TEACH YOURSELF |
We must learn how to teach ourselves. I never had to be taught by anyone,yet I knew how to do everything on my own.
I didn?t know how to read or write, but I observed and I learned how to teach myself.
Take cleaning, for example. No one had to teach me. My father didn?t teach My mother didn?t teach me. I taught myself.
Since I was a little girl living in Nakorn Chaisri, after each meal I would collectall the pots and pans and dishes and clean them. I would clean them until they were completely spotless, inside and out.
When cleaning the stairs of the house, I would scrub the top surface as well as underneath the stairs. My older siblings would ask me why I had to clean underneath as well. I would say, ?I don?t know, I like doing it this way. I just feel like making everything clean.? I taught myself to make everything clean, inside and out.
Even as a grown up, if I saw a dirty spot I would clean it as soon as I could. It is a habit I keep till this day.
It stung when the bedbugs bit me, but I would not kill them. I would catch them and put them in a spittoon covered with a piece of paper so they could not get away. When morning came, I would release these bedbugs elsewhere.
I cleaned until everything around me became spotless. My bed was clean.
Even my old mosquito net was utterly clean.
I have been like this since I was a little girl. I love cleanliness and orderliness.
I know where everything should or should not be. I taught myself everything.
I know when to do what. I know how to manage my time and how to handle my tasks. When I was at Wat Paknam I taught myself orderliness and discipline.
After I attained meditation skills to recall past lives, I traversed into my past to find out why I became the person I am. Through meditation, I found that the reason I was capable of self teaching was because I had meditated a great deal in my previous existences. The merits gained from my meditation in the past lives have given rise to the knowledge and wisdom that enabled me to teach myself. You, too, should meditate as much as you can to develop the ability to teach yourself. |
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