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Happiness Industry: Joy At Last!
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Video duration: 3867 seconds
Ajahn Brahm leads us into the Rains Retreat with this scorcher of a talk. The Buddha's teaching of acceptance and letting go of states leads to the kind of deep happiness that cannot be found by shopping in the 'happiness industry' of this world. As Ajahn Chah famously said: "Joy at last -to know there is no happiness in the world!"
Related: buddhism, buddhist, dharma, happiness, joy, meditation
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Freedom: The Path To Happiness
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Video duration: 3790 seconds
Ajahn Brahm: For those abused and wronged is happiness actually possible? Attachment to painful emotions, such as grief, anger, bitterness, the notion of a wounded self with a distinct identity: all these can become a perpetual prison...
Related: ajahn, brahm, buddhism, buddhist, dhamma, dharma, freedom, happiness, sangha
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The Right to Believe? - Ajahn Brahm
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Video duration: 3716 seconds
Do we have a right to believe anything? Do some beliefs have priority over others? How do beliefs arise in the mind and how accurately do such 'intellectual fermentations' actually mesh with an Ultimate Reality?
Related: belief, buddhism
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Control and Freedom
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Video duration: 4210 seconds
Ajahn Brahm' talks about the control/freedom paradox. How much of our lives is *actually* controlled by us, how much by forces outside ourselves? How free are we? The relinquishment of our controlling impulse brings freedom, while the ego, with its judgement apparatus, leads to bondage and despair.
Related: ajahn, brahmavamso, buddha, buddhism, control, dhamma, freedom, laughing, monk, nibbana, nirvana
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