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

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so tonight we're going to be talking

about

going over suit a number himen 140.

the exposition of the elements

so this is one of my favorite sutas for

a lot of reasons

uh it's a story some sutures are not in

the form of story but this is a this is

a story with things that happen

maybe even a little humor

it's about the Buddha meeting a man who

is going to join the Sanka and um

they meet halfway and he gives a dhamma

talk reasonably

comprehensive Dharma talk

thus have I heard

on one occasion the blessed one was

wandering in the magahan country and

eventually arrived at rajagaha

there he went to the Potter of bhagava

and said to him

if it is not inconvenient for you

bhagava I will stay one night in your

Workshop

it is not inconvenient for me better

will serve

but there is a homeless one already

staying there

if he agrees then stay as you like

vulnerable sir

you know there was a klansman named

pukasati who had gone forth from the

home life into homelessness out of faith

in the blessed one

and on that occasion he was already

staying in The Potter's Workshop

so pukasa team

um

was a king in a nearby Kingdom from

excuse me

and he was in um correspondence with the

king of magadheim

and the uh the king of mogadaha sent him

a golden plate

that had a brief description of the

triple gem that is the Buddha Adama and

the Sangha

and a little bit of dhamma written on it

and it filled him with such joy and

confidence he gave up his kingdom

and went into the homelessness and went

was going on his way to join the Sangha

uh bukasati

this was a result of his past

inclination of course

he actually was a monk under the

previous Buddha

and in that existence he was one of

seven monks

that went to

um

did some strong determination sitting

they went to the top of a mountain and

determined not to leave there until they

attained

and they said they would not leave there

even to get food

so the result of that is the senior monk

became an our hunt

the next uh next month in line became an

onigami

and the other five monks starved to

death of which pukasati was won

so uh

so he was reborn he went to that

and after that

and then was reborn under uh this Buddha

and so that is likely why he encountered

such faith and joy uh hearing the dhamma

and likely why his talk went as when it

went

now he had been practicing for a while

and he

knew the fourth genre quite well

he was quite attached at the Fortuna and

but he had been practicing before this

time

and so on his way he stayed in this

Workshop

then the blessed one went to the

venerable pocasati and sent to him

if it is not inconvenient for you Monk I

will save one night in the workshop

The Potter's Workshop shop is large

enough friend

let the venerable stay as long as he

likes

then the blessed one entered the

Potter's Workshop prepared a spread of

grass at one end and sat down

folding his legs crosswise setting his

body erect and establishing mindfulness

in front of him

then the blessed one spent most of the

night seated in meditation

in the venerable pukasati also spent

most of the night seated in meditation

then the blessed one thought

this klansman conducts himself in a way

that inspires confidence

suppose I were to question him

so he asked the venerable pukasa team

under whom have you gone forth Monk

who is your teacher

whose dhamma do you profess

there is the recluse Gautama

the son of the sakians who went forth

from a sakyan clan

now a good report of that blessed gotima

has been spread to this effect

the blessed one is accomplished fully

enlightened

perfect and true knowledge and conduct

Sublime

nowhere of worlds incomparable leader of

persons To Be Tamed

teacher of gods and humans

enlightened blessed

I have gone forth under that blessed one

that blessed one is my teacher

I profess the dhamma of that blessed one

but monk where is that blessed one

accomplished and fully enlightened now

living

there is friend a city in the northern

country named sawati

the blessed one accomplished and fully

enlightened is now living there

but monk have you ever seen that blessed

one before would you recognize him if

you saw him

no friend

I have never seen that blessed one

before

nor would I recognize him if I saw him

then the blessed one thought

and this klansman has gone forth from

the home life into homelessness under me

suppose I were to teach him the Dharma

so the blessed one addressed the

venerables

monk I will teach you the Dharma

listen and attend closely to what I

shall say

yes friend the venerable pukasati

replied

the blessed one said this

monk this person consists of six

elements

six bases of contact and 18 kinds of

mental exploration

and he has four foundations

Guides of conceiving do not sweep over

one who stands upon these foundations

and when the tides of conceiving no

longer sweep over him he is called a

sage a piece

one should not neglect wisdom

one should preserve truth

one should cultivate relinquishment

one should train for peace

this is the summary of the exposition of

the six elements

Monk this person consists of six

elements so it was said

in reference to what was this said

there are the Earth element the water

element the fire element the air element

the spaced element and the Consciousness

element

so it was with reference to this that it

was said

monk this person consists of six

elements

monk this person consists of six bases

of contact so it was said

and with reference to what was this said

there are the base of eye contact the

base of ear contact

the base of nose contact a base of

tongue contact

the face of body contact

and the base of Mind contact

so it was reference to this that it was

said

monk this person consists of six bases

of contact

monk this person consists of 18 kinds of

mental exploration so it was said

and with reference to what was this said

on seeing a form with the eye one

explores a form productive of joy

one explores a four and productive of

grief

one explores a foreign productive

equanimity

on hearing a sound with the ear one

explores a sound

productive of Joy one explores a sound

productive of grief one explores a sound

productive of equanimity

and smelling an odor with the nose one

explorers an older productive of joy

when explosion explores an odor

productive of grief

one explores an older productive of

equanimity

I'm tasting a flavor with the tongue one

explores a taste productive of Joy one

explores a taste productive of grief one

explores a taste productive of

equanimity

untouching a tangible with the body one

explores a tangible productive of joy

a tangible productive of grief one

explores a tangible productive of

equanimity

uncognizing a mind object with the Mind

One explores a mind object productive of

joy

when explorers of Mind object productive

of grief

and one explores a mind object

productive of equanimity

so it was with reference to this that it

was said

monk this person consists of 18 kinds of

mental exploration

monk this person has four foundations

so it was said and with reference to

what was this said

there are the foundation of wisdom

the foundation of Truth

the foundation of relinquishment and the

foundation of peace

so it was reference to this that it was

said

monk this person has flower foundations

one should not neglect wisdom one should

preserve truth one should cultivate with

relinquishment and one should train for

peace so it was then

one thing that you may have noticed

about the suit does so far as they will

give clear descriptions of what one was

completed the training will have their

mind be like

no grief

no hate

no greed and so on

and so

they'll also have these same

descriptions as forms of training

someone trains for no greed one transfer

no grief one trains for and so on

so from the very beginning of training

one can look at the goal and have that

in mind and understand how to train

and so when we hear about states that

are not or or results that are not

comprehensible

whether it's a genre or how how it is to

have a fewer fatters or so on

one can simply rely on what the training

is and we know what to do in any given

moment

so

one does not know how one needs to be to

be completely without greed

in order to train to be without greed

we know how to train to be without greed

and we do that every day when we

meditate

simply staying with your object of

meditation

you have many opportunities to train

your mind to be a non-reactive

and to let go of the defilements

and you've been doing this all week

when a hindrance comes up that's

productive of hate

you don't like it

or you like it maybe it's a wonderful

thought to explore

or a memory

or it's a feeling that's an emergency

when you let it be there

when you don't get involved

when you decide it's okay to be there

you're training and it's

that it is an impersonal situation and

not an emergency

when you relax right then when you 6r

you have a mind without greed

hatred and delusion

right then

and you can learn how such a mind

interacts with a painful feeling

with a pleasant feeling

and when you lose that killer mind

you get to watch it again

quite straightforward

and when you think of it this way

there's no hindrance or distraction that

is really a problem

as long as you can identify it

realize it can be impersonal

let it be there and let it be okay for

it to be there

there's nothing you need to do

and every time you do that you build up

the pathway of non-reactivity

you build up the pathway of not having

greed hatred and delusion

like that

and how monk does not does one not

neglect wisdom

there are these six elements

the Earth element the water element the

fire element the air element the space

element and the Consciousness element

so I'm actually going to read this

section from another suta here

the sutas have

repeated text throughout them

so the the same phrases and descriptions

will be used for the same topics

throughout the suta

the suit has some the initi this helps

with memorization and it helps us

understand the authenticity of some

sutas how the words are used and put

together

uh the description in the suit of the

elements is very nice

but in uh majima Nakaya 28 the greater

discourse of the elements they have a

longer prescription which I think is

even better

what monks is the Earth element

the Earth element may be either internal

or external

what is the internal Earth element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is solid solidified and clung to

so the Earth element

is perceived as extension

as hardness or softness

things that take up space

that have a certain amount of resistance

that is the Earth element

whatever belonging to oneself that is

solid solidified and clung to that is

head hairs body hairs Nails teeth

skin flesh sinews bone bone marrow

kidneys

heart liver

diaphragm spleen

lungs intestine mesentery

contents of the stomach feces or

whatever else internally belonging to

oneself and a solid solidified and clung

to

this is called the internal Earth

element

so

learning about the Earth element there

are many ways to work with these

descriptions

one way is doing specific meditations

directly on the Earth element

so you can see their listing body parts

that have solidity or extension as a

primary aspect of them

this is one way to work with it

um

actually you can learn to feel your

internal organs better than you might

realize

I don't recommend you do this

there's no reason to your heart beats

fine on his own your intestines work

fine on its own and actually it can

trigger anxiety and concern when you

have all these feelings that you may not

know what they are people get in trouble

when they develop their internal

proprioception like that

unless you're doing a meditation like

this

um

because

the elements are talking about form

they are part of mentality materiality

the materiality component

they're talking about body

when we our body or physical body

we can use them to think of it that way

when we're meditating on elements like

this we are

learning to see them in a personal way

learning to see their transitory nature

the impermanence they come and go

the unsatisfactoriness and the not-self

aspect

whatever uh

meditation we're doing on the elements

this is often the end result

and we can use them to understand our

body as not self and this is what it's

talking about here

by identifying the aspects in the body

that can be uh correlated with the

element the solid and so on

one can see that these are not self

now both the internal Earth element and

the external Earth element are simply

Earth element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine this I am not

this is not myself

when season when one sees it as it is

thus actually as as it actually is with

proper wisdom one becomes disenchanted

with the Earth element and observes how

the mind becomes dispassionate towards

the Earth element

one can see the three characteristics in

the body and mind becomes dispassionate

towards it

and one can develop the understanding

that it does not solve and to be clung

to

anything that changes is not

satisfactory

to identify with

if something changes

and you imagine it's yourself

that will lead to dissatisfaction

it is not appropriate

we all start with a lot of

identification with the body

and a lot of

discomfort can happen because of that

identification

this meditation also uh is a lot like

the Fallen as meditation where one

identifies parts and imagines parts of

those bodies

and how they are not attractive

the end result is the same when there's

dispassion towards it

one can let it go

when there is a composite idea of

something

when you imagine my body

has this whole thing

that's a concept

and that concept is easy to be have

greed or hatred or delusion about

because it's a concept and easy to

identify with

when you can break this concept apart

into component parts

thing you had attachment to disappears

with that perspective it was never there

in the first place and your attachment

was misplaced

and was never actually possible

and again when you have attachment to

something that you cannot actually find

to be there

this leads to cognitive dissonance and

problems

there comes a time when the water

element is Disturbed and the external

Earth element vanishes

even this external Earth element as

created as as it is is seen to be

impermanent subject to destruction

disappearance and change

what of this body which is clung to by

craving and lasts but a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

internal elements

mine my body clearly but we look outside

at the Earth

of course that's not me

but that's saying that boundary is a

little more arbitrary than we might

think our separation that from the

environment is not

can't really find that point can you

we're part of that and we're subject to

that in the same way

the end result of understanding uh

not solve not

realizing no I me or mine there is

liberation

and clarity

and breaking through the concepts that

you hold about it

and so sometimes it can be scary to

start to think about

body changing

elements changing

but again those are Concepts

and when you developed his passion

towards that there's no problem at all

what monk is the water element

the water element

maybe either internal or external

what is the internal water element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is water watery and clung to

that is bile phlegm pus blood

sweat

fat

tears Grease

spittle

it's not

oil of the joints urine or whatever

internally belongings to oneself is

water watery and clung to this is the

internal water element

now both the internal water element and

the external water element are simply

water element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine

this I am not

this is not myself

when one sees it thus as it actually is

with proper wisdom one becomes

disenchanted with the water element

can observe how the mind becomes

dispassionate towards the water element

the watermelon a water element can be

experienced as cohesion

what holds things together

water element and the Earth element

always appear together

they're conjoined

you can observe this

the water element if you melt ice the

solid becomes liquid

um solid matter becomes liquid and

liquid matter can become solid

and they they go back and forth

now there comes a time when the external

water element is Disturbed

it carries away Villages towns cities

districts and countries

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean sink down 100 leagues

200 Leagues 300 leagues 400 leagues 500

leagues 600 leagues 700 leagues

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean stands Seven Palms deep

six Palms deep

two Palms deep only a palm deep

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean stand seven fathoms deep

six fathoms steep

five of them steep four fathoms deep

three fathoms deep two fathoms deep

only a fathom deep

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean stand half above and

deep

only waist high

only knee-high

only ankle deep

there comes a time when the water is in

the great ocean are not even enough to

let even the joint of the finger

when even this external Water Element as

great as it is is seen to be impermanent

subject to destruction disappearance and

change

what of this body

which is clung to by craving in last but

a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

what friends is the fire element

fire elements may be either internal or

external

what is the internal fire element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is fire fiery and clung to

that is by which one is warned ages and

is consumed

and that by which is what is eaten drunk

consumed and tasted gets completely

digested

or whatever else internally belongings

to oneself as fiery fiery and clung to

this is called the internal fire element

though both the internal fire element

and the external Fire Element are simply

fire element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine

this I am not

this is not myself

when one sees it thus as it actually is

with proper wisdom one becomes

disenchanted with the fire element and

makes the Mind dispassionate towards the

fire element

so the fire element is heat and cold two

sizes the same thing

it's also involved in vitality

and it has an interesting property of

being making matter increase or decrease

so you can think of worms on hitting a

planet meaning growth you can think of

metal heating up expanding

you can think of Decay and shrinking or

cold and shrinking

and think of chemistry

chemical reactions are thought of in

terms of heat input and output

how much heat is required to make the

change the physical matter change happen

or how much is released when the change

happens

that's the fire element

now there comes a time when the external

fire element is Disturbed

it burns up Villages towns cities

districts and countries

it goes out due to lack of fuel only

when it comes to green grass or to erode

or to a rock

or to water or to Fair open space

there comes a time when they seek to

make the fire even with the Cox feather

or a hide pairing

when even this external Fire Element as

great as it is it seemed to be

impermanent subject to destruction

disappearance and change

what of this body

which is clung to by craving

and last but a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

when we're practicing the rava bahara's

or whatever object in doing the genres

we can encounter the elements in another

way

when we're very quiet and quiet mind

we can observe the elements of arising

uh they one mind is very very quiet the

smallest of movements are the beginning

of the elements forming

and this can be seen as they rise in

sequence

it's a different sequence than what's in

the book here

but you can see them come up one by one

this is on the level of tiny formations

arising passing away this is very very

small

and when your mind is balanced enough

you can watch the elements form

kind of build up build up into contact

build up into craving build up into

potentially action

it can be quite fascinating

but it's important that you don't look

for this

appear in quiet mind and you look really

hard

trying to see the element

what does the water element look like

what could cohesion look like or

that will unbalance your mind

and it will cause tension and tightness

and you won't actually be able to see it

well

if at all

when we're developing Insight when we're

experiencing Insight we need to be

careful

to not look too hard

when we look too hard we introduce

tension and tightness

into something that's impermanent we try

if we're really lucky we might get a

glimpse of what we're looking for

but as likely or not our mental idea of

what we're looking for will influence

what we actually see

so by looking

we see by looking with an impression and

image with a lot of craving we might

affect our perception huh

we might have a bias in what we see

so I would suggest when you look at

these things when you look just look

see what's there

see what's there as you see it simply in

front of you

don't try to see something

these things will be obvious when your

mind is balanced

obvious when mind is is called

and if they're not it's okay

your practice works great at whatever

level your mind is at you don't need to

see this

hear anything in particular to go with

your practice

what friends is the water element

Water Element maybe internal or external

what is the internal Air element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

because Airy air and clung to that is

the upgoing winds the down going winds

wins in the belly winds and the bowels

wins that course through the limbs

in breath and out breath or whatever

else internally belonging to oneself is

air Airy and clung to

this is called the internal Air element

now both the internal Air element and

the external Air element are simply air

element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine

this I am not this is not myself

when one sees it thus as it actually is

with proper wisdom

one becomes disenchanted with the air

element

and observes that the Mind becomes

dispassionate towards the air element

an air element is vibration and movement

now there comes a time when the external

error element is Disturbed

it sweeps away Villages towns cities

districts and countries

there Comes A Time in the last month of

a hot season when they seek Wind by

means of a fan or Bellows or even

strands of straw in the dripping Fringe

of the thatched nutster

when even this external Air element

crate as it is I guess seem to be a

permanent subject to destruction

disappearance and change

what of this body which is cloned to by

craving in lasts but a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

what monk is the space element

the space element maybe either be

internal or external

what is the internal space element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is space spatial and clung to

that is the holes of the ears the

nostrils the door of the mouth and that

aperture whereby that is what is eaten

drunk and consumed and tasted gets

swallowed

and where it collects and whereby is

excreted From Below

or whatever else internally belonging to

oneself is space spatial and cloned to

this is called the internal space

element

now both the internal space element and

the external space element are simply

space element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine this I am not this is

not myself

when one sees it does as it actually is

with proper wisdom one becomes

disenchanted with the space element and

observes the Mind become dispassionate

towards the space element

then the remains only consciousness

purified and bright

what does one cognize with that

consciousness

one cognizes this is Pleasant

one cognizes this is painful

one cognizes this is neither Pleasant

nor painful

independent on a contact to be felt as

pleasant there arises a pleasant feeling

when one feels a pleasant feeling one

understands I feel a pleasant feeling

one understands what the cessation of

that same contact to be felt as pleasant

its corresponding feeling the pleasant

feeling that arose Independence on that

contact to be felt is Pleasant

ceases and subsides

Independence on a contact he felt as

painful there arises a painful feeling

when one feels a painful feeling one

understands and I feel a painful feeling

one understands what the cessation of

that painful feeling that arose

Independence on that contact of the felt

as painful

ceases and subscribes

dependence on a contact to be felt is

neither painful or Pleasant there arises

in either painful nor Pleasant feeling

when one feels in either painful nor

Pleasant feeling one understands I feel

in either painful and or Pleasant

feeling

one understands with the cessation of

that same contact to be felt as neither

painful nor Pleasant its corresponding

feeling the neither painful nor Pleasant

feeling that arose Independence on that

contact that we felt has neither painful

nor Pleasant ceases and subsides

bug just as from the contact and

friction of Two Fire Sticks heat is

generated and fire is produced

separation and dysfunction of those two

Fire Sticks the corresponding heat

ceases and subsides

too

independent on a contact to be felt as

pleasant or to be felt as painful to be

felt as neither painful nor Pleasant

there arises and neither painful nor

Pleasant feeling

one understands what the cessation of

that contact to be felt as neither

painful nor Pleasant its corresponding

feeling ceases and subsides

feeling is conditioned on contact

when contact ceases meal existed

and then there only remains Equanimity

purified and bright malleable Wheely and

radiant

so we've been talking about getting into

the fourth genre here

as we let go of the body

and we're left with observation and

equanimity

suppose a monk a skillful Goldsmith or

his Apprentice or to prepare a furnace

heat up The Crucible

take some gold returns and put it onto

The Crucible from time to time he would

blow on it from time to time he would

sprinkle water over it from time to time

he would just look on

the goals would become refined while

refined completely refined faultless rid

of draws valuable weirdly and radiant

so this Goldsmith or his Apprentice

this uh there's actually a full suit uh

written about this in um

I think it's an book of threes

around 103.

um and this is uh about working with

one's mind so the analogy of flowing on

it

sprinkling water on it and looking on

it's talking about

blowing on it we can think of as

exertion

spray plenty of water on it and think of

its collectiveness

and then looking on as equanimity

or you can think about it as adding

energy

backing off

letting settle

and I'm just observing

in all three of these are important to

develop the minds to make it fully

malleable really and radiant

if you apply too much too much exertion

to your gold to your collectiveness to

your meditation object it will burn up

try too hard

and you will you will lose it yeah

if you don't put enough effort in if you

lean too much into Stillness

again it will not work it will no longer

be workable or malleable

if you look on too much without

adjusting without adjusting your

Enlightenment factors appropriately

it won't be ready it won't work and it

won't further develop

so that's what this is talking about

here

using three three analogies instead of

um of exertion collectiveness and

equanimity

where we could talk about seven

Enlightenment factors

the same idea

observing how your mind is observing how

your collectiveness is

and working with it as appropriate in

that moment

when you can work with your Equanimity

with your meditation object that is

appropriate

that it develops and becomes steady

whatever kind of ornament he wished to

make from it whether a cold chain or

earrings or a necklace or golden Garland

it would serve his purpose

so two monks then there remains only

Equanimity purified and bright memorable

wieldy and radiant

he understands thus

if I were to direct this Equity so

purified and bright to the base of

Infinite Space and to develop my mind

accordingly this Equanimity of Mind

supported by that base clinging to it

would remain for a very long time

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

infinite consciousness

and to develop my mind accordingly then

this economy of mine supported by that

base clinging to it would remain for a

very long time

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

nothingness

and I were to develop my mind

accordingly

than this Equanimity of mine supported

by that base clinging to it would remain

for a very long time

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright

to the base of neither perception or

non-perception and to develop my mind

accordingly then this Equanimity of mine

supported by that base clinging

would remain for a very long time

so as you're learning as your mind

develops and is balanced it can remain

for a very long time

I know all of you at this point and

Retreat are are sitting uh sitting

longer than you were in the beginning

some of you are remaining for a very

long time

experimenting with two hours three hours

four hours five hours

my mind can remain for a very long time

as you're learning when you do this

you don't do this through trying

when you sit like this you don't do this

through pain

the first time you hear of someone

sitting for five hours

your mind goes no way

why would you do that

because it's really fun

when you do it

um

use when you when you start sitting that

on

you do that from a place of balance

a place of comfort

not from a place of pain

first of all there are two kinds of pain

that occur rise in meditation and you

should understand what they are

the first is physical pain

physical physical pain happens because

the body is being damaged

you know it's physical pain because you

get up and it persists and it doesn't go

away right away

we need to not sit through physical pain

if you sit three hours four hours five

hours through physical pain you can hurt

yourself

and we don't want to do that at all

and then there's meditation pain

physical pain is not sure to show up but

meditation pain is sure to show up for

everyone at some point of their Journey

meditation pain you can identify because

when you stand up it goes away basically

immediately you're like what was that

got me again

meditation pain is the hindrance

um

when it arises it is a painful feeling

and my mind may want to tighten around

it

and when mind tightens around it

when you consciously or unconsciously

resist

you help it stick around

you know sometimes meditation pain will

just come up

for a while

just our friend for a while and we get

to get to learn from it

and sometimes we accidentally clamp

around meditation pain and make it an

emergency

and when we clamp around it then it

sticks around longer than it has to that

it might

so we treat it like a hindrance we let

it be there we chuckle with it

because it can be quite amusing it can

be much stronger than physical pain huh

yeah

quite quite interesting

but eventually meditation pain passes

and as it passes

um

one is then really able to sit

comfortably

and as you sit comfortably and you

realize

there's no reason to get up it's just a

hindrance

I'll let it go

we'll work with it I'll laugh with it

and then you stay there and mine settles

you see

number one on the other side of the

hindrance is a calm

and interesting and collected mind

and number two as the time goes on mine

becomes more and more collected

more and more still as time goes on

and the idea of sitting long goes from

something we've resist

I don't want to do that

does something we get curious about

what will happen next

and that's why we sit three four five

hours eight hours

we sit comfortably easily

effortlessly

when we're ready to

and it can be a lot of fun

and it can allow a lot of insight

as mine settles down

he understands thus

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

Infinite Space and to develop my mind

accordingly

this would be conditioned

and conditioned

means It ultimately subject to the three

characteristics ultimately dependently

originated and ultimately not a reliable

base ultimately a source of suffering

if I were to direct this equipment

Equanimity so purified and bright to the

base of infinite consciousness

and to develop my mind accordingly this

would be conditioned

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

nothingness and to develop my mind

accordingly this would be conditioned

if I were to direct my if I were to

direct this Equanimity so purified and

bright to the base of either perception

or non-perception and to develop my mind

accordingly this would be conditioned

he does not form any condition or

generate any volition tending towards

either being or non-being

since he does not form any condition

or generate any volition tending towards

either being or non-being he does not

cling to anything in this world

when he does not cling he is not

agitated

when he has not agitated he personally

attains Nirvana

he understands thus

birth is destroyed the holy life has

been lived

and what had to be done has been done

there is no more coming to any state of

being

if he feels a pleasant feeling he

understands it is impermanent there is

no holding to it there is no Delight in

it

if he feels the painful feeling he

understands

it is impermanent

there is no holding to it there is no

there's no Delight in it

if he feels in either painful nor

Pleasant feeling he understands it isn't

permanent there is no holding to it

there is no Delight into Delight in it

if he feels a painful feeling he feels

it did not detached he feels

impersonally

if he feels a painful feeling he feels

it detached he feels that neither

painful enough he feels that if he feels

in either painful or Pleasant feeling he

feels it detached

when he feels a feeling terminating in

the body he understands I feel a feeling

terminating in the body

when he feels a feeling terminating with

life he understands I feel a feeling

terminating with life

when there is no lust hatred and

delusion

Pleasant feelings are felt and

personally they are present

mind does not latch on to them and does

not cling to them and not just not think

of them explore them identify with them

he understands on the dissolution of the

body with the ending of Life all that is

felt not being delighted in will become

cool right here

monk just as an oil lamp Burns

Independence on oil and awake

and when the oil and Wick are used up if

it does not get any more fuel it is

extinguished from lack of fuel

so too when he feels a terminate feel

terminating with the body a feeling

terminating with the body of feeling

terminating with life he understands I

feel determined I feel I feel a feeling

terminating with life

he understands how the dissolution of

the body with the ending of life

all that is felt not being delighted in

will become cool right here

therefore among possessing this wisdom

possesses the Supreme Foundation of

wisdom

for this monk is a supreme Noble wisdom

namely the knowledge of the destruction

of all suffering

his Deliverance being fonded upon truth

is unshakable

for that is false monk which has a

deceptive nature and that is true which

has an undeceptive nature

dabada

therefore among possessing this truth

possesses the supreme but Supreme

Foundation of Truth

for this monk is the Supreme Foundation

of Truth namely nibana which has an

undeceptive nature

formally when he was ignorant he

undertook an accepted acquisitions now

he has abandoned them cut them off at

the root made them like a palm stump

done away with them so they know are no

longer subject to Future arising

therefore a monk possessing this

relinquishment

possesses the Supreme relinquent

Foundation of relinquishment

for this monk is the Supreme Noble

relinquishment namely the relinquishment

of all acquisitions

formally when he was ignorant he

experienced covetedness desire and lust

now he has abandoned them cut them off

at the root made them like a palm stump

done away with them so that they are no

longer subject to future or Rising

formerly when he was ignorant he

experienced anger ill will and hate

you know he has abandoned them cut them

off at the root made them like a palm

stump done away with them so they are no

longer subject to Future arising

when he was ignorant he experienced

ignorance and delusion

no he has abandoned them cut them off at

the root made them like a palm stump

done away with them so they are no

longer subject to Future arising

therefore among possessing this peace

possesses the Supreme's Foundation of

peace

for this monk is the Supreme normal

peace namely the pacification of lust

hate and delusion

so it was referenced to this that it was

said one should not neglect wisdom

one should preserve truth one should

cultivate relinquishment and one should

train for peace

the tides of conceiving do not sweep

over one who stands on these foundations

when and when the tides are conceiving

no longer sweep our room he's called The

Sage of Peace so it was said and with

preference to what was this said

monk I am is it conceiving

I am this is a conceiving

I shall be as a conceiving

I know I shall be not I shall not be as

a conceiving

I shall be possessed of form as a

conceiving I shall be formless is a

conceiving

I shall be precipient as the conceiving

I shall be non-precipient is it

conceiving

I shall be neither precipient nor

non-precipient is a conceiving

conceiving is a disease conceiving as a

tumor conceiving as a dart

by over a coming all conceivings monk

one is called the sage of peace

and the sage of peace is not born does

not die does not age he has not shaken

and does not yearn

for there is nothing present in him by

which he might be born

not being born how could he age

not aging how could he die

not dying white how could he be shaken

not being shaken why should he yearn

no craving for being

no craving for being in any of the

China's

syllables with reference to this that it

was said

the tides are conceiving do not sweep

over one who stands upon these

foundations

and when the tides are conceiving no

longer sweep over him he is called the

sage at peace

monk bear in mind this brief exposition

of the six elements

thereupon the venerable pukasati side

but indeed the teacher has come to me

the sublime one has come to me

fully in the fully enlightened one

that's come to me

then he rose from his seat arranged his

upper robe over one shoulder and

prostrating himself with his head at the

Blessed one's feet he said

venerable sir a transgression came over

me in that like a fool confused and

blundering I presumed to address the

blessed one as friend

venerable sir may the blessed one

forgive my transgression seen as such

for the sake of restraint in the future

surely manga transgression overcame you

in that like a fool confused and

blundering you presumed to address me as

friend

but since you see your transgression as

such and make amends accordance with the

dhamma we forgive you

for it is growth in the noble ones

disciplined when one sees one's

transgression as such makes amends in

accordance with the Tama and undertake

restrict undertakes restraint in the

future

venerable sir I would receive the full

admission under the blessed one

but are your bowl and robes complete

Monk

venerable sir my bowl and robes are not

complete

monk tataga says do not give the full

admission to anyone whose bowl and robes

are not complete

then the venerable tukasati having

delighted and rejoiced in the Blessed

Lord words rose from a seed and after

paying homage to the blessed one keep

him on the right he departed in order to

search for a ball in Rome

then while the venerable pukasati was

searching for a ball in robes a stray

cow killed him

then a number of monks went to the

blessing one and after paying homage to

him they sat down at one side and told

him

venerable sir the klansman pukasati who

was given brief instruction by the

blessed one has died

what is this destination what is this

future course

amongst The Clansman pukasati was wise

he practiced in accordance with the

dhamma and did not trouble me in

interpretation of Adama

with the destruction of the five lower

Fetters the klansman pukasati has

repaired spontaneously in the pure pose

and will attain flight and Nirvana there

without her returning from that world

this is what the blessed one said

the monks were satisfied and delighted

in the blessed one words

and so it suggested that

around a paragraph 22 that's when

fukusati

attained origami

so this says during the talk he attained

onigami and when he was killed by the

cow was reborn there

so somewhere around the discussion of

John is being conditioned

not intending does not form condition or

generate Collision towards any being or

non-being

not engaging in the better the taints of

being

does anyone have any questions

that's a really good question

um the the

that the the Buddha was disguising

himself and was hiding the 32 qualities

it was actually

oh where he was coming and wanted to

surprise him I guess and and so he hid

himself and the qualities that made

himself appear as a normal Monk

self surprise

it's interesting he yep

saw with this Divine eye that he was

coming and chose to chose to meet him

it's a lot

yeah

and it's all after fourth genre too it's

it's development after that it's really

um

yeah

well yeah he's saying like I shall be

neither percipient nor non-precipient is

it conceiving

and so that yeah so he's talking about

um taking and identifying

with uh with your practice so I'm gonna

do

Infinite Space I'm gonna do this I'm

going to do it

as opposed to letting it happen and

seeing seeing what unfolds

like that

not

so when you try to do it that's becoming

when you try to become it that's

becoming

when you back off and relax and you you

let it happen as it is

that's letting go of becoming there and

and like that so I think that I think

that's what he's saying there when he's

talking about the I show up against the

conceiving or

that

share some Mary

suffering ones be suffering free and the

fear struck Fearless be May The Grieving

shed all grief and male beings find

relief male being shared this mirror

that we have thus acquired for the

acquisition of all kinds of happiness

beings inhabiting space and Earth David

zanagas a mighty Power share this

Narrative of ours may they long protect

the Buddhist dispensation

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thank you

foreign

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so tonight we're going to be talking

about

going over suit a number himen 140.

the exposition of the elements

so this is one of my favorite sutas for

a lot of reasons

uh it's a story some sutures are not in

the form of story but this is a this is

a story with things that happen

maybe even a little humor

it's about the Buddha meeting a man who

is going to join the Sanka and um

they meet halfway and he gives a dhamma

talk reasonably

comprehensive Dharma talk

thus have I heard

on one occasion the blessed one was

wandering in the magahan country and

eventually arrived at rajagaha

there he went to the Potter of bhagava

and said to him

if it is not inconvenient for you

bhagava I will stay one night in your

Workshop

it is not inconvenient for me better

will serve

but there is a homeless one already

staying there

if he agrees then stay as you like

vulnerable sir

you know there was a klansman named

pukasati who had gone forth from the

home life into homelessness out of faith

in the blessed one

and on that occasion he was already

staying in The Potter's Workshop

so pukasa team

um

was a king in a nearby Kingdom from

excuse me

and he was in um correspondence with the

king of magadheim

and the uh the king of mogadaha sent him

a golden plate

that had a brief description of the

triple gem that is the Buddha Adama and

the Sangha

and a little bit of dhamma written on it

and it filled him with such joy and

confidence he gave up his kingdom

and went into the homelessness and went

was going on his way to join the Sangha

uh bukasati

this was a result of his past

inclination of course

he actually was a monk under the

previous Buddha

and in that existence he was one of

seven monks

that went to

um

did some strong determination sitting

they went to the top of a mountain and

determined not to leave there until they

attained

and they said they would not leave there

even to get food

so the result of that is the senior monk

became an our hunt

the next uh next month in line became an

onigami

and the other five monks starved to

death of which pukasati was won

so uh

so he was reborn he went to that

and after that

and then was reborn under uh this Buddha

and so that is likely why he encountered

such faith and joy uh hearing the dhamma

and likely why his talk went as when it

went

now he had been practicing for a while

and he

knew the fourth genre quite well

he was quite attached at the Fortuna and

but he had been practicing before this

time

and so on his way he stayed in this

Workshop

then the blessed one went to the

venerable pocasati and sent to him

if it is not inconvenient for you Monk I

will save one night in the workshop

The Potter's Workshop shop is large

enough friend

let the venerable stay as long as he

likes

then the blessed one entered the

Potter's Workshop prepared a spread of

grass at one end and sat down

folding his legs crosswise setting his

body erect and establishing mindfulness

in front of him

then the blessed one spent most of the

night seated in meditation

in the venerable pukasati also spent

most of the night seated in meditation

then the blessed one thought

this klansman conducts himself in a way

that inspires confidence

suppose I were to question him

so he asked the venerable pukasa team

under whom have you gone forth Monk

who is your teacher

whose dhamma do you profess

there is the recluse Gautama

the son of the sakians who went forth

from a sakyan clan

now a good report of that blessed gotima

has been spread to this effect

the blessed one is accomplished fully

enlightened

perfect and true knowledge and conduct

Sublime

nowhere of worlds incomparable leader of

persons To Be Tamed

teacher of gods and humans

enlightened blessed

I have gone forth under that blessed one

that blessed one is my teacher

I profess the dhamma of that blessed one

but monk where is that blessed one

accomplished and fully enlightened now

living

there is friend a city in the northern

country named sawati

the blessed one accomplished and fully

enlightened is now living there

but monk have you ever seen that blessed

one before would you recognize him if

you saw him

no friend

I have never seen that blessed one

before

nor would I recognize him if I saw him

then the blessed one thought

and this klansman has gone forth from

the home life into homelessness under me

suppose I were to teach him the Dharma

so the blessed one addressed the

venerables

monk I will teach you the Dharma

listen and attend closely to what I

shall say

yes friend the venerable pukasati

replied

the blessed one said this

monk this person consists of six

elements

six bases of contact and 18 kinds of

mental exploration

and he has four foundations

Guides of conceiving do not sweep over

one who stands upon these foundations

and when the tides of conceiving no

longer sweep over him he is called a

sage a piece

one should not neglect wisdom

one should preserve truth

one should cultivate relinquishment

one should train for peace

this is the summary of the exposition of

the six elements

Monk this person consists of six

elements so it was said

in reference to what was this said

there are the Earth element the water

element the fire element the air element

the spaced element and the Consciousness

element

so it was with reference to this that it

was said

monk this person consists of six

elements

monk this person consists of six bases

of contact so it was said

and with reference to what was this said

there are the base of eye contact the

base of ear contact

the base of nose contact a base of

tongue contact

the face of body contact

and the base of Mind contact

so it was reference to this that it was

said

monk this person consists of six bases

of contact

monk this person consists of 18 kinds of

mental exploration so it was said

and with reference to what was this said

on seeing a form with the eye one

explores a form productive of joy

one explores a four and productive of

grief

one explores a foreign productive

equanimity

on hearing a sound with the ear one

explores a sound

productive of Joy one explores a sound

productive of grief one explores a sound

productive of equanimity

and smelling an odor with the nose one

explorers an older productive of joy

when explosion explores an odor

productive of grief

one explores an older productive of

equanimity

I'm tasting a flavor with the tongue one

explores a taste productive of Joy one

explores a taste productive of grief one

explores a taste productive of

equanimity

untouching a tangible with the body one

explores a tangible productive of joy

a tangible productive of grief one

explores a tangible productive of

equanimity

uncognizing a mind object with the Mind

One explores a mind object productive of

joy

when explorers of Mind object productive

of grief

and one explores a mind object

productive of equanimity

so it was with reference to this that it

was said

monk this person consists of 18 kinds of

mental exploration

monk this person has four foundations

so it was said and with reference to

what was this said

there are the foundation of wisdom

the foundation of Truth

the foundation of relinquishment and the

foundation of peace

so it was reference to this that it was

said

monk this person has flower foundations

one should not neglect wisdom one should

preserve truth one should cultivate with

relinquishment and one should train for

peace so it was then

one thing that you may have noticed

about the suit does so far as they will

give clear descriptions of what one was

completed the training will have their

mind be like

no grief

no hate

no greed and so on

and so

they'll also have these same

descriptions as forms of training

someone trains for no greed one transfer

no grief one trains for and so on

so from the very beginning of training

one can look at the goal and have that

in mind and understand how to train

and so when we hear about states that

are not or or results that are not

comprehensible

whether it's a genre or how how it is to

have a fewer fatters or so on

one can simply rely on what the training

is and we know what to do in any given

moment

so

one does not know how one needs to be to

be completely without greed

in order to train to be without greed

we know how to train to be without greed

and we do that every day when we

meditate

simply staying with your object of

meditation

you have many opportunities to train

your mind to be a non-reactive

and to let go of the defilements

and you've been doing this all week

when a hindrance comes up that's

productive of hate

you don't like it

or you like it maybe it's a wonderful

thought to explore

or a memory

or it's a feeling that's an emergency

when you let it be there

when you don't get involved

when you decide it's okay to be there

you're training and it's

that it is an impersonal situation and

not an emergency

when you relax right then when you 6r

you have a mind without greed

hatred and delusion

right then

and you can learn how such a mind

interacts with a painful feeling

with a pleasant feeling

and when you lose that killer mind

you get to watch it again

quite straightforward

and when you think of it this way

there's no hindrance or distraction that

is really a problem

as long as you can identify it

realize it can be impersonal

let it be there and let it be okay for

it to be there

there's nothing you need to do

and every time you do that you build up

the pathway of non-reactivity

you build up the pathway of not having

greed hatred and delusion

like that

and how monk does not does one not

neglect wisdom

there are these six elements

the Earth element the water element the

fire element the air element the space

element and the Consciousness element

so I'm actually going to read this

section from another suta here

the sutas have

repeated text throughout them

so the the same phrases and descriptions

will be used for the same topics

throughout the suta

the suit has some the initi this helps

with memorization and it helps us

understand the authenticity of some

sutas how the words are used and put

together

uh the description in the suit of the

elements is very nice

but in uh majima Nakaya 28 the greater

discourse of the elements they have a

longer prescription which I think is

even better

what monks is the Earth element

the Earth element may be either internal

or external

what is the internal Earth element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is solid solidified and clung to

so the Earth element

is perceived as extension

as hardness or softness

things that take up space

that have a certain amount of resistance

that is the Earth element

whatever belonging to oneself that is

solid solidified and clung to that is

head hairs body hairs Nails teeth

skin flesh sinews bone bone marrow

kidneys

heart liver

diaphragm spleen

lungs intestine mesentery

contents of the stomach feces or

whatever else internally belonging to

oneself and a solid solidified and clung

to

this is called the internal Earth

element

so

learning about the Earth element there

are many ways to work with these

descriptions

one way is doing specific meditations

directly on the Earth element

so you can see their listing body parts

that have solidity or extension as a

primary aspect of them

this is one way to work with it

um

actually you can learn to feel your

internal organs better than you might

realize

I don't recommend you do this

there's no reason to your heart beats

fine on his own your intestines work

fine on its own and actually it can

trigger anxiety and concern when you

have all these feelings that you may not

know what they are people get in trouble

when they develop their internal

proprioception like that

unless you're doing a meditation like

this

um

because

the elements are talking about form

they are part of mentality materiality

the materiality component

they're talking about body

when we our body or physical body

we can use them to think of it that way

when we're meditating on elements like

this we are

learning to see them in a personal way

learning to see their transitory nature

the impermanence they come and go

the unsatisfactoriness and the not-self

aspect

whatever uh

meditation we're doing on the elements

this is often the end result

and we can use them to understand our

body as not self and this is what it's

talking about here

by identifying the aspects in the body

that can be uh correlated with the

element the solid and so on

one can see that these are not self

now both the internal Earth element and

the external Earth element are simply

Earth element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine this I am not

this is not myself

when season when one sees it as it is

thus actually as as it actually is with

proper wisdom one becomes disenchanted

with the Earth element and observes how

the mind becomes dispassionate towards

the Earth element

one can see the three characteristics in

the body and mind becomes dispassionate

towards it

and one can develop the understanding

that it does not solve and to be clung

to

anything that changes is not

satisfactory

to identify with

if something changes

and you imagine it's yourself

that will lead to dissatisfaction

it is not appropriate

we all start with a lot of

identification with the body

and a lot of

discomfort can happen because of that

identification

this meditation also uh is a lot like

the Fallen as meditation where one

identifies parts and imagines parts of

those bodies

and how they are not attractive

the end result is the same when there's

dispassion towards it

one can let it go

when there is a composite idea of

something

when you imagine my body

has this whole thing

that's a concept

and that concept is easy to be have

greed or hatred or delusion about

because it's a concept and easy to

identify with

when you can break this concept apart

into component parts

thing you had attachment to disappears

with that perspective it was never there

in the first place and your attachment

was misplaced

and was never actually possible

and again when you have attachment to

something that you cannot actually find

to be there

this leads to cognitive dissonance and

problems

there comes a time when the water

element is Disturbed and the external

Earth element vanishes

even this external Earth element as

created as as it is is seen to be

impermanent subject to destruction

disappearance and change

what of this body which is clung to by

craving and lasts but a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

internal elements

mine my body clearly but we look outside

at the Earth

of course that's not me

but that's saying that boundary is a

little more arbitrary than we might

think our separation that from the

environment is not

can't really find that point can you

we're part of that and we're subject to

that in the same way

the end result of understanding uh

not solve not

realizing no I me or mine there is

liberation

and clarity

and breaking through the concepts that

you hold about it

and so sometimes it can be scary to

start to think about

body changing

elements changing

but again those are Concepts

and when you developed his passion

towards that there's no problem at all

what monk is the water element

the water element

maybe either internal or external

what is the internal water element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is water watery and clung to

that is bile phlegm pus blood

sweat

fat

tears Grease

spittle

it's not

oil of the joints urine or whatever

internally belongings to oneself is

water watery and clung to this is the

internal water element

now both the internal water element and

the external water element are simply

water element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine

this I am not

this is not myself

when one sees it thus as it actually is

with proper wisdom one becomes

disenchanted with the water element

can observe how the mind becomes

dispassionate towards the water element

the watermelon a water element can be

experienced as cohesion

what holds things together

water element and the Earth element

always appear together

they're conjoined

you can observe this

the water element if you melt ice the

solid becomes liquid

um solid matter becomes liquid and

liquid matter can become solid

and they they go back and forth

now there comes a time when the external

water element is Disturbed

it carries away Villages towns cities

districts and countries

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean sink down 100 leagues

200 Leagues 300 leagues 400 leagues 500

leagues 600 leagues 700 leagues

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean stands Seven Palms deep

six Palms deep

two Palms deep only a palm deep

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean stand seven fathoms deep

six fathoms steep

five of them steep four fathoms deep

three fathoms deep two fathoms deep

only a fathom deep

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean stand half above and

deep

only waist high

only knee-high

only ankle deep

there comes a time when the water is in

the great ocean are not even enough to

let even the joint of the finger

when even this external Water Element as

great as it is is seen to be impermanent

subject to destruction disappearance and

change

what of this body

which is clung to by craving in last but

a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

what friends is the fire element

fire elements may be either internal or

external

what is the internal fire element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is fire fiery and clung to

that is by which one is warned ages and

is consumed

and that by which is what is eaten drunk

consumed and tasted gets completely

digested

or whatever else internally belongings

to oneself as fiery fiery and clung to

this is called the internal fire element

though both the internal fire element

and the external Fire Element are simply

fire element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine

this I am not

this is not myself

when one sees it thus as it actually is

with proper wisdom one becomes

disenchanted with the fire element and

makes the Mind dispassionate towards the

fire element

so the fire element is heat and cold two

sizes the same thing

it's also involved in vitality

and it has an interesting property of

being making matter increase or decrease

so you can think of worms on hitting a

planet meaning growth you can think of

metal heating up expanding

you can think of Decay and shrinking or

cold and shrinking

and think of chemistry

chemical reactions are thought of in

terms of heat input and output

how much heat is required to make the

change the physical matter change happen

or how much is released when the change

happens

that's the fire element

now there comes a time when the external

fire element is Disturbed

it burns up Villages towns cities

districts and countries

it goes out due to lack of fuel only

when it comes to green grass or to erode

or to a rock

or to water or to Fair open space

there comes a time when they seek to

make the fire even with the Cox feather

or a hide pairing

when even this external Fire Element as

great as it is it seemed to be

impermanent subject to destruction

disappearance and change

what of this body

which is clung to by craving

and last but a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

when we're practicing the rava bahara's

or whatever object in doing the genres

we can encounter the elements in another

way

when we're very quiet and quiet mind

we can observe the elements of arising

uh they one mind is very very quiet the

smallest of movements are the beginning

of the elements forming

and this can be seen as they rise in

sequence

it's a different sequence than what's in

the book here

but you can see them come up one by one

this is on the level of tiny formations

arising passing away this is very very

small

and when your mind is balanced enough

you can watch the elements form

kind of build up build up into contact

build up into craving build up into

potentially action

it can be quite fascinating

but it's important that you don't look

for this

appear in quiet mind and you look really

hard

trying to see the element

what does the water element look like

what could cohesion look like or

that will unbalance your mind

and it will cause tension and tightness

and you won't actually be able to see it

well

if at all

when we're developing Insight when we're

experiencing Insight we need to be

careful

to not look too hard

when we look too hard we introduce

tension and tightness

into something that's impermanent we try

if we're really lucky we might get a

glimpse of what we're looking for

but as likely or not our mental idea of

what we're looking for will influence

what we actually see

so by looking

we see by looking with an impression and

image with a lot of craving we might

affect our perception huh

we might have a bias in what we see

so I would suggest when you look at

these things when you look just look

see what's there

see what's there as you see it simply in

front of you

don't try to see something

these things will be obvious when your

mind is balanced

obvious when mind is is called

and if they're not it's okay

your practice works great at whatever

level your mind is at you don't need to

see this

hear anything in particular to go with

your practice

what friends is the water element

Water Element maybe internal or external

what is the internal Air element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

because Airy air and clung to that is

the upgoing winds the down going winds

wins in the belly winds and the bowels

wins that course through the limbs

in breath and out breath or whatever

else internally belonging to oneself is

air Airy and clung to

this is called the internal Air element

now both the internal Air element and

the external Air element are simply air

element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine

this I am not this is not myself

when one sees it thus as it actually is

with proper wisdom

one becomes disenchanted with the air

element

and observes that the Mind becomes

dispassionate towards the air element

an air element is vibration and movement

now there comes a time when the external

error element is Disturbed

it sweeps away Villages towns cities

districts and countries

there Comes A Time in the last month of

a hot season when they seek Wind by

means of a fan or Bellows or even

strands of straw in the dripping Fringe

of the thatched nutster

when even this external Air element

crate as it is I guess seem to be a

permanent subject to destruction

disappearance and change

what of this body which is cloned to by

craving in lasts but a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

what monk is the space element

the space element maybe either be

internal or external

what is the internal space element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is space spatial and clung to

that is the holes of the ears the

nostrils the door of the mouth and that

aperture whereby that is what is eaten

drunk and consumed and tasted gets

swallowed

and where it collects and whereby is

excreted From Below

or whatever else internally belonging to

oneself is space spatial and cloned to

this is called the internal space

element

now both the internal space element and

the external space element are simply

space element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine this I am not this is

not myself

when one sees it does as it actually is

with proper wisdom one becomes

disenchanted with the space element and

observes the Mind become dispassionate

towards the space element

then the remains only consciousness

purified and bright

what does one cognize with that

consciousness

one cognizes this is Pleasant

one cognizes this is painful

one cognizes this is neither Pleasant

nor painful

independent on a contact to be felt as

pleasant there arises a pleasant feeling

when one feels a pleasant feeling one

understands I feel a pleasant feeling

one understands what the cessation of

that same contact to be felt as pleasant

its corresponding feeling the pleasant

feeling that arose Independence on that

contact to be felt is Pleasant

ceases and subsides

Independence on a contact he felt as

painful there arises a painful feeling

when one feels a painful feeling one

understands and I feel a painful feeling

one understands what the cessation of

that painful feeling that arose

Independence on that contact of the felt

as painful

ceases and subscribes

dependence on a contact to be felt is

neither painful or Pleasant there arises

in either painful nor Pleasant feeling

when one feels in either painful nor

Pleasant feeling one understands I feel

in either painful and or Pleasant

feeling

one understands with the cessation of

that same contact to be felt as neither

painful nor Pleasant its corresponding

feeling the neither painful nor Pleasant

feeling that arose Independence on that

contact that we felt has neither painful

nor Pleasant ceases and subsides

bug just as from the contact and

friction of Two Fire Sticks heat is

generated and fire is produced

separation and dysfunction of those two

Fire Sticks the corresponding heat

ceases and subsides

too

independent on a contact to be felt as

pleasant or to be felt as painful to be

felt as neither painful nor Pleasant

there arises and neither painful nor

Pleasant feeling

one understands what the cessation of

that contact to be felt as neither

painful nor Pleasant its corresponding

feeling ceases and subsides

feeling is conditioned on contact

when contact ceases meal existed

and then there only remains Equanimity

purified and bright malleable Wheely and

radiant

so we've been talking about getting into

the fourth genre here

as we let go of the body

and we're left with observation and

equanimity

suppose a monk a skillful Goldsmith or

his Apprentice or to prepare a furnace

heat up The Crucible

take some gold returns and put it onto

The Crucible from time to time he would

blow on it from time to time he would

sprinkle water over it from time to time

he would just look on

the goals would become refined while

refined completely refined faultless rid

of draws valuable weirdly and radiant

so this Goldsmith or his Apprentice

this uh there's actually a full suit uh

written about this in um

I think it's an book of threes

around 103.

um and this is uh about working with

one's mind so the analogy of flowing on

it

sprinkling water on it and looking on

it's talking about

blowing on it we can think of as

exertion

spray plenty of water on it and think of

its collectiveness

and then looking on as equanimity

or you can think about it as adding

energy

backing off

letting settle

and I'm just observing

in all three of these are important to

develop the minds to make it fully

malleable really and radiant

if you apply too much too much exertion

to your gold to your collectiveness to

your meditation object it will burn up

try too hard

and you will you will lose it yeah

if you don't put enough effort in if you

lean too much into Stillness

again it will not work it will no longer

be workable or malleable

if you look on too much without

adjusting without adjusting your

Enlightenment factors appropriately

it won't be ready it won't work and it

won't further develop

so that's what this is talking about

here

using three three analogies instead of

um of exertion collectiveness and

equanimity

where we could talk about seven

Enlightenment factors

the same idea

observing how your mind is observing how

your collectiveness is

and working with it as appropriate in

that moment

when you can work with your Equanimity

with your meditation object that is

appropriate

that it develops and becomes steady

whatever kind of ornament he wished to

make from it whether a cold chain or

earrings or a necklace or golden Garland

it would serve his purpose

so two monks then there remains only

Equanimity purified and bright memorable

wieldy and radiant

he understands thus

if I were to direct this Equity so

purified and bright to the base of

Infinite Space and to develop my mind

accordingly this Equanimity of Mind

supported by that base clinging to it

would remain for a very long time

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

infinite consciousness

and to develop my mind accordingly then

this economy of mine supported by that

base clinging to it would remain for a

very long time

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

nothingness

and I were to develop my mind

accordingly

than this Equanimity of mine supported

by that base clinging to it would remain

for a very long time

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright

to the base of neither perception or

non-perception and to develop my mind

accordingly then this Equanimity of mine

supported by that base clinging

would remain for a very long time

so as you're learning as your mind

develops and is balanced it can remain

for a very long time

I know all of you at this point and

Retreat are are sitting uh sitting

longer than you were in the beginning

some of you are remaining for a very

long time

experimenting with two hours three hours

four hours five hours

my mind can remain for a very long time

as you're learning when you do this

you don't do this through trying

when you sit like this you don't do this

through pain

the first time you hear of someone

sitting for five hours

your mind goes no way

why would you do that

because it's really fun

when you do it

um

use when you when you start sitting that

on

you do that from a place of balance

a place of comfort

not from a place of pain

first of all there are two kinds of pain

that occur rise in meditation and you

should understand what they are

the first is physical pain

physical physical pain happens because

the body is being damaged

you know it's physical pain because you

get up and it persists and it doesn't go

away right away

we need to not sit through physical pain

if you sit three hours four hours five

hours through physical pain you can hurt

yourself

and we don't want to do that at all

and then there's meditation pain

physical pain is not sure to show up but

meditation pain is sure to show up for

everyone at some point of their Journey

meditation pain you can identify because

when you stand up it goes away basically

immediately you're like what was that

got me again

meditation pain is the hindrance

um

when it arises it is a painful feeling

and my mind may want to tighten around

it

and when mind tightens around it

when you consciously or unconsciously

resist

you help it stick around

you know sometimes meditation pain will

just come up

for a while

just our friend for a while and we get

to get to learn from it

and sometimes we accidentally clamp

around meditation pain and make it an

emergency

and when we clamp around it then it

sticks around longer than it has to that

it might

so we treat it like a hindrance we let

it be there we chuckle with it

because it can be quite amusing it can

be much stronger than physical pain huh

yeah

quite quite interesting

but eventually meditation pain passes

and as it passes

um

one is then really able to sit

comfortably

and as you sit comfortably and you

realize

there's no reason to get up it's just a

hindrance

I'll let it go

we'll work with it I'll laugh with it

and then you stay there and mine settles

you see

number one on the other side of the

hindrance is a calm

and interesting and collected mind

and number two as the time goes on mine

becomes more and more collected

more and more still as time goes on

and the idea of sitting long goes from

something we've resist

I don't want to do that

does something we get curious about

what will happen next

and that's why we sit three four five

hours eight hours

we sit comfortably easily

effortlessly

when we're ready to

and it can be a lot of fun

and it can allow a lot of insight

as mine settles down

he understands thus

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

Infinite Space and to develop my mind

accordingly

this would be conditioned

and conditioned

means It ultimately subject to the three

characteristics ultimately dependently

originated and ultimately not a reliable

base ultimately a source of suffering

if I were to direct this equipment

Equanimity so purified and bright to the

base of infinite consciousness

and to develop my mind accordingly this

would be conditioned

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

nothingness and to develop my mind

accordingly this would be conditioned

if I were to direct my if I were to

direct this Equanimity so purified and

bright to the base of either perception

or non-perception and to develop my mind

accordingly this would be conditioned

he does not form any condition or

generate any volition tending towards

either being or non-being

since he does not form any condition

or generate any volition tending towards

either being or non-being he does not

cling to anything in this world

when he does not cling he is not

agitated

when he has not agitated he personally

attains Nirvana

he understands thus

birth is destroyed the holy life has

been lived

and what had to be done has been done

there is no more coming to any state of

being

if he feels a pleasant feeling he

understands it is impermanent there is

no holding to it there is no Delight in

it

if he feels the painful feeling he

understands

it is impermanent

there is no holding to it there is no

there's no Delight in it

if he feels in either painful nor

Pleasant feeling he understands it isn't

permanent there is no holding to it

there is no Delight into Delight in it

if he feels a painful feeling he feels

it did not detached he feels

impersonally

if he feels a painful feeling he feels

it detached he feels that neither

painful enough he feels that if he feels

in either painful or Pleasant feeling he

feels it detached

when he feels a feeling terminating in

the body he understands I feel a feeling

terminating in the body

when he feels a feeling terminating with

life he understands I feel a feeling

terminating with life

when there is no lust hatred and

delusion

Pleasant feelings are felt and

personally they are present

mind does not latch on to them and does

not cling to them and not just not think

of them explore them identify with them

he understands on the dissolution of the

body with the ending of Life all that is

felt not being delighted in will become

cool right here

monk just as an oil lamp Burns

Independence on oil and awake

and when the oil and Wick are used up if

it does not get any more fuel it is

extinguished from lack of fuel

so too when he feels a terminate feel

terminating with the body a feeling

terminating with the body of feeling

terminating with life he understands I

feel determined I feel I feel a feeling

terminating with life

he understands how the dissolution of

the body with the ending of life

all that is felt not being delighted in

will become cool right here

therefore among possessing this wisdom

possesses the Supreme Foundation of

wisdom

for this monk is a supreme Noble wisdom

namely the knowledge of the destruction

of all suffering

his Deliverance being fonded upon truth

is unshakable

for that is false monk which has a

deceptive nature and that is true which

has an undeceptive nature

dabada

therefore among possessing this truth

possesses the supreme but Supreme

Foundation of Truth

for this monk is the Supreme Foundation

of Truth namely nibana which has an

undeceptive nature

formally when he was ignorant he

undertook an accepted acquisitions now

he has abandoned them cut them off at

the root made them like a palm stump

done away with them so they know are no

longer subject to Future arising

therefore a monk possessing this

relinquishment

possesses the Supreme relinquent

Foundation of relinquishment

for this monk is the Supreme Noble

relinquishment namely the relinquishment

of all acquisitions

formally when he was ignorant he

experienced covetedness desire and lust

now he has abandoned them cut them off

at the root made them like a palm stump

done away with them so that they are no

longer subject to future or Rising

formerly when he was ignorant he

experienced anger ill will and hate

you know he has abandoned them cut them

off at the root made them like a palm

stump done away with them so they are no

longer subject to Future arising

when he was ignorant he experienced

ignorance and delusion

no he has abandoned them cut them off at

the root made them like a palm stump

done away with them so they are no

longer subject to Future arising

therefore among possessing this peace

possesses the Supreme's Foundation of

peace

for this monk is the Supreme normal

peace namely the pacification of lust

hate and delusion

so it was referenced to this that it was

said one should not neglect wisdom

one should preserve truth one should

cultivate relinquishment and one should

train for peace

the tides of conceiving do not sweep

over one who stands on these foundations

when and when the tides are conceiving

no longer sweep our room he's called The

Sage of Peace so it was said and with

preference to what was this said

monk I am is it conceiving

I am this is a conceiving

I shall be as a conceiving

I know I shall be not I shall not be as

a conceiving

I shall be possessed of form as a

conceiving I shall be formless is a

conceiving

I shall be precipient as the conceiving

I shall be non-precipient is it

conceiving

I shall be neither precipient nor

non-precipient is a conceiving

conceiving is a disease conceiving as a

tumor conceiving as a dart

by over a coming all conceivings monk

one is called the sage of peace

and the sage of peace is not born does

not die does not age he has not shaken

and does not yearn

for there is nothing present in him by

which he might be born

not being born how could he age

not aging how could he die

not dying white how could he be shaken

not being shaken why should he yearn

no craving for being

no craving for being in any of the

China's

syllables with reference to this that it

was said

the tides are conceiving do not sweep

over one who stands upon these

foundations

and when the tides are conceiving no

longer sweep over him he is called the

sage at peace

monk bear in mind this brief exposition

of the six elements

thereupon the venerable pukasati side

but indeed the teacher has come to me

the sublime one has come to me

fully in the fully enlightened one

that's come to me

then he rose from his seat arranged his

upper robe over one shoulder and

prostrating himself with his head at the

Blessed one's feet he said

venerable sir a transgression came over

me in that like a fool confused and

blundering I presumed to address the

blessed one as friend

venerable sir may the blessed one

forgive my transgression seen as such

for the sake of restraint in the future

surely manga transgression overcame you

in that like a fool confused and

blundering you presumed to address me as

friend

but since you see your transgression as

such and make amends accordance with the

dhamma we forgive you

for it is growth in the noble ones

disciplined when one sees one's

transgression as such makes amends in

accordance with the Tama and undertake

restrict undertakes restraint in the

future

venerable sir I would receive the full

admission under the blessed one

but are your bowl and robes complete

Monk

venerable sir my bowl and robes are not

complete

monk tataga says do not give the full

admission to anyone whose bowl and robes

are not complete

then the venerable tukasati having

delighted and rejoiced in the Blessed

Lord words rose from a seed and after

paying homage to the blessed one keep

him on the right he departed in order to

search for a ball in Rome

then while the venerable pukasati was

searching for a ball in robes a stray

cow killed him

then a number of monks went to the

blessing one and after paying homage to

him they sat down at one side and told

him

venerable sir the klansman pukasati who

was given brief instruction by the

blessed one has died

what is this destination what is this

future course

amongst The Clansman pukasati was wise

he practiced in accordance with the

dhamma and did not trouble me in

interpretation of Adama

with the destruction of the five lower

Fetters the klansman pukasati has

repaired spontaneously in the pure pose

and will attain flight and Nirvana there

without her returning from that world

this is what the blessed one said

the monks were satisfied and delighted

in the blessed one words

and so it suggested that

around a paragraph 22 that's when

fukusati

attained origami

so this says during the talk he attained

onigami and when he was killed by the

cow was reborn there

so somewhere around the discussion of

John is being conditioned

not intending does not form condition or

generate Collision towards any being or

non-being

not engaging in the better the taints of

being

does anyone have any questions

that's a really good question

um the the

that the the Buddha was disguising

himself and was hiding the 32 qualities

it was actually

oh where he was coming and wanted to

surprise him I guess and and so he hid

himself and the qualities that made

himself appear as a normal Monk

self surprise

it's interesting he yep

saw with this Divine eye that he was

coming and chose to chose to meet him

it's a lot

yeah

and it's all after fourth genre too it's

it's development after that it's really

um

yeah

well yeah he's saying like I shall be

neither percipient nor non-precipient is

it conceiving

and so that yeah so he's talking about

um taking and identifying

with uh with your practice so I'm gonna

do

Infinite Space I'm gonna do this I'm

going to do it

as opposed to letting it happen and

seeing seeing what unfolds

like that

not

so when you try to do it that's becoming

when you try to become it that's

becoming

when you back off and relax and you you

let it happen as it is

that's letting go of becoming there and

and like that so I think that I think

that's what he's saying there when he's

talking about the I show up against the

conceiving or

that

share some Mary

suffering ones be suffering free and the

fear struck Fearless be May The Grieving

shed all grief and male beings find

relief male being shared this mirror

that we have thus acquired for the

acquisition of all kinds of happiness

beings inhabiting space and Earth David

zanagas a mighty Power share this

Narrative of ours may they long protect

the Buddhist dispensation

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thank you

foreign

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so tonight we're going to be talking

about

going over suit a number himen 140.

the exposition of the elements

so this is one of my favorite sutas for

a lot of reasons

uh it's a story some sutures are not in

the form of story but this is a this is

a story with things that happen

maybe even a little humor

it's about the Buddha meeting a man who

is going to join the Sanka and um

they meet halfway and he gives a dhamma

talk reasonably

comprehensive Dharma talk

thus have I heard

on one occasion the blessed one was

wandering in the magahan country and

eventually arrived at rajagaha

there he went to the Potter of bhagava

and said to him

if it is not inconvenient for you

bhagava I will stay one night in your

Workshop

it is not inconvenient for me better

will serve

but there is a homeless one already

staying there

if he agrees then stay as you like

vulnerable sir

you know there was a klansman named

pukasati who had gone forth from the

home life into homelessness out of faith

in the blessed one

and on that occasion he was already

staying in The Potter's Workshop

so pukasa team

um

was a king in a nearby Kingdom from

excuse me

and he was in um correspondence with the

king of magadheim

and the uh the king of mogadaha sent him

a golden plate

that had a brief description of the

triple gem that is the Buddha Adama and

the Sangha

and a little bit of dhamma written on it

and it filled him with such joy and

confidence he gave up his kingdom

and went into the homelessness and went

was going on his way to join the Sangha

uh bukasati

this was a result of his past

inclination of course

he actually was a monk under the

previous Buddha

and in that existence he was one of

seven monks

that went to

um

did some strong determination sitting

they went to the top of a mountain and

determined not to leave there until they

attained

and they said they would not leave there

even to get food

so the result of that is the senior monk

became an our hunt

the next uh next month in line became an

onigami

and the other five monks starved to

death of which pukasati was won

so uh

so he was reborn he went to that

and after that

and then was reborn under uh this Buddha

and so that is likely why he encountered

such faith and joy uh hearing the dhamma

and likely why his talk went as when it

went

now he had been practicing for a while

and he

knew the fourth genre quite well

he was quite attached at the Fortuna and

but he had been practicing before this

time

and so on his way he stayed in this

Workshop

then the blessed one went to the

venerable pocasati and sent to him

if it is not inconvenient for you Monk I

will save one night in the workshop

The Potter's Workshop shop is large

enough friend

let the venerable stay as long as he

likes

then the blessed one entered the

Potter's Workshop prepared a spread of

grass at one end and sat down

folding his legs crosswise setting his

body erect and establishing mindfulness

in front of him

then the blessed one spent most of the

night seated in meditation

in the venerable pukasati also spent

most of the night seated in meditation

then the blessed one thought

this klansman conducts himself in a way

that inspires confidence

suppose I were to question him

so he asked the venerable pukasa team

under whom have you gone forth Monk

who is your teacher

whose dhamma do you profess

there is the recluse Gautama

the son of the sakians who went forth

from a sakyan clan

now a good report of that blessed gotima

has been spread to this effect

the blessed one is accomplished fully

enlightened

perfect and true knowledge and conduct

Sublime

nowhere of worlds incomparable leader of

persons To Be Tamed

teacher of gods and humans

enlightened blessed

I have gone forth under that blessed one

that blessed one is my teacher

I profess the dhamma of that blessed one

but monk where is that blessed one

accomplished and fully enlightened now

living

there is friend a city in the northern

country named sawati

the blessed one accomplished and fully

enlightened is now living there

but monk have you ever seen that blessed

one before would you recognize him if

you saw him

no friend

I have never seen that blessed one

before

nor would I recognize him if I saw him

then the blessed one thought

and this klansman has gone forth from

the home life into homelessness under me

suppose I were to teach him the Dharma

so the blessed one addressed the

venerables

monk I will teach you the Dharma

listen and attend closely to what I

shall say

yes friend the venerable pukasati

replied

the blessed one said this

monk this person consists of six

elements

six bases of contact and 18 kinds of

mental exploration

and he has four foundations

Guides of conceiving do not sweep over

one who stands upon these foundations

and when the tides of conceiving no

longer sweep over him he is called a

sage a piece

one should not neglect wisdom

one should preserve truth

one should cultivate relinquishment

one should train for peace

this is the summary of the exposition of

the six elements

Monk this person consists of six

elements so it was said

in reference to what was this said

there are the Earth element the water

element the fire element the air element

the spaced element and the Consciousness

element

so it was with reference to this that it

was said

monk this person consists of six

elements

monk this person consists of six bases

of contact so it was said

and with reference to what was this said

there are the base of eye contact the

base of ear contact

the base of nose contact a base of

tongue contact

the face of body contact

and the base of Mind contact

so it was reference to this that it was

said

monk this person consists of six bases

of contact

monk this person consists of 18 kinds of

mental exploration so it was said

and with reference to what was this said

on seeing a form with the eye one

explores a form productive of joy

one explores a four and productive of

grief

one explores a foreign productive

equanimity

on hearing a sound with the ear one

explores a sound

productive of Joy one explores a sound

productive of grief one explores a sound

productive of equanimity

and smelling an odor with the nose one

explorers an older productive of joy

when explosion explores an odor

productive of grief

one explores an older productive of

equanimity

I'm tasting a flavor with the tongue one

explores a taste productive of Joy one

explores a taste productive of grief one

explores a taste productive of

equanimity

untouching a tangible with the body one

explores a tangible productive of joy

a tangible productive of grief one

explores a tangible productive of

equanimity

uncognizing a mind object with the Mind

One explores a mind object productive of

joy

when explorers of Mind object productive

of grief

and one explores a mind object

productive of equanimity

so it was with reference to this that it

was said

monk this person consists of 18 kinds of

mental exploration

monk this person has four foundations

so it was said and with reference to

what was this said

there are the foundation of wisdom

the foundation of Truth

the foundation of relinquishment and the

foundation of peace

so it was reference to this that it was

said

monk this person has flower foundations

one should not neglect wisdom one should

preserve truth one should cultivate with

relinquishment and one should train for

peace so it was then

one thing that you may have noticed

about the suit does so far as they will

give clear descriptions of what one was

completed the training will have their

mind be like

no grief

no hate

no greed and so on

and so

they'll also have these same

descriptions as forms of training

someone trains for no greed one transfer

no grief one trains for and so on

so from the very beginning of training

one can look at the goal and have that

in mind and understand how to train

and so when we hear about states that

are not or or results that are not

comprehensible

whether it's a genre or how how it is to

have a fewer fatters or so on

one can simply rely on what the training

is and we know what to do in any given

moment

so

one does not know how one needs to be to

be completely without greed

in order to train to be without greed

we know how to train to be without greed

and we do that every day when we

meditate

simply staying with your object of

meditation

you have many opportunities to train

your mind to be a non-reactive

and to let go of the defilements

and you've been doing this all week

when a hindrance comes up that's

productive of hate

you don't like it

or you like it maybe it's a wonderful

thought to explore

or a memory

or it's a feeling that's an emergency

when you let it be there

when you don't get involved

when you decide it's okay to be there

you're training and it's

that it is an impersonal situation and

not an emergency

when you relax right then when you 6r

you have a mind without greed

hatred and delusion

right then

and you can learn how such a mind

interacts with a painful feeling

with a pleasant feeling

and when you lose that killer mind

you get to watch it again

quite straightforward

and when you think of it this way

there's no hindrance or distraction that

is really a problem

as long as you can identify it

realize it can be impersonal

let it be there and let it be okay for

it to be there

there's nothing you need to do

and every time you do that you build up

the pathway of non-reactivity

you build up the pathway of not having

greed hatred and delusion

like that

and how monk does not does one not

neglect wisdom

there are these six elements

the Earth element the water element the

fire element the air element the space

element and the Consciousness element

so I'm actually going to read this

section from another suta here

the sutas have

repeated text throughout them

so the the same phrases and descriptions

will be used for the same topics

throughout the suta

the suit has some the initi this helps

with memorization and it helps us

understand the authenticity of some

sutas how the words are used and put

together

uh the description in the suit of the

elements is very nice

but in uh majima Nakaya 28 the greater

discourse of the elements they have a

longer prescription which I think is

even better

what monks is the Earth element

the Earth element may be either internal

or external

what is the internal Earth element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is solid solidified and clung to

so the Earth element

is perceived as extension

as hardness or softness

things that take up space

that have a certain amount of resistance

that is the Earth element

whatever belonging to oneself that is

solid solidified and clung to that is

head hairs body hairs Nails teeth

skin flesh sinews bone bone marrow

kidneys

heart liver

diaphragm spleen

lungs intestine mesentery

contents of the stomach feces or

whatever else internally belonging to

oneself and a solid solidified and clung

to

this is called the internal Earth

element

so

learning about the Earth element there

are many ways to work with these

descriptions

one way is doing specific meditations

directly on the Earth element

so you can see their listing body parts

that have solidity or extension as a

primary aspect of them

this is one way to work with it

um

actually you can learn to feel your

internal organs better than you might

realize

I don't recommend you do this

there's no reason to your heart beats

fine on his own your intestines work

fine on its own and actually it can

trigger anxiety and concern when you

have all these feelings that you may not

know what they are people get in trouble

when they develop their internal

proprioception like that

unless you're doing a meditation like

this

um

because

the elements are talking about form

they are part of mentality materiality

the materiality component

they're talking about body

when we our body or physical body

we can use them to think of it that way

when we're meditating on elements like

this we are

learning to see them in a personal way

learning to see their transitory nature

the impermanence they come and go

the unsatisfactoriness and the not-self

aspect

whatever uh

meditation we're doing on the elements

this is often the end result

and we can use them to understand our

body as not self and this is what it's

talking about here

by identifying the aspects in the body

that can be uh correlated with the

element the solid and so on

one can see that these are not self

now both the internal Earth element and

the external Earth element are simply

Earth element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine this I am not

this is not myself

when season when one sees it as it is

thus actually as as it actually is with

proper wisdom one becomes disenchanted

with the Earth element and observes how

the mind becomes dispassionate towards

the Earth element

one can see the three characteristics in

the body and mind becomes dispassionate

towards it

and one can develop the understanding

that it does not solve and to be clung

to

anything that changes is not

satisfactory

to identify with

if something changes

and you imagine it's yourself

that will lead to dissatisfaction

it is not appropriate

we all start with a lot of

identification with the body

and a lot of

discomfort can happen because of that

identification

this meditation also uh is a lot like

the Fallen as meditation where one

identifies parts and imagines parts of

those bodies

and how they are not attractive

the end result is the same when there's

dispassion towards it

one can let it go

when there is a composite idea of

something

when you imagine my body

has this whole thing

that's a concept

and that concept is easy to be have

greed or hatred or delusion about

because it's a concept and easy to

identify with

when you can break this concept apart

into component parts

thing you had attachment to disappears

with that perspective it was never there

in the first place and your attachment

was misplaced

and was never actually possible

and again when you have attachment to

something that you cannot actually find

to be there

this leads to cognitive dissonance and

problems

there comes a time when the water

element is Disturbed and the external

Earth element vanishes

even this external Earth element as

created as as it is is seen to be

impermanent subject to destruction

disappearance and change

what of this body which is clung to by

craving and lasts but a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

internal elements

mine my body clearly but we look outside

at the Earth

of course that's not me

but that's saying that boundary is a

little more arbitrary than we might

think our separation that from the

environment is not

can't really find that point can you

we're part of that and we're subject to

that in the same way

the end result of understanding uh

not solve not

realizing no I me or mine there is

liberation

and clarity

and breaking through the concepts that

you hold about it

and so sometimes it can be scary to

start to think about

body changing

elements changing

but again those are Concepts

and when you developed his passion

towards that there's no problem at all

what monk is the water element

the water element

maybe either internal or external

what is the internal water element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is water watery and clung to

that is bile phlegm pus blood

sweat

fat

tears Grease

spittle

it's not

oil of the joints urine or whatever

internally belongings to oneself is

water watery and clung to this is the

internal water element

now both the internal water element and

the external water element are simply

water element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine

this I am not

this is not myself

when one sees it thus as it actually is

with proper wisdom one becomes

disenchanted with the water element

can observe how the mind becomes

dispassionate towards the water element

the watermelon a water element can be

experienced as cohesion

what holds things together

water element and the Earth element

always appear together

they're conjoined

you can observe this

the water element if you melt ice the

solid becomes liquid

um solid matter becomes liquid and

liquid matter can become solid

and they they go back and forth

now there comes a time when the external

water element is Disturbed

it carries away Villages towns cities

districts and countries

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean sink down 100 leagues

200 Leagues 300 leagues 400 leagues 500

leagues 600 leagues 700 leagues

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean stands Seven Palms deep

six Palms deep

two Palms deep only a palm deep

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean stand seven fathoms deep

six fathoms steep

five of them steep four fathoms deep

three fathoms deep two fathoms deep

only a fathom deep

there comes a time when the waters in

the great ocean stand half above and

deep

only waist high

only knee-high

only ankle deep

there comes a time when the water is in

the great ocean are not even enough to

let even the joint of the finger

when even this external Water Element as

great as it is is seen to be impermanent

subject to destruction disappearance and

change

what of this body

which is clung to by craving in last but

a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

what friends is the fire element

fire elements may be either internal or

external

what is the internal fire element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is fire fiery and clung to

that is by which one is warned ages and

is consumed

and that by which is what is eaten drunk

consumed and tasted gets completely

digested

or whatever else internally belongings

to oneself as fiery fiery and clung to

this is called the internal fire element

though both the internal fire element

and the external Fire Element are simply

fire element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine

this I am not

this is not myself

when one sees it thus as it actually is

with proper wisdom one becomes

disenchanted with the fire element and

makes the Mind dispassionate towards the

fire element

so the fire element is heat and cold two

sizes the same thing

it's also involved in vitality

and it has an interesting property of

being making matter increase or decrease

so you can think of worms on hitting a

planet meaning growth you can think of

metal heating up expanding

you can think of Decay and shrinking or

cold and shrinking

and think of chemistry

chemical reactions are thought of in

terms of heat input and output

how much heat is required to make the

change the physical matter change happen

or how much is released when the change

happens

that's the fire element

now there comes a time when the external

fire element is Disturbed

it burns up Villages towns cities

districts and countries

it goes out due to lack of fuel only

when it comes to green grass or to erode

or to a rock

or to water or to Fair open space

there comes a time when they seek to

make the fire even with the Cox feather

or a hide pairing

when even this external Fire Element as

great as it is it seemed to be

impermanent subject to destruction

disappearance and change

what of this body

which is clung to by craving

and last but a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

when we're practicing the rava bahara's

or whatever object in doing the genres

we can encounter the elements in another

way

when we're very quiet and quiet mind

we can observe the elements of arising

uh they one mind is very very quiet the

smallest of movements are the beginning

of the elements forming

and this can be seen as they rise in

sequence

it's a different sequence than what's in

the book here

but you can see them come up one by one

this is on the level of tiny formations

arising passing away this is very very

small

and when your mind is balanced enough

you can watch the elements form

kind of build up build up into contact

build up into craving build up into

potentially action

it can be quite fascinating

but it's important that you don't look

for this

appear in quiet mind and you look really

hard

trying to see the element

what does the water element look like

what could cohesion look like or

that will unbalance your mind

and it will cause tension and tightness

and you won't actually be able to see it

well

if at all

when we're developing Insight when we're

experiencing Insight we need to be

careful

to not look too hard

when we look too hard we introduce

tension and tightness

into something that's impermanent we try

if we're really lucky we might get a

glimpse of what we're looking for

but as likely or not our mental idea of

what we're looking for will influence

what we actually see

so by looking

we see by looking with an impression and

image with a lot of craving we might

affect our perception huh

we might have a bias in what we see

so I would suggest when you look at

these things when you look just look

see what's there

see what's there as you see it simply in

front of you

don't try to see something

these things will be obvious when your

mind is balanced

obvious when mind is is called

and if they're not it's okay

your practice works great at whatever

level your mind is at you don't need to

see this

hear anything in particular to go with

your practice

what friends is the water element

Water Element maybe internal or external

what is the internal Air element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

because Airy air and clung to that is

the upgoing winds the down going winds

wins in the belly winds and the bowels

wins that course through the limbs

in breath and out breath or whatever

else internally belonging to oneself is

air Airy and clung to

this is called the internal Air element

now both the internal Air element and

the external Air element are simply air

element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine

this I am not this is not myself

when one sees it thus as it actually is

with proper wisdom

one becomes disenchanted with the air

element

and observes that the Mind becomes

dispassionate towards the air element

an air element is vibration and movement

now there comes a time when the external

error element is Disturbed

it sweeps away Villages towns cities

districts and countries

there Comes A Time in the last month of

a hot season when they seek Wind by

means of a fan or Bellows or even

strands of straw in the dripping Fringe

of the thatched nutster

when even this external Air element

crate as it is I guess seem to be a

permanent subject to destruction

disappearance and change

what of this body which is cloned to by

craving in lasts but a while

there can be no considering that as I or

mine or I am

what monk is the space element

the space element maybe either be

internal or external

what is the internal space element

whatever internally belonging to oneself

is space spatial and clung to

that is the holes of the ears the

nostrils the door of the mouth and that

aperture whereby that is what is eaten

drunk and consumed and tasted gets

swallowed

and where it collects and whereby is

excreted From Below

or whatever else internally belonging to

oneself is space spatial and cloned to

this is called the internal space

element

now both the internal space element and

the external space element are simply

space element

and that should be seen as it actually

is with proper wisdom thus

this is not mine this I am not this is

not myself

when one sees it does as it actually is

with proper wisdom one becomes

disenchanted with the space element and

observes the Mind become dispassionate

towards the space element

then the remains only consciousness

purified and bright

what does one cognize with that

consciousness

one cognizes this is Pleasant

one cognizes this is painful

one cognizes this is neither Pleasant

nor painful

independent on a contact to be felt as

pleasant there arises a pleasant feeling

when one feels a pleasant feeling one

understands I feel a pleasant feeling

one understands what the cessation of

that same contact to be felt as pleasant

its corresponding feeling the pleasant

feeling that arose Independence on that

contact to be felt is Pleasant

ceases and subsides

Independence on a contact he felt as

painful there arises a painful feeling

when one feels a painful feeling one

understands and I feel a painful feeling

one understands what the cessation of

that painful feeling that arose

Independence on that contact of the felt

as painful

ceases and subscribes

dependence on a contact to be felt is

neither painful or Pleasant there arises

in either painful nor Pleasant feeling

when one feels in either painful nor

Pleasant feeling one understands I feel

in either painful and or Pleasant

feeling

one understands with the cessation of

that same contact to be felt as neither

painful nor Pleasant its corresponding

feeling the neither painful nor Pleasant

feeling that arose Independence on that

contact that we felt has neither painful

nor Pleasant ceases and subsides

bug just as from the contact and

friction of Two Fire Sticks heat is

generated and fire is produced

separation and dysfunction of those two

Fire Sticks the corresponding heat

ceases and subsides

too

independent on a contact to be felt as

pleasant or to be felt as painful to be

felt as neither painful nor Pleasant

there arises and neither painful nor

Pleasant feeling

one understands what the cessation of

that contact to be felt as neither

painful nor Pleasant its corresponding

feeling ceases and subsides

feeling is conditioned on contact

when contact ceases meal existed

and then there only remains Equanimity

purified and bright malleable Wheely and

radiant

so we've been talking about getting into

the fourth genre here

as we let go of the body

and we're left with observation and

equanimity

suppose a monk a skillful Goldsmith or

his Apprentice or to prepare a furnace

heat up The Crucible

take some gold returns and put it onto

The Crucible from time to time he would

blow on it from time to time he would

sprinkle water over it from time to time

he would just look on

the goals would become refined while

refined completely refined faultless rid

of draws valuable weirdly and radiant

so this Goldsmith or his Apprentice

this uh there's actually a full suit uh

written about this in um

I think it's an book of threes

around 103.

um and this is uh about working with

one's mind so the analogy of flowing on

it

sprinkling water on it and looking on

it's talking about

blowing on it we can think of as

exertion

spray plenty of water on it and think of

its collectiveness

and then looking on as equanimity

or you can think about it as adding

energy

backing off

letting settle

and I'm just observing

in all three of these are important to

develop the minds to make it fully

malleable really and radiant

if you apply too much too much exertion

to your gold to your collectiveness to

your meditation object it will burn up

try too hard

and you will you will lose it yeah

if you don't put enough effort in if you

lean too much into Stillness

again it will not work it will no longer

be workable or malleable

if you look on too much without

adjusting without adjusting your

Enlightenment factors appropriately

it won't be ready it won't work and it

won't further develop

so that's what this is talking about

here

using three three analogies instead of

um of exertion collectiveness and

equanimity

where we could talk about seven

Enlightenment factors

the same idea

observing how your mind is observing how

your collectiveness is

and working with it as appropriate in

that moment

when you can work with your Equanimity

with your meditation object that is

appropriate

that it develops and becomes steady

whatever kind of ornament he wished to

make from it whether a cold chain or

earrings or a necklace or golden Garland

it would serve his purpose

so two monks then there remains only

Equanimity purified and bright memorable

wieldy and radiant

he understands thus

if I were to direct this Equity so

purified and bright to the base of

Infinite Space and to develop my mind

accordingly this Equanimity of Mind

supported by that base clinging to it

would remain for a very long time

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

infinite consciousness

and to develop my mind accordingly then

this economy of mine supported by that

base clinging to it would remain for a

very long time

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

nothingness

and I were to develop my mind

accordingly

than this Equanimity of mine supported

by that base clinging to it would remain

for a very long time

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright

to the base of neither perception or

non-perception and to develop my mind

accordingly then this Equanimity of mine

supported by that base clinging

would remain for a very long time

so as you're learning as your mind

develops and is balanced it can remain

for a very long time

I know all of you at this point and

Retreat are are sitting uh sitting

longer than you were in the beginning

some of you are remaining for a very

long time

experimenting with two hours three hours

four hours five hours

my mind can remain for a very long time

as you're learning when you do this

you don't do this through trying

when you sit like this you don't do this

through pain

the first time you hear of someone

sitting for five hours

your mind goes no way

why would you do that

because it's really fun

when you do it

um

use when you when you start sitting that

on

you do that from a place of balance

a place of comfort

not from a place of pain

first of all there are two kinds of pain

that occur rise in meditation and you

should understand what they are

the first is physical pain

physical physical pain happens because

the body is being damaged

you know it's physical pain because you

get up and it persists and it doesn't go

away right away

we need to not sit through physical pain

if you sit three hours four hours five

hours through physical pain you can hurt

yourself

and we don't want to do that at all

and then there's meditation pain

physical pain is not sure to show up but

meditation pain is sure to show up for

everyone at some point of their Journey

meditation pain you can identify because

when you stand up it goes away basically

immediately you're like what was that

got me again

meditation pain is the hindrance

um

when it arises it is a painful feeling

and my mind may want to tighten around

it

and when mind tightens around it

when you consciously or unconsciously

resist

you help it stick around

you know sometimes meditation pain will

just come up

for a while

just our friend for a while and we get

to get to learn from it

and sometimes we accidentally clamp

around meditation pain and make it an

emergency

and when we clamp around it then it

sticks around longer than it has to that

it might

so we treat it like a hindrance we let

it be there we chuckle with it

because it can be quite amusing it can

be much stronger than physical pain huh

yeah

quite quite interesting

but eventually meditation pain passes

and as it passes

um

one is then really able to sit

comfortably

and as you sit comfortably and you

realize

there's no reason to get up it's just a

hindrance

I'll let it go

we'll work with it I'll laugh with it

and then you stay there and mine settles

you see

number one on the other side of the

hindrance is a calm

and interesting and collected mind

and number two as the time goes on mine

becomes more and more collected

more and more still as time goes on

and the idea of sitting long goes from

something we've resist

I don't want to do that

does something we get curious about

what will happen next

and that's why we sit three four five

hours eight hours

we sit comfortably easily

effortlessly

when we're ready to

and it can be a lot of fun

and it can allow a lot of insight

as mine settles down

he understands thus

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

Infinite Space and to develop my mind

accordingly

this would be conditioned

and conditioned

means It ultimately subject to the three

characteristics ultimately dependently

originated and ultimately not a reliable

base ultimately a source of suffering

if I were to direct this equipment

Equanimity so purified and bright to the

base of infinite consciousness

and to develop my mind accordingly this

would be conditioned

if I were to direct this Equanimity so

purified and bright to the base of

nothingness and to develop my mind

accordingly this would be conditioned

if I were to direct my if I were to

direct this Equanimity so purified and

bright to the base of either perception

or non-perception and to develop my mind

accordingly this would be conditioned

he does not form any condition or

generate any volition tending towards

either being or non-being

since he does not form any condition

or generate any volition tending towards

either being or non-being he does not

cling to anything in this world

when he does not cling he is not

agitated

when he has not agitated he personally

attains Nirvana

he understands thus

birth is destroyed the holy life has

been lived

and what had to be done has been done

there is no more coming to any state of

being

if he feels a pleasant feeling he

understands it is impermanent there is

no holding to it there is no Delight in

it

if he feels the painful feeling he

understands

it is impermanent

there is no holding to it there is no

there's no Delight in it

if he feels in either painful nor

Pleasant feeling he understands it isn't

permanent there is no holding to it

there is no Delight into Delight in it

if he feels a painful feeling he feels

it did not detached he feels

impersonally

if he feels a painful feeling he feels

it detached he feels that neither

painful enough he feels that if he feels

in either painful or Pleasant feeling he

feels it detached

when he feels a feeling terminating in

the body he understands I feel a feeling

terminating in the body

when he feels a feeling terminating with

life he understands I feel a feeling

terminating with life

when there is no lust hatred and

delusion

Pleasant feelings are felt and

personally they are present

mind does not latch on to them and does

not cling to them and not just not think

of them explore them identify with them

he understands on the dissolution of the

body with the ending of Life all that is

felt not being delighted in will become

cool right here

monk just as an oil lamp Burns

Independence on oil and awake

and when the oil and Wick are used up if

it does not get any more fuel it is

extinguished from lack of fuel

so too when he feels a terminate feel

terminating with the body a feeling

terminating with the body of feeling

terminating with life he understands I

feel determined I feel I feel a feeling

terminating with life

he understands how the dissolution of

the body with the ending of life

all that is felt not being delighted in

will become cool right here

therefore among possessing this wisdom

possesses the Supreme Foundation of

wisdom

for this monk is a supreme Noble wisdom

namely the knowledge of the destruction

of all suffering

his Deliverance being fonded upon truth

is unshakable

for that is false monk which has a

deceptive nature and that is true which

has an undeceptive nature

dabada

therefore among possessing this truth

possesses the supreme but Supreme

Foundation of Truth

for this monk is the Supreme Foundation

of Truth namely nibana which has an

undeceptive nature

formally when he was ignorant he

undertook an accepted acquisitions now

he has abandoned them cut them off at

the root made them like a palm stump

done away with them so they know are no

longer subject to Future arising

therefore a monk possessing this

relinquishment

possesses the Supreme relinquent

Foundation of relinquishment

for this monk is the Supreme Noble

relinquishment namely the relinquishment

of all acquisitions

formally when he was ignorant he

experienced covetedness desire and lust

now he has abandoned them cut them off

at the root made them like a palm stump

done away with them so that they are no

longer subject to future or Rising

formerly when he was ignorant he

experienced anger ill will and hate

you know he has abandoned them cut them

off at the root made them like a palm

stump done away with them so they are no

longer subject to Future arising

when he was ignorant he experienced

ignorance and delusion

no he has abandoned them cut them off at

the root made them like a palm stump

done away with them so they are no

longer subject to Future arising

therefore among possessing this peace

possesses the Supreme's Foundation of

peace

for this monk is the Supreme normal

peace namely the pacification of lust

hate and delusion

so it was referenced to this that it was

said one should not neglect wisdom

one should preserve truth one should

cultivate relinquishment and one should

train for peace

the tides of conceiving do not sweep

over one who stands on these foundations

when and when the tides are conceiving

no longer sweep our room he's called The

Sage of Peace so it was said and with

preference to what was this said

monk I am is it conceiving

I am this is a conceiving

I shall be as a conceiving

I know I shall be not I shall not be as

a conceiving

I shall be possessed of form as a

conceiving I shall be formless is a

conceiving

I shall be precipient as the conceiving

I shall be non-precipient is it

conceiving

I shall be neither precipient nor

non-precipient is a conceiving

conceiving is a disease conceiving as a

tumor conceiving as a dart

by over a coming all conceivings monk

one is called the sage of peace

and the sage of peace is not born does

not die does not age he has not shaken

and does not yearn

for there is nothing present in him by

which he might be born

not being born how could he age

not aging how could he die

not dying white how could he be shaken

not being shaken why should he yearn

no craving for being

no craving for being in any of the

China's

syllables with reference to this that it

was said

the tides are conceiving do not sweep

over one who stands upon these

foundations

and when the tides are conceiving no

longer sweep over him he is called the

sage at peace

monk bear in mind this brief exposition

of the six elements

thereupon the venerable pukasati side

but indeed the teacher has come to me

the sublime one has come to me

fully in the fully enlightened one

that's come to me

then he rose from his seat arranged his

upper robe over one shoulder and

prostrating himself with his head at the

Blessed one's feet he said

venerable sir a transgression came over

me in that like a fool confused and

blundering I presumed to address the

blessed one as friend

venerable sir may the blessed one

forgive my transgression seen as such

for the sake of restraint in the future

surely manga transgression overcame you

in that like a fool confused and

blundering you presumed to address me as

friend

but since you see your transgression as

such and make amends accordance with the

dhamma we forgive you

for it is growth in the noble ones

disciplined when one sees one's

transgression as such makes amends in

accordance with the Tama and undertake

restrict undertakes restraint in the

future

venerable sir I would receive the full

admission under the blessed one

but are your bowl and robes complete

Monk

venerable sir my bowl and robes are not

complete

monk tataga says do not give the full

admission to anyone whose bowl and robes

are not complete

then the venerable tukasati having

delighted and rejoiced in the Blessed

Lord words rose from a seed and after

paying homage to the blessed one keep

him on the right he departed in order to

search for a ball in Rome

then while the venerable pukasati was

searching for a ball in robes a stray

cow killed him

then a number of monks went to the

blessing one and after paying homage to

him they sat down at one side and told

him

venerable sir the klansman pukasati who

was given brief instruction by the

blessed one has died

what is this destination what is this

future course

amongst The Clansman pukasati was wise

he practiced in accordance with the

dhamma and did not trouble me in

interpretation of Adama

with the destruction of the five lower

Fetters the klansman pukasati has

repaired spontaneously in the pure pose

and will attain flight and Nirvana there

without her returning from that world

this is what the blessed one said

the monks were satisfied and delighted

in the blessed one words

and so it suggested that

around a paragraph 22 that's when

fukusati

attained origami

so this says during the talk he attained

onigami and when he was killed by the

cow was reborn there

so somewhere around the discussion of

John is being conditioned

not intending does not form condition or

generate Collision towards any being or

non-being

not engaging in the better the taints of

being

does anyone have any questions

that's a really good question

um the the

that the the Buddha was disguising

himself and was hiding the 32 qualities

it was actually

oh where he was coming and wanted to

surprise him I guess and and so he hid

himself and the qualities that made

himself appear as a normal Monk

self surprise

it's interesting he yep

saw with this Divine eye that he was

coming and chose to chose to meet him

it's a lot

yeah

and it's all after fourth genre too it's

it's development after that it's really

um

yeah

well yeah he's saying like I shall be

neither percipient nor non-precipient is

it conceiving

and so that yeah so he's talking about

um taking and identifying

with uh with your practice so I'm gonna

do

Infinite Space I'm gonna do this I'm

going to do it

as opposed to letting it happen and

seeing seeing what unfolds

like that

not

so when you try to do it that's becoming

when you try to become it that's

becoming

when you back off and relax and you you

let it happen as it is

that's letting go of becoming there and

and like that so I think that I think

that's what he's saying there when he's

talking about the I show up against the

conceiving or

that

share some Mary

suffering ones be suffering free and the

fear struck Fearless be May The Grieving

shed all grief and male beings find

relief male being shared this mirror

that we have thus acquired for the

acquisition of all kinds of happiness

beings inhabiting space and Earth David

zanagas a mighty Power share this

Narrative of ours may they long protect

the Buddhist dispensation

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