August, 29, 2546 B.E.
Every Human Being Must Practice Meditation
Today is the 47th day of this Rains-Retreat. Soon enough, the Rains-Exit Day will be upon us. This Rains-Retreat is the season for attaining the Dhammakaya or the Inner Triple Gem. The Dhammakaya is every person’s highest refuge.If everyone on earth can attain the Dhammakaya, huge changes will happen on earth. Everyone will know true happiness. Everyone will feel joyful, safe, and secure. Everyone will feel happy all the time wherever he may be.
We are living in an age of great merit because we are living in the time that meditation can be easily practiced and the attainment of the Dhammakaya can be facilitated. This is the case because our Most Venerable Luang Pu had put his life on the line to attain the Dhammakaya. He has borne witness to the Lord Buddha’s attainment of Self-Enlightenment. Luang Pu has kindly summarized his teachings on the attainment of the Dhammakaya in just a few words: Stillness Is the Key to Success.
It means that one must bring one’s mind to a standstill at the seventh base in the center of one’s body at two finger’s width from one’s navel. This Higher Knowledge enables one to practice meditation accordingly without having to go through trial and error. One does not have to fear that one may become insane after practicing meditation. One does not have to fear seeing frightening images. One does not have to fear that one will die during meditation practice. These are the scary stories often associated with meditation practice so much so that people are afraid to practice it.
Or one may deem that meditation practice is confined to the monks and novice monks. After all, monks have to undertake Dhutanga by trekking in the forest in order to find the solitude needed to practice meditation. It is such misconception that the Buddhist monks are categorized as town monks and forest monks. And it is thought that only the forest monks practice meditation but not the town monks, since meditation is difficult to practice. This kind of attitude is incorrect or not entirely correct.
In actual fact, meditation practice is necessary for every human being on earth and not just for the Dhutanga monks. The reason is that life in general is filled with suffering; therefore, every human being wishes to eradicate suffering and experience true happiness. But true happiness can be gained only by practicing meditation.When a person who has attained the Dhammakaya teaches us how to attain the Dhammakaya who is the source of true happiness by keeping our mind still and quiet, we can be confident of the teaching. It is the reason why the time we are living in now is considered to be the age of merit-filled persons. If one cannot see the Dhammakaya, it is most definitely not because one possesses a small amount of merit.
But it is because one spends very little time practicing meditation.Some people complain that they have been practicing meditation for ten or twenty years without attaining anything. The question they need to ask themselves is how regularly or how often they do sit down to practice meditation.This is the age where everyone can attain the Dhammakaya easily the way it used to be during the Lord Buddha’s time. We were not born when the Lord Buddha was still living, but we are living in the time when His Teachings are still available to us.
Moreover, we have Luang Pu who has attained the Dhammakaya and has borne witness to the Lord Buddha’s attainment of Self-Enlightenment. Luang Pu has left his teachings to us so that we too can endeavor to practice meditation until we can attain the Dhammakaya. Therefore, the attainment of the Dhammakaya is plausible provided that one endeavors to practice meditation earnestly and accordingly.
