One possibility that I've been considering is that they are deliberately trying to shut down the place in an underhanded way for tax purposes or some such. The only other obvious possibility is that the upper management of the place is just flat-out incompetent.
"marine" was about those aquarium and fish videos. Maybe its not a good word. Also grandma of Avenity has passed away today, so we are going to attend yet another funeral this year. What a year..
Q2: If a lay person is to follow 5 precepts, anagarika 8, novice 10 and a Bhikkhu 227 + thousand more then wouldn't it be better for one's kamma and covenience to just keep the 8 precepts and keep keeping them Well and strict and not ordain as a monk and break lots of the rules? Q3: I mean why become a monk in 21st century. Is it a social status thing (paradoxically)?
Thanks for answering! Something tells me you'll get another job soon, and hopefully a better one. 1. What would a Buddhist journey to hell, like a Buddhist Dante's Inferno, and a journey to heaven, like Dante’s Paradiso, look like? 2. As an experienced monk do you think guarding or being mindful of the sense doors is a reliable way to reach detachment from Greed, Aversion, & Delusion or is something more than that required? Other traditions like Hinduism posit many different kinds of yogas whereas Buddhism, at least orthodox Theravada Buddhism, seems to imply that there is only one real method to the absolute (or one yoga), that being forming a mindful and wholesome relationship with the senses and hence all of samsara by extension (after all isn’t the genius of Buddhism to recognise this dependent origination). 3. Why is someone who has attained lasting insight into reality not reborn? I am wondering what exactly is the mechanism at work here.
A large health insurer has bought two large local clinics. They want docs to see 5x as many patients. Well, now they have 50% less docs. One left and is Ubering. Corporations are so focused on short term metrics.
You mentioning the bicameral mind reminded me of Iain McGilchrist's writing on the left/right brain hemispheres. Have you read about this? Apparently they perform very different functions. For example, to put it briefly, the left is concerned with 'putting things to use'-- with utility, manipulating and calculating things-- while the right hemisphere is more concerned with the meaning of things, with context, and is positive in regards to 'the natural' and spontaneous, with emotion, poetry, etc. A fitting analogy could be- the left hemisphere sees the words, the right puts it all together into a comprehensive whole. Some more quotes about this in case anyone is interested; Something which is fascinating to me is his writing about schizophrenia and autism. Apparently those conditions share the same symptoms of a right hemisphere failure. A quote from a (quite self aware) schizophrenic patient; ''I was surrounded by a multitude of meaningless details . . . I did not see things as a whole. I only saw fragments: a few people, a dairy, a dreary house . . . They did not stand together in an overall context . . . '' Arthur Tatossian writing about a woman called Helene; ''For Helene, nature is Nothing, since she places herself irrevocably outside the world, which is experienced as exclusively 'a complex network of tools'. Not in a single passage of her memoir, not even in its more lyrical flights, does Nature appear: Helene has no 'feeling for nature' and this absence has existential meaning, not purely literary significance. Helene's favourite spaces are those of towns; or better, these are the only places 'she can take seriously'.'' Tatossian points out that towns alone are 'good for' something; providing housing, workplaces, welcoming tourists, facilitating trade: ''in a word, they ave a function, a 'utility', and by the same token render their inhabitants 'tools', good-for [something or other] . . . nature, nature is useless and man feels himself useless in her presence.'' Apparently, she had plans to make everything, including the sea, 'useful'...
@@pannobhasa Ah I see! He's a great writer and thinker. We definitely seem more 'split apart' internally compared to people of the past- thanks to, according to him- our over-reliance on the left brain.
With regard to the 16 steps: I interpret them to be not so much "steps" to a final goal, but more like different dishes at a buffet - each one being a different "energy" that has a unique dynamic aspect or flavour of insight that can be cultivated while focusing on the breath. Maybe I'm completely missing the point, but heck, it works for me! Thoughts?
My questions for your next Q&A are about the Jewish Khazar theory which speculates that 90% of Jews today are not descended from the Semitic Hebrews of the Bible that trace their bloodline to Abraham (or even come from the Middle East at all). Instead, according to this theory, the Ashkenazi Jews of today are descendants of the Khazars, a semi-nomadic pagan Asiatic tribe who built a kingdom in the area of southern Russia, and converted to Judaism en masse in the 8th century. The proponents of this theory include Jewish authors like Schlomo Sand ('The Invention of the Jewish People') and Arthur Koestler (The 13th Tribe). 1) Have you ever heard of the Jewish Khazar theory? 2) How plausible do you think it is? (As much as I'd like you to answer these questions I understand if you avoid doing so due to the possibly controversial nature of them.) Best, Romeo
Hi Pannobhasa, thanks for addressing my q about Mogok. I have a question about changing postures: What does it mean to "change postures mindfully"? Does that mean you keep awareness of the meditation object while you adjust or change your posture(like swiching your legs), or it means to be mindful of the process itself by focusing on the body and the process of changing legs? I think in Mahasi they say to be aware of the feelings while changing and noting everything but that may not apply to samatha type practices like metta or anapanasati where you need to stay with the object. Thanks.
Q: Do you hold view that a person cannot do anything to become enlightened? If Yes, why the 4th noble truth says that there is a way to enlightenment and it involves things like right action and right livelihood therefore it's doing something.
Hello Pannobhasa, You kind of answer the question that I asked a few weeks ago about so called "assisted dying" that is becoming a norm in the west. What is your opinion about it from a Buddhist point of view? A second question is about a meditation. In my meditation sometimes, I reach the state of stillness where I almost stop thinking and only observe my breath. Where do I "go" from there? Do I stay in that stillness or I do something else, let's say I dissolve into a light and build my body back? Thank you, sir.
Although he didn't bother to speak with James or anyone else who knew Jesus until after he had worked out his own faith-based interpretation of Christianity.
@pannobhasa Ever consider starting a box truck/Medical delivery company? You don't need a CDL, you can start by using an app, and rent a truck, there's TH-cam videos on the subject....just an idea 👍
I hope you get back on your feet sooner than later, Pañño. As much as work sucks, gotta get that paycheck! As for Shingon, it's the Japanese version of Tantra.....their main protector deity is Achala....his Japanese name is Lord Fudo Myo-O. One of the Mahayana Wisdom Lords....he's obviously an import from India, though he's been thoroughly appropriated by the Japanese.....most Yakuza have a tattoo of him on their body. P.S. I've always liked the character, he's usually depicted in full lotus but with a flaming halo and in one hand a lasso and in the other a flaming vajra sword. His face has one fangs pointing up, the other down and he looks rather passed off...too much detail, probably.....we're all on the spectrum here, though....lol! Cheers to one and all....Oh, way back in the 70s there was a quartet of books based on esoteric Buddhism called the Circle of Light.....that is all.
Engineering can be a ballache in general. They expect the earth. Its a Learning curve. Good Luck!!!!!! Could be a blessing in disguise. Try something different to sheet metal see what pans out.
Take it on the chin i have been there many times. I am an ex engineer , managements can be real arseholes they can be out of touch with grass roots shop floor day today shop floor stuff.
Hello Pañño, I've been watching a multitude of iterations of the woke meltdown online in the wake of DJ Trump's landslide victory and cannot help but think of Frank Herbert's "Fear is the mind killer" in the novel "Dune". Indeed, these psychotic, hysterical meltdowns seem to be utterly fear-based, and while these snippets of online mental collapse are sad to watch, they also offer an opportunity for contemplation. On this occasion, would you like to speak a bit on buddhadhamma as a path to fear-proof the mind?
Sorry again, for not specifying what unbelievable means. But it's was his miracles, of Jesus, from him being just a regutal, to later gospels of doing dead raising and stuff. Also sorry about your job, but lm sure you will get by, you have good Karma friend. Regards.
I think Jesus really did do some "miracles" like healing the sick and maybe even walking on water. Lots more miracles in the Pali texts btw, and one of the psychic powers listed in the texts is walking on water.
@pannobhasa I get that, but in early gospels many of these events at apsent. That is why my question about exaggeration came to. Event are like snow balls, the more they fall down the hill the bigger they got. Especially in these days. Thanks for answering. Have a good day
Do you think the "citta" in a human and the lack of a citta in a computer would be a basis for saying an A.I. based computer could NOT realize enlightenment?
hello, Now that a big T is back in the house yo!, from Buddhist standpoint, tell us will he or will he not bring anything good to this word of ours? Also from Karmic view, are you happy that you were born in USA? Is there any other country you wished you could have been born to?
1. Why are “normies” condemnable or blamable at a spiritual level? I hear that term used often here as a point about the dullness of their mediocrity, but I find that its typically normality and formality in general which is assumably comfortable or “safe”. You do not need to worry about the average person holding some extreme or delusional view, being neurodivergent or mentally unstable, or otherwise as unpredictable or unadjusted. I feel as if those that consider themselves to be “above the rest” or employ this term are often just unfortunate and no more intelligent or wise than anyone else. This ties into a conversation I had with Liberlam recently as well: 2. Why is conformity considered to be an effeminate behavior? I see that dissident and revolutionary personalities tend to be degenerate, prone to violence, drug use, immoral and nihilistic. In general, a “Bohemian” or some kind of atypical consciousness seems naturally averse to wisdom or something like dhamma. “Conformity” then is only undesirable in modernity with its unique conditions. A person that is disposed to being different “just because” or “sticking it to the man” is immature and usually unskillful. Typically, this crowd takes pride in having mental illness or cementing their individuality in some pathological criteria. I don’t see how edginess or individualistic loudmouthed characteristics are conducive to the cultivation of virtue, just as an example. 3. Thirdly, you say often that regret and remorse are always unwholesome mental states, but are they not obvious components in something like humility? If we forget our misdeeds we will orient ourselves towards thinking that these things occur to others and not ourselves, that others are worse than us, or that we have some high-ground here in any substantial way. Regret and remorse then seem to cripple or fragment a sense of self. It is almost remembering its imperfection actively. I also think that they are effective in preventing any further tragedy, hypocrisy, or decay of moral conduct. Shame then exists for a spiritual reason and goes far beyond the rumination of attributes you cannot control. If you read the questions from 3 to 1, there is a kind of general subtext about the usefulness of associating with those that live alternative lifestyles, or are possessed by strange ideas. I feel like I have wasted a lot of time and have exposed myself to so many more unwholesome mental states by abdicating the “norm” or the daily mundane toiling of the commoner. The line between “unconventional” and “insane” is far too ambiguous for me.
Contemplation of a dump everyday usually brings one back to earth.
That is interesting cause while one is doing THAT is anyone thinking "I'm gonna live forever!" 💩🎉
😂😂😂😂
Hail pannobhasa... 😊
Sry to here about your dismissal, had a similar thing happened to me years ago in a large organization that they wouldn't rehire after someone left...they were secretly terminating the plant which is now no longer there. You deserve much better...all the best!
One possibility that I've been considering is that they are deliberately trying to shut down the place in an underhanded way for tax purposes or some such. The only other obvious possibility is that the upper management of the place is just flat-out incompetent.
"marine" was about those aquarium and fish videos. Maybe its not a good word. Also grandma of Avenity has passed away today, so we are going to attend yet another funeral this year. What a year..
Sorry to hear about Avenity's grandma. I hope she's in a better place.
("Marine" applies only to saltwater, not fresh)
@@pannobhasathank you
Q2: If a lay person is to follow 5 precepts, anagarika 8, novice 10 and a Bhikkhu 227 + thousand more then wouldn't it be better for one's kamma and covenience to just keep the 8 precepts and keep keeping them Well and strict and not ordain as a monk and break lots of the rules?
Q3: I mean why become a monk in 21st century. Is it a social status thing (paradoxically)?
1:01:58 thank you 🙏🏻
You'll be ok goof sir. Could be good, could be bad..
I fully agree on mindfulness of breathing. Its too conceptual.
Thanks for answering! Something tells me you'll get another job soon, and hopefully a better one.
1. What would a Buddhist journey to hell, like a Buddhist Dante's Inferno, and a journey to heaven, like Dante’s Paradiso, look like?
2. As an experienced monk do you think guarding or being mindful of the sense doors is a reliable way to reach detachment from Greed, Aversion, & Delusion or is something more than that required? Other traditions like Hinduism posit many different kinds of yogas whereas Buddhism, at least orthodox Theravada Buddhism, seems to imply that there is only one real method to the absolute (or one yoga), that being forming a mindful and wholesome relationship with the senses and hence all of samsara by extension (after all isn’t the genius of Buddhism to recognise this dependent origination).
3. Why is someone who has attained lasting insight into reality not reborn? I am wondering what exactly is the mechanism at work here.
A large health insurer has bought two large local clinics. They want docs to see 5x as many patients. Well, now they have 50% less docs. One left and is Ubering. Corporations are so focused on short term metrics.
You mentioning the bicameral mind reminded me of Iain McGilchrist's writing on the left/right brain hemispheres. Have you read about this?
Apparently they perform very different functions. For example, to put it briefly, the left is concerned with 'putting things to use'-- with utility, manipulating and calculating things-- while the right hemisphere is more concerned with the meaning of things, with context, and is positive in regards to 'the natural' and spontaneous, with emotion, poetry, etc.
A fitting analogy could be- the left hemisphere sees the words, the right puts it all together into a comprehensive whole.
Some more quotes about this in case anyone is interested;
Something which is fascinating to me is his writing about schizophrenia and autism. Apparently those conditions share the same symptoms of a right hemisphere failure. A quote from a (quite self aware) schizophrenic patient;
''I was surrounded by a multitude of meaningless details . . . I did not see things as a whole. I only saw fragments: a few people, a dairy, a dreary house . . . They did not stand together in an overall context . . . ''
Arthur Tatossian writing about a woman called Helene;
''For Helene, nature is Nothing, since she places herself irrevocably outside the world, which is experienced as exclusively 'a complex network of tools'. Not in a single passage of her memoir, not even in its more lyrical flights, does Nature appear: Helene has no 'feeling for nature' and this absence has existential meaning, not purely literary significance. Helene's favourite spaces are those of towns; or better, these are the only places 'she can take seriously'.''
Tatossian points out that towns alone are 'good for' something; providing housing, workplaces, welcoming tourists, facilitating trade:
''in a word, they ave a function, a 'utility', and by the same token render their inhabitants 'tools', good-for [something or other] . . . nature, nature is useless and man feels himself useless in her presence.''
Apparently, she had plans to make everything, including the sea, 'useful'...
Ian McGilchrist is the person I was referring to in the video, who has a theory almost the opposite of Julian Jaynes.
@@pannobhasa Ah I see! He's a great writer and thinker. We definitely seem more 'split apart' internally compared to people of the past- thanks to, according to him- our over-reliance on the left brain.
Sorry you lost your job fella, hope another better door opens for you real soon! 🙏
Also the tooth Relic in Sri Lanka. 🥸
With regard to the 16 steps: I interpret them to be not so much "steps" to a final goal, but more like different dishes at a buffet - each one being a different "energy" that has a unique dynamic aspect or flavour of insight that can be cultivated while focusing on the breath. Maybe I'm completely missing the point, but heck, it works for me! Thoughts?
My questions for your next Q&A are about the Jewish Khazar theory which speculates that 90% of Jews today are not descended from the Semitic Hebrews of the Bible that trace their bloodline to Abraham (or even come from the Middle East at all). Instead, according to this theory, the Ashkenazi Jews of today are descendants of the Khazars, a semi-nomadic pagan Asiatic tribe who built a kingdom in the area of southern Russia, and converted to Judaism en masse in the 8th century. The proponents of this theory include Jewish authors like Schlomo Sand ('The Invention of the Jewish People') and Arthur Koestler (The 13th Tribe).
1) Have you ever heard of the Jewish Khazar theory?
2) How plausible do you think it is?
(As much as I'd like you to answer these questions I understand if you avoid doing so due to the possibly controversial nature of them.)
Best,
Romeo
Hi Pannobhasa, thanks for addressing my q about Mogok. I have a question about changing postures:
What does it mean to "change postures mindfully"? Does that mean you keep awareness of the meditation object while you adjust or change your posture(like swiching your legs), or it means to be mindful of the process itself by focusing on the body and the process of changing legs? I think in Mahasi they say to be aware of the feelings while changing and noting everything but that may not apply to samatha type practices like metta or anapanasati where you need to stay with the object.
Thanks.
Unfathomably hype installment of the most based show on the internet 🎉🙏🏆💪🫡
Hype? I don't fathom that.
@@pannobhasafitting... it's too hype to fathom 😄
Q: Do you hold view that a person cannot do anything to become enlightened? If Yes, why the 4th noble truth says that there is a way to enlightenment and it involves things like right action and right livelihood therefore it's doing something.
Hello Pannobhasa,
You kind of answer the question that I asked a few weeks ago about so called "assisted dying" that is becoming a norm in the west. What is your opinion about it from a Buddhist point of view?
A second question is about a meditation.
In my meditation sometimes, I reach the state of stillness where I almost stop thinking and only observe my breath.
Where do I "go" from there? Do I stay in that stillness or I do something else, let's say I dissolve into a light and build my body back?
Thank you, sir.
Is your microphone okay? Sounds a little off today
Sounds like a phasing issue
Galatians 1 verse 19. Paul did meet James face to face.
Although he didn't bother to speak with James or anyone else who knew Jesus until after he had worked out his own faith-based interpretation of Christianity.
@pannobhasa yes, that is true, he even said that he teaches "his gospel" not received from any man.
@@Julie-671In context he probably meant he taught a Gospel that came straight from God.
Sorry about your job, hope you find a new job wich Im sure you will 👍🙏
My previous employer would probably hire me back in a minute, though at lower pay than I've been getting. So that's always something to fall back on.
@pannobhasa Ever consider starting a box truck/Medical delivery company? You don't need a CDL, you can start by using an app, and rent a truck, there's TH-cam videos on the subject....just an idea 👍
I hope you get back on your feet sooner than later, Pañño. As much as work sucks, gotta get that paycheck! As for Shingon, it's the Japanese version of Tantra.....their main protector deity is Achala....his Japanese name is Lord Fudo Myo-O. One of the Mahayana Wisdom Lords....he's obviously an import from India, though he's been thoroughly appropriated by the Japanese.....most Yakuza have a tattoo of him on their body. P.S. I've always liked the character, he's usually depicted in full lotus but with a flaming halo and in one hand a lasso and in the other a flaming vajra sword. His face has one fangs pointing up, the other down and he looks rather passed off...too much detail, probably.....we're all on the spectrum here, though....lol! Cheers to one and all....Oh, way back in the 70s there was a quartet of books based on esoteric Buddhism called the Circle of Light.....that is all.
Thanks, this was a really interesting read. Also agree about the spectrum!
Engineering can be a ballache in general. They expect the earth. Its a Learning curve. Good Luck!!!!!! Could be a blessing in disguise. Try something different to sheet metal see what pans out.
Question: Did you release the monkeys?
Take it on the chin i have been there many times. I am an ex engineer , managements can be real arseholes they can be out of touch with grass roots shop floor day today shop floor stuff.
Hello Pañño, I've been watching a multitude of iterations of the woke meltdown online in the wake of DJ Trump's landslide victory and cannot help but think of Frank Herbert's "Fear is the mind killer" in the novel "Dune". Indeed, these psychotic, hysterical meltdowns seem to be utterly fear-based, and while these snippets of online mental collapse are sad to watch, they also offer an opportunity for contemplation. On this occasion, would you like to speak a bit on buddhadhamma as a path to fear-proof the mind?
Sorry again, for not specifying what unbelievable means. But it's was his miracles, of Jesus, from him being just a regutal, to later gospels of doing dead raising and stuff. Also sorry about your job, but lm sure you will get by, you have good Karma friend. Regards.
I think Jesus really did do some "miracles" like healing the sick and maybe even walking on water. Lots more miracles in the Pali texts btw, and one of the psychic powers listed in the texts is walking on water.
@pannobhasa I get that, but in early gospels many of these events at apsent. That is why my question about exaggeration came to. Event are like snow balls, the more they fall down the hill the bigger they got. Especially in these days. Thanks for answering. Have a good day
Do you think the "citta" in a human and the lack of a citta in a computer would be a basis for saying an A.I. based computer could NOT realize enlightenment?
Get your unemployment checks rolling in and chill😊
hello, Now that a big T is back in the house yo!, from Buddhist standpoint, tell us will he or will he not bring anything good to this word of ours?
Also from Karmic view, are you happy that you were born in USA? Is there any other country you wished you could have been born to?
Trump + Senate 😊 USA USA 🇺🇸 USA
1. Why are “normies” condemnable or blamable at a spiritual level? I hear that term used often here as a point about the dullness of their mediocrity, but I find that its typically normality and formality in general which is assumably comfortable or “safe”.
You do not need to worry about the average person holding some extreme or delusional view, being neurodivergent or mentally unstable, or otherwise as unpredictable or unadjusted. I feel as if those that consider themselves to be “above the rest” or employ this term are often just unfortunate and no more intelligent or wise than anyone else.
This ties into a conversation I had with Liberlam recently as well:
2. Why is conformity considered to be an effeminate behavior? I see that dissident and revolutionary personalities tend to be degenerate, prone to violence, drug use, immoral and nihilistic. In general, a “Bohemian” or some kind of atypical consciousness seems naturally averse to wisdom or something like dhamma. “Conformity” then is only undesirable in modernity with its unique conditions. A person that is disposed to being different “just because” or “sticking it to the man” is immature and usually unskillful. Typically, this crowd takes pride in having mental illness or cementing their individuality in some pathological criteria. I don’t see how edginess or individualistic loudmouthed characteristics are conducive to the cultivation of virtue, just as an example.
3. Thirdly, you say often that regret and remorse are always unwholesome mental states, but are they not obvious components in something like humility? If we forget our misdeeds we will orient ourselves towards thinking that these things occur to others and not ourselves, that others are worse than us, or that we have some high-ground here in any substantial way. Regret and remorse then seem to cripple or fragment a sense of self. It is almost remembering its imperfection actively. I also think that they are effective in preventing any further tragedy, hypocrisy, or decay of moral conduct. Shame then exists for a spiritual reason and goes far beyond the rumination of attributes you cannot control.
If you read the questions from 3 to 1, there is a kind of general subtext about the usefulness of associating with those that live alternative lifestyles, or are possessed by strange ideas.
I feel like I have wasted a lot of time and have exposed myself to so many more unwholesome mental states by abdicating the “norm” or the daily mundane toiling of the commoner. The line between “unconventional” and “insane” is far too ambiguous for me.
What about a robot looking in a mirror wouldnt it be programmable to have self reflection? Would the criteria be having Feelings?🥸