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Hello Taryal ! Thank you 🙏🏿
Are you aware of any medications that could be useful?
I think jhānas can be useful but I never achieve one.
Hi Taryal, it’s been a while! I’m in the same age group as you so my opinion will be different from a more experienced person. I advise you to see a therapist for this kind of problem. It can bring relief (at least temporarily) and bring to light our own traumas. We have accumulated traumas since our early childhood that remain and leave traces. The therapist will be able to bring them to light and will propose solutions that can alleviate them. Personally, I will soon make an appointment to diagnose certain toxic aspects of my mind. I have certain behaviours that can be toxic for those around me. This kind of behaviour comes from the environment where I grew up. The good thing is that at least we realize our problems early. It is better to be aware of this than at 60 for example. The older we get, the worse our mental health will get. However, therapy will never be able to get to the root of the problem which is Avijjā, Tanha and Patigha. Bhantes aren’t always qualified to help us with our current mental health. They can only give us the ultimate solution. Therapy fails to see past lives traumas and the toxicity of the rebirth process. It is the Pure Dhamma of Lord Buddha or his noble disciples that will cure us forever of all mental suffering. You and I are very fortunate since we have the true Dhamma thanks to people like Sir Lal and the monks of Waharaka and Jethavanarama Monasteries.
As the Most Venerable Waharaka Thero said, on our path to Nibbana, we must not ignore the supporting conditions. Supporting conditions are actions that help us on the path, but they should not be put above everything else. I believe that seeing a therapist is a supportive condition. May you attain the Supreme Bliss of Nibbāna and the end of all mental suffering. 🙏🏿🪷🌸
Sir Lal : He must have fulfilled most of his pāramitā (meaning “setting up the necessary background”) in previous lives.
- In the Jayaddisa Jātaka, Venerable Arahant Angulimala was a cannibal who became a yogi. He changed thanks to the Bodhisatta and decided to renounce the world and became a yogi under the guidance of another great yogi, who was the Venerable Arahant Sāriputta in a past life. He probably developed all jhanas and that’s maybe why it was easy for him to accept the path under the Lord Buddha.
Sir Seng Kiat : This the reason why most people (puthujjana) will take sappurisa as “true person” and assume any “moral person” with the traits or quality of the above “Sappurisa in Various Suttas – Traits & Moral vs Noble Emphasis” chart and will lead one to stages of Enlightenment without the need for the “moral person” to be a “Noble Person.”
- Yes, this is why it is important to clarify this concept. Because many people will think that any highly moral person can enlighten us. This view aligns with “all religions that teach the same, and we need to be a good person”. Of course, morality is good, but the goal is to be free of this Samsāra, not to be a good person. Be good will automatically happens when one progresses in the path of Nibbāna. Sunetta was a highly moral yogi who possessed the jhānas. He led many people in the sugati world with his teachings. However, he was not free from suffering and even fell from the Brahma worlds in the devas world and in the human world. That means noble view needs to come from an Ariya.
His story is told in the Sunetta Sutta and in the Sattasūriyasutta
The Sattasūriyasutta is also linked to this article Buddhism and Evolution – Aggañña Sutta (DN 27). The Aggañña Sutta explains how the world is formed, but the Sattasūriyasutta explains how the worlds are destroyed.
Sādhu Sādhu Sādhu how blessed you are, my friend Dosakkhayo 🙏🏿. May you attain the Supreme Bliss of Nibbāna with this noble association 🙏🏿.
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