Past retreats

Trisikkha Meditation Center, Plant City, Florida USA

"....The will, intention or greedy volition (lobha cetana) to perceive (an object of) consciousness, which covers both the perception of an object and the perception of consciousness, is a nutriment or a factor that causes an act (karma) or a mental karma (and subsequently, a bodily karma), called “Dhamma practice” or “meditation practice”.

The truth behind the intention is taṇhā or a craving for making “our body and mind” happy and free from suffering forever.

The truth behind craving is avijjā, particularly (1) ignorance of the Truth of Suffering, i.e. ignorance of the truth that “this Matter/Mind is impermanent, suffering and not-self, but is worldly wealth”, which causes a craving for making “one’s body and mind” happy and free from suffering forever; and (2) ignorance of the Cause of Suffering, i.e. ignorance of the truth that a struggle to escape suffering and to find happiness by seeking sensual pleasure, forcing the body and mind, and avoiding contact with an object of consciousness will cause becoming (bhava), birth (jāti) and suffering (dukkha). (Most practitioners are tied by attachment to consciousness. Thus, they crave for “making their minds free from suffering” and are always in the pursuit of Dhamma. They do not realize that the struggle to seek Dhamma is a conditioned moral state or puññābhisankhāra or attakilamathānuyoga (self- mortification), which is also rooted by ignorance (avijjā), like a conditioned immoral state, or apuññābhisankhāra or kāmasukh’alikānuyoga (constant attachment to sensual pleasures).

These conditioned states conceal the pure nature that is empty of a self (Nibbāna). It eclipses a vision of truth (ñāṇadassana) such that a practitioner cannot penetrate into Nibbāna, an immortal element that fully appears right before one’s very eyes.

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Trisikkha Meditation Center, Plant City, Florida USA

“Student 12: In my practice I see that I get lost in thought often and many defilements arise. However, the thing I see most often is ego, “the me”. (LP: That’s good.) But I feel that I’m deceived by partiality. Sometimes it seems like the mind is neutral but actu- ally it is still affected by what arises.
LP: As clever as the defilements are, they can never beat the power of mindfulness and wisdom. Just keep watching and know- ing and truth will prevail. Your practice has improved a lot. Can you see that the mind is clearer and lighter than before?
Student 12: I can see that when suffering arises it is much less severe than it used to be. Also when there is suffering in the family, like sickness and death, I see that it doesn’t cause much worry for me at all.
LP: Good. Keep practicing and one day suffer- ing will not arise in the mind at all. The Buddha’s teachings are quite special. They teach us how to end suffering. When we practice correctly we will see progress, changes in our lives and in our mentality very clearly. We will get lost in thought less, mental suffering will be less severe and for shorter periods..
Student 1: I notice the mind wanders a lot from one thing to another. It doesn’t stop.
LP: Just know the mind is running around. It is not our job to make it stop. And if we are wanting it to stop, notice the wanting.
Student 2: I can’t find my mind.
LP: Don’t look for it! Are you a jealous person?
Student 2: Yes.
LP: Know when jealousy arises. Anger arises. Happiness arises. Just keep knowing what arises in the mind. Can you see that as you are listening to me, you are not aware of your mind? You are sending your mind out and forgetting to notice within. Now you are trying to be still. Don’t force the mind back in or to be still either. Just know what it is doing naturally
.The Teachings of Venerable Pramote Pamojjo
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