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One to Many, Many to One When you recite a simple word “Buddho” or any words you like, you are knower who knows that you are reciting. Although you are reciting quietly in your mind, there are many persons involve such as: Speaker : the one who is reciting fast or slow. Amplifier : the one who controls volume loud or quiet without mouth. Listener : the one who hears the word clearly or not without ears. Encoder : the one who translates the meaning into Dhamma. These persons are one who knows, who awakes, and who enjoys Dhamma. They work together at the same time into the one who knows. Reciting the word is no difference from walking meditation or dynamic meditation at least in the matter of mind that runs along with the body. |
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Waste Your Time in Meditating “Well, I am very busy. I have no time spared for meditating. I will practice it but not now.” If you are businessperson, you should be able to manage your time efficiency. Ask yourself how much time you miss your point into thinking about other useless things. You have wasted your invaluable time more on useless thinking. Someone may not be able to know how he uses his time because he never notices at his thinking. Who is wasting the time? |
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Back to Basic Last year my nanny, who lived with us for almost 50 years, passed away with heart attack, I tried to meditate to calm down my sorrow but every times I tried to recite the word or count my breathing, sadness always came back. I cried for three days and found that my Dhamma practice was not enough. I had just fooled myself that I understood Dhamma very well without proof. Then I knew that my knowledge was just knowledge but not wisdom. My Dhamma could not work in real situation. I tried to figure out why I could not meditate. Reciting the word or counting the breath always activated thinking. When thinking was activated then sorrow would be activated with my thinking. So I should not activate thinking. Then I returned back to basic of watching the breath. Just watch it without activating any thinking. Then I could meditate as usual. The most important thing I had learned was not the point of meditating. I also learned the fact of anicca, dukkha, and anatta. The more I attach, the more I will be suffering. |
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Meditation Dictionary Followings are Pali words that I recommend you should know in order to refer to more advance meditative level. You may find translation from Buddhism Dictionary (Pali-English) and try to use Pali words instead of English because Pali is more meaningful: Four Noble Truths : Dhuka, Samudaya, Nirodha, Magga Tilakkhana : Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta Five Aggregates : Rupa, Vedana, Sanna, Sankara, Vinnana Samadhi, Samatha, Vipassana Jhana : 4 Rupa Jhana, 4 Arupa Jhana Jhana Component : vitakka, vicara, piti, sukha, ekaggata Meditative level : khanika, upacara, appana Rupa, Nama, Dhatu, Dhamma |
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Too Fast for a Word of Enlightenment My friend tried to ask Luang Tah Maha Boowa, a great Thai Buddhist monk, whether Nibbana is atta or anatta. Luang Tah told my friend, ”You should look at yourself whether you have practiced high enough and is in the right position for asking that question”. Another example, Luang Poh Chah seldom talked about enlightenment in his life but he always gave his Dhamma on how to progress to the path. The forest monk always talks only Dhamma that he had experienced and proofed by himself. Right answer will be nothing or even be wrong when it is given to the wrong receiver. What is Nibbana? What is enlightenment? What is emptiness? What is sunyata? There are many pages of answers but which one is the right answer (that you will accept)?. Luang Tah Maha Boowa recently told Thai people on TV that there are 3 realms of dhatu and there is nibbana. Theory will be worthless and easy to be dominated by delusion when there is no practice. |
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