Teachings on Wise Samādhi
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,
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
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
5. The Direction the Wheel Turns
“Practicing the Jhāna to that depth, seeing Nirodha, entering Nirodha, you have to understand Dependent Origination at its core, but also know the wheel of Dhamma, and which direction that is– and that is: letting go, relaxing, smiling. Cultivating love, cultivating compassion, forgiveness, states that are not sticky, they are