Best Meditation Instructions (How to Calm your Mind ) - Ajan Brakmavanso

Meditation Instruction's by Ven Ajan Brakmavanso
"Need to Exercise to Make Your Body Stronger, But You Need to Keep your Mind Still and Calm to Make Your Mind Stronger and Sharp" - Ven Achan Cha
Training this Mind
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TRAINING THIS MIND... actually there's nothing much to this mind. It's simply radiant
in and of itself. It's naturally peaceful. Why the mind doesn't feel peaceful right
now is because it gets lost in its own moods. There's nothing to mind itself. It simply
abides in its natural state, that's all. That sometimes the mind feels peaceful and other
times not peaceful is because it has been tricked by these moods. The untrained mind
lacks wisdom. It's foolish. Moods come and trick it into feeling pleasure one minute and
suffering the next. Happiness then sadness. But the natural state of a persons' mind isn't
one of happiness or sadness. This experience of happiness and sadness is not the actual
mind itself, but just these moods which have tricked it. The mind gets lost, carried away
by these moods with no idea what's happening. And as a result, we experience pleasure
and pain accordingly, because the mind has not been trained yet. It still isn't very clever.
And we go on thinking that it's our mind which is suffering or our mind which is happy,
when actually it's just lost in its various moods.
The point is that really this mind of ours is naturally peaceful. It's still and calm like
a leaf that is not being blown about by the wind. But if the wind blows then it utters.
It does that because of the wind. And so with the mind it's because of these moods
getting caught up with thoughts. If the mind didn't get lost in these moods it wouldn't
utter about. If it understood the nature of thoughts it would just stay still. This is called
the natural state of the mind. And why we have come to practice now is to see the mind
in this original state. We think that the mind itself is actually pleasurable or peaceful. But
really the mind has not created any real pleasure or pain. These thoughts have come and
tricked it and it has got caught up in them. So we really have to come and train our minds
in order to grow in wisdom. So that we understand the true nature of thoughts rather than
just following them blindly.
The mind is naturally peaceful. It's in order to understand just this much that we have
come together to do this by practice of meditation.

[@RachelAnnDRKRaven]

I have felt this peace before and stillness. It was as if I had no body and was floating in nothingness and everything was still and quiet and I rested but it was not sleep. Thank you for explaining.

[@6koko3]

Thank you for letting us know Ajan Brakmavanso's wisdom words. May peace be with you. Namasté.

[@spectralgravity2795]

title mispelt his name. if anyone wanted to see more talks search 'bswa' - buddhist society of western Australia channel on youtube
. this monks name is ajahn Brahm

[@featherstone8093]

Thank you, Blessings, Prayers and Love.

[@misalherath5088]

SADU SADU SADU

[@kalumprasannaHW]

Very clear !!! experienced the inner silence through your speech. Budusaranay !!!

[@sachinthaperera9466]

Thank you for uploading this. I had no idea that Ajan Brahm visited Sri Lanka

[@gopismc]

Thanks for sharing.

[@southernfrechman]

thanks for sharing. A very inspiring talk from ajahn brahm (as usual).
With Metta

[@dkyakandawala2208]

Àaaaàaaasssasssiqaàà

[@dkyakandawala2208]

ßa

[@thudo5587]

🙏🏻🙇🙏🏻🙇🙏🏻🙇Ajahn Brahm

[@limrudi6931]

Anumodana Ajahn ,sadhu sadhu sadhu

[@supunsupun1]

sadu sadu saduuu

[@philosophyoflife7929]

Namo Buddhaya!!!!

[@yuliiabarbashova8244]

thank you, amazing

[@Rocean626]

beautiful! Thank-you Yuliia

[@chrishanthi-pubudini]

Great !

[@ishanjayaweera9073]

Sadu sadu sadu

[@hansi827]

ගොඩක් පින් හැකිනම් මෙතුමාගෙ තවත් දේශනා උපසිරස් සමග දක්වන්න.🙏

[@shyamikawasala9731]

ගුරු දෙසුම් දේශනා මලාව නරබන්න.

[@janakiesenarathne9764]

සිංහල උපසිරැසි සහිතව ධර්ම දේශනාව යොමුකරන්නේනම් ඉතාමත්ම මැනවි . බොහෝ කුසල් රැස්වේවා !

[@shyamikawasala9731]

ගුරු දෙසුම් දේශනා මාලාව නරබන්න.

[@TheSunnickey]

Thank you

[@kavindaliyanage4011]

I never knew that Ajan Brahmawanso thero visited Sri Lanka.

[@shanthapeiris4594]

He has visited many times.

[@JumpinggenieAu]

🙏🙏🙏🙏sadu sadu

[@tharangaginnaliye56]

Sadu sadu sadu!!!

[@jayamaliS]

Bohoma pin

[@Macko1083]

Which year was this video recorded? Ajahn Brahm looks pretty young on it :)

[@virajatt]

10 years back....

[@nandanicolombage4858]

Macko1083

[@dilukafernando8597]

💚🙏💚

[@sampathkahagalla]

sabba danam dhamma danam jinati

[@hulangamuwag.d3060]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@sweetchathu]

🙏🙏🙏

[@thandimadinganyoni4690]

meditate when a little bit drunk of a little bit of alcohol, is it possible?

[@isabellaflynn6572]

Thandi Madinga Nyoni alcohol can impair your mindfulness and awareness, so it is much harder to meditate properly when under the influence of any mind altering substance.

[@ruzickaw]

monotonious

[@donaldmingojr.8261]

Why he’s on a throne?

[@roshanfernando2537]

Dear Brother Dont think about throne..jus try to realise the facts

[@venerableananda1770]

That is the way every monks teach dhamma

[@janakiesenarathne9764]

බොහෝ කුසල් පිරේවා! උතුම් නිවනින් සැනසීමට හේතු වේවා !

[@amc903]

love you ajahm braum!

[@Reincarnation111]

wow!

[@gayathrimunasinghe9128]

🙏🙏🙏

[@goohobot]

What sutta was he talking about at 38:00 and 42:30?

[@sepalipathirathna211]

1st one is 'Mahamalunkyan sutta in madjima nikaya'

[@sepalipathirathna211]

2nd one is 'Pasadika sutta in Digha nikaya'

[@sepalipathirathna211]

3rd one, ' Dhammachethiya sutta in madjima nikaya'