A Dhamma talk given on 2024-06-28 by Ajahn Vajiro at Sumedharama Forest Monastery in Ericeira, Portugal. For more Dhamma talks, please visit sumedharama.pt. Questions and topics discussed: 1. More and more when I feel I need to concentrate on doing something, I tend to stop breathing for those seconds... I don’t know why this happens quite often now. 2. In the face of life difficulties, bhikkhus have their training rules to go back to, but for lay people, besides the 5 or 8 precepts, what could we reflect and go back to? 3. Can we say “proper attention” means to contemplate all things with their three characteristics? 4. “Mental kamma has more weight than physical kamma”, however most of the time before we act, we already have the intention developed. Therefore, can we not say that actually when a physical kamma is made, it also contains/combines its mental kamma already? 5.Ajahn usually can monks have pets?