Bhante Gunaratana (1) What is samatha-vipassana? Part 1: sam

[Radiatingcow]

i BELIEVE

[garouHH]

@Radiatingcow Why?

[hearts0ngs]

Bhante G, please visit Melbourne, Australia!

[hearts0ngs]

Bhante G speaks from experience. He does not just repeat what he has heard, he has lived it, IMO. A true realized teacher, in this age of so many dubious ones.

[bengchicago]

Is this talk available for download as an mp3 or some such thing?

[dharmasack]

Bhante G has a ten foot dharma dick! I love this guy!

[DiGiTaLdAzEDM]

Seems kind of inappropriate to be ending all of these vids on meditation with a promotion of Veoh media player. What's next--meditation videos brought to you by Visa?

[dhammatube]

We had to upload the clips in that way and it was added automatically. Now we stopped using Veoh for this...

[ignorence]

hazel hall tower bell

all truth is one. in this light, may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind, from darkness to light, from narrowness to broad mindedness, from prejudice to tolerance. it is the voice of life which calls us to learn...

youtube - Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind

meditation is for mind is what a microscope is for a science - me

[DiGiTaLdAzEDM]

Thank-you for the explanation. I have reached a point where I no longer feel inclined to be affiliated with any tradition--but the views and beliefs which led me to be interested in Buddhism many years ago have not changed. I am becoming more profoundly aware with the passage of time how little I actually 'Know' in the strict ananlytical sense of that word. I shall visit your channel from time to time--thank you for the many videos.

[suffering44]

It is good that you have love but you must understand you should follow science and religon in balance, not to omit science.

[windmoveswater]

@suffering44 you should utterly dismiss religion. Religion is a belief in god, it's entirely unnecessary unless you don't meditate. imo

[pensivethought]

@windmoveswater

Do you know who/what God is?

[windmoveswater]

@pensivethought Yes.

[sccoast1700]

Thanks for putting this teaching on youtube.

I never heard of Bhante Gunarantana until today. I was on Wisdom Publications website and saw some of his books. It was happy to see him on video. I want to read more of his books. I like the way he explains things.

[suffering44]

no one can ever describe truth, There is a formal proof that I can give.

[threelegduck]

why he not grow beard?  why monk shaves head?

[NViriya]

Monks shave hair off their bodies. Every single hair.

[threelegduck]

it must be tough to be a monk in the dead of winter

[NViriya]

Oh ya no doubt.

[tlowe123]

Dont listen to this hippie nigger years of starvationj has altered his brain

[JwoTHEgreat]

if you dont like the vid. dont watch it. you think this guy would waste his time hating on you?  youtube haters are broadband trash

[Shainovich]

onetocome is an idiot...

[onetocome]

This guy doesn't live in the real world. Meditation is useless nonsense, go get a job an contribute to the economy, instead of hiding in the forest and looking like a monk.

[yugen]

lol most jobs do damage to the economy by means of creating greater wealth disparities, using up fossil fuels, doing damage to the planet, etc.

[onetocome]

buddha was as ignorant as his followers, the force of nature changed his perspectives without him knowing it, and then he thought that he was enlightened.

[yugen]

I don't think you're right about that. "Actions occur, things are done, but there is no individual doer thereof". - buddha paraphrase.

[onetocome]

You don't understand, buddha didn't have the answers, what he saw and experience made him do what he did, therefore he was not enlightened. Jesus had the answers, answers like no other man in history. Another thing, buddha was not holy, neither is the dali lama. If all man are God, why do buddhist have a leader, why aren't all of you leaders, why aren't all of you god's. And you are god, why are you following another pagan monkey. You don't need budhha, you need a beer, get a life.

[suffering44]

you are right, but Buddha taught two kinds of buddhism, one is for people and the other one is for monks. He never told people to go to the jungle and meditate. He said very philosophical things. Buddha was deep thinker. The people who go to temple and meditate are people who got sad in life and about to give up everything. of cause there are some theives but generally thats the case.

[onetocome]

philosophy is useless, truth is what matters. That's right they go to temple because they are loosers, they can't cope with reality, that's why buddhism is nonsense, it's easy to sit just sit around all day and do nothing but dream. Wake up people. On the contrary, Jesus taught reality and the realities of life, he didn't tell his disciples to go and sit around doing nothing, they risk their life for the truth. Meditation is useless nonsense.

[suffering44]

well people who went to the temple are the people who didnt want to live with the others like drinking and eating and having sex because they got fed up with that. That is why Buddha tauht two kinds of Buddhism for normal people and monks.

If you use the word "truth" you are in a big trouble because you tell me what is "truth"

[onetocome]

So the answer to drinking and eating and having sex is to seclude yourself and go to the temple. This is a humanistic and stupid philosophy, man's philosphy. There is no wisdom in it. Jesus never told anyone to stop eating, drinking or having sex. How ridiculous is this, how can you not eat. And whats wrong with sex, you people are confused. Jesus is the leveler, he is the truth, meaning that there is no other philosophical answer, he is and has the truth.

[suffering44]

no man people who go and become monks are people who dont want those things- for example mothers who are about to go crazy because they lost everything children husbond, how can they live drinking and eating when children have died?. just just up man i got fed up talking to you. every religon is wrong

nonethles your philosophy is dumb

[onetocome]

You were the one that said that they got fed up with the pleasures of life. You are right every religion is wrong, Jesus is right.

[suffering44]

Jesus is only another religon. If you were a muslim you would say Allah is right. Its only a matter of place of your birth not a fact that you will make a sematic difference. Every religon is wrong. and Science is right. But religons had Cosmology from which mathematics ad science came. Religon is only the begining of thinking, which evolved in to other things. But question of truth or God is still unknown

[suffering44]

well science is atleast the most logical thing.

I personally believe there is nothing called yes or no, everything is in fractions

[onetocome]

YOu don't know what you say. Love is science, yet science doesn't understand love, explain that. If you don't love you hate that's science for you right there, but neither you nor any scientist has a clue as to what love is or how it works. Since you are such a scientist, I want you to explain love to me in a scientific way. I'll be waiting for ever. Lol...........

[suffering44]

Science is the name given for the study of things with logical reasoning it takes time. Still scientists might not have found a lot of things in the complex systemof life, but before scientists found out that heart stop is not death, you religous people burried people alive. Science is what made you survive other wise you would be burried just bcause your heart stopped. Yet there is no certain point to declare as dead. Brain death is the end.

[LazyJLazy]

@suffering44

You cannot say science is right and religion is wrong like a dichotomy. Science is the study of reality through Physical and obervable evidence. Buddhism (which I refuse to call a religion because there is no BELIEF system--it encourages you to test out the teaachings and not assume them to be true) is the science of the intangible, the mind, the reality of existence through our own experiences.

[thou9009]

@LazyJLazy Or, as I like to look at it, the brain. Regular meditation can change the structure of your brain and encourane neurogenesis.

[suffering44]

you know I can proove to you that no one in the world knows what is "true" if he is a norml person like you.

You cannot apply the rules in your religon and proove E=Mc^2 can you?

so why are you saying your religon has the truth?

[onetocome]

How old are you? I didn't say what is true, but truth. I don't have a religion, I have a believe system just like you. I want you too show me where did I said that my religion is truth, I never said such nonsense. I said that Jesus is the truth and has the truth and Jesus is not a religion.

[suffering44]

well I didnt study any big physics but

I used it because its the only thing that came in to my mind at least you know s=ut+1/2at^2 and we proove that using rules that religon books dont have. anywas religon means believing in a god and say he has the truth.

But to talk about god or truth, our minds are limited (and I can reason that because we cannot derive rules from the same rule)

and what we are doing here in this page is useless.

[Tharmasunderam]

Well I did study Physics to a high level, hence I know Science has not answers to all questions. There is a lot science cannot explain. Also Buddha is not a 'God', he was an enlightened human being. What my views about Science and Religion/s were the same as yours, until I was in my mid twenties. Now I am in my sixties, having collected high level degrees in Science along the way, I have different views now. Keep practising meditation. Self realization is the ultimate rung in Maslow's Hierarchy.

[IhaveAspaceSuit]

somebody give him a mic, the birds are too loud, i can't really hear too well, i'm sure for others it's ok.

[Paxcounate]

Do you really have a space suit? I'd like to see it.

[bbll225]

yes

[Discharg3]

They must be recording this in an aviary.

[eon1968]

Clear as life: such a man is a blessing, and makes me wish to do my work for a better future for all of us human beeings... Thanks for sharing!

[robbanisdabest]

nice words!

[TedinCorrales]

Excellent explanation of right concentration, from a most esteemed teacher.