Question 362: @ 12:53 1) Since Buddha and other divine beings like those living in brahmic realm are so compassionate, why can they not relieve the suffering of people and liberate them from defilements? Why does one has to put one's own efforts?
Question 363: @ 38:07 What was the karmic cause for Buddha having Devadatta as his cousin brother, who was evil and jealous of Buddha and even tried to kill Buddha and cause split in Sangha?
Question 364: @ 45:30 A: Is the Theravada and the Tibetan Buddhist the same spirituality? B: What about Amitabha Pure Land Buddhism?
Question 362: @ 12:53 1) Since Buddha and other divine beings like those living in brahmic realm are so compassionate, why can they not relieve the suffering of people and liberate them from defilements? Why does one has to put one's own efforts?
Question 363: @ 38:07 What was the karmic cause for Buddha having Devadatta as his cousin brother, who was evil and jealous of Buddha and even tried to kill Buddha and cause split in Sangha?
Question 364: @ 45:30 A: Is the Theravada and the Tibetan Buddhist the same spirituality? B: What about Amitabha Pure Land Buddhism?
The Four Infinite and Divine Dwellings (Appamaññā Brahma-vihāra): Systematic meditation and thus development of Friendliness (Mettā), Compassion (Karunā), Rejoicing Joy (Muditā), and Equanimity (Upekkhā). is 4 of the 40 classic meditation objects taught by the last Buddha Gotama. We go though their proximate causes, praxis and their long-term benefits. A guided meditation session underscoring the infinite aspect is trained. If the cause is infinite, so is the effect. May all beings become Happy thereby.
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The Eight Great realms of suffering / Hell (Niraya) are like this:
1: The Revival Hell (Sañjīva) where one survives & cannot die from pain! Those who, because of greed, confusion, fear, or anger, kill living beings or having nursed them, slaughter them for sale, they will be reborn in the Sañjīva. There though killed and killed again for many thousands of years, because they revive there again and again for more pain, this is called Sañjīva Hell: The Revival Forever Hell... Even death cannot stop it!
2: The Black Thread Hell (Kālasutta) where one is cut up by a black line! Men who are hostile towards friends, mother, father & good pure ones, who are slanderers & liars they go to The Black Thread Hell (Kālasutta). Since they are split like wood with burning saws along a marking line, made by black thread, so it is called Kālasutta or black thread hell...
3: The Crushing Hell (Sanghāta) where one is crushed to pulp repeatedly! Those men who kill goats, rams, jackals, hares, rats, deer, boar & other free living & roaming beings, they end up in The Crushing Hell (Sanghāta). Since, crushed together between huge mountains, splattered, squeezed, smashed, & squashed to fluid mash there in a total slaughter, this niraya is called Sanghāta.
4: The Screaming Hell (Roruva) where one screams like a bound pig in fire! Those who harass or torment other being's body & mind & who cheats go to The Screaming Hell (Roruva). There they give forth terrible screams, howls, yells, in outcry over being constantly consumed by fierce fire, & ferocious flames. This blaze is thus called: Roruva or screaming hell.
5: The Loud Screaming Hell (Mahāroruva) where one screams even more! Those who steal what was entrusted to them or steal the possessions of devas, high people, recluses & teachers, by causing suffering even to such good ones go to Mahāroruva: The Loud Screaming Hell. There the pain & affliction of the fire torment & the screaming is even greater than ever. This inferno is therefore called Mahāroruva or loud screaming hell.
6: The Torture Hell (Tapa) is an immense conflagration of bitter pain! Whoever burns creatures in conflagrations such as forest fires, that person, weeping and wailing, is eaten by a fiery fire of blazing flames. Since this severe burning torture continues without interruption, this is known in this world here as Tāpana.
7: The Great Torture Hell (Mahātapa) is an even more burning hurting! The foolish nihilist who perversely insists that Dhamma is non-Dhamma and whoever harms other beings deliberately is tortured by fierce fire in The Great Torture Hell (Mahātapa). Since it burns beings even worse than theTāpana, this holocaust is called Mahātapa: great torture hell...
8: The Relentless Hell (Avicī) where the pain is without break or pause! Those showing enmity to those of greater virtue, slaying Nobles, pure disciples or also their mother, father, or teachers, they are reborn in the Relentless Hell (Avicī), Even the bones burns to ashes there, since the heat is excessively terrible. Because there is no interval, break, or pause, this is called Avicī, The most vicious and horrible out of all hells.
According to The Dharma commentaries, the first hell is located fifteen thousand two hundred yojanas beneath the ground of Jambudvīpa and second hell is located another fifteen thousand two hundred yojanas beneath the ground of the first hell…the eighth and lowest hell, the Avīchi hell, or the hell of incessant suffering, is located furthest beneath the ground. The Commentary on the Abhidhamma explains that these eight major hell is said to have sixteen subsidiary hell of less suffering, four on each side altogether 16 in total. These 128 subsidiary hell plus the eight major hell are called the 136 hell. In order of increasing depth means increasing suffering too.
Sabbe satta bhavantu sukhitatta - May all beings be well & happy, be free from suffering.
Question 382: What is the karmic effect of killing animals, for example: Driving over a cat and killing i
Question 383 Ticket: A: Venerable sir, why did Holocaust happen in this samsara? B: Could mastery of the Dhamma be so that one who trained and cultivated it, still could radiate happiness and love in moments of mass despair and suffering?
Question 384: A: Is it due to the 5 hindrances, that one accepts belief in an eternal soul without investigating? B: What is the best way to handle such statements, when persons start talking about "their soul and god?"
Question 377: Why would one want to be reborn as a deva, or other “higher” being if one wants to strive toward nibbana? What do devas do?
Question 378: How does one put the past, where it belongs?
Question 379: What would the Buddha say about climate change, & artificial intelligence? Climate not independent of sila - moral purity of those living in the climate.
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The 20th century started with two groundbreaking scientific revolutions: quantum mechanics and relativity. Quantum mechanics stated that elementary systems only have real definite local properties if and when observed by a conscious observer. This squares well with early Buddhism’s idea of Emptiness (Suññatā) and emphasis on Experience as the sole reality. Special relativity introduced length-contraction and time-dilation similar to Buddhism’s concept of seeing all states as conditional relations (Paţţhāna) between mind and its object, thus also renouncing the naïve idea of a local reality existing independent of the observing mind. Join Buddhist monk and scientist Bhante Samahita for a discussion on the convergence of Buddhism, quantum physics, and relativity.
Bhante Samāhita was educated as a medical doctor at the Copenhagen University in Denmark, and became Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at the Technical University in Denmark, working with theoretical biology and artificial intelligence. He arrived in Sri Lanka in 2001, where he became fully ordained as a Bhikkhu in 2003. As a monk of the Theravada Araññavasin Forest Tradition, he has been living and meditating for the past 16 years alone in a remote mountain forest hermitage. His main philosophical interest is the convergence and congruence of ideas within Early Buddhism, Orthodox Quantum Physics, Einsteinian Relativity, Information Theory, and Thermodynamics.
See also: Dhamma on Air #60: Relativity = Relational Reality youtu.be/KwrrtwkWENk Dhamma on Air #61: Quantum Buddhism 1 youtu.be/NG9JKDES_Ag Dhamma on Air #62: Quantum Buddhism 2 = The Great Smoky Dragon! youtu.be/ZcoKk4HdLyADhamma on Air #124: Contentment & GratitudeBhikkhu Samahita2019-04-02 | Question 374: What to do if ungrateful and discontent?
Question 375: How do you address asking for relief or healing for yourself or others? It is correct to send prayers of supplication to Buddhas, devas, arahants, wise ones? I have fervently prayed in the past and feel it brought results, but am unsure.
Question 376: 1) How does one move beyond the literal pain one feels because of remorse for past mistakes in this life, especially those actions/speech that have affected others and 2) How does one mitigate “bad” karma from this and previous lives so as not to continue to suffer (while striving for nibbana) and prevent being reborn lower than a human.
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Question 369: When I first meet someone, I am very light-hearted in our conversations and in the way I treat them. But as we become closer, and the more we interact, I clamp down, and I become more serious and less lighthearted. Everything is more serious. There’s more at stake. And I become very careful and not fun at all. How do I overcome this attachment issue? How can I keep it light? How can I maintain a carefree heart where nothing is deadly serious?
Question 370: What is the Buddhist opinion about doing exercise and sport?
More on this both simple, yet quite profound Breathing Meditation: https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_I.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_II.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_IV.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_III.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Awareness_by_Breathing.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_the_Breath.htm
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Question 365: @ 12:19 Why is passion considered a defilement although it is the only way via which beings are born? Also, Buddha also said that human birth is much more precious than birth in higher realms since it has both pleasure and pain and that only produces a desire for liberation and human beings can only be born if passion is there. Could you please shed some more light on this?
Question 366: @ 19:44 For ending of kamma via eight-fold noble path, is it right that one still has to experience bright and dark results to reach that stage?
Question 367: @ 21:37 How can people who have done shoplifting in the past repair their Kamma accumulation?
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Question 359: @ 8:46 Is it skillful for a female to give, pray or offer help or merit to become a man so as to attain Nibbana?
Question 360: @ 14:37 Why even the enlightened persons like Buddha and his disciples like Maha Mogllana had to go through both pleasant and unpleasant situations even though all the good and bad karmas are exhausted for liberated people?
Question 361: @ 28:18 1) Why are milk and unfertilized chicken egg to be avoided as consuming them does not involve the killing of animals? 2) Why Buddha had to face both pleasant and unpleasant situations after his enlightenment as liberated beings are beyond the fruits of karma? 3) What karmic causes decide the type of animal body one gets like cow, cat, raccoon, horse, dog, bird, scorpion etc.? and even in one particular species, there are different types - like some dogs are more ferocious than others, etc.? 4) Does giving a restaurant dinner where the guest chose meat dishes to result in bad kamma? 5) Are there more than 200 precepts for monks to follow? 6) Is going for alms round with begging bowl to ask for food necessary for monks?
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Question 357: @ 13:22 I could not see my grandmother during her last days, though she had an unspoken wish to meet me. What should I do in this situation?
Question 358: @ 21:45 A: How to deal with children, who is extremely naughty? B: How to raise children well from a Buddhist perspective?
Question 358: @ 35:29 Do humans ever die “untimely deaths” to move quickly through lives, or because they are needed elsewhere? If so, though, who/what would cause it to happen?
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Question 354: @ 11:03 Is there a middle way between lay life and monkhood?
Question 355: @ 21:07 How do we stop someone taking advantage of our niceness and kindness?
Question 356: @ 26:30 Dhamma tells us to do good karma for liberation. However, good karma also leads us to pleasant or favorable situations and people and there is always danger of getting attached to such attractive things. So, isn't it contradictory to attain liberation via good karma?
Question 348: A: What is the exact English translation of "Samma Sankappa"? B: What is always preceding the action? intention? C: What are the factors determining the actions of individuals?
Question 349: How can it be that the dhamma comes exactly when needed?
Question 350: If a non-Buddhist asked you why we meditate, how would you answer?
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C. Is the good intention behind Loving Kindness the True Love?
Question 347: Do we devote ourselves to our families, and friends when most needed? Is this a way of Metta attainment, which is greater, than meditation in solitude?
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Question 342: How can there be no self experiencing the karma - good or bad? Is it not contradictory? Also, if egolessness is real how do the hierarchy in social status ao. come about?
Question 343: Is worshiping of Nāgā beings good, and what about offering them merit?
Question 340: Is it not that "happiness" is of 2 types? One being worldly happiness based upon transient conditions, thus not lasting., The second type not based upon the mundane conditions, and thus stable and safe?
Question 341: A: How do we gladden the mind during meditation without falling into the trappings of pleasurable sensations and/or gratitude for falsities like personal safety and wellbeing in short, all that is impermanent? B: On what should we meditate to gladden the mind? C: And why? If we are to then relinquish and set it free, why does it need gladdening?
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Question 336: A: How did the Buddha communicate with beings in the other realms? B: Could unenlightened beings see the beings in the other realms then?
Question 337: With Dependent Origination with its various links at what point on the chain of links should a meditator apply the four foundations of awareness (mindfulness) to break through to Nibbana?
Question 338: Do our associations and relationships come, fulfill a purpose, and go, according to our kamma?
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Question 331: @ 25:12 In the Nikāya, the Buddha said that the Dhamma would last 1000 years if Nuns were not ordained yet only 500 years if Nuns were to ordain. Why does ordination of Buddhist Nuns (Bhikkhunis) half the life of the true Dhamma?
Question 332: @ 34:01 What can one who is observing eight precepts consume after 12 pm?
Question 327: @ 7:45 My practice seems to have gotten a bit weaker: How can desire, aversion, laziness, restlessness and doubts still affect the stability?
Question 328: @ 33:09 How does one overcome feelings of superiority/inferiority complex?
Question 329: @ 40:44 What to do with feelings of grudge, and revenge?
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Question 325: What is the real status of a person, when he, or she becomes Gandhabba? Is it painful for sinners, and tranquil for the fortunate etc. until reborn?
What are these 3 mental fermentations (āsava)? 1: The mental Fermentation joined with Sensuality.. 2: The mental Fermentation linked with Becoming.. 3: The mental Fermentation associated with Ignorance.. what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm
Question 324: Are the 5 aggregates (The 5 clusters of Clinging=Khandas) objects of insight meditation (Viipassana)?
1: The Cluster of Clinging to Form... (rūpa-kkhandha), 2: The Cluster of Clinging to Feeling... (vedanā-kkhandha), 3: The Cluster of Clinging to Perception... (saññā-kkhandha), 4: The Cluster of Clinging to Construction... (sankhāra-kkhandha), 5: The Cluster of Clinging to Consciousness... (viññāna-kkhandha).
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Question 318: Why should we share Dhamma talks with people we find worthy of listening to. Why is it only them? Why not everyone?
Question 321: The concept of anicca (impermanence) seems to apply at both the microscopic timescale, mind moments, quantum moments, Planc time, and the macroscopic scale (birth/death of stars) - is this correct?
Question 322: A: Did the Buddha talk about in "divine intervention"? Can one ask for assistance? B: Can we prevent the impact of evil karma, from ripening? If so, how do we do? C: Is it possible to put a chronic disease into remission through our mind power, or counter-kamma?
Question 304: A: Please explain how to review our past lives. B: Can one come to see future rebirths? C: Does such reviewing require Jhana?
Question 308: Do Buddhist people offer to Hindu Gods like Vishnu and Ganesha ? A. Offering fruits & money? 2. What are the results? 3. Is such Buddhism?
Question 317: Is reaching 1st Jhana once enough for Brahmaloka rebirth, even if without Jhana, yet in Joy, at the Death Moment?
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VLOG# 28: Death is Not the End ..
What comes right after death is the crucial focus point! Just this much is needed: The Path ...
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Question 288: Is there any proof of Nibbana, and the Law of Kamma?
Question 289: How can one maintain a relationship with one's parents if they are abusive?
Question 290: If there's a pattern of giving to Bhikkhus that always results in very negative consequences for the giver, how does one maintain the desire and practicality to support the Sangha?
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Question 291: A: Why does a Buddha has to be male only, and not also female?
B: Does not that imply discrimination? C: Are all Buddha's destined to take birth in India only? If yes, why so? D: Have you reached any of the four stages of Enlightenment? E: Is there any being born as human, who has not committed wrong, or evil acts in this life, or previous lives?
Question 292: Why does the mind become negative?
Question 293: What is the best way to overcome Sloth and Torpor? = Breaking out of Lethargy and Laziness (Thina-Middha)?
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Question 283: @ 22:28 Should we only use fallen flowers if we want to show respect in Pagoda or temples to Buddha statues or relics, or if I am practising Satipatthana it the good enough?
Question 284: @ 29:55 How to avoid personality belief (Sakkaya DItthi), while paying respect in this way?
May all creatures, all breathing things, all beings one and all, without exception, experience good fortune only. May they not fall into any harm. Anguttara Nikaya II, 72
Train yourself in doing good that lasts and brings happiness. Cultivate generosity, the life of peace, and a mind of infinite universal love. Itivuttaka 22
With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart & mind: Beaming above, below, & all around, unobstructed, without trace of hostility. Sutta Nipata I, 8
Having killed anger you sleep in ease. Having killed anger you do not grieve. The noble ones praise the slaying of anger -- with its honeyed crest & poison root -- for having killed it you do not grieve. Samyutta Nikaya II, 70
if you keep unbroken awareness, on every In-breath, and every out-breath the knots of kamma will be sundered, leading to the highest welfare. S.N. Goenka
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