5 Small Habits that Will Change Your Life Forever (Monk Advise) | Buddhism In English

Nam buddhaya welcome everyone to another video today from this video I want to share with you few habits and practices that we monks practice in our daily life and also I want to share with you few my personal practices that I do in my daily life and I believe these practices and habits can help you to achieve a more happier and a more fulfilling life now have you seen people those who are doing extraordinary things that average people wonder and think like how on Earth that person did that some people call it luck okay some

people call it they are clever some people call that they are very skillful okay but I would say the secret behind their achievement is a good set of habits that they have done every single day and they have practiced ractice every single day and the those practices and those habits has become a normal part of their life and that is why we have to focus our mind on the habits and the practices that we do in our daily life because what we do in our daily life what we think in our daily life makes who

we are makes the character okay makes our character so that is why we have to focus F us on the good habits and remove try try as much as possible to remove the toxic habits and replace them with a good one so I believe these habits these monk habits and personal habits will help you to achieve a more happier and a more fulfilling life so without any further Ado let's dive into these habits the first practice is the morning gratitude practice now this is something that we we monks practice every single morning and that is

to be simply to be thankful for and grateful for everything and every person in our life so the first thing that I practice is I become thankful for the Buddha in the first step and also for his teachings it is called dhama and Noble community of monks that is called the sa so these are the three jewels in my life so I become thankful for all those three jewels and also I genuinely become thankful for my teacher who taught me the Buddhist teachings and also I become thankful for my parents and my brother monks and

people who offer me Foods now as monks we don't earn money we don't cook so people have people come to the temple and they offer us food so when we receive the food we generally become thankful for them and also I become thankful for all the people who helps me during the day for an example example there are so many people who are helping me to create these videos so every single morning I become thankful for them and you can become thankful for them as well and also you can simply be thankful for everything and

every experience and every person in our life and also remember that you can be thankful for bad people as well right people who gave you tough times why should we become thankful for bad people and the rude people who gave us tough times to our life because they are the persons those are the P people who gave us ability to practice the patience and the mental strength right without them our life would be less interesting okay the more more we Face challenges the more we Face tough times there is an story there's a story for

us to tell so we can be simply thankful for them as well to for making making our life story more interesting in that way you can practice this gratitude practice every single morning when you practice the gratefulness and you when you simply become thankful for everything and every person in your life you start to feel the value of your life because sometimes we forget that we have a value in our life and think like oh my life is miserable my life is worth worthless my life has no value but if you really think about it

if you really focus about it our life is more valuable and the first practice is that to practice the morning gratitude the second practice that I want to share with you today is the morning meditation morning meditation is one of the most important practices that we do in our Mon's life right why meditate in the morning especially morning is one of the best times to meditate because your mind is so calm and peaceful in that time and also your surrounding is calm and peaceful at that time okay so morning meditations give you a refreshed start

to your day so as morning meditations normally we monks practice first of all the love and kindness meditation and some monks practice mindfulness meditation breathing meditation a lot of meditations so it depends on on your choice what to practice and what not to practice so morning meditation is one of the best practices and best things that you can do to start your day with a fresh start the third practice is journaling now this is something that I do every single day to have a good review on the day right what I did during the day

and what I forgot to do and also I take time to write down all the good things and all the good deeds that I did did and simply be happy about it and also finally you can leave some space to write down all the things that you are grateful for in your life when you write down all the things that you are grateful in your life and if you do it every single day it becomes a habit to remember all the good things in your life all the valuable things in your life and you will

feel much more valuable about your life so journaling is one of the habits that you can add to your life to make your life more happier and more fulfilling and the fourth practice is mindful eating now this is one practice that we monks do almost every single day normally as monks we all only have two meals per day and in some monasteries some monks have only one meal per day so while we are having our meals we become Mindful and we focus or our mind on the food that we are taking right so the first

step is to recall and reflect on the purpose on eating of eating now what is the purpose of eating as a monk we have our food as a help for our health and as a help for our spiritual journey so when you recall that you know that you're you're having your meals with a purpose and also the next step is to be more Mindful and focus our mind on eating you can focus your mind on the texture of the food and the taste of the food and the warmth of the food and simply be aware

of it while having the meals now while you are having these meals the surrounding and when everyone is having that meal in the same way the surrounding is very quiet and calm as the monastery's dining hall one thing one interesting about the monastery's dining hall is the monastery's dining hall is very calm and quiet while the amongs are having the meals because they simply become mindful about their food so mindful eating is one practice that you can do in your life and if you're having a busy life right if you don't have some time to

meditate a separate time to meditate you can practice this mindful mindful eating practice as a meditation so if you want to know how to practice this you can watch this video right here that I have done a separate video to how to meditate in a busy life check that as well so this mindful practice is one of the good practices that you can do in your daily life the fifth and the final practice that I want to share with you today is planning the day now why should we plan the day because most of the

time we spend our day in autopilot mode right we always think what should we do next sometimes we wonder what are we are going to do what what we are going to do next and some times we do the things that we don't want to do and we don't give that priority to the important things in our life and we miss to do all those important things and that is why it is really important to plan your day before you start so every single day before you're going to bed you can take a book or

wear whatever that you use to not down right and plan your day and prioritize the most important things that you should do and you should focus on during the day and try to do that most important task during the day in the first place right try as much as possible to do the most important and the most difficult task during the day in the first place why should you do this because after doing that you have that mental Freedom right mental Clarity to do and focus on other things that values to your life so every

single night before starting every single day plan your day and start the day don't step into the day without planning then your day will be planned and you will have much good time and you can allocate a good time to have a mental freedom and to practice meditations and spirituality now so many people complain about oh we don't have time to meditate we don't have to we don't have time to read a book because we are so busy no everyone is not busy because everyone has got 24 hours we all have got 24 hours even

busy people not busy people organized people well organized people and not organized people unorganized people we all have 24 hours it is all about how we organize our day how we plan our day so it is really important to plan your day and work on that plan and then you can have more free and and a happier day so these are the few practices that I do personally and we monks do in our Mon's life that can add to your life I think some of the things some of the practices you also currently you're also

doing all those things but if you're not doing this add them to your life and then you will start to feel that your life is more lighter more happier and more fulfilling so I wish you all a healthy and a happier life no yeah