The first session was held on Sunday Morning at Cape Town Meditation Centre. Today, the teaching monk shared the lesson on basic knowledge of meditation. Including the meaning of meditation, the nature of mind, the importance of strong mind and the mind concept of meditation. After sharing knowledge, he led everyone to meditate together. Most …
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On August 21st, 2022 the monastic community of Cape Town Meditation Centre had arranged an auspicious ceremony to establish the Presiding Buddha Image on the throne inside the new meditation hall. The ceremony started when the president monk had arrive and led all participants to pay respect the Triple Gem. After that all laity had …
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To close your Eyes Please pay attention to your eyes closing. Close them as gently as you can. Let your upper eye lids fall down slowly and naturally. Your upper and lower eyelids will not quite touch. You can feel that a little light can pass through little gap between your upper and lower eyelids. …
There is another important principle. To meditate, you need to know how to be comfortable. Any uncomfortable condition will not support our mind to be still. To persevere against any uncomfortable condition such as pain, heat, or cold is not the way. If you have to fight, it will not be peaceful. In the beginning …
Education is a way to develop people. We start to be developed since we were so young. Parents send us to school. We are in school to learn. The higher we learn, we more we develop our thinking so it becomes more and more complicated and more sophisticated. A higher degree, or higher education means …
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In physics, we first learnt about Newtonian physics and later about quantum physics. Sir Isaac Newton was the one who could start to explain the universe with logic. It has become a foundation of our scientific knowledge. Anywhere we are in the world, we have to learn what he explained 300 years ago. One simple …
When you focus your mind at the center, please appreciate that you are not looking with your eyes anymore. When we see with our eyes, the world in front of us is a 3 dimensional world. We can measure the size or distance of everything we see. When you close your eyes, it’s different. You …
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We would like to introduce ‘The Middle Way’ technique. In our school we consider that meditation has the objective to calm our mind or even to let it become still, or to ‘stop’ our mind. It is better if we focus to a still point. If we focus to something that moves, it can help …
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Meditation can charge our mind. It’s the action or activity in which we turn the direction of observation of our mind within ourselves. There are many techniques of meditation. The most popular one is breathing meditation. We observe our breathing in and out. If you go to the library or bookstore and look for a …
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Why do people play games, listen to music, read or find something else to do even when we are free? Because we need something to focus on – something not serious and that we enjoy. If we have nothing to do, it’s very easy to have a thousand thoughts in our mind. That’s why people …
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