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Step from Body and Feeling to Mind and Dhamma Always pull your awareness back inward to your body. Your body is the first place where you should keep your awareness. Do not think or wonder about things or problems outside. Do not discern the past or the future but only the present moment ….. of your body. When your body is in full awareness, you will notice your feeling. When your feeling is in full awareness, you will notice your mind. When your mind is in full awareness, you will notice your Dhamma. This is my own short practical version of Satipatthana Sutta. |
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Cause or Result Reciting “Buddho” is a cause. When your mind is calm then your mind will see many pictures, voices, sounds, or feelings such as rapture and joyful that is the result. Do not attach to this result because it is a trap that keeps you away from progress. Do not care how true or fake you had experienced during your (physical) eye closes. Always keep practice on your object of concentration that is the cause. |
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Wording is not enough Recently, a friend asked me, ”What is merit?” I replied, “I do not want to answer this kind of question.” Then she asked me again, ”All questions should have right or wrong answer, shouldn’t they?” I have no answer again. I have seen many beginners tried showing off and shared their Dhamma knowledge. I was one of them. Right now I prefer to be quiet and will share Dhamma mostly when someone does really need my answer. However most of my answer always is, “Let practice then you will know the answer by yourself.” Some answer needs whole writing pages and more than minutes in response but I do answer it all in a breeze within my mind. It will be useless when receiver’s understanding is too much different. Some answer may be right today but will be wrong tomorrow. Some answer will be right for someone but will be wrong for another. Some answer will be absolute nothing for the one who never has real experience in Dhamma. Some answer is the middle way between black and white or right and wrong. Right answer for the right person need only a blink of eye. |
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Suffering for not Suffering Dukkha is suffering and the Buddha showed us the way to end suffering. The Buddha gives only guidance and we have to try and end the cause of suffering by ourself. The Buddha took 6 years to enlightenment. It is not easy to end suffering PERMANENTLY. It is hard for me to believe that only praying or only beg for merit will help enlightenment. It is hard to believe that only wisdom without hard samatha practice will help ending suffering otherwise many doctors should be enlightened with ease. I do believe that in order to gain something, I have to lose something in exchange. I should practice harder. Are you practicing hard enough? |
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Is It really Empty? Externally vs Internally Vipassana practice on the present moment is a must in cultivating Dhamma. Pull your mind inward and always notify to yourself whatever happen through your sensory perceptions. Find out what the suffering is then what the cause is then how to end that cause. Make sure you have found the cause externally and internally. Body movement is easier to be notified than mind movement. When you know how to interact wisely and externally then you should know (hopefully) how to interact internally within your mind. The root of all cause has been in your mind and it is a very giant opponent. Being a watcher and a knower is not enough. You should practice until you are the one who successfully finish and defeat what you are watching and knowing. |
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