Guided Buddhist Meditations

DoA #114: Fearlessness Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfziestXAGM Question 351: @ 3:32 What is the importance of self respect in Dhamma if there is actually no self? Question 352: @ 8:04 How to introduce children to Buddhism? Question 353: @ 13:56 A: Please explain about the technique of meditation on death? B: Is there any precautions when undertaking, and how often? Thanx for your advantageous attention, clever consideration, and kind contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and especially the Regular Monthly Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm Have a Nice and Noble Day. Samahita Thera: https://what-buddha-said.net

DoA #113: Right Motivation Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R33LmAlMhMM Question 348: A: What is the exact English translation of "Samma Sankappa"? B: What is always preceding the action? intention? C: What are the factors determining the actions of individuals? Question 349: How can it be that the dhamma comes exactly when needed? Question 350: If a non Buddhist asked you why we meditate, how would you answer? Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and especially the Regular Monthly Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm Have a Nice and Noble Day. Samahita Thera: https://what-buddha-said.net

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHILfSw1IQ Question 345: A: Do the Boddhisattas have to Awaken others before Awakening themselves? B: Do the Boddhisattas know that they are Bodhisattas? Question 346: A: Is meditation from a Kind Heart, and not the Mind a better way to Enlightenment? Guided Meditation on Infinite Compassion https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/infinite-compassion Video on Compassion (Karuna): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVouMyrX9VU Compassionate Pity (Karuna) evaporates all Cruel Violence. https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/compassionatepitykaruna B: Is the good intention behind Loving Kindness the True Love? Question 347: Do we devote ourselves to our families, and friends when most needed? Is this a way of Metta attainment, which is greater, than meditation in solitude? Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and especially the Regular Monthly Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm Have a Nice and Noble Day. Samahita Thera: https://what-buddha-said.net

DoA #111: No Self Emptiness Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bFcRf5ZIkA Question 342: How can there be no self experiencing the karma - good or bad? Is it not contradictory? Also, if egolessness is real how do the hierarchy in social status ao. come about? Question 343: Is worshiping of Nāgā beings good, and what about offering them merit? On these Worthy and devout Buddhist Nāgā Kings Mahākāla and Mucalinda: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/n/nagaa.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/maha/mahakala.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/me_mu/mucalinda.htm Question 344: Why do we become attached to people who are kind, nice and generous to us? How to come out of that attachment? On Ego-Projection: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Ego-Projection.htm Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and especially the Regular Monthly Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm Have a Nice and Noble Day. Samahita Thera: https://what-buddha-said.net

Dhamma on Air #110: Noble Speech Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YEmpx-KARo Question 339: How to control speech, so not to say the wrong thing, at the wrong time? Video: Truth always Triumphs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6krgCDM-We0 Question 340: Is it not that "happiness" is of 2 types? One being worldly happiness based upon transient conditions, thus not lasting., The second type not based upon the mundane conditions, and thus stable and safe? Question 341: A: How do we gladden the mind during meditation without falling into the trappings of pleasurable sensations and/or gratitude for falsities like personal safety and wellbeing in short, all that is impermanent? B: On what should we meditate to gladden the mind? C: And why? If we are to then relinquish and set it free, why does it need gladdening? Thanx for your Advantageous Attention, Clever Consideration, and Kind Contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and especially the Regular Monthly Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm Have a Nice and Noble Day. Samahita Thera: https://what-buddha-said.net

DoA #109: Aware of Causation Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lLzSk3SUuk Question 336: A: How did the Buddha communicate with beings in the other realms? B: Could unenlightened beings see the beings in the other realms then? Question 337: With Dependent Origination with its various links at what point on the chain of links should a meditator apply the four foundations of awareness (mindfulness) to break through to Nibbana? Question 338: Do our associations and relationships come, fulfill a purpose, and go, according to our kamma? Subscribing to this YouTube Channel is Your Ticket to Nibbana ..! Thanx for your Advantageous Attention, Clever Consideration, and Kind Contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and Donors. Especially the Regular Monthly Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm

Doa #108: Nibbāna is the Highest Happiness _/\_ Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt3ipHczB5s Question 333: @ 2:34 What is the difference between Nibbana=Nirvana and being Enlightened? See: https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_2_Nibbanas.htm Udana and Ittivuttaka: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/kn/ud/index.html https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/kn/iti/index.html The Buddhist Doctrine of Nibbāna: Two Essays https://what-buddha-said.net/library/Wheels/wh165.pdf Nibbana - The Mind Stilled - (Nivane Niveema) 33 sermons 2003-2011 by the most Venerable late Katukurunde Nanananda Thera. Available both in video form on Youtube. And in free PDF form via: http://seeingthroughthenet.net/ and https://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/The_Mind_Stilled_by_Katukurunde_Nanananda_Thera.pdf Question 334: @ 54:22 What is the minimum type and time one should practise daily meditation? 1 hour? 15 minutes? Walking? Sitting? Metta? Asubha? Question 335: @ 58:38 What did the Buddha say about the Deva's ability to see and interact with human beings? Subscribing to this YouTube Channel is Your Ticket to Nibbana ..! Thanx for your Advantageous Attention, Clever Consideration, and Kind Contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and Donors. Especially the Regular Monthly Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm

DoA #107: Restless or Stressed? Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkg-y_FXBm4 Question 330: @ 9:31 How does one deal with an excess of energy? See: Restlessness and Regret: "Calm of the Body and Calm of the Mind" https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Restlessness_and_Regret.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Curing_Restlessness_and_Regret.htm Question 331: @ 25:12 In the Nikāya, the Buddha said that the Dhamma would last 1000 years if Nuns were not ordained yet only 500 years if Nuns were to ordain. Why does ordination of Buddhist Nuns (Bhikkhunis) half the life of the true Dhamma? Question 332: @ 34:01 What can one who is observing eight precepts consume after 12pm? For 8-precepts lunar observance days see: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/ptf/dhamma/sila/atthasila.html https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/lib/authors/nanavara/uposatha.html To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm Thanx for your Advantageous Attention, Clever Consideration, and Kind Contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and Donors. Especially the Regular Monthly Donors. Samahita Thero: https://what-buddha-said.net

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTqIPHUYUTU Question 327: @ 7:45 My practice seems to have gotten a bit weaker: How can desire, aversion, laziness, restlessness, and doubts still affect the stability? Question 328: @ 33:09 How does one overcome feelings of superiority/inferiority-complex? Question 329: @ 40:44 What to do with feelings of grudge, and revenge? Subscribing to this YouTube Channel is Your Ticket to Nibbana ..! Thanx for your Advantageous Attention, Clever Consideration, and Kind Contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and Donors. Especially the Regular Monthly Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com Have a Nice and Noble day! Bhikkhu Samahita https://what-buddha-said.net

DoA #105: Magical Powers Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j-Vpt6MPIw Question 325: What is the real status of a person, when he, or she becomes Gandhabba? Is it painful for sinners, and tranquil for the fortunate etc. until reborn? Question 326: What are the Superhuman Powers? How does one attain them? https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn51/sn51.020.than.html Dhamma on Air #45: Turtles all the Way Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8s9PCaTeXg&t=3620s What are these 3 mental fermentations (āsava)? 1: The mental Fermentation joined with Sensuality.. 2: The mental Fermentation linked with Becoming.. 3: The mental Fermentation associated with Ignorance.. https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm On Suprahuman Force (Abhiññā) and their Training see: https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/abhinna.htm On the 4 Ways to Suprahuman Force! https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/iddhi_paada.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_I.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_III.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_IV.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_V.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Desire_as_Way_to_Force.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Energy_as_Way_to_Force.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Thinking_as_Way_to_Force.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Investigation_as_Way_to_Force.htm Subscribing to this YouTube Channel is Your Ticket to Nibbana ..! Thanx for your Advantageous Attention, Clever Consideration, and Kind Contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and Donors. Especially Regular-Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVouMyrX9VU Guided Audio Meditation on Compassionate Pity (Karuna): https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/compassionatepitykaruna Compassionate Pity (Karuna), which cures all cruelty, is a divine state! https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Great_Compassion.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Space_Compassion.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Cab_Compassion.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Karuna_is_Pity.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Endless_Pity.htm Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and Donors: Especially those who donated food the last time. Much merit to them. Tip-Jar Support to this Early Buddhist Videoing: Sharing here https://paypal.me/samahita Serious Support of Buddhist Video-Audio goto: https://www.patreon.com/samahita License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND Can download and copy, but not change or use commercially.

Open Release .. https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/open-release Corresponding Video: Dhamma on Air #104: The 5 Clusters of Clinging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2H6gYpV6PU Question 324: Are the 5 aggregates (The 5 clusters of Clinging=Khandas) objects of insight meditation (vipassana)? 1: The Cluster of Clinging to Form... (rūpa-kkhandha), 2: The Cluster of Clinging to Feeling... (vedanā-kkhandha), 3: The Cluster of Clinging to Perception... (saññā-kkhandha), 4: The Cluster of Clinging to Construction... (sankhāra-kkhandha), 5: The Cluster of Clinging to Consciousness... (viññāna-kkhandha). More on these 5 Clusters of Clinging (Khandha): https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Like_Foam.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fingernail_of_Soil.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Acquisition_of_Fuel.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Burning_Five.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stilling_of_Clinging.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/khandha.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Things_that_can_be_clung_to.htm https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_18_Principal_Insights.htm Subscribing to this YouTube Channel is Your Ticket to Nibbana ..! Thanx for your Advantageous Attention, Clever Consideration, and Kind Contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and Donors. Especially the Food-Givers, Regular-Donors, and Meditation-Hall Supporters. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmv8xg1I6zs Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com Question 318: Why should we share Dhamma talks with people we find worthy of listening to. Why is it only them? Why not everyone? Question 321: The concept of anicca (impermanence) seems to apply at both the microscopic timescale, mind moments, quantum moments, Planck time, and the macroscopic scale (birth/death of stars) - is this correct? Question 322: A: Did the Buddha talk about in "divine intervention"? Can one ask for assistance? B: Can we prevent the impact of evil karma, from ripening? If so, how do we do? C: Is it possible to put a chronic disease into remission through our mind power, or counter-kamma? Subscribing to this YouTube Channel is Your Ticket to Nibbana ..! Thanx for your Advantageous Attention, Clever Consideration, and Kind Contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and Donors. Especially the Regular-Monthly-Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net https://www.patreon.com/samahita Have a Nice and Noble day! Samahita Thera https://what-buddha-said.net

Past Life Remembrance https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/past-life-remembrance Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIqsRSlOAeU On Remembrance of Former Existences (pubbe-nivāsānussati): https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_IV.htm On Reincarnaton see also: Dhamma on Air #9: Nobles and Past Lives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRhG9UYGK0 Dhamma on Air #83: Dreaming .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fswygICGR1c Subscribing to this Channel is your Ticket to Nibbana ..! Thanx for your Advantageous Attention, Clever Consideration, and Kind Contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas, Supporters, and Donors. Especially the Regular-Monthly-Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://paypal.me/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net https://www.patreon.com/samahita Have a Nice and Noble day! Samahita Thera

Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HQusBtoPXs 12 Day Meditation Course December 20-31 2018, is in North Carolina USA. https://what-buddha-said.net/various/heartwoodrefuge.retreat.2018.htm Apply: retreat@heartwoodrefuge.org Venue: http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org Program: https://what-buddha-said.net/various/12_Day_Program.pdf Thanx for your Advantageous Attention, Clever Consideration, and Kind Contribution. Thanx to all to Dayakas and Supporters. Especially the Regular-Monthly-Donors. To Support this Early Buddhist Video/Audio/Txt Sharing goto: https://www.paypal.me/samahita https://www.patreon.com/samahita https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com Have a Nice and Noble day! Samahita Thera: https://what-buddha-said.net