This video was made to illustrate the Buddha's teaching on dependent co-arising or dependent origination (paticca-samuppada) which can be observed at many scales, which means that lessons drawn from observing the world (loka) can be applied to our internal experience of the six senses which makes up 'our world'. The black hole at the center of a galaxy is like the fundamental ignorance which gives rise to the formations that construct our experience in terms of consciousness being established in name & form. The Buddha compares the ongoing cycle of becoming to the process of planting seeds in fertile soil which is watered by rain. See 'The Shape of Suffering' by Thanissaro Bhikkhu http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/shapeofsuffering.pdf 'When there is this, that comes to be; with the arising of this, that arises. When there is not this, that does not come to be; with the cessation of this, that ceases. That is, because of ignorance, formations arise. Because of formations, ...
After completing the upasampada ordination ceremony, the upajjhaya (preceptor) told him: "Now the ordination is finished, but whether you are going to be a monk or not, that depends on you." The upajjhaya can only present the candidate to the Sangha and they will accept him as a new monk, but it is up to him whether he will really become a "bhikkhu".
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Ajahn Sudhiro - Advice before taking bhikkhu ordination
Ajahn Sudhiro gives advice to a man who is going to take upasampada ordination as Buddhist monk in Thailand about the right attitude one should have. See www.rightview.org
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Bhikkhu Nirodho - Restraint of the senses (indriya-samvara)
How important is sense restraint in Dhamma practice, assada-adinava-nissarana (satisfaction, drawbacks, escape), contentment, watching sensory stimulation, understanding addiction to food and sexual images.
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Ven. Gavesako Bhikkhu (Czech Republic)
Sathira-Dhammasathan, Bangkok www.sansanee.org
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In this series Tan Ajahn Jayasaro, a British monk in the Theravadan Forest Tradition of Thailand who trained with Ajahn Chah and is the former abbot of the International Forest Monastery Wat Pa Nanachat, gives information on meditation in general and Buddhist meditation in particular for people with or without meditation experience.
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