คอนเสิร์ตบุญครั้งนี้ คุณนักฟังผู้มีใจรักในเพลงคุณภาพ โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งเพลงสากลและเพลงรักจากภาพยนตร์ จะได้ฟังเพลงรักในแผ่นฟิล์มที่อยู่ในหัวใจของคุณและนักฟังเพลงทั่วโลก เช่น When you say nothing at all จาก “Nothing Hill”, Can’t fight the moon light จาก “Coyote Ugly”, I don’t wanna miss a thing จาก “Armargeddon” และเพลงซาวนด์แทรคที่หาฟังยาก ๆ อีกมากมาย ออกมาโลดแล่นบนเวทีให้คุณได้ซาบซึ้ง อิ่มเอม ไปกับการร้องคุณภาพที่เต็มไปด้วยจิตอันเป็นกุศล
อีกทั้งมั่นใจในความไพเราะด้วยดนตรีที่กำกับโดย Music Director อันดับหนึ่งของเมืองไทย “ศรายุทธ สุปัญโญ” เท่านั้นยังไม่พอ กำกับการแสดงโดย “ธเนส สุขวัฒน์” แห่ง มิวสิคกูรู นักเนรมิตความสุขให้แก่แฟนคอนเสิร์ตที่เขาจัด บัตรคอนเสิร์ตขายหมดเกลี้ยงทุกครั้งแถมแฟนเพลงยังติดอกติดใจถามถึงคอนเสิร์ตครั้งต่อ ๆ ไป ทุกโชว์ของเขาประสบความสำเร็จอย่างท่วมท้น งานนี้รับประกันความอิ่มใจ
Excellent BBC Open University documentary about the life and function of a Buddhist monastery of the Forest Tradition in Thailand. An excellent introduction to the thought and practices of one of the oldest surviving traditions of Buddhism.
ภาพยนตร์สารคดี เรื่อง The Mindful Way เป็นภาพยนตร์สารคดีที่ BBC เข้ามาถ่ายทำเกี่ยวกับพระพุทธศาสนาในเมืองไทย และได้เข้าไปถ่ายทำเกี่ยวกับชีวิตความเป็นอยู่ และข้อวัตรปฏิบัติของพระภิกษุ ในวัดหนองป่าพง เมื่อราวต้นเดือนตุลาคม ๒๕๒๐ หลังจากที่หลวงปู่ชา กลับจากการจาริกไปต่างประเทศครั้งแรก หลังจากนั้นไม่นาน หนังสารคดีเรื่องนี้ก็ได้แพร่หลายสู่สายตาของคนค่อนโลก
The Mindful Way – Buddhist Monks of the Forest Tradition in Thailand with Ajahn Chah
Please be invited to Dhamma talk by Ajahn Jayasaro, held in an opening of a photo exhibition, Dhammafarers by Ajahn Cagino. The Dhamma talk will be on January 22, 2556, 14:30, at Bangkok Art and Cultural Center.
Exhibition at BACC will be held from January 22-31, 2556.
Exhibition at Ramada Hotel Riverside Bangkok will be held from February 1-14, 2556.
Alone in the looming forest
rootless on the road,
I may slip or even fall
but my aspiration won’t waiver.
What’s the use of competition?
Who can judge my life?
With this alms bowl and robe
I’ll get by.
Though exhausted I’ll not give in —
forward I’ll go!
With the Dhamma as my companion,
these two legs will take me far.
Restraint with the body is good,
good is restraint with speech.
Restraint with the heart is good,
good is restraint everywhere.
A monk everywhere restrained
is released from all suffering and stress.
(Dhp 361)
ฝากชีวีไว้ด้วยการให้
Every Offering is a Cleansing of the Heart
A superior person gives in these ways. He gives a gift out of faith;
he gives a gift respectfully; he gives a gift at the right time;
he gives a gift with a generous heart;
he gives a gift without denigration.
(AN 5:148)
Those who understand the role food plays
and would not dream of hoarding it,
those whose only pasture is emptiness and
whose trail is liberation,
are like birds whose trajectories leave no trace.
(Dhp 92)
Discovering that everything
is unsatisfactory,
my heart fills with delight.
Enough of reaching out
for the not-yet real,
it is in resting I find real peace.
For many lives I have wandered
looking for, but not finding,
the House-builder who caused my suffering.
But now you are seen and
you shall build no more.
(Dhp 153)
House-builder, you are seen!
You will not build a house again.
All your rafters are broken,
and the ridge pole dismantled.
Immersed in dismantling, the mind
has attained the end of its craving.
(Dhp 154)
Viveka: seclusion
1. Kāya-viveka: bodily seclusion i.e. solitude
2. Citta-viveka: mental seclusion i.e. the state of Jhāna
and the Noble Paths and Fruitions
3. Upadhi-viveka: seclusion from the essentials of existence, i.e. Nibbāna
Please be invited to Dhamma talk by Ajahn Jayasaro, held in an opening of a photo exhibition, Dhammafarers by Ajahn Cagino.
Is this the world’s happiest man? Brain scans reveal French monk has ‘abnormally large capacity’ for joy – thanks to meditation
Brain scans reveal Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard has largest capacity for happiness ever recorded
Meditation ‘completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are’, says 66-year-old
He says you can do it too by learning how to let your thoughts drift
By CLAIRE BATES
PUBLISHED: 10:41 GMT, 31 October 2012
Ricard: ‘Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree but it completely changes your brain’
A French genetic scientist may seem like an unusual person to hold the title – but Matthieu Ricard is the world’s happiest man, according to researchers.
The 66-year-old turned his back on Parisian intellectual life 40 years ago and moved to India to study Buddhism. He is now a close confidante of the Dalai Lama and respected western scholar of religion.
Now it seems daily meditation has had other benefits – enhancing Mr Ricard’s capacity for joy.
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson wired up the monk’s skull with 256 sensors at the University of Wisconsin as part of research on hundreds of advanced practitioners of meditation.
The scans showed that when meditating on compassion, Ricard’s brain produces a level of gamma waves – those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory – ‘never reported before in the neuroscience literature’, Davidson said.
The scans also showed excessive activity in his brain’s left prefrontal cortex compared to its right counterpart, giving him an abnormally large capacity for happiness and a reduced propensity towards negativity, researchers believe.
Research into the phenomenon, known as “neuroplasticity”, is in its infancy and Ricard has been at the forefront of ground-breaking experiments along with other leading scientists across the world.
‘We have been looking for 12 years at the effect of short and long-term mind-training through meditation on attention, on compassion, on emotional balance,’ he said.
‘We’ve found remarkable results with long-term practitioners who did 50,000 rounds of meditation, but also with three weeks of 20 minutes a day, which of course is more applicable to our modern times.’
Andy Francis (left) and associate scientist and Antoine Lutz (right) outfit Matthieu Ricard with a net of 128 sensors
He added to AFP: ‘It’s a wonderful area of research because it shows that meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree but it completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.’
He believes meditation can alter the brain and improve people’s happiness in the same way that lifting weights puts on muscle.
A computer monitor displays graphic renderings of Matthieu Ricard’s brain during an MRI test at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The son of philosopher Jean-Francois Revel and abstract watercolour painter Yahne Le Toumelin, became something of a celebrity after writing ‘The Monk And The Philosopher’ with his father. This was a dialogue on the meaning of life.
He followed up with a practical guide in 2011 called ‘The Art Of Meditation’ making the case for why others should follow the same path.
Matthieu Ricard is a close confidante of the Dalai Lama
Ricard said: ‘That was the end of my quiet time because it was a bestseller. Suddenly I was projected into the western world. Then I did more dialogues with scientists and the whole thing started to spin off out of control.
‘I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.’
A prominent monk in Kathmandu’s Shechen Monastery, Ricard divides his year between isolated meditation, scientific research and accompanying the Dalai Lama as his adviser on trips to French-speaking countries and science conferences.
He addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos at the height of the financial crisis in 2009 to tell gathered heads of state and business leaders it was time to give up greed in favour of “enlightened altruism”.
He was awarded the French National Order of Merit for his work in preserving Himalayan culture but it is his work on the science of happiness which perhaps defines him best.
Ricard sees living a good life, and showing compassion, not as a religious edict revealed from on high, but as a practical route to happiness.
‘Try sincerely to check, to investigate,’ he said.
‘That’s what Buddhism has been trying to unravel – the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.’
MATTHIEU RICARD ON WHY YOU SHOULD MEDITATE AND HOW YOU CAN DO IT
Mattieu Ricard has spoken about The Art of Meditation in a video hosted by the charity RSA. Here are some hints and tips…
A healthy mind should act like a mirror – faces can be reflected in a glass but none of them stick. Use the same technique with thoughts – let them pass through your mind but don’t dwell.
It’s impossible to stop thoughts from coming but focusing on a particular sound or the breath going in and out calms the mind, giving greater clarity. Controlling the mind is not about reducing your freedom, it’s about not being a slave to your thoughts. Think of it as directing your mind like a boat rather than drifting.
Be mindful – pay attention to the sensations of your breath going in and out. If you notice your mind wandering simply bring it back to focusing on your breath. This is known as mindfulness. You can apply it to other sensations to bring you into the ‘now’ rather than dwelling on the past or future. You could focus instead on heat, cold and sounds that you hear.
Once you’ve achieved some skill in this you can use that to cultivate qualities such as kindness, or dealing with disturbing emotions. He says everyone has felt all-consuming love but usually it lasts for about 15 seconds, but you can hold on and nurture this vivid feeling by focusing on it in meditation. If you feel it becoming vague you can consciously revive it.
Like when playing the piano, practising the feeling for 20 minutes has a far greater impact over time than a few seconds. Regular practise is also needed like watering a plant.
You can then use meditation to gain some space from negative emotions. Ricard says: ‘You can look at your experience like a fire that burns. If you are aware of anger you are not angry you are aware. Being aware of anxiety is not being anxious it is being aware.’ By being aware of these emotions you are no longer adding fuel to their fire and they will burn down.
You will see benefits in stress levels and general wellbeing as well as brain changes with regular practise in a month. Those who say they don’t have enough time to meditate should look at the benefits: ‘If it gives you the resources to deal with everything else during the other 23 hours and 30 minutes, it seems a worthy way of spending 20 minutes,’ Ricard says.
Mr Ricard has undergone a battery of tests, including an MRI (left) to reveal how his ‘enlightened’ mind works
A computer monitor displays data being recorded during an EEG test conducted with Mr Ricard
Meditation could help people to be more empathetic, according to a small new study from Emory University.
The research, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, showed that a meditation program called Cognitively-Based Compassion Training was able to improve people’s ability to read emotional expressions on others’ faces. Researchers said the meditation program is based on ancient Buddhist practices, but this particular program was secular. It included mindfulness techniques, but mainly involved training people to think about their relationships with other people.
“It’s an intriguing result, suggesting that a behavioral intervention could enhance a key aspect of empathy,” study researcher Jennifer Mascaro, a post-doctoral fellow at Emory, said in a statement.
The study included 21 people who all underwent fMRI brain scans as they were administered a “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test to gauge empathy. The test involves looking at black-and-white photographs of different facial expressions — except the photographs only show the eye region of the face. People taking the test are then asked to say what kind of emotion or thinking is being evoked in each expression.
Then, 13 study participants underwent eight weeks of the meditation training program. The other eight study participants didn’t undergo the training program, but participated in classes where there was discussion on topics like how well-being is influenced by factors like exercise.
After the eight weeks, all the study participants completed the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test again. The researchers found that people who underwent the meditation training program had a 4.6 percent higher score on the empathy test at the end of the study period. Meanwhile, people who only partook in the discussion classes didn’t experience any increase in empathy scores, and some even experienced a decrease in their scores.
The brain scans also revealed that people who took the meditation courses also had increased brain activity in the regions linked with empathy.
Empathy is important, and not only for nurturing interpersonal relationships — a recent study showed a link between a doctor’s empathy and the outcomes of his or her patients.
That study, published in the journal Academic Medicine, showed that the diabetes patients of doctors who scored low on an empathy test were more likely to experience acute metabolic complications associated with their condition, compared with patients of doctors who scored higher on the test.
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