Bhante Pannakara's Dhamma Advice at Mahamevnawa | #walkforpeace #mahamewnawa #srilanka

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]In the name of Buddha, respected Maha Sangha.

[00:00:04]Dear lady devotees, um this is a surprise.

[00:00:10]Uh it's not in the schedule to stop by this amazing temple. It's a huge temple.

[00:00:21]And uh a big welcoming.

[00:00:26]Everything here is uh great.

[00:00:29]And the most venerable monks and your teachers uh opened the door to welcome our Walk of Peace monks.

[00:00:38]Uh we get a chance to rest for a little and then we continue our journey.

[00:00:44]Uh our journey today is way too long.

[00:00:47]Uh the first day and it's way too long.

[00:00:52]Uh I think we still have two or three more hours to walk.

[00:00:57]And so um while I'm here, I would like to um remind you all that we don't have to live [music] with suffering.

[00:01:13]We can choose to live without suffering.

[00:01:20]You can choose to live with my mindfulness and kindness and compassion.

[00:01:29]And in order for you to do that, you have to practice mindfulness every day.

[00:01:36]Not just come to the temple to worship, to offer, to listen to the Dharma talk.

[00:01:42]After you listen to the Dharma talk, you have to take that into action and practice every day.

[00:01:50]Otherwise we will repeat our life like this.

[00:01:59]Which is suffering life after life.

[00:02:06]Therefore if you can practice mindfulness by contemplating on your breathing method breathe in and breathe out with awareness.

[00:02:19]Every day you breathe, but you are not paid paying attention to your breath. So now, all you need to do just add awareness to your breath.

[00:02:31]When you breathe in, you know that you are breathing in.

[00:02:35]When you breathe out, you know that you are breathing out.

[00:02:41]Simply just like that.

[00:02:44]And everything in life, every thing in your daily life just do one thing at a time.

[00:02:52]Don't do a lot of things at once.

[00:02:55]Our mind can only pick up one thing at a time.

[00:03:00]But we are all multitask.

[00:03:03]For that reason, we are very easy to be sidetracked.

[00:03:09]A lot of distractions around us.

[00:03:12]And so try to do only one thing at a time.

[00:03:19]Even though you will fail one after another, but it's okay.

[00:03:25]Nobody is perfect. We just have to practice and continue practice.

[00:03:31]Don't give up.

[00:03:33]Okay?

[00:03:34]Just breathe with awareness.

[00:03:38]Breathe in and breathe out. When your thought arise acknowledge that those thoughts by saying thought thought thought silently and then come back to your breathing.

[00:03:52]And if you have any type of sound, if you hear any type of sound, just acknowledge that as sound sound sound come back to your breathing.

[00:04:02]And if you feel anything within this body, just acknowledge that as feeling feeling feeling and then come back to your breathing.

[00:04:11]Practice like that every day.

[00:04:14]I promise you if you continue practice like this every single day your life will be much different.

[00:04:22]You will live with joy, you will live with happiness and peace.

[00:04:28]Don't live with suffering anymore.

[00:04:31]Enough is enough.

[00:04:33]You don't have time to waste.

[00:04:37]So today practice that from now on.

[00:04:43]Contemplating on your breathing, okay?

[00:04:46]May you all be well, be happy and be peaceful.

[00:04:49]Sadhu sadhu sadhu. So dear Bhante, once again, many merits for joining and visiting this monastery.

[00:04:58]So we bless you once again and may you be well and happy. Theruwan Saranai. Namo Buddhaya.

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