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Cordial Invitation to Pa-Auk Tawya Buddha Sãsana Centre

All meditator, irrespective of race and creed who sincerely and earnestly wants to practise the Buddhist meditation correctly and fully to enjoy true peace and happiness is cordially invited to medidate at Pa-Auk.

Pa-Auk Forest Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in the Theravàda tradition, with emphasis on the teaching and practice of both Samatha (tranquility) and Vipassanà (insight) meditation. Situated in a forest along the Taung Nyo Mountain range in Mon State, Myanmar, the monastery provides a conducive setting for the practice of long-term, intensive meditation. Presently, there are over 100 foreign meditators, originating from over 20 countries, residing in the monastery.
Teaching:


Mindfulness-of-Breathing (ànàpànassati) - to develop absorption concentration (the four jhànas)



Most of the 40 Samatha subjects taught by The Buddha - including loving-kindness (mettà) meditation, the thirty-two parts of the body, the ten kasiõas and the four immaterial jhànas
Four-Elements Meditation - to analyze ultimate materiality and ultimate mentality


Dependent Origination - to discern past, present and future lives by analyzing their causes and conditions


Vipassanà Meditation - to discern the five aggregates (materiality and mentality) as impermanent, subject to suffering and without a self

 
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