August 20, 2546 B.E.
Self-Reliance (Part I)
Today is the 38th day of this Rains-Retreat, and less than two months of it are left. This Rains-Retreat is the season for attaining the Dhammakaya.He can be found inside every human being on earth.To attain the Dhammakaya is synonymous with gaining one’s own refuge.It means that one has achieved true self-reliance. This feat gives the feeling of personal greatness and it makes one feel joyful and proud. One feels that one no longer needs to take refuge in things outside of one’s self.
This feeling of personal greatness makes one feel that one can go and live anywhere on earth without ever feeling lonely. One will never feel sad, depressed, bored, stressed out, or worried because one has the Dhammakaya as one’s refuge. One does not need alcohol, gambling activities or different forms of entertainment to keep one from feeling down and out. These activities can never lift one up or help one in any way. They may help one to forget one’s trouble temporarily but that is all. Nothing can be compared to the attainment of the Dhammakaya who is one’s true refuge. One must try it and see it for one’s self!
Kru Mai Yai once asked our Master Nun, Khun Yai Chandra Khonnokyoongif she ever felt lonely, and she said that she had never felt lonely, for if she had no one to talk to, she could always talk to her Dhammakaya or to celestial beings. There are millions and millions of celestial beings that she could talk to. She had never felt lonely but she always felt happy and content.
All Khun Yai needed was a seat cushion and inexpensive clothes, but everything she had was clean and tidy. She ate but a little during mealtime because she was tiny. But she looked so lively and happy and her skin even in her advanced age was still tight and firm.Whoever can attain the Dhammakaya will feel a sense of greatness. Try it and see it for yourself. If you can be self-reliant, you will feel happy and content. You will have no more need to watch movies or TV. You will have no more need to go on a vacation in exotic places.
We are almost midway through this Rains-Retreat. Our Most Venerable Luang Pu spent the middle of his twelfth year in the monkhood in his 33rd year of life making history by putting his life on the line to practice meditation until he could attain the Dhammakaya. And he has kindly passed on the sacred knowledge to us.
If anyone has not yet endeavored to practice meditation earnestly, now is the time to get started or it will be too late. Always keep in mind that everyone is here on earth to search for the Inner Triple Gem and not something else. One has tried to find happiness in people, animals, and things only to discover that soon enough one grows tired of them and must look for something else or for that ideal person. One will never be able to find true happiness outside of one’s self because true happiness can only be found inside one’s self. One will know it the instant one attains the Dhamma Sphere or the Dhammakaya. This is the season for attaining the Dhammakaya.
