We all will meditate in this morning session.

We all will do good deeds with right understanding. The action of mindfulness and detachment at the present moment is the best of all good deeds. Understanding like this is right understanding. They are also causes and effects only or actions and reactions only. Whenever there is a cause or action, there will be an effect or reaction for sure. If there is no cause or action, there will also be no effect or reaction, for sure.

Our physical, verbal and mental actions are the cause or action of ourselves. Whatever we do, there will be an effect or consequence to us, or to our families, or to others, or to our organization or society, for sure. Bad actions or bad speech or bad talks are the cause of bad results or consequences for us, for our families, for our society, for sure. Like hot and cold, lights and dark, right and wrong, cause and effect or action and reaction are inseparable. Good action, good speech and good thoughts are the cause of good results or consequences for us, for our families and for our organization and society, for sure.

We should emphasize both of cause and effect or action and reaction. On the other hand, we should understand that all the bad results or consequences are caused by bad actions, bad speeches, and bad thoughts. All the good results or consequences are caused by good actions, good speeches and good thoughts for sure. They are only cause and effect. No one is teaching and no one is listening. No one is giving and no one is taking. No one is making problems and no one is suffering. They are only cause and effect of ever new impermanent nature.

This theory of cause and effect is to apply in our daily life to be using only without grasping and attaching in the mind. Grasping use is wrong, using only is right. Most of the people in the society cannot understand this theory. That’s why if I explain to the public in the society, I will say I am a meditation teacher, I am the founder of the Thabarwa Center. But I’m not grasping this cause and effect. I’m just using only, explaining only without grasping and attaching this theory in the mind.

Now we are in the meditation center and in the meditation retreat. Therefore, I will teach cause and effect only. No one is teaching, no one is listening. There are only cause and effect cycle of ever new impermanent nature. This teaching or theory is also to be using only without grasping and attaching in the mind. Using only is right. Using only with mindfulness and detachment is right. Using with ignorance and attachment is wrong. No one or nothing is right or wrong. Only ignorance and attachment are wrong. Mindfulness and detachments are right.

Because of doing good deeds like this for over 21 years continuously, I can save greater merits and then my own greater merits is creating more and more new meditation centers and meditators. This is the power of good deeds. Merits or good deeds are complete. Good deeds are everything. It can create every good result or consequence. We can have a long life, we can be healthy, we can get enlightenment, we can be Buddha.

The power of good deeds can create all the good results or consequences for sure. Without having enough power of good deeds, we cannot get good results which we want. Even if we have enough power of good deeds, we need to be patient to the right time. To appear good result, we need right time, right place, right situation or condition and right person. Having enough power of merits only is not complete. We also need to have right time, place, person and situation also.

When we are doing good deeds, we are responsible only to do more and more good deeds continuously. We are not responsible to give good results or consequences. We just need to have the right understanding and to be patient enough to appear good consequences or results at the right time. Our doing good deeds is saving merits or good deeds. The more we do good deeds, the more we can save merits. Our own merit is responsible for creating good results or consequences for us. It is sure our own merits will be beautiful to create good results as much as we are beautiful in doing good deeds. If we are doing what is bad or for the bad deeds we have done before, we are sure to get bad results. All the bad results or consequences we are experiencing now are caused by our past and present bad actions for sure.

The past has gone, no more. So we can do nothing for the past mistakes or bad deeds of ourselves except for accepting bad consequences with mindfulness and detachment. But for the present mistake or bad deeds, we should try to understand and reduce it to be less and less. All the reactions we are experiencing, all the reactions of the others we are experiencing now are caused by the action we have done before and we are doing now. We get back what we have done before and what we are doing now.

Because of giving all my belongings to all kinds of people in their society for over 20 years continuously, I have been receiving all kinds of donations from all kinds of people in the society. All the reactions will be the same as the actions.

Because of doing good deeds with limits, we will be getting good results with limits. Because of doing good deeds without limit, we can also get good results without limit. If we see from the side of cause and effect. Whatever bad experiences or consequences are caused only by our bad actions. Whatever good result or consequence we are experiencing are caused by our past good deeds and present good action.

This right understanding is also to be using only without grasping and attaching in the mind. This right understanding is correct or true for the whole life cycle. Law and regulation of the present society is true only for this life or this year or this country. Whenever time, place, and situation change, discipline or law and regulation will change for sure. This is the right understanding about one life view and endless life cycle view.

Most of the people in the society and in the meditation center are misusing these different understandings, these different causes and effects of right understanding. We need to know and correct the mistakes of that society and meditator.

Now you are practicing meditation in the meditation retreat.

Now you are practicing meditation in the meditation retreat. You are free to be mindful of any object of your body and mind. The object to be mindful may be different from one meditator to another. Even in one meditator, the object of mindfulness may be different from time to time. Only mindfulness in every present moment is really important. The object of being mindful is not very important.

The real meditation is the present action of mindfulness and detachment. To be a real meditator, we need to be mindful at every present moment. The real meditator is not someone, not something, no self, non -self, just present action of mindfulness only.

I have been practicing and teaching meditation or mindfulness and detachment for over 20 years continuously with this right understanding and practice. This right understanding and right practice is really practical. If you are not practicing seriously, you cannot understand like this. If you are practicing seriously, you cannot deny this right understanding and practice as true.

We are free to be mindful of anyone or anything, any object, but we should try to detach from each object. Mindfulness with attachment is not fully right. Mindfulness with detachment is right. The aim of mindfulness should be to detach, not to attach. We can be mindful of Buddah, Dhamma and Sangha. Besides, we should try to detach or not to attach.

Both attaching or detaching are to be experiencing only without grasping and attaching in the mind. We should not give up ignorance and attachment. We should fight against ignorance and attachment, that’s only present moment. This is real meditation.

As a monk, I have to obey the entire discipline of Buddah. I may be able to obey the discipline or I may not be able to obey the discipline. Most of the people in the society are misusing the discipline with grasping and attaching in the mind. This is a mental mistake. We should try to know and correct this mistake of the society. Wrong action, wrong speech and wrong view are common mistakes of the society. These mistakes are difficult to understand and correct by ourselves. That’s why we need to create a monastery or meditation center to be able to get success in correcting these common mistakes.

If we cannot go away from society, we should learn to forgive and forget, that is necessary. Not to make mistakes as a lay person is really difficult. That’s why we need to let go or abandon our life as a lay person. To be a monk or a meditator, in this way we are easier to do good deeds as a monk or samanera or nun in the monastery or meditation center. Monastery or meditation center and monks, samanera, nuns, and volunteers are also to be using only without grasping and attaching in the mind.

My teaching is right understanding and right practice about society and monastic life. By using this right understanding and practice in the right way of using only without grasping and touching in the mind for over 20 years continuously, I can successfully open more and more new meditation centers. More and more meditators are increasing in the society and in the meditation center. This is the power of teamwork in doing good deeds without limit or limitlessly.