October 13, 2546 B.E.
Sufficiency and Contentment (Part II)
Today is the third day after the Rains-Retreat. Some of you have made real progress in your meditation practice but others have not. Therefore, let everyone continue to practice meditation to the fullest extent because we are here on earth to make clear the Path and Fruit of Nibbana or at least to pursue Perfections or to find true happiness and true refuge. All these things can be found inside one’s self. The Dhammakaya is the Body Leading to Enlightenment. The Dhammakaya is all-knowing, fully awake, and gloriously joyful. The Dhammakaya is the Inner Triple Gem and every human being’s true refuge.
The search for the Dhammakaya means the search for sufficiency and contentment. One will truly know what sufficiency and contentment mean only after one has attained the Dhammakaya. Otherwise, one is constantly wanting, hungering, and thirsting after one thing or another. One is never satisfied. One is never content. The situation is akin to trying to quench one’s thirst by drinking seawater.
All the want, all the hunger, and all the thirst will disappear as soon as one is able to attain the Dhammakaya. The Dhammakaya is true. The Dhammakaya is the source of true happiness. The Dhammakaya is
eternal. But everything and everyone on earth are governed by the Three Characteristics, namely, impermanence, the inability to remain the same, and the absence of true selfhood. Everyone and everything come into being, exist for time, and come to an end. The search for the Dhammakaya is synonymous with the search for life’s balance which is the point where
life is made complete.
The Dhammakaya is something that you’ve been searching for
