In the morning when we wake up, we feel fresh. Then we go forwards to do some form of work during the day. Young children spend time in school, young adults may study at college or university, but it is still work of a sort. Each day at our study or work place, we will …
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If we imagine a meter which shows the status of our mind energy, sometimes it will show a high level, and sometimes a low level. When you drive a car and the petrol gauge shows an empty tank, you need to find a petrol station. If you see lower battery sign of your mobile or …
In our daily life, we have so many things to do that sometimes make us feel like it is really difficult to manage time to meditate every day. Not just our work but also our relationship, we have to deal with. Solving these problems requires a lot of energy and brain power, which usually brings …
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Once we know nature of an element or energy, we can use it. Techniques can be developed until eventually it becomes technology. We can use water power to generate electricity. Likewise we can use sun to create solar energy. If we know the nature of our mind and know how to handle it, we will …
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The mind can be considered a kind of energy. It’s the same as the sun, wind, flowing water, electricity and so on; it moves. The body is the material part which is fixed and concrete. The mind is the spiritual part which is moving. We use different natural energies in our daily life. They serve …
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Meditation is an activity we do with our mind. It’s 100% a mental activity. Why? Because during meditation we do not move any part of our body. If you have ever seen a Buddha image or statue, you normally see him sitting with his eyes closed. It’s the image representing his enlightenment and also his …
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When I started meditating by myself this is one of the questions that I asked myself a lot so that I could make progress in my meditation experience. I started meditating in 2014. I went to a camp in the north of Thailand that was arranged by a university club named “Youth”. I was really …
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Neuroscience is the study of the our brain function. With sophisticated detectors we can see which part of our brain becomes active at certain times. We study our brain as hardware and try to understand how it functions. However, neuroscience is limited in that it cannot explain clearly what happens when we think. Knowledge of …
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To talk about meditation, we should start first with the existence of the mind. Do you think that the mind exists or not? For a long time in school and university we study a lot about ourselves. Most of what we learn when we are young is about our body. What we know about ourselves …
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If you angry someone it also make you suffer. The suffer will effect to your work, relationship, life and so on. It will be good if you know how to get out of angry. Let’s see the know how from a story that monk SUN will tell you. Dhamma Talk by Monk SUN