"Believe, meditate, see." One of the most attractive things about this practice to me is that it is based on empiricism. One is not being asked to "buy" anything, to believe in something. The teachings say one should just try working the elements of the practice and see if they have the effects that the teachings predict they will have. In this sense, I see Buddhism as being more of a "philosophy" than a religion, in the classic understanding of religion as a belief system. So then what is meant by "*believe*, meditate and see?" I think really "believe" here just means, believe you can change. Believing change is possible for you is what makes it possible to try to establish a meditation practice. Then you will see what that brings.
This is my first comment in TH-cam. Thanks for great video LPNick my friend.. I am very happy that you seem like still enjoying your life as a monk :) -Gitae
I am so glad I discovered your channel. Lately, I have been thinking a lot about going to a monastery and try some experience like IDOP. Thank you for uploading all these videos. Keep posting them :)
ive seen people between a childs age to people being 70 80 something years old become monks basically no one is too old to become a monk i cant wait until i do if you want save up and go
Great video Nick! It’s been awhile since you posted an informative video about monk life. These videos are more popular than your 15 minute guided meditation videos. More please!! 😁
Haha thank you my friend. Ill try to post more informative videos, but the production of it just takes so long. More will be coming 🙂🙂 I'm glad you enjoy them. How's life?
Life is good! I went to Deer Park Monastery in Escondido last Sunday. It’s been several months since I last attended “A Day of Mindfulness” there. No Thai elephants were there while meditating though 😆🐘
I am so glad I found your u tube channel honourable thero. Felt so lonely in UK because people only knew about Mahayana buddhism with its flamboyant component (they only know about "laughing Buddha " - felt frustrated!)
Thank u so very much :-) love the honesty - v inspiring and encouraging for me... This is something that I think I would like to do one day 🤞🙏👌 look forward to more videos! Thanks again 😊♥️👍
@@nickkeomahavong01 I recently started a 4-year Mitra course (+ PhD) (in the UK) so probably won't be for a while, I'm afraid. But definitely a long-term aspiration and shall continue watching your videos in the meantime 😊🙏♥️
Hi huggy bear! I love the name. Haha. It's awesome. If you are interested in ordaining in Thailand, the program will start next year. You can download the free guide i made in the description below. That will give you some information. Where are you from by the way?
Amazing video, yeah the life live as a monk really tough... is good training to built character. Wishing both Venerable a happy and well spiritually journey. Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏
Sadhu joyce. I still remember the comment you made a while ago about the challenge of keeping 5 precepts...it rings true because the 227 precepts can be very challenging at times 😂😂
@@nickkeomahavong01 Ya, Nick, I think is about half year ago...I commented on your video haha..and you encuraged me to take the precepts one at a time..😄 If we want to truly practice the precepts, we need to have right view first, the first path from the noble eightfold path, the Sila comes from the Noble eightfold path..Ariyan have seven precepts, Abstains from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, telling lie, carry tales to cause disharmony, coarse or vulgar speech, gossiping so the different between Five precepts and Ariyan precepts is the abstains from Drug and Intoxicant, buddha added this precepts later. . from there keeping the Sila is not a big difficulty. I meditated and study dhamma daily, I have learnt a lot, Buddha's teaching is the highest dhamma. 🙏🙏🙏 We are blessed.
We carry the passion of meditation from our previous lives, its about re-incarnation and your samsara habit. Thats how Rev Ryan has ended up there! We have all met each other in our previous samsara (previous lives). Thats how we all ended up in this platform. We may have been sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, friends of each other !
Thank you again for this lovely video. One really can see that you are a terapeut the way you put your questions. I am a terapeut myself and I really enjoy listening to you. It seams as if . you have a mission with your interesting and informativ videos. Thank you again my friend :)
Hi where is this located , I want to come there , I want meditate , I want to train my mind deeper and deeper, I want to explore to the life. Please let me know how do I get there n what are the things that I should do
I'm curious, for Ryan and you, wanting to go deeper into Buddhist thought and training, did it matter which branch of Buddhism? Or did it come down to the practice irrespective of whatever philosophical differences there may be between Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism? Did you choose this particular program merely for how accessible it is for a Westerner to join and participate in? Were there other options you considered, or just this one? Why? Thank you in advance . . .
The happiness one has as a child and can lose while growing up but can gain back with meditation, when he talked about that in this video I recognized what he meant. I had a similar experience with meditation, not lasting though. With me it happend in ups downs, sometimes extreme ones. Is there a way in meditation in which I can more or less even these ups and downs out?
@@nickkeomahavong01 My immediate thought is 'observing with what intention?' Because I have certainly been observing it, but (seemingly) without progress, for the lack of a better word.
My friend say our hair won't grow back. Is it real? They say once become a monk then permanent monk but I only worry my hair won't grow back if I become a monk?In my country there a say once become a monk the hair won't grow back so even I wanted to show to my friend you have grow back hair before they doesn't even believe and dont want to see. This is how deep my country belief are lol.Anyway I somehow think of live a healthy life rather than a wealthy life because not everybody can be wealthy lol
When you read in the pamphlet that non-heterosexuals are not allowed to join, as well as the precisions which have more to do with gender below, as that it is according to the Buddha's teachings... No comments...
@@nickkeomahavong01 I have found my response going further into other sources. I got to understand that this passage had to do with the fact that LGBTQIA+ couldn't become buddhist monks, nothing to do with Buddhism lifestyle or faith. I just got irritated by the way it was written in the pamphlet, hence my comment.
Else it is quite interesting to know that such program exists. However, I am a bit skeptical about the duration of the program, which is quite short. I've read that the minimum time for other buddhist schools, it could take a minimum of five years before being ordained as a "full" monk.
@@robbgregorrichard1009 thank you so much Robb for sharing this. This is a common misunderstanding and so difficult to explain and for people to understand. Im glad it makes sense 😊😊🙏🙏
@@robbgregorrichard1009 yes that's understandable. Most traditions do need to take a long time, but this tradition in Thailand is quite different due to the culture. In thailand, it is custom and tradition that every man ordains before he marries. That's how the short term ordination came about. But many do stay on longer.
I Love the breezy weather there! The land looks so Beautiful too.
Thank you for following our journey. Hope you enjoy! Feel free to leave us a message below :)
Good video! Very informative! I wish you two the best in your spiritual journey.
Aww thank you so much and hello from Thailand 🙂🙂🙏🙏
This is a very beautiful conversation of life as monk... love it, please keep the video, I love to see more
Awe thank you so much. I appreciate the support.
Where are you from?
Such an informative video LP Nick. Loved the two way conversation. LP Ryan is just awesome. Sadhu 🙏
Sadhu! Miss you my friend 😊
Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless. Be blameless. Awake to the Dharma and from all sorrow free yourself.
Sadhu. That's beautiful 🙂🙂🙏🙏
"Believe, meditate, see." One of the most attractive things about this practice to me is that it is based on empiricism. One is not being asked to "buy" anything, to believe in something. The teachings say one should just try working the elements of the practice and see if they have the effects that the teachings predict they will have. In this sense, I see Buddhism as being more of a "philosophy" than a religion, in the classic understanding of religion as a belief system. So then what is meant by "*believe*, meditate and see?" I think really "believe" here just means, believe you can change. Believing change is possible for you is what makes it possible to try to establish a meditation practice. Then you will see what that brings.
I love your videos. I wish I would have found Buddhism before I had kids. This is something that I believe would bring me a lot of joy.
Thank you again. Yes it is definitely a blessing. If you are ever in thailand, feel free to come join us for a meditation retreat 😊
@@nickkeomahavong01 I absolutely will.
Excellent content and excellent format. You both are very courageous to bring these things out in the open. #InTheRobes
Awww lp. Sadhu! Thank you so much. Your kind words means alot. 🙏🙏🙏
Making this video was so fun. Haha.
This is my first comment in TH-cam. Thanks for great video LPNick my friend..
I am very happy that you seem like still enjoying your life as a monk :)
-Gitae
Gitae!!!!! I miss you friend. Rejoice in all your merits you have been doing. Come visit us sometime 🙂🙂
And I'm glad to be apart of your first comment. Haha
That was beautiful. I felt his peace. Thank you . . .
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Enjoyable to watch, thank you Ven. Nick..
I am so glad I discovered your channel. Lately, I have been thinking a lot about going to a monastery and try some experience like IDOP. Thank you for uploading all these videos. Keep posting them :)
Thank you and definitely come join us. It's a great experience 😀
Listening your Chanel has been one of my routines before sleep.
Thanks a lot another great Video 😎👍😎🙏🏼unfortunatly I am with 63 years to old to become a monk 😐greetings from Germany 😀
You're welcome! 😊😊
ive seen people between a childs age to people being 70 80 something years old become monks basically no one is too old to become a monk i cant wait until i do if you want save up and go
@@blackheartgaming6121 yes come join us. How old are you again?
Such a valuable life living as a monk. SADHU, SADHU, SADHU.
Sadhu Sadhu somsak 😊😊
THOROUGHLY, ENJOYED AND APPRECIATE THIS INTERVIEW, BRO ... THANK YOU FOR SHARING ... 💫💐💗🍰☕☕☕☕☕💌🎉⛳☕☕☕☕🎈😽💟☕☕☕☕🙏
Yea I'm glad. Thank you so much 😀😀
@@nickkeomahavong01 YOU'RE MOST WELCOME, BRO ... THANK YOU, INDEED ... 💫💐💗🍰☕☕☕☕💌🎉⛳🎈☕☕☕☕😽💟☕☕☕☕🙏
Great video Nick! It’s been awhile since you posted an informative video about monk life. These videos are more popular than your 15 minute guided meditation videos. More please!! 😁
Haha thank you my friend. Ill try to post more informative videos, but the production of it just takes so long. More will be coming 🙂🙂
I'm glad you enjoy them.
How's life?
Life is good! I went to Deer Park Monastery in Escondido last Sunday. It’s been several months since I last attended “A Day of Mindfulness” there. No Thai elephants were there while meditating though 😆🐘
@@onlyinparadise4613 Haha. That's wonderful you got a chance to go there. I'm glad to hear 🙂🙏
I am so glad I found your u tube channel honourable thero. Felt so lonely in UK because people only knew about Mahayana buddhism with its flamboyant component (they only know about "laughing Buddha " - felt frustrated!)
Welcome to the channel my friend 😊
🙏 🙏 🙏 Ven. Nick.
Sadhu sadhu ❤❤
@Rajesh Rathore we all take it day by day. No plans. Just one day at a time 😊
Thank u so very much :-) love the honesty - v inspiring and encouraging for me... This is something that I think I would like to do one day 🤞🙏👌 look forward to more videos! Thanks again 😊♥️👍
Thank you so much Oliver. Yes please come join us when you can. I think you'll love it. Thailand is open now 😊
@@nickkeomahavong01 I recently started a 4-year Mitra course (+ PhD) (in the UK) so probably won't be for a while, I'm afraid. But definitely a long-term aspiration and shall continue watching your videos in the meantime 😊🙏♥️
How does one become a monk where do you research the information to find a monastery to accept you I love your videos thank you keep posting
Hi huggy bear! I love the name. Haha. It's awesome.
If you are interested in ordaining in Thailand, the program will start next year. You can download the free guide i made in the description below. That will give you some information.
Where are you from by the way?
@Real Thailand 🙄
Amazing video, yeah the life live as a monk really tough... is good training to built character. Wishing both Venerable a happy and well spiritually journey. Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏
Sadhu joyce. I still remember the comment you made a while ago about the challenge of keeping 5 precepts...it rings true because the 227 precepts can be very challenging at times 😂😂
@@nickkeomahavong01 Ya, Nick, I think is about half year ago...I commented on your video haha..and you encuraged me to take the precepts one at a time..😄 If we want to truly practice the precepts, we need to have right view first, the first path from the noble eightfold path, the Sila comes from the Noble eightfold path..Ariyan have seven precepts, Abstains from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, telling lie, carry tales to cause disharmony, coarse or vulgar speech, gossiping so the different between Five precepts and Ariyan precepts is the abstains from Drug and Intoxicant, buddha added this precepts later. . from there keeping the Sila is not a big difficulty. I meditated and study dhamma daily, I have learnt a lot, Buddha's teaching is the highest dhamma. 🙏🙏🙏 We are blessed.
@@joycejcg90 i know. I'm so proud of you. You've come a long way 🙂🙂
@@nickkeomahavong01 I am blessed, you have brought me a long the way. Haha.😃Sadhu
@@joycejcg90 you did the work 🙂🙂
Put your heart in everything even in the little things 🙌🏻
We carry the passion of meditation from our previous lives, its about re-incarnation and your samsara habit. Thats how Rev Ryan has ended up there! We have all met each other in our previous samsara (previous lives). Thats how we all ended up in this platform. We may have been sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, friends of each other !
😊😊 Sadhu
Have a good time for you 🙏🙏🙏
Sadhu sadhu sadhu 🙂🙂🙏🙏
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I'm interested. Let me know when is your next program.
Ok. You can apply online at www.ordinationthai.org and we will reach out to you once the program opens up again
beautiful
Thank you! 😊
Thank you again for this lovely video. One really can see that you are a terapeut the way you put your questions. I am a terapeut myself and I really enjoy listening to you. It seams as if . you have a mission with your interesting and informativ videos. Thank you again my friend :)
Awwwe thank you so much Monika. I'm glad to be able to share this to help others. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Greetings from Thailand 🙂🙂
amazing...
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good vdo
Sadhu sadhu sadhu 🙂🙏🙏
Namo buddhaya
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Thankyou to create best video..one day i want to come Thai to become Monk..but how
Sadhu sadhu 😊😊 thank you so much and that would be great
Namo buddhaya bhante
Sadhu sadhu sadhu 😊🙏🙏
🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍
🙂🙂🙏🙏 sharing merits with you. Anumotanaboon.
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Hi where is this located , I want to come there , I want meditate , I want to train my mind deeper and deeper, I want to explore to the life. Please let me know how do I get there n what are the things that I should do
Hello. Here is our website www.themonklife.org
I'm curious, for Ryan and you, wanting to go deeper into Buddhist thought and training, did it matter which branch of Buddhism? Or did it come down to the practice irrespective of whatever philosophical differences there may be between Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism? Did you choose this particular program merely for how accessible it is for a Westerner to join and participate in? Were there other options you considered, or just this one? Why? Thank you in advance . . .
It was the tradition that we were part of back in California.
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Sadhu ❤❤🙏
The happiness one has as a child and can lose while growing up but can gain back with meditation, when he talked about that in this video I recognized what he meant. I had a similar experience with meditation, not lasting though. With me it happend in ups downs, sometimes extreme ones.
Is there a way in meditation in which I can more or less even these ups and downs out?
Yes its just about practicing diligently and just observing. Do not attach. Just start every meditation as if its your first time. No pressure.
@@nickkeomahavong01 You mean I get attached to these up and low feelings?
@@Leto85 it means to just observe both ups and down
@@nickkeomahavong01 My immediate thought is 'observing with what intention?' Because I have certainly been observing it, but (seemingly) without progress, for the lack of a better word.
@@Leto85 just observing neutrally
How can I come to be a monk in thailand? I don't have inner peace im always bothered by something, I need to be free from that.
You can apply online at www.ordinationthai.org. our next program is in March and July 2020.
Are monks allowed to wear the robe/s on the right shoulder and have their left shoulder bare and or wear the robe/s on both shoulders
great question. yes when we are inside the temple we can or formal events. Its typically when we go outside that we fully cover up.
Nick Keomahavong thanks again
@@blackheartgaming6121 of course. Anytime 🙂🙂
My friend say our hair won't grow back. Is it real? They say once become a monk then permanent monk but I only worry my hair won't grow back if I become a monk?In my country there a say once become a monk the hair won't grow back so even I wanted to show to my friend you have grow back hair before they doesn't even believe and dont want to see. This is how deep my country belief are lol.Anyway I somehow think of live a healthy life rather than a wealthy life because not everybody can be wealthy lol
Your hair will grow back. We all shave our heads every 2 weeks 🙂🙂
When you read in the pamphlet that non-heterosexuals are not allowed to join, as well as the precisions which have more to do with gender below, as that it is according to the Buddha's teachings... No comments...
Hi rob. Is this a question that you have or just a comment? Im not sure if you were looking for a response or not. Lmk 😊
@@nickkeomahavong01 I have found my response going further into other sources. I got to understand that this passage had to do with the fact that LGBTQIA+ couldn't become buddhist monks, nothing to do with Buddhism lifestyle or faith. I just got irritated by the way it was written in the pamphlet, hence my comment.
Else it is quite interesting to know that such program exists. However, I am a bit skeptical about the duration of the program, which is quite short. I've read that the minimum time for other buddhist schools, it could take a minimum of five years before being ordained as a "full" monk.
@@robbgregorrichard1009 thank you so much Robb for sharing this. This is a common misunderstanding and so difficult to explain and for people to understand. Im glad it makes sense 😊😊🙏🙏
@@robbgregorrichard1009 yes that's understandable. Most traditions do need to take a long time, but this tradition in Thailand is quite different due to the culture. In thailand, it is custom and tradition that every man ordains before he marries. That's how the short term ordination came about. But many do stay on longer.
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