Q: "How To Stop Turning The Natural Pain Of Life Into Unnatural Suffering?
(approx. 13 minutes) KEYWORDS:"How do I get to see the resistance I am generating that turns the natural pain of life into unnatural and unnecessary suffering? Head, heart, body, relationships, stories, unlovable, guilt, refuge, goal, knowing and known, contradict, self-talk, rejection, views, heart, chest, deluded personality, physical exercise, relational level, Mahamangala Sutta , company, virtuous, community, a fortunate approximation, time to sleep, time to eat, guided meditation.
Q: As Lay People How Do We Learn To Let Go?
(approx. 14 minutes) Keywords : Right emphasis, casual culture, clinging, consequences, confidence, true principles, faith in Dhamma, Mahamangala Sutta , 3-4-5 framing, 3 Refuges, Buddha, Dhamma Sangha, 3 marks of existence, impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, not-self, chaos, order, apparent self, rainbow, 4 divine abidings, conscious caring, compassion, empathy, equanimity, storehouse of wholesomeness, 4 Noble Truths, 5 Precepts, integrity, safety, foundation, lotus, 5 spiritual faculties, potentials, cultivation.
Q: What Helpful Daily Reflections And Practices Have You Learnt?
(approx. 12 minutes) Keywords : "What daily reflections/practices did you find helpful as a junior monk?" Devotional practices, early life conditioning, joy, faith and beliefs, enquiring, poetry, prose, commitment, Mahamangala Sutta , ‘rightly aligned’, deepening, traditions, source code, right view, true principles, mentally, emotionally, physically, responsibility, foundations, highest level, Four Noble Truths, insight, imperturbability, goal, self and not-self, atta, anatta, rainbow, multidimensional awareness, ocean, evolving, morning, reciting Pali , dedication of punnya , unapologetic, greed hatred and delusion, not reasonable.
Q: What Is sangha When We Are Alone?
(approx. 13 minutes) Keywords: Companions, community, conventional emotional needs, kalyanamitta , spiritual friends, mistranslations, Three Refuges, Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, irreversible transformation, unshakeably established, arahant , ariya Sangha, symbolic sangha, foundations, The Discourse on the Greatest Blessings, Mahamangala Sutta, drug dealers, abattoir workers, internet, honouring, bowing, living in suitable places, accumulated punnya , building up a storehouse of wholesomeness, potential, rightly aligned, laws, gravity, loneliness, narrow doorway, contented aloneness.