Epstein Secrets

est things is to find a teacher who will give the necessary encouragement to bring one's studies to fruition. The Buddha taught in the SilgalovAda Sutta that successful studies are es- tablished on the base of reciprocal duties that a student practices towards his teacher and that a teacher practise

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.

is only upon the foundation of security in life achieved in the first half of the Blessings of Life, that one can go on, in the second half of the Sutta to cultivate purity of mind in earnest by following Blessings nine- teen to thirty-eight. When we come to the start of the sixth group- ing we are c

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

oving-kindness, compassion and the thought to help others, that sort of teaching is pure. In addition to these basic skills, according to the KesE Sutta (A.ii.I 12ff.) different approaches are required for training different types of people in the Dhamma — some disciples need to be taught gently by

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