Right view (Panña) - Hermitage Meditation Centre

The eyes to see Dhamma

March 20, 2021March 20, 2021Hermitage meditation

Based on a discourse by Luang Por Boontham, translated from Thai. How can you bring your eyes along with you when you die? No one can carry their eyes along with them; when we die, the eyes will remain right […]Continue reading

The action of thinking

January 26, 2021March 20, 2021Hermitage meditation

This essay is based on a discourse from Luang Por Boontham, translated from Thai to English. It is necessary to concentrate the mind at only one point and not have it divided in all directions. Focus it either at the […]Continue reading

The right way of knowing | Mindfulness of the body

January 19, 2021January 21, 2021Hermitage meditation

We have already a complete article focused on the mindfulness of breathing, but here we would like to open up and explain how this mindfulness is carried throughout the day, and particularly in regard to bodily position and bodily movements. […]Continue reading

The mistake of pursuing happiness in concentration

January 14, 2021October 14, 2021Hermitage meditation

Let us talk about what goes wrong (a lot) when one tries to practice mindfulness or concentration with a desire for pleasant feelings. First, we have to understand the nature of attachment to pleasant feelings, this desire that has defined […]Continue reading

Following the breath is not mindfulness of breathing | A teaching by Luang Por

January 2, 2021January 17, 2021Hermitage meditation

I have already mentioned that concentrating on the breath is not right concentration. Why is that? It is because it has nothing to do with wisdom. The reason that it is nothing to do with wisdom, and can never lead […]Continue reading

the right understanding of “sense restraint” in the Buddha’s teaching

December 6, 2020January 17, 2021Hermitage meditation

Suppose, monks, a man catches six different animals, with different territories and different feeding grounds – a snake, a crocodile, a jackal, a bird, a dog, a monkey, and ties each with a strong rope. Then he ties all the […]Continue reading

the highest truth

June 30, 2020June 28, 2020Hermitage meditation

The following is a translation of a talk by Luang Po. It will be best suited for practitioners. If our aim is to understand the Dhamma that the Buddha taught, first of all we have to take the Buddha as […]Continue reading

“happiness”?

May 28, 2020January 17, 2021Hermitage meditation

Many spiritual leaders and practitioners talk about “happiness”, but is this really the same as what the Buddha taught? The Buddha sought to remove suffering – isn’t that the same as happiness?

kamma

May 13, 2020June 30, 2020Hermitage meditation

According to the theory of the Buddha’s teaching, for one who is born human there are four types of kamma that are the cause of everything in this life.

who is to blame for your suffering?

September 11, 2019January 17, 2021Hermitage meditation

The castle to whose building I have dedicated my life, that I loved so much, on which I depended for shelter – when it suddenly collapses under my fingers at the slightest touch, now I have a choice.

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