☸️ Theravada Dhamma พระธรรมเถรวาท

Essential teachings from the Pali Canon: Key Suttas, Abhidhamma concepts, and Vinaya rules for practitioners and monastics.

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📜 Key Suttas 🧠 Abhidhamma 📿 Vinaya ✍️ Pra Kru Bob's Writings

📜 Key Suttas (พระสูตร)

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The Sutta Pitaka contains the Buddha's discourses. These are among the most important for practice:

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta

ธัมมจักกัปปวัตตนสูตร

Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion

The Buddha's first sermon containing the Four Noble Truths and Middle Way.

🔑 Key Teaching:

Avoid extremes. Follow the Middle Way to wisdom and Nibbana.

Satipatthana Sutta

สติปัฏฐานสูตร

Foundations of Mindfulness

The most important discourse on meditation practice.

🔑 Key Teaching:

Mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and mental objects is the direct path.

Anapanasati Sutta

อานาปานสติสูตร

Mindfulness of Breathing

Detailed instructions on breath meditation.

🔑 Key Teaching:

Through mindful breathing, develop both calm and insight.

Metta Sutta

เมตตสูตร

Discourse on Loving-Kindness

Instructions on developing universal loving-kindness.

🔑 Key Teaching:

May all beings be happy, free from enmity and anxiety.

Mangala Sutta

มงคลสูตร

Discourse on Blessings

The Buddha describes 38 highest blessings.

🔑 Key Teaching:

True blessings: not associating with fools, honoring the wise.

Karaniya Metta Sutta

กรณียเมตตสูตร

Hymn of Universal Love

Beautiful verses on cultivating boundless loving-kindness.

🔑 Key Teaching:

As a mother protects her child, cultivate boundless love.

🧠 Key Abhidhamma Concepts (อภิธรรม)

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The Abhidhamma Pitaka provides detailed analysis of mind and matter. These concepts support deeper meditation practice:

Citta (Consciousness)

จิต

89 or 121 types of consciousness classified by ethical quality.

🧘 Practical Application:

Understanding moment-to-moment arising develops insight into impermanence.

Cetasika (Mental Factors)

เจตสิก

52 mental factors including feeling, perception, and volition.

🧘 Practical Application:

Recognizing mental factors helps identify wholesome and unwholesome states.

Rupa (Matter)

รูป

28 types of material phenomena including the four elements.

🧘 Practical Application:

Contemplating elements reduces attachment to physical form.

Nibbana

นิพพาน

The unconditioned element, cessation of suffering.

🧘 Practical Application:

Nibbana is realized through developing the Noble Eightfold Path.

📿 Key Vinaya Rules (พระวินัย)

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The Vinaya Pitaka contains the monastic discipline. Understanding these supports proper conduct and lay-monastic relations:

Patimokkha

ปาฏิโมกข์

Monastic Code

227 rules for bhikkhus, 311 for bhikkhunis.

📿 Significance:

Recited fortnightly. Foundation of monastic discipline.

Four Parajikas

ปาราชิก

Defeats (Expulsion Offenses)

Sexual intercourse, theft, killing, false claims.

📿 Significance:

Breaking these results in automatic expulsion.

Kathina

กฐิน

Robe-Offering Ceremony

Annual ceremony where lay supporters offer cloth.

📿 Significance:

Important merit-making opportunity.

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🪷 Dhamma Talks

Talks given freely by our monks, in Thai and English side by side

ความสุขก็เหมือนเงินทอง

Happiness, Like Wealth

No one acquires it without effort

ความสุขก็เหมือนเงินทอง ไม่มีใครได้มาโดยไม่ลงแรง

Happiness, like wealth, is not something one acquires without effort.

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🧎 Pra Joshua Vajira Panyo

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✍️ Pra Kru Bob's Writings

Thoughtful essays on Buddhism, meditation, and applying the Dhamma to modern life

Buddhism: An Overview for Children

Understanding the Path to Peace and Wisdom

Buddhism is a religion and a way of life that began over 2,500 years ago in India. It is based on the teachings of a wise man named Siddhartha Gautama, who is known as the Buddha. The word "Buddha" means "the Enlightened One" or "the Awakened One".

This comprehensive overview explores the Buddha's life journey—from his birth as a prince to his enlightenment under the Bodhi tree—and presents the core teachings including the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and practical meditation techniques. Perfect for introducing Buddhism to young learners or anyone new to the Dhamma.

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📄 10 pages

⏱️ ~30 min read

🎯 Beginner-friendly

Fear as Guardian and Tyrant

Buddhist Wisdom on Fear and Social Control

The Buddha taught that fear is built into life itself. From birth to death, humans face fear in countless ways. But the Buddha didn't just diagnose fear—he showed us how to transform it. He saw fear both as a natural response to life's uncertainty and as a doorway to wisdom.

This profound essay explores what the Buddha taught about fear, how meditation helps us understand fear's roots, the role of moral conscience (hiri and ottappa), and how societies have learned to use fear as a tool of social control. Includes specific meditation practices for working with fear and developing discernment between protective concern and manufactured anxiety.

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📄 12 pages

⏱️ ~40 min read

🎯 Intermediate/Advanced

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📚 Study the Dhamma Vocabulary

Learn the Thai pronunciation of Buddhist terms used in temples and teachings:

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🙏 For Monastics

This section is designed to help foreign monks learn the Thai vocabulary used in daily monastic life. Common terms for the Patimokkha, alms round, ceremonies, and interactions with lay supporters are included in the vocabulary sections.

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