When we were study our teachers push us to think, warning us to keep thinking to what they had been taught. When we start to work for earning money, we have to keep thinking at all time how to work with best production. When we have family and kids, we have to put more load of thinking matters because we have to think not for yourself alone any more but must think for your family members too.

More than 50 years, for me, I could not stop thinking – a lot of things in daily life mobilization force me to think until I was 65 years old I found a Buddhism meditation teacher. He told me how meditation can help my life. I never interested meditation before. It is new thing but I agree to practice this technique, Dhammakaya Meditation, in early of year 2006. In the first day and every day of practicing, I was taught to stop thinking, stop any thinking, empty any thought from the mind. The teacher kept warning ” Stop thinking, empty your mind “.

How can to stop thinking. My seed of thinking is deeply grown and firmly to mobilize my daily life, my business and every thing at all time. It really much more difficult to stop thinking than diligently thinking.

Any how, just make long story short.

After year time in trying to stop thinking for meditation, resulting me decide to ordain as a monk for practice meditation more seriously since year 2007

I am monk now, I become meditation teacher monk now, I am happy now, I stop thinking but I found more wisdom – intelligence from emptying the mind. The most benefit from doing meditation by Buddhism, we call doing Pavana as Lord Buddha taught us to do for earning merit. By doing Pavana, the merit will be occured automatically and merit is power or energy for life improvement. The more Pavana done the more merit will be obtained. I have absolutely realized that it is true.

Energy of merit occurred resulting to make my life better, energy of my merit spreading benefit cover to my family as well.

In the present moment, my ex wife told me her better life and requested me ” Please never disrobe ” because my merit smoothen every difficulties in her life as well.

Really. Want to prove , come to be a monk with me at Dhammakaya temple apply at: www.ordinationthai.org

Written by: Phra Samarth Govito, Thailand