Thai Forest Dhamma

in the tradition of Lungphu Mun Bhuridatto

and his western disciples

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Dhamma talk given byAjahn Martin
TitleThe only true religion
Date26 May 2015
Languageen
LocationWat Pa Baan Taad
AudienceMeditators
Content / Description

Practice: when the practice goes bad, that's when we can learn most; Anatta: helpful tool to counter-attack the kilesas; The 10 fetters of the path; 1st fetter - “doubt”: doubt that there is heaven and hell, kamma and result of kamma; Christianity: the teachings of Jesus are different from the beliefs of the Church; Luangta said: Buddhism is the only religion, because in all of the others, there are still kilesas; Gods: there are Gods who can create planet systems, plants, trees but they cannot create beings like us, only our kamma create this; Responsability: in Buddhism, no God to blame, all the responsibility falls into our own hands; Christian dogma: it was forbidden in Europe to open a corpse because the body was considered as “holy”, but there is nothing holy there; 3rd fetter – thinking that the body and the citta are one and the same thing: exposition of some methods of body contemplation to remove this fetter.