Ajahn Chah said that even if you go up to the moon, to Mars, or go anywhere at all, we will still have suffering there if our hearts don’t have right view. So we need to try to be able to train in this.
~Ven. Ajahn Anan

Wherever you go, you always take with you six teachers: forms, sounds, odors, tastes, physical sensations and mental activity.
~Ven. Ajahn Chah

Self promotion day: I'm teaching a 9-day residential #meditation retreat to about 30 people at Brahmavihara Monastery, Malacca, #Malaysia . Recorded #Dhamma Talks will follow.
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The goal of Dhamma practice is to learn how to become a refuge for ...

Question: Buddhists talk a lot about being in the present moment. Doesn’t that conflict with learning from past experiences and planning for the future?

Answer: Past and future meet in the present moment: ...

The forest is peaceful, why aren't you? You hold onto things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird's song, then let go. If you know nature, you'll know Dhamma. If you know Dhamma, you'll know nature.
~Ven. Ajahn Chah

The Buddha describes his teaching as running contrary to the way of the world.

Question: How long does it take to get enlightened?

Answer: This question may be answered with an old story:

Here's a 59-minute recorded #video "Cause and Effect (in Social Media)":
https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/video/2025/07/05/Dhamma_Talk_158.html

Topics: Desire, addiction, “Open World” video games, “Don’t use willpower, use Wisdom Power”, comparison of “Contra” and “Legend of Zelda” video games; changing the model, changing the framing; agati, wrong path, “anger, envy, fear, outrage”, discerning needs from wants

... the brahmavihāra practices of goodwill, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity are the way to emotional perfection.

Question: What does Buddhism teach about the nature of happiness?

Answer: Human beings can experience two kinds of happiness: ...

So, as the fourth noble truth, the Buddha recommends a path of practice to get rid of the blind spot—ignorance.

Here's a 58-minute recorded #video "Vepacitti's Bonds":
https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/video/2025/06/28/Dhamma_Talk_157.html

Topics: Bhava, becoming, future rebirth, views, attitudes, decisions, #mindfulness, #meditation, use of the senses, the analogy of “frog mindfulness”, the analogy of the sheaf of barley, the analogy of Vepacitti’s bonds, conceit, conceiving, “not greater than, not lesser than, not equal to either”, morality, fault-finding, prejudice, racism

Kamma can operate across a succession of lifetimes; it can even remain dormant for aeons into the future.

With self-view, sooner or later, someone’s going to be inferior and someone superior.
~Ajahn Sucitto

Mindfulness is the way to the deathless. We sit and watch, ...

The search for a spiritual path is born out of suffering. It does not start with lights and ecstasy, but with the hard tacks of pain, disappointment, and confusion.

Right view requires more than a simple knowledge of the general meaning of kamma.

You can never satisfy a driven mind. So a wise person is someone who can give up the ranting of the self to find a more natural tune; they can see how the clamouring and the clutching, the fearing and the grasping, are unnecessary and not worth hosting.
~Ajahn Sucitto