Practicing for 3 days and 2 nights at the Temple of Pao Chib, Chonburi Mon. 🌿
Our lives are quite busy at this time. It's like the head is working all the time. It's about work, about the future, a little fussy that keeps accumulating until one day I feel like I want to disappear, stay quiet for a while, so I decided to go to practice at the temple of Pao Chiraphat for 3 days and 2 nights.
~~~ 🚙 Travel ~~~
We started to travel from the bus terminal opposite Future Park Rangsit. Take a minibus to Chonburi for 170 baht. Go down to the Thai junction and wait for the temple van at the outside temple. The temple has 2 times a day of pick-up service. No charge. If anyone likes to walk, you can walk not far.
While waiting for the car, having arrived a long time before the car, he walked to eat and stopped by the cafe, waiting for a normal person before actually starting to go into calm mode. At first I was going to sit in, but I saw that I was able to walk.
~~~ 🙏 🧘🏻 practice ~~~
When the van started taking it into the temple, the feeling gradually fell silent.
When you get there, check ATK, register, and start living on the temple schedule.
Get up early, meditate, meditate, walk, listen to the Dharma Department, help with the temple, then sleep fast, very simple, but strange to feel more and more comfortable. The temple has everything for the Dharma Practicer, whether it is a practical suit and bedding, prepare only the heart that is ready to do the Dharma and personal effects, and the washing (practical suit and bedding) cost 100 baht only.
Here the emphasis is on "canon, concentration, wisdom."
The Master will have a moment to consider the truth of life, that in the end, a person cannot escape aging, pain, death, even if there is money, work, fame, or much things, and finally cannot take anything with him. What really is with us is only the actions and precepts we made while alive.
It's a simple teaching, but sitting quietly in a temple, it hurts more than it seems.
Our favorite activity is "meditation," especially during the night when the Lord turns off the lights, only the sound of the wind, the sound of insects, the sound of nature around, and the cold wind keeps blowing in. It's a very calm atmosphere that's hard to explain. The moment is like the whole world is really quieter. We don't have to answer anyone, we don't have to think about work, we don't have to plow our phones, just come back with our breath.
And it makes us realize that we really don't live with ourselves in our daily lives.
The other thing we like is that the temple does not forbid the use of the phone, it can be used during personal times, but during activities, it is not used at all, which we think is very suitable for this generation.
It really depends on the person. If you can not use all communication tools, the practice should work best. Because the heart will be much quieter. But in fact, not everyone can cut off from the outside world 100%. Some people still have jobs, customers, families to take care of, like us. Even if you want to disappear for a while, there is still a lot of work to answer, but even if you do not cut off from the outside world 100%, we still feel that 3 days and 2 nights has made our hearts much lighter.
We see that this kind of temple opening up makes it easier for people who still have obligations to come to practice without feeling that they have to disappear from the world before they can enter the temple.
Another very impressive story was following the morning alms monks.
We used to be just people waiting to be boycotted in front of the house, but this time we followed the monks, saw the lifestyles of the villagers, saw the small smiles of people who had been up since the morning waiting to boycott.
It's a very normal picture.
But it's strangely calm.
~~~ 🚙 Travel back ~~~
Three days and two nights passed very quickly.
On the way back, we took the temple van out to Central Chonburi and returned to Bangkok for 170 baht.
Before we came, we thought we were just resting.
But finally, things have gone back. It's really more than that. 🤍
