CAN YOU AFFORD NOT TO MEDITATE

Teachings on the Satipaṭṭhāna Vipassanā Meditation Practice

By By SAYĀDAW U PAṆḌITA

ISBN 978-986-3512-28-7

IJ210/17

Size: 5.75” x 5.25”

Pages: 68  pages

This publication is based on a talk delivered by Sayadaw U Jotika at Mangala Vihara Buddhist Society in Singapore in 2003.

Can You Afford Not to Meditate? ... a candid sharing of Sayadaw’s life journey where he talks about how he suffered from depression and insomnia as a teenager, and how he studied and tested all types of religion but could not decide to follow any, not till he was 26 years old when after 8 years of practising meditation he discovered for himself the truth of Buddha’s words.

With conviction he tells: Why You Cannot Afford Not To Meditate, where he talks about how one can become the best human being one is capable of when one knows how the mind works, how it affects the body, how kamma works and how nature works. With meditation one can become truly free, no longer be at the mercy of the mind and tormented by life’s difficulties but live a life of wisdom and truly live.

About the Author

­­­­Sayadaw U Jotika was born into a non-Buddhist family on 5 August 1947, educated in a Roman Catholic missionary school, studied Electrical Engineering and read widely in Western and Eastern philosophy and psychology. Sayadaw has been living for extended periods in solitude before moving and staying in Yangon, Myanmar.