THE ART OF
LIVING
You have to
practice meditation to learn the art of living: how to live peacefully and
harmoniously within oneself, and to generate peace and harmony for all others;
how to live happily from day to day while progressing towards the highest
happiness of a totally pure mind.
To learn the art
of living harmoniously, first one must find the cause of disharmony. The cause always lies within, and for this
reason you have to explore the reality of yourself. The Vipassana
technique helps you to do so, to examine your own mental and physical
structure, towards which there is so much attachment, resulting only in
tensions, in misery. At the experiential
level one must understand one’s own nature, mental and physical; only then can
one experience whatever there might be beyond mind and mater. This is therefore a technique of
truth-realization, self-realization, investigating the reality of what one
calls ‘oneself’.
Direct
experience of reality is essential. ‘Know thyself’– is from superficial, apparent,
gross reality, to subtler realities, to the subtlest reality of mind and
matter. Having experienced all these,
one can then go further to experience the ultimate reality which is beyond mind
and matter.
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To
To
My all Dhamma BROTHERS & Sisters,
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HAPPY WATER FESTIVAL 2016
Ven. Sumedha Bodhi
Founder
& convener
Dhamma Soldier’s Association |
NOTE: Water festival is a traditional Buddhists festival celebrates among Buddhists.
