A dhamma talk by Ayya Khema.
The Buddha spoke about five spiritual faculties which turn into spiritual powers if we cultivate and develop them. We all have these faculties within and developing them means making them powerful qualities which become factors of enlightenment. As long as they are only faculties, they are potentials for enlightenment. Read more.»
A dhamma talk by Ajahn Chah.
We hear some parts of the teachings and can’t really understand them. We think they shouldn’t be the way they are, so we don’t follow them, but really there is a reason to all the teachings. Maybe it seems that things shouldn’t be that way, but they are. At first I didn’t even believe in sitting meditation. I couldn’t see what use it would be to just sit with your eyes closed. And walking meditation…walk from this tree to that tree, turn around and walk back again… ”Why bother?” I thought, ”What’s the use of all that walking?” I thought like that, but actually walking and sitting meditation are of great use. Read more.»
A dhamma talk by Ayya Khema.
If we want to understand kamma and rebirth correctly, we have to see them in the light of non-self. They proclaim non-self quite vividly and yet most people usually don’t take that into consideration at all, but talk about “my” kamma and “my” rebirth. Especially “my” rebirth, which is absurd. Do they mean the last one or future one? Do we think it will be “me” again? However in ordinary language we have little choice, yet the spoken word has evolved out of our thinking processes. Read more.»
