HOW to BECOME a MONK & WHY or NOT?
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Publicado 2023-07-12
In 2015, aged 47 an English businessman gave up everything and travelled Asia to find true happiness. Now a Buddhist Monk, living a simple life in Thailand, India and Sri Lanka, he shares the continuing story.
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Phra Dan (Bhante Dhammarakkhita, Bhikkhu) is a Theravada Buddhist Monk who lived in India from 2020, Thailand and now Sri Lanka. Born in Sussex, England in 1967. Educated by French Catholic Monks. A successful businessman in Estate Agency and Financial Services during the 1980's and 90's. Married, now divorced with 3 adult son's. 2000 marked change and travel including South Africa returning to the UK in 2003 to continue different work and business activities until 2012. Gradually materialistic values turned to renunciation, simplicity and meditation, living nomadically in an old Ford Transit van full time for 3 years. Van life and meditation led to Buddhism and a Thai Forest Tradition, Theravada Buddhist Monastery in the UK. During 2015 travelling the Buddhist Holy Sites of India, deep faith reinforced desire for Ordination. In 2020 after 5 years of intensive meditation practice between Thai Forest Monasteries in Thailand and England he was Ordained in India where he lived for 3 years until returning to Thailand in 2023 and now Sri Lanka.
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Vandanami bhante ji 🙏 I am Rahul from India Thank you for your beautiful guidance 🙏
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‘Mind is the forerunner of all things’. This is not referring to the thinking mind or personality but to Mind itself - Awareness, Beingness, Consciousness. No words can reach it because it’s the forerunner of all things - formless presence which we are and in which, through which everything appears. From the perspective of separation it’s the ‘other shore’. Discovering this is the whole point of all true spirituality.
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Your voice & accent is very calming. Asante.
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This is a very worthy Master. I think his advice should be heeded.
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How beautiful is the life of a monastic monk. Sadhu
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Thank you Tan Phra Dan. The journey to becoming an Ajahn is even more arduous than I realised. You certainly need an extremely strong commitment. My total respect for all Bhuddist monks.🙏🙏🙏
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it was refreshing to hear you talk about what life is actually like, that is isn't all rainbows and unicorns, that there are large spiders and snakes and insects and there is an upper age limit.
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I've had so much benefit from following the buddhas teachings. Through letting go I have attained and do attain to so much bliss and often samadhi during meditation. But I can't get over the fact that when I let go of everything, everything that i am not (all i perveive) I am left with pure, blissful awareness, just seeing from my body, and I know it is what I AM, my true self and I know that everything else is also this when in samadhi. The only thing that stops me going further is the Buddhist idea there is no true self. it just doesn't align with my own insight. The buddha said 'come and see' and this is what I have done and this is what I see. Also, when I read the suttas, what I see is that the buddha was always pointing to this true self, through negative means, but it seems that traditional theravada does not inteprtet the suttas in the same way, and that is why I get a bit stuck with aligning theravada teachings with my own insight. Could you help me with this?
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Thank you for the infomation
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He is putting it wrong, by happiness we mean happy in our day to day life’s not just feeling a emotion. Knowing that things can get hard and will get hard but remembering there is a light at the end of the tunnel. So this means that happiness is only truly active when in pursuit for something, not for the sake to be happy. And being monk is hard but you have similar friends around you and that’s what counts
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People are programmed robot slaves of the system thinking happyness starts with extern factors like status, money, material things that means nothing and its relativ and an illusion create by society.... If your happyness depend on extern factors you will never be because extern factors are endless. Happyness starts inside you. The more people around you, the more expectations, talk about others, comparing, judge, own benefits, hate, negativity, jealousy, double standards etc..... reflection of the broken empty souls. Alone or in solitude you have more strength, peace, power, happyness, freedom and time. I change my life also when i was 35 and now i am 43. No tv, social media, no people around me, no stuff etc.... Be the light in your life And of the day do what makes you happy
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Straight talking! Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏
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To know who i am and for enligntenment.❤❤
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My intentions are well thought out and serious. I intend to become a monk. I will contact you in the future when the opportunity arises. Have some things to finish in worldly life.
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I too wish to become monk someday. I am from jain tradition and practices and ordination are quite similar except jain monks live more harshly ascetic life. (some traditions dont eve wear cloths). My experience has taught me that Materialistic life does take toll on you over years
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Very helpful and clear. Thanks 🙏
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Thank you for sharing🙏🏼 Namaste Phra Dan
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Brilliant ... thanks.
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I wish to become monk too. May be after 2 years. I have attended 10 days vipasana courses in India and it has changed my life and perspective about how I look at life and buddhist teachings. But as an employee, I have certain responsibilities to work as well as towards my parents. So that I cant give enough time and energy to meditation practice. Your talks here helps a lot. Please let me know how can I make donation or offerings to you. Thank you 💐🌷🌺🌸🌹🌼🌻
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Thanks Phra Dan.......looking forward to the next video.🙏
