Buddha’s Teachings

How much you suffer, how often you have problems in your life mostly depends on how much you cling to the idea of your self “I”. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Sufferings cannot arise without proper conditions/ingredients, the faculties or the sources. What are those required ingredients? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

(Also now on YouTube through channel Sothy Tim) Become a shade means to offer refuge to the fellow travelers from the hot sun. How do you become a shade? First, you have to be cool within yourself. Find out how in this episode. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

How is your year as we are approaching the end of another year? Has your practice brought you more lightness and peace? Have you made progress in your study about yourself, the inner you? Share you thoughts and ideas or questions as we wrap up 2023. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

In order for one to commit himself/herself to liberation from the cycle of Dukkha/sufferings, one must understand or know what Dukkha/suffering is. The study of Dhamma is a must and is the only way. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

The mind is not not easy to tame but as long as we can see the benefits of a tamed mind we must keep on practicing because we know it is the only way out of the cycle of suffering. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Our original mind is like a bucket of pure clear water. What we put in it is what we are mistakenly identified ourself with. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

What are we looking for in order to have a happy life in a relationship? What are the conditions? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

We love people we hate people. A loved one becomes the ex-one. The ex becomes someone’s else love. So what is this “person” we love or hate? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

The ultimate streaming is our mind. Blinded by the speed of the mind, we develop the self “I” as a doer. The ignorant doer goes to do selfish things for itself. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

By looking within, we need to realize that we are also the trigger to the world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Your mind has its own way of functioning, it is its nature. Find out what it is. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Our mind is the source of our sins. Unwholesome mind leads to sinful speech and action. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

It’s just the matter of time when we run into problems in life, it’s inevitable. How one handles the situation determine the quality of one’s life. If you are stressed, sad, upset, anxious, nervous, scared, angry, irritated, you have not figured out the solution to your problems. Right solution gives you happiness, peace of mind. Would you like to find out? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

From Angkuttarak Nikaya number 42, the Buddha talked about the Four Characteristics of a person, worthy and unworthy. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Life is a journey as people say. With the right formula life can be a lot less stressful and more joyful. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

What is the difference between paying respect and taking refuge in the Triple Gems? There are misconceptions in what taking refuge means. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

All fires starts with a little spark. All big problems start with little problems. Put out the spark is a lot easier than put out the big fire. Learn to catch the spark. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

A man who conquer a thousand battles is not still as powerful as the man(or woman) who can conquer himself/herself. This phrase is explained here in this episode. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

The Buddha discovered the Truth. From the Truth He taught the Dhamma. What is the Truth He discovered? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

All feelings and emotions happen inside us. Who or what creates these feelings? We normally think that our feelings arise due to the different factors outside our body, due to what we see or hear. Does that mean those things and people are the creator of our feelings? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Is old habit difficult to break? It depends on your mind set. Is your emotions difficult to change? It depends on your will. But if you know for sure that the change will make a better you or get you into a better life situation, would you do it? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

When your mind is full of stuff you feel heavy, especially stuff of negative feelings and emotions. Learn to clear this mind, learn to clean that mind and you will feel much better. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

This episode goes a little deeper into the fifty two mind faculties, the ingredients, the formula, some samples of how mind arises. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Evil/bad deeds arise from unwholesome minds, unwholesome thoughts, unwholesome actions. How do you handle these unwholesome feelings? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

You have issues in you life, in your work, in your families, in your relationship, your mind is heavy, full of negative thoughts, feelings, and emotions. You feel heavy like having dark clouds on your head, heavy weights on your shoulders. This is telling you that you don’t understand your own mind and you are letting your mind control you. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

We all have to deal with difficult people, difficult situation all the time. How do we manage this problem? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

You are only one thought away from happiness if you put down your ego. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Many people pray at the temples, at the altars, to the Buddha’s statue. Is that what the Buddha taught? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Grief is a part of life we all encounter from time to time. It is important to understand how this pain arises. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

The King(your mind) wants to have peace in his kingdom but the king is always disturbed. Where are the guards? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Being aware of oneself’s mental activities (having Sati) is the crucial first part of learning about ourselves. Let’s talk about how to become aware of our own thoughts and emotions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

You have studied the Dhamma, you have studied the Sutra, yet you still have issues in life. Where has the learning gone? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Mind objects are products of our mind. These objects are the emotions, the feelings we experience and mistakenly identify ourselves with. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

So it’s the question for you and your mind, which one is it? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

The Buddha encourages Dana or offering/giving. What is the best Dana one can give to oneself and people around them? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

The conceptual “I” arises flawlessly with the rise of the five senses. Understanding this concept is the opening to the ultimate you. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Practicing anything must benefit you. The same goes with practicing the Dhamma. This episode shows you how to bring the Dhamma to your everyday activities so you can have a beautiful life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Kamma/karma is action. Your action makes your life, good, bad, sad, angry, stressed, depressed, … What you make is yours. Choose the right one. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Our mind rises and falls away nonstop like waterfalls, it never stops. New mind arises and passes away consecutively, not a single old mind sticks around but because it happens so fast it seems like there is just one mind. You never touch a stream twice, be it water stream or mind stream. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Just as a storm cannot prevail against a rocky Mountain, so Mara can never overpower the man who lives meditating on impurities. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

A journey begins with the first step and the longest journey is the journey within which requires no step. You are already there. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

This episode explains about the functions of our six senses, how they work, interact, and generate the mind. Please feel free to leave comments. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

We go through many episodes in our life. How we handle the different episodes we encounter dictates how we live our life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Your mind only exists in the present moment, so are you. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

What is Samsara? How did we get caught in it? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Nothing specific today, a little bit here a little bit there. Comments if you like. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Cultivate your land cultivate your mind. It is an effort we all need to make. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

We all have stories and those stories run inside our head. Watch the stories. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Who is suffering? Find out who or what is suffering. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Where does our suffering come from? What or who creates it? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Why you can’t let go of that dislike, hateful feeling about someone? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Because people only know that suffering is part of life they think that it is normal. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Once you understand what suffering is you can learn to detach from it. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

This episode takes you deeper into the teaching to see what the ultimate truth is that the Buddha taught. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Clinging or holding on to things is the root cause of insecurity, anxiety, stress that can proliferate into many unwholesome thoughts. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

The secret of life is right in front of you. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Acceptance is hard to do for most people when tragedies happen, when they are a victim of something in the past. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Wisdom (Pranha in Pali) is one component in the Eight Fold Noble Path. How do you cultivate this wisdom/pranha? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Human mind, animal mind. What is mindfulness? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

How does stress start in our life? From teenagers to young adults, stress builds up. Know where stress come from. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

What are the six worlds that make your mind? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

The definition of the word Nirvana/Nibanna. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

What you are searching for is already inside of you. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

All Dhamma has the mind as the subject. (Buddha) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Self realization is about realizing our own mind, how it works. The mind is what keeps us in Samsara, understanding it is liberation. Free… --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

What is awareness? And what is the difference between awareness and mindfulness? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Opinion and criticisms, mental activities that lead to problems. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Buddha asked the monk’s: monks, if Brahmins or lay people ask why you study with the Tathagatta, what benefits do you get from the Teachings? What would you tell them? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Our new generation, from teenagers to young adults, is facing tremendous pressure from society and it creates a lot of stress and anxiety. How does one handle it? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Needless to say, raising a family is a very challenging responsibility and every little guidance helps. This episode is my little two cents guidance. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Money can help fix the necessity of life but money cannot buy true peace and happiness of life. The only way to cure the mental suffering is to understand what our mind is. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

How do you cultivate compassion for yourself and others? How do you forgive someone? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

How can Buddhism benefit your life? This is the key, the bridge that takes you to the other side of your emotional (ego) mind. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Fear and worry destroy our happiness. What is fear? Why are we worried? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

What troubles you? Understand what that is and you can be happier. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

When there is self there is death to self. Non-self is deathless but don’t just take my words for it, investigate it for yourself. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Understanding the “I” that creates your emotion. What is that “I”? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Our mind sprouts from different kinds of seed that generate different kinds of feelings. Understanding how those seeds grow are crucial to our peace of mind. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Continuing from part 1, episode 28, this talk is about our emotional mind, our part of the mind that runs the world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

We all have two minds operating together seamlessly like one. I am breaking it down here for you so see how the two works together. This another way of looking at our mind. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

People have harmed you, people have hurt you, how can you have love or compassion for them? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

The infected mind is happy, mad, sad, upset, angry, . . . Disinfect your mind. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

I can’t have peace of mind, I have tried meditations but it only helps temporarily. How can I control my mind? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Desire leads to suffering. What about good desires? Desire to do good. Do you need to have desire to do good? How do desires and attachments work? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Depression has many sources. Will try to cover some. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Anger anger goes away, do not come back any other days. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Comparing and judging are the activities of the human mind. We must keep watch of this activity. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Many have suffered broken relationships, have problems with immediate family members or spouse that is totally avoidable. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

How we value ourselves is very important for most of us. When not knowing, we value ourselves with the wrong conceptions and it causes sufferings. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Surrender to the truth, to life, and live it mindfully. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

What does it mean “going beyond” or transcend the mind? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

The idea of self creates separation, me vs you, my country vs your country, my people vs your people, my belief vs your belief. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

How are you all doing? How is life up to this moment? Any thing changes or wish it changes? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

I like the idea of the Teachings but I am too busy. I kind of know that all I have to do is be good. These are some of the comments people have. As long as you maintain this attitude, your life situations cannot get better because you will still always be under the control of your own ego mind. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

What is different in Buddhism from other religions? The teachings of selflessness , non-self is the key to eradicate ego. This key opens the door to the kingdom of heaven within. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Based on memories, our mind works unconsciously and go through the emotions of life. Thus, there is no peace of mind. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

Wrapping up the core teachings of the Buddha. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support

The path to liberation. Peace and happiness at last. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sothy-tim/support