Talks on the Four Steps of Wise Practice
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
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.
17. The Choice
Liberating the mind at the root of experience and choosing happiness, choosing to let go, choosing freedom.
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
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
4. Transience and Letting go
“Or perhaps, one might notice, forms or shapes, or lights and colours, forms, Rūpa. The first fabric of the ego. One of the five constituents that we call ‘ourselves’: Form or shape Sensations Perceptions or concepts Mental fabrications (the active part of the mind: Saṅkhāra) or simply Awareness. Perhaps mind