I'm going to play this every morning b4 my meditations.

Thank U*

lol, i wish my meditation went as well as my animation ;)

Exquisite!

A bit long in my opinion. However, a beautiful journey.

Beautiful ... the visuals work for Christian meditation too :)

Bill ... if I'm thinking "no, no you're wrong" it's only because I don't recognise my own faith or my meditation techniques from your description. You must have mistaken me for someone else.

The only entrapment I need to be freed from is the confines of your description, from which I happily and effortlessly fly free back into the peaceful bliss evoked by Glenn's wonderful visuals.

;)

Strong words there Bill! - as much as you and I may disagree with other's religious beliefs, it's important to show care - everyone believes in something for a reason, life is a difficult bewildering experience, for many there seems no options or answers other than the religion offered to them in whatever age/culture they're in. And once you start strongly believing in something, the idea that you could be wrong is just too painful and shocking to contemplate. This is why I have total respect and empathy for anyone of any religion, if I were in their place, brought up in the same culture, and had the same life experiences, I would be just the same.

Yes, but all I'm saying is I wish I could do something beautiful like this and get 500 viewers!!

This is absolutely sublime.

thank you

Amazing with (or without) salvia.

beautiful and evocative. makes me want to study Buddism.

absolute bliss. Thanks for sharing.

Just letting you know, this video introduced me to buddhism.

Thank you. :)

Wow, fantastic! Thank you!
Your Math and Butterfly videos are really beautiful too, natural perfection.

youtube.com/watch?v=bpeNJx7pctY

watch this if you have the time anyone, a great talk from the same monk about the difference between a 'revealed' and a 'realised' religion.

Light! Wow!!!

Excellent !

Stunningly beautiful imagery and words, but if we simply rephrase the description of the 'end' as being 'nothing' to something more positive, how about 'truth' or 'release' then we would attract more people to Buddhist meditation. We are on our side of the river, looking from our side 'nothingness' sounds pretty bleak and unappealing. I have heard that the experience of emptiness, however, from the 'other' side of the river, is supremely blissful. But for the sake of enticing these still world-bound minds (mine included), I wish Theravadin monks could use more appealing similes! Like one of Buddha's similes, 'the highest happiness', or the simile of the oasis where the weary traveller finally quenches his eternal thirst, that sounds much more appealing and will get me to my meditation cushion much faster than the word 'nothingness'!
However, what lovely visuals, and what a great meditation teacher Ajahn Brahm is, his method is certainly practical and effective.

I totally accept your point. When monks give teachings, they adjust the tone according to audience, in this case, it was a recording Ajahn Brahm gave to his monks in his monastery, so this is why it's quite deep. He would have spoken differently to lay people I'm sure.