Don't Wait Until It's Too Late

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[khamano]

*Don't Wait Until It's Too Late*

Here two adequate excerpts of Dhamma:

*Dhammapada - verse 11*
_Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential._

*from sutta SN12.23*
_And what is the proximate cause for faith? It should be said: suffering._

With Metta
& may all beings realize Nibbana
🙏🙏🙏

[kabkay]

Your content is way too outstanding. Thank you very much for your effort.
Each video is so so good and educational. It has been improving my practice greatly.

I'd like to request talks on the following topics:
- Dealing with confrontation/conflict when others try to harm you. (On how not to be a doormat, if its justifiable to slap someone in the face for a greater good if it stops the cycle of suffering (bullying)...etc.)

- Why wordly pleasures sometimes feel more appealing and more pleasurable than Dhamma practice, despite knowing intellectually that Dhamma practice is the way

Many thanks Bhante.

[prabathvijayantha]

Saadhu Saadhu Saadhu... 🙏🙏🙏
Very motivational..!

[dassavilokantara]

🙏🏼sadhu bhante👌🏼

This👇is no empty stock phrase.

etāni bhikkhave rukkhamūlāni etāni suññāgārāni. jhāyatha bhikkhave mā pamādattha mā pacchā vippaṭisārino ahuvattha. ayaṃ vo amhākaṃ anusāsanī ti.

[Eaglez]

What is the purpose of our practice? Whether we practice or not practice, we experience pain and suffering in sickness and death. Is it to achieve a state of mind within sickness and death? Or to achieve something in the afterlife? Or not experience pain and suffering at all by knowing the nature of it?

[bhantearuno]

Greetings from Italy! Dear kalayanamitta, everything is fine in here, seems that the virus of fear has any power on "me".

[kabkay]

I've relistened this video several times and a question comes regarding min 5:45 "you give up the pleasure of [...]eating whenever you want, and you replace it with the pleasure of renunciation". Keeping also in mind the video Bhante uploaded on Moderation in Eating.

Could you please clarify what did you mean with that and why is it unwholesome to eat whenever one wants? As long as one is not eating because of sensual pleasures, I believe one can eat whenever one wants. Or am I wrong? Please correct me if I am wrong, maybe I understood wrong.

Thank you Bhante.