A guide to mindfulness and Vipassana meditation as taught by Luangpu Pramote
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 …
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 …
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 …