The Escape

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These 5 hindrances, whatever they are, they’re just doing the same thing in the mind––         just […]

Seeing Hindrances

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And we continue letting go. And whatever arises, whatever arises, it is just a hindrance. Even you thinking: “I can’t […]

Selflessness is Samādhi

Reading from SN II 12.23 Causes for Liberation   “What is the cause for renewal of being?” Or renewal of […]

The Experience of Nibbāna

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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.

The Choice

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Liberating the mind at the root of experience and choosing happiness, choosing to let go, choosing freedom.

Nirodha as ‘Unobstructed’

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And Nirodha. Nirodha is… Sometimes I have translated it as release… But that does not always carry the whole of […]

Defilements vs. Samādhi

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There are [many] things that we can do to get our minds to gravitates more and more towards uplifted states, […]