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Teachings of Luang Por Boontham

The thing called ‘happiness’ is actually suffering – but how to see it?

May 14, 2021May 15, 2021Hermitage meditation

Based on part of a talk by Luang Por Boontham We have to know both ‘heedfulness’ and ‘heedlessness.’’ Or we might say ‘care’ and ‘carelessness,’ Where are care and carelessness? In what kind of practice is there proper heedfulness? What […]Continue reading

The whole Dhamma is to let go of evil

April 27, 2021April 28, 2021Hermitage meditation

From a talk by Luang Por BoonthamTo learn Dhamma is to learn the right way of thinking.  We have been talking about the suffering of aversion: especially the suffering of blaming others and becoming angry. Nobody can make us angry. […]Continue reading

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

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 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

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.

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