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Context: Throughout this transcript, Bhante Vimalaramsi is the speaker unless otherwise indicated.

now sorry putas insights into states one

by one as they occurred was this hair

monks quite secluded from sensual

pleasures how do you become secluded

from sensual pleasures I expect answers

Oh

well the central pleasure of seeing is

not there then but it's also sounds if

any sounds arise if your mind gets

pulled to it 6r it don't pay attention

to what the sound is it doesn't matter

I've had some students while I was at a

retreat in Santa Fe New Mexico and it

was hot it was like 95 something like

that and everybody was practicing

one-pointed concentration and they

complained about the sound of the fan it

was not air-conditioned in there and

they wanted to turn the fan off and I

rather strenuously said no but they

would complain if somebody made too much

noise walking or if somebody in the same

building but a long ways away they close

their door a little bit too fast any

kind of noise when you're practicing one

point of concentration makes you get

startled and the reason that that

happens is because your concentration is

too deep and your mindfulness is too

shallow when they're in balance any

sound that happens we'll just go right

through it's nothing

but there are people that would complain

about the clock ticking because the

noise has to be quiet well that all are

saying to me is your mindfulness is out

the window it's that it's not very good

you're not in balance with your practice

so when a sound arises if your mind goes

to it 6r come back smiling relax now

you're not going to have much with smell

or taste in in here anyway but there can

be some things that happen to your body

you can have insect walking on it you

start to get pains and that sort of

thing if it pulls your attention to it

let it be relax smile come back this

also has to do with thoughts so being

secluded from sensual pleasures means

not indulging in any of the sense doors

noticing that your mind has gone to it

let it be relaxed smile come back

secluded from unwholesome states what

does that mean

the hindrances that's right when you're

in Jonna Europe you don't have any

hindrances when you have your

mindfulness slip for whatever reason

then a hindrance will arise and then you

have to work with that like I told you

yesterday

now sorry putas insights into states one

by one as they occurred was this hair

monks quite secluded from sensual

pleasures how do you become secluded

from sensual pleasures I expect answers

Oh

well the central pleasure of seeing is

not there then but it's also sounds if

any sounds arise if your mind gets

pulled to it 6r it don't pay attention

to what the sound is it doesn't matter

I've had some students while I was at a

retreat in Santa Fe New Mexico and it

was hot it was like 95 something like

that and everybody was practicing

one-pointed concentration and they

complained about the sound of the fan it

was not air-conditioned in there and

they wanted to turn the fan off and I

rather strenuously said no but they

would complain if somebody made too much

noise walking or if somebody in the same

building but a long ways away they close

their door a little bit too fast any

kind of noise when you're practicing one

point of concentration makes you get

startled and the reason that that

happens is because your concentration is

too deep and your mindfulness is too

shallow when they're in balance any

sound that happens we'll just go right

through it's nothing

but there are people that would complain

about the clock ticking because the

noise has to be quiet well that all are

saying to me is your mindfulness is out

the window it's that it's not very good

you're not in balance with your practice

so when a sound arises if your mind goes

to it 6r come back smiling relax now

you're not going to have much with smell

or taste in in here anyway but there can

be some things that happen to your body

you can have insect walking on it you

start to get pains and that sort of

thing if it pulls your attention to it

let it be relax smile come back this

also has to do with thoughts so being

secluded from sensual pleasures means

not indulging in any of the sense doors

noticing that your mind has gone to it

let it be relaxed smile come back

secluded from unwholesome states what

does that mean

the hindrances that's right when you're

in Jonna Europe you don't have any

hindrances when you have your

mindfulness slip for whatever reason

then a hindrance will arise and then you

have to work with that like I told you

yesterday