A guide to mindfulness and Vipassana meditation as taught by Luangpu Pramote
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, …
Look nice. Today is unusual, normally, people who come for a dhamma talk on Saturday mostly have scattered minds. Today isn’t like that. The scattered mind is the mind that is lost in mental formations. At first, the mind is lost in mental objects, that is, when it comes into contact with the objects, and …
Be mindful. Your mind has wandered outside. If you want to make quick progress, you must be able to identify phenomena. Don’t leave your practice unguided. Like, when you hear that people practice by breathing, you follow them. Or you hear that people practice by reciting “Buddho,” you follow them. You see that people practice …
Yesterday, we lost another senior master, Luang Pu Haa. And earlier this year, Luang Pu Saeng passed away. The number of masters is declining, urging us to engage actively in mindfulness practice and become self-reliant. We must do this befoe there are no more masters for us to study under. The determination. It requires both …
You don’t need to press your hands together. Doing so for an hour would be tiring. While listening to Dhamma, we compose our mind. Long ago, I went to meditate with teachers at their temples. My younger friend and I would always go to visit meditation teachers together. When he meditated, when his mind converged …
Be careful how you live. Unexpectedly, tragic events like mass shootings can happen. We don’t know what will happen or when it will happen, so we ought to live a careful life. Violence is common these days. In the developed countries that I’ve visited, cities have both safe areas and dangerous neighborhoods and the whole …
Dhamma practice is not difficult. Be determined. Doing as if it were a game won’t do you good. Doing on and off won’t yield results. Be single-minded. Be persistent in practicing. As a layperson, this is what you need to do. When I was a layperson, I practiced dhamma every day: maintaining the five precepts, …