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

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eing. At the meal, don’t eat too much. Generally don’t take too much time for eating; try to be finished in 20 or 25 minutes. When one is practicing, one doesn’t give much importance to food. Luang Por Maha Amorn 23 wrote some very nice reflections on one of the Dhamma-signs put up on the trees, which, as he hopes, may stimulate a bit of shame and scruple in us, preventing negligence. He wrote: “Some ordain just for food. Having filled up their belly they lie down to sleep – no better than animals. Some ordain wanting to have fun and play around – just like householders. Some ordain lost in delusion – the longer they stay, the more silly they become. If one hopes for magga-phala-nibbana, having ordained, one upholds the Dhamma.” This is what Luang Por Maha Amorn wrote. It is not good, if we behave like animals in the way we consume things. Only animals compete and snatch away things from each other. For us, we practice maintaining our principles. Competition is not good behaviour. Luang Por Maha Amorn also warned the villagers about snatching away each other’s houses, food and land, sometimes even their partners, as well as fighting for power and control. When I read those lines, it really stuck in my mind as a warning. Some people never think like that, because it is the 23 Luang Por Maha Amorn or Tan Chaokhun Mongkonkittithada was a senior disciple of Luang Por Chah. He passed away in November 2010. 62
nature of animals to live in constant competition. Animals lack a sense of shame and just go ahead and do things. They do things without any wisdom. To live like that, one supports lowmindedness and uses one’s intelligence in bad ways. Whenever we start thinking like that, we need to correct ourselves. Don’t drift off in this direction; don’t fall prey to these things. If there are areas where we have gone too far, we need to try to correct our course. Now that we are close to entering the pansah, especially this year, there are many requests to Wat Nong Pah Pong from branch monasteries to send some monks for the pansah, so they can hold a kathina donation-ceremony 24 . What’s the point of requesting monks to spend the rains in a monastery only for the sake of the Kathina-offerings? We are practitioners. Mostly, those who ask for monks are not prepared to train them, and don’t have the capabilities and knowledge needed to give support to young monks in their growth and development. They keep on asking and the training withers away. The monks that go don’t benefit from it at all – they don’t develop good, beautiful qualities, nor improve their character traits and habits. What happens is that things go to ruin. The reason for this is that the monks fall prey to cherishing external, material goods (amisa-puja). They fall into what Ajahn Buddhadasa used to call ‘a heap of excrement’. He took this comparison from the discourses of the Buddha – Ajahn Buddhadasa doesn’t speak 24 According to the vinaya, it is only when at least five monks have spent the pansah together in a monastery, that this monastery is allowed to receive the usually very generous ‘Kathina-offerings’.The Kathina ceremony takes place once a year and for many monasteries this is the only time when a large amount of donations are made. 63
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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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Page 19 and 20: “Practising One’s Duties” 13
Page 21 and 22: elies on nothing else but the human
Page 23 and 24: knowledge of how to improve things
Page 25 and 26: “Ordination: Going Forth” 19
Page 27 and 28: Ordination: Going Forth Going Forth
Page 29 and 30: Now I will tell you the basic medit
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Page 33 and 34: We develop peaceful bodily conduct.
Page 35 and 36: In our training there is the topic
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Page 39 and 40: “Ordination: The Announcements”
Page 41 and 42: Ordination: The Announcements After
Page 43 and 44: where we naturally have to rely on
Page 45 and 46: “Contentment” 39
Page 47 and 48: Contentment During his visit to Mal
Page 49 and 50: Don’t go and follow the thoughts
Page 51 and 52: 45 “Restraint”
Page 53 and 54: Restraint Luang Por Liem gave the f
Page 55 and 56: current. They never give way to the
Page 57 and 58: “Gentleness, Humbleness and Patie
Page 59 and 60: Gentleness, Humbleness and Patience
Page 61 and 62: espectful starts to feel smoother a
Page 63 and 64: follow the principle of being happy
Page 65 and 66: “Wealth and Fame” 59
Page 67: Wealth and Fame Excerpt from Luang
Page 71 and 72: “Advice on Robe Washing Day” 65
Page 73 and 74: Advice on Robe Washing Day From Lua
Page 75 and 76: But still, the Buddha wanted us to
Page 77 and 78: “Creating Benefit” 71
Page 79 and 80: Creating Benefit On April 25 th , 2
Page 81 and 82: - One should teach the Dhamma in a
Page 83 and 84: The way Luang Por Chah lived. it wa
Page 85 and 86: “Reflections after the Patimokkha
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Page 89 and 90: Practicing mindfulness of the body,
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Page 113 and 114: “Different from Ordinary People
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existing, and ceasing to be. From t
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didn’t want us to study anywhere
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“From the Darkness to the Light
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From the Darkness to the Light Exce
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Until the state of perfection is re
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wear out. They don’t consider the
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Feelings are just feelings, happine
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someone is just a product of the de
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People who have no problems, who do
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modern terms. This provides the abi
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133 We sometimes wonder where purit
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goodness towards me. With such thou
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of the body as attractive and beaut
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Over long periods of time, our expe
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journey together. May this be usefu
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143 Look and figure it out Try and
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hojane mattaññuta (Pali): Knowing
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saddha (Pali): Confidence, faith or
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