Ajahn Dtun, who is considered to be one of the greatest living Meditation Masters in Thailand, will be visiting Australia from 4th to 24th March
13th and 14th March at Wat Buddha Dhamma
Daily Schedule
9:00 Dana Offering
9:30 Meal Time
10:30 Q & A
For further info, please call the office at 0409 389 887.
Dhamma Talk at Buddhist Library
Sunday 17th March
6 – 8 pm
90-92 Church St Camperdown NSW
For more info, please call Buddhist Library at: 02 9519 6054
or email: blmanager@buddhistlibrary.org.
Ajahn Dtun will be in Victoria from 4th to 11th and 19th to 24th March
He will be staying Nigrodharama Forest Monastery
595 Seymour-Pyalong Rd
Hilldene VIC 3660
Daily Schedule
8:30 Dana Offering
9:00 Meal Time
10:30 Q & A
For further info, please call the Nigrodharama Monastery at 0480 271 789.
The schedule is subject to last minute changes and alterations.
Masks are required for visitors.
Past Teachings of Ajahn Dtun in Australia and US
Ajahn Dtun at BSV
10-Day Retreat in Melbourne 2007
Talks at Wat Buddha Dhamma in 2015
Talks in Melbourne in 2015
Talks at BSV in 2016
Talks in 2019
Talks at Abhayagiri Monastery 2013
Picture Gallery: Boonyawad Kathina
English Talks from YouTube
Stages of Enlightenment and the Mind
What Defines a Good Human Being: From Harming to Helping Others
For additional teachings in Thai or books/CDs, click on the links below:
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The Sacred Equation
At the heart of the Buddha’s teaching is the Noble Eightfold Path, which is divided into the threefold training of sīla, samādhi and paññā, moral virtue, concentration and wisdom. The combination of all three path factors is commonly known as the Middle Way, and it is this very combination which forms a sacred equation that ultimately results in peace, freedom from suffering, liberation and Nibbāna. The three factors are mutually supportive of each other: moral virtue is a foundation for concentration, concentration the foundation for wisdom, and wisdom is the tool that works for one’s deliverance. Removing any one factor from this sacred equation will prevent one from reaching the path that leads to true happiness, Nibbāna.
The main part of this teaching begins with a very simple question which Ajahn Dtun asked a group of laypeople whom he knew to be students of a teacher who emphasizes the practice of ‘watching the mind’. This practice focuses on watching the arising and ceasing of all the objects of the mind’s awareness, with the view that this is the most effective way to give rise to wisdom and thereby cleanse the mind of the mental defilements. Those practising this particular method tend to overlook or underrate the role that concentration plays in the development of wisdom. Over the last 15 years this practice of watching the mind, while by no means new or modern, has attracted a great deal of interest and become very popular in Thailand. However, this new-found popularity has created concern among the more traditional forest masters, who stress that believing that the practice of just watching the mind can free it from the mental defilements is a great mistake. On many occasions over many years, Ajahn Dtun patiently gives advice to steer these practitioners back to the correct path of practice of moral virtue, concentration and wisdom, the Middle Way as taught by the Buddha. He also explains to practitioners that in no way whatsoever can concentration be taken out of the equation.
It is hoped that by reading this teaching the reader will gain a clear view of the complete path of meditation practice, and understand that solely contemplating the mind is not sufficient to free it from the mental defilements. The assumption that the mental defilements arise within the mind, and so must be dealt with solely by contemplating the mind, is true but not altogether correct. It is true that mental defilements do arise within the mind and so must be let go of within the mind, but it is not correct to believe that one can start the work of cleansing the mind at this point. This practice, as Ajahn Dtun clearly shows, is for those already highly advanced on the path to liberation, as they push forward to reach the final stage of enlightenment.
Preface from The Sacred Equation by Ajahn Dtun
