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近期于2024年7月23日至30日在BSF Hulu Langat進行为期8天的正念之旅禪修營，为参与者提供了对正念实践的深刻见解。该活动由最尊贵的布塔瓦特·斯里·沙拉南加拉大长老（Most Venerable Bootawatte Sri Saranankara Maha Thera）、维吉塔普拉·古纳拉塔纳法师（Venerable Vijithapura Gunaratana Thero）和帕利亚诺比丘（Bhikkhu Pariyano）主导，旨在协助学员深化日常生活中对佛法的理解和应用。
尊敬的沙拉南加拉家长大长老强调了正念的重要性，敦促学员调节自心，通过识别和消除不善的行为来培养善行。古纳拉塔纳法师则重点讲解了佛法，讨论了人類的六大特性和佛陀的德行，并强调了闻思修的重要性。帕利亚诺比丘善巧引导学员经历和了解在生活中保持正念的重要性，以平常心面对生活里的变数。
沙拉南加拉大长老强调了在修行中保持专注和持之以恒的重要性。他还强调了慈悲和感恩的价值，特别是对父母的感恩，反映了佛陀关于父母之爱的教导。
“萨提”（Satti）是巴利语中的一个术语，意为“正念”或“觉知”，这是佛教实践的核心概念，特别是在冥想和洞察力发展中。佛陀的一项重要教义是“如实知见”，即无扭曲地感知现实，认识到所有有为法的无常、苦和无我本质。通过内观（Vipassana）冥想获得的这种洞察力，有助于克服无明（Avijja），这是苦（Dukkha）的根本原因，从而达到解脱（涅槃，Nirvana）。
练习正念有助于个人以清晰和平等心观察自己的思想、情感和感受，从而促进更大的理解和从痛苦中解脱。透过此禅修营鼓励学员继续走在实现心智发展和把佛法实际应用在生活中的道路上。
The recent 8-day mindfulness journey retreat at BSF Hulu Langat, held from July 23-30, 2024, offered profound insights into mindfulness. Led by Most Venerable Bootawatte Sri Saranankara Maha Thera, Venerable Vijithapura Gunaratana Thero, and Bhikkhu Pariyano, the program aimed to deepen the understanding and application of Dhamma in daily life.
Most Venerable Saranankara emphasized mindfulness, urging participants to attune to their minds and cultivate wholesome actions by recognizing and eliminating unwholesome ones. Venerable Gunaratana discussed the Buddha Dhamma, focusing on human nature and the qualities of the Buddha, and highlighted the importance of understanding the mind. Bhikkhu Pariyano skilfully guided the participants to experience and realise how important it is to maintain one’s mindfulness in life, with calm mind to deal with different circumstances.
Venerable Saranankara emphasing the significance of focus and determination in practice. He underscored the value of compassion and gratitude, particularly towards parents, reflecting the Buddha’s teachings on parental love.
“Satti,” a Pali term meaning “mindfulness” or “awareness,” is central to Buddhist practice. One key teaching of the Buddha is to “see things as they are,” recognizing the impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self nature of all conditioned things. This insight, gained through Vipassana meditation, helps overcome ignorance (Avijja), the root cause of suffering (Dukkha), leading to liberation (Nirvana).
Practicing mindfulness helps individuals observe their thoughts, emotions, and sensations with clarity and equanimity, fostering greater understanding and liberation from suffering. The journey encouraged participants to continue on the path toward realizing the true nature of the mind and appreciating the practical application of Dhamma in life.
