MAHACHULALONGKORNRAJAVIDYALAYA UNIVERSITYWANGNOI, AYUTTHAYA, THAILAND

18 SEPTEMBER 2012

Technique Of Higher Education

TEACHER: DR. DOUNGKAMON TONGKANARAKSA

CONCENTRATIONFOR EVERYONE

Faculty of BuddhismInternational B.A Degree Programme

A young novice does meditation on his bed, in an old Monastery in Myanmar.

Group 1Ven. Indacara 5501201042Ven. Pannasiri 5501201043Ven. Bulnawe Dhammika 5501201044Ven. Vo Huu Danh 5501201045Ven. Nguyen Hoang Phuc 5501201046Ven. Sandarwara 5501201047Ven. Javanatikkha 5501201048Ven. Nyanasami 5501201049Ven. Panninda 5501201050Ven. Vepulla 5501201051

Verily, from meditation

arises wisdom.

Without meditation

wisdom wanes…

Dhammapada.282

In Pāli word “Samādhi” which means Concentration. It is normally translation of Samādhi, the word of Pāli. In English dictionary, its definition is that, the ability to think about something carefully or along time , the other is that, a process in which put a lot of attention , energy in to a particular activity. So, concentration means , ability to think , consider about something that we do or practice .

Without concentration, when we do something, we can not do or solve which we do or make properly. Every body needs the concentration and needs to try to get concentration because it is very important for everyone.

When we study our lesson , we should be concentrated because, if we don’t have proper concentration, we can not do or study and learn our lesson very systematically and very carefully.

For example, a student who has nothing concentration on his or her mind I think that she or he can not do his or her lesson which he or she intends to do.

I think that it is natural in every thing and every circumstances which are interrelated each other. If I also have not concentration when I do or study some lesson or meditation, it is not comfortable to follow to finish everything.

In the Buddha’s teachings, the Buddha uttered to the monks that: “Bhikkhus, there are three vedanas (three feelings): sukhavedanā, duk-khavedanā and upekkhāvedanā.

The meaning of sukhavedanā means “feeling of happiness”, dukkhavedanā, “the feeling of suffering” and upekkhāvedanā, “the feeling of indifferent”.

Bhikkhus, the Buddha said to them that a bhikkhu who has the concentration (Samādhi), the wisdom (Paññā) and mindfulness (Sati) can know the feeling of happiness , the origin or cause of feeling of happiness, the feeling of wiping out and the feeling of extinguishing and can get or attain the ultimate reality or Nibbāna.

Therefore , the concentration is very essential or important for everybody to get or gain good situation. In the Noble Eightfold Path, concentration is including also. For the meditator, it is also very important because , if one who wants to take meditation , he should breed it to be successful.

A meditator who has not concentration can take meditation properly and his mind will go here and there and can not control. It can be problem for him or her who can not keep on concentration.

A person who has the concentration can solve everything in every circumstances”.*

* Salāyatasamyutta Pāli , Vedanāsamyutta, Sagāthāvagga, Samādhi Sutta (S.IV.331).

There is no concentration in one

who lacks wisdom,

nor is there wisdom in him

who lacks concentration.

In whom are both

concentration and wisdom,

he, indeed, is in the

presence of Nibbāna. Dhammapada 372

Concentration is on of the Noble Eightfold Path. It can be appeared from taking meditation. It works in mind, and brain (thought). Normally it is known as the quality of mind and brain of people, because we rely on it to fresh our brain, to control our mind and it is also modify and purify our mind as well. It is the tool which can gives the physical benefit, mental benefit and spiritual benefit.

For example: the health benefit, to stop the Lobha, Dosa and Moha from our mind and to increase our idea that it is make a better opinion in something's which are support us to make a right decision.

It is only when the mind is controlled and is kept to the right road of orderly progress that it becomes useful for its possessor and for society. Control of the mind is the sky to happiness. It is the king of virtues and the force behind all true achievement.

We should try to put in at least half an hour every day being busy like the hen or her eggs. When our mind is calm and quiet it is time to take advantage of it by engaging in silent communication with our own mind in order to understand our true nature without pretence.

If a man thus tries to practice a little quiet contemplation day by day, he will be able to perform his duties better and in a more efficient way, he will have the courage to face tribulations and worries with a brave heart and will find contentment more easily.

We hope you have

enjoyed my talk.

Thank you for your

attention. 

May all of us be well and

happy.

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