http://www.phathue.com Website of the Buddhist Monastery Pagoda Phat Hue, Frankfurt a.M. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:39:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In our practice we need to set ourselves boundaries. Allow yourself freedom within bounds. Its like our little dog here at the Pagoda. We can’t be too strict with him, the dog needs space to live or it becomes miserable and dies. But too free and there is no training and ... http://www.phathue.com/blog/boundaries/ This explanation of samatha meditation is written from the personal experience of Thich Hue Gioi, a novice monk at Pagoda Phat Hue, who completed a three-month retreat at Pa Auk Tawya meditation center, Myanmar, in April 2007. I only stayed at Pa Auk for a brief period but I nonetheless came ... http://www.phathue.com/uncategorized/be-burma/ Whenever there is a problem between two people it always seems that some one has to be right and the other has to be wrong. We are always right and the other person is wrong. They have the wrong idea. They misunderstood. It is their problem and so on. ... http://www.phathue.com/blog/it-takes-two-to-tango/ Sometimes when we meditate it's like we're playing the lottery. We sit down, cross our legs, close our eyes, and hope for the best. Sometimes its good. Usually its sleepiness, thoughts from the day, or frustration. "Oh well, we think, maybe I'll have a better one next time." But why do high masters ... http://www.phathue.com/blog/lottery-meditation/ To have a steady practice is very important. Actually, whatever we do whether it be our job, our family matters or our meditation practice we should find some amount of consistency. if we can manage, both our positive traits will improve and our negative traits -the causes of our ... http://www.phathue.com/blog/consistency/ "Confronting the self can be like walking into a raging storm" -Ajahn Chah Often we are doing this Buddhist practice in search of peace, in search of ease for our lives. However when we really being going against our tendencies we find much unpleasantness arises. Anger, frustration, and stress are just ... http://www.phathue.com/blog/a-mind-like-hurricane-gustav/ To calm the mind, we need a safe environment. Many people think that this is in the mountains or in the jungles of south Asia. They think they need to travel far and wide, maybe even to the forests and mountains of China, to find a master to teach them ... http://www.phathue.com/blog/finding-peace/ August 19, 2008 While teaching seminars in America this June, Venerable Thich Thien Son stopped by the Tibet House in New York City to give the first of a series of public talks. Zen students from Hartford to Philadelphia shared the night with a mixed handful of local New Yorkers to ... http://www.phathue.com/front_right/get-to-the-point/ Video (its worth the download time. Please read and comment on the blog while the video loads) Today Hue Gioi showed me a video where a man showed people 2 photographs and said “You can only have 1 of them.” To one group of people he said their decision is final ... http://www.phathue.com/blog/choice/ Human beings, as far as I know, are habitual creatures. We thrive on habit. The famous philosopher F.M. Alexander once said, “The reason that we develop habit, is so we don't have to think. Instead, we can put our intelligence elsewhere. But, whether we actually put our intelligence somewhere ... http://www.phathue.com/uncategorized/routine/