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there is no desire and no suffering. Right View is like a light that dispels darkness. The Buddha mentioned this, saying the light of Right View removes the obstacles and destroys the barriers. He said: “Natthi paññasama abha” (There is no light equal to wisdom) We live our lives as one who is awake, who is radiant – like a samana, like one who is possessed with the Samana-Dhamma. Living according to the Samana-Dhamma, one of the points to reflect on every day is this: as samanas we have a different status from householders. They act, following the influence of defilements and desires. Under the power of craving they are always in need. But we, as samanas, endeavour only for being at peace. Our relationship to the requisites of a monk and the necessities of life is free from likes and dislikes. It isn’t based on desire. Our life isn’t ruled by the power of craving. We live through the power of knowing. This is for our true benefit, and that is why the Buddha pointed it out. In the daily reflections of a samana, the Buddha reminded us to wisely consider the fact that time keeps passing, so we see that there is nothing really sure and stable in life. It is not just that the time of our lives passes, but along with it, everything that is part of the material world also reveals instability and uncertainty. In the end everything will have to transform into emptiness, a state where a being, a person, a self, or “us and them” can’t be found. We should reflect like this, and find support in heedfulness, because time keeps passing and passing. We should live with an 86
attitude of practice and willingness to develop, sustaining our life being possessed both of Dhamma and of vinaya, discipline. Having Dhamma-Vinaya is considered a great fortune. It creates a feeling of being on the path leading to maturity and perfection. Possessing sila as a treasure means to maintain good manners, behaviour and conduct through all the various physical expressions, or actions of body and speech. Eventually, though, when one attains to perfection, on the level of Unconditioned Reality (asankhata-dhamma), there is only kiriya – mere performance of activities, or functioning. There is nothing that has to do with kamma (volitional action) any more. If one’s actions are still on the level of kamma, they are going to create negative effects in some way or another. In the case of actions that are kiriya, experiences of peace will arise. This arising of peace is called the Unconditioned, a state where there are no mental proliferations, as usually found in the world. Proliferations that create moods in the mind just don’t exist. So, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness are really worth studying, applying, developing and bringing to perfection. All four are synonyms for each other. They are interdependent. Seeing the body, feelings, the mind and the mind-objects should in fact be done in a way similar to the Buddha’s reflections on the law of conditionality, or “Dependent Origination”. How did the Buddha reflect on conditionality? He started with sankharas, proliferations. Avijja, ignorance, being the cause for proliferations to arise, and proliferations causing consciousness, consciousness causing mind and matter… and so on. This makes us see our lives in terms of vatta 36 , the “round of change”, with its phases of 36 vatta (Pali): the round of existance, or the round of rebirth. 87
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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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Page 67 and 68: Wealth and Fame Excerpt from Luang
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Page 73 and 74: Advice on Robe Washing Day From Lua
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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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