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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.
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Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
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Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
I hope not.
The Dhamma should be listened to with full attention and due respect.
The Dhamma should be listened to with full attention and due respect.
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Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
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.”
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Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
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- 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
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Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
Why do you think music shouldn't be with Dhamma ?
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
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Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
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?PimonratC wrote:Why do you think music shouldn't be with Dhamma ?
I don't understand.
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Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
but some meditation use music (sometime sound loops) as a tool to create concentration ...?
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Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
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.
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.
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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.PimonratC wrote:but some meditation use music (sometime sound loops) as a tool to create concentration ...?
Study the Buddha's teachings on meditation such as the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, to learn what the Buddha actually taught.
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Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
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.
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Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
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.
Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
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?kmath wrote:In my opinion, it's not that big of a deal
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Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
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
See the Gītassara Sutta
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Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
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 Relief • UNHCR
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- 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 Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Are there any MP3 Dhamma Teaching with background music?
Excellent, Bhante! Thank you.
With metta,
Chris
With metta,
Chris
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