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

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thus if I heard on one occasion the

blessed one was living at vesali in the

great wood in the hall with a peaked

roof now on that occasion a number of

monks had declared final knowledge in

the presence of the Blessed One bus we

understand Bertha's destroyed the holy

life has been lived what has it has had

to be done has been done there's no more

coming to any state of being soon akhada

is kind of an interesting character

because he became a monk but the reason

that he became a monk was so he could

spend his time looking at the Buddha and

he wasn't doing any practice or he was

just hanging out basically any time the

Buddha came around he would go get close

to him as he could and

the Buddha scolded him and told him he

had to go away and he became so upset

that he disrobed but he'd still come and

listen to some Tama talks sooo Nakada

son of the lek of ease heard a number of

monks it seems have declared final

knowledge in the presence of the Blessed

One thus we understand birth is

destroyed the holy life has been lived

what had to be done has been done there

is no more coming to any state of being

then su Nakada

son of the lek of ease went to the

Blessed One after paying homage to him

sat down at one side and said to the

Blessed One

I have heard venerable sir that a number

of monks have declared final knowledge

in the presence of the Blessed One did

they do so rightly or are some monks

here who declared final knowledge

because they overestimated themselves

when those monks su Nakada declared

final knowledge in my presence there

were some of some monks who declared

final knowledge rightly and there were

some who declared final knowledge

because they overestimated themselves

therein when monks declaring final

knowledge rightly their declaration is

true but when monks declare final

knowledge because they overestimate

themselves that the target that thinks I

should teach them the Dhamma thus it is

in this case to Nakada that the two

togehter thinks I should teach them the

Dhamma but some misguided men

here formulate a question come to the

tatata and ask it he's still cuffing him

up a bit in that case who Nakada

the tatata has thought I should teach

them the Dhamma that he and he changes

his mind this is the time blessed one

this is the time sublime one for the

blessed one to teach the Dhamma having

heard it from the Blessed One the monks

will remember it

then listen soon Akita and attend

closely to what I shall say yes

venerable serves Nakada

son of the lack of ease replied to the

Blessed One the Blessed One said this

there are soon Agata these five cords of

sensual pleasure what are the five forms

cognizable by the eyes that are wished

for desired agreeable unlikeable

connected with central desire and

inviting lust sounds cognizable by the

year that are wished for desired

agreeable unlikeable connected with

sensual desire and inviting lust odors

cognizable by them notes excuse me that

our wish for desired agreeable and

likeable connected with sensual desire

and inviting lust flavours cognizable by

the tongue that our wish for desired

agreeable and likeable connected

with central desire and inviting lust

tangibles cognizable by the body that

are wished for desired agreeable

unlikeable connected with central desire

inviting lust these are the five cords

of central pleasure

it is possible su Nakada that some

person here made be intent on worldly

material things when a person is intent

on worldly material things only talk

concerning that interest him and his

thinking and pondering are in line with

that and he is he associates with that

kind of person he finds him that he

finds satisfaction in that

but when talk about the imperturbable

was going on he will not listen to it or

give here or exert his mind to

understand it he does not associate with

that kind of person and he does not find

satisfaction in that suppose soon Aqaba

a man had left his own village or town

for a long time ago and he were to see

another man who has only recently left

that villager town he would ask that man

whether the people of that village or

town were safe prosperous and healthy

and that man would tell him whether the

people of the village or town were safe

brand cross

person healthy what do you think sue na

katha would that first man listen to

them give hear and exert his mind to

understand

yes venerable sir so too soon Agata it

is possible that some person here may be

intent on worldly material things when a

person is intent on worldly material

things

well I can't find where the dot dot dots

were Oh only talk concerning that

interest in and his thinking and

pondering or in line with that and he

associates with that kind of person and

and he finds satisfaction in that

but when talk about and butter bobble is

going on you will not listen or give

here or Easter exert his mind to

understand it he does not associate with

that kind of person and does not sound

the not find satisfaction in that he

should be understood as a person who is

tenth on worldly material things

it is possible soon Agata that some

person here may be intent on the

imperturbable when a person is intent on

the imperturbable only talk concerning

that interest him and his thinking and

pondering are in line with that and he

associates with that kind of person any

find satisfaction in that

but when talk on worldly material things

is going on you will not listen to it or

give here or exert his mind to

understand it he does not associate with

that kind of person and does not find

satisfaction in that this is a little

bit tricky because if you have some kind

of attainment whether you get into

Toronto or not if you start talking with

people that are more interested in

material things they don't want to hear

about meditation they don't want to hear

about any kind of

taemin it means nothing to them so it's

just wasted words when I first started

meditating and I went to a retreat

center and then I went home for a little

while and my family asked me where I had

been and I told them I was at a

meditation centre and they didn't want

to talk about it they didn't want to

find out what my experience was so I

just left them me and to this day they

all know that I've done a lot of

meditation then I dress funny and they

still don't want to know and I don't

talk with them but basically I mean they

start talking about material things I

get bored real quick but I don't I'm not

interested in what they're talking about

if you try to convince somebody's if

meditation is the way that's the first

mistake that you're going to make you

can't convince anybody else especially

family members because they remember you

when you were that tall and they're not

going to pay attention to you so it's

they might listen if you try to talk out

for a little while but they don't think

it's interesting they don't find it

helpful to them but a few years ago my

mother died and she was at home when she

died and she was 94 years old so yeah

okay that's that's fine and

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the family was there there must have

been there is over ten people there

there must have been 11 or 12 I can't

remember but what happened was I she

would my mother was getting close to

death we knew it was going to happen

that day so I was just hanging out with

her and I started radiating equanimity

and they all had a very balanced mind

they all knew that I was doing something

that they didn't want to ask what it was

because they're kind of afraid of

anything other than Christian praise the

Lord kind of thing and when my mother

finally died David just reset my clock

and it reminded me of the time that my

mother died which was kind of an

interesting thing she died on her

mother's birthday

and she died at 3:33 trees are big today

and it was very interesting because

right after she died we all just sat

together and I kept radiating

loving-kindness and an equanimity to

everyone and they had this very balanced

mind for five or ten minutes and then my

sister-in-law said something to the

effect I don't know whether to be happy

or sad and I said well now that mom's

died you're not your sadness isn't going

to affect her so if you want to start

crying doing that sort of thing that's

fine now it's an interesting thing that

you don't want to be

sobbing and making all kinds of sad

statements and unhappy statements when

somebody is dying you want them to die

with an uplifted mind so that they'll

have a peaceful existence after they

leave

but after they've gone then it doesn't

matter they'll stick hanging out for a

little while after that and then they'll

go away and I had a niece that came up

to me after they after my mother died

and she said well where she reborn and I

said she's she's in and devaloka and

that's where she was reborn she was

reborn in two-seat to heaven she was an

extremely generous kind compassionate

person her whole life so she had a good

rebirth because of that

and don't ask me how I know I just know

that that's where she was reborn and

just came into my mind that that was it

so don't nobody else ask me about those

kind of things I don't know

just as a yellow leaf has fallen from

its stock it's incapable of becoming

green again

so to sue Nakata when a person is tanta

intent on the imperturbable he has shed

the Feder of the worldly material things

he should be understood as a person

detached from the federal worldly

material things whose intent on the

imperturbable so the only time in my

family that I will answer anything about

meditation is if they directly ask I

can't hear you well

and that's your choice

but I always wait to see I wait and see

what they have to say and sometimes it's

well doesn't that go against the Bible

when I tell them that when I was with

people they were dying I was reading

from the Bible I don't care what the the

holy book I use and most of the time

they go along with that sort of thing

but they don't they don't question

deeply they don't question what were you

doing well well mom was dying they don't

ask those kind of questions so that's

fine

it is possible soon akut that some

person here may be intent on the base of

nothingness when a person is intent on

the base of nothingness only talk

concerning that interest him and his

thinking and pondering are in line with

that and he associates with that kind of

person and you find satisfaction in that

now this is an interesting thing because

almost everybody that does meditation

they say you're never supposed to talk

about your attainments and because one

of the parrot chica rules is falsely

claiming that you get into one John over

another or you get to one attainment or

another just so you can get some kind of

material possession out of it that's a

rule for the monks it's not a rule for

laymen laymen can talk about that but

you have to pick out the kind of person

that's at about the same level as you

are so that you can really discuss it

and you can teach each other wonderful

lessons when you start doing that when I

was in Burma doing all of the straight

Vipassana

I get together with a couple of my monk

friends and we start comparing notes

about what insights we were having and

that sort of thing and it was it was

quite helpful so not talking about what

your attainment is you have to be

careful and you can talk with it with

somebody that understands what you're

talking about but don't try to convince

anybody else that this is what your

understanding is so at first when you

start meditating you start finding out

that the people you used to like to hang

out with they were really into their

material things and they didn't want to

talk about anything other than that and

those friends just kind of fade away

they were just not so interested in them

and you don't want to spend a lot of

time with them because there's other

things that you'd rather be doing that

when you get with somebody that does

understand some of your conversations

can be absolutely brilliant really good

I had an interesting thing happen before

I became a monk I was living and working

in San Francisco and I went to a party

and I was trying to keep my precepts

fairly well and this party I went to

they were drinking beer and they were

smoking pot and they were just talking

nonsense

so I decided well these people are all

suffering so I'm going to start sending

them loving and kind thoughts

so I started radiating Metta and they

all got up not at the same time but they

all got up and went into another room

because they weren't comfort

with somebody that had a care mind and

after 10 or 15 minutes I was sitting in

the room by myself and I'm thinking well

okay I might as well leave but as I was

getting ready to leave somebody came

from the other room and came back in and

we started talking and we had a great

conversation there was before long there

was two or three other people that were

it came back into the room and they

weren't interested in smoking pot and

drinking beer they were just there with

their their partners whoever they

happened to be and we had a great

spiritual discussion but people that

aren't interested in it you can't push

in on them you can't try to convince

them you just let them be and that works

out pretty good

but when talk about the imperturbable is

going on other people will not listen to

it or give ear to it or exert their mind

to understand it he does not associate

with that kind of person and does not

find satisfaction in that because it's

beyond their scope of understanding and

most people are really a lot more

comfortable just talking nonsense stuff

just as the thick stone that is split in

two cannot be joined together again so

to su Nakata when a person is intent on

the base of nothingness his fetter of

the imperturbable has been split he

should be understood as a person

detached from the federally and perturb

a bull who is intent on the base of

nothingness the imperturbable and

another souped up one right after this

is talking about the imperturbable being

the fourth jhana so somebody in the

fourth jhana and you're talking to them

about the realm of nothingness they

won't understand what you're talking

about so much you can talk to them about

the fourth jhana because that's their

experience but they won't understand

what the base of nothingness really is I

had an interesting student that it was

it was getting up into the realm of

nothingness the realm of neither

perception nor non-perception and he

came to me one day and he said you know

every time you give a diamond talked and

talked about this these different

what you're saying is exactly true but

it's not even close to the actual

experience so what we're starting to

discuss here is the realm of nothingness

I can describe to you what you need to

stay with your object of meditation and

what your object of meditation is and

you mean to what you need to do to

progress but it's not even close to the

actual experience every word that you

use is a concept so verbalization

doesn't work when you're talking about

direct direct experience because it's

beyond concepts it is the actual

experience then that's what I try to

help you to get to with these different

descriptions that I use but it's not

going to be the same as I described it

it's going to be somewhat different but

it's close enough that you got the idea

this is why we have to stop letting go

of our thinking so much well he said

this or she said that it doesn't matter

what they said what is your direct

experience the thing that attracted me

to Buddhism so much was the self

responsibility so the self

responsibility is really important and

you thanked me for helping you to get

one place or another and I thank you for

doing it because you're doing the actual

work and you're teaching yourself you

are your own

teachers and when the painful thing

comes up what do you do is that what

your habitual tendency your habitual

emotional tendency well you always try

to think the feeling and it doesn't work

the feeling can be painful but it's it's

only a painful feeling so what it's just

there if you don't make a big deal out

of it in your mind with all of your

verbalization and all of your trying to

control the feeling with your thoughts

if you don't get caught up in that trap

then you can let it be there by itself

and it doesn't hurt so much and

eventually it will go away by itself

when you have that balance of mind but

anytime you get caught up in any kind of

it doesn't matter whether it's a mental

feeling or a physical feeling you need

to allow it to be there by itself okay

the relief step is incredibly important

but not as important as the relaxed step

is have you noticed that when you use

the six hours there's a clear spot right

behind that where your mind isn't

thinking where your mind is bright and

clear and very alert as to what's

happening in the present and you have

a pure mind because you've let go of

craving and with that pure brain you

keep coming back to your object to

meditation the hindrances the things

that pull your attention away and cause

you to get emotional on all of that sort

of thing is going to stop happening so

much because you're purifying your mind

that's why the six R's are very very

important it is possible in cinah kata

that some person here may be intent on

the base of neither perception nor

non-perception when a person is intent

on the base of neither perception nor

non-perception only talk concerning that

interest them and his thinking and

pondering are in line with that and he

associates with that kind of person

any find satisfaction in that

but when talk about the base of

nothingness is going on he will not

listen to it give it here or exert his

mind he does not associate with that

kind of person I don't find that to be

necessarily true once we get into

neither nothingness or neither

perception nor non-perception you can

you can discuss with each other

understand each other but there are some

things about neither perception nor

non-perception that don't happen when

you're in nothingness because mind is

becoming very subtle

now you wife type when you get to that

level I tell you about being able to

watch the small little movements of

minds attention and six are right there

just relax into that let it be there by

itself what you're starting to see is

different links of dependent origination

and we'll get into that a little bit

later so

if you're doing the forgiveness

meditation don't be thinking about the

links of dependent origination

necessarily you're practicing being able

to see those but you don't recognize it

as such because the feeling comes up and

I don't like that feeling and then the

craving comes up and then your story

about why you like or dislike that

feeling and then you get into your

habitual emotional tendency and take it

personally and you cause yourself a

miserable amounts of suffering that is

dependent origination to when you're

doing the forgiveness meditation your

start is starting to sharpen up your

mindfulness you're able to see much more

clearly how those things work

so

suppose a person has eaten some

delicious food and throw it up what do

you think sue knock at the could that

man have any desire to eat that food

again what do you think the answer is if

I grew it up I'm not going to do that

again

no venerable sir why is that because

that food is considered repulsive so to

sue Nakada

when a person is intent on the base of

neither perception nor non-perception

the Feder of the base of nothingness has

been rejected he should be understood as

a person detached from the fetter of the

base of means of nothingness who is

intent on the base of neither perception

nor non-perception it is possible Sunna

cotta that some person here may be

completely intent on Nibbana when a

person is completely intent on me Bona

only talk concerning that interest him

and his thinking and pondering are in

line with that and he associate only

with that kind of person he finds

satisfaction in that

but when talk about the base of neither

perception nor non-perception is going

on he will not listen to it or give ear

or exert his mind to understand that

it's always amazed me how people

continually try

you talk about navona and that's an

unconditioned State how can you talk

about something with conditioned words

and get any understanding it has to be a

direct experience he does not associate

with a kind of person and he does not

find satisfaction in that just as a palm

tree with its top cutoff is incapable of

growing again

so to sanaka de when a person is

completely intent on navona this is an

interesting thing because you can be

intent on me Bona but that also brings

up longing for me Bona and that's the

thing that'll stop it from happening I

had a person that at last Easter retreat

before she had had an experience of

becoming a soda pond so she came to this

retreat intent on having another

experience and after four or five days

of oh just so much pain and so much

suffering she was getting shoes I want

to go home I don't need this area and I

started laughing because she was so

caught up in her want to have the same

experience on that she couldn't get to

it and when I laughed she got angry at

me and I said well

are we evolving for something do we want

something to happen in the same way that

it happened before and that stopped her

cold and

she started thinking about that reason

well I am kind of pushing a little bit

too much well yeah that's a polite way

of putting it so I had her just flowered

I gave the suit about becoming like

water water is just gonna travel

downhill and it comes up to a rock is it

going to try to push that rock out of

the way well it's going to just go

around it let it be there by itself so I

told her to be like water and allow all

of these things to be by themselves

don't be taking things personally

yeah so

she started doing that and I think it

was the next day she came in and she

said there's a whole happy oh I stopped

pushing and I just started watching and

look at what happened

the thing is with these kind of stories

you can start expecting well I'm going

to do the same thing and it's not going

to happen in the same way it's going to

happen in a different way but the point

is she gave up her longing for that

experience to happen again and when she

gave up trying to make that experience

happen again as when it had the

opportunity to come up and happen again

so the whole thing comes down to you can

be intent on me Bona but you're just

pointing your mind in the direction you

want to have a more wholesome mind you

want to have letting go of tensions and

tightness --is and things like that

letting go of identifying with your

thoughts and your feelings and

sensations and pains that arise

every time you use the six hours you are

attaining the bottom okay it's mundane

to be sure but as you do the mundane

often enough the super mundane has an

opportunity to arise what you're doing

is every time you use the six hours

you're letting go of that burning

craving I want or I don't want as a case

maybe doesn't matter

same coin different sides you have to

treat it in the same way and if we relax

into it and not get so caught up in it

and the more you stop being serious with

trying to attain something the easier it

is to attain okay his Feder of the base

of neither perception nor non-perception

has been cut off cut it the route made

like a palm stomp done away with so that

there's no more there's no longer

subject to future arising he should be

understood as a person detached from the

fedorov neither to be in neither

perception nor non-perception who is

completely intent on me bona it is

possible to Nakada that some person here

might think this craving has been called

in Harald by the recluse the poisonous

humor of ignorance is spread about by

desire

last Hill will that arrow of craving has

to be removed from me the poisonous

humor of ignorance has to be expelled I

am one who is completely intent on me

Bona since he conceives himself thus

though it is contrary to fact he might

pursue those things that are unsuitable

for one completely intent on me Bona he

might pursue the slightest light of the

site of unsuitable forms with the eye

he might pursue unsuitable sounds with

the ears unsuitable odors with the nose

unsuitable flavors with the tongue

unsuitable tangibles with the body or

unsuitable mind objects with mind when

he pursues the site of unsuitable forms

with his eye and going through that five

or six Agrico the six faculties again

lust invades his mind now this is

something that's pretty interesting

because I've been around people that

they claim they have attained Nirvana

but they still break precepts they still

do things that are unsuitable they do

things that make lust arise they can

lose

that attainment because it's yours

you're just ignoring everything you're

ignoring the the thing that got you

there oh now I can go back to being the

way I was so I'm going to watch

pornographic movies and I'm going to eat

all kinds of things that I shouldn't be

eating and I'm getting into drugs and

alcohol a little bit that's okay I'm

awakened but guess who loses their

attainment now when you have the

fruition

that's when that payment is set and it's

there it you won't do those kind of

things anymore

suppose sue Nakata man were wounded by

an arrow thickly smeared with poison and

as friends and companions his kinsmen

and relatives brought a surgeon the

surgeon would cut out the opening of the

wound with a knife then would probe for

the arrow with a probe then he would

pull out the arrow and would expel the

Jim the poisonous humour leaving a trace

of it behind and this is what I'm

talking about the pathology unsuitable

okay thinking that no trace was left

behind he would say good man the arrow

has been pulled out from you the

poisonous humor has been expelled with

no trace left behind and it's incapable

of harming you eat only suitable food do

not eat Hounsou

both food where else the womb word would

separate supper rate from time to time

wash the wound from time to time anoint

its opening so that the pus and blood

did not cover the opening of the wound

did not walk around in the wind and the

Sun or else dust and dirt may infect the

opening wound take care of your wound

good man see to it that the wound heals

the man would think the arrow has been

pulled out that's what we're talking

about again I have this attainment I

don't have to worry about anything ever

again

because now I'm I sewed upon the

poisonous humor has been expelled with

no trace left behind but there is a

trace left behind and is incapable of

harming me he would eat unsuitable food

the wound would then would this sub

curate he would not wash the wound from

time to time and would not annoy its

opening from time to time and pus and

blood would cover the opening of the

wound he would walk around in the wind

and the Sun and dust and dirt would

infect the opening of the womb he would

not take care of his woman nor would he

see to it that the wound heals then both

because he does it he does what is

unsuitable and because the trace was

left behind when the foul poisonous

humor was expelled the wound would swell

and its swelling would then incurred

death for deadly

free so to sue Nakada it is possible

that some monk here might think craving

has been called an arrow by the Rekluse

the poisonous humor of ignorance is

spread about by desire less than

ill-will that arrow of craving has been

removed from me the poisonous humour of

ignorance has been expelled I am one who

is completely intent on me Bona because

it conceives himself to us though it's

contrary to fact he might pursue things

that are unsuitable for one completely

intent on me Bona was his mind invaded

by lust he would incur that death or

deadly suffering for it is death in that

this disciple of Noble one suno kutah

when one abandons training in reverts to

the low life it is a deadly suffering

when one commits some defiled offense

that's why I say you've got to be

careful with your precepts because you

can still get into your old habit of

gossip or wrong speech or whatever and

you're gonna lose your attainment

because of that unless you get to the

fruition of so DePalma then you won't do

that anymore

it is possible su Nakada that some monk

here might think thus praising has been

called an arrow by the Rekluse a

poisonous humor the ignorant is spread

about

desire lust them ill-will the hero

craving has been removed from me the

poisonous humor of ignorance has been

expelled I am one who is completely

intent on me Bona being one who really

is intent on navona would not pursue

those things unsuitable for one

completely intent on me Bona you would

not pursue the site of unsighted

unsuitable forms by the eye he would not

pursue have suitable sounds with the ear

unsuitable odors with a nose unsuitable

flavors with the tongue unsuitable

tangibles with the body unsuitable mind

objects with mine because he does not

pursue the site of unsighted unsuitable

forms with the eye or any of the other

sense faculties lust does not invade his

mind and remain because his mind is not

invaded by lust he would not incur death

or deadly suffering suppose su Nakata

man were wounded by an arrow thickly

smeared with poison and his friends and

his companions his kinsmen and relatives

brought a surgeon the surgeon would cut

around the opening of the wound with a

knife then he would probe for the arrow

with the probe then he would pull out

the arrow and would expel the poisonous

humor without trace their leaving a

trace of it be

knowing that one that no trace was left

behind he would say good man the arrow

has been pulled out from you the

poisonous humor has been expelled with

no trace left behind and it is incapable

of harming you eat only suitable food do

not eat unsuitable food or else the

wound would separate from time to time

wash the wound from time to time anoint

its opening so that pus and blood could

not cover the opening of the wound do

not walk around in the wind and the Sun

or else dust and dirt might infect the

opening of the wound

take care of your wound good man and see

to it that it heals well

the man would think the arrow has been

pulled out from me the poisonous humor

has been expelled with no trace left

behind it is incapable of harming me he

would eat very suitable food and the

wound would not sup URI from time to

time he would wash the wound from time

to time he would anoint its opening and

pus and blood would not cover the

opening of the wound he would not walk

around in the wind and Sun and dust and

dirt would not infect the opening of the

wound he would take care of his wound

and he would see to it that the wound

heals then because he does not in

because he does what is suitable and

because no trace was left behind when

the foul poisonous humor was expelled

the wound would heal and because it had

healed and was covered with skin he

would not incur death or deadly

suffering so too soon Agata it is

possible that some monk here might think

craving has been called an arrow by the

Rekluse the poisonous humor of ignorance

is spread about by desire lust an ill

will that arrow of craving has been

pulled out from me the poisonous humour

of ignorance has been expelled I am one

who is completely intent on

bhana being one who's really intent on

Ivana he would not pursue those things

unsuitable for one completely intent on

Nevada because his mind did not invade

it is not invaded by lust he would not

occur death or deadly suffering soon

akut I've given the simile in order to

convey a meaning this is the meaning

here wound is a term for the six

internal bases poisonous humor is a term

for ignorant arrow is a term for craving

probe is the term for mindfulness knife

is a term for noble wisdom surgeon is a

term for the tataka to the accomplished

one the fully awakened one that monk su

Nakata is one who practices restraint of

the six bases of contact having

understood that the acquisition is the

root of suffering being acquisition

illest liberated in the destruction of

the acquisitions it is not possible that

he would direct his body or arouse his

mind towards any acquisition suppose su

na katha there were bronze cup of

beverage possessing good color smell and

taste that it is mixed with a poison

and a man came hoody who wanted to live

not to die who wanted pleasure and

recoiled from pain what do you think su

naka - would that man drink that cup of

beverage knowing if I drink it I will

incur death or deadly suffering no

venerable sir so - that monk is one who

practices restraint of the six paces of

contact having understood the

acquisition is the root of suffering

acquisition means taking it personally

being acquisition olace I can't say that

correctly liberated in the destruction

of Equus issuance it is not possible

that he would direct his body or arouse

his mind towards any acquisition no more

crazy suppose su Nakada there was a

deadly poisonous snake and a man who

wanted to live not to die who wanted

pleasure and recoiled from pain what do

you think su na kita would that man give

that deadly poisonous snake in his hand

or come knowing if I'm bitten by him

I will incur death or deadly suffering

no venerable sir so - when a monk

practises restraint of the six paces of

contact and having understood that

attainment is the root of suffering it

is without attachment liberated by the

destruction of the attachment

it is not possible that he would direct

his body or mind towards any object of

attachment this is what the Blessed One

said su naka de the son of the lack of

ease was satisfied and delighted in the

Blessed ones words so keeping your

precepts not getting over carried away

with the sixth sense doors by not

getting carried away it doesn't mean

that you don't have those stores anymore

you do have them but you don't get

caught up in thinking about them how

you'd like the sight as soon as you take

that personally then your mind is going

to start coming up in a sneaky way to

think about other things and pull you

away from your object to meditation so

you have to let that go that's how you

guard the doors of the sense that where

the doors of sense contact

when you notice one of those contacts is

mind-objects

how much do you get caught up in that

how much does it affect the way you see

the world around you in a negative way

so what we have to is be able to

recognize their mind is playing this

game again and it is a game if you make

it a game and you can have a lot of fun

with it and you can kind of laugh

without praise of your mind is and the

more you laugh for less you take it

personally and when you let go and don't

take it personally anymore your mind

gets more clear but taking these old

habitual tendencies as being yours I'm

always this way that's one of the things

that I really enjoy what I get a couple

together and the man will say something

in and then the woman will say well you

always say that well guess what who has

an attachment who doesn't like it who

wants it to be different that's a great

opportunity to see how mine always acts

in the same way but how much do you

expect the results to be different and

when they're not

how much do you not like that and want

to push it away even more and the more

you think and ponder on it the more it's

going to keep coming up so learn from

that and don't treat it in the same way

your forgiveness meditation you're using

the six RS your forgiveness of having

your mind do that that means you're

changing how you see the world and that

change can be a very positive change as

you use the six R's and keep forgiving

it you're letting go of an old

attachment and you make it into a game

you don't get over serious with this

stuff because getting over serious who

says what am I taking personally what am

I trying to control what what don't I

like oh my mind always does that you

know I never always does anything unless

you keep feeding it what do you feed it

with your attention then it's going to

keep getting better and better that's

why I say don't make a big deal out of

things now this is happening again so

ever mind it's only it's only my

attachment that's causing this to arise

again so why don't we try something

different and let it go and relax and

smile with it and have fun with it

instead of trying to push it around and

make things happen in a different way

so the more you can practice like this

the faster your progress becomes that's

just the way it works so do you have any

questions

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no don't six are and forgive it for

coming up yeah but it's not so personal

anymore see you're starting to purify

your mind and you're starting to see the

world in a different way look at your

habits your habitual tendencies and does

it make you happy to do that

just get stressed out because some

somebody is putting pressure on you does

that make you happy well then why take

it personally

you're going to become more and more

efficient at what you do while you're

doing it if you don't have the

distraction of that kind of craving and

it gets to be kind of a show a movie

that's just playing in your mind and you

can why don't you make that movie a

comedy right and kind of laugh with it

you you think this mind would really do

something that was original but it's

going back to the same thing how dumb is

that and you're not dumb you're very

intelligent

as you're doing the practice in the

right way but how many times do you have

worry come up I don't know if I'm doing

it right or not and you laugh with that

you know you're doing it right because

you're starting to see results then why

worry whether it's perfect or not no

need

continue on everything is going along

just great just realize that you're old

and the tool tendency of having worry

and all of this kind of stuff is just a

game that your mind is playing and well

I don't need to play that game anymore I

can have fun doing something else right

any other question

it's amazing how quiet it gets when I

say that when we fear Samaritan me

suffering ones be suffering free and the

fear struck fearless be made a grieving

said all grief and male beings find

relief may all being shared this merit

that we thus acquired for the

acquisition of all kinds of happiness we

beings inhabiting space unders Navis and

not as a mighty power share this merit

of ours may they don't protect the

Buddhist dispensation sadhus

you