Guided Buddhist Meditations

Dhamma on Air #19: Meditation increases IQ Corresponding Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcic2b_Jhb8 Dhamma Questions answered: Q1: After gaining Stream Entrance, does the fruit of one's Kamma accelerate? Q2: After gaining Stream Entrance, does Mara attack you more aggressively? Q3: What and how is the Asura Angry Demon Realm? Q4: Are we a sort of a non-local hologram of an information? Q5: Does meditation increase the intelligence quotient (IQ)? On Asuras = Angry Demons: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/ay/asura.htm Science on Meditation increases the intelligence quotient: Reference A Immediate and Long-term Effects of Meditation on Acute Stress Reactivity, Cognitive Functions, and Intelligence Singh, Yogesh, MD; Sharma, Ratna, PhD; Talwar, Anjana, MD. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine18.6 (Nov/Dec 2012): 46-53. Reference B Zeidan, F., et al. Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: Evidence of brief mental training. Consciousness and Cognition (2010), doi:10.1016/j.concog.2010.03.014 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=VaBlXQKMju0 Dhamma Questions answered: Q1: What are the 5 aggregates, the 5 clusters of clinging (=the 5 khandhas): Are these 5 clusters a karmic result, or a just guide to understanding no-self (anatta)? Q2: Do you have a description of the hungry ghost beings & dimensions (peta worlds)? Q3: Is there a meta-fundamental, all underlying, & metaphysical "ground of all being"? Q4: Is the conception of egg + sperm-cell enough to create a new conscious being? Q5: Does the rebirth destination match with the karmic accumulation of the dead person? Q6: If the Buddha spoke against blind ritualism, why is there many rituals in Buddhist culture? Q7: Is "personal life" just a belief in an entity called "I" or "me", which conceives good & bad? All Dhamma on Airs: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm Related links: http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Ghosts_Petas.htm http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/pu/peta_vatthu.htm http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Hungry_Ghost_Rebirth.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Dependent_Origination.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/paticca_samuppaada.htm Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma on Air #17 Audio: Reincarnation Research Rebirth Links: https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Kamma_and_Rebirth.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Rebirth_and_Kamma.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_passes_on_by_Rebirth-Linking.htm Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luoDNRbsl4E All prior Dhamma Audios are here: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/Talks/Dhamma_Talks.htm All prior Dhamma on Air Videos are here: https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm Please email New Dhamma Questions to: bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma on Air #16 audio: Rebirth Transmigration https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/dhamma-on-air-16-audio Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQpXIT1_JDI Dhamma Questions answered: Question 1: Do we still have the Gotama Buddha’s True Dhamma teachings intact? Question 2: How to cure sorrow over death, and thus separation from loved family? Question 3: Does the mental state of the death moment determine the rebirth destination? Question 4: Did the Buddha tell how, and when beings, and the Cosmos began to exist? Question 5: How to maintain emotional balance, and calm in conflict situations? Question 6: If there is no self, how does one transcend/reincarnate into a new existence? Question 7: Will and can prayers, and mantra-repetition improve any individual's future? Question 8: Can a lay person achieve Enlightenment without becoming a monk or nun? On the 1st Buddhist Council year 483 BC: http://dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=First_Buddhist_council https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/sa/sattapanniguha.htm Rebirth Links: https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Kamma_and_Rebirth.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Rebirth_and_Kamma.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_passes_on_by_Rebirth-Linking.htm Please send new questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma on Air #15: The Mental and the Mind-Made Body Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NknciEnDsAw Dhamma-questions answered: Q1: How to redirect myself away from always seeking sense pleasure? Q2: What advice would you give about becoming a monk? Q3: When Buddha talked about the flame that goes out, what was he referring to? The extinguishing of all craving, and all defilements, or something else? Q4: The organic human body is maintained by biological and neural processes. Is the "Clear Light" of consciousness caused by these biological and neural activities? Q5: How could MahaMoggallana visit other worlds without a self, soul, or astral body? Was it a form of lucid dreaming, or something else? Q6: How to properly remove broken Buddha statues in a suitable way? Q7: Why did the blessed Buddha not allow women to ordain, when first requested? Q8: Why are all historic Buddhist events celebrated on poya/uposatha/observance days? Q9: Is consuming a glass of red wine breaking the 5th training-rule (of the 5 Pancha-Sila precepts)? Please email new questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma on Air #14 Corresponding video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF-m7FuFzII Dhamma Questions answered: Question 1: Are the 5 hindrances caused by having a physical body? Question 2: Can formless beings experience desire without contact as a requisite? Question 3: How long time can there be between Sotapatti Magga (path) and Sotapatti phala (fruit)? Question 4: What can a person do to shorten this gap? Question 5: Why is there this time gap between magga and phala? Why do some gain Path and Fruit at the same time? Question 6: What exactly is this Sotapanna Phala (fruit)? Is it a state of Jhanic bliss, or is it something different like Nibbanic peace? Does one experience it during meditation, or while walking, standing? How long does the experience of Phala fruit last? Question 7: Are there any stories in Tipitaka that describes attaining Sotapatti phala (fruit)? Question 8: Have you ever met a person or monk, who has attained some magic abhinnas? Did you witness such super-human powers? Can you share with us some interesting stories? On the 5 Mental Hindrances (nivarana): https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_5_Mental_Hindrances.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/niivarana.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/library/Wheels/wh026.pdf On Stream-Entry (Sotapatti-Magga and Fruit-phala): https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_4_Doors.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Extensive_Fruit.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/phala.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Helpers_to_Stream_Entry.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sotaapanna.htm Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com Dhamma on Air from earlier: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm

Dhamma on Air #13 Audio: The Three Jewels Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ubN1mqzZ2M SoundCloud App on Mobile https://soundcloud.com/mobile Dhamma Questions answered: Question 1: What is meant by: “Mind being in the heart“? Question 2: Why can the great element water (Apo-dhatu) = fluidity not be directly sensed? Question 3: Please explain the pali text on Lord Buddha: "Iti pi so bhagava araham ..." Question 4: Please explain the pali text on the Dhamma: "Svakkhato Bhagavata dhammo ..." Question 5: Please explain the pali text on the Sangha : "Supatipanno Bhagavato savakasangho ..." Question 6: How to be reborn in a higher than human world and still practice Vipassana? Question 7: Did the Buddha ever speak about the "wonder of life"? Question 8: Please explain why a Noble does not feel sad by all beings’ suffering in Samsara. The 3 Jewels (Tiratana): https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/The_Three_Jewels.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Jewels.htm The 31 levels of Existence: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html All prior Dhamma Audios are here: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/Talks/Dhamma_Talks.htm All prior Dhamma on Air Videos are here: https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm Please email New Dhamma Questions to: bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Corresponding Youtube Video of this Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8MN6Dg8x8 Dhamma Questions answered: Q1: What is Sankhara-upekkha-ñana. Can a layperson achieve it? Q2: How is equanimity different from nihilism or depression? Q3: Can a person who has achieved stream entrance break the 5 precepts? Q4: If one forgive others for harms done, would that reduce their karmic effects? Q5: How should one behave in order to be reborn in a higher than human world? Q6: Is there any supreme power except the soul? Q7: What is cuti citta? How can one gain a good cuti citta at the death-moment? Cuti-citta: 'death-consciousness', lit. 'departing consciousness', is one of the 14 functions of consciousness (viññana-kicca). https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_passes_on_by_Rebirth-Linking.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Rebirth.htm Sankhara-upekkha-ñana = is Knowing indifference regarding all constructions. All prior Dhamma Audios are here: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/Talks/Dhamma_Talks.htm All prior Dhamma on Air Videos are here: https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm Please email New Dhamma Questions to: bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma Questions answered: Q1: How to come to understand suffering? Q2: Adultery induces rebirth as homosexual. Source text? Other causal karmic relations? Q3: When we are reborn as humans, are one into the future, or can we be reborn into the past? Q4: Isn't attachment to a jhana meditation absorption also a form of clinging? Q5: How can lay people gain deeper peace, when still craving for primitive things like sex? Q6: Did Buddha said anything about euthanasia of humans and animals? Q7: Should one participate in politics if there are political wrong doings that makes people suffer. Q8: To quit alcohol and tobacco is there any Dhamma-medicine or meditation-method? Q8: If Mara is performing evil actions, shouldn't he had destroyed himself karmically by now? Q9: What makes the effect of kamma manifest as good or bad future? The 5 Destinations: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/The_5_Destinations.htm The Manual on the 5 Destinations (Pañcagatidipani): https://store.pariyatti.org/Journal-Pali-Text-Society-Vol-11_p_2026.html The realm of the Hungry Ghosts (Petavatthu) and The seats of the Divine Devas (Vimannavatthu): https://store.pariyatti.org/Minor-Anthologies-Vol-4-Stories-of-the-Mansions-Stories-of-the-Departed_p_2090.html Audio Dhamma Talks on Kamma: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/qarma-mechanics-i https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/qarma-mechanics-ii https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/qarma-mechanics-iii Video of this audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NOscY15314 Please send new questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

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Dhamma Questions answered: Q1: How to cultivate and harvest fields of plant foods according to Buddhism? Q2: Is there any explanation of the ‘double slit experiment’ via the Buddha-Dhamma? Q3: A lay man will either go forth or die at the day of awakening. Why is this so? Q4: Is addiction to Facebook, YouTube, internet-porn a 5th precept intoxicant? Q5: Why are Sakka the Chief of the Thirty-Three and the Brahma devas called 'Gods'? Q6: Are all beings above at the 31 levels of existence following the Buddha-Dhamma? The Double Slit Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXQjRBLwsQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zf29IeSb10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayMSfm2A9ro The Corresponding Video to this Audio is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCPUl10WXlE Please send new questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Video of this purely true Saddhamma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRhG9UYGK0 Dhamma Questions answered: Question 1: Does the death-moment consciousness carry the remembrance of the past lives? Question 2: Are their different Early Buddhist attainments? Tests or criteria to recognize them? Question 3: What to do with marijuana/pot/ganja/cannabis sativa abuse? Question 4: Please explain step by step praxis of universal friendship meditation. Question 5: How are the senses to be guarded in praxis if you move through a western city? Question 6: What is a Gandhabba? Are these beings everywhere, and how long do they live? On Metta Meditation on Universal Friendship check: Video: https://vimeo.com/73424140 Audio: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/metta-meditation On Gandhabbas see: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/c/caatummahaaraajikaa.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandharva Dhamma on Air from earlier can be regained here: Video: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm Audio: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/Talks/Dhamma_Talks.htm New Questions for next Dhamma on Air are welcome emailed to: bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Dhamma Radio #8: The Next Buddha and Kamma Video of this audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4rmO7duGsE Dhamma Questions answered: Question 1: How is it that after a few words some Bhikkhus attain Arahantship? Question 2: How does the forest tradition explain this short learning? Question 3: Why does a new Buddha have to come instead of the same old one? In other words, why does Metteyya have to come instead of Shakyamuni? Question 4: Is it possible to nullify the effects of previous bad kamma (from past lives and present) which might result in illness etc. through good deeds done in this life? The next Coming Buddha, Ariya Metteyya. By honourable Sayagyi U Chit Tin: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Metteyya/arimet00.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdfs/Metteyya.pdf How to meet the next Buddha Metteyya and Awaken in Bliss under him? http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/How-2-Meet_Buddha_Metteyya.htm

Dhamma Questions answered: Question 1: How does it feels when one is in first Jhāna? Question 2: How to practice in order to attain first Jhāna? Question 3: If I practice only anapanasati and not Vipasanā meditation .. Is it then possible to attain Jhāna (Sammā Samādhi)? Question 4: As laypeople living in West how do we continue to motivate ourselves to keep on developing the Noble 8-fold Way? Question 5: What is the best way to make merit out of the various ways of making merit and how does one transfer merit to a deceased relative, and how long can you do this for? Do you have to transfer merit immediately they pass away or can you keep transferring merit for a long time after? On Jhāna Absorption: http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Jhana_Absorption.htm http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Concentration.htm The Jhānas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation by Henepola Gunarathana Thera http://what-buddha-said.net/library/Wheels/wh351.pdf Video of this Dhamma-Talk: https://youtu.be/tmZvqyaRBRg

Video of this audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko7RBI71rQs Dhamma Questions answered: Question 1: There are 31 worlds in this universe, according to Buddha’s teachings, are there other universes as well? Is there such a thing as Multiverse? Question 2: Who are the 4 guardian gods, and what/who do they guard? Question 3: Is there an individual or a person called Māra/King of Death or Is he the defiled thoughts of Humans' Minds (Stinking Thinking)? Question 4: “The continuity of Dukkha relies on Kamma”. Does that mean we have to clear away all our Kamma (negative and positive) before we attain Nibbāna? Question 5: The Buddha talks about the highest form of giving to adorn and decorate the mind. In what sense and how are we to adorn and decorate the mind? Question 6: DN2 Wrong livelihood for Recluses: What was the Buddha's view on: Astrology, horoscopes, wearing of talismans, various rituals to avoid bad or evil influences of the planets on a person's life? Question 7: How long time does the mind exist for? Does mind come into existence at the start of a new universal cycle? On Mara, The Evil One, Death, The Temptor, Satan, Namuci: http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/What_is_Mara.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/maara.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/maara.htm On Horoscopes, Amulets: DN2 Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life [D i 47]: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/dn/dn.02.0.than.html