take the sunlight?

finally...starting the new day and...new life for someone...

waiting for the sunrise

i'm in the boat waiting for the sunrise at Varanasi ^_^

cheerful yellow

sight of hope

a boy's selling "pass pass" on high way and little girl's asking me at the pier.

couples

beautiful sunset at Chao-pra-ya river, Bkk, a kind of orange from Chiangmai which can eat with its sweet peel and sleeping teak dolls.

first meal in Nepal

queue up, waiting for my first meal at Wat Thai Lumpini : Lumpini Thai temple

first temple of Buddhism

Paying respect to baby Buddha image at vanuvan the first temple of Buddhism where the Buddha gave THe Fundamental Precepts for 1,250 monks on Makapurame full moon day.

Buddha's birth footprint

Lumphini,Nepal

40 Meditations IV

Part 4:
A: 4 holy abidings; sublime states of mind; abidings of the Great ones; unbounded states of mind; unlimited.
1.metta, Loving-kindness; friendliness; goodwill (metta is the hatelessness, amity, the wholesome sens-objects to unlimited person even to a person we dislike.)
2.compassion
3.sympathetic joy; altruistic joy
4.equanimity; neutrality; poise
B: determining of the four elements, attention given to element, meditation on the elements; meditation subject consisting of elements both inside our body and things outside.
1.the earth-element (stronge and soft)
2.the water-element (refreshed, flowing, cohesion and imbued)
3.the fire-element (hot and cold)
4.the air-element (tight, slack, motion and vibration)
C: contemplation of impure food
D: the four formless trances; the four absorptions of the formless-sphere; immaterial states which is needed Jhanas of the fine-material sphere before do this formless spheres.
1.sphere of infinity of space
2.sphere of infinity of consciousness
3.sphere of nothingness
4.sphere of neither perception nor non-perception

why do you like someone?

Pretty face & pretty soul?
"Dis-moi qui tu hantes, je te dirai qui tu es."
"tell me who you hang out with, I will tell for who you are."
...Finding inner beauty of people heart...for the long time worked relationship or at least, it's much good to fall in love with a beautiful mind.

in beautiful temple

Last Vesak day at Chiangrai province, north of Thailand

Monolithic Railing

This is where they kept Tripitaka,near Dhamek Stupa, Sarnath, India

little monks and lunch time

lunch time in the hall,

Dhamek Stupa

Deer park or Isipatana, the site of the First Sermon and the first founding of the Sangha or Monkhood. This imposing stupa is cylindrical in shape, 28.5 m in basal diameter and 43.6 m tall...

i'm in Buddhist teaching class ^_^

me and the flowers I set in front of the class every sunday...

40 Meditations III

Part 3 : The ten kinds of foulness; corpses at different stage of decay, this kind of meditation is suitable for person with lust or greed behavior.
1. Bloated corpse; swollen-up corpse
2. Bluish discolored corpse; livid corpse
3. Festering corpse
4. Split or cut up corpse; disjoint corpse
5. Gnawed corpse
6. Scattered corpse; mangled corpse
7. Hacked and scattered corpse; mutilated and mangled corpse
8. Blood-stained corpse; bleeding corpse
9. Worm-infested corpse
10. Skeleton

40 Meditations II

The first house of Buddha after the enlightenment,Mulagandhakuti or Main Shrine, Sarnath India

Part 2; The ten meditation devices; object of meditation; the method of inducing concentration by gazing and reciting at any of the ten objects.(make the object in round shape, appropriate size and clear from other object)
A:Element-Kasina
1. The Earth-Kasina
2. The Water-Kasina
3. The Fire-Kasina
4. The Air-Kasina or Wind-Kasina
B:Color-Kasina
1. The Green-Kasina
2. The Yellow-Kasina
3. The White-Kasina
4. THe Red-Kasina
C:others
1. The Light-Kasina
2. The Space-Kasina
(to be continued...) ^_^

40 Meditations I

Part I : The ten constant mindfulness; Reflection; Recollection,
1. Recollection of the Buddha; contemplation on the virtues of the Buddha.
2. Recollection of the Dhamma; contemplation on the virtues of the Doctrine.
3. Recollection of the Sangha, the nobleones; contemplation on the virtues of the Order.
4. Recollection of morality; contemplation on one's own morals.
5. Recollection of liberality; contemplation on one's own liberality.
6. Recollection of deities; contemplation on the virtues which make people become gods as can be found in oneself.
7. Mindfulness of death; contemplation on death.
8. Mindfulness occupied with the body; contemplation on the 32 impure parts of the body.
9. Mindfulness on breathing.
10. Recollection of peace; contemplation on the virtue of Nibbana.
(to be continued...) =^_^=

my artwork with the protectors & the pilgrims

Mulagandhakuti (Main Shrine),Sarnath, Varanasi, the first hermitage of Lord Buddha after the enlightenment...where the Buddha did his meditation.

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