DHAMMA SERVANTS

Category: Meditative Practice

  • What Really Matters

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    Nomiin uilchlegch
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    Teachings of Venerable Webu Sayadaw Venerable Webu Sayadaw repeatedly reminded his listeners that the heart of the Buddha’s teaching is simple, direct, and immediately applicable. What truly matters in life is not theory or speculation, but the sincere and continuous practice of morality, concentration, and wisdom. Moral Conduct as the Foundation Once a person undertakes…

  • Extracts from Essentials of Buddha Dhamma in Meditative Practice by Sayagyi U Ba Khin

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    Nomiin uilchlegch
    in

    Impermanence (anicca) is the essential factor which must be experienced first and understood by practice. A mere reading of books on Buddhism or a book-knowledge of the Buddha-Dhamma will not be enough for the understanding of true anicca because the experiential aspect will be missing. It is only through experience and understanding of the nature of change…

  • The Imperfections of Insight

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    Nomiin uilchlegch
    in

    Now when the meditator is a beginner of insight, ten imperfections of insight arise in him. For imperfections of insight do not arise either in someone who has reached Nibbana or in persons with weak morality, neglectful of their meditation subject and idlers. They arise only in a meditator who keeps to the right course,…