Here is another set of slides for a Dhamma talk delivered by Bro Bugs Tan Title of the talk is : Who am I : Part 2 How to lead a meaningful life

1. Who am I?
Part 2 : How to lead a meaningful life?
Bugs Tan
Persatuan Buddha Hilir Perak
Teluk Intan 11th Oct 2015

2. Where to begin?
Go forward and see got longkang or not?
Back track…
Ask GOD..!!!
Ask your mother Ask MCA - Liow Ask Dr M
Wear lucky charm
Change car plate number

3. Ups and Down in Life

4. Information Over Load
There are so
many things in
life. So which is
correct?

5. Information Over Load
What happen when you are fed with too much information?

6. What to do?

7. Back to basic
It starts with YOU

8. The Blessed One was once living at
Kosambi in a wood of Simpasa trees.
He picked-up a few leaves in his hands,
and he asked the bhikkhus, "How do
you conceive this, bhikkhus, which is
more, a few leaves that I've picked-up
in my hand or those on the trees in the
wood?
"The leaves that the Blessed One
picked-up in his hand are a few, Lord :
those in the wood are far more."
The Buddhist Path

9. "So too, bhikkhus, the things that I've known direct knowledge are more ;
the things that I've told you are only a few.
Why have I not told them? Because they bring no benefit, no advancement
in the Holy Life, and because they do not lead to dispassion, to fading, to
ceasing, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to enlightenment, to Nibanna. That
is why I've not told them.
And what I've told you? This is suffering ; this is the origin of suffering ; this
is the cessation of suffering ; this is the way leading to the cessation of
suffering. That is what I have told you.
Why have I told it? Because it brings benefit, and advancement in the Holy
Life, and because it leads to dispassion, to fading, to cessation, to stilling, to
direct knowledge, to enlightenment, to Nibanna.
So bhikkhus, let your task be this, this is the cessation of suffering, this is the
way leading to the cessation of suffering."
Skilful way to learn the Dhamma

10. The Buddha Dhamma
Tipitaka – The Pali Canon
Sutta
Vinnaya
Ahbidhamma
Four Noble Truth
Noble 8 Fold Path
Five Precepts
Pariyati. Learning the Dhamma.
Patipatti. Practicing the Dhamma
Pativedha. Realising the Dhamma

11. Let’s do some case study.
Let’s have a lively discussion on
the next few videos.
Tell us what do you think in each
video.
What are your views
Was that right? Or was it wrong?

12. #1 : Woman dying of breast cancer

13. Question to ask:-
1) What do you think is the woman’s
problem?
2) What is the right thing for her to do?
3) Was Master Lu giving the right advise?
4) If not. Then why not? Then what sort of
advise Master Lu should give?

14. #2 : Angry Teacher

15. #3 : Low Yat brawl

16. #4 : Order a pizza

17. #5 : Kangkung song

18. #6 : I’m first a Malaysian

19. #7 : Liar strike by lightning

20. #8 : Taoist Priest

21. #9 : Corrupted Monks in Korea

22. #10 : Bahai

23. #11 : Black magic

24. #12 : Monk in boiling oil

25. #13 : Buddhist Monk Wirathu

26. #14 : Exorcism

27. #15 : Sikhism

28. #16 : Taliban

29. #17 : Children suicide bombers

30. #18 : Aghori

31. #19 : Sai Baba

32. #20 : Islamophobia

33. #21 : Hantu

34. #22 : Raja Bomoh MH370

35. #23 : We can fix it

36. #24 : George Carlin

37. #25 : Amos Yee

38. #26 : Jack Ma

39. #27 : The CEO of Pespi Cola

40. #28 : Quantum leap

41. Buddhist are Happy People
Avoid
wrongdoing,
Do good and
Purify the mind,
This is the
teaching of
Buddhas.
~ Dhammapada 1
83

42. The 10 evil deeds (akusala) we should avoid.
They are :-
1. Killing
2. Stealing
3. Sexual misconduct
4. Lying
5. Slandering
6. Harsh speech
7. Vain talk
8. Covetousness (desire for wealth)
9 Ill-will
10. False belief
10 evil deeds

43. We should have wholesome thoughts (kusala) all the time. The
Buddha has mentioned that there are 10 good qualities. They are:-
1. Generosity
2. Morality
3. Meditation
4. Reverence
5. Service
6. Transference of merit
7. Rejoicing in others’ merit
8. Hearing the doctrine
9. Expounding the doctrine
10. Straightening one’s right view
10 meritorious deeds

44. The Buddha teaches that a bhikkhu practising the holy life must exercise
control of his sense faculties.
The six sense faculties may be likened to six animals, namely, a snake, a
crocodile, a giant bird, a dog, a jackal and a monkey. Suppose each animal
is bound by a rope and the ropes are tied together into a single knot.
When they are left in this state, each animal will try to get to its own
habitat, the snake to its underground hole, the crocodile to the river, etc.
In this way they will pull and struggle against one another until they
become exhausted and are dragged along by the strongest of them.
The mind of a bhikkhu with unrestrained sense faculties will be impelled
by the senses towards corresponding sense objects.
Question : Why we do we get bogged down by
something we like very much.

45. Skilful means - Mindfulness
But suppose each animal is bound by a separate rope which is fastened to a
pole firmly planted in the ground.
Each animal will make furious attempts to return to its home and becoming
exhausted finally will stand, sit, curl or lie down quietly near the post.
Similarly by practising contemplation of the body, the sense faculties are
placed well under control.
Mindfulness of the body serves as the firm post to which each of the faculties
is tied down.
Salayatana-vibhanga Sutta

46. The discourse given by the Buddha on the bank of the River Ganges at
Kosambi, the Buddha uses the simile of a log floating down the river.
He says that if the log does not get stranded on either of the two
banks,
nor sinks in the middle of the river,
nor gets salvaged and deposited on the bank by some one,
nor is retrieved by men or devas,
nor sucked in by a whirlpool,
and if it does not get decomposed on the way,
it will be carried by the current till it
reaches its destination.
Salayatana-vibhanga Sutta

47. In this simile,
; the near bank means the six internal sense bases
; the far bank represents the six external sense objects
; sinking in the mid-river means getting immersed in sensuous desires
; being salvaged and deposited on a bank means being hindered by one’s
own conceit
; being retrieved by men means doing some services or running errands for
men
; being retrieved by devas means practising the holy life with the deva
realm as one’s objective
; being sucked in a whirlpool means wallowing in sensual pleasures
; getting decomposed on the way means becoming corrupt, immoral,
heedless of the disciplinary rules.
If a bhikkhu manages to steer himself clear of all these obstacles, he will
be carried along by the current of Right View till he reaches his
destination, Nibbana.
Salayatana-vibhanga Sutta

48. It's all about letting go...
love
family
body
jobs
Emptiness
Nirvana
Property
success

49. Take home message….
I realized that that while we are fortunate to be born with the 5
Khandha that has make it possible us to function as a human
being. But in my thoughts, I’ve also taken that the 5 Khandha are
actually our enemy in disguise.

50. Thank you
May you be well and happy
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