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When monkeys get lost in the forest
kirin pralongchoeng
11 May 2022 5:08 a.m.
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on the subject Listen to the Silence International Meditation Center Rai Cherntawan Pim) Phra Methewachirodom asks questions when serious problems arise in life. What can we do with it?
Look for someone to be the scapegoat. Angry, frustrated, irritable, upset, succumbing to trouble without a trace.
Desperate to face only problems
create more problems by drinking alcohol and taking drugs
free yourself from stress
with a roam
Looking for a friend as a mentor.
Approaching the main elders that they can rely on; approaching wizards, shamans, fortune-tellers in order to evade misfortune and destiny.
Change your name, change your name, adjust your feng shui, adjust your desk.
face the problem consciously
carefully corrected
Or... take a deeper look at the problem.
with mindfulness, meditation, and meditation
Vajiramethi did not point out any way, but he brought up the story of the lost monkey that Master Jayasaro (Sean Chiverton) told his students as follows:
once upon a time
a little monkey
One day he got bored of his monotony in the trees in the high mountains.
Escape to play in the forest
Enjoy coming down to the foot of the hill and find a corn field.
which is about to release a large pod that is starting to look appetizing
it rushes in
Two arms full of corn collecting gluttony
After walking, I saw a plump and juicy red peach tree full of it.
It threw away the corn.
Picked up two large peaches.
A monkey holding a peach
Walk to the watermelon farm, oh my!
The watermelons are so big.
no more peaches
monkey throwing peaches
lunge into watermelon
But suddenly, unexpectedly, a little rabbit
leapt forward and fled in the face
The little bunnies tempted the little monkeys more than the many watermelons.
The little monkey dropped the watermelon.
chasing rabbits
which ran away into the forest
The little rabbit's footsteps were much faster than the monkey's.
No matter how hard he tried to speed up, he couldn't catch up.
Before realizing that the rabbit was gone
The minute it gave up
look left look right
So it realized that
Lost in the forest... Lost in a forest that can't find a way out.
While there was nothing on hand to eat at all.
Little monkey with weak knees
He collapsed and sat at the base of a large tree, hungry, sad and scared.
But then it was shocking.
Suddenly, a monk, a large figure, strangely pink skin.
perform a miracle sitting next to
Little monkey suffers
The monk listened and did not teach anything.
invite them to meditate together
Then the monkey monk sat silently together. For a moment, the monkey's mind began to "quiet".
It opened its eyes and smiled, and managed to climb up to the top of a large tree.
Look far and wide, all around you!
The path to return home in the mountains
The monkey chirped.
Goodbye to the teacher ran away.
while the teacher
that big figure
went out for a hike
At the end of the story, V. Wachiramedhi approaches the teachings of the Buddha.
peace-minded monk
would clearly know the fact that
This is suffering, this is samudaya, this is dukkha, and this is suffering.
The task that should be done has been completed.
There is no other business for this purpose, neither do I.
Mr. V. Wachiramedhi concluded.
“My mind is that monkey. When the monkey in my heart is lost confused that Where should we go back? We have to find a way for the monkey. sitting still on a branch and it will find its way back home.
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kirin pralongchoeng
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