Death Without Stress: An Uplifting Story about The Fruits of Practice | Upāsikā Viveka | 21 January 2024

An 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.


0:00 - Introduction 3:03 - Ist half of the talk  33:45 -
Guided meditation 1:05:50 - 2nd half of the talk 1:27:33 -
Q&A 


Upāsikā Viveka is a deeply practicing dhammacārinī, who was given
her Pali name by Ajahn Brahm. She is accredited as an advanced
Dhamma teacher by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. She
has lived and practiced mostly in seclusion in Southeast
Australia at Khemavara Sanctuary for over 20 years, and under the
8 precepts since 2009. Khemavara is in an isolated bush location
surrounded by national parks and is a sanctuary for wild animals.
Viveka is a very interesting figure because even though she is a
lay person, not having had the opportunity to ordain, she
practices with the dedication of a nun. Before renunciation she
had a professional background in psychology, specializing in
Mental Health, and was instrumental in introducing and spreading
the Recovery Based Model throughout Australia.


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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