Luang Por Liem: The Ways of the Peaceful - Wat Pah Nanachat

that the Buddha forbade us to do – for the sake of support and for
bringing our knowledge to a deeper level. The vinaya is all about
our bodily, verbal and mental actions. One can say it is something
that affects all aspects of our lives.
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Today we have come together to determine the pansah. Right
now my health is a state which can definitely be called “not sure”.
It is in a state of degeneration related to the pumping mechanism,
the motor inside the heart. The condition of the heart isn’t good.
The muscles of the heart are weak. These muscles don’t have
adequate strength to effectively function – to pump. The heart
doesn’t contract as forcefully as it should. So I had to rely on
consulting those who have sufficient experience and knowledge.
They said the system is not capable of ejecting all the fluid out of
the heart. This causes fluid to back up, to accumulate in the heart.
This further weakens the heart causing it to become enlarged and
there is the possibility of it stopping to work – which in technical
terms is called having “congestive heart failure” – suddenly and
unexpectedly. All this is merely a matter of nature. I think of it
like this. It’s about the process of deterioration in nature, but
being in a position of living in a society, one can’t just let go. So,
if only for that reason, one needs to know how to nurse, maintain
and cure as much as one is able to support it.
These are some of the issues concerning this body that I’m
facing now. I’m telling you this to let you all know. It isn’t
anything that’s far away. Concerning other inner organs, like the
liver, lungs and kidneys, they are still functional. But the system
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