Life and Practice in Harmony
And the 5th is: “I am aware while entering it, and aware when emerging from it.” So, this whole process is just very mindful. There is no place where there […]
Radiant Calm
To radiate this calmness all around us, we first need to find it within ourselves. [From MN 2] How does one attend to things proper for attention? One attends to […]
Smile!
😊 Whenever there is a distraction, wherever there is anything arising in the mind, even if it is anger, or worry, or restlessness– Notice these states always come with […]
Delight in Dhamma
Sukhasomanassa Sutta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mywNWSJlfg 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 […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Choice
Liberating the mind at the root of experience and choosing happiness, choosing to let go, choosing freedom.