Meditation

Meditation for Beginners

Absolute and Relative Truth

Concerning the truth of the Middle way that consists of the two Truths. It is Relative Truth and Absolute Truth. By the great Buddhist master Nagarjuna of Nalanda, the Relative truth is the truth concerning heavenly life and the Absolute truth is the truth concerning nibbana or the place of Supreme Truth.

The lowest is human being. The highest is Arhat, the highest state of Dhammakaya that will never come back again. The Arhat is the one who can stay away from re-incarnation or samsara. It means that he, the Arhat, will never again come back to be as a human being on earth.

“Laung Pu” ( Phramonkolthepmuni, Sod Chandasaro or Luang Poh Wat Paknam Pasi Charoen) gave life to these Truth by his meditation achievement. With his achievement he turned these Truths to be a living philosophy on the day he found the Dhammakaya of Lord Buddha. Along the Middle way from the lowest to the highest, Laung Pu said there are eighteen states or eighteen bodies of truth. All are connected by the centre point of each body.

Each centre is sewed through by the thread of the Middle way, each by each, one to another accordingly. And the body of transition from relative to absolute is “go-tra-bhuu” Dhammakaya. The very first state of the Dhammakaya. It is the ninth and tenth altogether to be as one. (More details later on.)

And with the body of transition the gotrabhuu Dhammakaya (will be named from now on “The Dhammakaya”) you can walk further into the track of Absolute Truth. It’s quite difficult. It is very hard to reach the state of Dhammakaya. But it should literally be informed for further understanding. For it is said that Dhammakaya is the whole Philosophy of Buddhism. Because Lord Buddha said that, “Thatagata is The Dhammakaya, and, The Dhammakaya is Thatagata.”