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Meditation
Retreat Guided and Instructed by Venerable Master Chanmyay Sayadaw (Myanma Meditation Master) |
Insight Meditation: Every Monday, Wednesday
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VIPASSANA
SAMADI
INSIGHT MEDITATION COURSE Guided By: Bhikkhu PREAH KROU VIPASSANA KOSALA KEO HONG & Bhikkhu VODANO SOPHAN SENG 7.00 PM – 9.00 PM (MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY) Or Schedule can be adapted to fit individual's needs. (Just Let Us Know) Insight Meditation leads to objectivity, mental purity and wisdom, which reduce stress, depression, boredom, tiredness, and related problems. With experience, one can learn to be mindful in stressful situations, and so prevent stress from arising. Through consciousness and awareness one can manage their good, mental health. PLEASE REGISTER, SEATS ARE LIMITED. REGISTRATION: FREE Registration Form (pdf file) THERE IS DONATION BOX FOR YOUR KIND DANA DONATION. ADDRESS: Khmer-Canadian Buddhist Cultural Centre 7011 Ogden Road, S.E., Calgary, AB, T2C 1B5 Phone:(403)235-5415, Fax: 235-5475 Email: khmerview@cambodianview.com http://www.cambodianview.com More News about Meditation (listening) |
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The
Meditatio n Through Media
1. First, we train you to reach your Alpha Level of Mind. This is a deep level of consciousness that people achieve during meditation. The Alpha level is associated with intuition and ESP. 2. Meditation is "the practice of developing your capacity for rich experience." Meditation offers to awaken the mind to sensory experiences and to help achieve the benefits of relaxation: better mood, enhanced ability to concentrate, lower blood pressure, a sense of well-being. 3. We train you to achieve this deep level of mind, at will, in less than 1 minute. Accomplishing this alone is a valuable feat - you are probably aware of the many benefits associated with meditation. 4. Meditation is fast gaining recognition worldwide. According to CBS news on Aug. 27, 3003 "More and more doctors recommend it. It's supposed to help depression, control pain, increase longevity, slow down cancers, invigorate the immune system, and significantly reduce blood pressure.” |
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5. Time Magazine Aug. 4, 2003, that even devoted an entire issue to Meditation and credited it as a “solutions to range of illnesses from skin conditions, stress, and chronic heart disease to AIDs and infertility”. It even reported that "meditation can sometimes be used to replace Viagra.” In just the first day of training, you will be able to meditate and relax your mind and body within 1 minute. Stress, headaches, tensions, anger and insomnia will truly be a thing of the past.
6. Briefly simple benefits of meditation More than these, Meditation provides us many
benefits in daily life such as:
*** The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the
cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened. [Dhp
183] |
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Some of Buddha’s words about Meditation
2. Mind is the forerunner of all (evil)conditions. Mind is their chief, and they are mind-made. If, with an impure mind, one speaks or acts, Then suffering follows one Even as the cart wheel follows the hoof of the ox. Mind is the forerunner of all (good) conditions. Mind is their chief, and they are mind-made. If, with a pure mind, one speaks or acts, Then happiness follows one Like a never-departing shadow. Dhammapada 3. This is the only way, monks, for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the destruction of suffering and grief, for reaching the right path, for the attainment of Nibbana, namely the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. Those for whom you have sympathy, O monks, those who deem it fit to listen to you -- friends and companions, kinsmen and relatives -- they should be encouraged, introduced to and established in the four foundations of mindfulness. Samyutta Nikaya 4. Herein, monks, a monk having gone to the forest, to the foot of a tree, or to an empty place, sits down cross-legged, keeps his body erect and his mindfulness alert. Just mindful he breathes in and mindful he breathes out. |
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Breathing in a long breath,
he knows "I breathe in a long breath"; breathing out a long breath,
he knows "I breathe out a long breath"; breathing in a short breath,
he knows "I breathe in a short breath"; breathing out a short
breath, he knows "I breathe out a short breath." "Conscious
of the whole (breath-) body, I shall breathe in," thus he trains himself.
"Conscious of the whole (breath-) body, I shall breathe out,"
thus he trains himself. "Calming the bodily function (of breathing),
I shall breathe in," thus he trains himself. "Calming the bodily
function (of breathing), I shall breathe out," thus he trains himself.
As a skillful turner or his apprentice, making a long turn, knows "I
am making a long turn," or making a short turn, knows "I am making
a short turn," just so the monk breathing in a long breath, knows "I
breathe in a long breath"; breathing out a long breath, he knows "I
breathe out a long breath."... Digha Nikaya 5. And further, monks, a monk knows when he is going "I am going"; he knows when he is standing "I am standing"; he knows when he is sitting "I am sitting"; he knows when he is lying down "I am lying down"; or just as his body is disposed so he knows it. And further, monks, a monk, in going forward and back, applies clear
comprehension; in looking straight on and looking away, he applies clear
comprehension; in bending and in stretching, he applies clear comprehension;
in wearing robes and carrying the bowl, he applies clear comprehension;
in eating, drinking, chewing and savoring, he applies clear comprehension;
in attending to the calls of nature, he applies clear comprehension; in
walking, in standing, in sitting, in falling asleep, in walking, in speaking
and in keeping silence, he applies clear comprehension. |
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6. "Mindfulness, I declare, O monks, is helpful everywhere." Samyutta Nikaya 7. Whosoever, monks, has cultivated and regularly practiced mindfulness of the body, to whatever state realizable by direct knowledge he may bend his mind for reaching it by direct knowledge, he will then acquire proficiency in that very field. Majhima Nikaya 8. There is no corporeality, no feeling, no perception, no mental formations, no consciousness that is permanent, enduring and lasting, and that, not subject to any change, will eternally remain the same. If there existed such an ego that is permanent, enduring and lasting, and not subject to any change, then the holy life leading to the complete extinction of suffering will not be possible. Ibid., 22:96 |
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9. And further, monks, a monk reflects on this very body enveloped by the skin and full of manifold impurity, from the soles up, and from the top of the head hair down, thinking thus: "There are in this body hair of the head, hair of the body, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, marrow, kidney, heart, liver, diaphragm, spleen, lungs, intestines, mesentery, gorge, feces, bile, phlegm, pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, grease, saliva, nasal mucus, synovial fluid, urine." Just as if there were a double-mouthed provision bag full of various kinds of grain such as hill paddy, paddy, green gram, cow-peas, sesamum, and husked rice, and a man with sound eyes, having opened that bag, were to take stock of the contents thus: "This is hill paddy, this is paddy, this is green gram, this is cow-pea, this is sesamum, this is husked rice." Just so, monks, a monk reflects on this very body, enveloped by the skin and full of manifold impurity, from the soles up, and from the top of the head hair down, thinking thus: "There are in this body hair of the head, hair of the body, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, marrow, kidney, heart, liver, diaphragm, spleen, lungs, intestines, mesentery, gorge, | ||||
feces, bile, phlegm, pus,
blood, sweat, fat, tears, grease, saliva, nasal mucus, synovial fluid, urine."
And further, monks, a monk reflects on this very body however it be placed or disposed, by way of the material elements: "There are in this body the element of earth, the element of water, the element of fire (caloricity), the element of air." Just as if, monks, a clever cow-butcher or his apprentice, having slaughtered a cow and divided it into portions, should be sitting at the junction of four high roads, in the same way, a monk reflects on this very body, as it is placed or disposed, by way of the material elements: "There are in this body the elements of earth, water, fire and air." Dhiga Nikaya |
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