Gratitude: Count Your Blessings | Guided Buddhist Meditation | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | Kataññu Katavedi

2021-05-13

In this guided meditation, Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to recollect those fundamental things we usually take for granted, but which are in reality great blessings. Instead of having a long list of complaints, rather let us consider what we have to be grateful for: Born as a human being in a peaceful, wealthy country like Australia In reasonable good health with unimpaired mental faculties At a time when the teaching of Buddha is still available When we have 'Kalyaṇa-Mitta' (good spiritual friends) When we have Forest M...

In this guided meditation, Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to recollect those fundamental things we usually take for granted, but which are in reality great blessings.

Instead of having a long list of complaints, rather let us consider what we have to be grateful for:

Born as a human being in a peaceful, wealthy country like Australia
In reasonable good health with unimpaired mental faculties
At a time when the teaching of Buddha is still available
When we have 'Kalyaṇa-Mitta' (good spiritual friends)
When we have Forest Monasteries
And when we have at least some confidence/faith in the Triple Gem
(...)
( There are many more, feel free to fill in all the other blessings you can find in your own meditation 😊 )