Ajahn Brahmali, Ajahn Brahmavamso (Buddhist Society of Western Australia, Aug. 8-9, 2015); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Buddhism: passive or passionate?
Most of the 20 presenters and speakers of the conference were present for this concluding session. Some of the questions asked were about religious conflict, climate change, GLBT issues, and much more.
There was a spontaneous standing ovation at the end of the session (Min. 1:01:00). This was followed by a performance by Laura Bernay Quintet and a closing statement by Cecilia Mitra, president of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. Core organizers of the conference were invited to the stage.
Music
SONG
Quiet Rise
ARTIST
Alex Arcoleo
ALBUM
ANW2093 - Piano Pearls.
The passion of Ajahn Brahmali
Another Western monastic in the Theravada Thai Forest Tradition, a Norwegian named Ajahn Brahmāli (a student of Ajahn Brahm), has recently written against all of these views, drawing on a careful study of the sutra collections (nikāyas). Ven. Brahmāli concludes that the "most reasonable interpretation" of final-nirvana (pari-nibbana) is "no more than the cessation of the five khandhas [the aggregates of form, feeling, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness]" [53]. Ven. Brahmāli also notes that there is a kind of stillness or superconsciousness (samādhi) that is attainable only by the awakened ones and is based on their direct knowledge and experience of nirvana (but is not nirvana itself). This meditative attainment is what is being referred to by terms such as "non-manifest consciousness" (anidassana viññāṇa) and "unestablished consciousness" (appatiṭṭhita viññāṇa) [53]. More
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