33. Seeing Hindrances
And we continue letting go. And whatever arises, whatever arises, it is just a hindrance. Even you thinking: “I can’t do it” Hindrance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Ak8IvEjf4 Or, “My meditation is bad” Hindrance. It’s all the same. Just see: every time it is going to arise, it is going to make tension. Just let it go. Smile. […]
27. Opening Our Hearts
Maybe we just start by opening our hearts… just a little five minutes. And just let go of everything, everything so far, let loose. Smile. Feel like the whole space around you is completely opening up. Relaxing any bit of tension, any thought. Just letting go, letting go, letting go. Smiling. Like a fresh gust […]
26. Delight in Dhamma
Sukhasomanassa Sutta Sukha means happiness Somanassa means mental grace or mental joy. The two combined together. Directing the ways in which we delight, in which we find happiness in life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mywNWSJlfg To direct to things that are wholesome to direct to things immediate, but also which have a long-term uplifting and supporting effect on […]
25. Acceptance
Here, Bhante Ānanda offers a beautiful teaching on attachment, the hindrances and acceptance. 🌼 Wishing you all continued happiness. “Most people associate letting go of all attachments with simply abandoning responsibilities. Like a cold and stale act of abandonment, which does not convey the warmth of wisdom. Like being without attachments would come with the […]
24. The Experience of Nibbāna
And Samādhi, becomes so sharp,
collectedness of mind becomes so sharp,
steadiness so sharp and so present,
awareness starts to dissolve,
it breaks down here.
23. The Beautiful
[One trains:] ‘Let me live, unattached [15] to what is favorable. One then lives, unattached to that. [One trains:] ‘Let me live, accepting what is unfavorable. One then lives, accepting that. [One trains:] ‘Let me live, unattached to both favorable and unfavorable.’ One then lives, unattached to that. [One trains:] ‘Let me […]
22. Awareness in Practice
How is the liberation of the heart by Love developed? Where does it lead to?What is its limit?What is its fruit?What is its culmination? Here monks, (1) One develops the awakening support of awareness, filled with Love… -SN V 46.54 Filled with Love So I like to take time here. Because this is […]
21. Viveka as Letting Go
Here it is quite explicit, where the Buddha is going. Because… this is not ant kind of awareness, this is not any kind of development that is properly developed in the same way that the Buddha taught. Now we need to understand the importance of viveka; letting go, detaching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehsQ4wMXLkg&list=PLbFvYEw0YpWCDQ1V18MgR8T_OGEZ61HFQ&index=12 SN V 46.54 Filled […]
19. Holding on to Impermanence
Now here, of course,
the Buddha’s teaching on impermanence,
in regards to these five aspects of what we call ‘me’.
is at the very core of the teaching,
it is very important,
and it’s good for us to understand that.
18. Virāga as Calming Down
This calming down, Virāga, is very often translated as ‘dis-passion’. And this is a problem one. Because this tends to be interpreted in a way that one needs to be dispassionate… (Smiling) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehsQ4wMXLkg&list=PLbFvYEw0YpWCDQ1V18MgR8T_OGEZ61HFQ&index=12 Which is not completely wrong, but not completely right, in the western context and the western understanding. Being dispassionate […]