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,

HAPPY WATER FESTIVAL  2016 Ven. Sumedha Bodhi Founder & convener Dhamma  Soldier’s  Association

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE: Water festival is a traditional Buddhists festival celebrates among Buddhists.