The Noble Eightfold Path

[XxarnyxXx]

I love how this is all directed to HE....

[yadsik]

@XxarnyxXx Keep in mind this was written when women were considered property and were forced into a situation of having no role in social, intellectual or political life in both India and China.

In both India and China it was first Buddhism which gave women the opportunity to become literate and move beyond caste restrictions. Women were empowered in China and had great power and intellectual opportunity which they would not otherwise have had, by Buddhism.

See Beata Grant's 'Eminent Nuns.'

[anythingnew]

What does desire for non-existence mean?

[yadsik]

@anythingnew An example can be, when you are in pain, you desire to not be in pain. It is not that the pain is what causes suffering, it is that you desire to not be in pain which causes suffering.

To desire for existence, is also said "to desire to be..." and to desire for non-existence is "to desire not to be..." and just apply the part "be" to any thing which one can desire to be or not be.

[teo1000t]

@anythingnew You have to feel it! Its impossible to explain

[anythingnew]

@teo1000t Oh, I understand it now thanks for Xemnas and suicidal thoughts.

[thepathdvd]

watch for The PATH on DVD this spring

[1130mack]

It's like acting, Co-Dependent is the internal, let - go external (ex. Depenedent Origination.) Or like Bono sing's " What you need right now, you won't need it now ".

[1130mack]

Having insight to the 4 Noble truth's. One has shed away false egoes. The next step is acknowledging the 8 Fold Path starting with cessation of actions from negative action. Renunciating/ detachment is a great way to start practicing, you don't have to give up everything. Give up, that you know isn't true to yourself, such as grasping/clinging cessation.Thus gaining Jhana.

[1130mack]

Meditation practice is essential, meditation is not happening with rhythem, do an active activity than come back to see the flow is going.

[yadsik]

The term desire is a rough translation of Tanha, which means literally thirst or craving. There are explicitly three types of this type of desire, desire for sensuality, desire for existence, desire for non-existence (i.e. revulsion).

While one engages in desire for enlightenment, it is not going to continue turning the wheel of samsara because the goal is not worldly, it is not existent, not non-existent, not both or neither. Generally that aspiration isn't called Tanha, but Bodhicitta.

[1980theone]

@yadsik So, even if I "desire" to become enlightened I can still be enlightened without that "desire" at the beginning blocking me from it?

[yadsik]

@1980theone Yes, because the classification of that desire is different. The causes, nature, and results of the desire for enlightenment are wholly different from desire in the sense of the term 'tanha.' That is, they do not cause attachment to and perpetuation of the causes of suffering.

[EJOLovesMyspace]

@yadsik It is still a desire. It seems to me that Buddhism contradicts itself. The whole point of Buddhism is to gain Happiness/Nirvana/joy. That is a desire. All men have this desire. They try to rid themselves of DESIRE, to achieve//fulfill their DESIRE, Nirvana?

[yadsik]

@EJOLovesMyspace It is not desire which is the problem. Forget you ever heard the word desire in Buddhism.

The problem is Tanha. And the wish to be free from tanha cannot come through tanha, but through uppekka. Equanimity gained from tranquillising the bodily and mental habits in meditation. If you wished to be free from tanha via tanha, you would not achieve equanimity nor would you engage in meditation. You would frustrate yourself in a downward spiral of stress.

[yadsik]

@EJOLovesMyspace To see how this works, try sitting in a relaxed position in a quiet room. Observe your breath, how it flows in and out, and whenever you notice it flowing 'in' tranquillise your body and mind, and when you notice it flowing 'out' tranquillise your body and mind. Whenever you notice tension arise in your body or your mind being distracted, just return to the breath and tranquillise the distraction.

Nirvana is something which can only be known by 'letting go' even desire for it

[miniwarrior7]

@EJOLovesMyspace The point of buddhism isn't to gain Happiness or joy It is to be free of all wants..I think of it as clearing your mind almost

[monicauk30]

Thank you, Yadsik, for posting this video. Detachment, Nekkhamma - whatever term you prefer - is as essential to me as is the air I breathe. I've lived the attached life long enough to know better. May I please, Yadsik, wish you all the best. Have a wonderful day or night.

[VikingNinjitsu]

maybe someone can help me with this. the buddha said suffering is caused by desire, but if i walk under a tree and a tree branch falls on my head, isn't that suffering that wasn't caused by desire?

[yadsik]

Essentially, if you go through the stages of dependant origination, you will see how desire links to such sensations.

Desire causes Attachment. Attachment results in suffering because when you are departed from that which you like, stress arises, and when you are connect with that you are attached to negatively, stress arises. (Stress in the general meaning of the word).

When the branch hits your head, you are departed from the attachment to a painless head. Desire caused the attachment.

[tbalsillie]

Wonderful, thanks for posting this.

[iscream22]

Yes. Good Job.  The music and backgrounds are fantastic!

[ScrumpyMan2009]

Arh. But Ultimately it be the scrumpy don't it? All be well quoting these jhanary factors this and that way but that just show 'ee don't know the back arse of a badger from a turnip doughnit? It be applied thought, sustained thought, 'appiness, bliss and unification o' mind it be. And then with the abandoning of applied and sustained thought 'ee moight enter "joy" being 'appiness and bliss accompanied boi unification o'mind. Subsequent bliss, and later one moight say just unification.

[yadsik]

Unification with what?

[stlyes]

No Soul?

Ha!

I beg to differ...

[yadsik]

???

[stlyes]

Your video said the there is no self, no soul, no spirit and no person? And I think that's just bullshit. How can one not have a soul. the physical world around us is an illusion of vibrational frequencies interrupted by our brain, that includes are bodies and even our own brain itself. So in this world all that is real beyond the physical is our soul; chakras of love and the emotion of acceptance and the main hidden Truth that humanity often contradicts which is unity and oneness with all

[yadsik]

ONE: Actually, with investigation, there is not thing to be called the self. We mistakenly call a conglomeration of activities in our consciousness the self, that is what I am referring to. Also, there cannot be found, or pointed out, one unchanging consciousness, all aspects of it are in flux and changing according to the environment. It's aspects are manifold, but can be summed down in the five aggregates of: Form, Feeling, Perception, Volition and Consciousness, that is ...

[yadsik]

a series of rapidly changing interconnected discrete acts of cognizance. These are the five 'Skandhas' meaning, bundles or aggregates. With the idea, or definition of the self being an unchanging, eternal entity, one cannot find that present, in form, feeling, perception or consciousness. Now as for your idea that there is some real world beyond the physical, well you cannot prove that, it is just a philosophical stance. No-Self is not a philosophical stance, it is a existential observation.

[cannabishead4420]

Wonderfuly video!