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T his is an aspect of spiritual perfection we call 'Adhitthana-citta'; the wish for pro- gression, the state of existence which has direction and ambition towards a higher state of spiritual being. It comes naturally as a result of the ongoing mental culture developed in meditation. Ad- hiṭṭhāna-citta can become an implicit part of life because in Dhammakāya meditation, the source of knowledge and the source of the progressive ambition are One and the Same, united in a single point at the Centre of the body; the Centre of fundemental Wisdom. T here were three. European television crews present at the ordination ceremony, who had come to capture for their own country- men, what they considered to be a colourful eccentricity of Thai National Custom. They percieved with their eyes and ears the same things as the local photographers. However, unlike the local photographers, they lacked the ambi- tion to make the most of their experience. They had a lesser ambition based on 'sentiment' instead of Wisdom. They were attracted only to record the colourful and visually bizarre events, instead of the wholesome, meaningful ones. This illustrates an attitude to life attached to the pleasure of the senses. The ambition which accompanies this attachment is the wish to 'sensationalise'. This is not Adhiṭṭhāna-citta according to the Teaching of Dhammakaya, because the source of ambition is not unified with the source of Wisdom. The ambition derives from an entirely different place; not the 'Wise' Centre of the body, but from the insubstantial 'Sentimental' Centre situated below the breast-bone; in clichéed English, the 'Heart'. T his difference between the sources of spiri- tual ambition illustrates the fundemental difference between Adhiṭṭhāna-citta brought to perfection through training in the Dhammakaya Meditation tradition and 'Prayer' [which in the present day has lost the idea of spiritual progress]. In the Dhammakaya tradition we make sure that our spiritual ambition is never detached from our inner source of wisdom. Unfortunately, in tradi- tions of prayer, spiritual ambition has become divorced from Wisdom and in many cases is incom- ๗๐ ก ล ย า ณ ม ต ร Kalyanamitra.org