Meditation Dhamma Vinaya Info

Niight View of Bodhi Tree of Bodhgaya. It's a great energy under the Tree.

The Sala Tree under which the Buddha attained Mahaparinibbana in Kushinara.

The Buddha became Buddha realising the nature of the world. He dhamma which is taught is nothing but nature. In fact, Dhamma's another meaning is nature.

The Buddha spent most of his life in Nature. He was born under trees, became enlightened under Tree, taught his first teaching under tree and also attained Parinibbana under tree.

The Marvelous Sanchi Stupa

The goal of Meditation

Q: What is the goal of meditation?

A: well, the goal of meditation is 'To achieve Attainment of Final Nibbāna, that means the attainment of Ultimate Peace or happiness or liberation from all kinds of suffering called Dukkha.

However, in my experience with meditation for more than two decades, it has guided me how to live skillfully and quite happily and harmoniously with the rest of the world by understanding things as they truly are with lessening and reducing mistakes. Buddhist Meditation is actually being mindful of whatever we act, whatever we speak and whatever we think at every moment.

Therefore, you can see that there is nothing to do with any religious faith or belief. Believing in anything, when you do this meditation, you will see that there will be nothing to conflict between your religious faith and Buddhist meditation practice. Buddhist Meditation will never tell anyone to quit one's faith or to convert you to Buddhism.

It is not the interest of the Buddha either. However, it keeps reminding you 'Be aware, be mindful of whatever you do' so that you can lessen your physical, vocal and mental mistakes. It is the most important part of human life, isn't it? Therefore, you can see now that Buddhist meditation practice provides us how we should live in everyday's life while carrying your own religious faith in your heart.

Even if a Buddhist who takes the faith in their triple gems, doesn't practice this meditation, I believe that they will not be able to lessen their mistakes. If they are not able to lessen their mistakes in deeds, in words and thoughts, how can they be happy with quite many mistakes? Whey you really have achieved perfect mindfulness, you will be very hard to do mistakes in deeds, in words and in thoughts.

It is a visible result from meditation practice. It is also a visible goal you can experience and can achieve. Of course, there will be quite a lot of benefits you will see yourself when you take this meditation in a quite serious retreat just being mindful of whatever you think, whatever you speak and whatever act.

You will see how your life quality and standard of your behaviors are developed just by being aware of everything. It is a very pragmatic approach to the method of Buddhist meditation and very scientific. See the goal is there if you start walking. I hope you get.

Q: Well, thank you so much sir. Now, you open our door of wisdom on Buddhism. We will spend with you hours and hours listening to your wise talk on Buddhism.

A: you're all very welcome.

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~The Story of Buddha & Angulimala~

"The Buddhist scriptures relate that one day, after his meal, the Buddha went out from the monastery where he was staying and walked towards a great forest. Seeing him going in that direction various people working in their fields called out to him to warn him that in that forest dwelt the dreaded Angulimala.

Little is known for certain about Angulimala but the usual account of his life has him the son of a well-to-do family and at one time a brilliant student at the University of Taxila, in India.

At Taxila, other students were jealous of him and succeeded in poisoning their teacher’s mind against him, with the result that the teacher asked of him what he must have believed would be an impossible honorarium, a thousand human right-hand little fingers.

Unbelievably, instead of giving up and quietly going home without graduating, the young man set out to collect the fingers and pay the fee. Presumably, he quickly discovered that people were reluctant to willingly give up their little fingers and so he was forced to resort to violence and killing in order to obtain them.

Then he found he had nowhere to store these fingers.. his solution was to string them around his neck. For this gruesome and growing garland of bloody fingers he was nicknamed Angulimala which means ‘finger garland’ or ‘finger necklace’.

This was the man who, peering out from his lair, spotted the Buddha coming towards him and who that day had round his neck nine hundred and ninety-nine little fingers. [In some versions of this story it is told that he had fallen so far into madness that he initially intended to kill his own mother that day, to be his thousandth victim, but then changed his plan and decided to kill the Buddha].

This powerful and athletic serial killer, who had already successfully resisted several attempts to apprehend him, grabbed his weapons and dashed out to murder the Buddha and complete his score.

He expected to easily overtake him and quickly finish the job but then a very strange thing happened – even though the Buddha was only walking, serene and unhurried, Angulimala, despite his formidable strength and speed, found he couldn’t catch up with him. Eventually, exhausted, angry, frustrated and soaked with sweat, Angulimala screamed at the Buddha to stop.

Then the Buddha turned and with neither anger or fear, speaking quietly and directly, he told Angulimala that he, the Buddha, had already stopped. He had stopped killing and harming and now it was time for him, Angulimala, to do likewise.

Angulimala was so struck by these words [and the wise compassion of the Buddha] that there and then he stopped; he threw away his weapons and followed the Buddha back to the monastery where he became a monk.

Later, the King, ignorant of what had happened, came by leading his troops out to arrest Angulimala. Being a very pious monarch, he called to pay his respects to the Buddha and to inform him of what he was up to. The Buddha asked the King what his reaction would be were he to discover that amongst this assembly of monks sat Angulimala.

To the King it was utterly unbelievable that such a foul and evil person could now be a Buddhist monk and seated amongst such exalted company, but were it the case, he answered, he would certainly pay his respects and make offerings. Then the Buddha stretched forth his right hand and, pointing, announced that there sat Angulimala.

When he’d mastered his fear and recovered from the shock, the King, having paid his respects, said to the Buddha how incredible it was that, “What we have tried to do by force and with weapons you have done with neither force nor weapons!”

In the course of time, after a period of some trial to himself, Angulimala did eventually succeed in purging his mind of all greed, hatred and delusion and realised for himself the Buddhist goal of Enlightenment.

The story of Angulimala teaches us that the possibility of Enlightenment may be awakened in the most extreme of circumstances, that people can and do change and that people are best influenced by persuasion and above all, example."

~Ajahn Khemadhammo
ANGULIMALA, the Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy

Text source: http://angulimala.org.uk/the-story-of-angulimala/

Hatred generates Hatred. Love generates Love. Let all love and care one another and not hate!

A great sacrifice!🌷🌷🙏🙏

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Peace Within!!

We should train our children to look inward.

Students practising Meditation before class at Vishaka Trust School, Bodhgaya

Most forest monks live on one meal a day.
A simple and peaceful life.
https://youtu.be/h6l2ngOOAJc

Ajhan Martin and his disciples at Wat Phu Kong Tong on Alms Round

One of the most wonderful teaching of the Buddha for a Happy Living Here and now is by letting go of the Past and not clinging to the Future

Plum Village Thailand, a beautiful centre to practice Mindfulness practice in Zen Tradition, the centre. Founded by the late great Master Thich Nhat Than
https://www.thaiplumvillage.org/