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Context: Throughout this transcript, Bhante Vimalaramsi is the speaker unless otherwise indicated.
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okay so we are here today on June 27
2016 with bought a dremel Ramsay The
Advocate on secure Meditation Center and
we will footage from Malaysia
originally from Sri Lanka and tonight we
have a discussion between both so I was
asked today about the acronym twin why
do we have the word wisdom in it the
word Samadhi is always translated as
concentration rice-davies in his
dictionary said that the word Samadhi
was never used before the time of the
Buddha there were many other words for
the word concentration but the Buddha
wanted to use a different word so it
would describe a different type of
meditation sama means
tranquil D according to I think was bad
adapte he had a dictionary it was in his
dictionary D meant wisdom so that's why
we call a tranquil wisdom insight
meditation you have to have very very
calm mind to be able to see the links of
dependent origination any time you hear
the word wise or wisdom in the suit des
it's talking about seeing the links of
dependent origination and understanding
how this process works
and I wanted you to comment on this
I hear properly
oh I'm sorry he said probably turn my
head towards you
sama is tranquil D according to the
Bodhisattva is wisdom yeah I miss them
and that's why we we called this
tranquil wisdom there is insight in this
meditation yeah
meditation WI
rice-davies in his dictionary said that
the word samadhi was never used before
the buddha started using it to describe
a different kind of meditation than
one-point-two concentration hmm is that
correct well yeah some of the ie
translated as tranquillity not
concentration I don't use the word
concentrate I learned that from you yeah
tell some of my students the word
concentration is like yeah four-letter
word in English we don't yeah yeah
do you agree with me when I say that the
word wisdom when it's used in the sutras
is talking about dependent origination
well I have no objection to using the
word wisdom because wisdom I see as the
result of meditation that means you
begin to understand or comprehend what
we dare to understand not Samet Samadhi
D is wisdom
translations are different it depends on
the person that does the interpretation
of the word their understanding of it I
think there's not a very important
problem because this is all connected
with wisdom and the tranquil mind is
able to understand things and Andreo
these things yeah
I've seem to be criticized a lot about
the instructions and mindfulness of
breathing when it says to tranquilize
the bodily formation on the in-breath
and tranquilize on the out-breath mm-hmm
there are some Australian monks that say
when you practice one pointed
concentration your mind is tranquil but
the word possum by it means it's a verb
or a noun or an adjective and the only
way we know that this is
a verb to tranquilize mm-hmm is because
of he trains thus it doesn't say he
trained to us and McCain trampled it
says that you trained us to tranquilize
and there's a lot of people because of
some translations that when they're
talking about mindfulness of breathing
they call it the the body of breath that
they have to be aware of my
understanding is that that there's too
much emphasis put on breath
and not enough emphasis on tranquilize
and what I see is there has to be this
tranquilization on me any breath and
tranquilization
on the out-breath of body this is one of
my favorite little tools there's a
membrane that goes over this and in
between and over it's called the
meninges every time the meninges every
time there's a thought feeling or
sensation the brain pushes against the
meninges and it causes like tension so
what I think that to me is on the
in-breath you relax so that there's no
tightness against the meninges on the
in-breath you do that on the out-breath
you do that and I have been criticized
by an awful lot of people that practice
many different forms of meditation
saying no that's wrong because it's the
body of breath that you have to
tranquilize
and when that happens what I would I
tell people is they're focusing too much
on the breath and not recognizing that
the tightness is how you recognize crazy
you agree with that
so and of course you have the spinal
cord going all the way down and the
meninges is around that whole thing so
when you relax that tightness that you
feel here you're actually tranquilizing
the whole body well the way I see it is
like this now we read the sutras
satipatthana Sutra the Buddha says
for him Oak inserting port-au-patois
that means Sato of society's Sato
Pavarotti that photo assisity photo
pastor you are aware of the breathing in
and aware of the breathing out you see
there is a mistake made by the
commentators that mistake is you see the
word for emote inserting no
port-au-patois there the word mukha the
translators mouth mouth
Mooka they say mouth and peri means
around around the mouth
Parramatta means around the mouth and
then they say around the mouth is the
upper lip then they say upper lip means
the nostril and then they say
concentrate concentrating on the nostril
that is what you should do when you
breathe in and breathe out what I am
saying is that that is wrong what is
called mukha is not mouth Mooka is face
now when I said this in Malaysia the
people in Malaysia said yes according to
our language MOCA means stress that
means that is the real original meaning
of the word mucker is not mouth but in
the sri lankan language signal is P
they use the word mocker to refer to the
mouth so I think that is a mistake that
they made but the real original meaning
of maka is face now the other point is
Perry maka per image around now we say
the environment is called parasara Paree
means around environment is what is
around you and para mukha means around
the face now around the face means your
attention normally you all your senses
since organs I'm the face the eyes in
the face notes in the face the tongue in
the face the years in the face now in
when an animal like a dog walks in
forelegs is the face that goes in front
not now the human being only because the
human being is standing on two legs the
face is not going forward like that but
still it is the face that is in front
and because all the organs this kind
affairs so around the face means
whatever is seen around you and that
means the eye whatever the I see outside
and whatever the year here is outside
everything is going around you and for
amou Consulting's
the word sati really means
attention so per mo consulting means the
attention that is focused on what is
around you Parham consulting Cooper
tabatha Cooper means inside upper means
outside hoop remains inside so Cooper
tappet homage to to establish that means
the attention that is focused on
external things must be withdrawn from
that and focused within that is the
meaning of that and focus within means
Kryon pasa la Vida nanopatch Amma Chetan
palma de mon mothma
that means you are focusing on the body
the feelings in the body the emotional
state in the mind and the thoughts in
the wine their emotional state means the
the word that normally used in English
is what we call the mold
MWD mode what is your mode that state of
the emotional state is the mode
are you angry or are you greedy or are
you trying to know are you worried that
is the moon so the cheetah really means
the moon and the word mano refers to the
thinking part the thinking reasoning you
find out whether it is true or false
good or bad the thinking part he
the mono and what is in the balloon is
the thought so when we say mono dama
just like we said choco Krupa chikuwa
the eye Rupa is the mental image that we
see is not material but we take it as
material means image now when we say we
are going to draw a picture that is
called Rupa that picture is called Rupa
when men a camera takes a picture the
picture is the ropa so our eyes also
like a camera taking pictures and
whatever we see when I see a chair there
it is stinky a picture in the eye what's
that
Buddha group Rupa
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what's that I learned here that problem
okay he wants to know if the root word
for our Rupa is Rupa Rupa ah Rupa Arita
yeah a Rupa means not true / that means
not a Robin is not true / Rupa is the
picture a Rupa means not a picture yeah
what I this is the four are the form no
no this is wide the picture is they use
the word form to refer to the picture is
a picture that you see that form is
another word they used to refer to a
picture I have an objection to that word
the word word mindfulness is to fill the
mind but what you are really trying to
do is to empty the mind not to fill the
buying mindfulness means you are fully
conscious that is the meaning of
mindfulness so this is your this is the
problem here is are you focusing on
external things or are you focusing on
what is going on inside you so the
satipatthana is to focus on what is
going on inside you not what is going on
outside but what is going on inside is
your reaction to what is going on
outside so instead of looking at what is
going on outside we have to take our
mind in
works and look at the reaction because
it is the reaction that we are trying to
get rid of that's to observe your mind
so yeah that's what it is to observe
what is going on outside but what is
happening to your mind yeah something to
say yeah better by practicing meta
whether you can become a attended one is
that what you're saying now if you take
the sutra on meta do you know how the
sutra ends you don't know that it ends
by saying the tincture
Anupa gamma das Elena sambar no coming
to Vienna yoga Dan Nigel to cabassa
young Pune relativity you have to
understand the meaning of that what it
says is if you practice this matter in
the proper way at the end you will not
enter a mother's womb or that means you
won't be
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you can that what that means if if you
practice meta Corolla Moneta opaque I'm
the proper way you can become according
to a commentary no the thing is when you
practice meta Karuna modi topic you are
starting with somewhat little meta her
own eyes Samata then when you come to
mudita you are still at summit but when
you get into pika you know the meaning
of opec rrah
what is that that is the wrong
translation
this is the wrong translator who Pekka
means
uper okati I told you oppa means inside
outside this upper our uper Academy is
seeing seeing the inside you know this
is a very important meaning seeing the
inside means now when you look at that
chair there raise the chair the chair is
outside there is not inside you see but
if you instead of looking at the chair
outside if you begin to look at the
process of seeing the process of seeing
is something going on inside did you
understand that the seeing and what you
see and how you see these why you use
those words what you see is outside
there how you see is inside here so when
you talk about seeing the inside you are
really looking at the process of
perception the see what how you see so
instead of looking at what you see you
must look at look at how you see and it
is only when you look at how you see
that the real inside comes the real
insight is
what you see there although you see it
like that it is really inside you
because your eye is like a camera taking
pictures and the big tailings idea not
there so the whole world that you see
outside is really inside you see the
Buddha is called fatality the meaning of
that cut is like this English word that
that you know the English word that that
is always outside there that eyelid how
that means come I have come and that
means that I have arrived at that that
is the meaning of that Agata one who has
arrived at that that means that that has
been seen as this what is the insight
you see in other words there is no
object there but there is only the
subject this is what you know there was
during the time of the Buddha there was
a person called da da da da root Iria
what
by is our chariot now he he had been
meditating and he was very advanced in
meditation and he thought he was an
errand but his mother was born as a
devil and the mother looked at him from
the they were local and saw that he was
not a Navajo and that he was also going
to die soon so the mother came and said
you think you are at our heart but you
are not an arahant the real aren t there
that the buddha go and talk to him
because you are going to die very soon
so he got accepted and he went to see
the buddha and then the buddha was going
on Binda path
so when buddha was going on reading
about the dead the Buddha said I can
teach you now I'll go finish the Pinta
part and then I will talk to you he said
no no no don't do that please
because I might die at any moment
so they put the looked into his and then
he saw that deal it is true that he was
going to die soon so the Buddha said
okay I will teach you and he said in the
scene there is only the sea in the scene
means it's EE n see in the scene
there is only the seeing is e ing you
see so that means what you see outside
there is really the seeing inside what
you see so that is the important thing
to understand that is the meaning of
totality and also the Hindus the Hindus
borrowed some Buddhist ideas from the
Buddha but and incorporated in there
Upanishads and things like that so is
there is a common saying among the
Hindus that thomassie taught Trump ah si
that means that that tuam means you so
Tata mercy means you are that that means
you are the subject that is the object
so what what they are saying is the same
thing that the subject the object is
really the subject and that is the
meaning of Tatanka that the Buddha so
many ways he is talking about the same
thing so ultimately what we call insight
is really becoming aware of the process
of perception normally people aware of
the object that we see but here the
Buddha or the Iran is looking at now if
you read the the first sutras the bunch
of money crime Agana sutra that Agana
sutra
that is what the Buddha is pointing out
there he's comparing how the ordinary
person sees things in the world then how
the person who is meditating sees the
world then he points out how the arahant
who has finished meditation we have
perfected and how the Buddha says this
is the same thing he points out
patterning party with o sanjaya naughty
but I mean part of it means solid any
any solid that we are thinking is a
solid normally people see the solid that
is forgiving part of it o sanjaya navi
and perturbing petrova toes Sonia - ah
but having magnetic that means having
seen the part of a the object he comes
to the conclusion there is an object
there that is the normal person but the
aha
Butterbean part Obito abhijanati that
that word abhijanati the ordinary person
was Sangha naughty sangun aunty just
seen the thing a maternity is a higher
level of seeing which is not seeing the
object but seeing how the object is seen
that is the abhijanati and then he says
but having part Obito a boniato
but having no magnetic he doesn't come
to the conclusion that there is the care
there that is the important thing about
the arounds more laborious that's right
here is the more per year suit about
Daru giri you are talking about Darwin
theory what Susan yeah because he saw
from the as a devil he was able to read
this minor the Devas are able to read
the bind
what is it yeah oh yes yes there is my
undermined communication that way boys
they have certain powers that we don't
have they was there are so many other
power that they have which we don't have
you have to become mad ever to find out
no it is like you are able to work and
you are able to talk maybe some other
animals are not able to do that
everything is like that you say so you
are born with certain abilities what
meta bow how the tooth mouth to mr. Bao
now you tell me one is that what you
asked
huh well what is it he wants to know
about the 40 different
the meditation whether you can what
event the 40 different kinds of
meditation invisibie mada uh-huh
he wants to know if you can attain
nirvana with oars
no no no the 40 different kinds of
meditation they are what is called
Samata Bhavana
so the samata bhavana can only calm the
mind it doesn't bring you insight the
insight comes from a different kind of
meditation that is the bee person about
what oh yeah yeah yeah yeah the five
aggregates and the four foundations of
mindfulness yeah yeah are the same thing
yeah yeah well you were in the John you
can have inside if according to my way
of thinking yes
no the thing is that not the first
German you have to get to the fourth
jhana to get the insight once you are in
the fourth jhana you can get
inside there well maybe I don't know but
how do you say that the first jhana you
can get inside yeah yeah yeah minded
spiel okay but that doesn't mean need
one no well in the first jhana there are
no hindrances therefore the mind is pure
but although the mind is pure you have
not become an around no yeah no no
insides also there are different degrees
of insight that's right yeah we explain
yeah you don't take it personally
anymore oh yeah yeah your feeling of
self disappeared in the first jhana yeah
you can call it an insight but the thing
is that is not permanent
no that is why no no means if you if you
become enter the first jhana your mind
is purified even the thought of self
disappears but when your mind gets
polluted again that disappears so but
that is a temporary purification of the
mind absolutely
but there is inside no inside but I am
from calling inside is the permanent
purification of the mind where you begin
to understand the
the truth about life and then you won't
be polluted again that is the other half
that is they are know that our hunter
state cannot come in the first jump I
didn't say that yeah you can get inside
in the verge Anna yes but not to the
level of understanding yeah yeah yeah
yeah you can become an arahant in the
fortune that you can become and you can
experience any bottom well you have a
Sutra that says that yes ah fifty one or
two I don't remember
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well look at that what's the name of the
Sutra article Margret Sutra
so when I'm teaching when I'm thinking
or meditation I tell people that they
have the potential to attain nirvana and
it can happen at any time
it depends on that person and their
understanding but the Vedas written here
it looks like in the first channel you
can be coming around here
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but the thing with me awakening changers
is that they will come together and then
will be in perfect balance and there is
in the new pilot suit
it says even in the first jhana there is
some beta and and when when you
experience it you see it because you see
that there's to a certain amount of
balance it's not real strong but it is
there
we have to look into this yeah okay
looks like but you're saying is correct
I didn't hear that properly my heart's
up to here
yes why did he reject what was the
practice
they look back to see down to this is
why I was talking this morning about the
difference between absorption jhana and
twin mm-hmm
I was rejecting I was talking about the
difference between what the monk from
Australia you were talking about his
teaching as compared with what I was
teaching
ah and the difference is he was teaching
absorption concentration absorption
concentration a kind of hypnosis
yeah yeah yeah yeah that's why it
doesn't lead to any bother
yeah yeah but what I'm teaching by
letting go of and relaxing the crazy
yeah yeah it changes back to the path
and it does lead to me by what he's
asking is why did the Buddha reject
Alara Kalama and Kodaka Rama puta they
they said come and teach and he said no
not satisfied because he wasn't
recognizing the craving that he kept
bringing back to his object of
meditation and that took him off the
path that he was looking for can they
have a look at that yeah this is this
about Laura Kalama my teacher ready to
stop into that top right there
and that is one of the reasons I have a
problem with Samata meditation and the
personal meditation
oh no this what this means is that now
the Alara Kalama and the quran put the
word that teachers and that even
afternoon so the buddha was able the
buddha not buddha at that time prince
ADATA he was able to read the level that
Alara Kalama had reached and so Allah
Rama said now you have read the same
level that I have reached so be here we
will be two teachers teaching these
people so the princes daughter said no I
don't want to be your teacher and I want
to go further than that yeah I want to
go further than that and even to get the
grammar put now there would the Kurama
put had read the same level that Allah
column had reached but he said my
teacher who is now dead my teacher who
is Allah who the Kurama he had reached
the next stage highest stage and I can
tell you what he told me and if you like
you can try it
so he said okay you tell me and then he
was told and he tried that and he read
that stage of non-return and laundry
universe at navel
nasayaat you know so then this the
Kurama of the morrow the Kurama puta
said now you have reached the level of
my teacher so I will treat you as my
teacher you stay here then he said no
I'm not interested in being your teacher
I want to go further and that is how he
went to do a citizen he thought there is
no on the way I will try in the ascetic
life and that is how he started fasting
and he became like a skeleton and
ultimately he even started to stop
breathing and when he started to stop
breathing
then he fainted and fell and then when
he woke up he thought I have been doing
the wrong things all this time and
because I have been trying to learn from
other people I have to go my own way not
to go after other people and then he
recalled that when he was a child he was
able to enter the first jungle and so he
thought now I will give up everything
and I into the first German
a different genre that what he was
practicing with these other teachers oh
yeah yeah yeah it is something different
yeah and and that that Jana was
something that automatically came to him
as a child there was no one to teach him
because he has been practicing all the
power of with us all this time and so he
automatically entered that so he got
into that III I call it just letting go
that is what he did it's not really a
Nibbana Swati
it was just letting go giving up
everything letting go means relaxing
he's the main thing that he did was
relaxing nothing else just relaxed and
so when he relaxed he entered the first
jhana automatically because he was free
from the hindrances when he's free from
the hindrances and then of course from
the first jhana he went to the 3rd 2nd
3rd and 4th jhana and then he went even
to the others as an entitlement winner
and children he rental Sonia vada eaten
erode so when he went to Sonia vada Nero
the that King Cole mind was absent at
that point so he had only the physical
body which is alive and there was a
temperature in the body and that is all
that is the difference between a dead
body and a person who has entered that
state so there was no mind as such and
then when he came out of that what came
was Vadodara and Sonia and Maidana and
Sonia
is the cheeto Sankar there are three son
Cara's - Clara what is Shankar and
chitosan car so vision our son neither
Sankara then from Quito sankhara he came
back again one by one and came to the
third jhana when he had the third John
and the breathing spots that is the cars
on rod and then when he came to the
first jhana the vitarka vichara and we
did the verbal Sankar what he sang hard
and then with that he began to
understand how the particle sama father
he understood through that and that is
how he ultimately became the Buddha so
this is very interesting to understand
oh you know another one it's called
origination yeah before my awakening
while I was still a bodhisattva not
fully awakened it occurred to me alas
the world has fallen into trouble this
sister shows how the Buddha before he
became the Buddha figured out the links
of the
than origination yeah I wouldn't figure
go all how they were it's called
origination it's and then me Dinah suta
number look at do you have a copy of it
will give you the page number
that's the difference between
intellectual knowledge and knowing and
see the direct experience that's the
realization you can have all of this
knowledge and know it intellectually but
that doesn't mean you're going to attain
anybody mom but when you realize it you
see it it's very deep that is the way it
works so it's your understanding knowing
NZ
so I guess you're holding the hippy book
again so why don't we share the merit
and call us okay
any suffering one must be suffering free
the fierce trot fearless beat me the
grieving shed all breathe and all be
inspired
may all being shared this merit that
we've just acquired for the acquisition
of all kinds of happiness may beings
inhabiting space that birth because and
noggins of mighty power protect the
you
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okay so we are here today on June 27
2016 with bought a dremel Ramsay The
Advocate on secure Meditation Center and
we will footage from Malaysia
originally from Sri Lanka and tonight we
have a discussion between both so I was
asked today about the acronym twin why
do we have the word wisdom in it the
word Samadhi is always translated as
concentration rice-davies in his
dictionary said that the word Samadhi
was never used before the time of the
Buddha there were many other words for
the word concentration but the Buddha
wanted to use a different word so it
would describe a different type of
meditation sama means
tranquil D according to I think was bad
adapte he had a dictionary it was in his
dictionary D meant wisdom so that's why
we call a tranquil wisdom insight
meditation you have to have very very
calm mind to be able to see the links of
dependent origination any time you hear
the word wise or wisdom in the suit des
it's talking about seeing the links of
dependent origination and understanding
how this process works
and I wanted you to comment on this
I hear properly
oh I'm sorry he said probably turn my
head towards you
sama is tranquil D according to the
Bodhisattva is wisdom yeah I miss them
and that's why we we called this
tranquil wisdom there is insight in this
meditation yeah
meditation WI
rice-davies in his dictionary said that
the word samadhi was never used before
the buddha started using it to describe
a different kind of meditation than
one-point-two concentration hmm is that
correct well yeah some of the ie
translated as tranquillity not
concentration I don't use the word
concentrate I learned that from you yeah
tell some of my students the word
concentration is like yeah four-letter
word in English we don't yeah yeah
do you agree with me when I say that the
word wisdom when it's used in the sutras
is talking about dependent origination
well I have no objection to using the
word wisdom because wisdom I see as the
result of meditation that means you
begin to understand or comprehend what
we dare to understand not Samet Samadhi
D is wisdom
translations are different it depends on
the person that does the interpretation
of the word their understanding of it I
think there's not a very important
problem because this is all connected
with wisdom and the tranquil mind is
able to understand things and Andreo
these things yeah
I've seem to be criticized a lot about
the instructions and mindfulness of
breathing when it says to tranquilize
the bodily formation on the in-breath
and tranquilize on the out-breath mm-hmm
there are some Australian monks that say
when you practice one pointed
concentration your mind is tranquil but
the word possum by it means it's a verb
or a noun or an adjective and the only
way we know that this is
a verb to tranquilize mm-hmm is because
of he trains thus it doesn't say he
trained to us and McCain trampled it
says that you trained us to tranquilize
and there's a lot of people because of
some translations that when they're
talking about mindfulness of breathing
they call it the the body of breath that
they have to be aware of my
understanding is that that there's too
much emphasis put on breath
and not enough emphasis on tranquilize
and what I see is there has to be this
tranquilization on me any breath and
tranquilization
on the out-breath of body this is one of
my favorite little tools there's a
membrane that goes over this and in
between and over it's called the
meninges every time the meninges every
time there's a thought feeling or
sensation the brain pushes against the
meninges and it causes like tension so
what I think that to me is on the
in-breath you relax so that there's no
tightness against the meninges on the
in-breath you do that on the out-breath
you do that and I have been criticized
by an awful lot of people that practice
many different forms of meditation
saying no that's wrong because it's the
body of breath that you have to
tranquilize
and when that happens what I would I
tell people is they're focusing too much
on the breath and not recognizing that
the tightness is how you recognize crazy
you agree with that
so and of course you have the spinal
cord going all the way down and the
meninges is around that whole thing so
when you relax that tightness that you
feel here you're actually tranquilizing
the whole body well the way I see it is
like this now we read the sutras
satipatthana Sutra the Buddha says
for him Oak inserting port-au-patois
that means Sato of society's Sato
Pavarotti that photo assisity photo
pastor you are aware of the breathing in
and aware of the breathing out you see
there is a mistake made by the
commentators that mistake is you see the
word for emote inserting no
port-au-patois there the word mukha the
translators mouth mouth
Mooka they say mouth and peri means
around around the mouth
Parramatta means around the mouth and
then they say around the mouth is the
upper lip then they say upper lip means
the nostril and then they say
concentrate concentrating on the nostril
that is what you should do when you
breathe in and breathe out what I am
saying is that that is wrong what is
called mukha is not mouth Mooka is face
now when I said this in Malaysia the
people in Malaysia said yes according to
our language MOCA means stress that
means that is the real original meaning
of the word mucker is not mouth but in
the sri lankan language signal is P
they use the word mocker to refer to the
mouth so I think that is a mistake that
they made but the real original meaning
of maka is face now the other point is
Perry maka per image around now we say
the environment is called parasara Paree
means around environment is what is
around you and para mukha means around
the face now around the face means your
attention normally you all your senses
since organs I'm the face the eyes in
the face notes in the face the tongue in
the face the years in the face now in
when an animal like a dog walks in
forelegs is the face that goes in front
not now the human being only because the
human being is standing on two legs the
face is not going forward like that but
still it is the face that is in front
and because all the organs this kind
affairs so around the face means
whatever is seen around you and that
means the eye whatever the I see outside
and whatever the year here is outside
everything is going around you and for
amou Consulting's
the word sati really means
attention so per mo consulting means the
attention that is focused on what is
around you Parham consulting Cooper
tabatha Cooper means inside upper means
outside hoop remains inside so Cooper
tappet homage to to establish that means
the attention that is focused on
external things must be withdrawn from
that and focused within that is the
meaning of that and focus within means
Kryon pasa la Vida nanopatch Amma Chetan
palma de mon mothma
that means you are focusing on the body
the feelings in the body the emotional
state in the mind and the thoughts in
the wine their emotional state means the
the word that normally used in English
is what we call the mold
MWD mode what is your mode that state of
the emotional state is the mode
are you angry or are you greedy or are
you trying to know are you worried that
is the moon so the cheetah really means
the moon and the word mano refers to the
thinking part the thinking reasoning you
find out whether it is true or false
good or bad the thinking part he
the mono and what is in the balloon is
the thought so when we say mono dama
just like we said choco Krupa chikuwa
the eye Rupa is the mental image that we
see is not material but we take it as
material means image now when we say we
are going to draw a picture that is
called Rupa that picture is called Rupa
when men a camera takes a picture the
picture is the ropa so our eyes also
like a camera taking pictures and
whatever we see when I see a chair there
it is stinky a picture in the eye what's
that
Buddha group Rupa
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what's that I learned here that problem
okay he wants to know if the root word
for our Rupa is Rupa Rupa ah Rupa Arita
yeah a Rupa means not true / that means
not a Robin is not true / Rupa is the
picture a Rupa means not a picture yeah
what I this is the four are the form no
no this is wide the picture is they use
the word form to refer to the picture is
a picture that you see that form is
another word they used to refer to a
picture I have an objection to that word
the word word mindfulness is to fill the
mind but what you are really trying to
do is to empty the mind not to fill the
buying mindfulness means you are fully
conscious that is the meaning of
mindfulness so this is your this is the
problem here is are you focusing on
external things or are you focusing on
what is going on inside you so the
satipatthana is to focus on what is
going on inside you not what is going on
outside but what is going on inside is
your reaction to what is going on
outside so instead of looking at what is
going on outside we have to take our
mind in
works and look at the reaction because
it is the reaction that we are trying to
get rid of that's to observe your mind
so yeah that's what it is to observe
what is going on outside but what is
happening to your mind yeah something to
say yeah better by practicing meta
whether you can become a attended one is
that what you're saying now if you take
the sutra on meta do you know how the
sutra ends you don't know that it ends
by saying the tincture
Anupa gamma das Elena sambar no coming
to Vienna yoga Dan Nigel to cabassa
young Pune relativity you have to
understand the meaning of that what it
says is if you practice this matter in
the proper way at the end you will not
enter a mother's womb or that means you
won't be
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you can that what that means if if you
practice meta Corolla Moneta opaque I'm
the proper way you can become according
to a commentary no the thing is when you
practice meta Karuna modi topic you are
starting with somewhat little meta her
own eyes Samata then when you come to
mudita you are still at summit but when
you get into pika you know the meaning
of opec rrah
what is that that is the wrong
translation
this is the wrong translator who Pekka
means
uper okati I told you oppa means inside
outside this upper our uper Academy is
seeing seeing the inside you know this
is a very important meaning seeing the
inside means now when you look at that
chair there raise the chair the chair is
outside there is not inside you see but
if you instead of looking at the chair
outside if you begin to look at the
process of seeing the process of seeing
is something going on inside did you
understand that the seeing and what you
see and how you see these why you use
those words what you see is outside
there how you see is inside here so when
you talk about seeing the inside you are
really looking at the process of
perception the see what how you see so
instead of looking at what you see you
must look at look at how you see and it
is only when you look at how you see
that the real inside comes the real
insight is
what you see there although you see it
like that it is really inside you
because your eye is like a camera taking
pictures and the big tailings idea not
there so the whole world that you see
outside is really inside you see the
Buddha is called fatality the meaning of
that cut is like this English word that
that you know the English word that that
is always outside there that eyelid how
that means come I have come and that
means that I have arrived at that that
is the meaning of that Agata one who has
arrived at that that means that that has
been seen as this what is the insight
you see in other words there is no
object there but there is only the
subject this is what you know there was
during the time of the Buddha there was
a person called da da da da root Iria
what
by is our chariot now he he had been
meditating and he was very advanced in
meditation and he thought he was an
errand but his mother was born as a
devil and the mother looked at him from
the they were local and saw that he was
not a Navajo and that he was also going
to die soon so the mother came and said
you think you are at our heart but you
are not an arahant the real aren t there
that the buddha go and talk to him
because you are going to die very soon
so he got accepted and he went to see
the buddha and then the buddha was going
on Binda path
so when buddha was going on reading
about the dead the Buddha said I can
teach you now I'll go finish the Pinta
part and then I will talk to you he said
no no no don't do that please
because I might die at any moment
so they put the looked into his and then
he saw that deal it is true that he was
going to die soon so the Buddha said
okay I will teach you and he said in the
scene there is only the sea in the scene
means it's EE n see in the scene
there is only the seeing is e ing you
see so that means what you see outside
there is really the seeing inside what
you see so that is the important thing
to understand that is the meaning of
totality and also the Hindus the Hindus
borrowed some Buddhist ideas from the
Buddha but and incorporated in there
Upanishads and things like that so is
there is a common saying among the
Hindus that thomassie taught Trump ah si
that means that that tuam means you so
Tata mercy means you are that that means
you are the subject that is the object
so what what they are saying is the same
thing that the subject the object is
really the subject and that is the
meaning of Tatanka that the Buddha so
many ways he is talking about the same
thing so ultimately what we call insight
is really becoming aware of the process
of perception normally people aware of
the object that we see but here the
Buddha or the Iran is looking at now if
you read the the first sutras the bunch
of money crime Agana sutra that Agana
sutra
that is what the Buddha is pointing out
there he's comparing how the ordinary
person sees things in the world then how
the person who is meditating sees the
world then he points out how the arahant
who has finished meditation we have
perfected and how the Buddha says this
is the same thing he points out
patterning party with o sanjaya naughty
but I mean part of it means solid any
any solid that we are thinking is a
solid normally people see the solid that
is forgiving part of it o sanjaya navi
and perturbing petrova toes Sonia - ah
but having magnetic that means having
seen the part of a the object he comes
to the conclusion there is an object
there that is the normal person but the
aha
Butterbean part Obito abhijanati that
that word abhijanati the ordinary person
was Sangha naughty sangun aunty just
seen the thing a maternity is a higher
level of seeing which is not seeing the
object but seeing how the object is seen
that is the abhijanati and then he says
but having part Obito a boniato
but having no magnetic he doesn't come
to the conclusion that there is the care
there that is the important thing about
the arounds more laborious that's right
here is the more per year suit about
Daru giri you are talking about Darwin
theory what Susan yeah because he saw
from the as a devil he was able to read
this minor the Devas are able to read
the bind
what is it yeah oh yes yes there is my
undermined communication that way boys
they have certain powers that we don't
have they was there are so many other
power that they have which we don't have
you have to become mad ever to find out
no it is like you are able to work and
you are able to talk maybe some other
animals are not able to do that
everything is like that you say so you
are born with certain abilities what
meta bow how the tooth mouth to mr. Bao
now you tell me one is that what you
asked
huh well what is it he wants to know
about the 40 different
the meditation whether you can what
event the 40 different kinds of
meditation invisibie mada uh-huh
he wants to know if you can attain
nirvana with oars
no no no the 40 different kinds of
meditation they are what is called
Samata Bhavana
so the samata bhavana can only calm the
mind it doesn't bring you insight the
insight comes from a different kind of
meditation that is the bee person about
what oh yeah yeah yeah yeah the five
aggregates and the four foundations of
mindfulness yeah yeah are the same thing
yeah yeah well you were in the John you
can have inside if according to my way
of thinking yes
no the thing is that not the first
German you have to get to the fourth
jhana to get the insight once you are in
the fourth jhana you can get
inside there well maybe I don't know but
how do you say that the first jhana you
can get inside yeah yeah yeah minded
spiel okay but that doesn't mean need
one no well in the first jhana there are
no hindrances therefore the mind is pure
but although the mind is pure you have
not become an around no yeah no no
insides also there are different degrees
of insight that's right yeah we explain
yeah you don't take it personally
anymore oh yeah yeah your feeling of
self disappeared in the first jhana yeah
you can call it an insight but the thing
is that is not permanent
no that is why no no means if you if you
become enter the first jhana your mind
is purified even the thought of self
disappears but when your mind gets
polluted again that disappears so but
that is a temporary purification of the
mind absolutely
but there is inside no inside but I am
from calling inside is the permanent
purification of the mind where you begin
to understand the
the truth about life and then you won't
be polluted again that is the other half
that is they are know that our hunter
state cannot come in the first jump I
didn't say that yeah you can get inside
in the verge Anna yes but not to the
level of understanding yeah yeah yeah
yeah you can become an arahant in the
fortune that you can become and you can
experience any bottom well you have a
Sutra that says that yes ah fifty one or
two I don't remember
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well look at that what's the name of the
Sutra article Margret Sutra
so when I'm teaching when I'm thinking
or meditation I tell people that they
have the potential to attain nirvana and
it can happen at any time
it depends on that person and their
understanding but the Vedas written here
it looks like in the first channel you
can be coming around here
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but the thing with me awakening changers
is that they will come together and then
will be in perfect balance and there is
in the new pilot suit
it says even in the first jhana there is
some beta and and when when you
experience it you see it because you see
that there's to a certain amount of
balance it's not real strong but it is
there
we have to look into this yeah okay
looks like but you're saying is correct
I didn't hear that properly my heart's
up to here
yes why did he reject what was the
practice
they look back to see down to this is
why I was talking this morning about the
difference between absorption jhana and
twin mm-hmm
I was rejecting I was talking about the
difference between what the monk from
Australia you were talking about his
teaching as compared with what I was
teaching
ah and the difference is he was teaching
absorption concentration absorption
concentration a kind of hypnosis
yeah yeah yeah yeah that's why it
doesn't lead to any bother
yeah yeah but what I'm teaching by
letting go of and relaxing the crazy
yeah yeah it changes back to the path
and it does lead to me by what he's
asking is why did the Buddha reject
Alara Kalama and Kodaka Rama puta they
they said come and teach and he said no
not satisfied because he wasn't
recognizing the craving that he kept
bringing back to his object of
meditation and that took him off the
path that he was looking for can they
have a look at that yeah this is this
about Laura Kalama my teacher ready to
stop into that top right there
and that is one of the reasons I have a
problem with Samata meditation and the
personal meditation
oh no this what this means is that now
the Alara Kalama and the quran put the
word that teachers and that even
afternoon so the buddha was able the
buddha not buddha at that time prince
ADATA he was able to read the level that
Alara Kalama had reached and so Allah
Rama said now you have read the same
level that I have reached so be here we
will be two teachers teaching these
people so the princes daughter said no I
don't want to be your teacher and I want
to go further than that yeah I want to
go further than that and even to get the
grammar put now there would the Kurama
put had read the same level that Allah
column had reached but he said my
teacher who is now dead my teacher who
is Allah who the Kurama he had reached
the next stage highest stage and I can
tell you what he told me and if you like
you can try it
so he said okay you tell me and then he
was told and he tried that and he read
that stage of non-return and laundry
universe at navel
nasayaat you know so then this the
Kurama of the morrow the Kurama puta
said now you have reached the level of
my teacher so I will treat you as my
teacher you stay here then he said no
I'm not interested in being your teacher
I want to go further and that is how he
went to do a citizen he thought there is
no on the way I will try in the ascetic
life and that is how he started fasting
and he became like a skeleton and
ultimately he even started to stop
breathing and when he started to stop
breathing
then he fainted and fell and then when
he woke up he thought I have been doing
the wrong things all this time and
because I have been trying to learn from
other people I have to go my own way not
to go after other people and then he
recalled that when he was a child he was
able to enter the first jungle and so he
thought now I will give up everything
and I into the first German
a different genre that what he was
practicing with these other teachers oh
yeah yeah yeah it is something different
yeah and and that that Jana was
something that automatically came to him
as a child there was no one to teach him
because he has been practicing all the
power of with us all this time and so he
automatically entered that so he got
into that III I call it just letting go
that is what he did it's not really a
Nibbana Swati
it was just letting go giving up
everything letting go means relaxing
he's the main thing that he did was
relaxing nothing else just relaxed and
so when he relaxed he entered the first
jhana automatically because he was free
from the hindrances when he's free from
the hindrances and then of course from
the first jhana he went to the 3rd 2nd
3rd and 4th jhana and then he went even
to the others as an entitlement winner
and children he rental Sonia vada eaten
erode so when he went to Sonia vada Nero
the that King Cole mind was absent at
that point so he had only the physical
body which is alive and there was a
temperature in the body and that is all
that is the difference between a dead
body and a person who has entered that
state so there was no mind as such and
then when he came out of that what came
was Vadodara and Sonia and Maidana and
Sonia
is the cheeto Sankar there are three son
Cara's - Clara what is Shankar and
chitosan car so vision our son neither
Sankara then from Quito sankhara he came
back again one by one and came to the
third jhana when he had the third John
and the breathing spots that is the cars
on rod and then when he came to the
first jhana the vitarka vichara and we
did the verbal Sankar what he sang hard
and then with that he began to
understand how the particle sama father
he understood through that and that is
how he ultimately became the Buddha so
this is very interesting to understand
oh you know another one it's called
origination yeah before my awakening
while I was still a bodhisattva not
fully awakened it occurred to me alas
the world has fallen into trouble this
sister shows how the Buddha before he
became the Buddha figured out the links
of the
than origination yeah I wouldn't figure
go all how they were it's called
origination it's and then me Dinah suta
number look at do you have a copy of it
will give you the page number
that's the difference between
intellectual knowledge and knowing and
see the direct experience that's the
realization you can have all of this
knowledge and know it intellectually but
that doesn't mean you're going to attain
anybody mom but when you realize it you
see it it's very deep that is the way it
works so it's your understanding knowing
NZ
so I guess you're holding the hippy book
again so why don't we share the merit
and call us okay
any suffering one must be suffering free
the fierce trot fearless beat me the
grieving shed all breathe and all be
inspired
may all being shared this merit that
we've just acquired for the acquisition
of all kinds of happiness may beings
inhabiting space that birth because and
noggins of mighty power protect the
you
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