Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos
which they soon cremated only a short distance from where he was staying. As he looked on, he could clearly see the burning corp ...
Since ordaining as a monk, he had never experienced any- thing like this long struggle with visions of ghosts. At least he was m ...
kept his resolve to walk on – as though his life depended on it. Struggling the entire way, he eventually reached the burn- ing ...
rible ghost devour him. Escaping death now, he reasoned, will give me the chance to resume my practice later with renewed dil- i ...
despicable display of cowardice? Surely no other disciple of the Buddha is as pathetic as I am. Just one inept disciple like mys ...
apparitions, and his fear was the outcome of this self-deception. The misery he suffered arose from such faith in this delusion ...
the night, until finally saññã no longer had the strength to assert its assumptions. In the early hours of the evening, he had b ...
way since there were no automobiles back then. Each monk had to carry his own belongings – he could expect no help from others. ...
food offered later. Once lay devotees in the village became famil- iar with his strict observance of this practice, they would p ...
buoyed by the exposition of Dhamma he had just heard, and resumed his meditation practice with renewed enthusiasm. Although he s ...
willing to sacrifice their lives for him. The Venerable Ananda is an excellent case in point: He had such unwavering affection f ...
ing between teacher and disciple so that instructions need not be repeated over and over until it becomes annoying and tiresome ...
from another as the living area of the forest would allow. A large tract of forest allowed spacing of at least 120 feet with the ...
that the months of December and January were especially difficult due to the prevailing seasonal weather patterns, as the approa ...
tion, the fever recurring at regular intervals. This kind of chronic malaria was locally referred to as ‘the fever the in-laws d ...
begin, propitiatory offerings were routinely made to placate the local spirits. Should those ritual offerings be neglected, then ...
a blessing for this region that people no longer have to live their whole lives clinging to these beliefs. The people of the Nor ...
or not is dependent entirely on its own nature. Its state does not alter according to what people imagine it to be. The same pri ...
and raised us, so this question is hardly an appropriate one. Were I to say that human beings are born of ignorance and craving, ...
a level of ignorance that indicates the inquirer is still spiritually inadequate. The citta tends to be the most unruly, conceit ...
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