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A Most Precious Gift
For those of us aspiring to cultivate the mind towards liberation, we know all too well that our worldly environment is not conducive for our practice. Thus the need, every now and then, to breakaway and attend a retreat away from it all. Wouldn't it be great if we have a second home, a retreat centre, which we can go to intermittently?
What We Truly Are
I see each and every one I have met on this journey so far as the teaching coming alive, as a reminder of the Truth – an extension of Love and the only One that ever exists. The prospect of a new Home makes perfect sense in my humble opinion for all of us to cultivate and spread that joy, love and light to benefit all who wish to be a part of the One. A returning to our sacred origin, of who or what we truly are.
Precious Lessons, Priceless Gift
Solving problems requires information about the workings of that field and the know-hows to use that information to make it work for us. The information cannot work for us if we do not know how it works in the first place. More crucial too, without the basics of you-need-to-know, we don’t even know where and how to start, what more solving problems.
Serve Love Respect Vision (SLRV)
When one has tasted the fruit, there is a wish to give it back to the world. This is where the teachers must have come from and where I am coming from. When the heart is transformed through such a beautiful understanding, it is convinced that the precious Dhamma must be shared.
New Year—New Year, New Mind
Each year there is this queer yet familiar feeling taking place in this mind as it approaches the end of the year. Do you know what it is? It is this lingering thought of “may the coming new year be a better year”. Did you ever notice this happening too? My suspicion is that it is a common idea occurring in our minds when we have the concept of a “coming new year”. Am I wrong in my assumption?
Igniting The Flame Within
There was the aspiration from then for consistent cultivation by having self-retreats. What started as weekly 3 hours of practice gradually progressed to a regular overnight weekend undertaking. It was an inspiring way of living, in spite of the stress as well as the hustle and bustle of working life. Joyfully, I persevered, and the dhamma (Truth as nature of the way things are) flame was kept ignited.
Towards a Noble Cause
Sri Langkasuka Retreat Village was born with this vision in mind — to support the rare ones who are willing to seek within. We strive to offer the opportunity for those who wish to seek higher wisdom. We strive to offer the best supportive conditions for such a noble aim to come true. You may be one of the rare ones, who wish to live a life of solitude dedicated to the mindscape understanding that leads to enlightenment or inspired to support such an endeavour.
Wisdom’s Way, Suffering’s End
Wisdom is men’s precious gem. Without wisdom, the mind can easily fall into concepts and experiences. The mind will not be aware, and the mind will not understand how the laws of nature work. Our minds are inundated with wrong views. Every piece of information learned since birth – from reading, family conversations, society, the news, movies, and entertainment – gives rise to wrong views. If we do not encounter this path, we will definitely target the externals, project our blame – the externals are not good, these are wrong, others are unfair to me – and experience pain and suffering. All troubled minds are due to wrong views about people, events, and situations. With right view and awareness, the mind will turn and reflect inwards, seeing how the mind projects various wrong views towards people, events, and situations.
Start your journey
A thousand mile journey starts with a baby step. Start yours today!