A guide to mindfulness and Vipassana meditation as taught by Luangpu Pramote
Yesterday was Visakha Bucha Day and many people came here to perform a light waving rite. After returning home, did you continue meditation? Who continued the practice? Please raise your hand. It’s good. I was afraid that you just went straight to shopping. Occasionally, we need to detach ourselves from the world and be secluded. …
Merely listening to the Dhamma wouldn’t yield significant benefits. It’s akin to monks who study Buddhist teachings but never put them into practice, consequently gaining no tangible advantages. They won’t be able to combat defilements. You need to engage in serious practice after listening to the Dhamma. However, seriousness doesn’t mean stress. Once I visited …
Presently there is a Chinese course going on. Chinese speakers from over ten countries. 600 or 700 hundred of them are listening and benefiting. The teachings can spread much further and wider than previously. In the old days, when we wanted to learn the Dhamma, we had to find it for ourselves –not listen live …
When you are free, don’t just let your mind wander freely. You can breathe mindfully, or keep repeating Bhuddo. Don’t waste your breath by doing nothing. Though there are only 5 minutes or 10 minutes, just keep practicing. At this temple, there are many fruit flies in the summer. I didn’t know it before moving …
When you’re doing a sitting meditation, don’t alter your mind. Almost all practitioners alter their minds to make them more still and dull. Instead, sit with mindfulness. If the mind doesn’t struggle, it will be peaceful. When you alter the mind, the mind needs to work; it can’t rest. So, the restful type of Samadhi …
We come to the temple to learn in order to know how to meditate, and then put it into practice. If we only listen but don’t practice, we won’t gain anything from it. And in some cases, the more we listen and study, the stronger our defilements become. That is, when reading Dhamma, the mind …
Last Saturday I taught in Krabi Province. The room was filled with as many as 500 people. I flew from Suvarnabhumi Airport and flew back to Don Muang Airport. Suvarnabhumi Airport was crowded with Westerners. Most of the passengers on the plane, who were Westerners, didn’t wear masks anymore. Even the kids. They had become …
Lately, many of us are listening to YouTube and practicing regularly. Our mental strength is increasing. Some have studied with me for a long time, but solely listened, did some practices. This won’t make them understand. It’s been many years and they still don’t understand. But once they started practicing regularly, they saw changes in …
Listening to the teachings alone is not enough; there is no way to understand. It may seem like we understand, but we cannot truly understand without practicing. We listen to the teachings to know how to practice, and then we put them into practice, making mistakes and corrections along the way. It’s okay to make …
I welcome all of you from many countries, including more than 10 people from Laos. Dhamma is universal, and it exists regardless of whether there is a Buddha or not. But the Buddha has discovered the existing truth and taught it to us. Therefore, Dhamma does not belong to any country- not India, not Thailand, …