High resolution pictures of Wat Sisaket and Wat Pra Keo— two world-class tributes to the Buddhist tradition in Vientiane, Laos. On this page you'll find high-resolution pictures of Buddha statues and temples. All pictures taken with the Canon 5D by ©Tom Riddle, 2006. If you want to print any of these pictures, please view them at "magazine quality" resolution.

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You are welcome to print any of these pictures for your personal use. You can keep in mind the words of Ajan Sumedho who wrote in his excellent book, The Mind and the Way, Buddhist Reflections on Life.

The important thing in meditation is attitude, rather than technique or tradition. The right attitude is most important. Even if you have the best teacher with the best tradition and the best methods, if you attitude isn't right, it won't work.

Many people meditate with an attitude of gaining, attaining, or achieving. It's not surprising, because our worldly attitude is based on achievement. We are conditioned by our education and society to see life as something we must use in order to attain or become something. on a worldly level, this is the way it is. We have to go to school in order to learn to read and write. We have to do all kinds of things in order to become something or to attain something, but enlightenment (nibbana) is not something that ever attain or achieve. This is a difficult thing to comprehend with the intellect, because the intellect is conditioned to think in terms of gaining.