Kasiṇa Bhāvanā Practice in the WDS Aegna Mind Development Center

In July 2014, the Estonian Theravada Sangha was established by Venerable Ṭhitañāṇa (Andrus Kahn) and Venerable Piyaratana Walmoruwe. In 2018, Mr. Maarek Lind, who ordained as Venerable Ṭhitamedha, joined the Estonian Theravada Sangha as a second Theravada monk, and also went to study at MCU University, in Thailand.

In 2019, the WDS Aegna Mind Development Center held its first kasiṇa meditation course conducted by Venerable Ṭhitañāṇa and Dr. Charoon Wonnakasinanont, who is kasiṇa meditation master at Wat Yannawa in Bangkok. During the workshop, most of the participants achieved kasiṇanimitta, and some also experienced profound levels of jhāna.

The WDS Aegna Mind Development Center uses the same kasiṇa meditation development system that is used at Wat Yannawa. Color kasiṇas are mainly developed by using special kasiṇa devices.

Having received a suitable kasiṇa device from the teacher, the practitioner should clean the place of meditation, take a bath, and sit on a seat well arranged, one span and four inches high and at a distance two and a half cubits from the frame and begin to meditate.

Then the practitioner should think about four aspects. They should : ¹⁶⁴

1. consider the evils of sense desires, strong forces that are very

difficult to overcome; 2. take delight in the inward solitude of freedom from sensual

lust/renunciation (nekkhamma), which means escape from dukkha; 3. infuse their mind with joy by reflecting upon the virtues of the

Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha; 4. think that this is path (magga) traversed by all the Buddhas,

paccekabuddhas, and their ariya disciples, saying:

“By this practice, I shall certainly partake of the supreme bliss of nibbāna.”

They should then begin to observe the kasiṇa on the same principle as set forth in the chapter “The Kasiṇa Bhāvanā Practice in Wat Yannawa”.

The kasiṇa master Dr. Charoon prepares

the location for a mandala