29. Selflessness is Samādhi
Reading from SN II 12.23 Causes for Liberation “What is the cause for renewal of being?” Or renewal of karma, of action “Identity, should be answered. “ This is bhāva. Bhāva is also ‘becoming.’ This sense of identity. Which becomes more and more solidified. But how does it get solidified? “But this identity comes […]
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 […]
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 […]
15. Drinking Deep the Bliss of Stillness
[Theragatha 1.1] My hut is roofed, comfortable, free of drafts; my mind, well-centered, set free. I remain ardent. So, rain-deva. Go ahead & rain. [Forwarding to…] So it is a very close bond. But, usually they would move together [a small monastic community] somewhere in the forest, or somewhere where they […]
14. Anthems to Solitude
[Theragatha 1.13] The color of blue-dark clouds, glistening, cooled with the waters of clear-flowing streams covered with ladybugs: those rocky crags refresh me. So this an anthem of solitude from these Theras (elder monks). That’s what they wanted. That’s what they were looking for. A hole in the mountain, and […]
12. Pleasant Progress with Quick Comprehension
Reading: “This is the unsurpassed teaching in regards to the modes of progress.” Why am I saying this? Well, it is your choice. You can take the highway or the slow way. You can smile, more and more, and try to be happy, and this will really boost your meditation, this will be the fast […]
10. Samādhi – The Pooling of Awareness
“As the mind and the body gain some ease, some steadiness, some calm, you might start experiencing what the Buddha called Samādhi: Awareness that is starting to become unified, to gather, to pool in the mind. The ‘water of Awareness’ is not leaking out to all of these things of the senses in the world […]
9. Nirodha as ‘Unobstructed’
And Nirodha. Nirodha is… Sometimes I have translated it as release… But that does not always carry the whole of the meaning. This is a place where you can find that nirodha does not just mean ‘the end goal nirodha.’ See here, he is talking about nirodha, it’s actually leaning towards there (Boundless Love), It’s […]
8. Defilements vs. Samādhi
There are [many] things that we can do to get our minds to gravitates more and more towards uplifted states, which is… the Buddha’s Teaching… on meditation. That’s what the Buddha taught. When you read meditation instructions from the Buddha, especially to the laity and people that are beginning in the practice, that’s all he […]