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Happiness Industry: Joy At Last! Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3867 seconds Ajahn Brahm leads us into the Rains Retreat with this scorcher of a talk. The Buddha's teaching of acceptance and letting go of states leads to the kind of deep happiness that cannot be found by shopping in the 'happiness industry' of this world. As Ajahn Chah famously said: "Joy at last -to know there is no happiness in the world!" Related: buddhism, buddhist, dharma, happiness, joy, meditation |
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Buddhism and Sects by Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3830 seconds Ajahn Brahm talks about different sects of Buddhism, how it all came to be this way and what it means. Ultimately it's all the same cake, just different icing on top. Related: buddhism, cake, dharma, icing, sects |
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Dealing With The Emotion by Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 4128 seconds Ajahn Brahm teaches us how to deal with difficult emotions and to learn how to experience more positive emotions, more often. Related: buddhism, dharma, emotions, happiness |
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"Superstitions" - dhamma talk by Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3894 seconds A hint of irreverence for all forms of superstition, lashings of humour in this talk, serve to stress that it's ONLY our personal accountability and actions that make a difference. Trinket jewellery, mindless chanting and holy water do not. Is there heaven and hell? What is the mind? Ajahn's stories of the 'Samurai Warrior and the Monk' and 'The Cloaked Emperor' provide the answers... Related: ajahn, brahm, buddhism, dhamma, dharma, monk, nibbana, nirvana, sangha, superstition |
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Freedom: The Path To Happiness Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3790 seconds For those abused and wronged is happiness actually possible? Attachment to painful emotions, such as grief, anger, bitterness, the notion of a wounded self with a distinct identity: all these can become a perpetual prison... Related: ajahn, brahm, buddhism, buddhist, dhamma, dharma, freedom, happiness, sangha |
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The Right to Believe? - Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3716 seconds Do we have a right to believe anything? Do some beliefs have priority over others? How do beliefs arise in the mind and how accurately do such 'intellectual fermentations' actually mesh with an Ultimate Reality? Related: belief, buddhism |
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Control and Freedom Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 4210 seconds Ajahn Brahm' talks about the control/freedom paradox. How much of our lives is *actually* controlled by us, how much by forces outside ourselves? How free are we? The relinquishment of our controlling impulse brings freedom, while the ego, with its judgement apparatus, leads to bondage and despair. Related: ajahn, brahmavamso, buddha, buddhism, control, dhamma, freedom, laughing, monk, nibbana, nirvana |
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"Aspects of Freedom" by Ajahn Nyanadhammo Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 4137 seconds Ajahn Nyanadhammo, abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat International Monastery, visits Perth. His talk had the audience spellbound as he explained Buddhist strategies that can take us out of the unsatisfactoriness of human existence to freedom. We also hear of the oldest monk in the world who was swallowed and then regurgitated by a giant python! And why red light districts have red lights... Related: australian, buddhism, dhamma, dharma, freedom, nyanadhammo |
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Higher Criticism by Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3523 seconds A penetrating look at how we react to criticism both when furnishing it on others and (at once more challenging) receiving it ourselves. Why are we often so hardened and totally stuck in our views and perceptions when softness of mind can yield much larger fruit? Related: ajahn, brahm, buddhism, criticism, dhamma, teachings |
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Building the House of Peace" by Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3526 seconds Stillness reached through meditation leads to an awakening in many spheres. Related: ajahnbrahm, dhamma, dharma, nibbana, nirvana, peace |
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Interconnectedness by Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3538 seconds Interconnection and disconnection and how to find a balance between the two.... Related: buddhism, dharma, disconnection, go, interconnectedness, letting, meditation, peace |
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How to Change The World by Ajahn Brahm Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3624 seconds Buddhist reflections on social, political and environmental action leading towards the creation of a better world. Related: buddhism, change, dharma, interconnectedness, meditation, peace, social |
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The Ultimate Question Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 2657 seconds Ajahn Brahmali Related: ajahn, brahmali |
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Impermanence: Everything Will Be Allright Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 2604 seconds Impermanace: Everything will be allright by Ajahn Khemavaro Related: impermanace, khemavaro |
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Below The Mist Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3975 seconds Ajahn Brahm Below The Mist Related: ajahn, below, brahm, mist, the |
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Is Nibbana Guaranteed? Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3230 seconds Nibbana is not something that can be predictably acquired through sheer effort. Actually it more or less happens automatically, the more one lets go of doing, gives up the notion of a distinct 'I' and acts from the knowledge of the oneness of all beings and things. Out of these insights compassionate energy and happiness arises. Nibbana, the ultimate happiness. Related: buddhism, dharma, happiness, nibbana, nirvana, ultimate |
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Expanding Your View Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3651 seconds Ajahn Brahm Expanding Your View Related: ajahn, brahm, expanding, view, your |
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3343 seconds Decisions, Decisions, Decisions Related: decisions |
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Much To Do About Nothing Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3565 seconds Much To Do About Nothing Related: ajahn, brahm |
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Impermanence Posted by: BuddhistSocietyWA
Video duration: 3495 seconds Sister Hue Can from the Vietnamese Zen tradition speaks about impermanence. Related: can, hue, impermanence |
