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

this course tonight is called the second

suit the discipline and hire training in

poly

it's not the same object

and that they teach from the books this

is from this is talking about fire

training with directly with your own

practice

thus as I heard on one occasion the

blessed one was living in the sake and

country of capital about his part now on

that occasion a new Assembly Hall had

recently been built for the sake ins of

cat Billabong - and they did not been

inhabited by any Rekluse or Brahman or

human being at all the assembly halls

the each individual place would put up

in assembly hall and then whatever

aesthetics or teachers that came through

they would give their talks there and

then they would spend the night there

either go all night with the dhamma talk

or they would speak so it was kind of a

special occasion for this particular one

and then the sock hands of kept alive I

too went to the Blessed One after paying

homage to him they sat down at one side

and said to him venerable sir a new

Assembly Hall has been recently built

for the sake ins of Capitol a lot too

and it has not yet been inhabited by any

recluse or a brahmin or human being at

all venerable sir let the Blessed One be

the first to use it when the blessed one

has used it first then the sake ins of

kept vulovic to will use it afterwards

that will lead to their welfare and

happiness for a long time the Blessed

One consented in silence

then when they saw that he had consented

they got up from their seats and after

paying homage to him keeping him on the

right they went to the assembly hall

they covered it completely with

coverings and prepared seats and they

put the foot out a large water jug and

hung up oil lamp

then they went to the Blessed One after

paying homage to him they sat down at

one side and said the noble sir the

Assembly Hall has been covered

completely with coverings seats have

been prepared a large water drug has

been put out in an oil lamp hung up let

the Blessed One come at his own

convenience then the blessed one dressed

taking his bowl and outer robe went to

the with the Sangha of monks to the

Assembly Hall when he arrived he washed

his feet then he entered the hall and

sat down by the center pillar facing the

east I read something very interesting

years ago and that when you faced the

East you get a lot of energy when you

face the north we get the least amount

so when you have

if you have restlessness

and after I found that out I went out

and bought a compass and I checked it

out and it's really true and if you if

you go to sleep with your head facing

the north you'll go to sleep very

quickly and have some sleep

saved or I don't know if it works for

anybody else but it sure seemed to work

for me

the bits the bhikkhus washed their feet

and then entered the hall and sat down

by the western wall facing east with the

Blessed One before them the sake ins of

kept Lobot to wash their feet and enter

the hall and sat down on the eastern

wall facing the West with the Buddha

before them

then when the blessed one had instructed

urge roused and gladden the sake ins of

kept Villa back to with talk on the

Dhamma for much of the night he said to

venerable Ananda Ananda speak to the

sake ins of capital about to about the

discipline in higher learning on higher

training who has entered upon the way my

back is uncomfortable I will rest this

statement right here says that this

particular discourse happened at the end

of the Buddha's life because he didn't

start having his back aches until the

last few years of his life

and somebody asked in one time why he

had backaches he had spent for Monica's

and a hundred thousand lifetimes

purifying himself but he couldn't purify

himself there was one time in the

distant past that he was a fighter and

get in a ring and fight and what he did

to the people that he thought was he

broke their backs lift him up come down

on his knee and break their backs so in

his last lifetime the Karma of that

period now when it says that I will rest

it

yes venerable sir the venerable Ananda

replied the Blessed one prepared his

patchwork cloak folded in four laid down

on his right side in the Lions pose with

foot one foot overlapping the other

mindful and fully aware this is a

formula that they use because this

particular statement comes up very often

and they added this part to it but it's

not true of this suit though it says

after noting in his mind the time for

rising he didn't do that he stayed a

work alert he didn't go to sleep he was

listening to what and

under center so he he was just resting

his back because it needed to have rest

and that lets you know that ara hots

still have some physical problems arise

from time

to know how to handle Proctor

and rest when needs rest and when the

resting is is done and it's okay for

them to mover out that there's a lot of

discussion with a lot of people that

when you become but just the fact that

you have a body means that there is you

have to feed it

yeah clean you have to take care of it

the bathroom all of that's one form or

another of distraction and suffering

when they get off of the wheel of

samsara then they die then there is no

more so that even the Buddha experienced

these kinds of suffering it was a lot

it's an important

then the venerable Ananda addressed

Mahanama the sake and us Mahama here a

noble disciple is possessed of virtue

guards the doors of his sense faculties

is moderate in eating and devoted to

wakefulness

he possesses seven good qualities and he

is one who obtains at will without

trouble or difficulties the four Jonah's

that constitute the higher mind and

provide a pleasant abiding and how is a

noble disciple possessed of virtue here

in noble disciple is virtuous he dwells

restrained by the restraint of the potty

moko the potty Moka is the rules for the

monks you're taking 8 precepts

I have 227

is perfect and conduct and resort and

seeing fear in the slightest fault he

trains by understanding the training

precepts this is how a noble disciple is

possessed of Richard you know the rules

well when when when there is a Sangha of

monks every new moon and full moon they

get together and recite all of the rules

so this keeps that in your mind so that

start to do something and you realize oh

that's breaking the rule and it's the

same for you with your 8 precepts now we

try to take the precepts every day at

least here

and

this is not a ritual this is a reminder

keep those precepts as closely

because if you break one of the precepts

your mind will get very restless and the

meditation will be non-existent that's

the nature of breaking retailers so the

reason you don't break the precepts is

so that your meditation can be better

if for some reason you happen to break

the preset

the spider gets on you and you're not

thinking Lee and then you realize you

just killed it your intention was to

stop that feeling from being there but

it was also to kill that will affect

your meditation

so come to me tell me you've broken the

precepts we will take the precepts again

right then

the precepts are very very important

when someone is dying if you're with

that person while they're dying if they

have there's there's five different

visions that they can have there's a

vision of fire there's a vision of ogres

very frightening beings there's a vision

of animals there's a vision of past

relatives that have died and then

there's a vision of Davos

now all of these correspond to different

kinds of mental state

anger and somebody dies and they start

to get angry with somebody in the room

they can have a very strong visual fire

and what you do at that time is you

being angry about this right now

let's take the precepts

if their their consciousness is not very

strong and they can't help loud verbally

take the precepts tell them to follow

this in their mind and then ask them

what their vision is right after that

because this purifiers mind very very

quickly

and they could very easily go from

seeing a hell realm to seeing a

developer just

see odors and black beings and things

like that in their mind that generally

has to do with the greeting light

they're thinking about their possessions

who should get their possessions and who

should take care of it how you don't you

want to take this possession with you

what those painful thoughts so again you

give them the precepts

if they have a vision of animals that

means that they have a clearance

we've diluted their thinking about

themselves very strongly and they're

identifying with what's happening with

them person so you talked with them

about the impersonal nature of things

get them to take them users if they have

a vision of the family members there is

some attachment to the family members

if they die at that time they will be

reborn but

being a monk I'm never satisfied with

that I wanted to be good in the day

warriors so I gave up my precepts tan

so keeping the virtue as high as you

possibly can it helps in always not only

what are you doing here meditation

and you get off retreat I'm going to

give you five reasons

and it improves your mindfulness it

makes you more aware of what you're

going to do and what you're going to say

before you do it per se and then you

have the conscious decision to either do

that or not but if you break the preset

take them again right there you don't

have to cut yourself to be

filled with remorse and anxiety because

you broke the precept forgive yourself

for making a mistake no take the

precepts again and right after you take

the presets you make the determination

I'm not going to break the precepts this

still is part of your training this is a

very important part see the first part

of your training is practicing your

generosity how do you practice your

generosity when you're sitting in

meditation

being very generous

so you're practicing your generosity

that's the first part of meditation the

second part of meditation is keeping

your foot

and the third part of the meditation is

learning how

their experiences that we'll talk

and of course you know there's always

these this one clown at a retreat

that'll say okay I'll keep the read help

keep with the Five Precepts

and I generally say well we'll start at

a hundred years and go up from there

in it

and how is a noble sample disciple for

the lady and how does a noble disciple

guard the doors of his sense faculties

on see a form with the I a noble

disciple does not grasp at its signs and

features what are at signs in future

colors

hair that signs and features and that

when you get involved in looking at the

beauty of this cleaning has better if it

was and then all I remember a time when

I saw this other thing and then near a

thousand miles away thinking about all

kinds of different things that's the the

problem with getting involved with the

signs and features

now your eye it's the color inform my

consciousness arises the meaning of

those three is called eye contact with

eye contact as condition I feeling

arises you see this and you say oh

that's nice

that's a pleasant

right after the feeling I'm craving

arises

take

and then your thoughts about it the

natural tendency of letting your

thoughts ramble on from one place to

another and being lost for a period when

you

clear about the signs and and you see

them yes that's color and foreign and

there's a nice feeling with that

and you relax right then what happens is

you get to see it completely pulling

your consciousness oh wait so when you

start practicing this form of meditation

everything becomes more clear colors

become more vivid you can stand in front

of something that's very nice and you

can allow your mind to feel that

pleasant feeling and relax into that and

experience it totally

without the strap

one of the things that happens in

Buddhist circles as somebody will say ah

you're attached they haven't got a clue

what attachment is before they came up

and said anything I wasn't thinking

about cheesecake when they mentioned it

that's okay it's good it's a pleasant

feel fine and then let it go right then

don't get in too I like it I don't like

it and all of the thoughts of

distractions so

it's okay to have preferences

right now I started learning more about

possibly what the cause of my swelling

is and it might have something to do

with diabetes so what did I do for lunch

today no dessert

wanted to buy a candy bar no I'll get

water instead wanted something to drink

water spit

we'll see

just okay let's cut that out I'm gonna

attach to it

I enjoy sweet things but I don't have to

have it and I don't think about it when

I don't have so there's no attachment

since if he left the I faculty unguarded

evil unwholesome states of covetousness

and brief might invade oh I hate that

thing I don't want that that's the creep

he practices the way of its restraint he

guards the high faculty undertakes the

restraint of the eye faculty on hearing

a sound with me here on smelling an odor

within those I'm tasting the flavor with

the tongue on touching that tangible

with the body on cognizing a bind object

with mine the noble disciple does not

grasp at its signs and be true

hold up it allows it to be and relaxes

into it then he can experience it since

if he left the mine faculty unguarded

the evil unwholesome states of

covetousness and grief might invade him

he practices the way of its restraint

he guards the mine faculty he undertakes

the restraint of the mine faculty that

is how noble disciple guards the doors

of instance faculties and how is a noble

disciple moderate and eating here

reflect reflecting wise and a noble

disciple takes food neither for

amusement nor for intoxication nor for

the sake of physical beauty and

attractiveness but only for the

endurance and continuation of the body

an awful lot of people when they when

they eat they will eat very quickly

they chew their food very little and

swallow and they wind up overeating

quite often

the Buddha it is said that he would eat

until his stomach was half full and then

he would take one quarter water in one

quarter here

and when he put food in his mouth

not even one green of rice went unmess

to keep everything so a rule of thumb

when you're eating is to chew until it

turns to liquid in your mouth

and this helps you with your digestion a

lot and it also helps very much with be

more aware

troubling

hopefully we have dessert

you don't eat

for any other reason

to keep your body strong so you can

and if you don't eat

then you don't find that

it does affect your

your mind and you start to get a little

bit grumpy

when you eat food you want to learn

especially when you're vegetarian

the difference between Hartfield and

suck and you want to eat it in a

balanced way soft food fruits

whatever

hard food would be beans nuts

and you want to have the balance of both

a side note if you're going to eat nuts

you should always soak the nuts for at

least overnight

as there are

maps that are

any

you eat so that you can continue

thus I shall terminate old feelings from

being hungry without arousing new

feelings of overeating and I read I

shall be healthy and blameless and move

in comfort

that is how a noble disciple is

moderated and how as a noble disciple

devoted to wakefulness a noble disciple

purifies his mind of obstructive states

in the first watch of the night while

walking back and forth and sitting he

purifies his mind though obstructive

stays in the middle watch of the night

he lies down on his right side in the

Lions pose with one foot overlapping the

other mindful and fully aware after

noting in his mind the time for rising

after rising the third watch of the

night while walking back and forth and

sitting the purifies his mind of

obstructive States that is how

disciple is devoted to wakefulness first

watcher of the night seven o'clock to 11

a little watch of the night 11 o'clock

last watch of the night

when I was

at mahasin sector

that's

they're gonna

they've been there for

a couple of months and arrange retreat

and the first

time I went to see my teacher after the

rains retreat started he said how much

are you sleeping at 4 hours I said why

are you sleeping

so I cut it down to two hours

I went to bed at midnight

I did that

I found some real interesting things

that happen

this one is I was eating huge quantities

of fruit

because it takes a lot of energy to stay

away

when I got done with that right after

the

they were social unrest so at the end of

the range retreat thieves that all

foreigners have to get out of the temple

we don't want you here

I wasn't real happy about that I was

really starting to come on to the

meditation real good

but I had to leave so I left and I went

back to Thailand and then

I

go up for homes ramen

I generally go out for arms around 6:00

what you do is you wait until the light

is is enough that you can see the

wrinkles in their hand you see that then

you can go out

because by that time they pretty much

have all the food prepared they've been

up since 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning

preparing

and then I came back for a mom's round

and I ate retreat now maybe all the way

down

and I would lay down

that kind of wandered around a little

bit

the shower and did all of the body

things that need to be

so I slept from about 6 o'clock until 5

o'clock in the morning and I did that

every day

capturing pushing

I went when you're here I'm not pushing

you very hard

seven hours you need to take a rest ring

that they take a rest during the day

that makes it eight hours you get plenty

of sleep I don't want you walking around

being tired because if you're tired then

you have all kinds of structures

obstructing states arising

when I first became a monk I was in

Thailand and I went to this monastery

I told them that I just wanted to be

left

and I would sit in a chair

and watch obstructive States and all of

my games that have

right after you ordain doesn't mean that

you have up your mind at that time

so you have all of this nonsense worldly

stuff running through your mind

these are obstructing states so I would

sit and I would watch all of this

nonsense go through and then I would get

up

come in six when they watch it some more

and I did that for about a month

I wasn't meditating necessarily I was

just generally being mindful and

watching how my mind got into its trips

and as you become more familiar with

that

not to get caught but that's why we do

this practice that's why we do the

wakefulness

and that's what we're talking about here

and how does the noble disciple possess

seven good qualities here a noble

disciple has faith he places his faith

in the two target does enlightenment

does the Blessed One has accomplished

fully enlightened perfect and true

knowledge and conduct sublime knower of

the world's incomparable leader of

persons to be a teacher of gods and

humans enlightened and blessed he has

shame he is ashamed of misconduct in the

body speak ashamed of engaging and evil

unwholesome deeds

he has fear of wrongdoing he's afraid of

misconduct and body speech and I afraid

of engaging in evil unwholesome in other

words

in general ways so that this fear and

the shame will arise it and it is a

practice

be perfect with it at first

you don't beat yourself up you're

mindful that you did that one of the

things that happens every no informant

when the monks do their the potty they

all meet together in a particular place

and you read citation

rules all of the monks that sit in the

potty vodka they have to

and that means that we have to do a

little confession

with each other before we

so this is some of the practices that

the monks have and they're very useful

and because monks are amongst that means

that

and try to keep our roles as close as

possible

so that the shame and the fear doesn't

arise

he has learned much remembers what he

has learned and then Salah dates what he

is learned such teachings as are good in

the beginning good in the middle good in

the end with the right meaning and

phrasing and affirm the holy life that

is utterly perfect and pure such

teaching as these he has learned much of

remembered recited verbally investigated

with mine and penetrated by view and

this means studying the symptoms

memorizing the suit

residing in the cities that's what

ranting is supposed to be

but it's gotten into ritualized things

where we have these suitors that are

called protections so we have to recite

these protections just empty sight

that's why I put those the two things

somebody that recites the text very well

but doesn't follow the text is like a

cow watching others cows yes no holy

night it's not the reciting of the Texas

understanding

so it's a real interesting thing

some places that they put such emphasis

on

as that in

you'll notice that here we don't have

much in the way of rites and rituals

i watch you spending your time not

learning what these rites and rituals

are i want you spending here time so you

can attain nirvana you can

just a short period of time doesn't take

that long as long as you follow

don't have anything goes

you will progress along very quickly

this leads to your permanent

one of the things that happens if you

is that you lose the belief that rites

and rituals lead to name on

that's one of the things that happens do

you don't have any doubt that what

you're doing is exactly

and you start to begin to truly

understand what the impersonal nature

that's what happens

there are some people that

they go much deeper

you don't have to follow first step the

second step the third step the fourth

step to follow like that it depends on

your understand

he is energetic in abandoning

unwholesome states and in undertaking

wholesome states he is steadfast firm

and striving not remiss in developing

wholesome States

having that uplifted night

knowing when your mind first starts to

say

now what happens is you'll notice that

your mind is on your object of

meditation and when your mindfulness is

very sharp you'll see that there's all

kinds of little things that happen

and it keeps wobbling and

as soon as you see that your mind is

just starting to move

staying on your object - meditation is

the most wholesome thing you can do

he has mindfulness he possesses the

highest mindfulness and skill

observation

mine's

the observation of how Minds attention

moves from

when your observation power is very good

you are able to see dependent

origination and again

before your mind starts to wobble

there's something that happens before

that

say what I experienced as I'll always

seem like

the concept that I need a concept type

of thing

this is for real stuff

I just experienced just

it's a lot was the first thing

little shift or something come up

whoops for a second

yeah what happens right before that

nothing

yes there's something that the driving

for them

there is something that happens before

the slightest little water

actually there's two things

and I told somebody left after

doing a retreat thing they went quite

deep in our meditation and said your job

is to tell me what happened

before that so I don't hear from that

very year

then he rates me an email he says I know

what it is it's this told me about what

happened before that I'm missing one

thing I could hear him Sylvania I could

hear him complain to me about that is

wise he possesses wisdom and regard to

rise and disappearance that Noble that

is noble and penetrating and leads to

the complete destruction of suffering

that means exactly

you hear me talk a lot about dependent

origination don't go to other retreats

and you don't hear that much and the

depth of your practice is much better

when you know what you're looking for

and what you're looking for is how does

this process work

how does it work

at singing the process over and over and

over and over again until you start

recognizing it very well and then you

see it on more and more levels

that is how a noble disciple possesses

seven good qualities and how is a noble

disciple of one who attains that will

without trouble or difficulty the four

jhanas that constitute the higher mind

and provide a pleasant inviting here

it's skill at going in and

how the Trevor of John I do want to

going start working with the determining

they don't generally teach people

determination

you want to have there's five five

powers

we will work with once you're good at

getting in

of the four jobs the power of

going into the drum

the tiny one stayed to the end the drama

to the second

me out of the job

reflecting

but these lead to mastery

so you can sit here and in the blink of

an eye

I'm gonna go into

for three seconds

I'm gonna go into the Jonah for one hour

21 minutes and 14 seconds

takes a lot of practice

and the way you start

is before you go to sleep

exactly

so and don't make at the same time every

day I'm gonna get up at 4:59 34 and when

you hit that then I'm gonna get up at

find a bowl on 13 and when you hit that

regularly then you're ready to start

practicing for your determinations of

mastery it is

can you also use the same practice on

meditation itself

it's all learning how to develop your

mind and set your internal

you should when you start working

with say I want you to sit in the second

guy higher than and I want you to sit in

the second job for 14 minutes at 28

seconds and then when you hit that

exactly

then you pick

other times with it

and you change it and then you go well

okay I can do that in a second Donna

let's see if I could do that in the

fourth day

so you're bouncing around for 15 minutes

at a pub and when you can hit it right

on every time then

and you said in each one of the four

dramas for however long

minutes 58 seconds 31 minutes 14 seconds

and when you hit that every time then

you do that for an hour

when you hit that

then when you get out of that drama then

I want you to go in and drama for in

that drama for

when you're able to hit that then we sit

for longer periods of time and shorter

periods of time I want you to go into

the fourth jhana in three three seconds

once you've done you've came pretty good

control

it's not an easy practice I guarantee

and there is more to the instruction

than what I just did

but if you want to start working at

waking up in exactly that the time

and when you can hit it every day for a

few weeks

exactly

and how is a noble's disciple and how is

a noble disciple one who attains that

will without difficulty or trouble the

four jhanas that constitute the higher

mind

Pleasant abiding here and now here quite

secluded from sensual pleasures secluded

from unwholesome states a noble disciple

enters upon and abides in the first job

with the still with the fading away

Lovejoy with the abandoning of pleasure

in pain he enters upon n abides in the

fourth jhana which has no pain or

pleasure and purity of mindfulness -

that is how a noble disciple is one who

attains at will without trouble or

difficulty for for jhanas that

constitute the higher mine and provide a

pleasant abiding

each one of these jhanas is a level of

your understanding

the hindrances are very very

they're not your enemy to fight with

they're not something to push away they

are your teachers

as you begin to apply the six hours to

the inference it starts to lose its

energy and after a while it will fade

away and you're buying this Bureau at

that time that's why you can get into

the different stages of Johnathan

through this understanding of the

process of dependent origination and

seeing it over and over again

you

this course tonight is called the second

suit the discipline and hire training in

poly

it's not the same object

and that they teach from the books this

is from this is talking about fire

training with directly with your own

practice

thus as I heard on one occasion the

blessed one was living in the sake and

country of capital about his part now on

that occasion a new Assembly Hall had

recently been built for the sake ins of

cat Billabong - and they did not been

inhabited by any Rekluse or Brahman or

human being at all the assembly halls

the each individual place would put up

in assembly hall and then whatever

aesthetics or teachers that came through

they would give their talks there and

then they would spend the night there

either go all night with the dhamma talk

or they would speak so it was kind of a

special occasion for this particular one

and then the sock hands of kept alive I

too went to the Blessed One after paying

homage to him they sat down at one side

and said to him venerable sir a new

Assembly Hall has been recently built

for the sake ins of Capitol a lot too

and it has not yet been inhabited by any

recluse or a brahmin or human being at

all venerable sir let the Blessed One be

the first to use it when the blessed one

has used it first then the sake ins of

kept vulovic to will use it afterwards

that will lead to their welfare and

happiness for a long time the Blessed

One consented in silence

then when they saw that he had consented

they got up from their seats and after

paying homage to him keeping him on the

right they went to the assembly hall

they covered it completely with

coverings and prepared seats and they

put the foot out a large water jug and

hung up oil lamp

then they went to the Blessed One after

paying homage to him they sat down at

one side and said the noble sir the

Assembly Hall has been covered

completely with coverings seats have

been prepared a large water drug has

been put out in an oil lamp hung up let

the Blessed One come at his own

convenience then the blessed one dressed

taking his bowl and outer robe went to

the with the Sangha of monks to the

Assembly Hall when he arrived he washed

his feet then he entered the hall and

sat down by the center pillar facing the

east I read something very interesting

years ago and that when you faced the

East you get a lot of energy when you

face the north we get the least amount

so when you have

if you have restlessness

and after I found that out I went out

and bought a compass and I checked it

out and it's really true and if you if

you go to sleep with your head facing

the north you'll go to sleep very

quickly and have some sleep

saved or I don't know if it works for

anybody else but it sure seemed to work

for me

the bits the bhikkhus washed their feet

and then entered the hall and sat down

by the western wall facing east with the

Blessed One before them the sake ins of

kept Lobot to wash their feet and enter

the hall and sat down on the eastern

wall facing the West with the Buddha

before them

then when the blessed one had instructed

urge roused and gladden the sake ins of

kept Villa back to with talk on the

Dhamma for much of the night he said to

venerable Ananda Ananda speak to the

sake ins of capital about to about the

discipline in higher learning on higher

training who has entered upon the way my

back is uncomfortable I will rest this

statement right here says that this

particular discourse happened at the end

of the Buddha's life because he didn't

start having his back aches until the

last few years of his life

and somebody asked in one time why he

had backaches he had spent for Monica's

and a hundred thousand lifetimes

purifying himself but he couldn't purify

himself there was one time in the

distant past that he was a fighter and

get in a ring and fight and what he did

to the people that he thought was he

broke their backs lift him up come down

on his knee and break their backs so in

his last lifetime the Karma of that

period now when it says that I will rest

it

yes venerable sir the venerable Ananda

replied the Blessed one prepared his

patchwork cloak folded in four laid down

on his right side in the Lions pose with

foot one foot overlapping the other

mindful and fully aware this is a

formula that they use because this

particular statement comes up very often

and they added this part to it but it's

not true of this suit though it says

after noting in his mind the time for

rising he didn't do that he stayed a

work alert he didn't go to sleep he was

listening to what and

under center so he he was just resting

his back because it needed to have rest

and that lets you know that ara hots

still have some physical problems arise

from time

to know how to handle Proctor

and rest when needs rest and when the

resting is is done and it's okay for

them to mover out that there's a lot of

discussion with a lot of people that

when you become but just the fact that

you have a body means that there is you

have to feed it

yeah clean you have to take care of it

the bathroom all of that's one form or

another of distraction and suffering

when they get off of the wheel of

samsara then they die then there is no

more so that even the Buddha experienced

these kinds of suffering it was a lot

it's an important

then the venerable Ananda addressed

Mahanama the sake and us Mahama here a

noble disciple is possessed of virtue

guards the doors of his sense faculties

is moderate in eating and devoted to

wakefulness

he possesses seven good qualities and he

is one who obtains at will without

trouble or difficulties the four Jonah's

that constitute the higher mind and

provide a pleasant abiding and how is a

noble disciple possessed of virtue here

in noble disciple is virtuous he dwells

restrained by the restraint of the potty

moko the potty Moka is the rules for the

monks you're taking 8 precepts

I have 227

is perfect and conduct and resort and

seeing fear in the slightest fault he

trains by understanding the training

precepts this is how a noble disciple is

possessed of Richard you know the rules

well when when when there is a Sangha of

monks every new moon and full moon they

get together and recite all of the rules

so this keeps that in your mind so that

start to do something and you realize oh

that's breaking the rule and it's the

same for you with your 8 precepts now we

try to take the precepts every day at

least here

and

this is not a ritual this is a reminder

keep those precepts as closely

because if you break one of the precepts

your mind will get very restless and the

meditation will be non-existent that's

the nature of breaking retailers so the

reason you don't break the precepts is

so that your meditation can be better

if for some reason you happen to break

the preset

the spider gets on you and you're not

thinking Lee and then you realize you

just killed it your intention was to

stop that feeling from being there but

it was also to kill that will affect

your meditation

so come to me tell me you've broken the

precepts we will take the precepts again

right then

the precepts are very very important

when someone is dying if you're with

that person while they're dying if they

have there's there's five different

visions that they can have there's a

vision of fire there's a vision of ogres

very frightening beings there's a vision

of animals there's a vision of past

relatives that have died and then

there's a vision of Davos

now all of these correspond to different

kinds of mental state

anger and somebody dies and they start

to get angry with somebody in the room

they can have a very strong visual fire

and what you do at that time is you

being angry about this right now

let's take the precepts

if their their consciousness is not very

strong and they can't help loud verbally

take the precepts tell them to follow

this in their mind and then ask them

what their vision is right after that

because this purifiers mind very very

quickly

and they could very easily go from

seeing a hell realm to seeing a

developer just

see odors and black beings and things

like that in their mind that generally

has to do with the greeting light

they're thinking about their possessions

who should get their possessions and who

should take care of it how you don't you

want to take this possession with you

what those painful thoughts so again you

give them the precepts

if they have a vision of animals that

means that they have a clearance

we've diluted their thinking about

themselves very strongly and they're

identifying with what's happening with

them person so you talked with them

about the impersonal nature of things

get them to take them users if they have

a vision of the family members there is

some attachment to the family members

if they die at that time they will be

reborn but

being a monk I'm never satisfied with

that I wanted to be good in the day

warriors so I gave up my precepts tan

so keeping the virtue as high as you

possibly can it helps in always not only

what are you doing here meditation

and you get off retreat I'm going to

give you five reasons

and it improves your mindfulness it

makes you more aware of what you're

going to do and what you're going to say

before you do it per se and then you

have the conscious decision to either do

that or not but if you break the preset

take them again right there you don't

have to cut yourself to be

filled with remorse and anxiety because

you broke the precept forgive yourself

for making a mistake no take the

precepts again and right after you take

the presets you make the determination

I'm not going to break the precepts this

still is part of your training this is a

very important part see the first part

of your training is practicing your

generosity how do you practice your

generosity when you're sitting in

meditation

being very generous

so you're practicing your generosity

that's the first part of meditation the

second part of meditation is keeping

your foot

and the third part of the meditation is

learning how

their experiences that we'll talk

and of course you know there's always

these this one clown at a retreat

that'll say okay I'll keep the read help

keep with the Five Precepts

and I generally say well we'll start at

a hundred years and go up from there

in it

and how is a noble sample disciple for

the lady and how does a noble disciple

guard the doors of his sense faculties

on see a form with the I a noble

disciple does not grasp at its signs and

features what are at signs in future

colors

hair that signs and features and that

when you get involved in looking at the

beauty of this cleaning has better if it

was and then all I remember a time when

I saw this other thing and then near a

thousand miles away thinking about all

kinds of different things that's the the

problem with getting involved with the

signs and features

now your eye it's the color inform my

consciousness arises the meaning of

those three is called eye contact with

eye contact as condition I feeling

arises you see this and you say oh

that's nice

that's a pleasant

right after the feeling I'm craving

arises

take

and then your thoughts about it the

natural tendency of letting your

thoughts ramble on from one place to

another and being lost for a period when

you

clear about the signs and and you see

them yes that's color and foreign and

there's a nice feeling with that

and you relax right then what happens is

you get to see it completely pulling

your consciousness oh wait so when you

start practicing this form of meditation

everything becomes more clear colors

become more vivid you can stand in front

of something that's very nice and you

can allow your mind to feel that

pleasant feeling and relax into that and

experience it totally

without the strap

one of the things that happens in

Buddhist circles as somebody will say ah

you're attached they haven't got a clue

what attachment is before they came up

and said anything I wasn't thinking

about cheesecake when they mentioned it

that's okay it's good it's a pleasant

feel fine and then let it go right then

don't get in too I like it I don't like

it and all of the thoughts of

distractions so

it's okay to have preferences

right now I started learning more about

possibly what the cause of my swelling

is and it might have something to do

with diabetes so what did I do for lunch

today no dessert

wanted to buy a candy bar no I'll get

water instead wanted something to drink

water spit

we'll see

just okay let's cut that out I'm gonna

attach to it

I enjoy sweet things but I don't have to

have it and I don't think about it when

I don't have so there's no attachment

since if he left the I faculty unguarded

evil unwholesome states of covetousness

and brief might invade oh I hate that

thing I don't want that that's the creep

he practices the way of its restraint he

guards the high faculty undertakes the

restraint of the eye faculty on hearing

a sound with me here on smelling an odor

within those I'm tasting the flavor with

the tongue on touching that tangible

with the body on cognizing a bind object

with mine the noble disciple does not

grasp at its signs and be true

hold up it allows it to be and relaxes

into it then he can experience it since

if he left the mine faculty unguarded

the evil unwholesome states of

covetousness and grief might invade him

he practices the way of its restraint

he guards the mine faculty he undertakes

the restraint of the mine faculty that

is how noble disciple guards the doors

of instance faculties and how is a noble

disciple moderate and eating here

reflect reflecting wise and a noble

disciple takes food neither for

amusement nor for intoxication nor for

the sake of physical beauty and

attractiveness but only for the

endurance and continuation of the body

an awful lot of people when they when

they eat they will eat very quickly

they chew their food very little and

swallow and they wind up overeating

quite often

the Buddha it is said that he would eat

until his stomach was half full and then

he would take one quarter water in one

quarter here

and when he put food in his mouth

not even one green of rice went unmess

to keep everything so a rule of thumb

when you're eating is to chew until it

turns to liquid in your mouth

and this helps you with your digestion a

lot and it also helps very much with be

more aware

troubling

hopefully we have dessert

you don't eat

for any other reason

to keep your body strong so you can

and if you don't eat

then you don't find that

it does affect your

your mind and you start to get a little

bit grumpy

when you eat food you want to learn

especially when you're vegetarian

the difference between Hartfield and

suck and you want to eat it in a

balanced way soft food fruits

whatever

hard food would be beans nuts

and you want to have the balance of both

a side note if you're going to eat nuts

you should always soak the nuts for at

least overnight

as there are

maps that are

any

you eat so that you can continue

thus I shall terminate old feelings from

being hungry without arousing new

feelings of overeating and I read I

shall be healthy and blameless and move

in comfort

that is how a noble disciple is

moderated and how as a noble disciple

devoted to wakefulness a noble disciple

purifies his mind of obstructive states

in the first watch of the night while

walking back and forth and sitting he

purifies his mind though obstructive

stays in the middle watch of the night

he lies down on his right side in the

Lions pose with one foot overlapping the

other mindful and fully aware after

noting in his mind the time for rising

after rising the third watch of the

night while walking back and forth and

sitting the purifies his mind of

obstructive States that is how

disciple is devoted to wakefulness first

watcher of the night seven o'clock to 11

a little watch of the night 11 o'clock

last watch of the night

when I was

at mahasin sector

that's

they're gonna

they've been there for

a couple of months and arrange retreat

and the first

time I went to see my teacher after the

rains retreat started he said how much

are you sleeping at 4 hours I said why

are you sleeping

so I cut it down to two hours

I went to bed at midnight

I did that

I found some real interesting things

that happen

this one is I was eating huge quantities

of fruit

because it takes a lot of energy to stay

away

when I got done with that right after

the

they were social unrest so at the end of

the range retreat thieves that all

foreigners have to get out of the temple

we don't want you here

I wasn't real happy about that I was

really starting to come on to the

meditation real good

but I had to leave so I left and I went

back to Thailand and then

I

go up for homes ramen

I generally go out for arms around 6:00

what you do is you wait until the light

is is enough that you can see the

wrinkles in their hand you see that then

you can go out

because by that time they pretty much

have all the food prepared they've been

up since 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning

preparing

and then I came back for a mom's round

and I ate retreat now maybe all the way

down

and I would lay down

that kind of wandered around a little

bit

the shower and did all of the body

things that need to be

so I slept from about 6 o'clock until 5

o'clock in the morning and I did that

every day

capturing pushing

I went when you're here I'm not pushing

you very hard

seven hours you need to take a rest ring

that they take a rest during the day

that makes it eight hours you get plenty

of sleep I don't want you walking around

being tired because if you're tired then

you have all kinds of structures

obstructing states arising

when I first became a monk I was in

Thailand and I went to this monastery

I told them that I just wanted to be

left

and I would sit in a chair

and watch obstructive States and all of

my games that have

right after you ordain doesn't mean that

you have up your mind at that time

so you have all of this nonsense worldly

stuff running through your mind

these are obstructing states so I would

sit and I would watch all of this

nonsense go through and then I would get

up

come in six when they watch it some more

and I did that for about a month

I wasn't meditating necessarily I was

just generally being mindful and

watching how my mind got into its trips

and as you become more familiar with

that

not to get caught but that's why we do

this practice that's why we do the

wakefulness

and that's what we're talking about here

and how does the noble disciple possess

seven good qualities here a noble

disciple has faith he places his faith

in the two target does enlightenment

does the Blessed One has accomplished

fully enlightened perfect and true

knowledge and conduct sublime knower of

the world's incomparable leader of

persons to be a teacher of gods and

humans enlightened and blessed he has

shame he is ashamed of misconduct in the

body speak ashamed of engaging and evil

unwholesome deeds

he has fear of wrongdoing he's afraid of

misconduct and body speech and I afraid

of engaging in evil unwholesome in other

words

in general ways so that this fear and

the shame will arise it and it is a

practice

be perfect with it at first

you don't beat yourself up you're

mindful that you did that one of the

things that happens every no informant

when the monks do their the potty they

all meet together in a particular place

and you read citation

rules all of the monks that sit in the

potty vodka they have to

and that means that we have to do a

little confession

with each other before we

so this is some of the practices that

the monks have and they're very useful

and because monks are amongst that means

that

and try to keep our roles as close as

possible

so that the shame and the fear doesn't

arise

he has learned much remembers what he

has learned and then Salah dates what he

is learned such teachings as are good in

the beginning good in the middle good in

the end with the right meaning and

phrasing and affirm the holy life that

is utterly perfect and pure such

teaching as these he has learned much of

remembered recited verbally investigated

with mine and penetrated by view and

this means studying the symptoms

memorizing the suit

residing in the cities that's what

ranting is supposed to be

but it's gotten into ritualized things

where we have these suitors that are

called protections so we have to recite

these protections just empty sight

that's why I put those the two things

somebody that recites the text very well

but doesn't follow the text is like a

cow watching others cows yes no holy

night it's not the reciting of the Texas

understanding

so it's a real interesting thing

some places that they put such emphasis

on

as that in

you'll notice that here we don't have

much in the way of rites and rituals

i watch you spending your time not

learning what these rites and rituals

are i want you spending here time so you

can attain nirvana you can

just a short period of time doesn't take

that long as long as you follow

don't have anything goes

you will progress along very quickly

this leads to your permanent

one of the things that happens if you

is that you lose the belief that rites

and rituals lead to name on

that's one of the things that happens do

you don't have any doubt that what

you're doing is exactly

and you start to begin to truly

understand what the impersonal nature

that's what happens

there are some people that

they go much deeper

you don't have to follow first step the

second step the third step the fourth

step to follow like that it depends on

your understand

he is energetic in abandoning

unwholesome states and in undertaking

wholesome states he is steadfast firm

and striving not remiss in developing

wholesome States

having that uplifted night

knowing when your mind first starts to

say

now what happens is you'll notice that

your mind is on your object of

meditation and when your mindfulness is

very sharp you'll see that there's all

kinds of little things that happen

and it keeps wobbling and

as soon as you see that your mind is

just starting to move

staying on your object - meditation is

the most wholesome thing you can do

he has mindfulness he possesses the

highest mindfulness and skill

observation

mine's

the observation of how Minds attention

moves from

when your observation power is very good

you are able to see dependent

origination and again

before your mind starts to wobble

there's something that happens before

that

say what I experienced as I'll always

seem like

the concept that I need a concept type

of thing

this is for real stuff

I just experienced just

it's a lot was the first thing

little shift or something come up

whoops for a second

yeah what happens right before that

nothing

yes there's something that the driving

for them

there is something that happens before

the slightest little water

actually there's two things

and I told somebody left after

doing a retreat thing they went quite

deep in our meditation and said your job

is to tell me what happened

before that so I don't hear from that

very year

then he rates me an email he says I know

what it is it's this told me about what

happened before that I'm missing one

thing I could hear him Sylvania I could

hear him complain to me about that is

wise he possesses wisdom and regard to

rise and disappearance that Noble that

is noble and penetrating and leads to

the complete destruction of suffering

that means exactly

you hear me talk a lot about dependent

origination don't go to other retreats

and you don't hear that much and the

depth of your practice is much better

when you know what you're looking for

and what you're looking for is how does

this process work

how does it work

at singing the process over and over and

over and over again until you start

recognizing it very well and then you

see it on more and more levels

that is how a noble disciple possesses

seven good qualities and how is a noble

disciple of one who attains that will

without trouble or difficulty the four

jhanas that constitute the higher mind

and provide a pleasant inviting here

it's skill at going in and

how the Trevor of John I do want to

going start working with the determining

they don't generally teach people

determination

you want to have there's five five

powers

we will work with once you're good at

getting in

of the four jobs the power of

going into the drum

the tiny one stayed to the end the drama

to the second

me out of the job

reflecting

but these lead to mastery

so you can sit here and in the blink of

an eye

I'm gonna go into

for three seconds

I'm gonna go into the Jonah for one hour

21 minutes and 14 seconds

takes a lot of practice

and the way you start

is before you go to sleep

exactly

so and don't make at the same time every

day I'm gonna get up at 4:59 34 and when

you hit that then I'm gonna get up at

find a bowl on 13 and when you hit that

regularly then you're ready to start

practicing for your determinations of

mastery it is

can you also use the same practice on

meditation itself

it's all learning how to develop your

mind and set your internal

you should when you start working

with say I want you to sit in the second

guy higher than and I want you to sit in

the second job for 14 minutes at 28

seconds and then when you hit that

exactly

then you pick

other times with it

and you change it and then you go well

okay I can do that in a second Donna

let's see if I could do that in the

fourth day

so you're bouncing around for 15 minutes

at a pub and when you can hit it right

on every time then

and you said in each one of the four

dramas for however long

minutes 58 seconds 31 minutes 14 seconds

and when you hit that every time then

you do that for an hour

when you hit that

then when you get out of that drama then

I want you to go in and drama for in

that drama for

when you're able to hit that then we sit

for longer periods of time and shorter

periods of time I want you to go into

the fourth jhana in three three seconds

once you've done you've came pretty good

control

it's not an easy practice I guarantee

and there is more to the instruction

than what I just did

but if you want to start working at

waking up in exactly that the time

and when you can hit it every day for a

few weeks

exactly

and how is a noble's disciple and how is

a noble disciple one who attains that

will without difficulty or trouble the

four jhanas that constitute the higher

mind

Pleasant abiding here and now here quite

secluded from sensual pleasures secluded

from unwholesome states a noble disciple

enters upon and abides in the first job

with the still with the fading away

Lovejoy with the abandoning of pleasure

in pain he enters upon n abides in the

fourth jhana which has no pain or

pleasure and purity of mindfulness -

that is how a noble disciple is one who

attains at will without trouble or

difficulty for for jhanas that

constitute the higher mine and provide a

pleasant abiding

each one of these jhanas is a level of

your understanding

the hindrances are very very

they're not your enemy to fight with

they're not something to push away they

are your teachers

as you begin to apply the six hours to

the inference it starts to lose its

energy and after a while it will fade

away and you're buying this Bureau at

that time that's why you can get into

the different stages of Johnathan

through this understanding of the

process of dependent origination and

seeing it over and over again

you