Bhante Jinaratana | Starving the 5 Hindrances | Dhamma Discussion at Dhammagiri | #buddhism #dhamma
Channel: Dhamma Talks at Dhammagiri
Date: 2024-04-07

Venerable Jinaratana Thera was born in Toronto, Canada. He became interested in meditation while studying at university for a double degree in neuroscience and mathmatics, and started attending numerous meditation retreats, mostly in the Mahasi tradition. After graduation, he decided to further expand his education by completing a teacher's degree in Brisbane. During that time, he stayed for long retreats at Dhammagiri, and finally decided to go forth as a Buddhist monk.

He ordained at Na Uyana monastery in Sri Lanka, becoming a novice in 2011, and receiving his higher ordination as a bhikkhu in 2012. Na Uyana is the main monastery of the Shri Kalyani forest tradition, the same lineage where Ajahn Dhammasiha originally ordained. Bhante Jinaratana spent many years at Na Uyana, before going to Pa Auk Monastery, Pyin Oo Lwin in Myanmar, to practice meditation under the guidence of Pah Auk Sayadaw and his senior disciples from 2019-2021. He arrived at Dhamsuwa Monastery near Melbourne at the beginning of the 2022 rains retreat.

Bhante has kindly accepted our invitation to visit Dhammagiri for 10 days.


In his talk, Bhante Jinaratana explains how we can starve the 5 hindrances ('anāhāra pañca-nīvaraṇa') in order to gradually weaken and overcome their obstructive influence on our mental development. Like all sankhāras, the five hindrances are conditioned, i.e. they depend on some form of nutriment for their existence.

If we reduce the nutriment that's feeding the hindrances, they will become weaker and weaker, allowing our samādhi and wisdom faculty to overcome and finally completey eradicate them.   




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