Luang Pu Nenkham’s Dhamma Teachings: Khanti Dhamma

• An Arahant (liberated being, fully-awaken being, one who has destroyed all his mental impurities, eradicated all cankers) leaves all formations: no more places of birth and death, no more types of subtle and gross physical appearance.
• As Dhamma practitioner, be aware to seriously and attentively observe whole body, thoroughly investigate every part of the body until truly understand it’s truth, and then it shall be automatically realize how your mind and body really are. Do not ask anyone else.
• As Dhamma practitioner, carefully, obviously, penetratingly observe your own mind. Do not allow defilement, craving, aversion, attachment (all impurities) lure you.
• As Dhamma practitioner, do not choose a place to practise. You can practise anywhere, be alert to observe your whole body in every manner and every moment.
• As Dhamma practitioner, do not seek for any material requisites but the state of liberation beyond the wheel of suffering and rebirth (Samsara).
• As Dhamma practitioner, realize that you were born alone, be accomplished with the Noble Path (magga phala) alone and be dead alone.
• Austere practices in forests do not have equal success to austere practices in your own body and mind.

• Be aware of your self conciousness, control your playful mind, be careful of your thought, develop righteousness, and eradicate of all impurities and unwholesome actions.
• Be free from perception shall extinguish all miseries, distress, ill-will, aversion and vengeance.
• Be satisfied with what you have and get. Too much yearning can turn into defilements: lust, greed (lobha); hatred, anger, ill-will, aversion (dhosa); delusion, craving (moha).
• Virtuous persons must cultivate merit as a means to link their minds into meritorious deeds. This easy way shall make your mind become more powerful in right virtue and be purified in the future.
• Cycle of repeated births and deaths is severely suffering. Those who need to come out of such cycle must carefully practise sila ( code of conduct in Buddhism), do meditation ( bhavana), have strong faith (saddha), practise mental development, insight meditation (vipassana bhavana), be free from emotions, self, worldly and Dhamma attachments, doubts and all worldly supposition; thus shall be called the Enlightened One.
• Dhamma always exists in wisdom persons’ mind. Dhamma wisdom is the best in present existence.
• Dhamma is as a reminder to make you awake and let go your self obsession, return all attachments with equanimous mind. Detached mind by Dhamma, clearly understand and consider that’s just supposed.

• Dhamma practitioners must obviously consider and review the result of past experiences with consciousness and awareness whether defilements, craving and attachment are still remain in minds, how much they are still remain there. State of mind must be deeply investigated to eradicate all impurities. Everything arises, everything must be passed away.
• Dhamma practitioners must wisefully analyze and carefully review what you have experienced, because they are attachments. Then calmly, equanimously eradicate them, understanding of their impermanence. Once they passed away, you shall see things normal. Let your mind beyond the impermanence.
• Dhamma practitioners need wisdom to thoroughly consider all forms, feelings, sensations. When understand that clearly, your mind shall be automatically free; and consider that’s just supposed.
• Do not consider those marvels of psychic powers (super natural power) than completely eradicate impurities (defilements).
• Do not think that Lord Buddha only teaches us to make merits in order to be born in heaven. He actually emphasizes us to attain the ultimate happiness of complete liberation like him.
• Equanimity is not to stay still but the state of equanimous mind calmly, quietly observing all situations without any other emotions. You must be equanimous as an equanimous wisdom person who carefully observes himself from not making mistakes, not doing evil and immoral deeds.

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• Essence in the cycle of suffering of repeated births and deaths is not last long, it’s impermanent and changing all the time. You should understand the truth of such cycle with your thorough wisdom and with attentive mind until you have no doubts and reach the state of deliverance (liberation).
• Foolishness from being deceived by others is nothing compare with foolishness from allowing defilements (impurities) to lead your minds into wrong directions.
• I shall make the present existence as the epoch of Lord Buddha when monks, laymen and laywomen were accomplished Arahants (liberated being, fully-awaken being, one who has destroyed all his mental impurities, eradicated all cankers) the most.
• If you are attached and satisfied with the state that you are enlightened, awake, and delighted, you shall be reborn with the same old behaviours.
• If you do not have good practice in morality (sila), you shall not be enlightened in morality (sila). If you do not have good practice in insight meditation (vipassana bhavana), you shall not enlighten in right mindfulness (samma-sati). If you do not have right consciousness, you shall not develop mental development, right concentration (samma-samadhi). If you do not attentively and properly consider defilements, craving, attachment (impurities), you shall not be enlightened in experiential wisdom (panna).
• If you offend an Arahant, you seem to offend all Arahants and the Lord Buddha as well. Such bad karma is so severe.
• Keep observing your characteristic of mind until you clearly understand it’s nature, then you shall perceive Dhamma. Truly understand your mind, truly attain Dhamma.
• Liberated mind is beyond all merits and sins.
• Make things clear at this moment. Do not wish for the future existence. Do not practise for a long future. Purify your mind and body at this moment without hesitation, distraction, and anxiety.
• Mindfulness and awareness must be continuously, persistently practising.
• Once your mindfulness is powerful, you shall clearly understand that the reality of body and mind are actually separated.
• Perception is like a fire burning all beings’ minds and keeping them in sufferings.
• “Practising moment” does not literally mean only this and that hour. It also means every movement, every condition of that moment, every breath in and breath out, every time, every hour, and every minute in that moment too.
• Ranks, prestige, good health, happiness, well being and intelligence only exist in this world but they cannot be brought with us to another world (existence). That’s just supposition. You may have marvelous assets, eccentric names, automobiles but nothing is real. They are all suppositions. Once you can let go such defilements and craving (by purifying your mind), then realize it’s just supposed that, you will be free from world cycles.
• Real essence for Dhamma practitioner according to Lord Buddha’s teaching is to be free from all.
• Right and continuous practice means do not forget, do not be under delusion, and do not get temped by emotions.
• Self determination needs pure mindfulness and wisdom. Don’t be tricked by power of meditation, happiness, and some delights. Be mindful of right consciousness, and develop wisdom with wise attention in order to be liberated (to reach the state of deliverance).
• Self determination needs strong intention and attentive mind to calm oneself, not distracted by any emotions, no doubt in other persons and no interest in other things.
• Self determination starts from releasing an attachment in your body (flesh, skin, tendons, bones), then you can let go others automatically.
• State of wisdom to understand and absorb Dhamma into one’s mind is various in persons because each has collected good practices of merit (dhana), morality (sila), and meditation (bhavana) in different levels since many various past existences to the present one.

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• The more understanding the reality of your whole body (physical process), the more you gain your wisdom.
• The most important summit is virtuous persons’ mind reaching into the ultimatum of Buddhism (the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha) by being enlightened, awaken and delighted as the Lord Buddha. That is to reach the summit of Buddhism.
• There is no place of birth for Nirvana, the extinction of all defilements and suffering. It’s above all worlds and the cycle of all the suffering of repeated births and deaths.
• Those who wish this existence to be the last (no more rebirths) must purify body and mind, do understand rightly of mental and physical process and realize their truth without any doubt at all then leave them with equanimous mind.
• Though I live in material world, my mind does not attach to worldly materials like a rolling stone gathers no moss.
• To be liberated means do not be who you are, and do not let anything be in your heart.
• To be liberated of the liberation is the ultimate practice.
• To reach the Noble Path (magga phala), your mind must be free, purified, and without any interference at all. No such thought that your mind is crystal clear.
• To take a long journey in Dhamma world, power of wisdom shall help you get through exhausted mind in all situations. Worldly conditions are ceaseless. Once you reach the state of deliverance (liberation), you shall not feel any distance of such journey.
• Worldly believes have more influence upon human behaviours than religious (Dhamma) believes. Since worldly believes can be touched while religious (Dhamma) believes require mindfulness and awareness to be perceived carefully. Thus, one who is able to truly understand Dhamma teachings, needs strong determination and faith in religion to absolutely understand the essence.

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