Well-established disciple of Ajahn Brahm. Thanks Brahm for producing such a gem namely "Sujato Bhikkhu", love from Bangladesh

This is a good teacher.

Good metaphors and very precise descriptions of each stages of jhanas. Thank you, Bhante Sujato! I've benefited from several of your videos.

Do not step forward, do not step back, most importantly, do not stand still... (mind blown!!)

"Separation disolves" exactly so. I was at a popular art fair, enjoying the whole atmosphere, really at peace...I had come to a place in my Montessori teacher's training where I felt confident that I was going to be prepared for my work ahead. I was taking a much needed break from my studies by attending the art fair on such a beautiful day. All of a sudden I stopped in the middle of a row as I witnessed a visually connected continuity of movement of all the people around me, I was frozen still, awestruck, maybe even with my mouth open, not sure. Everything was moving together, like a magically choreographed dance. I think it lasted about 10 seconds, but I'll never forget it. By the way, thank you so much for these talks, they do us all a world of good!

Great Dhamma talk. Be patient for the first 15 minutes after this time the presentation started to flow smoothly.

i would love to meet him in real life

Such a lovely and insightful lesson, Thank you

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!

Sadhu sadhu sadhu...

very good video - what do you do with side effects of meditation like - almost uninterreupted feeling of energy moving through the body - feeling dizzy - seeing swirling tunnels of lights - inhability to sleep because of extreme energy - pity ? i experience this alomst all the time now - i try to nte and let go but it's not as easy - anyways i ll go back to my rising sun state :) thank you sir

U can only talk about this once been there

What is the biggest thing??

What about fear and guilt at the same time

Seek the jhannas.............. ........

Jesus said... I am the way!!.... Buddha said seek and find etc.......

Again lots of talk describing what Jhana is but nothing really about how to enter it

wow these buddists are sooo long winded , just sit or whatever + quieten the mind + if you can do this you will enter jhana + eventually the voidstates

@cariyaputta

5 жыл бұрын

It not how Jhana works, careful not to delude yourself. Prefer back to the Buddha's teaching on the first Jhana: "Here, quite secluded from sensual desires, secluded from unwholesome states of mind, a monk enters upon and abides in the first meditative absorption (jhana), which is accompanied by thought conception and discursive thinking and has in it joy and pleasure born of seclusion. This is the other kind of pleasure which surpasses that (sense) pleasure and is more sublime." www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn36/sn36.019.nypo.html

@walter_peck

4 жыл бұрын

Yes you can skip jhanas, who knows who we may have been in past life. The path is laid out as a guide.. wise to reference it for sure..

@man2voidvoid2man93

4 жыл бұрын

@@walter_peck Hi , thank you for your reply . Yes we may have been many different personalities in past lives , time is irrelevant to the inner self , even future lives are available as the Buddists know . So perhaps information is also 'filtering ' back to the present self from lives in the future . It is of course up to the present personality as to wether he, she utilises such information or can even accept it . I believe that all knowledge is always available , we are all the same in that sense , the Buddha (or Christ if you like) is within all creation , without exception i believe . The compassioate Buddha is a beautiful human concept of the 'ground reality' of existence + jhana I credit with deeper states of conciousness or awareness , especially the formless 'realms'. Massive contributions , amongst others , that the buddists have produced . I'm not sure about skipping the jhanas as you put it as I believe that infinite space , infinate concousness is one of the fundamental experiences that all personalities will encounter on their deeper or more concentrated expansions (or contractions) + in a sense cannot be avoided . A sort of signpost if you will but then it might not be called jhana to someone else. And then there is the question as to what does or does not exist beyond cessation or non being . I believe there is still existence + is perhaps what the Buddists call Nirvana , I might call it God , but who can really say what is or is not existent that is beyond perception . Or is it just human perception ? And , as of course when one is in cessation or suspension or nonbeing , one is not just formless but as perception ceases , absolutely spaceless + timeless . Even the man who has given this lecture , has in one of his posts said that there is a 9th jhana . I have asked him to elucidate but he has not done so + this is my bone of contention with most Buddists that I have come across (maybe I have been unlucky) , but they are very reluctant , putting it mildly in some cases , to explain what they mean by such comments . Perhaps they are even confused amongst themselves about such intangible realities but that they will not discourse about them , this is rather sad in my opinion . But as you said , some of their teachings do most definately warrent great good merit + essential reading in some respects to the would be wanderer , but then I knew nothing of them in this life when I was 'taken' to cessation , so what does it really matter , in another sense . But a rum old conversation about it all , now that would be nice ha ha .

@man2voidvoid2man93

4 жыл бұрын

@@cariyaputta Jhana does not work in any particular way my friend , jhana are simply states of awareness + can be reached by different methods . I have been as far as neither perception nor non perception + what some of you Buddists call cessation . My question about the buddist method , is not about wether these states are legitimate or not but why Buddists do not like to hold some sort of a conversation about the differing aspects of formlessness or jhana + even what may or may not be existent beyond non perception + cessation + that which is absolutely spaceless + timeless . Do you call this Nirvana , maybe I call this God .

@walter_peck

4 жыл бұрын

@@man2voidvoid2man93 man2void void2man Thanks for your very thought provoking reply! I had meant that the earlier jhanas could be skipped by some; but of course the experience you mention would be a fundamental signpost. Do you still manage to sustain/return to the state of cessation you were 'taken' to?

Jhanna is nice but it's nothing on the planet!!!