September 27, 2546 B.E.
The Rains-Exit Day will be here in two weeks’ time. Everyone has the same twenty-four hours a day. It depends on how each person is utilizing the time he has to pursue Perfections. He can choose to pursue Perfections to his best ability. Or he can choose to do it reluctantly. Or he can choose not to do it at all.This Rains-Retreat has been designated as the season for attaining the Dhammakaya who is every human’s highest refuge. Nothing else can serve as one’s refuge.These remaining two weeks should be spent practicing meditation as earnestly as possible by deploying the Four Paths of Accomplishment.
These include will, endeavor, attention, and reflection. It means that one must love to attain the Dhammakaya. One must endeavor to practice meditation no matter what happens and in spite of achiness and other concerns. One pays attention by keeping one’s mind at the seventh base in the center of one’s body at all times.Our Most Venerable Luang Pu told us to wrestle with our mind like a wrestler by keeping our mind still and quiet in the center of our body instead of allowing it to wander everywhere. Last but not least, reflection, it means that one must diligently observe if one is practicing correctly, and if one is keeping one’s mind still and quiet.
