Ajahn Brahmali: Day 4 Afternoon Session Sutta Study and Q&A 19.05.21
Channel: Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project
Date: 2021-05-19

In this afternoon session with Ajahn Brahmali, we continue with where we left off in the previous session with SN 1.46 "Nymphs". Ajahn explains how the Noble Eightfold Path is very much a psychological path - by that, we are encouraged to develop and look for these aspects of the path within the mind by internalising them, this gives a new more tangible angle on the teachings so as to not just be theoretical. In SN12.23 "Vital Condition", Ajahn revisits Dependent Origination in forward order from Ignorance through Bliss toward Freedom. This sutta indicates that deep samadhi (jhana) is indeed necessary in order to be able to see and know reality as it actually is. This sutta also mentions wholly positive things which are fully available to us if we go about it in the right way. Followed by a Q&A.


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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