In Search of Nirvana - Theravada Buddhist Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2023
- SEARCH OF NIRVANA is the story of a Canadian photographer who unexpectedly spends five years in Buddhist monasteries in Asia, and about the teachers he met there. Filmed in Sri Lanka, Burma and Canada it is a film by meditators about meditation. Made for meditators and for those who want to understand Buddhist insight meditation, it offers a window into the living transmission of the Theravada tradition. What is mindfulness? How does mindfulness differ from mere attention? What is insight? What is Nirvana?
A film by: John F Preston
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Thank you for this wonderful and informative video about Buddha's teachings...🙏
One of the greatest Buddhist documents I have ever seen. Every time I watch this video it brings peace in my heart. Thank you for your share.
Thank you for a wonderful video. I also spent time in temples in south east Asia. In Thailand and Cambodia….during one trip of four months, and another trip of two months.
Hoping to return before I die…..and spend the rest of my life there.
Namo Buddhaya ….🙏🏼 ☸️ Sadhu…..Sadhu….Sadhu….. ☸️🌴☸️🌴☸️
I have been listening to Alan watts and read a few books .. this documentary feels like a summary of what I found
Where do you think Alan got the information from?! Just don't do as Alan did ... he taught it, but didn't practice what he taught. The entire point is to go within, not die as an Alcoholic as Alan did ...
Absolutely beautiful and precious. So much wisdom and wonderful teachings. Thank you for sharing ❤ 🙏
Lovely documentary with a captivating voice and narration. Gratitude from Montreal.
Thank you for this.
nice documentary
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Nibbana 🙏🙏🙏 This is what the Buddha taught, Theravada
51:08 😌🙏🏼
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
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මස් මරනවද😂
Hi, there is a mantra being played in the video background. Could someone share the link to find it. Thanks! Namo Buddhay
where I can find the music?
Does anybody know the names of the buddhist chants in this documentary?
Exspecialy the last one is so beautiful, but i can not find them.
I've never heard any of these chants (that is, melodies) before, although many of the words are familiar. According to the credits, the composer and chanter are John Preston, the film maker. So, I assume they are uniquely his.
@@jasoncastle Yes i think so too. Thank you for your answer.
Great intepretation
which monasteries did you stay at?
I believe you can reach nirvana without giving up anything.😄
Look It's cool that y'all checked out, but there is also some value to be gained in persevering in mainstream society. How's that for a noble truth?
You value the world as it is. That’s ok. Others value the pursuit of freedom from karmic cycles of life and reincarnation that extend far beyond the world as it is today, forwards and backwards in time, for the sake of liberation from a system that is out of touch with the natural order of reality. And that’s ok too.
“Ensue the holy calm of poised indifference.” - Gautama Buddha
And to bring that concept more clearly into focus, we need only shift forward a few hundred years to what was then the “mainstream society ,” predecessor of our modern zeitgeist i.e. Ancient Greece. See ‘stoic indifference’. It’s all good either way.
Was the music necessary? Its so ... typically American overkill. What you experienced is just reality, why turn it into Hollywood???
Maybe because the film was not for initiated people but for beginners ? Maybe because it's a good way to keep the attention of someone who've not yet learn how to keep it ?
Seeking Nirvanah is a selfish goal. So right off the bat they can never be selfless.
I disagree as all human beings ultimate goal is to be happy, happiness is not a selfless pursuit but a universal one and enlightenment is a path to that 🙏🏽😊
There is no abiding self so it is YOU who are suffering from avijja. You project mindlessly, drowning in delusion.
How could it be selfish if the Buddha himself found the path and liberated many beings
One must be selfish to be selfless. When one sets foot on the path of the Dharma he or she must be hyper focused on the self to realize there is no self.
This is a tangent from discussion of Buddhism, but Ayn Rand’s discourse on selfishness and the fallacy of our modern interpretation of the term might be worth checking out. That discourse can be found in the introduction of her book, The Virtue of Selfishness, pdf linked here - ikesharpless.pbworks.com/f/AynRand-TheVirtueofSelfishness.pdf
Actually, thinking about it, the philosophy that she set out to share is potentially directly in line with the discussion of Buddhist teachings, specifically Theravada Buddhism, inasmuch as both schools of thought are concerned with the liberation of our species (comprised of individuals) from suffering as the primary mode of existence which can only occur by the action of each individual person. Herein I think the paradox is laid at our feet. Metaphysically, we are all the same, engaging in the same general experience of life in the same form i.e. here on Earth as a human. At that metaphysical level, the concept of Self loses its meaning. And yet we are all here together, but individually ourselves, trying to find and figure out some truth of the nature of our reality and our place within it, and it within us so that we (individually and collectively) might not have to carry on living from a place of suffering/samsara.