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⭐️🌻⭐️ This Sunday (tomorrow, October 19, 2025),
the Tri-Sikkha Meditation Center in Plant City, Florida, USA 🙏🏻would like to invite everyone who is interested in practicing Dhamma and developing Vipassana insight meditation to join us for group practice.

✅For this Sunday’s session, we will train the mind to stay in the present moment through mindfulness of the foundations (Satipatthana).
👉The main focus will be training the mind to awaken with mindfulness and concentration — ⭐️to observe the mind, be aware of thoughts instead of being absorbed in them, and train the mind to see thoughts as separate from the mind itself.
🌵When the mind can see thoughts clearly, it will let go, and a sense of freedom will naturally arise.

🌻⭐️🌻Those who are interested in joining are warmly welcome to come and practice together.
📌Please contact us at the phone number below to reserve your seat according to the schedule provided.

🌵Sunday vipassana meditation retreat, October 12, 2025, from 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM.

🪷 Let us practice together this Sunday at the Trisikkha Insight Meditation Center, Plant City, Florida, USA.

📌 Free Thai food and drinks will be provided.
📌 Everything is free of charge. Donations are welcome for those who wish to participate in this great act of merit.

⏰ Schedule:
📌 8:00 AM – Pay respect to the Triple Gem & Dhamma Talk (Ajarn Willie)
📌 8:30 AM – Morning Chanting
📌 9:30 AM – Walking Meditation
📌 10:30 AM – Sitting Meditation
📌 11:30 AM – Dedication of Merit & Lunch

📩 To reserve your seat, please text or call: +1 (813) 473-2180.

Trisikkha Meditation Center, Plant City, Florida
“A place for learning and practicing the Noble Path taught by the Buddha for the cessation of suffering.”

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Trisikkha Meditation Center, Plant City, Florida USA

“Student : I noticed when I’m watching the breath that there is some discomfort at the end of the out-breath. I focused in on it and saw that there was quite a bit of suffering, and I needed to breathe in to alleviate it. The suffering was there after the in-breath too.

LP: That’s right. Even each in or out breath is a way of evading the suffering. Your practice is very good. But is your mind in its natural state now?

Student : Right now it is not natural.

LP: Good. You passed the test! Sometimes when we practice Samatha we will see clear and vivid dreams, visions, even premonitions. Once when I was younger I had a dream that a thin elderly little monk approached me and handed me a small round fruit of some kind. I took it and he told me, “Whether this fruit is sweet or this fruit is sour arises only from within itself.” He meant we must learn from within. Don’t just sit with a still mind. A few months later I met this monk. It was Luang Pu Dune, who instantly became my mentor and master. I’m not presenting a miracle here; it was just dream.”

Student 11: I’ve been practicing mindfulness accord- ing to your teachings for about one year now. I think that the mind is stable and unattached to phenomena; I think it has found its place because I can see the phenomena arising and fall away.
(LP: Good.) I practice formally every morning and think I’m attached to peace a little too much. (LP: That’s fine.) Sometimes the mind gets lost in thought, but when there are noises in my house I see the thinking disappear and the mind arise at the ear. I notice that the mind at that point is watching the body. (LP: Great. Keep at it.) Also, once I was practicing meditation in bed and the mind got lost in thought. I asked disappointedly, “why did I get lost again!” And the answer came, “because nothing can be controlled.

LP: That’s right! You are starting to gain wisdom. Sometimes the mind even creates images of our masters or even the Buddha coming to teach us the Truth.

Student : I noticed when I’m watching the breath that there is some discomfort at the end of the out-breath. I focused in on it and saw that there was quite a bit of suffering, and I needed to breathe in to alleviate it. The suffering was there after the in-breath too.

LP: That’s right. Even each in or out breath is a way of evading the suffering. Your practice is very good. But is your mind in its natural state now?

Student : Right now it is not natural.

LP: Good. You passed the test! Sometimes when we practice Samatha we will see clear and vivid dreams, visions, even premonitions. Once when I was younger I had a dream that a thin elderly little monk approached me and handed me a small round fruit of some kind. I took it and he told me, “Whether this fruit is sweet or this fruit is sour arises only from within itself.” He meant we must learn from within. Don’t just sit with a still mind. A few months later I met this monk. It was Luang Pu Dune, who instantly became my mentor and master. I’m not presenting a miracle here; it was just dream.”

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“With the view to practice Dhamma, some practitioners who are fond of using Matter or the body as an object of contemplation usually begin to practice by interfering with natural actions of the body. For example, when they contemplate breathing, they will control the breathing cycle. When they contemplate their bodily movements, they will fix the timing for movements of the hand, foot and abdomen.

These practices are not wrong if it is a practice for tranquility (samatha) or if they want to contemplate the body as the first stepping stone before developing their practice towards the right knowing. However, if they intentionally perform the bodily acts with a misunderstanding that they are practicing mindfulness, but are ignorant of the craving and the wrong view that have predominated their minds such that they are doing so, then it is another serious blunder.”

6.2.3.4 In fact, if we would like to develop mindfulness or the most perfect knowing, we need not be poised for it at all, whether mentally or bodily. For example, when the eyes see Matter, just see the Matter (color). If in response, the mind is pleased or displeased, simply recollect again. What the bodily posture is at the moment, know it. When one is standing, one should know that this mass is standing. When one feels stiff and feels like changing the bodily posture, one should recollect the craving in one’s own mind. After recollecting, one may change the bodily posture because it is necessary or may not do so with the view to see the truth of the bodily pain first. When one is sitting idly and a thought comes to mind, one should recollect the thinking. If after thinking, a moral consciousness or an immoral consciousness arises, simply recollect it.

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