{"id":19951,"date":"2012-11-30T21:36:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T05:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nalandabodhi.org\/?p=19951"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:23:35","slug":"sweeping-the-shrine-room-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nalandabodhi.org\/nl\/2012\/11\/30\/sweeping-the-shrine-room-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"De vloer van de altaarkamer vegen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"19951\" class=\"elementor elementor-19951\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2970b773 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2970b773\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-922d2bc\" data-id=\"922d2bc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5409364 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5409364\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">De vloer van de altaarkamer vegen<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53f27127 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"53f27127\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>In his earliest teachings, the Buddha taught that the \u201cwheel of action\u201d begins with sweeping the shrine room floor, with mindfulness and awareness, of course. We sweep the floor mindfully and we accumulate something called \u201cmerit.\u201d Sounds like a good deal, but as Westerners, we have two things to figure out before we can take such instructions to heart. First, what is a \u201cwheel of action,\u201d and second, what is \u201cmerit\u201d? The first one is fairly simple. A wheel is something that turns and can carry us to our desired destination. The \u201cwheel of action\u201d refers to our human activities or actions (mental, verbal, and physical), which when skilfully and wisely performed, can carry us forward on our spiritual quest. \u00a0So do we sweep the shrine room floor (or some other equivalent) just to earn the merit, the good karma, that will pay our way to enlightenment?<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/nalandabodhi.org\/nl\/2012\/11\/30\/sweeping-the-shrine-room-floor\/#more-19951\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Lees verder Sweeping the Shrine Room Floor\">(meer&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In zijn vroegste leringen leerde de Boeddha dat het &#039;wiel van actie&#039; begint met het vegen van de vloer van de altaarkamer, met aandacht en natuurlijk bewustzijn.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3009],"tags":[3411,3414,3406,3410],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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