Instructions for walking meditation given by Luang Por Viradhammo at a retreat held in February, 2010.… Read the rest

In mindfulness meditation we stress the awareness, the witnessing, no matter what the object is.… Read the rest

Anything that requires skill is not easy, but the rewards of skill are considerable.… Read the rest

Effort is something that you learn as you do.  One of the ways that you learn about effort is by making mistakes.  Right effort very much depends on what’s going on in your mind.  If you remember the principle that it’s being awake to the way things are, it helps a lot.… Read the rest

There are so many ideas around meditation.  If you had to describe to someone how hard to tap an egg in order to break it, how would you do it?  You can’t it’s just impossible.  In the same way, the most important thing in meditation is just to do it.… Read the rest

Meditation instruction given by Luang Por Viradhammo at a retreat held in February, 2010.… Read the rest

We know sounds. Sound is going on all the time.  We’re functionally aware.  But, all of a sudden a new sound comes into consciousness and arrests us.  That’s when we really listen.  So, this capacity to be fully conscious is always there, but it often requires some special condition, some novelty to activate it.… Read the rest

I find reading about the insights, of what I think are attained beings, from other traditions very interesting.  It’s quite a nice challenge to be able to ask, ‘Is this the same insight that I had?  Is this the path?’… Read the rest