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

hmm okay

thus have i heard on one occasion the

blessed one was living in the sakian

country at cap bill of atu

in the grota's park

now on

that occasion a new assembly hall had

recently been built for the zakians of

capitola

and they had not yet been inhabited by

any recluse or brahmin or human being at

all when they built new assembly halls

they let the ascetics that were

traveling around

sleep that sleep the night there

so they just got through building this

and

nobody had gone in there

after it was done

then the sakians of capital about two

went to the blessed one after pain

homaged him sat down at one side and

said to him venerable sir a new assembly

hall has recently been built for the

sake hands of capital of octu

and it has not yet been inhabited by any

recluse or 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 sakions of

capital about two

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 their right

they went

to the assembly hall they covered it

completely with coverings and prepared

seats

that's like they put rugs down and

things like that

and then they put in a large

water jug and hung an oil lamp

then they went to the blessed one after

paying homage to him they sat they stood

at one side and said venerable sir the

assembly howl has been covered

completely with coverings and seats have

been prepared

a large water drug has been put out and

an oil lamp hung up

now is the time for the blessed one to

do

do as he thinks fit

the blessed one dressed taking his bowl

and outer rope

went with the sangha

of monks to the assembly hall

the reason he took his bowl and outer

ropes was because he couldn't leave

things

because people would steal them

they didn't have locks on their doors

like we have now

when he arrived he washed his feet then

entered the hall and sat down

by the central pillar facing the east

it's an interesting thing about facing

the east

um

you

there's an energetic thing that happens

with the direction that you face

when you face the east

you have more energy

when you face the north

you don't have there as much energy so

when when

facing the north

if you sleep with your head towards the

north

you

have better sleep

because it's low energy

now if you have restlessness

then you can face the north

and the restlessness comes down a little

bit by itself

or if you have sloth and torpor then

face the east

figure it out for yourself i don't have

a compass

and the washer the monks washed their

feet and they entered the hall and sat

down by the western wall facing the east

with the blessed one before them

the sakians of capilavatu washed their

feet entered the hall and sat down

by the eastern wall facing the west with

the blessed one before them

then when the blessed one had instructed

roused urged and encouraged the sackians

of bilobatu on a talk on the dhamma for

much of the knife he's

much of the night

he said to venerable ananda ananda

speak to the kasakians of capital about

two about the discipline and higher

training

who has entered upon the way

my back is uncomfortable i will rest now

okay this statement right here says that

this was during the

latter part of the buddha's life

his back started bothering him so he

wasn't able to sit up all night like he

always had been

because his back became very painful

now this gives you the impression

that what he did was he

laid down and went to sleep and let

ananda

give the discourse

but actually he laid down to give his

back rest but he was awake the whole

time

okay

even as pure as the buddha was

he still had some

karmic effect of

past actions and that's why he had the

bad back

in a lifetime

long long time ago

more than four mahakatas which is a lot

of time

uh he was a wrestler

and he got

really proficient at breaking

the men's backs

that he was wrestling

he would lift them up and come down on

the knee and it would break their back

so he got this real bad back pain

paying for that karma

from a long time ago

yes venerable sir ananda replied then

the blessed one prepared his patchwork

cloak folded for in for laid down on the

right in the lion's pose

that's

like the lying bullet there

with one foot overlapping the other

now this is the part that doesn't make

sense because he didn't go to sleep he

listened to what ananda said

it says

that the buddha lied in the lion's pose

with one foot overlapping the other then

it says mindful fully aware

mindful and fully aware

after

noting in his mind the time for rising

now that that implies that he went to

sleep

and he knew that he was going to wake up

at a certain time so he would get up

now when you're

right before you go to sleep

if you can make the determination to

wake up

at

4

59 or 501

change the time every every day but

a little bit

for the time of awakening

and then when you can hit that right on

every time now you're starting to learn

how to

how to use your determination

and then there's another determination i

want you to make right before you go to

sleep

and that is

wake up smiling

and keep your smile going

okay

do that every night before you go to

sleep make a determination what time you

want to wake up

and that you're going to wake up happy

it works

then the venerable ananda addressed

mahanama the saki and thus

here a noble disciple has possessed a

virtue

guards the doors of the 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 difficulty the four

jhanas that constitute the higher mind

and provide a pleasant abiding here and

now

the higher mind

is called

okay

that's what it

literally means but here you're seeing

that

this abidama is talking about the

virtue and sense doors and eating and

wakefulness and things like that

it's not about

buddhist philosophy this is about

buddhist reality

and how is a noble disciple possessed of

virtue

here a noble disciple is virtuous

he dwells restrained with the restraint

of the potty mode

you have

eight

precepts

i have

227.

she has

311

she has 311

because she's a girl

and how does a noble side disciple

uh

wait a minute um

keeping the

keeping your precepts

is extremely important if you break one

of the precepts please come and tell me

and we'll take the precepts again

if you break the precepts

it will affect your your meditation very

negatively for the whole day

so come and tell me

there's no finger pointing we'll just

take the precepts again and then you'll

purify your mind so you can have good

meditation after that

okay he is perfect in conduct and resort

and seeing fear in the slightest fault

he trains by the undertaking

the training of

the training precepts

this is how the noble disciple is

possessed of virtue

and how does a noble disciple guard the

doors of his sense faculties

on seeing a form with the eye a noble

disciple does not grasp it at signs and

features

since if he left the eye faculty and

guarded evil unwholesome states of

covetousness and grief might invade him

so what are we talking about by

not grasping at its signs and features

staying with the object of meditation

and six houring if your mind becomes

distracted

now when you

forget

and you get caught

what happens is

you start thinking about what you're

seeing or tasting or touching whatever

it happens to be at the sense doors

then

those thoughts start carrying you

further and further away and you don't

even know that

that you're

saying or tasting or touching whatever

the sense story is

and

what that does is it causes unwholesome

states to arise now what are the

unwholesome states

the unwholesome states

are

craving

taking

the sight the sound

takes the touch

personally

i am that

and then

all of the opinion opinions the concepts

the ideas

the story

about why you like or dislike

that sight sound taste touch whatever it

happens to be

and

this causes your mind to have either

covetousness i like it

or grief i don't like it

when you practice the six hours

you practice

recognizing that your mind is distracted

releasing the distraction

relaxing

the tightness caused by that distraction

re-smiling

or smiling as the case may be

and return to your object to meditation

and repeat staying with your object of

meditation

so that is how you you uh

guard the doors of the sense faculties

he practices the way of its restraint he

guards the eye faculty he undertakes the

restraint of the eye faculty

on hearing a sound with the ear and

smelling an odor with the nose and

tasting a flavor with the tongue and

touching a tangible with the body

on cognizing a mind object with mind

noble disciple does not grasp it at

signs and features since if he left the

mind faculty unguarded evil unwholesome

states of covetousness and grief

might invade him

he practices the way of its restraint

he guards the mind faculty undertakes

the restraint of the mind faculty

that is how a noble disciple guards the

doors of his sense faculties

and how is a noble disciple moderate in

eating

here reflecting wisely a noble disciple

takes food neither for amusement

nor for intoxication

nor for the sake of physical beauty

attractiveness

but only for the endurance and

continuance of this body

for enduring for ending discomfort

for assisting the holy life considering

thus i shall terminate old feelings

without arousing new feelings and i

shall be healthy and blameless and shall

live in comfort

when we're talking about eating

we're talking about the quantity of food

you need to eat

you have to learn how especially when

you're not eating in the evening how to

mix some of the hard food with the soft

food now what's hard food

beans

nuts

sticky rice

things like that

why is it considered hard because it

stays in your stomach for a longer

period of time

soft food

would be considered

a lot of the vegetables or soft food

fruits

are soft food

things like that

so you want to eat a balance of that so

you won't get hungry in the evening

now you want to eat until your your

stomach is half full

and then take one quarter

water

and leave one quarter air

and when you eat like that

then

you won't bog yourself down

after eating you'll find that there's a

period of time that your your mind just

wants to sleep so once now i i need to

take some rest

but when you when you eat

in this way without overeating

you'll stay alert

okay

this is how a noble disciple is moderate

in eating

and how is a noble disciple de devoted

to wakefulness here during the day while

walking back and forth and sitting 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 of obstructive states

in the middle watch of the night he lies

down on the right side

in the lion's pose with one foot

overlapping the other mindful and fully

aware

after noting in his mind the time for

rising

after rising in the third watch of the

night

while

walking back and forth and sitting he

purifies his mind of obstructive states

the first watch of the night

according to the burmese is from

seven o'clock in the evening until 11

o'clock

the middle watch of the night when you

would lay down and take rest

is eleven o'clock until three o'clock

the last watch of the night is from

three o'clock until seven o'clock in the

morning

as you notice that's only four hours

when i was in burma

that's what i did

i went to bed at 11 o'clock got up at

three o'clock every morning

then it got to be range retreat

and i went to my first interview at the

range retreat with pandita

and

he said

how much are you sleeping

and i said

go to bed eleven o'clock get up at three

o'clock

and he said why are you sleeping so much

okay

so

for three months i went to bed at

midnight and got up at two o'clock

and

right at the end of the range retreat

this was the year that they had a lot of

trouble in their country and

it was really kind of an entertaining

time because they

closed down the

post office and they closed down the

telephone office and

there was no food allowed into rangoon

so we wound up only having rice for our

meals

because they had a big storehouse of

rice

it was kind of an interesting time and

you'd hear guns firing all the time

things like that

anyway

right before the end of the reigns

retreat

the government decided they didn't want

any foreign monks in the

country anymore

and the people that were running mahasi

center went to the government and said

look at we can't

let them go right now they'll be

breaking the vineyards they left before

the end of the range retreat so let's

let them stay for the end of the range

retreat

so we stayed for the end of the range

retreat it was on a tuesday and they

said wednesday morning you have to leave

get on the plane and go

but they didn't have any planes leaving

wednesday

so the the officials at mahasi center

said there's no planes leaving and the

government said we don't care they have

to get out

and i often wondered what how we were

supposed to do that but finally they saw

the sense of letting us stay one more

day

when i got back into thailand

i was exhausted

i'd only taken two hours sleep for three

months

i found out that when you cut down on

your sleep

you can eat huge quantities of food and

lose weight

it takes a lot of energy to stay up

i i had a bowl and i would have that

full

in the morning

and i would eat that and i was still

hungry so they got another helping of

that

and i ate all of that and i got another

helping of that and then i felt like i'd

had enough food

but i went from about 190 pounds down to

about 160.

i looked like a skeleton

my eyes were all sunken in

so when i went to thailand

go out on the homes round

come back in

going on arms around in in thailand i

always had enough for four or five monks

they always gave me huge amounts of food

so i would eat until i was full and then

i'd start

thinking oh that might be nice to take a

nap

and then i lay down and i'd take a nap

and i'd wake up about five o'clock in

the afternoon

and i'd wander around and get a tea and

talk to some monks and then about seven

o'clock i start thinking well it's about

time to go to bed

and that happened for about six weeks

so i finally caught up on my sleep and

then i started feeling like a normal

person and i started gaining weight and

things like that

so do i recommend that you only take two

hours sleep a night no

look at how soft i am

you get to go to bed at ten o'clock

you get up at five o'clock

that's seven hours

and then after lunch i give you an hour

after lunch

so you can lay down and take rest for an

hour after lunch that's eight hours a

day

this is a walk in the park

this is really easy on you because

you're not used to

having a little amount of sleep and i

don't want you pushing

i don't want you

walking around being tired

i learned through my experience at

mahasi center that you don't get very

good meditation when you do that

and your mind has a tendency to get real

grumpy

and we don't want that

so i make sure you have enough sleep

and you have great food here

every time you have

your choice if you want some beans some

hard food or they always have some nuts

around they have all kinds of good food

now you

if you

get hungry in the evening

at tea time take a little bit of honey

in your tea

and that will help

okay

now what i want you to do while you're

here doing the retreat is i want you to

stay in the meditation hall until ten

o'clock at night

not nine o'clock

not eight thirty

not nine thirty

ten o'clock

okay

and this is for your benefit

i want everyone to sit at least six

hours a day

that's not really very much

and when i was taking two hours of sleep

i was

sitting and walking

uh 16

hours a day i'm only asking you to do

six

sitting

and the walking it depends on you on how

much you want to walk but always walk in

between each city

staying with your object of meditation

of course

as much as you can okay

now how do you

purify your mind of obstructive states

you're getting smart

excellent

by using the six heart watching what

you're doing when you're walking back

and forth and when you're sitting

watch what your mind is doing

your mind starts to wander off

don't criticize yourself don't become

upset with yourself just six are it

and then gently

stay with your object to meditation as

long as you can remember

so that is how a noble disciple is

devoted to wakefulness by practicing the

six hearts

and how does how does a noble disciple

possess seven good qualities

here a noble disciple has confidence and

he places his confidence in the

tatagata's awakening thus

the blessed one is accomplished fully

enlightened

fully awakened

perfect and true knowledge and conduct

sublime nor of worlds incomparable

leader of persons to be tamed

teacher of god's inhumans

awakened and blessed

he has shame

he is ashamed of misconduct in body

speech and mind

ashamed of engaging in evil unwholesome

deeds

what are evil and wholesome deeds

we're getting involved with the

hindrances

taking them personally

now the word shame

is a little bit heavy

you want to be able to recognize that

okay i made a mistake

let it go

if you hold on to shame too much then

your mind gets into unwholesome states

by identifying with the critical thought

that you're creating for yourself and we

don't want that to happen

we want you to keep your mind

pointed towards the wholesome

not the unwholesomeness of

feeling like you've done something

really bad

it's just recognizing that there's a

mistake letting it go

relaxing smiling coming back to your

object of meditation

he has fear of wrongdoing he's afraid of

misconduct in body speech and mind

afraid of engaging in evil and wholesome

deeds

well again the fear of wrongdoing it

means caution

and paying attention to not

practicing any wrongdoing what is wrong

doing

getting involved with your precepts

breaking your precepts getting involved

with your

hindrances

now for for a monk it's a little bit

different than it is for laymen

because you've only got eight precepts

and we've got whole bunches more

and

being a monk

this is our profession

so we're a little bit more critical of

our action because we have rules that

dictate what kind of actions we can do

and we try to pay attention to that as

much as we can

and of course there's always some

degrees of some of the things

there's a do tonga practice

where you only

will take three postures

posture of standing

let's see

one is

the most

strict

is sitting in the middle of the room

sitting in meditation

and

resting

without bending over

just sitting

you wind up catching little cat naps

that way

very difficult practice

when i was in thailand i saw monks

trying to do that practice and what they

wound up doing was just leaning forward

putting their head on the ground and

sleeping

and then they'd wind up with a bad back

so it's not a wise thing to do if you're

not really

ready for that with your meditation

the next degree of that

is sitting and leaning against a wall

that's a hard practice to do too

the last degree is

sitting in a chair

so you have you see you have these three

kinds of different degrees of following

that particular practice

some of the rules are

it's much more strict you don't have

three different degrees of it but other

roles

it depends

anyway

not getting

overly involved

with

the fear of wrongdoing but being aware

of when you're going to do something

that's maybe a little bit marginal

this is one of the

one of the reasons why you take the

precepts every morning not as a righted

ritual but to keep it in your mind

so you won't be tempted before

there is a breaking of the rule

the reason that you keep the precepts is

because it helps you generally be

mindful

of what you're going to do before you do

it

and then you make the conscious decision

now that's better not to do that

did buddha

encourage monster

there's 13

dutonga practices

one of them is only eating out of the

bowl whatever is put in the bowl that's

what you eat

i i was with somebody in burma when they

did that

and what we did was we went out on alms

round

and

if we knew that this particular month

like the kind of food what we would do

would be put it in his bowl for him

but he only ate what was put in his bowl

now there's an advantage to eating out

of your bowl all of the time

because you when your bowl gets up to a

certain level you know that's as much

food as you need

and it's real easy not to over eat that

weight

another practice is only having three

ropes

another practice is

outside of range retreat

never

going into a building staying at the

root of a tree

one of the practices is staying out in

the open

which is what you do is you take your

robe and a little

wooden

thing and you build a little tent

and that's where you

do your meditation and that sort of

thing

well that's that's

that's not a do tonga practice are these

options i mean yeah you can do the monks

can do them if they want a little bit of

extra discipline

it was there sort of pressure to do some

of these things and some of these

depends where you are and who you're

with because i remember that

um some of the

monks they they because tom pulus

never laid down

since he became a monk

and

when did he die he's 97 or something

like that

so for 77 years he never

laid down all the way

uh taking one meal a day yeah are these

described in the text

ah

you're gonna love this answer

the best description of them actually

isn't a visual

that's why the vasudi maga is a

reference book

the first part of the visumaga

on

virtue is actually very good

and it describes all 13 of the dutonga

practices

of which i can't remember all of them

right now so i'm not going to go into

them anymore

but i i have practiced nutanga practices

and i found benefit for that in doing

that because you start losing your

attachments

only eating one meal a day only eating

out of your own bowl and whatever is put

into your ball

uh that stops you from going oh that

looks good

even this might be offered

but

if it's not in your bowl then you just

let it go

the burmese monks were very good at

trying to tempt me to eat more

i

eat

i didn't want anymore and then they

would find out that i like le pet

but that is

pickled or fermented

is it fermented or pickled

pickled pickled tea

and

it has kind of a sour taste and i kind

of like it and they always have some

little nuts with them and it's it's a

good thing

but they would wait until i was done and

then we put it in my bowl

and then they were always looking at me

very closely to see whether i would

pull it out and eat it but no i wouldn't

pull it out and need it i was done

eating that was enough

one of the reasons

that is kind of like a dessert

oh it's definitely a delicacy it's

wonderful

but that's one of the reasons that the

burmese will not drink tea in the

evening because they consider it a food

but when you make tea and boil it

it has no calories in it so there's it's

not a it's not a food at that time

but there's different degrees of

strictness in that too

so

he has learned much

remembers what he has learned and

consolidates what he has learned

such teachings as are good in the

beginning good in the middle and good in

the end with the right meaning and

praising

and affirm a holy life that is utterly

perfect and pure and pure excuse me

such teachings as these he has learned

much of remembered recited verbally

investigated with

with mine and penetrated well by

view

now the whole point of

chanting

is not mystical magical feeling

it's reciting over and over again what

the suit does say

but over the years

they they've developed these certain

sutas that they call the paritas they're

they're their protections

now an example of a protection i just

read about the buddha being

awakened and fully enlightened and

perfect in conduct and wisdom and things

like that

if you have fear in your mind

and you reflect on the good qualities of

the buddha

the fear

dissipates it stops

now i've had i've had some students that

came and they tried to practice

meditation

and they couldn't close their eyes when

they meditated because it caused fear to

arise

and their mind was very agitated when

they started practicing

so what i would do would be tell them i

want you to go over the good qualities

of the buddha

and reflect on what each of those

qualities are there's nine different

qualities

and after that

start your meditation

and that always was helpful

sometimes it can

the fear can arise because of past

action in another lifetime

you don't know it doesn't really matter

why it arises

what matters is what you do with it when

it does arrive

and this is very helpful when you think

of the good qualities of the buddha

this is considered a protection so the

monks

they like to do the

chanting of the protections in the

morning

and that's about the only thing they

they actually

can't anymore

just the protections

but all of the suttas

to keep them alive

they should be chanted

and when you go to the dig in the kaya

you get a

real feel for

what

needed to be kept alive after the buddha

died in suit number 33 i think it is

there's

a list of ones and a list of twos and a

list of threes and a list of fours and

it's talking about all of the different

things that the buddha taught

goes all the way up to 12s

that's why they call it the longer

discourse

well do you know the right meaning and

phrasing

okay

such teachings as these he has learned

much of remembered recited

verbally

investigated

and penetrated by by view

i'm only giving you a few sections to

memories

that's for people that want to

become teachers

i'll give you the list if you want

but there's only four or five suited

seven so far

but they're not

there's there's enough repeating in them

that it's actually fairly easy to

memorize

and the reason that you want to memorize

them if you're a teacher is so that you

can call them up oh it says this and

this is

that

you don't have to spend time looking it

up

okay

he is energetic in abandoning

unwholesome states in an undertaking

wholesome states what does that mean

he's energetic when he's practicing in

six hours in other words he's very

observant

the six r's are the key

that opens the door

to

my mother

and it opens the door

every time you use them

because you let go of your craving

every time you let go of craving you've

let go of your attachment

to a belief in a personal self

he is steadfast and firm in striving not

remiss in developing wholesome states

letting go of unwholesome states

releasing them relaxing

re-smiling returning repeating staying

with that wholesome state

staying with your object of meditation

he has mindfulness

he possesses the highest mindfulness and

skill

he recalls and recollects what was done

long ago and spoken of long ago in other

words we're talking not about

mindfulness necessarily but about your

memory

you repeat things often enough that you

can remember them

without

making mistakes

and i wish i could do that sometimes

it'll be real helpful

is wise

you remember what i said about the word

wise or wisdom

it's always

talking about dependent origination when

he is wise that needs

he is able to see how at least part

of the links of dependent origination

really do work

he possesses wisdom

and this is part from the

commentary

he's he's the reason that he's talking

about here he possesses wisdom regarding

right arrivals and disappearance

this is one of the reasons i'm going to

i'm going through this book

and

taking out the commentary in the suit

and putting it where the commentary

should be

thank you

that is noble and penetrative and leads

to the complete destruction of craving

what leads to the complete destruction

of craving

do you know the answer don't you

what leads to the complete destruction

of craving now it's a dependent

origination

and where to let it go

and

reduce it

and not have let go of the craving where

you can let go you can't load

you can't have any craving into 6r

because you're letting it go

that is how the a noble disciple

possesses seven good qualities and how

is a noble disciple one who obtains at

will without trouble or difficulty the

four genres that constitute the higher

mind

and provide a pleasant abiding here and

now

here quite secluded from sensual

pleasures secluded from unwholesome

state

a noble disciple enters upon and abides

in the first job

the kind of genre that we're talking

about is not the absorbed kind of genre

we're talking about

twin

tranquil wisdom

inside meditation

how can they have all those dot laters

in there

from the first genre to the second

channel well i'm going to

take those dots out right

directly

hot dog

because he didn't want to repeat it

because the book is too big by itself

this book was actually three books by

the polytech society

and he put it all into one so it makes

you carry around a book that weighs five

pounds which gets you in trouble with

the airport

okay

here are quite secluded from central

pleasures secluded from unwholesome

state

a noble disciple enters upon and abides

in the first genre which is accompanied

by thinking and examining thought

with joy and happiness born of seclusion

is that one one one yeah okay

again

with the

stilling of thinking and examining

thought the noble disciple enters upon

and abides in the second genome which

has self-confidence

and stillness of mind without thinking

and examining thought with joy and

pleasure born of collectedness

when you get into the second drama you

start to have

a confidence that you know what you're

doing

and that carries on into your

daily activities you start to have more

confidence that you can use the six

hours with your daily activity and it

actually does work

you start to have confidence that you

smile more and your mind stays uplifted

more

you start to have a lot of

self-confidence with this

okay with the fading away of

joy

the noble disciple abides in equanimity

mindful and fully aware

still feeling pleasure with the body

in other words when you get into the

third genre you very much feel the body

but it's comfortable

as you go deeper into the third drama

then you start losing

feeling in different parts of your body

as you lose tension in your mind you

lose tension in your body

when you lose tension in your body you

don't feel it anymore

okay he enters upon and abides in the

third gen on account of which noble ones

announce he has a pleasant abiding who

has equanimity and is mindful

again with the abandoning of pleasure

and pain with the previous disappearance

of joy and grief

the noble disciple enters upon and

abides in the fourth channel which has

neither pain nor pleasure and purity of

mindfulness due to equanimity

when you get into the fourth jhana

the abandoning of pleasure and pain

means that you

your mind doesn't shake

your mind doesn't move your mind stays

balanced

unless you get involved with the

dissatisfaction of having a pain around

okay

that is how a noble disciple is one who

attains at will without trouble or

difficulty the four johnas that

constitute the higher mind

and provide a pleasant abiding here and

now

when a noble disciple has thus become

one who is possessed of virtue

who guards the doors of his sense

faculties

who is moderate in eating

oh another thing when when you're eating

the more you chew your food

the easier it is to digest

when they the text that talks about the

buddha eating food

it says that he never swallowed one

grain of rice that wasn't chewed at

least once

when you chew your food until it becomes

liquid in your mouth and then you

swallow it

your digestion is very good

because the saliva

hits all of the food

and that's the first part of the

digestion

and you start feeling a lot more healthy

when you chew your food

a lot of people that are overweight

when they eat

they

pop the food in their mouth they chew

twice and swallow

and it takes a huge amount of energy

for your body

to start digesting that

so while you're eating here please eat

until the food becomes liquid in your

mouth

that'll slow down everybody eating a

little bit too

when i was taking care of of

venerable lucille and honda and burma

people would come and they would offer

food

and then he would eat get up and

whatever food was left we would start

eating there's

two doctors a man and a man and his wife

they're both medical doctors

they would

from the time they sat down

until they got up from eating was about

three minutes

and in three minutes i can have a couple

bites

and i'm sitting there eating and they're

looking at me and going oh i wish i

could do that

try chewing your food sometime and see

how it does

okay a noble disciple is one who is

devoted to wakefulness who possesses the

seven good qualities who attains at will

without trouble or difficulty the four

genres that constitute the higher mind

and provide a pleasant abiding here and

now

is one call

he is

called one

in higher training who has entered upon

the way

his eggs are unspoiled

he is capable of breaking out capable of

awakening

capable of attaining the supreme

security from bondage

suppose there were a hen with 8 or 10 or

12 eggs

which she covered incubated

nurtured properly

even though

she did not wish oh that my chicks may

pierce the shells with the points of

their claws and beaks and hatched out

safely

yet the chicks are capable of piercing

their shells with their

with the points of their claws

beaks and

and hatching out safely

so too when a noble disciple has become

one who is possessed of virtue

and is called one in higher training who

has entered upon the way his eggs are

unspoiled

he is capable of breaking out capable of

awakening capable of attaining the

supreme security from bondage

having arrived at that same supreme

mindfulness

whose purity is

is due to equanimity

this noble disciple recollects the many

of

his manifold past lifetimes

when his collected mind is thus purified

bright and unblemished rid of

imperfection malleable wildly steady and

attained to imperturb ability

this means that he

the the person has attained the fourth

genre

okay

and when you can get into the fourth

jhana that is when you become an

advanced meditator

why

because your mind is thus purified

bright unblemished rid of imperfections

malleable wieldy steady and attained

imperturbability

that's why

you