Summary: Dhamma on Air #41: The Raft and Sirima Corresponding Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otW4ojNEu-Y Dhamma Questions answered: Lotus-Offering from Bronx, New York City, USA. @ 5:37 Question 133: Why did the Buddha said one finally should let go of the Dhamma? @ 12:32 Question 134A: Is it right livelihood for a Buddhist to trade on the stock market? @ 28:11 Question 134B: What is and how does hatred, anger, aversion, and dislike arise? @ 39:43 Question 135: Please do a Dhamma talk on Devas in early Buddhism. @ 49:13 Question 136: What does it signify, when coming to Buddhism, while young or old? @ 58:43 What is Right Livelihood? https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Livelihood.htm Video on the Devas, the Divine Dimensions, and the 31 Levels of Existence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0dAOBeJrI The Courtesan Sirima's Divine Mansion: Stories of the Mansions https://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/KN/Dhammapada.Verse_147.story.htm https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/kn/vv/vv.1.16.irel.html The Vimanavatthu: Stories of the Mansions English translation by I.B. Horner, with commentarial excerpts: https://store.pariyatti.org/Minor-Anthologies-Vol-4-Stories-of-the-Mansions-Stories-of-the-Departed_p_2090.html The Simile of the Raft: MN 22, SN 35:197, Sn1:2 https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/mn/mn.022.than.html#raft https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.197.than.html#raft https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.02.than.html Giving Food = Classic Dana is advantageous here: https://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: https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: https://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: https://www.patreon.com/samahita 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/c/BhikkhuSamahitaThera LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhikkhu-samahita-a57a2b15 Info: http://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=Bhikkhu_Samahita Google Maps & Earth: The Cypress Hermitage, Knuckles Forest Reserve, Central Sri Lanka: Coordinates North 7.415220, East 80.792573 https://plus.google.com/+WhatbuddhasaidNet_Cypress_Hermitage/about https://www.google.lk/maps/@7.4148533,80.792462,297m/data=!3m1!1e3
