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