Epstein Secrets

h the provisions you have stored up for yourself through our generosity, you will be sure never to fall on hard times. 3. It is the direct path to Nirvana: It clears the way for doing other sorts of virtue with ease. To give an example, when peasants slaughter animals it is not that they don't know t

would suggest which mother and father had a matching level of merit to be their new parents. If soldiers wanted a brave child then Luang Phaw \Vat Paknam would give them the same advice to make themselves brave first of all. Some people might wonder why in some cases good children seem to be born to

lcome the birth of a child perfect in personality and Dhamma. In the time of Luang Phaw Wat Paknam there was a merchant who came to Luang Phaw Wat Paknam complaining that for many years he had being trying to have a child without success. Luang Phaw Wat Paknam asked him what sort of child he wanted.

e unwholesomeness is yet harder to observe. These fetters [anusaya] (D.iii.254, A.iv.8, Vbh.383) are like habits that stop us achieving the path to Nirvana: EFTA00286691 I. Sensual grasping [IcAmarAga]: 2. Irritability [paEigha] 3. Wrong View [diEthi] 4. Doubt [vicikicchA]: 5. Looking down on othe

e, and to raise up our morale giving us the means by which to definitively overcome those weak- nesses — ultimately attaining the path and fruit of Nirvana. C2 Predispositions acquired through listening to the Dhamma By listening to Dhamma sermons, even though we might not understand everything of wh

er to work alone, so their life's achievements will never amount to much. In the words of the famous Buddhist master of meditation, Luang Phaw Wat Paknam: "to look down on others, even without realizing it, seeing others as weaker than oneself, speaking irreverendly to them, is like the gables of a

e to pass away while in the state of meditation on the Sphere of Nothingness would they stay in that realm or would their consciousness enter upon Nirvana? Buddha: Just as a flame which blows out in the wind gives no indication of the direction in which it has gone, those who have gone beyond the bod

is Dhamma- kAya will be attracted directly into Nirvana. 3. Nirvana as the location of Nirvana [Ayatana- nibbAna]:/yatana Nirvana is the location of Nirvana. /yatana Nirvana actually exists but it is not made up of normal elements like earth, water, wind and fire in the same way as things we can see wi

es belonging to the mundane levels of mind to which the defilements are invisible. C2 Characteristics of the Body of Enlightenment Luang Phaw Wat Paknam explained that the Dhamma Body is similar in shape and form to a EFTA00286834 TABLE 33.3: Correlation between stale of mind, inner experience & c