When practiced at home, should I watch your
clip at the same time?
It's up to you. You will reach a point when
you have enough of my guidance.
You will want to practise on your own.
You don't want to listen anymore. Enough!
Before reaching that point, you're still hungry
of listening and reading.
It means you still want support and
motivation from teacher. If so, you need to listen.
At least, listening to my voice,
you would gain guided wisdom from me.
It helps you to understand but it won't last.
Dhamma is quite strange in this respect.
We think we understand but the knowledge can disappear,
not forget, disappear but you understand again.
Listening is a good reminder.
Each time will remind you of different thing.
I have lots of information to offer,
it's impossible for you to pick up everything!
Not like that. Listening again may help you to
pick up the bits you missed before.
You may think you focused well,
really concentrate.
But...why I never heard of this before, Ajahn!
I can't remember you said this!
This happens to everyone because we
cannot pick up everything in one session.
You can't digest everything either, so
listening again helps you digest better.
Of what you missed. So, you don't listen
to dhamma just once, neither does reading.
My book, Auad-u-ta-ri, you should read once
in every 2-3 years. Reading the 1st time,
you may be at the bottom of the hill,
3 years later, you've progressed to midway,
So, you will understand what
you couldn't 3 years before although
you've been reading the same book.
So, wait another 5 years, you have more understanding.
Because your spiritual journey is progressing,
the same as listening to my teaching videos.
Likewise, if you still want to listen to me
in class, it means this young tree needs nurture.
If the main root is not deep enough to find
water by itself, then you still need help.
Such help is the support of
guided wisdom from teacher.
You also need inspiration. Besides,
listening to my voice
is a matter of resonating vibration
of energy,
My voice generate frequency of energy which can adjust your frequency, which could help you reach inner peace,
the goal, Nirvana, easily. This is
why people like listening to chanting.
Buddho, Buddho...such vibration
could connect you with Buddha's frequency.
That's why listening to teaching video
has several impacts.
But if you feel having enough of listening, you can stop
it means that you can rely on yourselve
you have gained your own intuitive wisdon
the result of your own practice.
You can be your own refuge.
So, you must observe your own feeling.
hungry for guidance or not.
sometime you do, sometime you don't.
Just observe and be sensitive of how you feel
no set rule.
This is just a general idea, understand?