I was invited to the radio station again to talk about the Asalha Puja. It’s to commemorate the Buddha’s first sermon in the Deer Park in Benares and the founding of the Buddhist sangha. In Thailand, Asalha Puja is a government holiday. It takes place in July, on the full moon of the eighth lunar month. Thus, we talk about the Buddha’s first teaching, four noble truths. How, it’s so simple but yet difficult to achieve.
We talk about the nature of suffering, how ignorance created self or I and without our senses, there’ll be no me. It’s like when you sleep, when your five senses is not receptive, where are you? You exist only when your five senses starts to react with the environment, forming perceptions, ideas and clinging and attaching to it. It’s not easy to explain and difficult to comprehend but when you sit down quietly and notice how your mind and emotions arises and subjected to your senses, then you’ve a deeper understanding of sunyata (emptiness).
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