Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

nated by fundamental ignorance (avijjã) since time immemorial. This fundamental ignorance has created within the citta a center ...

Dhammapãda verse 354: The gift of Dhamma surpasses all gifts, The taste of Dhamma surpasses all tastes, Delight in Dhamma trans ...

passion (karuõã), appreciative joy (muditã) and equanimity (upekkhã). Meditation on these four spiritual qualities is particular ...

naturally implies that absolutely no conditions or limitations whatso- ever can be attributed to Nibbãna. To believe that, havin ...

This passage refers to nirodhasamãpatti, also called saññã-vedayita- nirodha (the cessation of consciousness and feeling), the ...

This story was related to the author by Ãcariya Mahã Thong Sak himself. Ãcariya Mun was referring to the image of the calf lodg ...

Traditional Buddhist meditation contains two different but com- plementary aspects, namely, calm (samatha) and insight (vipassa ...

Anupãdisesa-nibbãna, meaning “Nibbãna without any physical or mental components of personality (i. e. the 5 khandas) remaining” ...

Oneself is one’s own refuge, For who else could one’s refuge be? Having trained oneself well, One obtains a refuge hard to gain. ...

This is said with tongue in cheek, since in the Thai system of Bud- dhist scholarship the ninth grade of Pãli studies is the hi ...

Ovãda Pãåimokkha Literally, sãkyaputta, which means “son of the Sakyan”, the Buddha having been a native of the Sakyan Republic ...

they bless those who possess them with good fortune, even seeming mir- acles, in direct proportion to the strength of faith and ...

“In this teaching, the Buddha’s “final instructions”, how should we understand the word sankhãra? What kind of phenomena does i ...

Glossary ãcariya: Teacher, mentor; also used as a term of respect when refer- ring to a senior monk. When capitalized, Ãcariya i ...

nious being that is so wondrous as to be indescribable. This is the advanced stage of samãdhi. Arahant: A “fully enlightened one ...

penetrates to its core and exposes its fundamental deception, avijjã promptly dissipates, revealing the pure, unblemished citta, ...

When associated with a physical body, it is referred to as “mind” or “heart”. Being corrupted by the defiling influence of funda ...

thinking of the “mind” as essentially cerebral and located in the head. There is a strong tendency to think that consciousness r ...

Truth; transcendent spiritual qualities; the Buddha’s Teaching. First and foremost, Dhamma is the quintessential nature of perfe ...

the phenomenal world is subject to change and therefore unreliable. Thus, all of samsãric existence is characterized by dukkha. ...