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Questions
Ajahn recounts his recent travels to Ubon. 1 - with ongoing covid related challenges, when there is anxiety, fear and worry, contentious differing opinions, anger and resentment from people around us as well, how to keep the mind bright? Especially as the situation seems to drag on and on. On one level I have more time at home to practice, but the mind is not happy when I sit. |
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Is sotapanna an impossible dream or not? - with Q&A
Online talkto the Buddhist Fellowship Singapore Q1 – Is it possible to attain stream winning without any jhana or nimitta experiences? Q2 – Just now you mentioned that some attain stream entry on their death bed, is that through some factors ? What if they don’t practice? |
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Questions
Q1 - I especially liked the meditation on 'Contemplating Death, Dying and Impermanent, Not Self Nature of the Human Body (2009/2015). What is its practical value in our daily life? How often we should practise it? I have heard that the Buddha advised Venerable Ananda and others we should contemplate death with every in breath and with every out breath. |
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Questions
Q1 - I have found the teachings of Emptiness and non-self contradictory to the belief in various deities and Bodhisattvas. Yes, we are all empty of a permanent, unchanging self, yet we exist in form as a "consciousness-continuum", and in the same way, deities and Bodhisattvas have their own "continuum" in their forms. This I think also relates to the idea of "form is emptiness, emptiness is form". Is this the right understanding? |
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