Saadhu sadhu sadhu !

Dear friends, as I'am about to going to WPN for ordination, my good friend Sequeller will share with you Yellow Page Teachings and their transcriptions

Thank you
With metta

= Self-examination = "In explaining how to become skilled in the ways of the mind the Buddha compared meditators to young people looking at their reflection in a mirror. If they see only dirt on their faces they make an effort to remove it. If their faces are clean they feel glad. Similarly, me...

There is no future? Here some informations that i found from different experts on the subject, especially from team of Jean-Marc Jancovici. Here a playlist on english: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMDQXkItOZ4II_sYvh0BevIBwmm7fvuHL Today human civilisation have two major problems : CLIMATE and ...

= Mothers = "Training the mind may be compared to raising a young child. Just as the well-being of their child is always of primary importance to mothers, the well-being of the mind must always be of primary importance to Dhamma practitioners. Just as mothers are sensitive to the slightest thre...

=The Middle Way= "Smart people can make any view seem reasonable by presenting it as a 'middle way'. All that they need to do is to select one view more extreme than the one they hold and one less so. Then they simply proclaim that their view - a 'moderate, balanced' view - lies at just the rig...

Now what i m thinking of is this consept of "i am", what does it mean? Ofcourse there is some sense of being, that someone is observing, but its not the thoughts, neither this material body, i would call the consciousness that which is the I, the consciousness without the thought. Idea of...

Under delusion of pleasant and unpleasant feelings.

<r><QUOTE author="Lefty" post_id="685145" time="1657557721" user_id="19116"><s>[quote=Lefty post_id=685145 time=1657557721 user_id=19116]</s> Has one "became" enlightened once they have realized and have returned to state of being separate observer of their thoughts, and for most part live without t...

Sex arises from feelings which are hormones fermented in our body In short sabbasava sutta explains this very well. It explains the manner in which this fermentations can be controlled. There are seven ways of controlling asavas in sabbasava sutta first by knowing and identifying the feelings with ...

Is there any particular sutta that talks about these temperaments? Thank you 🙏 In the suttas of the 4 Nikayas they aren't systematized or elaborated much beyond some people have developed and some people have dull faculties. for example there is: “Bhikkhus, there are these four kinds of persons fou...

Maybe by asking oneself a question : what makes me most problems and sufferings - cravings or views?

Is there any particular sutta that talks about these temperaments?
Thank you

:namaste: Withdraw from world, sensuality, is required for all attainments, good householder. ... :goodpost: I would add that 8 precepts are necessary to all attainment because 8 precept is Right Intention. Right Intention is composed of 3 factors: - Non-cruelty (ahimsa) - non-ill-will (abiyapada) ...

It is simplier to prevent problems to arise rather to deal with them. Therefore i would suggest to avoid your wound to be contaminated by: - unfollow all fitness girls from all sicial medias and youtube channels - avoid talking to them privately - avoid talking with your friends about girls/avoid f...

It is simplier to prevent problems to arise rather to deal with them. Therefore i would suggest to avoid your wound to be contaminated by: - unfollow all fitness girls from all sicial medias and youtube channels - avoid talking to them privately - avoid talking with your friends about girls/avoid fr...

= Thought = "Thought in itself is not an enemy of meditation. It is a natural phenomenon. It becomes a problem when we are unaware of thought as simply thought, grasp onto it and and give it an undeserved significance. The body feels a cool draught and involuntary shivers. The ear hears a sound...