Guided Buddhist Meditations

Dhamma on Air #34 Audio: Solitude versus Superstition Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J8_f9D0Pa0 Dhamma Questions answered: Question 105: Did the Buddha ever mention the Earth as a globe, or as a flat surface? Question 106: Those who chant "Namyo Ho Renge Kyo" are they true Buddhist? Question 107: What ARE we apart from form, feeling, perception, construction & consciousness? Question 108: Can Mara invade your dreams? Question 109: How to deal with a cheater? On Nama-Rupa = Naming and forming = The Siamese twins: http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The_Siamese_Twins.htm One should wander solitary as a Rhinoceros Horn: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/The_Rhinoceros_Horn.htm Giving Food (Dana) is advantageous here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dana_via_Keels.htm If U wish 2 Support these Buddhist Videos/Audios: https://www.patreon.com/samahita All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com Created by Samahita Thera: Email: bhante.samahita@gmail.com Website: https://what-buddha-said.net Patreon: http://patreon.com/samahita Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/dhammavideo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samahita.thera Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita Google+: https://plus.google.com/+SamahitaThera/posts Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BhikkhuSamahita LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhikkhu-samahita-a57a2b15 Info: http://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=Bhikkhu_Samahita Google Earth Coordinates: Knuckles Forest Reserve, The Cypress Hermitage North 7.415220, East 80.792573 http://plus.google.com/+WhatbuddhasaidNet_Cypress_Hermitage/about https://www.google.lk/maps/@7.4148533,80.792462,297m/data=!3m1!1e3

Dhamma on Air #33 Audio: Emergence from Emptiness.. Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMAcBEK6FxM Dhamma Questions answered: Question 100: What praxis leads to the experience of Emptiness (suññata)? Question 101: How does Consciousness (viññana) produce Form/Matter (rupa)? Question 102: Is it true that meditation helps improving our past bad karma? Question 103: What to do to minimize craving, greed, lust, and desire? Question 104: Are there good and bad desires? The Emptiness of the No-self--No-Substance (Anatta) Doctrine: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm MN 121: Cula-suññata Sutta — The Lesser Discourse on Emptiness {M iii 104} https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/mn/mn.121.than.html MN 122: Maha-suññata Sutta — The Greater Discourse on Emptiness {M iii 109} https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/mn/mn.122.than.html Observation itself induces the object: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Observation_induces_the_Object.htm Good Karma now improves bad past Karma: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Kamma_is_improvable.htm Disgust-Meditation (Asubha-bhavana) reducing greed, lust, and desire: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Disgust.htm The 2 kinds of Desire: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Two_kinds_of_Desire.htm If you wish to become a Patron of these Buddhist Videos: https://www.patreon.com/samahita All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma Questions answered: Q95: Venerable Sir, for the benefit of Devas and Humans, can you please talk about the 37 wings to Awakening, and the benefits they give anyone, who cultivates them? Q96: In Asia there is a "hungry ghost festival" in the 7th lunar month, where one of filial piety to help one's deceased mother and father offer food to the Sangha, so if they have been reborn in hungry ghost Peta realm, then they would gain a better rebirth next time. Is that in accordance with the Dhamma, or is it blind superstition? Q97: Is working at a cafe that stocks meat products wrong livelihood? Q98: Where does the visual consciousness arise: In the cornea, lens or retina? Q99: If unaware of their ego would people then not pay attention to others? Or is this ignorance? The 7 Sets, which produce Enlightenment: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Sets.htm Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-ilVwd0aOM If you wish to become a Patron of these Buddhist Videos: https://www.patreon.com/samahita All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma Questions answered: Question 90: a: Is practicing martial arts yourself breaking the first precept not to kill? b: What about martial arts teachers showing others how to harm? Question 91: a: Is there a difference in generosity when giving from oneself (donations, etc..) or when someone asks for money? Difference is the sense of merit, or other... b: What about loaning money? Generally it seems and uncomfortable when the loaner cannot later pay back. Please share your thoughts on this. Question 92: When a lay person is seriously following the Noble Eight Fold Path, a) Does his inclination or appetite for worldly targets or achievements gradually decrease? b) If yes how does he find motivation to remain engaged in his job related matters, most of which nowadays are driven by craving to achieve more and more worldly gains. c) When one is progressing on the spiritual path one is getting enough fulfillment which is more refined in nature and is therefore losing motivation for worldly things which now is understood as irrelevant for that person. Is it so? Question 93: How to overcome mental distractions and thought noise? Question 94: Why each Buddha has to rediscover the path of enlightenment every time and why can't the predecessor Buddha give his knowledge to successor Buddha? The Buddha on the Searches of life: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Searches.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.252.than.html The Removal of Distractions: Majjhima 20 https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/How_to_Remove_Distracting_Thoughts.htm The Removal of Distracting Thoughts: Full text and commentary by the late Soma Thera is here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Wheels/wh021.pdf Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m34aE1_F6xM If you wish to become a Patron of these Buddhist Videos: https://www.patreon.com/samahita All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Discrete Consciousness =~ Discrete Space-time =~ Causal Sets Dhamma Questions answered: Question 85: Venerable Sir, whenever I go I always hear rude and offensive language, at home, at school, at the mall. Unfortunately this rude and offensive language hangs on in my mind, and then my mind feels very dirty, bad, evil, and weak. How not to think in offensive language although I do not say it verbally? Question 86: I have read that Venerable Monks and Nuns are not allowed to use or accept money, since that is against the monastic discipline they obey. Please clarify this issue. Question 87: What about when the Buddha foretold about King Pasenadis dreams is that being a "fortune-teller" or dependent upon "astrology" Is that right livelihood for a monastic? Question 88: I remembered that I forgot to pay $5 for locker hire at a previous high school. I emailed the high school to pay back the $5 I promised to pay at the time. They said "Thanks very much but you don’t need to pay." Venerable Monk, would you call this situation a act of stealing? Question 89: How to advert one's attention to the non-local aspect of individual consciousness? What is Right Speech: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Speech.htm Factors, Links, and Keys to Stream Entry: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_4_Doors.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/The_6_Keys.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/The_4_Steps_to_Stream-Entry.htm All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Corresponding video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L1kP0OyAqY Repairing the Past is Fixing the Future! Question 80: I am extremely nervous when I have to talk in front of an audience. Is that a defilement? How can i work through it? Question 81: Isn't the highest giving, giving of the Dhamma... ? Question 82: What are the karmic consequence of arguing and back-biting with one's parents? Question 83: I have a friend who isn't Buddhist. She is not a good friend in terms of morality, she drinks, she watches bad movies etc. However, despite of these weaknesses, she did do good things to me like being with me at tough times, giving me gifts. She is most of the time a nuisance and is very rude to me at times. Should I end this friendship with her? Question 84: I've seen people in social media spreading bad views on Buddhism. I have tried my best to correct them however, they do not seem to understand their mistakes. Should I continue despite of their negative comments? Back to Basics: The 5 Precepts https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Back_to_Basics.htm Know that patience (khanti) is the highest praxis and 6th Mental Perfection https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Patient_is_Tolerance.htm Online Food Dana = Food donation via Keels Supermarket: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dana_via_Keels.htm All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma Questions answered: Question 65: Why are only males able to become SammasamBuddhas? Question 66: What is the difference between Theravada Buddhism and Zen Buddhism? Question 77: Is active death-help a heinous crime for the relative, or the hospital-worker? Question 78: Are relics, churches, statues, etc. and other religious symbols essential? Does a formless form of being exist? Question 79: If a person, impelled by karmic effects of the past, does something wrong to another person, will a new karma be created or will it stop there? Online Food Dana = Food donation via Keels Supermarket: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dana_via_Keels.htm All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Questions and Answers are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93zON0ABa5w Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Corresponding video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcXliDJeW1w Dhamma Questions answered: Question 59: Do you know if the Buddha did any talks on the conception of time? What exactly were the Buddha's thoughts on the time and space continuum? Question 60: In the Mahayana tradition there are many Buddhas e.g. Amitabha, Avalokiteswara etc. Are these 'types of Buddhas' genuine or fiction? Question 61: Is it possible to awaken as Arahant meditating only on lovingkindness or are other meditation techniques also necessary? Question 62: Are the amount of bad kamma of killing a person, who don't keep the 5 precepts, and one who do indeed respect the 5 precepts, the same? Question 63: Is the bad kamma of killing a mosquito and an Elephant the same? Question 64: How does the Buddha-Dhamma vanish from this world? On Clinging: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_4_kinds_of_Clinging.htm Pictures of the SpaceTime Onion: https://what-buddha-said.net/Pics/spacetime_onion2.png https://what-buddha-said.net/Pics/spacetime_onion.jpg Picture of Quantized Planck-Time Blinking Many-Worlds: https://what-buddha-said.net/Pics/Blinking_Existence_discrete_time_manyworld.jpg If you wish to become a Patron supporting these Buddhist Videos and Audios: https://www.patreon.com/samahita All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Corresponding video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyERFyJh54s Dhamma Questions answered: Question 54: How to know, which of the 40 meditation objects is the most suited for me? Question 55: I sometimes feel stream entry, but later I lose the stream entry state of mind? Question 56: Please tell us about the 16 knowledges of a Stream-Entrant. Question 57: What can one do with regard to non-Buddhist family and relatives? Question 58: Are there specific things we can do to cultivate Right Livelihood? Further study of Buddhist Right Livelihood (Samma-Ajiva): https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Livelihood.htm The 40 Classic Meditations https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/The_40_Meditations.htm The Noble Eightfold Path and its Factors Explained (Magganga-dipani) by The Venerable Ledi Sayadaw https://what-buddha-said.net/library/Wheels/wh245.pdf The Classic Meditation Manual: The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdfs/PathofPurification2011.pdf The shorter Path of Freedom: Vimuttimagga https://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/Path_of_Freedom.Vimuttimagga.pdf If you wish to become a Patron supporting these Buddhist Videos and Audios: https://www.patreon.com/samahita All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma on Air #25 Audio: The 10 indeterminable questions Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6XkNNwaSDM Dhamma Questions answered: Q52: Why did the Buddha refuse to answer the 14 unanswered questions? The 10 indeterminable questions (avyaakata = unanswerable) are: 1: Is the universe eternal? 2: Is the universe not eternal? 3: Is the universe finite? 4: Is the universe infinite? 5: After death, does a Buddha continue to exist? 6: After death, does a Buddha not continue to exist? 7: After death, does a Buddha both continue to exist and not to exist? 8: After death, does a Buddha neither continue to exist, nor not to exist? 9: Are the body and the “self/soul/mind” the same entity (mind-brain dilemma)? 10: Are the body and the “self/soul/mind” fully separable, and different entities? Q53-A: What is good intention? Q53-B: Does it matter whether one does abstain from doing evil: A: Due to Awareness of a detrimental state such as envy, fear, pride, or anger? or B: From analysis seeing the painful kammic consequences of that evil behaviour? See Also: What is indeterminable and irresolvable? https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Undeclared.htm AN 7.51 PTS: A iv 67 Avyakata Sutta: Undeclared https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/an/an07/an07.051.than.html MN 63 PTS: M i 426 Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta: The Shorter Instructions to Malunkya https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/mn/mn.063.than.html MN 72 PTS: M i 483 Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta: To Vacchagotta on Fire https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/mn/mn.072.than.html All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyVijoNjrZo Dhamma Questions answered: Q47: Has Lord Buddha ever said studying Universes, Stars and Galaxies is a useless thing? Q48: Has Lord Buddha ever said starting of Mankind happened from the evolution of Apes? Q49: How did the planet Earth and mankind emerge according to Lord Buddha? Q50: How does the End of the world and universe happen according to Lord Buddha? Q51: Please explain the universal cosmology briefly according to Lord Buddhas Discourses? Long Speeches of the Buddha. Digha Nikaya 27 on Genesis and Cosmology: The Aggañña Sutta: On Understanding the Beginning. Book: The Long Discourses of the Buddha. 1996 Fair Digha Nikaya translation by Maurice Walshe. http://store.pariyatti.org/Long-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1542.html Links to Buddhist Cosmology https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html Be a Supporting Patron of these Buddhist Videos and Audios: https://www.patreon.com/samahita All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma on Air #23 audio: Vesak and Right Effort Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6yQOchQdjA Dhamma Questions answered: Question 42: What is the true meaning of Viriyena dukkhamacceti? Question 43: Did the Buddha communicate with Devas in Pali? Question 44: Should merit be passed on to the hungry ghosts by reciting Pali? Question 45: If having done "Papanthariya Kamma" can one escape Hell before the end of this Aeon? Question 46: Is modern popular "Mindfulness" the same as Buddhist Mindfulness or Awareness (Sati)? What is Right Effort defined as: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Effort.htm What is Right Awareness, Mindfulness, the 4 Frames of Reference: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm If you wish to support these Buddhist audios & videos: https://www.patreon.com/samahita All Dhamma on Air videos are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm All Dhamma on Airs MP3 audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYG9C7eQiP4 Dhamma-Questions answered: Q36: Do you have some instructions for the first try of meditation? Q37: Please explain the rarity of human rebirth, and the emergence of a Buddha Q38: How does one develop insight into making big decisions about life and career? Q39: What exactly constitutes right livelihood? Q40: Please comments on this 2 statements : " There are so many mental consciousness that can not be counted " and " The body of human being does not have only one consciousness." Q41: Is there any way we can reconnect with our own pure consciousness in order to have a clear heart and mind. What is Right Livelihood (Samma-Ajiva)?: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Livelihood.htm On Consciousness (Viññana) please check: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Consciousness.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/What_is_Consciousness.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vinnaana.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Momentary_Consciousness.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vinnaana.htm All Dhamma on Air MP4 Videos are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma on Air #21: Right View vs. Nihilism Dhamma Questions answered: Q1: How do offerings of flowers and incense to the Buddha's relics create merit? Q1: How does Buddhism look on, and regard Nihilism? Q3: Is possession of all materials, wife, and children considered as clinging? Q4: How to explain that Jataka texts mentions Animals, and Trees as talking? Q5: What did the Buddha say on rebirth, and its causes? On Right View (Samma Ditthi) please see: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_is_Right_View.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/mn/mn.009.ntbb.html Corresponding YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxn00BznEe4 All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma on Air #20: Relics, Passions, Dreams, and Aliens Corresponding video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1by6-YINvc Dhamma Question uestions answered: Question 1: Why are beings born with different levels of passions? (Pride, Anger, Greed, and Lust) Question 2: Why do they realize early or late in their life the adverse effects of these passions? Question 3: What are the remaining Relics after Lord Buddha Gotama? Question 4: What is Bhante's idea about Dreams according to Buddhism? Question 5: If there were alien life in space how can and would they contact us? Would they contact some humans with special abilities? Is Buddhists a kind of ambassadors, mediators or translators to these life-forms? On the last days of the historical Buddha Siddhattha Gotama: Digha Nikaya #16: Maha-parinibbana Sutta — The Last Days of the Buddha: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/dn/dn.16.1-6.vaji.html DN 16 as paperback: https://store.pariyatti.org/Last-Days-of-the-Buddha-BP213S_p_1469.html A fair Digha Nikaya translation by Maurice Walshe. http://store.pariyatti.org/Long-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1542.html Buddha's Last Days: Buddhaghosa's Commentary on the Mahaparinibbana Sutta by Yang-Gyu An https://store.pariyatti.org/Buddhas-Last-Days-The_p_2377.html Analysis of DN16: Mission Accomplished http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/mission-accomplished.pdf All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Question uestions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Question uestions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com