Death Without Stress: An Uplifting Story about The Fruits of Practice | Upāsikā Viveka | 21 Jan 2024
66An online Dhamma talk by Upāsikā Viveka facilitated by Piotr Planeta from Portal Sasana - https://m.youtube.com/user/sasanaPL.
Upāsikā Viveka said that she feels blessed that she had the opportunity to be close to the death journey of two very close people, so she can share her experience with others, so they can have potentially much more peaceful and wholesome death, when it eventually inevitably comes. The talk, guided meditation and Q&A session also touches on other dhamma topics, like progressive training, gratitude, cultivation of the mind etc.
Upāsikā Viveka is a deeply practicing dhammacārinī keeping 8 Buddhist precepts for over 14 years. For over 20 years she lives and practices in seclusion in South-Eastern Australia in Khemavara Sanctuary – her place that is a safe refuge for wild animals. Viveka is a very interesting person, because she’s practicing with the dedication of a nun, even though she’s a lay follower. With very wise and warm energy, she gladly shares her insights with us.
Piotr Płaneta or Upāsaka Sunyanando is a lay follower on 5 precepts, basing his practice on Early Buddhist Texts and teachings of Ajahn Brahm, Ajahn Sona and Upāsikā Viveka. He is a P.hD student finishing his thesis on "Cognitive and Functional Aspects of Meditation in Theravada Buddhism". He's a lay dhamma and meditation teacher and organiser of retreats and various dhamma events, both with monastics and his own. Right now he's mostly focused on connecting Poland with Buddhist Society of Western Australia and tradition of Ajahn Brahm, organising many events with renunciates related to this project. Together with his kalyana-mittas, he's trying to establish the first Theravada Buddhist Monastery in Poland.
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Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.
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