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As someone who has been practising wrongly for while, I can confirm that the difference between good and bad practice is like day and night. Fortunately once you start doing it right way you will know, feel and see that is working. Thank you for your priceless teaching sir.

Hello 1. Do you also have a german channel? 2. In which video do you actually describe the first hand experience of streamentry and later? The upside down thing in detail with real life examples (before and after), why as you say 99% of suffering is gone (hope you meant in once present day to day life and not because only 7 lifes are left ..) 3. Beside the suttas, who was your noble friend who corrected your wrong view? 4. What insight/experience/understanding/instruction was your turning point (from wrong direction to right direction) on your path?

@TheDhammaHub

4 ай бұрын

Hey, 1. I had a german channel foor a while but it was too much work to maintain both, so I stopped. 2. I very much mean in ther "here and now" and now in future lives to come. That said, I only sprinkle that in here and there, as there is no real point in describing it in detail. Alöl I can really say is that feeling ceases to be the center-part of experience and instead of being "embedded" within it (puthujjana order), you experience it detached. There is a reason why the Suttas do not really describe that at all imo^^ 3. I think I also mentioned that in some videos, but I learned the Dhamma initially from Bhante G. and Ayya Khema. I did not practice their concentration though as I was very bad at it. Some corrections lateron came from Saif and Nyanamoli, but that was more in terms of wording/verbalization and not in terms of experience. As I see it, a noble friend is someone who "supplies the right instructions" 4. I contemplated the self-less nature of intention. I remained seated for a while after each "formal meditation" (that I still did at that time) and contemplated and tried to figure out what the SUttas meant by this "non-self". The thought arose in me that I should be able to know what I would want/intend next, if I was really in control. Then I started looking closely at experience. I failed to "correctly predict" every time and at some point it clikced and the order reversed. Shortly after, I further contemplated PS through the 6 senses and later minfulness to make it complete.

@off-gridretreat9293

4 ай бұрын

@TheDhammaHub Hey 1. Understand. Seems not too many germans have acknowledged dukkha yet hence they don't look for information to stop it. 2. Interesting. I would be specifically interested in a precise account of that shift and what lead to it. Would also be interesting from where you take the confidence that the shift you experienced is actually streamentry in the midst of such a variety of alternative interpretations (since what you said so far is very sparse it could also fit the description of samadhi, background awareness and its foreground objects are simultaneously but apart perceived, 3c's are naturally seen) and of differing accounts. I mean they are all sure of themselves. 3. Thanks for the background information, i just started watching your videos yesterday . 4. Many thanks for the additional information, very interesting.

@TheDhammaHub

4 ай бұрын

@@off-gridretreat9293 Hey, 2. The answer is simple: I don't suffer anymore xD There could not be any clearer confirmation and this state of non-suffering gives rise to great confidence^^ (yet, this must ofc be paired with the absolute certain understanding of what must be done/undone to bring that process to fulfillment) Cheers Flaus

@off-gridretreat9293

4 ай бұрын

@@TheDhammaHub Hey That's great to hear. 1. May i ask more about "i don't suffer anymore" 1.1 so you mean automatically 99% of the time there is no taking ownership anymore, 99% of the time there is the knowing/sign of not being attached anymore!? 1.2 so from your experience a streamenterer stopped 99% of suffering and the remaining 7 fetters only amount to 1% suffering!? So what is that 1% suffering which is still noticed? Who suffers? How does that suffering take form? 2. Do you experience anything stable in your experience of which no change, no coming and going is discerned? What is the unborn, unconditioned in your direct experience?

@TheDhammaHub

4 ай бұрын

@@off-gridretreat9293 Suffering simply does no longer arise. I don't have to deal with it in any way, it is simply no longer there. And if there is something surfacing, then it is so greatly reduced that it is incomparably to before. The remaining suffering is just the lingering "habits" that you have cultivated over a long time. Those habits are basicaly lust/hate in all its gross and subtle forms. Whatever suffering remains is just that. The ultimate root has been pulled and you just deal with the remaining growth now. The sekha is an "in-between person". The remaining lust/hate still leads to the arising of some self, but you can no longer buy into it. What you stabilize in your experience is non-clinging. The cooling down/extingushing of craving, that is the unborn. What remians is that which does not move no matter what "weathers" are thrown at it, like a huge boulder burried partially in the ground. If you do not crave/resist, there is safety

How does one uproot false view as a beginner ? how do you find the view to begin with ? How does that look like in practice ? and views about what exactly ? could you give examples please ? do you mean that one has to keep looking at experience until one understand the 4 noble truths, and that is stream entry ?

@TheDhammaHub

4 ай бұрын

In essence, yes. You tryto understand in your experience what role _you_ play in the arising of craving and suffering and cease fueling that process. Once the process (and as a result suffering), you could "realize" the absence of suffering and what you have been doing so that it is gone. That is the understanding of the 4 Noble Truth/Stream Entry

@Liravin

4 ай бұрын

if you're lucky, you can find inspiration by spending time with people more advanced in the practice

95% is a very conservative number. You could spend your entire life in Buddhist circles especially Mahayanna ones and never hear about restraint and the dangers of sensuality. Not only do they skip the essentials, but they add useless fluff on top (bodhisattva vow, Buddha nature, etc.). And Theravada traditions are so influenced by the visudimagga and insight/noting practices as to completely obscure the path too. Both Mahayanna and Theravada are stuck in the view that the practice is about meditation, waiting for some divine event to fall upon you...

@TheDhammaHub

4 ай бұрын

Well, since I do not know the actual numbers, I like to be conservative, but you are right of course^^ You likely to have encounter stray schools of the modern big traditions that practice rightly... the masses likely do not

@jaroslav6109

4 ай бұрын

As it looks like to me now, we don't have around any mainstream tradition whatsoever which would be teaching the true way out of suffering. Once I found Hillside hermetige and this channel that became very clear to me. My wiew changed dramatically and so did my understanding of a practice, suttas and" myself "as well. Still have work to do, but now it actually makes sense.

@huanghuang9815

4 ай бұрын

I spent some years in mahayana sch before discovering early buddhism... grateful for these channels

@kzantal

4 ай бұрын

@@huanghuang9815 Me too!