WEBVTT 00:00:01.035 --> 00:00:05.945 When practiced at home, should I watch your clip at the same time? 00:00:06.680 --> 00:00:13.283 It's up to you. You will reach a point when you have enough of my guidance. 00:00:13.417 --> 00:00:18.867 You will want to practise on your own. You don't want to listen anymore. Enough! 00:00:18.944 --> 00:00:24.294 Before reaching that point, you're still hungry of listening and reading. 00:00:24.677 --> 00:00:33.927 It means you still want support and motivation from teacher. If so, you need to listen. 00:00:34.329 --> 00:00:39.329 At least, listening to my voice, you would gain guided wisdom from me. 00:00:39.673 --> 00:00:46.633 It helps you to understand but it won't last. Dhamma is quite strange in this respect. 00:00:46.773 --> 00:00:56.273 We think we understand but the knowledge can disappear, not forget, disappear but you understand again. 00:00:56.471 --> 00:01:03.221 Listening is a good reminder. Each time will remind you of different thing. 00:01:03.316 --> 00:01:11.816 I have lots of information to offer, it's impossible for you to pick up everything! 00:01:11.918 --> 00:01:18.894 Not like that. Listening again may help you to pick up the bits you missed before. 00:01:18.894 --> 00:01:24.744 You may think you focused well, really concentrate. 00:01:24.860 --> 00:01:31.290 But...why I never heard of this before, Ajahn! I can't remember you said this! 00:01:31.375 --> 00:01:38.655 This happens to everyone because we cannot pick up everything in one session. 00:01:38.740 --> 00:01:43.940 You can't digest everything either, so listening again helps you digest better. 00:01:44.039 --> 00:01:51.069 Of what you missed. So, you don't listen to dhamma just once, neither does reading. 00:01:51.230 --> 00:01:58.750 My book, Auad-u-ta-ri, you should read once in every 2-3 years. Reading the 1st time, 00:01:58.810 --> 00:02:05.190 you may be at the bottom of the hill, 3 years later, you've progressed to midway, 00:02:05.287 --> 00:02:09.637 So, you will understand what you couldn't 3 years before although 00:02:09.708 --> 00:02:15.428 you've been reading the same book. So, wait another 5 years, you have more understanding. 00:02:15.516 --> 00:02:26.223 Because your spiritual journey is progressing, the same as listening to my teaching videos. 00:02:26.867 --> 00:02:34.957 Likewise, if you still want to listen to me in class, it means this young tree needs nurture. 00:02:35.184 --> 00:02:41.954 If the main root is not deep enough to find water by itself, then you still need help. 00:02:42.252 --> 00:02:52.212 Such help is the support of guided wisdom from teacher. 00:02:52.752 --> 00:02:58.842 You also need inspiration. Besides, listening to my voice 00:02:58.973 --> 00:03:03.023 is a matter of resonating vibration of energy, 00:03:03.234 --> 00:03:13.124 My voice generate frequency of energy which can adjust your frequency, which could help you reach inner peace, 00:03:13.170 --> 00:03:21.154 the goal, Nirvana, easily. This is why people like listening to chanting. 00:03:21.340 --> 00:03:30.849 Buddho, Buddho...such vibration could connect you with Buddha's frequency. 00:03:31.625 --> 00:03:38.465 That's why listening to teaching video has several impacts. 00:03:38.565 --> 00:03:44.195 But if you feel having enough of listening, you can stop it means that you can rely on yourselve 00:03:44.283 --> 00:03:49.763 you have gained your own intuitive wisdon the result of your own practice. 00:03:49.821 --> 00:03:56.121 You can be your own refuge. 00:03:56.328 --> 00:04:03.298 So, you must observe your own feeling. hungry for guidance or not. 00:04:03.469 --> 00:04:09.859 sometime you do, sometime you don't. 00:04:10.152 --> 00:04:14.422 Just observe and be sensitive of how you feel no set rule. 00:04:14.510 --> 00:04:18.350 This is just a general idea, understand?