9 August 2020Adapted from Ajahn Chah’s talkWritten by Dd Lee Kok Cheng Two Faces of Reality In our lives we have two possibilities, indulging in the world or going beyond the world. The Buddha was someone who was able to free himself from the world and thus realised spiritual liberation. In some ways, the Buddha …
2 August 2020Adapted from Ajahn Chah’s talkWritten by Dd Lee Kok Cheng Opening the Dhamma Eye Some of us having practised for a year or two still don’t know what is what. We are still unsure of the practice. We don’t see that everything around us including nature is constantly showing us Dhamma. For …
26 July 2020Adapted from Ajahn Amaro’s talkWritten by Dd Lee Kok Cheng How does meditation practice develop the mind? Meditation is in a way about learning how to live our life fully. If we think of meditation as sitting down with our eyes closed and focusing our attention on our breath or walking backwards and …
19 July 2020Adapted from Ajahn Chah’s talkWritten by Dd Lee Kok Cheng Our True Refuge The Buddha taught all compounded things are subject to decline and dissolution. How do they decline? Consider a lump of ice. Originally, it was simply water. People freeze it and it becomes ice but it doesn’t take long before …
12 July 2020Adapted from Ajahn Amaro’s talkWritten by Dd Lee Kok Cheng Letting Go in a Balanced Way Letting go in essence is the very heart of the Buddha’s teaching. The Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths and the four truths are a kind of medical diagnosis. The disease is the symptom, experienced in the …
5 July 2020Adapted from Ajahn Chah’s talkWritten by Dd Lee Kok Cheng Dhamma Fighting Fight greed, fight aversion, fight delusion. These are the enemies. In the practice taught by the Buddha, we fight these enemies with Dhamma using patience and endurance. We fight by resisting our countless moods. Where there are defilements, there are those …
28 June 2020Adapted from Ajahn Chah’s talkWritten by Dd Lee Kok Cheng Right View – The Place of Coolnesss The practice of Dhamma goes against our habits. The truth goes against our desires. So, there is difficulty in the practice. Mostly, when we start to practise we want to attain, to achieve, to know and …
21 June 2020Adapted from Ajahn Chah’s talkWritten by Dd Lee Kok Cheng Detachment within Activity Take a look at the example of the Buddha both in His own practice and in His methods for teaching the disciples. He was exemplary. The Buddha taught the standards of practice of skills meant for getting rid of conceit. …
