Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Exploring Theravāda's connections to other paths - what can we learn from other traditions, religions and philosophies?
PimonratC
Posts: 129
Joined: Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:03 am
Contact:

Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by PimonratC »

.



Are there any mp3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

something like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aysOcKwLx4

But, it to be in English.


Thank you so much. :anjali:



.
User avatar
Bhikkhu Pesala
Posts: 4646
Joined: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:17 pm

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by Bhikkhu Pesala »

I hope not.

The Dhamma should be listened to with full attention and due respect.
BlogPāli FontsIn This Very LifeBuddhist ChroniclesSoftware (Upasampadā: 24th June, 1979)
User avatar
Ben
Posts: 18438
Joined: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:49 am
Location: kanamaluka

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by Ben »

I have to agree with Bhikkhu Pesala on this one.
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global ReliefUNHCR

e: [email protected]..
PimonratC
Posts: 129
Joined: Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:03 am
Contact:

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by PimonratC »

Why do you think music shouldn't be with Dhamma ?
I don't understand.
User avatar
Bhikkhu Pesala
Posts: 4646
Joined: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:17 pm

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by Bhikkhu Pesala »

PimonratC wrote:Why do you think music shouldn't be with Dhamma ?
I don't understand.
Why do you think that not listening to music is one of the eight precepts observed by Buddhists on full-moon days, or by meditators intent on developing concentration and insight?
BlogPāli FontsIn This Very LifeBuddhist ChroniclesSoftware (Upasampadā: 24th June, 1979)
PimonratC
Posts: 129
Joined: Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:03 am
Contact:

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by PimonratC »

but some meditation use music (sometime sound loops) as a tool to create concentration ...?
User avatar
reflection
Posts: 1116
Joined: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:27 pm

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by reflection »

Those meditations are not really Buddhist then. You won't hear those kind of things in retreat centers or monasteries for example. Meditation is to take the mind inside, not to take it outside by listening to music. Then it is not meditation, but simply listening to music...

Perhaps try to live without music for a while to see how refreshing that is.


edit: I accidentally typed "without meditation"... not what I meant of course. :)
User avatar
Bhikkhu Pesala
Posts: 4646
Joined: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:17 pm

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by Bhikkhu Pesala »

PimonratC wrote:but some meditation use music (sometime sound loops) as a tool to create concentration ...?
They are not meditation methods that the Buddha taught, and mere concentration or tranquillity is not the aim of Buddhist meditation. The mind needs to become silent so that it can see things as they really are.

Study the Buddha's teachings on meditation such as the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, to learn what the Buddha actually taught.
BlogPāli FontsIn This Very LifeBuddhist ChroniclesSoftware (Upasampadā: 24th June, 1979)
User avatar
Modus.Ponens
Posts: 3853
Joined: Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:38 am
Location: Gallifrey

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by Modus.Ponens »

Speaking for myself, I like to be in a contemplative mood when I listen to the dhamma. Even when I read, I don't like to do it while listening to music. It doesn't sink in.
'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.' - Jhana Sutta
User avatar
kmath
Posts: 257
Joined: Thu Mar 14, 2013 6:44 pm

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by kmath »

PimonratC wasn't asking if it's a good idea to listen to Dhamma with background music. He / She was asking if you knew of any way to listen to Dhamma that way. Maybe it helps him / her relax and focus. Some people like music on when they work, study, etc. In my opinion, it's not that big of a deal. Better to listen to Dhamma with music than not to listen to Dhamma at all.

:shrug:
User avatar
Aloka
Posts: 7797
Joined: Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:51 pm

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by Aloka »

kmath wrote:In my opinion, it's not that big of a deal
Then why have I never heard teachers at centres and monasteries from two different traditions say :"Would you like some background music?" before giving a Dhamma talk?


:)
User avatar
Bhikkhu Pesala
Posts: 4646
Joined: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:17 pm

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by Bhikkhu Pesala »

Let alone not playing music while listening to the Dhamma, when reciting the suttas, they should not be recited with a musical intonation.

See the Gītassara Sutta
BlogPāli FontsIn This Very LifeBuddhist ChroniclesSoftware (Upasampadā: 24th June, 1979)
User avatar
Ben
Posts: 18438
Joined: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:49 am
Location: kanamaluka

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by Ben »

If you are going to listen to the Dhamma, give it your entire, undivided attention.
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global ReliefUNHCR

e: [email protected]..
User avatar
cooran
Posts: 8503
Joined: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:32 pm
Location: Queensland, Australia

Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?

Post by cooran »

Excellent, Bhante! Thank you.

With metta,
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Post Reply