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

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Glossary ∗ agati-dhamma (Pali): biased views, ways of understanding and behaviour, wrong courses of perception. Arises out of desire, anger, fear and ignorance. Ajahn Buddhadasa: A highly respected Thai monk who lived from 2449-2536 (1906-1993), and founded Suan Mokh monastery in Chaya province, Southern Thailand. Known throughout the world for his all-encompassing, contemporary, and highly accessible teachings. akaraniyakicca (Pali): The four things never to be done by a Bhikkhu (sexual intercourse, stealing, killing and falsely claiming superhuman qualities). anagarika (Pali): A homeless one; one who enters the holy life without formally entering the Sangha. anusasana (Pali): Advice given to new Bhikkus as part of the ordination ceremony. Comprises the four akaraniyakicca and the four nissaya. anatta (Pali): Non-self, not-self. One of the Three Characterisctics anicca (Pali): Impermanence. arahant (Pali): One who has attained nibbana. ariya (Pali): Literally: noble. ariyapuggala (Pali): Literally: noble person; Noble Enlightened Being. A person who has reached one of the four stages of enlightenment. ariya-sangha (Pali): Sangha in the highest sense: the group of Noble Enlightened Beings (ariyapuggalas). ariyavamsa (Pali): Literally: the noble lineage – the lineage of enlightened beings; specifically defined by the Buddha as those who possess the qualities of contentment and fewness of wishes. Bhikkhu (Pali): Literally: beggar; or one who sees the danger in samsara. Buddhist monk. � For the sake of simplicity, in this edition all Pali-words are given in ordinary English spelling, omitting special diacritical signs. 144
hojane mattaññuta (Pali): Knowing the right amount in eating, or in consumption of other requisites. dana (Pali): The quality of generosity, and the act of giving. deva (Pali): Heavenly beings, angels, gods. Dhamma (Pali): (Sanskrit: Dharma) The ultimate truth of reality; the teachings about this truth; and the practice leading to its realization. Specifically refers to the Buddha’s teaching or doctrine. Dhamma-Vinaya (Pali): The name the Buddha gave to his own dispensation. dukkha (Pali): Suffering, unsatisfactoriness or stress. The central term in the Four Noble Truths. dukkha vedana (Pali): Unpleasant or painful feeling. Four Noble Truths (Pali): The first and central teaching of the Buddha about dukkha, its origin, cessation and the path leading towards its cessation. Complete understanding of the Four Noble Truths is equivalent to the attainment of nibbana. Going Forth: see pabbaja. khandha (Pali): The five aggregates, or basic constituents of life: rupa (form), vedana (feeling), sañña (perception or memory), sankhara (volitional formations), viññana (sense-consciousness). kilesa (Pali): Defilements, stains, afflictions or obscurations of the heart. Their various forms are traditionally summed up as greed, aversion and delusion. hiri (Pali): Sense of shame towards doing wrong; see ottappa. Holy Life (Pali: brahmacariya): Literally: the Brahma-conduct; a term for the monastic life that stresses the vow of celibacy. Jataka (Pali): A collection of stories about the Buddha’s past lives, that forms a part oft the Buddhist canonical scriptures. lokadhamma (Pali): The eight Worldly Dhammas: praise and blame, gain and loss, fame and disrepute, happiness and unhappiness. These can be divided into agreeable and disagreeable phenomena (ittharammana and anittharamana dhamma). Luang Por (Thai): Literally venerable grandfather; a respectful way of addressing seniour monks that are very old. 145
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The Ways of the Peaceful Teachings
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Information about the Ajahn Chah Tr
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Foreword “The Ways of the Peacefu
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In this book, besides general outli
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“Following in the Footsteps of th
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Day by day our lives come closer to
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pleasure. We should maintain that i
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endurance, resolute strength and di
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“Practising One’s Duties” 13
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elies on nothing else but the human
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knowledge of how to improve things
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“Ordination: Going Forth” 19
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Ordination: Going Forth Going Forth
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Now I will tell you the basic medit
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permanent. All these are just state
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We develop peaceful bodily conduct.
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In our training there is the topic
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good or that thing is better or the
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“Ordination: The Announcements”
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Ordination: The Announcements After
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where we naturally have to rely on
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“Contentment” 39
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Contentment During his visit to Mal
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Don’t go and follow the thoughts
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45 “Restraint”
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Restraint Luang Por Liem gave the f
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current. They never give way to the
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“Gentleness, Humbleness and Patie
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Gentleness, Humbleness and Patience
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espectful starts to feel smoother a
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follow the principle of being happy
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“Wealth and Fame” 59
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Wealth and Fame Excerpt from Luang
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nature of animals to live in consta
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“Advice on Robe Washing Day” 65
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Advice on Robe Washing Day From Lua
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But still, the Buddha wanted us to
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“Creating Benefit” 71
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Creating Benefit On April 25 th , 2
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- One should teach the Dhamma in a
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The way Luang Por Chah lived. it wa
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“Reflections after the Patimokkha
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spiritual qualities that we have ac
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Practicing mindfulness of the body,
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nine types of higher knowledge aris
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attitude of practice and willingnes
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him to recite principles of the tea
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So, at this time, as we are about t
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