Bhāvanā
Teachings on Wholesome Mental Development
17. The Choice
Liberating the mind at the root of experience and choosing happiness, choosing to let go, choosing freedom.
16. Aniccasañña – Unabiding Mind
It would be much more valuable to cultivate, for the time of a finger snap , An unabiding mind. And this is Aniccasaññā, impermanence.
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
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
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
2. Dhamma means Truth
“This is the famous Kālāmā Sutta, Also known as Kesamutti Sutta. AN III 65 Kālāmās: Know for Yourselves – HeartDhamma The ‘Discourse of the Buddha to the Kālāmās’, And this is a very wonderful discourse, in so many ways, and it really gives clarity of insight into the Unshakable Truth