BUDDHISM TRUE DHARMA

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The supreme goal of meditation in Buddhism is to reach the state of non-ego–non-self, liberation, and enter Nirvana. Through meditation, the Buddha became a Perfectly Enlightened One. Meditation concentrates our minds, making them calm, mindful, and free of delusions. It especially helps destroy our egos and ignorance to attain liberation and enlightenment. This training material is based on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness of Theravada Buddhism, in which the ultimate end is the state of non-self. Zen instructors must strictly follow the order of this material to help new practitioners.

  1. 7H AGO

    WHAT YOU CAN’T TAKE WITH YOU

    WHAT YOU CAN’T TAKE WITH YOU I used to think enough was a number. The one in my bank account. The one on my paycheck. The one that meant — I finally made it. Then one afternoon — glass. Metal. Silence. And lying in that hospital room, I learned something no amount of success had ever taught me. ( dạ đoạn này team video nhớ làm scene chú này bị tai nạn ạ, trong voice có đoạn thở dốc khi bị tai nạn, các bạn cut ra ghép vô và có thể điều chỉnh khoảng lặng cho clip dài hơn mp3 nhé ạ) The money was still there, behind a password I could barely remember. It could pay the bills. But it couldn’t sit beside me. The person who came was someone I hadn’t really spoken to in years. A birthday message here. A short text every few months. But she showed up. She brought food. She answered the phone when I was too tired to explain. She sat in that hard plastic chair like there was nowhere else she needed to be.  That’s when I understood. There’s a kind of giving that keeps a record. You give — and you remember. You help — and you wait. And there’s another kind. The kind where you drive an hour and don’t mention it. Where you show up before they have to ask twice. Where you give — and never bring it up again. That kind stays in the body long after the moment passes. Because when that day finally comes, the house stays. The car stays. The passwords, the titles, the things we spent a lifetime trying to prove — all of it stays. Only one thing travels. Turns out enough was never the number. A hand held when fear had no words. A meal left at someone’s door. A conversation that went longer than planned because they needed it. Those are the ones that last. #Buddha, #Buddhism, #Buddhist, #Truedharma, #Meditation, #Enlightenment, #Buddhatemple, #TheLawofKarma, #Blessing, #Goodblessing, #Janna, #JannaMonastery, #JannaOrderMonastery, #LawOfKarma, #CauseAndEffect, #UniversalTruth, #KarmicRetribution, #AxiomaticTruth, #PhilosophyOfMind, #SpiritualLogic, #BeliefAndUnderstanding, #FirstPrinciples, #Metaphysics, #ConsciousEvolution, #Mindfulness, #AncientWisdom, #SpiritualGrowth, #EthicsAndMorality, #Transcendence, #CosmicOrder, #WisdomSeeker, #LogicalReasoning, #InnerTransformation, #KarmicLaws, #DharmaInsight, #IntellectualSpirituality, #TruthSeeker, #HigherConsciousness, #LifePhilosophy, #ContemplativePractice, #SoulScience, #MoralPhilosophy, #AwakeningJourney, #DeepThinking, #SpiritualScience, #SystemicThinking, #ExistentialWisdom, #MindsetShift, #UniversalPrinciples

    2 min

  2. MAY 6

    WHY YOUR FORTUNE IS SLIPPING AWAY

    WHY YOUR FORTUNE IS SLIPPING AWAY We often discuss how to build our fortune. However, it is just as important to consider the ways we may cause our fortune to slip away. Let’s look at three main instances that can decrease our fortunes. The first instance is LAZINESS: letting others do our work and/or never helping others out. For example, I know a man who sits at home all day, while his partner is in the kitchen bending her back with the daily household chores. As she struggles to do everything for the family, he continues to sit there, watching idly. We shouldn’t let our partners carry our weight, especially if we are capable of helping Another way that we let our fortune slip away is FEAR: the fear of not speaking the truth or standing up for what is right. There have probably been a couple of times where someone says something that isn’t right, and instead of correcting them, we just let them be. In other words, it’s like seeing the sun, and instead of embracing it, we hide away in the shadows.  Lastly, there is GREED: When we expect life to always go our way, while never giving anything back in return. Such as when you’re cashing out, and the cashier gives you back too much change, and instead of letting them know, you pocket the change and never say anything. And before you know it, you’ll continue to see your life unfold alongside your fortune as it slips between your fingers.  Rather than letting our fortune slip away, we should train ourselves to be more courageous and kind. Helping out where we can, using your voice to speak up, or quietly correcting others’ mistakes. And over time, something in you changes, and slowly the world around you changes for the better.  Again, fortune does not rush in. It quietly returns when we take the first step now. The next time, your body says “I don’t want to”, move anyway. That’s how fortune finds its way home. #Religions, #Buddhism, #Meditation, #Questionandanswers, #Religious, #Buddhist, #Truedharma, #Enlightement, #Buddhatemple, #TheLawofKarma, #BuddhismforBeginners, #Janna #Monastery, #JannaOrderMonastery, #PRACTICE, #GUIDE, #LAYPRACTITIONERS, #DialogueBuddhismReligions

    2 min

  3. MAY 5

    AWAKENING INTELLIGENCE

    AWAKENING INTELLIGENCEI finished the project. Hit send. Leaned back.Felt that quiet pride. Done.But then, a question surfaced. Not loud. Not dramatic. Just... there."Could this have been better?"Not "Was this good enough?" But "Could I have done this differently?"That question—that's where it starts.We know this feeling, don't we? That moment when the work is done.The relief. The satisfaction. The urge to close the laptop and walk away.Most of us stop there. And there's nothing wrong with that.But some people don't.They sit with the work a little longer.Not to punish themselves. Not to spiral into perfectionism.Just to ask: "What did I miss?"A chef finishes a dish. Tastes it one more time.Not because it's bad. Because it could be sharper.An engineer ships the code. Then opens it back up.Looking for what no one else would notice.They do this not for praise. Not for profit.They do it because of something deeper.A quiet responsibility to the person who'll use what they made.This is where intelligence lives.Not in knowing everything. But in the humility to know:my best today can be better tomorrow.THE MORE YOU QUESTION, THE SHARPER YOU BECOME.Not someday. Right now.In that next thing you finish. In that moment before you walk away.That question—"Could this be better?"—that's not doubt. That's INTELLIGENCE waking up.#Religions, #Buddhism, #Meditation, #Questionandanswers, #Religious, #Buddhist, #Truedharma, #Enlightement, #Buddhatemple, #TheLawofKarma, #BuddhismforBeginners, #Janna #Monastery, #JannaOrderMonastery, #PRACTICE, #GUIDE, #LAYPRACTITIONERS, #DialogueBuddhismReligions

    3 min

  4. APR 29

    The Heaviest Thing You Carry

    The Heaviest Thing You Carry Your shoulders feel heavy. Not from carrying things, but from carrying yourself. There's a kind of tiredness that sleep doesn't fix. Not from working too hard. From the constant effort of making sure you matter. Most of us don't notice we're doing this. But watch closely. We craft what we say before we say it. We check how we're received after we say it. We track who noticed, who didn't, who respected us, who didn't. All day, every day. Without realizing, we're running a machine that never turns off. And here's what that machine costs. Every time we need to be right, something tightens. Every time someone doesn't see us the way we need to be seen, something hardens. Every time we make ourselves the center of the story, the world gets very, very small. You've felt it before. A conversation where time disappeared. A moment with someone where nothing needed to be proven. That feeling wasn't an accident. That was the self stepping aside for a moment. Because here's what people who've studied the mind have quietly noticed — the lighter a person carries themselves, the more they feel what others feel. Not imagine it, not sympathize from a distance, actually feel it. As if the line between themselves and everyone else had quietly dissolved. There's a moment when someone is talking to you and you're actually listening. Not preparing your response. Not wondering how you look. Just there. Most of us have felt that, once or twice. That's not a technique. That's what happens when the self gets out of the way. This isn't about becoming nothing. It's about carrying less. Less defense, less performance, less of the exhausting work of maintaining who you've decided you are. Because the heaviest thing most of us carry isn't our problems. It's the constant weight of the self we're trying to protect. Somewhere along the way, we forgot that we were enough before we started building. Not later. Right now. In your very next breath. #Religions, #Buddhism, #Meditation, #Questionandanswers, #Religious, #Buddhist, #Truedharma, #Enlightement, #Buddhatemple, #TheLawofKarma, #BuddhismforBeginners, #Janna #Monastery, #JannaOrderMonastery, #PRACTICE, #GUIDE, #LAYPRACTITIONERS, #DialogueBuddhismReligions

    3 min

  5. APR 28

    FACING YOURSELF

    FACING YOURSELF I once said something I knew I shouldn’t say. The moment it left my mouth I felt it. That small shift in the room. The way someone’s face changes when a word lands wrong. So I told myself what most of us say. Anyone would’ve said it. I was pushed too far. And just like that I moved on. Most of us don’t even notice when we do this. How quickly we become our own best lawyers. A few weeks later I saw a friend sitting alone. Corner of a café. Face heavy. Mind somewhere else. He had snapped at a colleague. Something small. “Stupid,” he said. “They forgave me three days ago. I haven’t forgiven myself.” The next week I saw him leaving a temple before the city woke up. I asked what he was doing there. He was quiet for a moment. “Sitting with what I did,” he said. “Really sitting with it.” Not to feel better. Not to move on faster. Just refusing to let himself off easy. Each time he bowed he was facing something most of us spend our whole lives avoiding. Our pride. Our own capacity for cruelty. Not punishing himself. Knowing himself. I thought about the glass for a long time. Not the sound it made. The silence after. The way I looked around the room to see if anyone would challenge me. Nobody did. And that was the problem. Because when no one holds us accountable we slowly learn to hold ourselves to nothing. And we call that moving on. People who study the mind often notice something quietly devastating. The easier we are on ourselves the harder we become on everyone else. Not because we’re bad people. But because mistakes we never examine don’t disappear. They only change shape. There’s a moment right after something breaks. You can feel it. The pull toward excuse. The door marked “anyone would have.” Most of us walk through it without even slowing down. My friend taught me to stop at that door. Just stop. Not forever. Just long enough to really look at what you did. And who you were in that moment. That’s not punishment. That’s the only way the person you hope to become ever gets a chance to appear.#Religions, #Buddhism, #Meditation, #Questionandanswers, #Religious, #Buddhist, #Truedharma, #Enlightement, #Buddhatemple, #TheLawofKarma, #BuddhismforBeginners, #Janna #Monastery, #JannaOrderMonastery, #PRACTICE, #GUIDE, #LAYPRACTITIONERS, #DialogueBuddhismReligions

    3 min

  6. APR 26

    THE SECRET TO ENDLESS VIRTUE

    THE SECRET TO ENDLESS VIRTUEHe talked about everyone. Every conversation, someone got cut down. I watched it for years. Slowly, the calls stopped. The visits stopped. Until one day — his phone just sat there. Silent. Full of names that no longer rang. He didn't see it coming. But the rest of us did. That's the quiet law underneath everything. Not punishment. Not reward. Just what you plant, you eventually sit inside. We know this feeling, don't we? That moment you chose the sharp word. And felt it echo back months later, in a room that felt emptier than before. Karma isn't lightning. It's weather. Slow, cumulative, undeniable. But there's a second gate. Harder to see. Harder still to walk through. I heard about a man — thirty years building his empire. Every deal won. Every rival crushed. He had everything. Then his body gave out. In that hospital room, stripped of leverage and titles, something cracked open. He wept for people he'd hurt. Felt grateful for small kindnesses he'd dismissed. For the first time in decades, he loved without agenda. The ego had loosened. And underneath it, something vast. Because here's what I've noticed: the lighter a person carries themselves, the more room they have for others. Not as strategy. Not as virtue performance. Just genuine space. Real warmth. The heavy ego shrinks the world to one person. The loosened ego expands it to everyone. I've noticed something. The people who carry the least bitterness — they're not the ones who never got hurt. They're the ones who stopped adding to it. That's the path. Not perfection. Not arrival. Just the gradual, quiet lightening of the self.#Religions, #Buddhism, #Meditation, #Questionandanswers, #Religious, #Buddhist, #Truedharma, #Enlightement, #Buddhatemple, #TheLawofKarma, #BuddhismforBeginners, #Janna #Monastery, #JannaOrderMonastery, #PRACTICE, #GUIDE, #LAYPRACTITIONERS, #DialogueBuddhismReligions

    3 min

  7. APR 18

    EXPLANATION OF TAKING REFUGE IN THE THREE JEWELS

    EXPLANATION OF TAKING REFUGE IN THE THREEJEWELS Today, we invitepractitioners to learn the meaning of Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels. The Meaning ofTaking Refuge in the Three Jewels Taking Refuge inthe Three Jewels, in full, means taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, andthe Sangha. "Takingrefuge" comes from the Sanskrit/Pali word Namo, which means todedicate one's entire life to follow and revere. This means thatfrom the moment we take refuge in the Three Jewels, we revere the Buddha withwholehearted devotion. From this point on, we become disciples of the Buddha,following the true Dharma and relying on the Sangha. What does itmean to take refuge in the Buddha? Who is the Buddha?The Buddha is the Fully Enlightened One who has completely transcended thecycle of birth and death (samsara). He renounced allwealth and royal privilege to seek the path of spiritual cultivation. After sixyears of ascetic practice in the forest and forty-nine days of deep meditationunder the Bodhi tree, He attained Supreme Enlightenment and became the Buddha. He is thehistorical Buddha who appeared in this world: Shakyamuni Buddha, ourFundamental Teacher. In summary, takingrefuge in the Buddha means taking refuge in the Enlightened One — a being whohas transcended samsara and become the Teacher of both humans and celestialbeings. From now on, wevow, life after life, to follow the path of the Buddha. First: The highestattainment in this universe is not a god or deity, but Enlightenment. Second: All beings,if they practice according to the Buddha's teachings, can attain the sameSupreme Enlightenment as the Buddha. Third: After takingrefuge in the Buddha, we no longer take refuge in false deities or spirits. Taking Refuge inthe Dharma The Dharma is theteachings left by the Buddha in the Tripitaka (Buddhist scriptures). Through theBuddha's teachings, we gain a path and a guiding light for our lives. The Dharma alsomeans truth and righteousness. Therefore, whenhearing that something is a Buddhist teaching, we should not blindly accept it,but reflect on it carefully and with a clear mind. After taking refugein the Buddha, we must respect His teachings, diligently study the Dharma, andput it into practice. Taking Refuge inthe Sangha The Sangha is thethird jewel of the Three Jewels. It is through theSangha — those who dedicate their entire lives to practicing the Buddha'steachings — that we have living examples of moral integrity in this world. However, we mustexercise discernment, recognizing and relying only on those members of theSangha who genuinely practice and uphold the path. After taking refugein the Sangha, we should not associate closely with misguided teachers orharmful companions. This is the meaningof Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels (Buddha – Dharma – Sangha). #Religions, #Buddhism, #Meditation, #Questionandanswers, #Religious, #Buddhist, #Truedharma, #Enlightement, #Buddhatemple, #TheLawofKarma, #BuddhismforBeginners, #Janna #Monastery, #JannaOrderMonastery, #PRACTICE, #GUIDE, #LAYPRACTITIONERS, #DialogueBuddhismReligions

    4 min

  8. APR 2

    Goodness Starts with the Smallest Acts

    Goodness Starts with the Smallest Acts Many people have kind hearts and want to do good deeds, but their circumstances are difficult. They see their poor neighbors and wish to share, see a damaged road and want to help repair it, notice places in need and long to contribute but they themselves lack the means. This can make them feel sad, thinking: “Without money, how can I do good deeds?” In fact, doing good is not just about giving money or possessions. Anyone can start sowing goodness, beginning with the smallest actions. For example, offering a timely word of encouragement, defending an animal being treated badly, helping someone within their capabilities, or simply living kindly without harming anyone. By regularly doing these small acts of goodness, our hearts gradually open, and good fortune follows. Eventually, as life improves, we will have the means to do greater deeds. Most importantly, we must keep a heart willing to help others and never stop cultivating goodness each day. #Religions, #Buddhism, #Meditation, #Questionandanswers, #Religious, #Buddhist, #Truedharma, #Enlightement, #Buddhatemple, #TheLawofKarma, #BuddhismforBeginners, #Janna #Monastery, #JannaOrderMonastery, #PRACTICE, #GUIDE, #LAYPRACTITIONERS, #DialogueBuddhismReligions

    1 min
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The supreme goal of meditation in Buddhism is to reach the state of non-ego–non-self, liberation, and enter Nirvana. Through meditation, the Buddha became a Perfectly Enlightened One. Meditation concentrates our minds, making them calm, mindful, and free of delusions. It especially helps destroy our egos and ignorance to attain liberation and enlightenment. This training material is based on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness of Theravada Buddhism, in which the ultimate end is the state of non-self. Zen instructors must strictly follow the order of this material to help new practitioners.

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