Getting to know your crocodile - with Bhante Dhammika - Video

Bhante Dhammika gives a Dhamma Talk on "Getting to know Your Crocodile" - a concept from a simile given by the Buddha that can help us overcome major blockages in our spiritual practice, of which we may even be mostly unaware.

** Outline **

00:00:00 - Meditation
00:10:07 - Contradictions in behaviour
00:14:07 - Trends in meditation
00:18:52 - Anusati meditations, sila-anusati
00:23:59 - Meditation on death
00:24:28 - Simile of the crocodile
00:29:55 - Getting to know your crocodile
00:31:40 - Freud
00:35:56 - Inner awareness
00:39:21 - Meditating vs being meditative
00:43:13 - Eating mindfully
00:46:23 - Awareness of the crocodile
00:51:28 - Q: Repressed emotions, friends
00:57:44 - Q: Dealing with aversion / disassociation, hiri / otapa
01:05:36 - Balance between acceptance & criticism, avoiding & doing
01:10:26 - Q: Befriending the crocodile?
01:16:11 - Diminishing attachments to defilements
01:17:54 - Q: How to do sila-anusati?
01:26:18 - "Praised by the wise"
01:29:35 - Dedication of merits

** About the speaker **

Bhante Dhammika was born in Australia in 1951 and after visits to Thailand and Burma finally became a monk in India in 1976. Subsequently, he lived in Sri Lanka and Singapore and returned to his homeland in 2017 and now lives in semi-retirement in Queensland. Bhante has written some 20 books on subjects as diverse as Buddhist doctrine and history pilgrimage, biography, the environment, as well as a series of comic books for children and translations of Buddhist text. His most well-known book Good Question Good Answer has been translated into 36 languages. His most recent book on the life of the Buddha, is available online at http://budblooms.org - all his books are available online as free PDFs.

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