Today, teaching monks share knowledge about ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฌ. Sila is the intention to ๐ข๐ฃ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. Sila has many meanings, it could mean top, coolness, or normalcy which is the quality of it because people who practice sila will be purified and granted safety and a feeling of comfort for everyone around them and themselves.
Sila 5 is one of the most common sila that every human should practice. It consists of 5 things.
๐ ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ, abstain from killing or hurting every being
๐๐๐๐จ๐ง๐, abstain from stealing
๐๐ก๐ข๐ซ๐, abstain from sexual misconduct
๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก, abstain from lying, cursing, and hurting other people by your words.
๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ, abstain from drinking alcohol or taking any addictive substances.
When people practice sila, until it becomes their habit it would create calmness, peace, and coolness inside the mind of the practitioner which would spread and can be felt by those around them.
Lord Buddha worships the power of Sila that โ The scent of all the floral cannot withstand the wind, but the scent of sila practitioner can blow against the wind and in all directions.
If you want to have a stable mind and further your meditation experience, observing sila is a necessary thing to purify your mind, because sila is the foundation of all good deeds including meditation.
Like a building, if it has a strong base the potential of that building would be really high, but, if it has a weak base, it will collapse when the building reaches too high.
As always, the volunteers partake in a joyous activity, maintaining the meditation room through cleaning, and collectively forming resolutions.
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