Zoom Talk MN 91- Brahmayhu -32 Parts of a Great Man- with Bhante Vimalaramsi-mOaSye9L1os.en.vtt.txt

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Context: Throughout this transcript, Bhante Vimalaramsi is the speaker unless otherwise indicated.

so today

august 23rd and we're here with bonte

villamur ramsey

and he will be doing super 91

what was the name of that again

[Music]

happy sunday afternoon morning

hope everything is going well for you

david just told me about a a study

he he read on smiling

and it was all scientific

didn't have anything to do with uh happy

feelings or any of that

stuck a pencil in in a person's mouth

so it pulled the smile up and then they

measured what was happening in the brain

and it made everybody feel happy

whether they liked it or not didn't

matter whether they tried to make you

happy

so guess what i suggest

[Laughter]

okay now this particular

suit is about the 32 parts of

a great man

but there's a lot of practical advice of

things that you can try

for yourself and see if you can do them

so you'll see thus if i heard on one

occasion the blessed one was wandering

in the country

of the vedans with a large

number of sangha with 500

monks he didn't

go anywhere without 500 monks

have that that seems to be a favorite

number i

i think it just means that there is a

lot of monks following it

now on that occasion the brahman

brahmayu

was living at matilda

he was old aged burdened with air

ears advanced in life

and come to the last stage

he was in his 120th year

he was a master of the three vedas with

their vocabulary

literary liturgy

phonology etymology and histories as the

fifth

and he was skilled in philology and

grammar

as he was fully versed in natural

philosophy

and in the marks of a great man

the brahman bravais heard the recluse

gotama the son of the sakians who went

forth from the sakian clan

has been wandering in the country of the

vidayans with a large

sangha of monks

now a good report of master gautama has

been

spread to this effect the blessed one is

accomplished

fully awakened perfect in true knowledge

and conduct

sublime noir of worlds incomparable

leader of persons to be tamed

teacher of gods than humans awakened and

blessed

he declares this world with its gods its

mars and its brahmas this generation

with its recluses and brahmanas

with its princes and its people

which he has himself realized with

direct knowledge

he teaches the dhamma good in the

beginning

good in the middle and good in the end

with the right meaning and phrasing

he reveals a holy life that is utterly

perfect and pure

now it is good to see such are huts

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now on that occasion brahman brahma you

had a young

brahmana student named uttara

who has mastered the three vedas and was

fully versed in

natural philosophy and in the marks of a

great man

he told his student my dear utara

the recluse go to my the son of the

stockin as

who went for it from the sake and clan

and has been wandering in the country of

the vedans

with the large sangha of monks with 500

monks

now it's good to see such arahats

come my dear utara

go to the recluse go to mind find out

whether

the report spread about him is true

or not and whether the master gotama

is one such as

this or not

thus we shall know about master gotama

through you

but how shall i find out sir

whether the report spread about master

gotuna is true or not

and whether master gautama is one of

such

as this or not

my dear utara the 32 marks of a great

man

have been handed down in our hymns

and the great man who is endowed with

them

has only one of two possible possible

destinies

other if he lives the holy life he

becomes a will-turning monarch

a righteous king who rules by

the dhamma master

of the four quarters all victorious

who has stabilized his country and

possesses the seven treasures

he has these seven treasures the wheeled

treasure

the elephant treasure the horse

treasure the jewel treasure

the women treasure

the stuart treasurer and the counselor

treasurer as the seventh

so women can't complain too much because

they think the buddha is dis

they think that he he doesn't like women

so much

it's one of the treasures so

feel good about that

and don't complain to me anymore because

you think i'm

i'm a sexist i am not

i promise

who exceeds a thousand our brave

hero of his children who exceed

one thousand he was a busy monarch

are brave and heroic and crush the

armies of others

over this earth bounded by the ocean

he rolls without a rod without a weapon

by means of dhamma but

if he goes forth from the home life into

homelessness he becomes an accomplished

one fully awakened

who draws aside the veil in the world

but i my dear tauren and the giver of

the hymns

you are the receiver of them

yes sir he replied he rose from the seat

after paying homage to the brahmana

brahmayu

keeping him on his right he

left for the country of the vedans where

the blessed one was wandering

traveling by stages he came to the

blessed one and exchanged greetings with

him

when this courteous and amiable talk was

finished he sat down

at one side and looked for the 32 marks

of a great man

he saw more or less 32 marks of a great

man

on the blessed one's body except two

he was doubtful and uncertain about two

two of the marks he could not

decide and make up his mind about them

one of the things that

the buddha his body

his male organ

shrank like a like a bull

and it it was uh

it was sheaved and this is one of the

the things about the male organ they're

talking about

and about the largeness of his tongue

the buddha had exceptional powers of

taste nobody could

ever uh poison him

by giving him

things that would be bad for him

and his tongue was really long

i'm not sure what that has to do with

taste but it might

anyway

then it occurred to the blessed one this

brahmana student uttara

sees more or less the 32 marks of a

great man

except for two he's doubtful and

uncertain about

two of the marks and he cannot decide

and make up his mind about them

about the male or organ being

enclosed in a sheath

and about the largeness of the tongue

then the blessed one works such a feat

of supernormal power

that the brahmana student uttara saw

that the blessed one's

male organ was enclosed in a sheath

next the blessed one extruded his tongue

and he reportedly touched both

ear holes and both nostrils

and he covered the hole of his forehead

with this tongue that's a long tongue

big tongue

then the brahman student uttara thought

the recluse go to my is endowed with the

thirty-two marks of a great man

suppose i were to follow the recluse go

to mine and

observe his behavior

then he followed the blessed one for

seven months

like a shadow never leaving him

at the end of seven months in the

country of the vidayans

he set out to journey to mathilda

where the brahmana brahmayu was

when he arrived he paid homage to him

and sat down at one side there upon the

brahman brahma you ask him well

my dear uttara

is the report that has been spread about

the master gotima true

or not and his master go

to one such as this or not

the report has been spread about master

gautama as true

sir not otherwise

the master gotama is one such as

this not otherwise he possesses the

thirty-two marks of a great man

master gotama sets his foot down

squarely this is a mark of

a master a great man

that means he doesn't heal and tow when

he's walking he puts his

foot down flat

on the soles of his feet there are

wheels with a thousand

spokes and ribs and hubs all complete

this is the the kind of mark that he

made on in the ground

i was in utah one time

and i stopped at a dinosaur park and

went to the

museum and they had

kids shoes that had

dinosaur footprints

and i tried to get a set of

shoes that had dinosaur footprints but

they didn't make them for adults

and i was really disappointed in that

so instead i got a dinosaur

for the for the center

he has protruding heels that means his

heels come

back behind the tendon that goes up and

down the

back of the foot

he has long fingers and toes

his hands and feet are soft and tender

he has netted hands and feet

kind of like duck in in between

the finger uh he had a

flash that went up to the to

the next joint

i guess it would be good for swimming

i'm not sure

his feet are arched naturally

he has legs like an antelope

his his legs were not

muscular but they were fairly long

and very strong

when he stands without stooping the

palms of his hands

touch and rub against his knees

now that's this is where we get into

some dispute depending what country

you're

you're reading this from

for for anybody to stand with their

shoulders straight

and the palm of their hand touches

their their knees they have

exceptionally long arms

so we'll talk about this uh

dispute with

in a little well

his male organ is sheath

is enclosed in a sheath

he is the collar of gold

his skin has a golden machine

he has fine skin and because of the

fineness

of his skin dust and dirt do not stick

to his body

that would be a convenient thing

his body hairs grow singly

each body hair growing alone

in the hair socket

the lips of the tips of body hair

turn up the upturn

body hairs are blue black

the color of corillium

curling and turning to the right

he has straight limbs

of he has the straight limbs of a brahma

he has seven convexities that's the eyes

and ears and

and nose and mouth

his torso is like a lion

that says that his his chest

is up and um

very big

he has a furrow between the shoulders

which fills it in in the in

in your back between the blades you're

uh there's there's a little bit of a

hollow

and this this the buddha doesn't have

that hollow

he has spread now here here we go

he has the spread of a banyan tree

the spread of his arms equals the height

of his body

and the height of his body equals the

spread of his arms

now this was taken from sri lankan

literature if the buddha's arms

were so long that they could touch his

knees while he was standing straight

he would go out and he would be a foot

and a half

wider than he is tall

so there's some some dispute about the

translation on this part

but according to

what this says right here he

uh was very evenly proportioned with his

arms and his legs

his neck and his shoulders are very even

straight across

his taste is supremely acute

any kind of food he could tell you what

ver what

herbs were in it

he is lion jawed his jaw was

square not not pointy

he has 40 teeth the average person has

32 teeth so at the top

and the bottom of each side

he had an extra two teeth

and when he they talk about his eating

habits

he had his he had enough teeth that

not even one grain of rice went down his

his throat without being chewed

his teeth are even

his teeth are without gaps

his teeth are quite white

he has a large tongue

he has a divine voice

like the call of kavar caravica

excuse me bird

there's a bird in asia it's a little

yellow bird

big voice really big voice

and every time i would hear this bird

i would stop what i was doing and listen

to it

now when the buddha was giving a talk

he never raised his voice

he would have

the same volume for everyone and

everyone could hear him equally well

whether you were in the back of the

crowd or in the front

so he had a very interesting voice that

was very

melodious and beautiful to listen to

this is one that surprises a lot of

people

the buddha's eyes were blue he was a

sakian

he had eyelashes like a lot

like an ox very long eye eyelashes

he has hair growing in the space between

his eyebrows which is white

with the sheen of soft cotton

now that right above my head here

there is a buddha image that has a dot

right there and everybody says oh that's

his third eye

actually it wasn't his third eye it was

a white hair

that when he when he unfurled it it was

about

two feet long it came back

in in a a white dot

his head is shaped like a turban

well i i don't see any buddha images in

this part that you could see that

he he had like a big

knot right here

and

i don't know from reading the suit as

whether this is

absolutely true or not

but on the light night of his awakening

his brain

grew

now the reason that i say that

is because when i was doing so much

meditation

in burma and i was sitting

long periods of time

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i i started growing a knot on the top of

my head

and people started saying that i'm the

next going to be the next buddha

which is doubtful but

not just doubtful highly doubtful

so that's one of the reasons that i

started saying that

and lately there's been a lot of study

on people that practice

gratitude and the more you practice

gratitude your great your brain

starts to grow and it you you start to

have

a little

uh not weird looking bumps but

just bigger bumps on your head than you

had before

so i'm thinking that if you smile more

that's going to make your brain bigger

so we'll have to wait and see after a

few years whether that really happens

so everybody from here on out

all your waking time walk around with a

pencil in your mouth

and we'll we'll see how how the brain

grows

yeah this is a good exercise and it's

going to make you happy and

people are going to look at you and go

are you crazy

walking around with a pencil in your

mouth

master go to my is endowed with the 32

marks

of a great man when he walks

now this is one of the things that i've

tried doing

for quite a while and it's a difficult

practice

when he walks he steps out with his

right foot first

try that every time you get up

always start on your right foot if you

started on your left foot

go back to where you were and then start

on the right foot

get in the habit of doing that it's not

an easy

practice but it is interesting

he does not extend his foot too far

or put it too near so he walks

at a normal kind of pace

he walks neither too quickly nor too

short slowly

he walks without his knees knocking

together

i love that one i've never seen anybody

that had knocked me

i've heard about it but i've never seen

he walks without his ankles knocking

together

he walks without raising and lowering

his thighs

or bringing his thighs together or

keeping them apart when he

walks only the lower part of his body

oscillates and he does not

walk with a lot of bodily effort

in a relaxed

comfortable pace

when he turns to look he does

so with his whole body

he does not look straight

up he does not look straight

down now when when

somebody would come and say something to

him and he wanted to stop and talk to

them

he would just turn his whole body around

he didn't look over his shoulders that's

what it's really saying

and he didn't never tilted his head

so that he was looking all the way up or

his

chin on his chest looking down

he does not walk looking about

okay it says i think this is in

abhidhamma but it might be suitas too

that he walked a plow's length looking

a plow's length ahead of him

which is depending on what kind of

animal

it is it can be

eight feet nine feet

or even a little bit closer maybe seven

feet

so he always he walks about that

with looking looking ahead

and he doesn't have

hindrances pulling his attention

away now this is one of the

the big things about a buddha

it he get he would get attacked by

hindrances

at different times but his mindfulness

was so sharp that he would see it

and then he would use the

right effort or the six hours and let go

of it

when he goes indoors he does not

raise or lower his body or bend it

forward or

back now there there's some

talk about the actual size of the buddha

some people said that he was 13 feet

tall

in burma they have statues that are 24

feet tall

but i think he was a tall man especially

for that

area i know what it's like

because i'm tall and i've been to that

area

but i think he was about two meters tall

now if you're two meters tall

a lot of the doorways

are six feet

and two meters is six feet eight

and it was mostly in thailand i noticed

this

when i go through a doorway i would see

that the door is low and i duck my head

like that

and then i'd hit myself right across the

head

and i i constantly had scabs on my head

because of that

uh bend forward

he turns around neither too far

from the seat nor too near

so he's very careful about

the distance he needs to have space

for sitting

he does not lean on the seat

with his hands he does not throw

his body onto the seat he sits

properly he sits

in a harmonious way

when seated indoors he does not fidget

with his hands

he does not fidget with his feet

he does not sit with his knees crossed

i've been criticized because i tell

people don't cross your legs

when you're listening to a dominate

do not sit with ankles

crossed this has to do with body

language when you get you get a book

about body language it tells you

what's happening in your mind when you

sit with your ankles crossed or your

knees crossed

and it has to do with your attention

at that time it's

your attention span is easily distracted

and you have a tendency to have a lot of

extra curricular uh

wandering mind

he does not sit with his hands holding

his

chin what's in your mind when you're

like that

your mind is dull it's not very alert

when seated indoors he is not afraid

he does not shiver or tremble

he is never nervous

being unafraid not shivering or

trembling or

nervous

his hair does not stand on end

and his intent is on seclusion

when fear arises

uh i've had it happen and i suppose

other people have too

the hair on your back your neck the hair

on your arms

will stand up straight

now the thing with fear is

it has a tendency to

really get you caught in your mind in

the kind of thoughts you have

and involvement in trying to control

that unpleasant

mental state and physical state

there's a couple of things you can do

and that is one you can

ask your intuition what is the cause of

this fear

and you will see the cause

and it'll be very easy to let it go

another thing you can do with fear is

laugh with it

the more you laugh

the more balance comes into your mind

the better your mindfulness is at that

time

now when i give a retreat i tell i tell

everybody

at the start of the retreat i want you

to smile

all the time when it's difficult to

smile

i want you to laugh

and i want you to have fun on the

retreat

now if you follow the those simple

directions

instructions

uh you you will be successful with your

meditation

so try to keep that in mind especially

if you get in a situation where there is

fear coming up

you laugh with it you use the six

hours allow it to be there

it's not yours you didn't ask that fear

to come up

you don't need to control it

you don't need to be nervous about

anything

what is fear what is nervousness

it is aversion to what you are

experiencing in the present

so using the six r's and developing your

sense of humor

with it that will disappear very quickly

when he receives water for the bowl

he does not raise or lower the bottom

the bowl or tip it forwards or

backwards when when you

have an alms bowl you put it out

straight

you don't tip it so somebody else can

see inside

he passes he receives neither

too little nor too much water in the

bowl

now during the time of the buddha they

didn't have a lot of

sinks around they didn't have a lot of

washing

devices around so every time before a

monk

ate they would

wash the bowl out or before they went

out for alms round

they would wash the bowl very well

he washes the bowl without making

splashing noises this is not easy

but when you wash the bowl you want to

make sure you wash it very completely

during the time of the buddha they did

not eat

with utensils they ate with their hands

so when they started putting water in

the bowl and started washing the bowl

they were washing their hands at the

same time

he washes the bowl without turning it

around

i've been with a lot of monks that they

they take their bowl and they're

they're twisting it around so that

they're

able to clean it that way

and his hands get washed he pours the

water out of the bowl

neither too far nor too near

and he does not pour it about

it still has food in it so you don't

pour it about

generally what happens when you're when

you're using a bowl and you're

you're following the rules closely

is someone will come with a

trash bowl so you can dump it all in

make sure there's no food stuck to the

sides and that sort of thing

they use coconut hull

if the food is is

greasy then this will help

take some of that out

when he receives rice

he does not raise or lower the bowl or

tip it forwards

or backwards

i've always found when when i was on

arms round it was

depended on whether a child was giving

putting food in the bowl or it was an

adult

i would bend down so that a child could

see

where to put the food

he receives neither too little rice

nor too much rice

he adds sauces in the right proportion

and he does not exceed the right amount

of sauce

in a mouthful

now as an interesting thing one of the

eating rules

monks there's a bunch of them like uh if

i'm

eating something and i look into another

person's bulls bowl to see what they're

eating

that's an offense

uh if if it causes any kind of thing

to any lust to arise in your mind

that's an offense

if you're taking your rice

and the rice that you put in your mouth

is bigger than a peacock

egg which is about that big

or it makes your

cheeks come out that is an offense

the proper amount of rice the buddha

said

is the size of a

medium chicken egg which is

about that

but even that's too much for me

i never did like that uh i never did

think that was a good rule because that

was too much

it made my cheeks bulge out when i would

eat eat the rice like that

okay he turns a mouthful of rice

over two or three times in his mouth

and then swallows it

and no rice colonel enters his body

unchewed and no

rife kernel remains in his mouth

then he takes another mouthful

he takes his food experiencing the taste

so not experience the greed for the

taste

one of the things that happens once you

start getting

deeper into your meditation

is you start developing

disenchantment for taste you might have

favorite foods that

that are on the table always before when

you saw the favorite foods your mouth

would start to water

and you'd start thinking about how good

it's gonna taste

because you like it

but as you get more and more equanimity

in your mind you start developing

disenchantment

in asia

the favorite thing

of all the people that i met

the the most

uh pleasant thing

anybody can do is eat their favorite

food

and they really like it a lot and that's

fine i mean

but once you start getting this

enchanted that's one of the questions

that we ask folks

uh is it too is a tooth

excuse me is

the food that you're putting in your

mouth that doesn't make your mind

excited

and when people are really progressing

the answer is yes it looks like my

favorite food but i don't get excited

about it

it's just food it's something that i

have to keep

in my stomach so i can continue on with

the path

that's the kind of answers i get from

that

the food he takes has eight factors

it is neither for amusement

nor for intoxication

nor for the sake of physical beauty and

attractiveness

but only for the endurance and

continuance of the body

for the ending of discomfort

being hungry and

assisting in the holy life he considers

i shall terminate old feelings without

arousing new feelings

and i shall be healthy and blameless

and shall live in comfort

now the thing with with monks

is we don't eat an evening meal

and

depending on the discipline of the monks

there are some monks that eat breakfast

there are some monks that don't

i personally don't eat breakfast

i don't want breakfast i just eat one

time a day

and you have a tendency to be

more healthy if you eat like that

now i hear all kinds of things about

breakfast being the most

important part of the meal of the day

and such

but

i'm healthier than most people

i don't get i had a cold to two years

ago

i think it was two years ago and

the cold lasted for almost eight hours

before it went away

when i start to feel a cold coming on i

stop eating

completely the only thing i do

is take vitamins vitamin c

vitamin b3

and rest

now almost all laymen

especially if they're working for a

living

they feel a cold coming on

now what does a cold coming on feel like

oh you feel kind of achy in your in your

joints and you feel a little stiff

and you're starting to sniffle and

sneeze

more now you have about a

two hour window to act so you won't get

caught

by that cold if you

act this way if you

stop eating and

take your vitamins and minerals and lay

down

and rest sleep

and when i say lay down and rest that

doesn't mean watching tv

it doesn't mean reading a book it

doesn't mean listening to music

it means rest

now i've had this happen so many times

in my life

i feel like i'm an expert on it

but

whatever kind of cold that i would

i would normally get it doesn't

last long now if you got a cold

and you start feeling achy and then you

tell yourself

well i gotta go to work today even

though i don't feel like

it well that cold is gonna

last 10 days or two weeks that's just

the way it is

but if you first start to

notice that it's time to

stop eating just take vitamins and

minerals

and lay down and rest

at the most you're going to lose one

day's

one day days work

at the most

so i highly recommend doing this with

this kind of

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discipline

lucille ananda was going and getting a

doctor's checkup about every two months

and he'd go to the doctor and then the

doctor asked him about his

eating habits lucille ananda

liked to eat breakfast so he ate

breakfast and he ate lunch and after

that he didn't need for the rest of the

day

and the doctor that he went to

he was very enthusiastic

about fasting

so lucille and nanda told him i fast

for 16 hours a day

and the doctor was real impressed by

that

one of the things that i have found out

that's quite interesting

is in if you get hungry in the middle of

the day

instead of looking for something to

munch on some kind of food

take water warm water

a little bit of salt in it

and it'll take your your munchies away

so it's a real interesting thing if you

do that

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okay

the food he takes has eight factors oh i

just read that

when he has eaten and received water

for the bowl he does not raise or lower

the bowl or

fill it tip it forwards or backwards

he receives neither too little nor too

much water

for the bowl he washes the bowl without

making splashing noise

he washes the bowl without turning it

around

he does not put the bowl on the floor

to wash with his hands

when his hands are washed the bowl is

washed

when the hands are washed or when the

bowl is washed his hands are

washed he pours the water from the bowl

either into or too far

or too near from where he is

when he is eaten he puts the bowl on the

floor

neither too far nor too near

and he is neither careless with the bull

nor over solicitous with the bowl

now during the time of the buddha they

didn't have a lot of

materials to make bowls

so they made clay bowls and if you have

a clay bowl you have to take

very good care of it

because it'll crack and then you have to

make another one

when i first became a monk i had a clay

bowl for about six months

and the thing with the clay bowl is

the the bottom of the bowl

is fairly thick

and that made the bowl heavy to carry

so we didn't have oh you see now a lot

of the thai monks in particular they

have these bowls

that are really big

but if that was made out of clay

it'd be so heavy they couldn't carry any

food in it

so we have to we had to be careful of

that sort of thing

when he has eaten he sits in silence for

a while

almost everybody especially

laymen when they get done

eating they get up and start moving

around

and that's not good you need to

sit with the food and let it settle

in your stomach after 10 minutes or 15

minutes

then get up and start moving around

you'll see that your digestion

is so much better and it really

does make sense to do it that way

but he does not let the time for the

blessing go by

something some monks they give a

blessing

at the beginning of the meal some of

them give it at the end

some of them give it both

when he is eaten and given the blessing

he does not so do so criticizing the

meal

or expecting another meal

he instructs urges rouses and encourages

that audience

with a talk purely on the dhamma

when he has done so he raises from his

seed and departs

he walks neither too fast nor too slow

and he does not go as one who

wants to get away

his robe is worn neither too high nor

too low on his body

nor too tight against his body

nor too loose against his body

nor does the wind blow the robe away

from his body

dust and dirt do not soil his body

when he's gone to a monastery he sits

down

in a seat made ready having sat down

he washes his feet though he is

does not concern himself with grooming

his feet having

washed his feet

he seats himself cross-legged

sets his body erect and establishes

mindfulness in front of him

again this is from sri lankan

translation

and almost all asians although they

spend time sitting on the floor

uh i found that

an awful lot of people

need to sit in a chair instead of sit on

the floor because of the pain

of not being used to sitting on a chair

or on a floor

sitting in a chair in a comfortable way

without

pushing your back against the chair

is a very helpful thing

it doesn't cause pain to arise

your mind has a tendency to get more

peaceful and quiet

so he does

not occupy his mind with

self-affliction or the affliction of

others or

the affliction of both he sits with his

mind set on his own

welfare on the welfare of others

on the welfare of both even on the

welfare of the whole world

when he's gone through to the monastery

he teaches the dhamma to an audience

he neither flatters nor betrays that

audience he instructs urges

rouses and

encourages it with the talk purely on

the dhamma

there are some monks today that are more

bound towards entertaining

people then they are teaching actual

dhamma and this is

highly i'm not recognized as a good way

to teach

it is criticized

the speed that issues from his mouth

has eight qualities it is

distinct intellectual

melodious audible

ringing and euphoris

beep and sonorous

but while his voice is intelligible

as far as the audience extends

his voice does not issue out beyond the

audience

when when the people have been

instructed urged roused and encouraged

by them

they rise from their seats and depart

looking

only at him concerned with nothing else

we have seen master gotama

walking sir we have seen him standing

we have seen him entering in indoor

rooms we have seen him

indoors seated in a silence

after eating we have seen him

giving the blessing and eating

we have seen that

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we have seen him going to the monastery

in silence

we have seen him in the monastery

teaching the dhamma

to an audience such as the master gotama

and such as he and them and more

than that when we have seen this the

master

brahman uh brumaiu

rose from his seed after arranging his

upper roll on one shoulder

he extended his hands in reverential

salutation towards the blessed one

and uttered this exclamation three times

honored to the blessed one the

accomplished and fully awakened one

honor to the blessed one accomplished

and fully awakened

honored to the blessed one accomplished

and fully awakened

perhaps some time or other we might meet

master gautama or perhaps

we might meet with one of with some

conversation

with him then

in the course of his wandering the

blessed one

eventually arrived at matilda

there the blessed one

lived in mahadeva's

mango grove grove

the brahmin householders of matilda

heard the recluse gotama son of the

sakeans who

went forth from us

a sakian clan

has been wandering in the country of the

vidayans with a large sangha of

monks and he

now has now come to matilda and is

living in mahadeva's mango grove

now a good report of master go has been

spread to this effect

it is good to see such arahats

then the brahman householder of matilda

went to the blessed one some

paid homage to the blessed one

some paid homage to the blessed one

and sat down some

exchanged readings with him

and when this courteous and amiable talk

was finished sat down

some extended their hands in reverential

salutation towards him

and sat down at one side some pronounced

the name of their

clan in the blessed blessed one's

presence

and sat down at one side some kept

silent

and sat down at one side then the

brahman brahmayu heard the recluse

gotama

son of the sakeans who went forth from

the sakyan clan

has arrived in matilda and is living in

mahadeva's mango grove and matilda

then the brahmin brahmayu went to the

mahadeva's mango grove with a number of

brahman

students when he came to the mango grove

he thought

it is not proper that i should go to the

recluse gotama without first being

announced

then he addressed a certain monk

come brahman go to the recluse go to my

and ask in my name whether the recluse

goetama is free

from illness and affliction

and is healthy strong and abiding in

comfort

saying master gotama the brahman brahma

you ask whether recluse

ask whether master gotama is free from

illness and abiding in comfort

and say this the brahman

master gotama is old aged

burdened with years advanced in life

come to the last stage he is in

his 120th year

uh venerable and honda lived to be 120

years old

it seems that that that seemed to be

like kind of like the average age of

people

dying during the time of the buddha

and not that they didn't have people

dying before that but that seemed to be

a common age for people to die

he is a master of the three vedas with

the vocabularies liturgy

phonology etymology the histories

as the fifth skill in philology and

gregor and grammar he is fully

versed in

the natural philosophy and in the marks

of a good man

a great man

of all abundant householders who live in

matilda

the brahman brahmayu is pronounced the

foremost of them

in wealth in knowledge of the hymns

and in age and fame

he wants to see master gotuma

yes sir the brahmana student replied

went to the blessed one exchange

greetings with him

he went with this courteous and amiable

talk was finished he stood at one side

and delivered the message

the blessed one said now is the time for

the brahmana brahmayu

to do as he thinks fit

when the brahman student went back to

the brahman brahmayu

and he said permission has been granted

by the rikuz gotuma

now is the time to do as you think

fit so the brahman brahmayu went to the

blessed one

the assembly saw him coming in in the

distance

and they had once made way for him

for he was a well-known and famous

person

then the brahmana brahma you said to the

assembly

enough let each sit down

on his own seat i shall sit here

next to the recluse go to ma

then he went to the blessed one exchange

greetings and

witness courteous courteous enamel talk

was finished he sat down at one side

he looked for the 32 marks of a great

man

he saw more or less the 30 marks of a

great man

on the blessed one's body except for two

he was doubtful about the two marks

he could not decide or make up his mind

about the male

organ being enclosed in a sheath

and about the largeness of the tongue

when the brahman bromayyou address the

blessed one and stanza

the 2 and 30 marks i've learned

that are the sign of a great man

i still not see two of these

upon your body go to my

what should be concealed by cloth

hid by sheath greatest of men

though called by word and of feminine

gender

perhaps your tongue is a manly one

perhaps your tongue is large as well

according to what we have taught

please put it out a bit

and so see here cure

our doubt

for welfare and this is very

in this very life and happiness and

lives to come

and now we crave to ask leave

something that we aspire

to know then it occurred to the blessed

one

this brahman brahma you sees and

sees more or less the 32 marks of a

great man

except for two that was doubtful and

uncertain

about two of the marks

and he he cannot decide and make up his

mind about that

about the male organ being

enclosed in a sheath and about the

largeness of the tongue

then the blessed one worked such a feat

of supernormal power

that the brahman brahma you saw that the

blessed ones

male organ was enclosed in the sheath

next the blessed one extruded his tongue

and he re repeatedly touched both ear

holes and

nostrils he covered the hole

of his forehead with his tongue

and the blessed one spoke the stanza and

returned

to the brahman bromayyou

thirty in two marks you have learned

that are the signs of a great man

all of my body can be found

so brahman doubt no more on that

what must be known is directly known

what must be developed has been

developed

what must be abandoned has been

abandoned

therefore brahman i am a buddha

for the welfare in this very life and

and happiness and lives to come

since leave is given you please

ask whatever you aspire to know

then the brahman permission

has been granted me by the recluse go to

which should i ask him about

good in this life or good in the lives

to come

then he had thoughts

i am skilled in the good of this life

and others too ask me about the good in

this

life why shouldn't i ask him

only about the good in the lives to come

then then he addressed the blessed one

in stanza

how does one become a brahmana

and how far does one attack to not

attain that knowledge

how has one uh won the triple

knowledge and how does one become

a holy scholar

how does one become an arahat

and how does one attain completeness

how is one a silent sage

and how does it come to be

to be called a buddha

then the blessed one spoke this stands

in reply

one who knows about his former lives

sees heaven and states of deprivation

and has arrived at births destruction

a sage who knows by direct knowledge

who knows his mind is purified

entirely freed from every lust

when he has abandoned birth and death

who is complete in the holy life

who has transcended everything

one such as this is called a buddha

when this was said the brahmana brahmayu

rose from his seat after arranging his

upper robe on one shoulder

he prostrated himself with his head at

the blessed one's feet

and he covered the blessed one's feet

with

so what happens is brahmayu

leaves the buddha

he goes back and he starts practicing

the meditation that the buddha taught

him

and in a short period of time like a

couple of

weeks brahmayu died

and he died as

not an arahat he died as a sodapana

and the buddha became very famous

because everybody heard that brahmayu

still had more to learn and learned it

from the

buddha so i've been talking for a real

long time do you have

any questions

this particular suta is

good fun

because you get to learn about what the

buddha was talking about

when they talk about the 32 parts of of

a great man

i have met some monks that have marks of

a great man but they

don't have all of them

so do you have any question

go ahead and unview yourself

what's happening

okay oh i'm sorry

okay you want to go physics uh you can

after that okay

my first it is kind of a request the

first thing

first one i didn't see any

video discourse on seven factors of

enlightenment uh

it is just a request can you please

give some discourse on that in near

future okay

i'll try it for you next week

thank you and second thing

uh last last week you

you asked me to sit for two hours yes

actually i was every time i was sitting

i determined to sit for two hours

and i was able to sit comfortably i can

say

but i am ending five

five minutes before or 10 minutes before

the city

then close your eyes and continue until

you're done

do you recommend to keep some alarm or

no you open your eyes you

see you have ten minutes to go don't

break your sitting close your eyes it

will continue

okay i thought i should not open my eyes

okay well but you do because you want to

see if it's time okay

no problem with that you're not breaking

you're sitting when you open your eyes

and say you have another 10 minutes then

just continue on

okay i thought okay i thought otherwise

i don't have any other question okay

thank you you have good sitting with

your mindfulness drown

yeah it's uh i i can able to be an

object of meditation for 10 to 15

minutes

and what's your objective meditation

uh quiet mind with the equanimity

and tranquility okay you need to

let go of the tranquility

let go of the equanimity

you need to sharpen your mindfulness

because it's not as keen as it needs to

you need to see the very very beginning

of any slight movement of mind's

attention

okay and you want to relax

and then just let it be by itself

okay okay

good sounds like you're doing good

thank you monty okay

anybody else

i had a question okay i'm curious about

uh it said there was a blessing that

they would give

after the meal or before

it's a chanting okay

depending on what country you're in if

you're in malaysia

they do a chanting at the beginning

they do a chanting at the end and then

there's a short diamond talk

what does the chanting do

does it have some effect kind of what's

it for i'm wondering well it's repeating

some of those

some of the things that the buddha said

that's what

sutras are okay

okay it helps keep your mind more

peaceful and calm more accepting

now when when you're talking about

meditation

it's not only about

sitting i want to get rid of that false

idea

meditation has three parts to it the

first part

is practicing your generosity

the more you smile and give your smile

to other

people the more you help other people to

be happy

you are doing the meditation

and that helps your mind to be more

settled

the second part is keeping

precepts without breaking them

this is real important

that the closer

you can keep your precepts

the better the pre your practice becomes

your mind becomes quiet you have

less and less disturbances

arising in your mind

the last part of meditation is the

mental development

the sitting and watching with strong

mindfulness how mind's attention moves

from one thing to another

okay okay thank you okay

a bunty yes uh thank you

for your reading your talk today um

i had never thought of this before

but i have i am familiar with

archaeology and a lot of research about

very tall skeletons that have been

dug up across the united states in

different parts of the world and sent to

the smithsonian

where they were hidden many destroyed

and this almost sounds to me as though

these people are referred to as giants

and they can be anywhere from seven to

eight

feet tall to 25 feet tall

yeah and it almost reminds makes me

think what was the buddha

perhaps genetically different from us

he was tall like i'm tall for

this culture right i'm 6 feet 5.

you're talking about not human being

you're talking about a different race

and catalina island just off

of uh los angeles yes

in the 1940s they dug up 4

000 giants like that

yes they wound up taking all of them and

throwing them back in the ocean because

they didn't want people to know about

having that kind of extraordinary being

that was here

so you feel that this would not apply to

the buddha

no thank you uh

when when monks become monks there are

certain things that we have to

verify one of the rules

of being a monk is we are asked

if we are a real human being

and we have to answer honestly about

this kind of thing

it always has been kind of a

peculiar thing

that we would be asked that

but there were there are other beings

around

i have had some people come to dominate

and they had no white in their eye

their eye was completely black

and i would talk to them at the end of a

dominant talk and just

more chit chat than anything

and i suspect very highly that it was

they were not human beings by

talking with them

but who would have asked the buddha if

he was a human being

nobody he was a human being

is this written in his suitors that he

states that he was a human being

i don't mean to be i'm just trying to

share my questions that are amazing

pardon me you're you're real

loud right now

okay there there were beings that were

shape shifters

they were called

reptilians

they looked like human beings when they

were awake

but when they slept they went back to

their their

natural natural form which was not human

and the buddha told them that they had

to disrobe because their mind worked

different than ours did

and that is in the vineyard that is

in the vineyard very interesting

thank you thank you bonte

okay anybody else

hi there oh hello oh go ahead hello

hello hello

a question oh hi hi auntie can you hear

yes hi there yeah i've got a request

okay what is it and yeah the request

just about meta um

i was wondering is there any chance at

some point talk about the benefits of

meta please

are they talk

boy i talk about the advantages of meta

a lot

there's there's many many discourses

on the youtube about the advantages of