Ven. Akshay Kamble

THE WAY TO BEYOND CRITICISM (It is one of the best sutta .please read it with  patience) 12. Rāsiya sutta Then Rāsiya the chief went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: “Sir, I have heard this: ‘The ascetic Gotama criticizes all forms of mortification. He categorically condemns and  him with an untruth? Is their explanation in line with the teaching? Are there any legitimate grounds for rebuke and criticism?” “Chief, those who say this do not repeat what I have said. They misrepresent me with what is false, baseless, and untrue. These two extremes should not be cultivated by one who has gone forth. Indulgence in sensual pleasures, which is low, crude, ordinary, ignoble, and pointless. And indulgence in self-mortification, which is painful, ignoble, and pointless. Avoiding these two extremes, the Realized One woke up by understanding the middle way, which gives vision and knowledge, and leads to peace, direct knowledge, awakening, and extinguishme

Title- Associates of Enlightenment (Bodhipakkhiya Dhamma s ) Bodhipakkhiya is the combination of the Pali words: Bodhi, pakkha and iya . Bodhi means Magga-nana or Enlightenment of the Four Ariya Truths. Bodhipakkhiya means the components or associates of Enlightenment. Mindfulness (Sati), effort (viriya), etc., are called the factors associated with Enlightenment. The Bodhipakkhiya dhammas consist of Thirteen-Seven Factors, namely:     The 4 foundations of mindfulness (Satipatthana),    The 4 supreme efforts (Sammappadhana),     The 4 bases of accomplishment (Iddhipada),     The 5 faculties (Indriya),     The 5 powers (Bala),     The 7 factors of enlightenment (Bhojjhanga) and     The 8 constituents of the path (magganga). Explanation of the 4 foundations of mindfulness (Satipatthana) Satipatthana means mindfulness or heedfulness which is firmly established on its objects. There are 4 Satipatthanas or foundation of mindfulness (1)    K

21meditation for the Shamatha 🙏🙏 སེམས་གནས་དགུ ༡༽སེམས་འཇོག་པ།  ༢༽རྒྱུན་དུ་འཇོག་པ།  ༣༽གླན་ཏེ་འཇོག་པ།  ༤༽ཉེ་བར་འཇོག་པ།  ༥༽དུལ་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༦༽ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༧༽རྣམ་པར་ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༨༽རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ།  ༩༽མཉམ་པར་འཇོག་པ་སྟེ་དགུ Deepening Calm-Abiding- The Nine Stages of Abiding  1) Stage Stabilising in the Mind  2) Stage Continuous Stabilising  3) Stage Habitual Stabilisation  4) Stage Near Stabilsation  5) Stage Habituation  6) Stage Pacifying  7) Stage Thorough Pacification  8)Stage Becoming One-Pointed  9) Stage Entrance into Samadhi  The elephant is the example of the mind for: If an elephant is wild, it is very dangerous to all other animals. Likewise, if the mind is not tamed it harms others. All suffering is caused by the untamed mind.  An elephant once tamed obeys its master better than any other animal; even if the master were to say pick up a very large hot ball with its trunk, the elephant will do so. Therefore, the mind when tamed, can perform any action, no