THE ONLY WAY

      In Mahasatipattanasutta, the Buddha declares:

“The only way that leads to the attainment of purity, to the overcoming of sorrow and lamination, to the end of pain and grief, to the entering of the right path, and to the realization of nibbana is the eightfold Noble path, including the four foundations of mindfulness”.

    So, to combat and conquer the defilements, we must undertake the threefold noble training that constitutes the eight-fold noble path.  We must begin with the training of morality to drive away the gross and inflated defilements (vitikammakilesas) and suppress them not to arise in the mind.  The purity of morality (silavisiddhi) serves as the foundation of meditation.

Then we have to undertake the training of concentration to combat the moderate defilements (pariyuttanakilesas)that have arises in the mind and agitate the mind.  We must try to attain the right concentration (samma Samadhi). 

    Then we have to undertake purification of mind using the concentrated mind which is tranquil and calm.  It is to remove the latent defilements (Anasuyakilesas).  Then we can realize the ‘nibbana'.

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The news of august 2016

      I Ven.Sumedha Bodhi) have given a lecture at International Theravada Buddhist missionary University, Yangon, Myanmar, topic is ‘spiritual freedom and social freedom' on 29^th august 2016.  The participants are from different countries.

Dr.Indobasa (Myanmar) questioning me during lecture.

Participants in the lecture.