loo-ang por tee-an cittasubho

311 Pages·2007·1.82 MB·English

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‘ตรงที่ไมเปนอะไร เปนทพี่ ึ่งอมตะของชีวิต’
-‘not being anything’
is the immortal refuge of life -
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WATCHING: NOT ‘BEING’
LOO-ANG POR KAMKEE-AN
SUVANNO
ISBN 974-94054-7-1
Compiled and translated by
Venerable Tone (Tony) Jinavamso (Antoine van der Bom)
First edition April 2006
Contact address: Wat pah SUGATO,
Moo 8, Bahn My Thai jarern, Dtumbon Tah Mafy wahn,
Amper Gaang kroh, Chaiapoom province 36150 Thailand.
FFOORREEWWOORRDD
Ideally, this book should be read in conjunction
with the book ‘NORMALITY’, a translation of
talks by the late Thai master LOO-ANG POR
TEE-AN CITTASUBHO. That book contains
teachings on how to develop awareness using
movements of the body as the base, as was
taught by the BUDDHA over 2500 years ago
and recorded in the discourse on the
foundations of awareness*.
There is also a full biography and several
accounts of experiences in practice by disciples
of L.P. TEE-AN.
One of the most outstanding of these disciples
is LOO-ANG POR KAMKEE-AN,
who is still active today.
He assures us that: ‘I’m not lying, I’m not
telling stories and I won’t lead you along the
wrong path’.

The present text is a collection of his talks
given over the years and recorded
and in some cases published.
-* The SATIPATTHANA SUTTA – the section on SAMPAJANYA.
L.P.KAMKEE-AN teaches in the style of his
own teacher L.P.TEE-AN, in emphasizing the
establishment of awareness,
rather than an inwardly focused concentration.
Besides the formal practice he recommends
the use of bodily movements
and the movements of the mind
in the context of ordinary, everyday living.
Putting aside for the moment any views
that one may already have about meditation -
that one has to make the mind one-pointed,
that a certain level of concentration
is necessary or that internal and external
movements are hindrances, for example –
will allow someone with an open mind
and a kind of pioneer-spirit, to give this method
one’s best shot and see for oneself
what awareness is about.
Then, one may discover, that ‘one-pointedness’
is to contact directly, come back and stay with
only what exists in the present whatever it is -
without any kind of proliferation;
that the mind that is firmly established
in awareness, every moment of the day,
is what SAMADHI refers to; and that all
movements – including movements of the mind
(thoughts, feelings etc.) can be used to build up
more awareness, until it becomes second
nature to be aware.
LOO-ANG POR KAMKEEAN’S teachings
are simple, practical and straightforward.
This can be rather challenging
and hard to accept for our modern minds
that are so used to complexity.
Is it really so easy?
Well, one might respond,
you don’t have to create the original mind –
which is not identified with anything - do you?
The mind is already of the nature to know
the present without any distortion –
which is purity and peace in itself -
but we don’t let it shine forth.
The way to get into contact (and get familiar)
with it is through awareness,
because ‘not-knowing’ (the cause
of all forms of delusion)cannot remain
when there is ‘knowing’ (awareness).

The reader will meet with some repetition
because the talks were given as spontaneous
reflections freely offered to a living audience,
rather than previously prepared discourses.
They are presented as they are
with the encouragement that such repetition
be understood as an emphasis
on what is important.
Some things, one has to hear, read
and above all, practice with
many, many times,
before one finally catches on………

The translator
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1. THE MAGIC EYE (จากหนังสือ ‘ตาวเิศษ’) 1
2. THE EXCELLENT PATH FOR HUMAN BEINGS 68
(‘ทางเอกของมนุษย’ จากหนังสือ ‘ผูดูผูเปน’)
3. GUIDANCE TO TRAIN ONESELF 83
(‘คูมือการฝกตน’ จากหนังสอื ‘ผูดูผูเปน’)
4. POLISHING LIFE WITH DHAMMA 148
(‘เจียระไนในชีวิตดว ยพระธรรม’ จากหนังสือ ‘เพชรแหงธรรม’)
5. IN MEMORY OF LOO-ANG POR TEE-AN 164
(จากเทป ‘เทียนธรรมระลึก’ ที่วัดทับมิ่งขวญั 2541)
6. DHAMMA ROUTE (จากหนังสือ ‘เสนทางธรรม’ หนา 13 –30) 183
7. THE ART OF KNOWING DIRECTLY (‘ศิลปะแหงการรูซื่อๆ’ 196
จากโพสตในลานธรรมเสวนา โดยคุณชูคลณ พ.ศ. ๒๕๔๕).
8. TWO DHAMMA-FRAGMENTS (ธรรมะ ๒ ชิ้น) 227
(a) INSTRUCTIONS (คําชี้แจง, แสดงที่ พุทธมณฑล ก.ท.ม.)
(b) THE STRAIGHT WAY (‘ทางตรง’ จากวารสาร วัดสวนแกว )
9. ANSWERS TO SOME QUESTIONS AND SOME EX-
PERIENCES IN TRAINING IN AWARENESS (ตอบขอสงสัย 242
และเลาประสบการณ ในการฝกเจริญสติ จากหนังสือ ‘เสนทางธรรม’)
10. AN INTERVIEW WITH LOO-ANG POR 255
(‘การงาน ของหลวงพอคําเขยี น สุวณโณ’ จากหนังสือ ‘ผูดูผูเปน’)