Guided Buddhist Meditations

Dhamma on Air #127: Without a Self .. Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rft7CjckQH4 Question 382: What is the karmic effect of killing animals, for example: Driving over a cat and killing i Question 383: 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...

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnEKLVufOA Subscribing here is a Ticket 2 Nibbāna ..! Question 380: What is the early Buddhist take on money, wife, rebirth, and cheating? Question 381: Is a bhikku/bhikkuni allowed to use books/smartphones in a temple/community? Question 382: How to deal with intense boredom (disgust combined with mental suffocation)? Thanx for your advantageous attention, clever consideration and kind contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters,...

DoA #125: Artificial intelligence Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjJ4apuGhaw 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. Subscribing here is a Ticket 2...

DoA #125: Artificial intelligence Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjJ4apuGhaw 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. Subscribing here is a Ticket 2...

DoA #124: Contentment & Gratitude Corresponding Videa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9umfS--uYBM 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...

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ui5OjntxE Question 371: A: What happens to people that die without faith in the Buddha? Reincarnation into a countless number of lives, or countless hells? B: Does faith in the Buddha guarantee rebirth into a celestial heaven? Or will they reincarnate back into human to learn more about the path? Question 372: What are your thoughts on listening to music, does a bhikkhu find it beneficial? Question 373: A: Who were the 24 prior Buddhas?...

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Guided Ānāpānasati Breathing Meditation steps 5-16 https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/anapana-5-16 The Complete Reference.. Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMWj5FMOfRs Workshop day extract on Ānāpānasati Breathing Meditation given 12 January 2019. Thanx to John Cianciosi and The Theosophical Society in America: Theosophical.org All The 16 points of the 4 Tetrads are given here: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/1_Producing_4.htm...

Guided Ānāpānasati Breathing Meditation steps 1-4 The Complete Reference.. Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMWj5FMOfRs Workshop day extract on Ānāpānasati Breathing Meditation given 12 January 2019. Thanx to John Cianciosi and The Theosophical Society in America: Theosophical.org All The 16 points of the 4 Tetrads are given here: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/1_Producing_4.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_the_Breath.htm...

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUgYBx_or6I Meta Questions: What is Advantageous? What is Detrimental? 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...

DoA #119: Early Buddhism, Quantum Physics, and Relativity. Corresponding Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DHg579WvLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M2tj4S4j4I This lecture was given on Jan 10, 2019, at The Theosophical Society in America, Wheaton, Illinois, Theosophical.org 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...

DoA #118: Disentangling the Knot Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB9bm4G7UyE Subscribing here is a Ticket 2 Nibbāna ..! 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? Videos on these 5 Mental Hindrances (Nīvaranas): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF-m7FuFzII...

Corresponding Video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ubsdc9NWTU 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? The Two State Dimensions of Nibbãna:...

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0KnxxokpgM 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? Animated Videos on the life of the Buddha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-PNSoXDZLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNHhSah28Co...

DoA #115: The Middle Way Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39EUhGiucU 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...

DoA #114: Fearlessness Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfziestXAGM Question 351: @ 3:32 What is the importance of self respect in Dhamma if there is actually no self? Question 352: @ 8:04 How to introduce children to Buddhism? Question 353: @ 13:56 A: Please explain about the technique of meditation on death? B: Is there any precautions when undertaking, and how often? Thanx for your advantageous attention, clever consideration, and kind contribution. Thanx to all to...

DoA #113: Right Motivation Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R33LmAlMhMM 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? Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and especially the...

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHILfSw1IQ Question 345: A: Do the Boddhisattas have to Awaken others before Awakening themselves? B: Do the Boddhisattas know that they are Bodhisattas? Question 346: A: Is meditation from a Kind Heart, and not the Mind a better way to Enlightenment? Guided Meditation on Infinite Compassion https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/infinite-compassion Video on Compassion (Karuna): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVouMyrX9VU Compassionate...

DoA #111: No Self Emptiness Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bFcRf5ZIkA 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? On these Worthy and devout Buddhist Nāgā Kings Mahākāla and Mucalinda: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/n/nagaa.htm...

Dhamma on Air #110: Noble Speech Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YEmpx-KARo Question 339: How to control speech, so not to say the wrong thing, at the wrong time? Video: Truth always Triumphs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6krgCDM-We0 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...