Ajahn Brahmali: Day 6 Afternoon Session Sutta Study and Q&A 21.05.21
Channel: Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project
Date: 2021-05-21

In this afternoon sutta study session, Ajahn Brahmali continues with the similes on how to overcome resentment towards different types of people. In reference to people with bad conduct of body, speech or mind, we out to remember how people change over time and that our methods might also need to change accordingly. By not judging others, also, they then have a chance to change and show another side to themselves. A useful reflection might be to consider such people as if gravely ill and, unless they change their conduct, are bound to suffer in accordance with it. For these people we should develop compassion, and even those with the vilest of conduct, it is as if they are mentally ill and do not know what they are doing. They also lack virtuous friends and guides, "kalyāṇa-mitta" so we should regard them with compassion at the very least. A Q&A session follows.

This teaching is part of a special 8-day online retreat called “Why We Suffer & How We Get Free,” given by Ajahn Brahmali and Ven Canda in support of Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project. The teachings explore two of the Buddha’s famous causal sequences, Dependent Origination and Dependent Liberation, which together reveal the entire course of human experience, through this world and beyond to Nibbana. 
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