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

july 25 2008 domestica meditation center

machine mana kiya the greater discours

on the simile of the hardware maha sabha

kamasutra number 29 by tomorrow

this is page 286

this is kind of an interesting suta in

that there's

I'll be accepting my

the mine gets bored

avoid some of your pain

thus if I turn heard on one occasion

blessed one was living at Roger too high

in the mountain ultra repeat it was soon

after David otha had left David otha was

his cousin

david oughtta just about the whole time

that the bodhisattva was about yourself

he was always the challenge for the

bodhisattva it was always doing things

that would get in his way and causing

all kinds of problems in this last

lifetime

the doctor developed psychic ability

and

he wanted to take over the Sun from the

Buddha

basically

not even to think about doing something

so David otha came along and he said I'm

going to ask for some goons from the

from the Buddha that all the months have

to follow one of the things he asked

that the Buddha grant for the month when

the Buddha was no longer around was that

he would appoint one person to run the

saga

so we got no pull

he said that all monks should live in

the forest and the Buddha said no I'm

not angry

all monks should only have three ropes

meaning that that's all that they could

have with and when you're in

City situation where

give robes longer time to be able to

acceptable so the Buddha said Norman

and David oughtta pulled out his face

and said all month should be vegetarian

and the Buddhist

so

David that went around Roger daha

starting to complain about the Buddha

say what I've said is very reasonable

and this is the way one should act when

the wood is not around anymore and look

at what mistakes he's making and he

started to draw months away from her

former Buddha

this is a time when Ludo that give down

the talk and he would stop and say

Ananda take over my back is hurt but he

never went to sleep he always listened

to what was being said he just relieved

his back so David at he got a couple of

hundred months and

took them away from Roger Gahan distance

and he started giving a dominant talk

and he said oh my back is sore and ask

another month to take over and he laid

down and immediately went to sleep when

the Buddha saw that David octa had kind

of charmed these other monks away and

said sorry puta an iguana it'll get him

back so they come they come around and

they see that David oughtta is sleeping

and they give Adam a talk and everybody

got so inspired they all left and David

Otto would really upset by that it said

that that he was so angry that he

started spitting out blood anytime

somebody does that that

and because he caused the chisholm in

the order you really got a lot of bad

Merrick was reborn

remember i talked about that big

that of molten leather

is he is doing what we finally called

during

takes 50 thousand years to get to the

bottom he's in hot molten lead

every different part of your body and

takes 50 thousand years to get up and

he's up long enough to say one syllable

before he goes back

so he's not in a happy existence

but because he in fact did help the

Bodhisattva to develop his good

qualities eventually when he the bad

karma of his actions wears off it said

that he's going to be

so

he was very helpful to me

he challenged him in all kinds of ways

do things

great phones and break his back

the Bodhisattvas on this is a challenge

satisfaction any

monks here sometimes men go forth out of

faith in the home life into the homeless

considering i'm a victim of birth aging

and death of sorrow lamentation pain

grief and is fair i'm a victim of

suffering afraid to suffering fairly an

end of shirley and ending of this whole

mass of suffering can't be known when

he's gone forth thus he acquires being

honor and renown he's pleased with gain

honor and renowned and his intention is

fulfilled on account of it he loves

himself and he disparages others thus I

have gained honor and renowned but those

other months are unknown of no account

he becomes intoxicated with a gain honor

and right now gross negligent falls into

negligent and being negligent he lives

in suffering this is what happened to

David oughtta and his last life he had

all these psychic abilities and he would

do things to some of the richer folks

around the King's

that sort of thing so that they would be

impressed with him so they would support

him but he didn't continue on what the

path and he got pretty much intoxicated

and actually lost his psychic ability

suppose a man needing heartwood seeking

heartwood wandering in search of

heartwood came to a great tree standing

possessed of parkland passing over his

heart would its SAP wood its inner bark

and its outer bark you cut off the twigs

and leaves and take a little take them

away thinking that they were Hartley

then a man with good sight seeing him

might say this good man did not know the

heartwood this applet the inner bark the

outer bark the quit or the twigs and

leaves the swell needing heartwood

seeking heartwood wandering in search of

art room he came upon him he came to a

great tree standing possessed with

hardwood passing over its heart when it

SAT with inner and outer bark he cut off

the twigs and leaves and took them away

thinking they were hard whatever it was

this good man

with heart with his purpose will not be

served so two monks here some Klansmen

goes forth out of faith and then it goes

through this whole thing again about how

he gets caught up in his being honor and

renown and becomes negligent and he'd

been he lives in suffering this month is

called one who has taken the twigs and

leaves of the holy life and stop short

with that hair amongst some Klansmen go

out go forth out of faith from the home

life into the homeless considering i'm a

victim of birth aging and death of

sorrow lamentation angry and despair i'm

a victim suffering afraid to suffering

surely an ending of this wholeness of

suffering and in home when he was gone

forth thus he acquires gain honor and

renown

he's not pleased with gain honour and

renown and his intention is not

fulfilled he does not on account of it

lawd himself in the spare each other's

he does not become intoxicated with gain

honor and renown he does not grow

negligent and fall into negligent being

diligent idiot cheves the attainment of

virtue he's pleased with the attainment

of virtue and his intention is fulfilled

on account of this he logs himself and

disparages other dust I am virtuous of

good character but these other monks are

immoral of evil character he becomes

intoxicated with the attainment of

virtue grows negligent falls into

negligence and being negligence he lived

in suffering

suppose a man needing heartwood seeking

heartwood wandering in search of

heartwood came to a great tree standing

possessed of hardwood passing over the

heart with its SAP wood and its inner

bark he would cut off the outer bark and

take it away thinking it was hardly then

a man with good sight seeing him might

say this good man did not know the

heartwood and go through the whole list

again thus while kneading heartwood he

cut off the outer bark and took it away

thinking it was hard wood whatever it

was this good man had to make with

heartwood his purpose will not be served

so two monks here's some plans man go

forth out of faith and attains to virtue

but is negligent and he lives in

suffering this month is called one who

has taken the outer part of the holy

life and stopped short with that

so virtue is this is one of the things

when you take on the rose that you start

to learn about

I have them around somewhere

well the actress to incite put the party

if we can all take that one all right

but I want to have a copy striking so

we'll make up the notebook with it yeah

actually you only took ten precepts but

there's another hundred rolls that you

have to follow they're pretty easy

and we'll go over that but that's so

that you can

hair monks some clanton goes out goes

forth out of faith from the home life

into the homelessness considering i'm a

victim of birth aging and death of

sorrow lamentation pain grief and

despair i'm a victim of suffering a prey

to suffering surely an ending of this

whole mass of suffering can be known

when he's gone forth thus he acquires

gain honor and bri now he's not pleased

with gain honour

his intention is not fulfilled being

diligent he achieves the attainment of

virtue is pleased with the attainment of

virtue but his intention is not

fulfilled he does not on account of it

lawd himself and miss Perry governor's

he does not become intoxicated with that

attainment a virtue he does not grow

negligent and fall into mega drink being

diligent he achieves the attainment of

concentration now this kind of

concentration means the kind of

concentration that you lose while you're

listening to the thom talk while you're

giving here you don't let your mind

become distracted you listen very deeply

to what is being said and this can be a

major and cause a major change

the more attentive you become with what

is being said

it can it sinks in and boy it really be

great

I was telling you before in Germany when

it had that guy reading and German but

six sets of six

it affected him but it also affects

about half of the other people and they

were very very useful in column and I

said I'm not going to talk any more than

this all I want to do is do your

practice right now you've got this

benefit of having a super time that's

really over

so use them

and it was amazing to see the progress

so this kind of collectiveness of mind

is the one that you use for listening to

demote ox or reading such as yourself

he is pleased with the attainment of

collectiveness and his intention is

fulfilled on account of it he blogs

himself and he disparages others I am

collected my mind is unified but these

other monks are unconnected with their

minds astray he becomes intoxicated with

that attainment grows negligent falls in

the negligence and being negligent he

lives in suffering suppose a man meeting

heart with seeking heart and would

wandering in search of heart would came

to a great priest and possessed of heart

wood standing over its heart would it's

sadly he would cut off its inner bark

and take it away and thinking this was

partly

when a man with good sight seeing him

might say this good man did not know the

heartwood the swell leading heart would

he cut off its inner bark and took it

away thinking it was heart with whatever

it was this good man had to make the

park with his purpose will not be served

so two monks here's some plans and go

forth out of faith from home knife into

the homeless and get popped by

negligence and they suffered this monk

is called one who has taken the inner

bark of the holy life and stop short

with that here some hair amongst some

Klansmen goes forth out in faith from

the homelessness considering I'm a

victim of birth aging and death of

sorrow lamentation pain grief and

despair I am a victim of suffering

afraid suffering surely an ending of

this whole mass of suffering can be

known when he has gone forth thus he

acquires gain honor and renown he's not

pleased with being honor and renown and

his intention is not fulfilled being

diligent you choose the attainment of

virtue is pleased with the attainment of

virtue but his intention is not

fulfilled being diligent he achieves the

attainment of collectiveness he's

pleased with the attainment of

collectiveness but his intention is not

fulfilled he does not on account of it

lawd himself in disparage others he does

not become intoxicated with that

containment of collective

he does not grow negligent or fallen the

negligence being diligent he achieves

knowledge and vision now we're starting

to talk about being able to see how mine

is actually working as you're gaining

and teaching yourself how minds

attention moves and become

more alert to that

he's pleased with knowledge and vision

and his intention is fulfilled on

account of it he logs himself in the

spiritual others does I live knowing and

seeing but these other monks live

unknowing and unseen he becomes

intoxicated with that knowledge and

vision grows negligent falls into

negligent and being negligent he lives

in suffering so what we're talking about

here is just because you have some

experience to start thinking you're hot

stuff

there's lots deeper States to go to but

starting to understand and then

continuing on with the practice and your

curiosity makes everything unfold

suppose a man-eating heartwood seeking

heartwood wandering in search of

parkwood came to a great tree standing

possessed apart would passing over its

heart would he would cut off its SAP

wood and take it away thinking it was

hard wood then a man with good sight

seeing it might say this good man did

not know the heartwood thus while

kneading heartwood he cut off the South

wood and took it away thinking it was

hard food whatever it was as good man

had to make with the heartwood his

purpose will not be served so two monks

hair some plans and

think still has suffered this month is

called one who has taken the sapwood of

the holy life and stop short with that

here months some Klansmen goes forth out

of faith from the home life into the

homeless considering i am a victim of

birth aging and death of sorrow

lamentation pain grief and despair I am

a victim of suffering a prey to

suffering surely and ending and his

wholeness of suffering can be no me when

he had gone forth the skiff where he

acquires gain honor and we know is not

pleased with gain honor and

and his intentions not fulfilled when he

is diligent he achieves the attainment

of virtue he's pleased with the

attainment of virtue but his intention

is not fulfilled when he's diligent he

achieves the attainment of

collectiveness he's pleased with the

attainment of collectiveness but his

intention is not fulfilled when he is

diligent he achieves knowledge and

vision is pleased with knowledge and

vision but his intention is not

fulfilled he does not on account o that

lawton self and his spirit others he

does not become intoxicated with that

knowledge and vision he does not grow

negligent and fall into negligence being

diligent he attains perpetual liberation

and it is impossible for that month too

far away from the perpetual deliverance

sees the thin

suppose a man needing heartwood seeking

heartwood wandering in search of

heartwood came to a great tree standing

possessed of Heartland cutting away only

his heart would he would take it away

knowing the heart would then a man with

good sight seeing him might say this

good man knew the heartwood this

afterward the inner bark the outer bark

and twigs and leaves the swelled needing

heartwood seeking heartwood in search of

hardwood he came to a great tree

standing possessed apart possessed of

heart food cutting off his heart would

he took it away knowing it was hardly

whatever it was this good man had to

make with hurt with his purpose is

served so two lumps here or some plant

on most forth out of faith then he is

diligent

tains perpetual liberation and it is

impossible for that month to fall away

from that deliverance so this holy life

box does not have gained honor and

renowned for its benefit or the

attainment our virtue for its benefit or

the attainment of concentration for its

benefit or the knowledge and vision for

its benefit but it is this unshakable

deliverance of mind that is the goal of

the holy life it's heartwood and it's in

and run than the shorter

shorter women disclose

yeah I know

hair brown on some Klansmen goes forth

out of faith from the home life into the

homeless considering a victim of aging

and death sorrow lamentation danger from

the spare i'm a victim of suffering

prayed to succor and trillian ending of

this whole mess of suffering finding

when he has gone forth thus acquires

gain honor and renown is not pleased

with being

his intention is not fulfilled he had

changed the attainment of virtue he's

pleased with the attainment of virtue

but his attention he achieves the

attainment of collectiveness is pleased

with the attainment of collectiveness

but his intention is not fulfilled he

achieves the knowledge and vision is

pleased with knowledge and vision but

his intention is not fulfilled he does

not on account of it lauded himself in

his berry brothers he arouses desire to

act and makes an effort for the

realization of those other states that

are higher and more sublime than

molybdenum he does not hang back and

slacking but what monk are what Brahman

are the states that are higher and more

sublime than

here quite secluded from sensual

pleasures secluded from unwholesome

states among enters of on and abides in

the first job which is accompanied by

thinking in examining God with joy and

happiness born of seclusion this is

insane higher and more sublime than

knowledge and vision and your knowledge

and visually keep growing as you go into

these different states

again with the stilling of thinking and

examining but among enters upon and

abides in the second jhana which has

self-confidence and stillness of mind

without thinking and examining thought

with joy and pleasure and happiness born

of collectiveness this too is a state

higher and more sublime than ordinary

knowledge envision when you get into the

second jhana you let go of your

verbalization the verbalization when you

let go of the verbalization this is the

start of noble silence

you don't have to make militias have so

many distracting thoughts and stay on

you're under communication you're

starting to gain confidence

that you know what you're doing you know

what you're doing when

hindrance arise

it might not go away any faster than it

did before but you have more confidence

that yeah I know I can get through the

joy that you experienced in the second

drama is much lighter mine and

the tranquility you experience is

stronger and feel very at ease in your

body descendants

it's very easy to stay with this unified

mind it's your mind this stays under

object notation

but the self-confidence also is

something that you take with you

in your daily life once you learn the

six RS and your understand the six RS

and carryin with you just as close as

you carry your skin

six art everything

when you can remember when you don't

remember and then all of a sudden you do

remember and criticize yourself because

you forgot just start again

that's all

I challenge some people and I was

teaching them loving-kindness meditation

and

and I said I want you to write down

every time you practice loving kindness

during the day I want you to write down

how long you practice

suppose a true team and really upset I

only got eight minutes today I said wow

that's not bad

eight minutes it's pretty good oh really

and said yeah because kept on coming

back so he forgot for periods of time it

takes practice continue doing it'll get

easier as you start understanding how to

read the loving-kindness with your daily

activities and does get easier but she

was really upset because all days she'd

been drying and had only had eight

minutes but she probably remembered and

practiced the loving-kindness 30 or 40

times but it was just for 30 and that's

fine just remember to do it again and

keep it going as much as you can

again with the fading away of joy among

abides in equanimity mindful and for

your work still feeling happiness with

the body enters upon and abides in the

third rung on count of which noble ones

and notes he has a dozen abiding who has

equanimity and is mine this too is a

higher state and more sublime than

when you get to the third drama

you don't have joy arising anymore but

you start feeling more balance in your

mind you don't have the emotional roller

coaster summer

and you start feeling very comfortable

in your body as we lose tension in your

mind Google's tension in your body and

then you don't notice your body summer

now this particular state is where when

I was in Malaysia I asked for some blood

samples before we started this before

they did any meditation at all and we

kept him in the freezer and then we've

got some blood samples after they'd

after the third run to see what was

happening blood and it was markedly

different before they started meditating

the blood was kind of a brownish red and

when we looked in the

under the telescope and looked at the

playlist they have dark rings around

them when they got into the third jhana

and we took that blood look underneath

the blood was cherry red amazing it was

really really nice with and you looked

at the playlets underneath it and they

it was red circle around it and the dot

in the middle was just the most

brilliant color difference crisp it was

really impressive when you get into the

third jhana as you start letting go

attention in your mind and you let go of

tension in your body

the places that you're holding on to

tensions and tightness 'as they start

relaxing and then you start having more

and more good circulation without

revival and you can start feeling

yourself

yes I'm really teaching better

I refuse to teach vipassana i pray that

bad procurement there are a lot of

people

they

there's a few years

and I didn't want to teach any kind of

mindfulness of breathing

so I started teaching menta and so

happens that there was a group of what

are they call themselves

buddhist graduate fellowship

and it was all of these people that have

gone to college together

and they became so excited and when they

started doing the practice they actually

saw that this was really important that

they

started telling everybody in Malaysia

so does

turn around every night I was giving the

gonna talk to

so they really

they really took off with the loving

kindness because they've been doing this

austere gratefully asana practice where

you don't smile and you don't where you

have this tension and tightness and you

don't really pay attention to it but

it's there so I'm coming along and I'm

saying well you smile a little bit and

relax a little bit more and you have to

focus on being happy well this was brand

new Fox to them

and because of that

they asked me to do

a wonderful dream

I didn't want any more than 25 but there

was 25 people

seven or eight people actually got into

the

and all of a sudden I was mr. famous

but it was an amazing thing to watch

because they've been practicing

meditation for so long and not really

getting any benefits and all of a sudden

they come along and say tried this

meditation and they're starting to feel

was happiness come in and there they

were so used to being austere that I'm

coming along saying gotta lighten up

guys let's be happy all the time just

develop this it was big revelations for

them and I had quite a following

and

many of the people got into the advanced

stages of medication in the aruba dramas

and

not many but they're releasing

in

I don't know why I got ya

the whole thing is once you get into the

third job

really starting your mind works and

you're starting to understand that the

hindrances when they come up are not a

problem

he'll get caught in the mud for a little

while

ok

but if you have started having this

balance of mind and says it's okay to be

kind of my for a little get the chance

to learn how to do

so as you go deeper you start having

more and more profound insights into how

your minds attention moves and this

leads to having more so that what used

to be your real heavy duty roller

coaster rides start coming into like a

little waves you're still going to have

some ups and downs but they're not going

to be here at braddock know if they work

that's the advantage of doing this again

by abandoning the pleasure and pain with

the previous disappearance of joy and

grief a month enters upon and abides in

the 4th jhana which has neither pain or

pleasure and purity of mindfulness do to

you once you get into the fourth

you don't feel your body at all you

don't we are not able to Rady in

heart this is where you start reading

and then they have other instructions

this tomb is the state higher and more

sublime than

again with a complete surmounting of

perceptions of gross form with the

disappearance of perceptions of gross

sensory impact and I really don't like

this next one it says the non attention

to perceptions of diversity that means

that really implies one concentration

adjusted

so most of the time I don't read this

aware that space is infinite amount

enters upon and abides in the face of

infinite space it contradicts itself if

you continue in a sentence there's

nowhere

anyway when once you get to this state

you the feeling of loving kindness

feeling of loving kindness changes

and you start to feel

and start your Spanish

and still do the directions feel this

expansion

but you don't do up for this one

stay with me needing in all directions

at the same time

eh

but you're not going to feel any center

it's no starting right here it's just

the feeling

and the feeling of compassion is

different

again by completely surmounting the base

of infinite space aware their

consciousnesses of a month enters upon

it arrives in the basin and for the

consciousness this to use a state higher

or more sublime than knowledge when you

get to the infinite consciousness that

was about a Money in the rising

you will see

one

you'll see it at all of the Sun stories

but the one that you see mostly is with

dresses and it's it's like there's that

can that movie camera which is going a

little bit too slow and you're seeing

individual frames and you're saying a

blank spot in between

yes

it's okay

flash

what is it anyway what you do after you

do this for a while you start to feel

its tires seeing all these consciousness

is arising miles away and

you start realizing up close and

personal

everything has changed

there is nobody on

there's only this arising and passing

and because it starts to get tiresome

that's a form of suffering so you're

seeing an intra duka anata

really close up close and personal

you're seeing impermanence

dissatisfaction in personal nature of

everything because there is no

controlling it's just when I its color

informed consciousness arises and it's

doing its arising and passing away

after a little while then you start to

focus on those blank spots in between

and then you'll go deeper into your

meditation again by completely

surmounting the basis of infinite

consciousness aware that there is

nothing among enters upon and abides in

the base of nothing this too is a state

higher and more sublime than that

knowledge can be when you get to the

base of infinite consciousness

the feeling of compassion will change

and you'll start to feel

as you start seeing those spaces in

between the consciousnesses

then you will start to

notice the feeling of joy goes away and

feeling a very very strong equanimity

gain equanimity when we were in

fourth down play its kind of go to this

one

dude debut

this is probably

states

because all along than learning about

entering

have to adjust your energy so that from

get caught by the slot employer where

you don't get caught by the Restless

it becomes very much more

get into the room

and it really terms

but just tastes too much

going to be restless

the restlessness get your balance back

you don't put quite enough wrong get

sleepy

which we will hang on so if you have

to address

makes this a very interest

always a clear and observing very deeply

how

because during a whole sitting you might

have 10 or 20 or 30 or a hundred little

adjustments that you have to make

you keep seeing more and more clear

there are a lot of other things that

happen in that state I'm

tell me but it is really

by completely surmounting the base of

nothingness among enters upon and abide

in the base of neither perception this

to state higher and more sublime then

knowledge

when you get leaner perception non

perception it's like to be sitting went

to sleep didn't feel like Bruce Lee

when you sit in that

and then you start reflecting on what

happened while you were in that state

see there were some things now you have

to be using or six hours

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the automatic

when there is nothing left

26 are

is very there

it's like

supera wins

you'll see you think

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again bias or mounting a basin neither

perception nor non perception per month

and abides in the cessation and his

taints are destroyed by his

wisdom

out of the perception is neither

dependent

let go

and with the letting go

no conditions

and from all

that I have talked to know about

instance a rather puzzled

this tues and state higher and more

sublime than Maui

these are the states that are higher and

more sublime

I say that this person from is like a

man meaning heartwood seeking art was

wandering in search of her

who came to a great tree standing

possessed of hard wood cutting away his

heart would took it away

it was Hartley and so whatever it was he

had to make you apart with his purpose

will be served so this holy life Brahman

does not have gained

or the attainment of virtue for his

benefit for the attainment have

collected misfortune or the attainment

of

that is it is this unshakable

deliverance of mind

it's heartwood ethics and when this was

said a Brahmin said to the blessed one

magnificent master both among

magnificent master Gautama has made the

Dhamma clear in many ways though you

were turning up right what had been

turned over revealing what was hidden

showing the way to one who is lost or

holding up a lamp in the dark for those

with good eyesight to see forms I go to

master go to Milford

and the Dhamma and to the song

from today let master go to memory

so they follow

has gone to inform Griffin so

I've always like this

would would see kind of guy look at wood

green fest

so the whole point of the meditation is

to learn

does

and as you see everything as

our teeth of an impersonal process start

seeing the

full links that occur the ones that

you're going to see most are feeling

craving dinging a bit roll tendency for

that

sorrow lamentation pain and despair

those are the ones you're going to get

to see but as you become more familiar

with it it gets easier

not to get caught up in all of those

concepts of India

likes and dislikes

we start purifying

and it does get easier as

the worst part about meditation is when

you first start that's when it's the

hardest

you know it really is hard to get going

and once you get going it gets easier

and easier and easier down to those but

because it starts to be fun because you

start feeling like ah there is some

relief around

yes I think you have to prep respect

that you know that if that's really true

as long as you're practicing with a

guide that's explaining to you what the

meditation is and what the mindful is

precisely is because you could be doing

a meditation and not have the really

understand what you're really there

still is there still is some degrees of

really even with sure until meditation

and you can just experience not even the

same as this and this seems to work much

faster so you start noticing things a

little bit

well I I just know for me it really it

really struck me as an adventure because

you would read this suit us and when we

run this on the ridge you would read the

citrus and talk about it and then we

would go out and you could see that

stuff and we don't come back and we

weren't really comparing notes a lot at

first so we didn't know each other we're

seeing these things until later on like

probably the second year I guess it's

when we really started to figuring out

that each of us each of the four or five

of us who are actually having this same

thing happening and we really started to

compare stuff you know you never really

said don't talk to each other about you

never really said talk to each other

back then you never really even said

talk to each other so we didn't do it

and we didn't really know it was like

other things they didn't say that I

can't tell you what the foundation was

about no not really all the meadows also

a teacher there almost fell off in tears

I still remember that it was very funny

you know we're all in wait a minute

we're all in the kitchen and he comes

prancing in and he says them I have

something to tell you and where they're

like so what you know and he said I I am

of a pasta a teacher and of course our

Owen and Kelly no you're not of a

passing a teacher you don't even like my

past and she did you not have a pot he

says well let me ask you this have you

ever had any insights in your meditation

and so he started have you ever seen

this and this and this and he's going

over the 37 requisites of enlightenment

and we're going well yeah yeah yeah yeah

we're checking us out on all this stuff

and it's like he gay it's like he took

you into a college course and trot you a

curriculum and didn't tell you what the

curriculum was going to be at the end he

asked you if you knew all this stuff on

this particular curriculum he was

looking

and you knew that you knew it all and so

then he turns around says we'll see if a

pass and amines insight and he really I

guess it never he probably had said it

but we really didn't pick it up pick up

on it the fact that the word from pasta

damn it in sight so we didn't catch that

the question was did you have any

insights in yer in your you know did you

find out anything new did you realize

anything you didn't know before and and

all g yeah and that's what happened so

it was very funny because here was this

insight teacher and he'd been saying

that you know but he wasn't teaching

what he meant was he wasn't teaching it

like the other positive teachers were

teaching it is what he meant and we all

took it to assume that it meant he was

not of a positive teacher but he was he

was a summit of the hospital teacher a

serenity and insight teacher yoked

together and he was just doing that

before we were talking about it this way

and it was kind of fun and that really

was

we have any questions

contingencies like the snake going in

one direction and your expansion of

loving-kindness needs to go faster in

same direction so you're out that he's

getting right that's a little bit

different than more like standstill you

can let it go by don't be afraid that's

making a white truck

she can let it let it slide by living

with that Khobragade becoming a little

bit too close to him sometimes let me

know I always let me know it is it was

always sorry I was

that

and

we

we could be on the path going up to the

cave it was it was not a steep walk but

it wasn't a wide walk neither and we

could both be going in different

directions and I could come within two

feet of them and it didn't shake him up

at all because I was afraid of because

in balance

and I can green eyes essentially they

were really yeah we weren't it was great

because he kept all the mice and homa

crows away because of nice and crows

getting your stuff and really recover it

put holes in your robes and all kinds of

stuff

the crows way to come take anything

shiny away where was the cave is in

Thailand the soccer

I say it was a south of Thailand and

that's what they call it but it was from

malaria was probably a tower crane right

so that was something to them to decide

to come and get you well from where did

they come Oh overnight wasn't the other

side please you know brother Mike please

just go get the month bring him back

from Kennedy something Jenna or sweat

sure Kuala Lumpur was six hours to six

or seven hours

titan

very

another eight hours

that's all

dream

just a little chore

monks

get to ride on the train Pat bus and if

you ride third class

to go from and then

to Vanguard is 90 by

for regularly

I got to do it for 45

which was about two dollars or something

the Brit wasn't but it was sitting on

wooden seats that didn't give and what I

wound up doing is just take book with me

and Reno get comfortable or not

and I was always crowded in the third

class

let's travel all over

and then somebody did something to

they said oh I don't want you to bring

third class why don't you go second

class aircon with the sleeper

oh man I hit the big time ooh that was

so nice I couldn't believe it I could

lay down I couldn't lay down all the way

because they were short but I could lay

down enough and I could actually sleep

and it was no humidity oh boy back to

third class with a hardwood but I

learned all kinds of tricks that took

extra water and if you wash your face in

your hands a few times while you're

traveling it really does make a

difference

I purity extra water

my head real nice and wet you always

sweat off of it

and

thailand

they have

my ID on Rue d'assas place they have

sulfur husband montréal is cotton picker

and now

of his friends

when I was there he was still alive

you'd be giving a dominant talk in this

wrist would come up in this

he wouldn't he wouldn't even break

stride he'd just reach over while he's

giving the dhamma talk would open up a

thing Watson brain given through the

tricking while he's getting the downtime

this great stuff

here's a picture of them

this one day one

spend white money

or taking

other things he did in any visiting

into his kudi payments booty and get his

robes ready here in the morning without

making any noise and he had a wood floor

and its peak and you had no idea where

the where that squeak was coming and he

started yelling I mean had I ray say and

you're so big and you know the fourth

floor there was no way you could get

across the floor in my way I'm siderable

last night that's true but visiting him

was great fun as he had this beauty that

was home but he had a lot of stuff and

he had this he was always sitting

outside in his chair and he had so much

stuff that she couldn't bow to it he did

you again and it upset the tides know in

that they couldn't bow to it some of

them would get off and get it go into

the dirt and bow you know and things

like that

I practice within about six weeks or so

he would take the

and Noble Truths

he would talk about it suffering and

talk about the cars and suffer

a way to get off and get out of the

suffering and then we would talk about

the cessation

and because he changed it like that

there had been monks that had been

sitting with him for years and they

didn't realize that he was talking about

the four noble truths and I'm going

there after the first dhamma talk i'm

walking away with these other monks I'm

saying you can't fool me I know the four

noble truths gonna hear and they're gone

what I said he just talked about the

Four Noble Truths we just change the

order really yeah

he didn't speak much

what english is hope call it may be

very good

if you had a real question

a lot of months

and I don't go on

you just do it in a sense that you know

what a person needs before they really

when they come in usually to discuss it

you really basically know what the

person needs then what they're going to

talk about and have the solution oh it's

all

yes I don't

it was funny kind of me

one that one lady came to practice menta

one night that's are a few weeks later

and she said are you teaching magic

so well

if what I'm teaching you helps you to

have an uplifted mind so you don't have

so much suffering and I guess that I do

to come she'd never come she was deathly

afraid because the Christians of

well that's sort of a lot less magic

cure them there is with laying on of

hands yeah they do their one okay so you

know they don't they don't call it no

it's the alignment of thought yeah the

power of the alignment is thought me to

gathering together of energy great

sure Samaritan 3 and the pair struck

carelessly their games and all grief

Oh

misty

july 25 2008 domestica meditation center

machine mana kiya the greater discours

on the simile of the hardware maha sabha

kamasutra number 29 by tomorrow

this is page 286

this is kind of an interesting suta in

that there's

I'll be accepting my

the mine gets bored

avoid some of your pain

thus if I turn heard on one occasion

blessed one was living at Roger too high

in the mountain ultra repeat it was soon

after David otha had left David otha was

his cousin

david oughtta just about the whole time

that the bodhisattva was about yourself

he was always the challenge for the

bodhisattva it was always doing things

that would get in his way and causing

all kinds of problems in this last

lifetime

the doctor developed psychic ability

and

he wanted to take over the Sun from the

Buddha

basically

not even to think about doing something

so David otha came along and he said I'm

going to ask for some goons from the

from the Buddha that all the months have

to follow one of the things he asked

that the Buddha grant for the month when

the Buddha was no longer around was that

he would appoint one person to run the

saga

so we got no pull

he said that all monks should live in

the forest and the Buddha said no I'm

not angry

all monks should only have three ropes

meaning that that's all that they could

have with and when you're in

City situation where

give robes longer time to be able to

acceptable so the Buddha said Norman

and David oughtta pulled out his face

and said all month should be vegetarian

and the Buddhist

so

David that went around Roger daha

starting to complain about the Buddha

say what I've said is very reasonable

and this is the way one should act when

the wood is not around anymore and look

at what mistakes he's making and he

started to draw months away from her

former Buddha

this is a time when Ludo that give down

the talk and he would stop and say

Ananda take over my back is hurt but he

never went to sleep he always listened

to what was being said he just relieved

his back so David at he got a couple of

hundred months and

took them away from Roger Gahan distance

and he started giving a dominant talk

and he said oh my back is sore and ask

another month to take over and he laid

down and immediately went to sleep when

the Buddha saw that David octa had kind

of charmed these other monks away and

said sorry puta an iguana it'll get him

back so they come they come around and

they see that David oughtta is sleeping

and they give Adam a talk and everybody

got so inspired they all left and David

Otto would really upset by that it said

that that he was so angry that he

started spitting out blood anytime

somebody does that that

and because he caused the chisholm in

the order you really got a lot of bad

Merrick was reborn

remember i talked about that big

that of molten leather

is he is doing what we finally called

during

takes 50 thousand years to get to the

bottom he's in hot molten lead

every different part of your body and

takes 50 thousand years to get up and

he's up long enough to say one syllable

before he goes back

so he's not in a happy existence

but because he in fact did help the

Bodhisattva to develop his good

qualities eventually when he the bad

karma of his actions wears off it said

that he's going to be

so

he was very helpful to me

he challenged him in all kinds of ways

do things

great phones and break his back

the Bodhisattvas on this is a challenge

satisfaction any

monks here sometimes men go forth out of

faith in the home life into the homeless

considering i'm a victim of birth aging

and death of sorrow lamentation pain

grief and is fair i'm a victim of

suffering afraid to suffering fairly an

end of shirley and ending of this whole

mass of suffering can't be known when

he's gone forth thus he acquires being

honor and renown he's pleased with gain

honor and renowned and his intention is

fulfilled on account of it he loves

himself and he disparages others thus I

have gained honor and renowned but those

other months are unknown of no account

he becomes intoxicated with a gain honor

and right now gross negligent falls into

negligent and being negligent he lives

in suffering this is what happened to

David oughtta and his last life he had

all these psychic abilities and he would

do things to some of the richer folks

around the King's

that sort of thing so that they would be

impressed with him so they would support

him but he didn't continue on what the

path and he got pretty much intoxicated

and actually lost his psychic ability

suppose a man needing heartwood seeking

heartwood wandering in search of

heartwood came to a great tree standing

possessed of parkland passing over his

heart would its SAP wood its inner bark

and its outer bark you cut off the twigs

and leaves and take a little take them

away thinking that they were Hartley

then a man with good sight seeing him

might say this good man did not know the

heartwood this applet the inner bark the

outer bark the quit or the twigs and

leaves the swell needing heartwood

seeking heartwood wandering in search of

art room he came upon him he came to a

great tree standing possessed with

hardwood passing over its heart when it

SAT with inner and outer bark he cut off

the twigs and leaves and took them away

thinking they were hard whatever it was

this good man

with heart with his purpose will not be

served so two monks here some Klansmen

goes forth out of faith and then it goes

through this whole thing again about how

he gets caught up in his being honor and

renown and becomes negligent and he'd

been he lives in suffering this month is

called one who has taken the twigs and

leaves of the holy life and stop short

with that hair amongst some Klansmen go

out go forth out of faith from the home

life into the homeless considering i'm a

victim of birth aging and death of

sorrow lamentation angry and despair i'm

a victim suffering afraid to suffering

surely an ending of this wholeness of

suffering and in home when he was gone

forth thus he acquires gain honor and

renown

he's not pleased with gain honour and

renown and his intention is not

fulfilled he does not on account of it

lawd himself in the spare each other's

he does not become intoxicated with gain

honor and renown he does not grow

negligent and fall into negligent being

diligent idiot cheves the attainment of

virtue he's pleased with the attainment

of virtue and his intention is fulfilled

on account of this he logs himself and

disparages other dust I am virtuous of

good character but these other monks are

immoral of evil character he becomes

intoxicated with the attainment of

virtue grows negligent falls into

negligence and being negligence he lived

in suffering

suppose a man needing heartwood seeking

heartwood wandering in search of

heartwood came to a great tree standing

possessed of hardwood passing over the

heart with its SAP wood and its inner

bark he would cut off the outer bark and

take it away thinking it was hardly then

a man with good sight seeing him might

say this good man did not know the

heartwood and go through the whole list

again thus while kneading heartwood he

cut off the outer bark and took it away

thinking it was hard wood whatever it

was this good man had to make with

heartwood his purpose will not be served

so two monks here's some plans man go

forth out of faith and attains to virtue

but is negligent and he lives in

suffering this month is called one who

has taken the outer part of the holy

life and stopped short with that

so virtue is this is one of the things

when you take on the rose that you start

to learn about

I have them around somewhere

well the actress to incite put the party

if we can all take that one all right

but I want to have a copy striking so

we'll make up the notebook with it yeah

actually you only took ten precepts but

there's another hundred rolls that you

have to follow they're pretty easy

and we'll go over that but that's so

that you can

hair monks some clanton goes out goes

forth out of faith from the home life

into the homelessness considering i'm a

victim of birth aging and death of

sorrow lamentation pain grief and

despair i'm a victim of suffering a prey

to suffering surely an ending of this

whole mass of suffering can be known

when he's gone forth thus he acquires

gain honor and bri now he's not pleased

with gain honour

his intention is not fulfilled being

diligent he achieves the attainment of

virtue is pleased with the attainment of

virtue but his intention is not

fulfilled he does not on account of it

lawd himself and miss Perry governor's

he does not become intoxicated with that

attainment a virtue he does not grow

negligent and fall into mega drink being

diligent he achieves the attainment of

concentration now this kind of

concentration means the kind of

concentration that you lose while you're

listening to the thom talk while you're

giving here you don't let your mind

become distracted you listen very deeply

to what is being said and this can be a

major and cause a major change

the more attentive you become with what

is being said

it can it sinks in and boy it really be

great

I was telling you before in Germany when

it had that guy reading and German but

six sets of six

it affected him but it also affects

about half of the other people and they

were very very useful in column and I

said I'm not going to talk any more than

this all I want to do is do your

practice right now you've got this

benefit of having a super time that's

really over

so use them

and it was amazing to see the progress

so this kind of collectiveness of mind

is the one that you use for listening to

demote ox or reading such as yourself

he is pleased with the attainment of

collectiveness and his intention is

fulfilled on account of it he blogs

himself and he disparages others I am

collected my mind is unified but these

other monks are unconnected with their

minds astray he becomes intoxicated with

that attainment grows negligent falls in

the negligence and being negligent he

lives in suffering suppose a man meeting

heart with seeking heart and would

wandering in search of heart would came

to a great priest and possessed of heart

wood standing over its heart would it's

sadly he would cut off its inner bark

and take it away and thinking this was

partly

when a man with good sight seeing him

might say this good man did not know the

heartwood the swell leading heart would

he cut off its inner bark and took it

away thinking it was heart with whatever

it was this good man had to make the

park with his purpose will not be served

so two monks here's some plans and go

forth out of faith from home knife into

the homeless and get popped by

negligence and they suffered this monk

is called one who has taken the inner

bark of the holy life and stop short

with that here some hair amongst some

Klansmen goes forth out in faith from

the homelessness considering I'm a

victim of birth aging and death of

sorrow lamentation pain grief and

despair I am a victim of suffering

afraid suffering surely an ending of

this whole mass of suffering can be

known when he has gone forth thus he

acquires gain honor and renown he's not

pleased with being honor and renown and

his intention is not fulfilled being

diligent you choose the attainment of

virtue is pleased with the attainment of

virtue but his intention is not

fulfilled being diligent he achieves the

attainment of collectiveness he's

pleased with the attainment of

collectiveness but his intention is not

fulfilled he does not on account of it

lawd himself in disparage others he does

not become intoxicated with that

containment of collective

he does not grow negligent or fallen the

negligence being diligent he achieves

knowledge and vision now we're starting

to talk about being able to see how mine

is actually working as you're gaining

and teaching yourself how minds

attention moves and become

more alert to that

he's pleased with knowledge and vision

and his intention is fulfilled on

account of it he logs himself in the

spiritual others does I live knowing and

seeing but these other monks live

unknowing and unseen he becomes

intoxicated with that knowledge and

vision grows negligent falls into

negligent and being negligent he lives

in suffering so what we're talking about

here is just because you have some

experience to start thinking you're hot

stuff

there's lots deeper States to go to but

starting to understand and then

continuing on with the practice and your

curiosity makes everything unfold

suppose a man-eating heartwood seeking

heartwood wandering in search of

parkwood came to a great tree standing

possessed apart would passing over its

heart would he would cut off its SAP

wood and take it away thinking it was

hard wood then a man with good sight

seeing it might say this good man did

not know the heartwood thus while

kneading heartwood he cut off the South

wood and took it away thinking it was

hard food whatever it was as good man

had to make with the heartwood his

purpose will not be served so two monks

hair some plans and

think still has suffered this month is

called one who has taken the sapwood of

the holy life and stop short with that

here months some Klansmen goes forth out

of faith from the home life into the

homeless considering i am a victim of

birth aging and death of sorrow

lamentation pain grief and despair I am

a victim of suffering a prey to

suffering surely and ending and his

wholeness of suffering can be no me when

he had gone forth the skiff where he

acquires gain honor and we know is not

pleased with gain honor and

and his intentions not fulfilled when he

is diligent he achieves the attainment

of virtue he's pleased with the

attainment of virtue but his intention

is not fulfilled when he's diligent he

achieves the attainment of

collectiveness he's pleased with the

attainment of collectiveness but his

intention is not fulfilled when he is

diligent he achieves knowledge and

vision is pleased with knowledge and

vision but his intention is not

fulfilled he does not on account o that

lawton self and his spirit others he

does not become intoxicated with that

knowledge and vision he does not grow

negligent and fall into negligence being

diligent he attains perpetual liberation

and it is impossible for that month too

far away from the perpetual deliverance

sees the thin

suppose a man needing heartwood seeking

heartwood wandering in search of

heartwood came to a great tree standing

possessed of Heartland cutting away only

his heart would he would take it away

knowing the heart would then a man with

good sight seeing him might say this

good man knew the heartwood this

afterward the inner bark the outer bark

and twigs and leaves the swelled needing

heartwood seeking heartwood in search of

hardwood he came to a great tree

standing possessed apart possessed of

heart food cutting off his heart would

he took it away knowing it was hardly

whatever it was this good man had to

make with hurt with his purpose is

served so two lumps here or some plant

on most forth out of faith then he is

diligent

tains perpetual liberation and it is

impossible for that month to fall away

from that deliverance so this holy life

box does not have gained honor and

renowned for its benefit or the

attainment our virtue for its benefit or

the attainment of concentration for its

benefit or the knowledge and vision for

its benefit but it is this unshakable

deliverance of mind that is the goal of

the holy life it's heartwood and it's in

and run than the shorter

shorter women disclose

yeah I know

hair brown on some Klansmen goes forth

out of faith from the home life into the

homeless considering a victim of aging

and death sorrow lamentation danger from

the spare i'm a victim of suffering

prayed to succor and trillian ending of

this whole mess of suffering finding

when he has gone forth thus acquires

gain honor and renown is not pleased

with being

his intention is not fulfilled he had

changed the attainment of virtue he's

pleased with the attainment of virtue

but his attention he achieves the

attainment of collectiveness is pleased

with the attainment of collectiveness

but his intention is not fulfilled he

achieves the knowledge and vision is

pleased with knowledge and vision but

his intention is not fulfilled he does

not on account of it lauded himself in

his berry brothers he arouses desire to

act and makes an effort for the

realization of those other states that

are higher and more sublime than

molybdenum he does not hang back and

slacking but what monk are what Brahman

are the states that are higher and more

sublime than

here quite secluded from sensual

pleasures secluded from unwholesome

states among enters of on and abides in

the first job which is accompanied by

thinking in examining God with joy and

happiness born of seclusion this is

insane higher and more sublime than

knowledge and vision and your knowledge

and visually keep growing as you go into

these different states

again with the stilling of thinking and

examining but among enters upon and

abides in the second jhana which has

self-confidence and stillness of mind

without thinking and examining thought

with joy and pleasure and happiness born

of collectiveness this too is a state

higher and more sublime than ordinary

knowledge envision when you get into the

second jhana you let go of your

verbalization the verbalization when you

let go of the verbalization this is the

start of noble silence

you don't have to make militias have so

many distracting thoughts and stay on

you're under communication you're

starting to gain confidence

that you know what you're doing you know

what you're doing when

hindrance arise

it might not go away any faster than it

did before but you have more confidence

that yeah I know I can get through the

joy that you experienced in the second

drama is much lighter mine and

the tranquility you experience is

stronger and feel very at ease in your

body descendants

it's very easy to stay with this unified

mind it's your mind this stays under

object notation

but the self-confidence also is

something that you take with you

in your daily life once you learn the

six RS and your understand the six RS

and carryin with you just as close as

you carry your skin

six art everything

when you can remember when you don't

remember and then all of a sudden you do

remember and criticize yourself because

you forgot just start again

that's all

I challenge some people and I was

teaching them loving-kindness meditation

and

and I said I want you to write down

every time you practice loving kindness

during the day I want you to write down

how long you practice

suppose a true team and really upset I

only got eight minutes today I said wow

that's not bad

eight minutes it's pretty good oh really

and said yeah because kept on coming

back so he forgot for periods of time it

takes practice continue doing it'll get

easier as you start understanding how to

read the loving-kindness with your daily

activities and does get easier but she

was really upset because all days she'd

been drying and had only had eight

minutes but she probably remembered and

practiced the loving-kindness 30 or 40

times but it was just for 30 and that's

fine just remember to do it again and

keep it going as much as you can

again with the fading away of joy among

abides in equanimity mindful and for

your work still feeling happiness with

the body enters upon and abides in the

third rung on count of which noble ones

and notes he has a dozen abiding who has

equanimity and is mine this too is a

higher state and more sublime than

when you get to the third drama

you don't have joy arising anymore but

you start feeling more balance in your

mind you don't have the emotional roller

coaster summer

and you start feeling very comfortable

in your body as we lose tension in your

mind Google's tension in your body and

then you don't notice your body summer

now this particular state is where when

I was in Malaysia I asked for some blood

samples before we started this before

they did any meditation at all and we

kept him in the freezer and then we've

got some blood samples after they'd

after the third run to see what was

happening blood and it was markedly

different before they started meditating

the blood was kind of a brownish red and

when we looked in the

under the telescope and looked at the

playlist they have dark rings around

them when they got into the third jhana

and we took that blood look underneath

the blood was cherry red amazing it was

really really nice with and you looked

at the playlets underneath it and they

it was red circle around it and the dot

in the middle was just the most

brilliant color difference crisp it was

really impressive when you get into the

third jhana as you start letting go

attention in your mind and you let go of

tension in your body

the places that you're holding on to

tensions and tightness 'as they start

relaxing and then you start having more

and more good circulation without

revival and you can start feeling

yourself

yes I'm really teaching better

I refuse to teach vipassana i pray that

bad procurement there are a lot of

people

they

there's a few years

and I didn't want to teach any kind of

mindfulness of breathing

so I started teaching menta and so

happens that there was a group of what

are they call themselves

buddhist graduate fellowship

and it was all of these people that have

gone to college together

and they became so excited and when they

started doing the practice they actually

saw that this was really important that

they

started telling everybody in Malaysia

so does

turn around every night I was giving the

gonna talk to

so they really

they really took off with the loving

kindness because they've been doing this

austere gratefully asana practice where

you don't smile and you don't where you

have this tension and tightness and you

don't really pay attention to it but

it's there so I'm coming along and I'm

saying well you smile a little bit and

relax a little bit more and you have to

focus on being happy well this was brand

new Fox to them

and because of that

they asked me to do

a wonderful dream

I didn't want any more than 25 but there

was 25 people

seven or eight people actually got into

the

and all of a sudden I was mr. famous

but it was an amazing thing to watch

because they've been practicing

meditation for so long and not really

getting any benefits and all of a sudden

they come along and say tried this

meditation and they're starting to feel

was happiness come in and there they

were so used to being austere that I'm

coming along saying gotta lighten up

guys let's be happy all the time just

develop this it was big revelations for

them and I had quite a following

and

many of the people got into the advanced

stages of medication in the aruba dramas

and

not many but they're releasing

in

I don't know why I got ya

the whole thing is once you get into the

third job

really starting your mind works and

you're starting to understand that the

hindrances when they come up are not a

problem

he'll get caught in the mud for a little

while

ok

but if you have started having this

balance of mind and says it's okay to be

kind of my for a little get the chance

to learn how to do

so as you go deeper you start having

more and more profound insights into how

your minds attention moves and this

leads to having more so that what used

to be your real heavy duty roller

coaster rides start coming into like a

little waves you're still going to have

some ups and downs but they're not going

to be here at braddock know if they work

that's the advantage of doing this again

by abandoning the pleasure and pain with

the previous disappearance of joy and

grief a month enters upon and abides in

the 4th jhana which has neither pain or

pleasure and purity of mindfulness do to

you once you get into the fourth

you don't feel your body at all you

don't we are not able to Rady in

heart this is where you start reading

and then they have other instructions

this tomb is the state higher and more

sublime than

again with a complete surmounting of

perceptions of gross form with the

disappearance of perceptions of gross

sensory impact and I really don't like

this next one it says the non attention

to perceptions of diversity that means

that really implies one concentration

adjusted

so most of the time I don't read this

aware that space is infinite amount

enters upon and abides in the face of

infinite space it contradicts itself if

you continue in a sentence there's

nowhere

anyway when once you get to this state

you the feeling of loving kindness

feeling of loving kindness changes

and you start to feel

and start your Spanish

and still do the directions feel this

expansion

but you don't do up for this one

stay with me needing in all directions

at the same time

eh

but you're not going to feel any center

it's no starting right here it's just

the feeling

and the feeling of compassion is

different

again by completely surmounting the base

of infinite space aware their

consciousnesses of a month enters upon

it arrives in the basin and for the

consciousness this to use a state higher

or more sublime than knowledge when you

get to the infinite consciousness that

was about a Money in the rising

you will see

one

you'll see it at all of the Sun stories

but the one that you see mostly is with

dresses and it's it's like there's that

can that movie camera which is going a

little bit too slow and you're seeing

individual frames and you're saying a

blank spot in between

yes

it's okay

flash

what is it anyway what you do after you

do this for a while you start to feel

its tires seeing all these consciousness

is arising miles away and

you start realizing up close and

personal

everything has changed

there is nobody on

there's only this arising and passing

and because it starts to get tiresome

that's a form of suffering so you're

seeing an intra duka anata

really close up close and personal

you're seeing impermanence

dissatisfaction in personal nature of

everything because there is no

controlling it's just when I its color

informed consciousness arises and it's

doing its arising and passing away

after a little while then you start to

focus on those blank spots in between

and then you'll go deeper into your

meditation again by completely

surmounting the basis of infinite

consciousness aware that there is

nothing among enters upon and abides in

the base of nothing this too is a state

higher and more sublime than that

knowledge can be when you get to the

base of infinite consciousness

the feeling of compassion will change

and you'll start to feel

as you start seeing those spaces in

between the consciousnesses

then you will start to

notice the feeling of joy goes away and

feeling a very very strong equanimity

gain equanimity when we were in

fourth down play its kind of go to this

one

dude debut

this is probably

states

because all along than learning about

entering

have to adjust your energy so that from

get caught by the slot employer where

you don't get caught by the Restless

it becomes very much more

get into the room

and it really terms

but just tastes too much

going to be restless

the restlessness get your balance back

you don't put quite enough wrong get

sleepy

which we will hang on so if you have

to address

makes this a very interest

always a clear and observing very deeply

how

because during a whole sitting you might

have 10 or 20 or 30 or a hundred little

adjustments that you have to make

you keep seeing more and more clear

there are a lot of other things that

happen in that state I'm

tell me but it is really

by completely surmounting the base of

nothingness among enters upon and abide

in the base of neither perception this

to state higher and more sublime then

knowledge

when you get leaner perception non

perception it's like to be sitting went

to sleep didn't feel like Bruce Lee

when you sit in that

and then you start reflecting on what

happened while you were in that state

see there were some things now you have

to be using or six hours

26

the automatic

when there is nothing left

26 are

is very there

it's like

supera wins

you'll see you think

6

again bias or mounting a basin neither

perception nor non perception per month

and abides in the cessation and his

taints are destroyed by his

wisdom

out of the perception is neither

dependent

let go

and with the letting go

no conditions

and from all

that I have talked to know about

instance a rather puzzled

this tues and state higher and more

sublime than Maui

these are the states that are higher and

more sublime

I say that this person from is like a

man meaning heartwood seeking art was

wandering in search of her

who came to a great tree standing

possessed of hard wood cutting away his

heart would took it away

it was Hartley and so whatever it was he

had to make you apart with his purpose

will be served so this holy life Brahman

does not have gained

or the attainment of virtue for his

benefit for the attainment have

collected misfortune or the attainment

of

that is it is this unshakable

deliverance of mind

it's heartwood ethics and when this was

said a Brahmin said to the blessed one

magnificent master both among

magnificent master Gautama has made the

Dhamma clear in many ways though you

were turning up right what had been

turned over revealing what was hidden

showing the way to one who is lost or

holding up a lamp in the dark for those

with good eyesight to see forms I go to

master go to Milford

and the Dhamma and to the song

from today let master go to memory

so they follow

has gone to inform Griffin so

I've always like this

would would see kind of guy look at wood

green fest

so the whole point of the meditation is

to learn

does

and as you see everything as

our teeth of an impersonal process start

seeing the

full links that occur the ones that

you're going to see most are feeling

craving dinging a bit roll tendency for

that

sorrow lamentation pain and despair

those are the ones you're going to get

to see but as you become more familiar

with it it gets easier

not to get caught up in all of those

concepts of India

likes and dislikes

we start purifying

and it does get easier as

the worst part about meditation is when

you first start that's when it's the

hardest

you know it really is hard to get going

and once you get going it gets easier

and easier and easier down to those but

because it starts to be fun because you

start feeling like ah there is some

relief around

yes I think you have to prep respect

that you know that if that's really true

as long as you're practicing with a

guide that's explaining to you what the

meditation is and what the mindful is

precisely is because you could be doing

a meditation and not have the really

understand what you're really there

still is there still is some degrees of

really even with sure until meditation

and you can just experience not even the

same as this and this seems to work much

faster so you start noticing things a

little bit

well I I just know for me it really it

really struck me as an adventure because

you would read this suit us and when we

run this on the ridge you would read the

citrus and talk about it and then we

would go out and you could see that

stuff and we don't come back and we

weren't really comparing notes a lot at

first so we didn't know each other we're

seeing these things until later on like

probably the second year I guess it's

when we really started to figuring out

that each of us each of the four or five

of us who are actually having this same

thing happening and we really started to

compare stuff you know you never really

said don't talk to each other about you

never really said talk to each other

back then you never really even said

talk to each other so we didn't do it

and we didn't really know it was like

other things they didn't say that I

can't tell you what the foundation was

about no not really all the meadows also

a teacher there almost fell off in tears

I still remember that it was very funny

you know we're all in wait a minute

we're all in the kitchen and he comes

prancing in and he says them I have

something to tell you and where they're

like so what you know and he said I I am

of a pasta a teacher and of course our

Owen and Kelly no you're not of a

passing a teacher you don't even like my

past and she did you not have a pot he

says well let me ask you this have you

ever had any insights in your meditation

and so he started have you ever seen

this and this and this and he's going

over the 37 requisites of enlightenment

and we're going well yeah yeah yeah yeah

we're checking us out on all this stuff

and it's like he gay it's like he took

you into a college course and trot you a

curriculum and didn't tell you what the

curriculum was going to be at the end he

asked you if you knew all this stuff on

this particular curriculum he was

looking

and you knew that you knew it all and so

then he turns around says we'll see if a

pass and amines insight and he really I

guess it never he probably had said it

but we really didn't pick it up pick up

on it the fact that the word from pasta

damn it in sight so we didn't catch that

the question was did you have any

insights in yer in your you know did you

find out anything new did you realize

anything you didn't know before and and

all g yeah and that's what happened so

it was very funny because here was this

insight teacher and he'd been saying

that you know but he wasn't teaching

what he meant was he wasn't teaching it

like the other positive teachers were

teaching it is what he meant and we all

took it to assume that it meant he was

not of a positive teacher but he was he

was a summit of the hospital teacher a

serenity and insight teacher yoked

together and he was just doing that

before we were talking about it this way

and it was kind of fun and that really

was

we have any questions

contingencies like the snake going in

one direction and your expansion of

loving-kindness needs to go faster in

same direction so you're out that he's

getting right that's a little bit

different than more like standstill you

can let it go by don't be afraid that's

making a white truck

she can let it let it slide by living

with that Khobragade becoming a little

bit too close to him sometimes let me

know I always let me know it is it was

always sorry I was

that

and

we

we could be on the path going up to the

cave it was it was not a steep walk but

it wasn't a wide walk neither and we

could both be going in different

directions and I could come within two

feet of them and it didn't shake him up

at all because I was afraid of because

in balance

and I can green eyes essentially they

were really yeah we weren't it was great

because he kept all the mice and homa

crows away because of nice and crows

getting your stuff and really recover it

put holes in your robes and all kinds of

stuff

the crows way to come take anything

shiny away where was the cave is in

Thailand the soccer

I say it was a south of Thailand and

that's what they call it but it was from

malaria was probably a tower crane right

so that was something to them to decide

to come and get you well from where did

they come Oh overnight wasn't the other

side please you know brother Mike please

just go get the month bring him back

from Kennedy something Jenna or sweat

sure Kuala Lumpur was six hours to six

or seven hours

titan

very

another eight hours

that's all

dream

just a little chore

monks

get to ride on the train Pat bus and if

you ride third class

to go from and then

to Vanguard is 90 by

for regularly

I got to do it for 45

which was about two dollars or something

the Brit wasn't but it was sitting on

wooden seats that didn't give and what I

wound up doing is just take book with me

and Reno get comfortable or not

and I was always crowded in the third

class

let's travel all over

and then somebody did something to

they said oh I don't want you to bring

third class why don't you go second

class aircon with the sleeper

oh man I hit the big time ooh that was

so nice I couldn't believe it I could

lay down I couldn't lay down all the way

because they were short but I could lay

down enough and I could actually sleep

and it was no humidity oh boy back to

third class with a hardwood but I

learned all kinds of tricks that took

extra water and if you wash your face in

your hands a few times while you're

traveling it really does make a

difference

I purity extra water

my head real nice and wet you always

sweat off of it

and

thailand

they have

my ID on Rue d'assas place they have

sulfur husband montréal is cotton picker

and now

of his friends

when I was there he was still alive

you'd be giving a dominant talk in this

wrist would come up in this

he wouldn't he wouldn't even break

stride he'd just reach over while he's

giving the dhamma talk would open up a

thing Watson brain given through the

tricking while he's getting the downtime

this great stuff

here's a picture of them

this one day one

spend white money

or taking

other things he did in any visiting

into his kudi payments booty and get his

robes ready here in the morning without

making any noise and he had a wood floor

and its peak and you had no idea where

the where that squeak was coming and he

started yelling I mean had I ray say and

you're so big and you know the fourth

floor there was no way you could get

across the floor in my way I'm siderable

last night that's true but visiting him

was great fun as he had this beauty that

was home but he had a lot of stuff and

he had this he was always sitting

outside in his chair and he had so much

stuff that she couldn't bow to it he did

you again and it upset the tides know in

that they couldn't bow to it some of

them would get off and get it go into

the dirt and bow you know and things

like that

I practice within about six weeks or so

he would take the

and Noble Truths

he would talk about it suffering and

talk about the cars and suffer

a way to get off and get out of the

suffering and then we would talk about

the cessation

and because he changed it like that

there had been monks that had been

sitting with him for years and they

didn't realize that he was talking about

the four noble truths and I'm going

there after the first dhamma talk i'm

walking away with these other monks I'm

saying you can't fool me I know the four

noble truths gonna hear and they're gone

what I said he just talked about the

Four Noble Truths we just change the

order really yeah

he didn't speak much

what english is hope call it may be

very good

if you had a real question

a lot of months

and I don't go on

you just do it in a sense that you know

what a person needs before they really

when they come in usually to discuss it

you really basically know what the

person needs then what they're going to

talk about and have the solution oh it's

all

yes I don't

it was funny kind of me

one that one lady came to practice menta

one night that's are a few weeks later

and she said are you teaching magic

so well

if what I'm teaching you helps you to

have an uplifted mind so you don't have

so much suffering and I guess that I do

to come she'd never come she was deathly

afraid because the Christians of

well that's sort of a lot less magic

cure them there is with laying on of

hands yeah they do their one okay so you

know they don't they don't call it no

it's the alignment of thought yeah the

power of the alignment is thought me to

gathering together of energy great

sure Samaritan 3 and the pair struck

carelessly their games and all grief

Oh

misty