Buddha Dhamma and western scientific world today

Buddha Dhamma and western scientific world today

Why are the westerners interested in the Dhamma and meditation?

They are respectfully listening to the Dhamma talk in the retreat course and put it into practice diligently and attentively. Why are the westerners interested in Dhamma and meditation? It is because of western science, their skills of modern education, their genius brains and gifted hearts.

Particularly, the neuroscientists discovered a very positive relation between meditation and human brain. They are not practicing meditation religiously to attain something else but they scientifically believe that mindfulness meditation practice brings positive benefits in their day-to-day life.

Of course, in these days, mindfulness meditation has scientifically already been tested by a quite many scientists; they discovered practical benefits from mindfulness meditation by scientific test and research. This is the reason why mindfulness meditation becomes popular in western world.

I’m so happy to teach them mindfulness meditation, to be with them feeling like home and to practice with them experiencing their love of Dhamma and love of such a compassionate Buddhist monk and the Buddha’s Teachings.

At the same time, I want to shout at my people in Burma or modern myanmar “Please, be serious with your Buddhism and Buddha Dhamma and please be more scientific than religious and please, be serious with practice than religious prayer. Dhamma and meditation is nowadays scientifically tasted by very well-known scientists in the western developed world.

Of course, they love Buddha, Dhamma and compassionate Sangha practicing mindfulness meditation in a scientific approach to find the truth but I’m sure that they do not practice Buddhism as a religion. However, they strongly and deeply respect and love Buddhism as a way of life; they scientifically believe that they need to do it in their every day life as a spiritual tonic.

I believe that my meditation is my friend that can make a true friendship (Kalyānamitta) with everyone who loves to live peacefully, happily and harmoniously in everyday life doing nothing against any faiths of the world. I feel that I gradually become a global citizen to see human being as they truly are by wisely taking off names and labels. Love and trust everyone wisely. I hope you all get it.

Author:

Ashin Kekasa is a graduate in Mathematics. He finished his both public and monastic educations. His major interest was Mindfulness-Based Vipassana Meditation instructed in Buddhism. He took six months long retreat course in Mahasi Meditation Center when he was a layman. After his six months long meditation practice, he became a Buddhist ordained in Mahasi Tradition. However, he wanted to know much more about Buddhist philosophy so he moved to Mahagandhayon monastery to study Pali scriptures seriously. He has spent teaching and practicing in Mahagandhayon monastery. He did it well. Then, he moved to the forest for his serious meditation practice. He founded his own forest meditation center 15 years ago. He has been conducting Vipassana retreat for laypeople twice a year. He has also been used to travelling to abroad since 2004 because he is invited by people to teach them meditation. It is just a brief biography of Ashin Kelasa.