Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

obvious objection: What reason would there be to purify it? The radi- ant citta, on the other hand, can be purified because its ...

an awareness that seems to blanket the entire cosmos – absolutely nothing else appears. For unlike a beam of light, whose range ...

the conditions of anicca, dukkha and anattã, which infiltrate the citta, actually disappear. No matter how subtle the kilesas ma ...

exists amid the same khandhas with which it used to intermix, it no longer shares any common characteristics with them. It is a ...

Notes The Early Years The minimum age for full ordination as a Buddhist monk is 20 years. However, boys under that age are allo ...

a full printed set of the Buddhist Canon, comprising a total of some 50 volumes. The dhutangas are a set of 13 specialized asce ...

In this book the citta is often referred to as the heart; the two are synonymous. The heart forms the core within the body. It i ...

hung around the outside edge of the open umbrella, extending down to the ground and forming a cylindrical inner space where a mo ...

Ãcariya Sao Kantasïlo (1859 – 1942) was a native of Ubon Ratcha- thani province. As Ãcariya Mun’s teacher, he introduced him to ...

This is a reference to the sankhãra khandha: one of the mental components of personality which is associated with thought and i ...

time of the Buddha, a samaõa was considered to embody the ideal of the wandering ascetic. An Anãgãmï, or Non-returner, is a per ...

search of Ãcariya Mun. He wandered and practiced meditation with Ãcariya Mun and other dhutanga monks for 5 years before returni ...

are barbecued, roasted, and stewed called a crematorium. Instead it’s called a kitchen. But actually, that’s what it is, a crema ...

The Pãåimokkha is the basic code of monastic discipline. It com- prises 227 rules of conduct and is usually recited rule by rul ...

But, as Ãcariya Mun points out here, rãgataõhã also has another more sinister side, for passionate intentions can easily become ...

The attainment of Nibbãna is the ultimate goal of the holy life (brahmacãriya). The Pãli word vãsanã, variously translated as “ ...

Generosity (dãna), moral virtue (sïla), and meditative development (bhãvanã) are the three basic categories of meritorious acti ...

Paracittavijjã, also known as ceto-pariya-ñãõa, is knowledge of the hearts and minds of others; in other words, thought-reading ...

practice. Due to a close personal rapport and a respect for his wise counsel, Ãcariya Mun considered him a mentor and always sou ...

Paåiccasamuppãda (referred to in the text as paccayakãra) is Depend- ent Origination: a concise statement of how fundamental ig ...