On the evening of Friday June 17, 2016, Phra Tissaro from Thai Buddhist Meditation Center of Japan taught meditation for Japanese people at Jōen-ji Temple in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. This activity is held every month. After the Evening Chanting, the teaching monk introduced basic meditation and then they meditated together for 30 minutes by following the teaching monk’s guidance. Later, they talked about the ways to adjust their minds, the inner experience, and why they were interested in meditation.
One of the participants joined this activity for the first time. His mind was wandering, confused and distracted. He wanted to free his mind from thinking and let him on. Another participant participates in this activity every month. He loves meditation because it makes him calm, as he has bad-tempered many times a day; he feels bad for himself. He thanked the teaching monk for the valuable suggestion that whenever he knows that it is bad, he should forget it as soon as possible and start to do only good things again.
The teaching monk summarized that there are many things happening in their daily lives. They may want to forget some bad things but they can’t; they want to let them go but they don’t know how to do it. This is because the untrained mind is like tissue paper; it is ready to absorb all things. Meditation is the way to train the mind to be smarter and choose to memorize only good things. It will yield good fruits when the practitioner does it regularly and it helps you to let yourself on.
