Epstein Secrets

others or society in general. Once you can avail yourself of such skills, then it is also a blessing in itself. Already mooted in the previous two Blessings has been the difficulty of knowing whether the knowledge or skill we are learning has any negative implications for the human dignity of ourselves

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.

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 concerned with the preparation of the mind. EFTA00286686 Bles

ded to support the close family (as covered in Blessings Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen). Now we have matured a little further in the sequence of the Blessings, we return to our work, not as simply something which needs to be completed, but to be completed well! Within the context of this Fifth Grouping o

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

listening before he could move on to discussion of the Dhamma. Dhamma discussion is a challenge because it is the culmination of almost all of the Blessings already mentioned: I. It's hard to concentrate on something abstract • like the Dhamma: we are used to focussing on more Blessing Seven: Having h

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