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Hillside Hermitage
Slovenia
Приєднався 2 кві 2018
Hillside Hermitage was first built in the hills of central Sri Lanka, and is now relocated to the mountain forests of Slovenia. It is a registered charity which supports a group of solitary monastics spread out across Europe, and who are following the Early Buddhist Suttas and Nyanamoli Thero's teachings. They live independently, apart from the mainstream traditions.
The channel contains the teachings of Nyanamoli Thero and his disciples on Dhamma, meditation and various practical aspects of the Buddha's Teaching.
The channel contains the teachings of Nyanamoli Thero and his disciples on Dhamma, meditation and various practical aspects of the Buddha's Teaching.
Delusion is a Choice
Delusion is a self-imposed blindness and an active process of distraction-a continuous effort to redirect one's attention away from the uncomfortable truths that self-awareness will reveal.
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If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via:
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If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via:
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Metta Sutta Study
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Revisiting the Metta practice... If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
Without sensuality, I knowingly breath
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The knowledge of your breath. If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
Dealing With Anxiety
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Seeing the connection between unrestrained behaviour and your mind's liability to anxiety If you wish to support our work, the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
The Path Starts with Self Honesty
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An older talk of ours, that addresses many of the questions we've been receiving recently... If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
Defining Cognition
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What is consciousness? What is mind? If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
Withstanding the Defilements
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The defilements can only sully one's life through the conscious choice to engage with them. By learning to withstand these impurities through the middle way of right endurance, one discovers "an island that no flood can overwhelm." If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
Summer works...
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Reinforcement concrete, dogs, badgers and viper relocations... If you wish to support our work and the Hermitage you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
Awareness and Accountability
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This is an excerpt from one of our old talks. It's a practical exploration of where true responsibility lies, emphasizing the essential practice of monitoring our motivations and consciously choosing not to act on detrimental intentions. If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
Distracting yourself from yourself is not an escape from suffering
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Purpose of the precept against entertainment. If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
The Meditation Of Not Giving In To Defilements
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This is an excerpt from one of our old talks. Talks about the dangers and relative benefits of concentration practices as opposed to the liberating results of the correct meditation of not giving in to the mental defilements or unwholesome states. If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
Maintaining discipline despite the peer pressure
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How to practice in the environment that is challenging you If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
Pleasant breath sensations
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Questioning the concept that concentrating on pleasant breath sensations can lead to liberation or achieve any semblance of Nobility. Suttas references: suttas.hillsidehermitage.org/?q=mn50#mn50:13.1-mn50:13.10 suttacentral.net/mn108 If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
The Anatta Method
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Here is an excerpt from one of our old talks. It addresses the appropriation of self and why the denial of self doesn't lead to wisdom or liberation. If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
Is your Dhamma practice based on superstition?
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How to attain the Dhamma with more than just your reasoning or magical beliefs. If you wish to support the Hillside Hermitage Sangha and this channel you are very welcome to do so via: www.hillsidehermitage.org/support-us
To be angry at others you must first resist your own unpleasant feelings
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To be angry at others you must first resist your own unpleasant feelings
Detach from attachments by recognizing their impermanence
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Detach from attachments by recognizing their impermanence
Learning Contentment Within The Discomfort - by SISTER MEDHINI
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Learning Contentment Within The Discomfort - by SISTER MEDHINI
SUTTA STUDY - "Evaluation" MN 15 - by Nyanamoli Thero
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SUTTA STUDY - "Evaluation" MN 15 - by Nyanamoli Thero
The Un-lapsing of Your Self Restraint - by SISTER MEDHINI
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The Un-lapsing of Your Self Restraint - by SISTER MEDHINI
Having seen clearly that I am both hero and villain, knowing that I am capable of great and or horrible acts, I try to keep my shadow firmly within my eyesight. -J.W. Outward
Can't meditation also be used as a distraction?
Venerable Bhante, as you say a person who had previously lived a hectic lifestyle (let us say for practical reasons that were not grossly sensually rooted) - will slowly have to re-establish a baseline of their degree of engagement with the 'world' of senses, to gradually lower and lower levels. For such an individual who is still in the lay life, but dwelling restrained in the right manner, and having greatly lowered the baseline/threshold of engagement' a practical necessity may arise which demands an increase their level of engagement. Would I be correct in stating that such an individual would 'suffer' that increase. That the person would now 'prefer' to maintain the lower level of engagement, and its opposite is now painful (even though it may be necessary) ?
I honestly can't thank you enough for sharing this wisdom. Much love from the UK
🙇♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️ Thank you Ajahn. Delusion into Hatred are the roadblocks in my practice that arise during particular circumstances that are of course related to my karma/vipaka. Ignorance is correct...I am going to do better. I don't make excuses after the facts of my own volitional engagement, but continuing the same behavior is an excuse in and of itself. I truly know better, yet I act out of hatred daily. It is time to let go again. 🙏🏻
Towards the end it reminded me of that saying "Nothing real can be threatened; nothing unreal exists." Ironically trying to escape suffering by maintaining a contradiction - which is why it can be threatened. 🙏
Love waking up to a new teaching!!! Good morning Dhamma family and Venerable’s
Thank you, this comes at the perfect time 🙏
Very nice, well explained.
Excellent, thank you! 🙏
Bhante thank you so much for these videos I cant describe in words how thankful I am. I have seen most wonderful results recently by watching various videos on this channel and I am seeing more and more what you mean with gradual training of restraint and seeing the context. I have worked hard on restraint. It is that assumed being on the level of sense of objects and the pressure towards the content for a beginner that makes the context which is at the opposite side feel unpleasant because that is the only escape a putujana knows and obviously if one acts out then towards the content then the context will feel even more unpleasant because one resists it even more. So one learns that any bad thought that is pressuring me is not something I have no control over that must opress me but instead it is I who am creating the problem by intentionaly deliberately thinking this bad thought and hence I can intentionaly deliberately stop thinking this bad thought and same with speech and bodily action now you get stronger in regard to the pressure and the context becomes much and much more appearent and as one is not contradicting the context with volitionaly intentionaly not thinking unwholesome thoughts,speech and bodily actions one have become strong in regard to the pressure and one learned to stay with that pressure without moving and jumping as one did as a beginner and now start understanding the context of that anxiety on that inescapable existence background level.
Crux of the matter. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
🌄Good morning and have a good day teachers 🙏
I must have good samadhi because recollecting Ajahn Nyanamoli brings me joy
Does it follow that thinking and pondering are a particular type of joy in the same sense that speech is particular type of thinking and pondering?
And so is joy a particular type of breath?
Is there a way to train overcoming the resistance towards feelings *directly*? Or is it still in the domain of "unscrewing the craving"? Why is it phrased as "subduing the perception of resistance" instead of just "overcoming resistance" in the outta?
Sadhu x 8
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Dang: I am therefore I suffer
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Not sure where I would be without these teachings. I can't thank you enough.
This dude is so obnoxious, whenever the monk on the right tries to formulate a thought he immediately cuts him off and continues with his own ideas. He talks about moderation from everything and clearly he can't moderate himself from being in the teacher position.
This may be a stupid question but is this man enlightened?
Wonderful Dhamma.. Sadhu Sadhu sadhu 🙏🙏
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Now, only I see the discomfort when desires first emerge. Thank you so much. As I have undestood, the work I need to do is seeing that danger here and now. Is that right Bhanthe? 🙏
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This monk always looks irritated that he has to answer these questions
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Why do you say that it is impossible for two Buddha to be alive at the same time? I read that an Arahant follows the teachings, but a Buddha is self-taught. I also encountered the claim of an unbroken succession of one Buddha reborn through the ages. Is it merely the improbability of independent self-discovery at play, or am I missing something fundamental?
It is stated in sutta, there is only one Sammasambuddha can born each time on earth in every ten thousand solar system.
As guy below says, it's just written. By definition, buddha does the work without hearing about Buddhism. Irrelevant for practice I'd say.
@@User-kjxklyntrw "stated in sutta, there is only one Sammasambuddha can born each time on earth in every ten thousand solar system" I would like to know that exact sutta.
This video was quite on point with my life atm, thank you
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Thank you. Your video sharings are helpful. This one in particular was impactful. Well, there's been others too that I felt connected to.
What is meant by protecting the entire world?
@@Dharmika-ro7sy in the talk Ajahn says how you don't need to chase every individual being and protect them, but instead treat your mind as your only child which will then allow a disposition towards the entire world. I think it could be rephrased as "help yourself first and you will help the world much more then if you try to help everyone without liberating yourself.
Good morning Dhamma family
Namaste. I would like to know why people are scared to die??? . please
Because they are enamoured with life.
@@HillsideHermitageAlso, they fully identify with the 5 aggregates and do not know at all what awaits them on the other side! That is a scary position to be in.
@@kzantalplease explain what knows after you die? Any testable, repeatable proof of this "other side" you speak of?
Check out our new essay: www.hillsidehermitage.org/developing-stream-entry/
Two brilliant minds
What is meant by "pastures that don't belong to you?" - also this explanation is spot on. I've had anxiety for the last few weeks, and at times overwhelming levels of anxiety. This basically began when I threw myself into my work obsessively and stopped practicing. I was telling myself that this anxiety was a reason to lessen up on my practice and basically forget about sense restraint for the time being, all the while my anxiety has been increasing. Thank you so much for putting things in the correct order in my mind for me. I know that what you say is correct.
"Mindfulness" means non-forgetfulness, not focusing.
If anyone is struggling with this, here are 2 realizations that made me stop craving : 1- I AM the one fantasizing. Porn is just static images and videos, they are objects. Remember when you were a kid, and you played with your toys, making them have epic battles, tea parties etc, the toys seemed alive, the fantasies were real... Until one day you grew up and realized, that it's just pieces of plastic, you were playing alone using your fantasy. Same thing with porn, you are the one actively fantasizing... Ok,ok, but why? Why are you fantasizing? 2-I was fantasizing because I had this belief given to me during the youth, that having sex is tied to my self worth. If I had a lot of sex with different women, I would finally be accepted, and be worthy , loved and full. This lie, this ignorance, is what kept me fantasizing about having sex, or even going to actually have it, and yet, I never felt whole, I didn't question why, I just felt the pain. There is no difference between a porn addict, masturbating with his hand, and a sex addict, masturbating with another person body, both are trying to fill an imaginary void. Once I challenged this belief, realized that sex does not define me, sex is only important to me if I want to make a family and procreate, or if I want to bond with my partner and build more intimacy, that's it. I am not interested in hooking up with random women, therefore it follows, I am not interested in watching and fantasizing about random women having sex. Once that belief was dissolved, and replaced with my own, inner truth, the house of cards came crumbling down, now I see clearly. If I go to watch porn, it's just static images, I don't feel the need to fantasize on them anymore. Just like if I go get my childhood toys, I see them as static pieces of plastic. I would need to put in effort, to pretend and fantasize.
And another insight, that I finally started to understand, is that abstinence is not the end, abstinence is a means to an end, the end being understanding. Abstinance with ignorance will just keep you stuck in a cycle of craving and "relapsing" But if you use that abstinence to gain understanding, and when you end the abstinence, you do it mindfully, noticing what is happening in your mind, that YOU are the one fantasizing, YOU are the one concentrating on the object, the object is doing nothing to you, you are acting... Then it makes sense to try abstinence.
So correct me if I'm wrong, please . Ajahn Chah was teaching the wrong meditation as he was teaching everyone focusing on the tip of the nose while breathing. Even his branch monasteries are usually teaching this technique, I was lay helper in one of them in the UK for six months, and this is what they thought me from day one this and nothing else literally . I just love to hear your thoughts on this . Thank you for your help
No, you are not wrong. Ajahn Chah did teach the common commentarial mistaken ideas of meditation and calming, but at least he also taught lots of other more valid things from the Suttas (virtue, enduring things on the right mental level). These days, such things are almost completely absent from the mainstream instructions and mindless techniques and methods are taught at the expense of everything else.
Thank you for your reply, I also think that Ajahn Chah was great teacher and I do have much respect for him and his teachings, but it wasn't till I found your channel and your way of teaching when I started finely understanding what dhamma is . Thank you.
Thank you for everything
Thank you