Most people tend to think that Dhamma practice will make liveliness disappear. Then practitioners will become tardy, stiff, dull, like a robot. People who do […]
Once born in this existence, apart from earning a living, creating happiness for oneself, we should have benevolent thoughts, speeches and acts; abstaining from bad […]
“Reflecting Sign From Up Above” Human living lives against nature and severely hurting the basis of living beings, even more than their own DNA, without […]
by Master Acharavadee Wongsakon (Please find Thai version below) In a worldly ambition, One can expect the time an effort will bear fruit. For spiritual […]
by Master Acharavadee Wongsakon (Please find Thai version below) As the working season in the new year has started again, overall the atmosphere looks like […]
Master Acharavadee Wongsakon Our physical condition is the result of our past acts, mixing and cooking to form our shapes and figures. The word ‘graceful […]
Master Acharavadee Wongsakon (Please find Thai version below) Chinese New Year festival came around once more and every year during this time we usually […]
By Justin Whitaker Buddhistdoor Global | 2019-12-13 | It is a common refrain among mindfulness teachers these days that you cannot expect to sit quietly in […]
During my Vipassana’s teaching, I found lots of karmas in my students. Many of those are interesting worth sharing as Dhamma Dāna (a giving of Dhamma).
“Dhamma "is inherently natural, - what is common in the world. To mention specific features that people are familiar with, the definition that King Rama 9 said ... Dhamma is goodness and decency.
Life is the unity of the physical and the spiritual entities; however, the mind is also a formless continuum that is a separate entity from the body. When the body disintegrates at death, the mind does not cease. Our spirit will still remain and seek out to a new body and new life by the resultant karma (cause and effect) of one’s past actions. This ‘Karma code’ will determine where they will be born as a result of the past and the accumulation of positive and negative actions.
We all know what it feels like to be seeking and seeking, and never finding. It’s like drinking saltwater. It feels good for a moment, but leaves us even thirstier than we started.
Techo vipassana Meditation Center is located at Song Khon, Kaeng Khoi District, Saraburi Province established by Master Acharavadee Wongsakon, the author of the book “Awakened […]
The Buddhist News September 17, 2019 A design of Buddhist arts or any other sculptures depicts Buddha image must be considered as follows : 1.Buddha must […]
Without wisdom and insight, clearly we can never have total self-confidence in what we are doing. With greater insight, we may be able to understand what is truly beneficial and what is truly harmful.
While students were doing meditation mission to relieve drought, I was doing duty as mom for my kids during Westerners’ summer holiday. When I knew that it was raining in some parts of Thailand after the mission, I felt glad that the mission was successful. This was from the power of the Triple Gem, through which the students worked as a bridge to generate goodness.
Equanimity is to maintain the mind not to cling to satisfaction and dissatisfaction. It doesn’t mean you have to be feelingless like a statue. Equanimity […]
“จิตสำนึกบกพร่อง คือต้นตอของทุกปัญหา” (Please find Thai below) … Both individual and public problems come from the lack of good conscience. Problems regarding morality, oppression, invasion, interference, […]
Supposing...
One day, illness comes, with it brings the pain
One day, loss of loved one comes, dead or alive.
One day, success becomes failure.
One day , fortune and praise disappear.
One day, death takes us from this world.
Whatever you hold on to, even a single coin, cannot be taken.
I believe that very few people has never wrote an essay about mother when was in childhood. With poor handwriting and there was nothing much to say , an essay writing was only “ My mom is the greatest person in the world, “ I love my mom most in the world”, “ I will be a good child for mom” etc. with paper full of heart.
I would like to answer those who curious whether it is possible for laymen to reach enlightenment. Don’t we have to leave anything? If you want to know, you have read until the end. Please do not read roughly.
This article is intended to bring wisdom in Dhamma to readers and thus rather long. The Dhamma content is for those who has experience in meditation. Those without it but having the foundation of merit from the past lives will be able to understand if they read it without bias. I do not wear any uniform. I share it out of the knowledge obtained directly with my Knowing Mind for those who are eager to learn. Please do not believe it immediately, but read and consider it by yourself before you do.
When people are unconsciously and overly obsessed with something, it could ruin their life fundamentals. Particularly, for householders, no matter how busy their work is, how many friends they have or how much volunteer work they’ve gotten, they should allocate their time right. When it’s family time, you should give it all to family both physically and mentally. If you can manage your life well, it is certainly possible for laypeople to attain enlightenment.