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Dhamma Questions and Answers
Dhamma greetings to everyone. We have practiced vipassana until tonight, the last night before the course ends tomorrow. Today provides a good opportunity for practitioners that have questions about dhamma or vipassana practice. I hope you have prepared some questions already. I will answer as much as I could and, in fact, I have already answered some questions every day so far. So, what questions do you have?
(A representative asks the questions collected from other practitioners).
Practitioner: Could Phra Arjan please explain how to expand the mind wider and to humbly receive merits into our body until it is full, and then spread out those merits widely?
Phra Arjan: To make the mind unburdened and wide, I think most of us could already do it. If I explain it, but practitioners do not do it at all, then it would be unclear. If we just remember and try to do it later, most people would not be able to, because we have forgotten how to. Therefore, to address this question, we should try to find the answer together. Try it—the easiest way to make our mind empty and unburdened is to move it in front of us, in an empty space. The nature of the unburdened mind will appear in front of us. If our mind
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