Close your eyes and clear your mind. Imagine that you are lying down on the grass and looking up at the stars at night. You feel relaxed and comfortable. Just close your eyes and rest your focus at the center of your abdomen.
The word ‘cakka’ means a ‘wheel’ a wheel in just the same way as a cartwheel or a car wheel
The way Buddhists worship the Lord Buddha is by bowing. But those who bow can be placed on three categories
Arranging for their marriage to a suitable apouse: As if giving all manner of basic needs and education is not enough, children even expect parents to give approval (or otherwise) when in doubt about who to marry
The Lord Buddha not only taught scrupulous ethics for earning a living, but also how earnings should be allocated so that one can live without financial problems
The Buddha characterized the suffering of sorrow as afflicting one with burning in the heart as if the mind has list all refreshedness
According to the Buddha, the practice of self-mortification [attakilamathanuyoga] is fruitless
The most time-consuming activity in a person’s life is to earn a living. How should a true friend earn a living, one may ask?
The Lord Buddha stresses that the three categories of defilement: greed, hatred and delusion are like usurpers in the mind. They darken our minds and obstruct us from enlightenment.
When the mind is obscured by defilements, it is constricted like being imprisoned in a small dark room. Just as one who is imprisoned alone becomes paranoid about possible dangers, the first impulse will be to save his own skin.