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

that's why I went around Asia of course

I went to Mahayana and Vajrayana and

Theravada and and I asked these big

monks very very famous monks about what

is gravy

how are you supposed to recognize it

almost always it was it means desire you

can't want anything well that's not so

good

that's not how how this works it's it

stems from the definition of mindfulness

and I think ask a few of the the big

teachers what's the definition of

mindfulness while mindfulness means to

be mindful when you can't use the word

if you're trying to get the definition

you can't use that word in a definition

doesn't work so when I when I got out of

Burma after a two-year retreat I

was rather disappointed with what I was

told and that was about well it was a

couple years later this book came out

the new translation by bhikkhu bodhi and

Jana moly and it was it was done in such

a way that it really made sense to me so

I started practicing the way that the

suitors said instead of the way that the

Vipassana community was practicing and I

ran across one of the statements of the

tranquilizing the bodily formation on

the in-breath and tranquilizing the

bodily formation on the out-breath which

is not being taught and I started

thinking about tranquilizing and

tranquilizing another word for that is

relaxed

but when I came back from Burma after

the two-year retreat and being

successful according to them

I couldn't with good conscience teach

straight grip asana the way it was being

taught so I they were and in Malaysia

they were very excited because I've been

gone for two years and again they knew

that I was really into practicing and

they were pushing me to teach meditation

anyway I couldn't teach the breathing

meditation because I didn't have a lot

of confidence the way it was being

taught so I started teaching

loving-kindness meditation and they were

used to hearing

Vipassana Dhamma talks and when I came

out started talking more practically

about how to do the loving-kindness

meditation and instead of relax I told

everybody they had to soften their mind

and actually the first time I gave a

retreat it was 260 people which was I

was giving three Dhamma talks a day and

they all felt it and because of that I

became very popular in Malaysia sort of

famous and of course I didn't know how I

was famous

after a year and a half or two years of

teaching at another temple the head monk

of Brickfields case read Amon on that I

asked me to come and spend at least a

rains retreat that his simple and

there's that little ceremony that

happens before before the range retreat

starts nurse like three thousand people

there and the way the way things work

with monks is the senior monk goes in

first

the next senior goes in and we're

talking about number of years that

you're in the Sangha and this time case

read Ananda walked in and he said I want

you to sit right beside me and this is

highly unusual so he's giving his little

talk to all these 3

that's why I went around Asia of course

I went to Mahayana and Vajrayana and

Theravada and and I asked these big

monks very very famous monks about what

is gravy

how are you supposed to recognize it

almost always it was it means desire you

can't want anything well that's not so

good

that's not how how this works it's it

stems from the definition of mindfulness

and I think ask a few of the the big

teachers what's the definition of

mindfulness while mindfulness means to

be mindful when you can't use the word

if you're trying to get the definition

you can't use that word in a definition

doesn't work so when I when I got out of

Burma after a two-year retreat I

was rather disappointed with what I was

told and that was about well it was a

couple years later this book came out

the new translation by bhikkhu bodhi and

Jana moly and it was it was done in such

a way that it really made sense to me so

I started practicing the way that the

suitors said instead of the way that the

Vipassana community was practicing and I

ran across one of the statements of the

tranquilizing the bodily formation on

the in-breath and tranquilizing the

bodily formation on the out-breath which

is not being taught and I started

thinking about tranquilizing and

tranquilizing another word for that is

relaxed

but when I came back from Burma after

the two-year retreat and being

successful according to them

I couldn't with good conscience teach

straight grip asana the way it was being

taught so I they were and in Malaysia

they were very excited because I've been

gone for two years and again they knew

that I was really into practicing and

they were pushing me to teach meditation

anyway I couldn't teach the breathing

meditation because I didn't have a lot

of confidence the way it was being

taught so I started teaching

loving-kindness meditation and they were

used to hearing

Vipassana Dhamma talks and when I came

out started talking more practically

about how to do the loving-kindness

meditation and instead of relax I told

everybody they had to soften their mind

and actually the first time I gave a

retreat it was 260 people which was I

was giving three Dhamma talks a day and

they all felt it and because of that I

became very popular in Malaysia sort of

famous and of course I didn't know how I

was famous

after a year and a half or two years of

teaching at another temple the head monk

of Brickfields case read Amon on that I

asked me to come and spend at least a

rains retreat that his simple and

there's that little ceremony that

happens before before the range retreat

starts nurse like three thousand people

there and the way the way things work

with monks is the senior monk goes in

first

the next senior goes in and we're

talking about number of years that

you're in the Sangha and this time case

read Ananda walked in and he said I want

you to sit right beside me and this is

highly unusual so he's giving his little

talk to all these 3