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

thus have i heard on one occasion the

blessed one was living at sawati in

jettas grove annath and pindika's park

is wise

anytime you read the word wise or wisdom

in the suttas it is referring to

so this this part of the suit is talking

about sorry

and how he understood the links of

dependent origination

puta has joyous wisdom

sorry

has quick wisdom

sorry puta has keen

gained insight into states one by one as

they occurred

on

insights into states one by one as they

occurred was this

uh

here quite secluded from sensual

pleasures

secluded from unwholesome states

sorry

entered upon and abided in the first

drama

sorry

uh

means a level of understanding

too often when many people hear the word

jhana to them it translates as

one pointed concentration

uh

okay

sorry puta entered upon and abided in

the first drama which is accompanied by

thinking and examining thought

with joy and happiness born of seclusion

the thinking the examining thought the

joy the happiness the unification of

mind

uh

the contact feeling perception formation

and mind

okay now these

are called the five aggregates

uh

the five aggregates and the four

foundations of mindfulness are exactly

the same thing

if you look in your booklet you can see

on page 14 how they

all right so every time you see this

part of this phrase it's talking about

the four foundations of mindfulness

while you are in a

jhana

uh

and this also shows you that there's

more than one kind of jhana that's being

you remember last night i was talking

about how you practice one pointed

concentration absorption concentration

and you always bring your attention back

with the craving

when you're practicing this kind of

concentration it does not lead to nibana

uh

but when you're practicing with the six

hours

and you relax and smile and come back to

your object to meditation

that is the direct path to nibana

so when you're practicing the six r's

you are also practicing the four

foundations of mindfulness

okay

the

enthusiasm decision energy mindfulness

equanimity

and attention

okay i didn't know you were done

these states were defined by him one by

one as they occurred

he abided unattracted unrepelled

independent detached free dissociated

with a mind rid of barriers

and with it a cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there is

now this is where

you start to realize the importance of

the hindrances

they are your teacher they are your best

friend because they help you

to strengthen your mindfulness

you will have a hindrance

you'll sit in the first jhana for a

period of time your mindfulness gets

weak all of a sudden the hindrance

arises

that is your friend

talking about

every time you let go you use the six

r's you let go of the hindrance come

back to your object of meditation

your mindfulness gets a little bit

stronger

to get to the first jhana you had to let

go of a hindrance

and you understand how that works

as you get deeper into your practice

you start seeing more closely how

okay again monks

with the stilling of thinking and

examining thought

which has self-confidence

with joy and happiness born of

collectedness

your confidence

in the meditation starts to get stronger

you start to feel like you're

understanding more clearly

now if you try to

in your mind say

may my friend be happy and bring that

feeling to your heart you start to get

tightness in your head

um reason that tightness arises is

because you don't need to verbalize the

wish anymore

of noble silence

because you don't mentally verbalize

the wish anymore

now you have to understand that when you

attain a jhana it helps your

understanding

in your daily life

too

you have confidence

you're able to see hindrances more

easily

and this is with your daily life

this is how this practice

helps to develop your personality

some people can get angry and they stay

angry for

two or three weeks

but when you start developing your mind

through the six hours

you see that you are causing your

foreign

the self-confidence the joy the

happiness and unification of mind

the contact feeling perception formation

and mind

chip

again this is the four foundations while

you are in the jana

the enthusiasm decision energy

mindfulness equanimity

and attention

these states were defined by him one by

one as they occurred

known to him those states arose

he understood there's still more to do

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there is

quesanchiri

and mindful and fully aware

he entered upon and abided in the third

jhana

on account of which noble ones announce

he has a pleasant abiding who has

equanimity and is mindful

when you get to the third jhana you no

longer have joy arise

your mind has very strong balance in it

well you still can hear sounds

if someone comes up and touches you you

will feel that

uh

because your equanimity is starting

because

you will be sitting in meditation and

you start to lose the feeling

in your body

as you lose feel as you

lose feeling in your body

your mind is becoming more pure

you're wondering

so you'll be sitting and you don't feel

so you're losing tension in your mind

and you lose tension in your body

as you go deeper in this channel

more places in your body will start to

disappear

in

eventually

even the feeling in the heart

disappears

uh

okay

and the states in the third drama the

equanimity

the happiness

the mindfulness

the full awareness

and unification of mind

children

um

the contact feeling perception formation

and mind

again the four foundations of

mindfulness while you're in the third

genre

the

enthusiasm decision energy mindfulness

equanimity and attention

these states were defined by him one by

one as they occurred

known to him those states arose

known

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there's

still more to do

with

again monks

with the abandoning of pleasure and pain

with the previous disappearance of joy

and grief

which has neither pain nor pleasure and

purity of mindfulness

due to equanimity

your mind has exceptional balance

in it

you

become what the buddha called an

advanced meditator

um

your mindfulness is so your your balance

of mind is so strong

that you hear a sound and it doesn't

make your mind move at all it just goes

through you

from here

up to the top of your head

some students have come and told me told

me they felt like their head

was sitting on the floor there was

nobody

more

the last part of the eightfold path

is called

right

concentration

the definition of right concentration

is the four

chanas

the other four jhanas are called well

the the other four states

are called

arupa

these are called the immaterial genres

there are some people

in other words if a mosquito comes and

lands on you you still feel it

but your mind doesn't shake

um

and that does not make your mind

so anybody that has gotten to the point

where their

objective meditation is in their head

has become an advanced meditator

and you will start to start to see more

and more subtle things arise

i'll get into it a little bit

uh after this

and the states in the fourth china

the neither painful nor pleasant feeling

pyongyang

and the unification of mind

the contact feeling perception formation

and mind

chop chok nukem

again you still have the four

foundations of mindfulness

while you are in this state is

the enthusiasm decision energy

mindfulness equanimity and attention

now the

enthusiasm that this talks about

you start to become very enthusiastic

about doing the meditation

here you say

i know

any time you put too much energy into

the meditation you will get a headache

and that is a sign

that you back away from trying so hard

to talk

because now i'm going to talk about very

subtle states

and you have to keep backing away a

little bit more and a little bit more

to allow these things to occur

uh

he understood this

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there is

more to do because

with the complete surmounting of

and i'm sure you don't have this word in

there gross perception

of forms

cross perception right

uh

and i

talked to

the translator about this telling him

that he was

misleading people

by saying it this way

but if there is contact

so that's why i say gross perception

because the big perception

of just feeling a pain arise in your

body or

uh feeling your body at all that that's

gross

but only if there's contact that is

subtle

but

with the disappearance of gross

perception of sensory impact

up to the fourth jhana you have been

practicing loving kindness meditation

um

it's called

infinite space

the feeling of loving kindness naturally

changes

uh

to a feeling of compassion

you have to describe that feeling to me

also what happens is you start to feel

everything

there's only this expansion feeling

that is

what infinite space the what it feels

like

a lot of

mahayana teachers they talk a lot about

infinite compassion

and actually what they're describing is

compassion

while you are in infinite space

in your mind

ah

and the states in the base of infinite

space

the perception of the base of infinite

space

and unification of mind

the contact filling perception

formations and mind chip

so you still have the four foundations

of mindfulness right here

the

enthusiasm decision energy mindfulness

equanimity and

these states were defined by him one by

one as they occurred

known to him those states arose

known they were present

he confirmed that there is still more to

do

again

by completely surmounting the base of

infinite space

aware that consciousness is infinite

sorry

entered

upon and abided in the base of infinite

consciousness

as you go deeper in infinite space

eventually the feeling of compassion

will change to a feeling of joy

last night i was gonna tell you about

five kinds of joy and i only told you

about four

the last kind of joy

is called all prevailing

joy

uh

um

it's like i would take a pitcher of

water and i would pour it in the glass

and keep pouring and it would overflow

and no part of that glass

would not have water touching it

this is the kind of joy

that is in the awakening factors

okay

this does not have the excitement of the

other kinds of joy

this kind of joy is very interesting

because

you can be sitting in meditation

and all of a sudden this joy arises and

your eyes open up

and do you think well that was odd

a lot of buddha images you see that have

the eye half open

the artist is talking about this kind of

joy that the buddha felt

there's not one cell in your body that

does not feel this joy but it's not

excitement

it's just a very happy feeling

this is the kind of joy

that the compassion changes into

virus

when we're talking about infinite

consciousness this is very interesting

that was a hundred thousand arising and

passing away of that sound

arising and passing away of that sound

sound

but now your awareness is so strong

that you will be able to see

individual consciousnesses

arise and pass away very quickly

here

because there's nothing to smell up here

it's not going to happen at the nose so

much

or the tongue

upon us

but you can notice it in the body and

you can notice it in the mind

and it

say you're seeing it with the eye it

looks like a motion picture

going a little bit too slow and you see

the picture and then

there's a blank spot and the picture and

a blank spot and a picture in a blank

spot but it's happening fast

now you are showing yourself

up close and very personally

that

everything is changing

you're seeing each consciousness arise

and pass away arise and pass away arise

and pass away very quickly

after a period of time it becomes

tiresome saying this all the time

how

and you see

very closely that there is no controller

there is no i

making this happen

by direct experience

okay

and the states in the base of infinite

consciousness

the perception of the base of infinite

consciousness and unification of mind

the contact feeling perception formation

the enthusiasm decision energy

mindfulness equanimity and attention

disappeared

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there's

still more to do

praise

by completely surmounting the base of

infinite consciousness

aware that there is nothing

sorry

entered upon and abided in the base of

nothingness

okay this state

is probably

the most interesting state in all of the

meditation

when you get to this state mind is not

looking outside of itself anymore

the whole time you've been doing the

meditation

you're

experimenting with how much energy you

have to put in to stay with your

objective meditation without losing it

now this is like walking on a tight rope

that's made out of

spider web

very thin

if you use too much energy

to stay with your object of meditation

your mind gets restless

if you don't use quite enough energy

your mind gets dull

now when you go from infinite

consciousness to nothingness

the feeling of joy changes to a feeling

of very strong equinimnty

uh

your mind has exceptional balance

there are things that happen while

you're in that state that you have to

tell me about

chris won't tell you

because if i tell you

then you can start imagining it and i

don't want that i want to know what's

your actual experience

so as you continue going deeper in your

meditation you'll get to a place

that

is very interesting

but i won't tell you about it you have

to tell me

when you get to this state you will

notice that your mind is on your object

to meditation

and it will start to move or wobble a

little bit

and then before long

there's a distraction

but as you start to notice that it

wobbles like that you 6r right then and

your mind stays on your object of

meditation

um

there is something that happens before

that movement of mind's attention

when you get to the fourth jhana it

doesn't move very much at all but is

vibrating

as you keep relaxing with the six hours

that vibration becomes less and less and

less

when you get to

this stage of nothingness

it's very fine little tiny movements

that you'll be able to observe

uh

the perception of the base of

nothingness

and unification of mind

the contact feeling perception formation

the

enthusiasm decision energy mindfulness

equanimity and attention

known to him those states arose known

they were present known they disappeared

yeah understood this

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there's

still more to do

by completely surmounting the base of

nothingness

uh

entered upon and abided in the base of

neither perception

nor non-perception

as you're going through nothingness

the vibration becomes very very subtle

and hard to see

as

when you get to the base of neither

perception or non-perception

it's hard to tell whether there's any

vibration

many students come to me and they say is

it possible to be awake and asleep at

the same time

as a child

and my answer is yes that is the state

of neither perception or non-perception

is

you'll be in this state for a short

period of time maybe five minutes or so

it

and is you come out of that state you

remember what happened while you were in

there

you will be able to see colors and

shapes and

different kinds of patterns and things

when you see them you 6r

and then your mind becomes exceptionally

calm

you might be able to sit for an hour

hour and a half two hours without

anything arising

as you get used to this state you will

start to see

very very subtle

links of dependent origination

by this time your six hours should be

automatic

your mind notices

contact

and as soon as it notices six hours and

i relax

and then you might see

mentality materiality arise and six are

that and relax

and then you see

very subtle

consciousness

arise

6r radar

when you let go of the formations there

are no more conditions

um

in other words

that is

you will get into a state that is called

the cessation of perception

feeling and consciousness

you will be in that state for a short

period of time two minutes five minutes

10 minutes like that

when you come out of that state

you will see how the links of dependent

origination arise

and how they cease

and when that last formation disappears

that is what i call the big o wow

when you come out of that state you will

be happy

because

a lot of people are too happy to do that

so i let you go for a little while then

i put you back to work

everything in buddhism has to do with

your understanding

and the way you truly understand is by

seeing it

exactly as it occurs

in english it's called knowledge and

knowledge and vision

that's why when you finally see

exactly how dependent origination works

you understand it

and then there is this huge release

okay

now we're talking about neither

perception nor non-perception

he emerged mindful from that attainment

having done so he observed the states

that had passed ceased and changed

so indeed these states not having been

come into being

having been they vanish

regarding those states he abided

unattracted

he didn't like the state and try to hold

on to it

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there is

course

again monks by completely surmounting

the base of neither perception or

non-perception

sorry

entered upon and abided in the cessation

of perception feeling and consciousness

and his distractions were

you remember at the start of this i said

anytime you hear the word

wise or wisdom in the buddhist

literature

it's talking about the links of

dependent origination

all craving all clinging

vanish

by his seeing exactly how it occurred

he recalled the states that had passed

ceased and changed

having been they

regarding those states he abided

unattracted unrepelled independent

detached free dissociated with a mind

rate of barriers

he understood there is no escape beyond

this

and with the cultivation of that

attainment

he confirmed that there is not

so

remember

to keep using the six r's because you

will use them all the way to the end

and nothing would make me happier than

to see this whole room experience this

is

is it possible

sorry did it in two weeks

right

okay

monk's rightly speaking word to be said

of anyone

he has attained mastery and perfection

in noble virtues

attain mastery and perfection in noble

collectedness

noble wisdom

attain mastery and perfection in noble

deliverance

born

and is kept rolling rightly by sariputta

sariputta is

that is what the blessed one said

the monks were satisfied and delighted

in the blessed ones

that

so i gave you all the keys you need to

get into nibbana

christopher

there's still a few more things i need

to talk about

but this

is definitely gives you an idea of where

you are

on the path

and what you need to do and what your

experiences will be

i have had students tell me

that what i'm saying about this is

exactly right

uh

so does anybody have any questions

now you know why this is my favorite

suitable

anybody

everybody's yeah

do you believe that our capacity is even

better than that

kenya

so you have to come to the next retreat

in swan

foreign

how long did it take doug when he got

there

that was less than 10 days

just let it alone let it alone it was

less than 10 days

yeah and we had we had

two other people that came and they were

there for nine days

very successful

but to be honest

i have to tell you they did a lot of

meditation with me before they did they

came

for that

foreign

you said that you gave us the key to

nibbana is that key

yes absolutely

that is the way

you have to understand even the links of

dependent origination

are

a

distraction

and when you

keep using the 6r and the distraction

gets smaller and smaller and smaller and

finally there is no more

that's when you attain nevada

it is a six hour

and we are talking about very subtle

states of mind where your awareness has

to be exceptionally

m

well in the course of meeting uh

when we leave when we forget about the

key

and forget about six hours what should

we

drown yourself

might as well just commit suicide

don't forget

that's the whole point um

showing you how to carry that with you

when you're walking from here to your

car

before you go to work

i'm showing you how to carry that with

you in many different ways

so that when you get off retreat you can

continue

meditation is not just about sitting

here meditation is all of life

and there will be times that you will

forget and you will get caught and you

will suffer

but the length of time that you suffer

gets to be less and less as you become

more

uh familiar with the six r's and you

start to use them more

and life

really begins to be fun

sometimes it makes my whole day when i

see a little child

that is crying

and i radiate meta to them

so you make other people happy when you

get happy

why do you think i tell you to smile all

the time

it reminds you it makes your mindfulness

sharper

me

um

something

may suffering ones be suffering free and

the fear struck fearless be

may the grieving shed all grief

and may all beings find relief

may all beings share this merit that

we've thus acquired for the acquisition

of all kinds of happiness

may beings inhabiting space and earth

devas and nagas of mighty power

share this merit of

they long ours the buddha's dispensation

you

thus have i heard on one occasion the

blessed one was living at sawati in

jettas grove annath and pindika's park

is wise

anytime you read the word wise or wisdom

in the suttas it is referring to

so this this part of the suit is talking

about sorry

and how he understood the links of

dependent origination

puta has joyous wisdom

sorry

has quick wisdom

sorry puta has keen

gained insight into states one by one as

they occurred

on

insights into states one by one as they

occurred was this

uh

here quite secluded from sensual

pleasures

secluded from unwholesome states

sorry

entered upon and abided in the first

drama

sorry

uh

means a level of understanding

too often when many people hear the word

jhana to them it translates as

one pointed concentration

uh

okay

sorry puta entered upon and abided in

the first drama which is accompanied by

thinking and examining thought

with joy and happiness born of seclusion

the thinking the examining thought the

joy the happiness the unification of

mind

uh

the contact feeling perception formation

and mind

okay now these

are called the five aggregates

uh

the five aggregates and the four

foundations of mindfulness are exactly

the same thing

if you look in your booklet you can see

on page 14 how they

all right so every time you see this

part of this phrase it's talking about

the four foundations of mindfulness

while you are in a

jhana

uh

and this also shows you that there's

more than one kind of jhana that's being

you remember last night i was talking

about how you practice one pointed

concentration absorption concentration

and you always bring your attention back

with the craving

when you're practicing this kind of

concentration it does not lead to nibana

uh

but when you're practicing with the six

hours

and you relax and smile and come back to

your object to meditation

that is the direct path to nibana

so when you're practicing the six r's

you are also practicing the four

foundations of mindfulness

okay

the

enthusiasm decision energy mindfulness

equanimity

and attention

okay i didn't know you were done

these states were defined by him one by

one as they occurred

he abided unattracted unrepelled

independent detached free dissociated

with a mind rid of barriers

and with it a cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there is

now this is where

you start to realize the importance of

the hindrances

they are your teacher they are your best

friend because they help you

to strengthen your mindfulness

you will have a hindrance

you'll sit in the first jhana for a

period of time your mindfulness gets

weak all of a sudden the hindrance

arises

that is your friend

talking about

every time you let go you use the six

r's you let go of the hindrance come

back to your object of meditation

your mindfulness gets a little bit

stronger

to get to the first jhana you had to let

go of a hindrance

and you understand how that works

as you get deeper into your practice

you start seeing more closely how

okay again monks

with the stilling of thinking and

examining thought

which has self-confidence

with joy and happiness born of

collectedness

your confidence

in the meditation starts to get stronger

you start to feel like you're

understanding more clearly

now if you try to

in your mind say

may my friend be happy and bring that

feeling to your heart you start to get

tightness in your head

um reason that tightness arises is

because you don't need to verbalize the

wish anymore

of noble silence

because you don't mentally verbalize

the wish anymore

now you have to understand that when you

attain a jhana it helps your

understanding

in your daily life

too

you have confidence

you're able to see hindrances more

easily

and this is with your daily life

this is how this practice

helps to develop your personality

some people can get angry and they stay

angry for

two or three weeks

but when you start developing your mind

through the six hours

you see that you are causing your

foreign

the self-confidence the joy the

happiness and unification of mind

the contact feeling perception formation

and mind

chip

again this is the four foundations while

you are in the jana

the enthusiasm decision energy

mindfulness equanimity

and attention

these states were defined by him one by

one as they occurred

known to him those states arose

he understood there's still more to do

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there is

quesanchiri

and mindful and fully aware

he entered upon and abided in the third

jhana

on account of which noble ones announce

he has a pleasant abiding who has

equanimity and is mindful

when you get to the third jhana you no

longer have joy arise

your mind has very strong balance in it

well you still can hear sounds

if someone comes up and touches you you

will feel that

uh

because your equanimity is starting

because

you will be sitting in meditation and

you start to lose the feeling

in your body

as you lose feel as you

lose feeling in your body

your mind is becoming more pure

you're wondering

so you'll be sitting and you don't feel

so you're losing tension in your mind

and you lose tension in your body

as you go deeper in this channel

more places in your body will start to

disappear

in

eventually

even the feeling in the heart

disappears

uh

okay

and the states in the third drama the

equanimity

the happiness

the mindfulness

the full awareness

and unification of mind

children

um

the contact feeling perception formation

and mind

again the four foundations of

mindfulness while you're in the third

genre

the

enthusiasm decision energy mindfulness

equanimity and attention

these states were defined by him one by

one as they occurred

known to him those states arose

known

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there's

still more to do

with

again monks

with the abandoning of pleasure and pain

with the previous disappearance of joy

and grief

which has neither pain nor pleasure and

purity of mindfulness

due to equanimity

your mind has exceptional balance

in it

you

become what the buddha called an

advanced meditator

um

your mindfulness is so your your balance

of mind is so strong

that you hear a sound and it doesn't

make your mind move at all it just goes

through you

from here

up to the top of your head

some students have come and told me told

me they felt like their head

was sitting on the floor there was

nobody

more

the last part of the eightfold path

is called

right

concentration

the definition of right concentration

is the four

chanas

the other four jhanas are called well

the the other four states

are called

arupa

these are called the immaterial genres

there are some people

in other words if a mosquito comes and

lands on you you still feel it

but your mind doesn't shake

um

and that does not make your mind

so anybody that has gotten to the point

where their

objective meditation is in their head

has become an advanced meditator

and you will start to start to see more

and more subtle things arise

i'll get into it a little bit

uh after this

and the states in the fourth china

the neither painful nor pleasant feeling

pyongyang

and the unification of mind

the contact feeling perception formation

and mind

chop chok nukem

again you still have the four

foundations of mindfulness

while you are in this state is

the enthusiasm decision energy

mindfulness equanimity and attention

now the

enthusiasm that this talks about

you start to become very enthusiastic

about doing the meditation

here you say

i know

any time you put too much energy into

the meditation you will get a headache

and that is a sign

that you back away from trying so hard

to talk

because now i'm going to talk about very

subtle states

and you have to keep backing away a

little bit more and a little bit more

to allow these things to occur

uh

he understood this

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there is

more to do because

with the complete surmounting of

and i'm sure you don't have this word in

there gross perception

of forms

cross perception right

uh

and i

talked to

the translator about this telling him

that he was

misleading people

by saying it this way

but if there is contact

so that's why i say gross perception

because the big perception

of just feeling a pain arise in your

body or

uh feeling your body at all that that's

gross

but only if there's contact that is

subtle

but

with the disappearance of gross

perception of sensory impact

up to the fourth jhana you have been

practicing loving kindness meditation

um

it's called

infinite space

the feeling of loving kindness naturally

changes

uh

to a feeling of compassion

you have to describe that feeling to me

also what happens is you start to feel

everything

there's only this expansion feeling

that is

what infinite space the what it feels

like

a lot of

mahayana teachers they talk a lot about

infinite compassion

and actually what they're describing is

compassion

while you are in infinite space

in your mind

ah

and the states in the base of infinite

space

the perception of the base of infinite

space

and unification of mind

the contact filling perception

formations and mind chip

so you still have the four foundations

of mindfulness right here

the

enthusiasm decision energy mindfulness

equanimity and

these states were defined by him one by

one as they occurred

known to him those states arose

known they were present

he confirmed that there is still more to

do

again

by completely surmounting the base of

infinite space

aware that consciousness is infinite

sorry

entered

upon and abided in the base of infinite

consciousness

as you go deeper in infinite space

eventually the feeling of compassion

will change to a feeling of joy

last night i was gonna tell you about

five kinds of joy and i only told you

about four

the last kind of joy

is called all prevailing

joy

uh

um

it's like i would take a pitcher of

water and i would pour it in the glass

and keep pouring and it would overflow

and no part of that glass

would not have water touching it

this is the kind of joy

that is in the awakening factors

okay

this does not have the excitement of the

other kinds of joy

this kind of joy is very interesting

because

you can be sitting in meditation

and all of a sudden this joy arises and

your eyes open up

and do you think well that was odd

a lot of buddha images you see that have

the eye half open

the artist is talking about this kind of

joy that the buddha felt

there's not one cell in your body that

does not feel this joy but it's not

excitement

it's just a very happy feeling

this is the kind of joy

that the compassion changes into

virus

when we're talking about infinite

consciousness this is very interesting

that was a hundred thousand arising and

passing away of that sound

arising and passing away of that sound

sound

but now your awareness is so strong

that you will be able to see

individual consciousnesses

arise and pass away very quickly

here

because there's nothing to smell up here

it's not going to happen at the nose so

much

or the tongue

upon us

but you can notice it in the body and

you can notice it in the mind

and it

say you're seeing it with the eye it

looks like a motion picture

going a little bit too slow and you see

the picture and then

there's a blank spot and the picture and

a blank spot and a picture in a blank

spot but it's happening fast

now you are showing yourself

up close and very personally

that

everything is changing

you're seeing each consciousness arise

and pass away arise and pass away arise

and pass away very quickly

after a period of time it becomes

tiresome saying this all the time

how

and you see

very closely that there is no controller

there is no i

making this happen

by direct experience

okay

and the states in the base of infinite

consciousness

the perception of the base of infinite

consciousness and unification of mind

the contact feeling perception formation

the enthusiasm decision energy

mindfulness equanimity and attention

disappeared

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there's

still more to do

praise

by completely surmounting the base of

infinite consciousness

aware that there is nothing

sorry

entered upon and abided in the base of

nothingness

okay this state

is probably

the most interesting state in all of the

meditation

when you get to this state mind is not

looking outside of itself anymore

the whole time you've been doing the

meditation

you're

experimenting with how much energy you

have to put in to stay with your

objective meditation without losing it

now this is like walking on a tight rope

that's made out of

spider web

very thin

if you use too much energy

to stay with your object of meditation

your mind gets restless

if you don't use quite enough energy

your mind gets dull

now when you go from infinite

consciousness to nothingness

the feeling of joy changes to a feeling

of very strong equinimnty

uh

your mind has exceptional balance

there are things that happen while

you're in that state that you have to

tell me about

chris won't tell you

because if i tell you

then you can start imagining it and i

don't want that i want to know what's

your actual experience

so as you continue going deeper in your

meditation you'll get to a place

that

is very interesting

but i won't tell you about it you have

to tell me

when you get to this state you will

notice that your mind is on your object

to meditation

and it will start to move or wobble a

little bit

and then before long

there's a distraction

but as you start to notice that it

wobbles like that you 6r right then and

your mind stays on your object of

meditation

um

there is something that happens before

that movement of mind's attention

when you get to the fourth jhana it

doesn't move very much at all but is

vibrating

as you keep relaxing with the six hours

that vibration becomes less and less and

less

when you get to

this stage of nothingness

it's very fine little tiny movements

that you'll be able to observe

uh

the perception of the base of

nothingness

and unification of mind

the contact feeling perception formation

the

enthusiasm decision energy mindfulness

equanimity and attention

known to him those states arose known

they were present known they disappeared

yeah understood this

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there's

still more to do

by completely surmounting the base of

nothingness

uh

entered upon and abided in the base of

neither perception

nor non-perception

as you're going through nothingness

the vibration becomes very very subtle

and hard to see

as

when you get to the base of neither

perception or non-perception

it's hard to tell whether there's any

vibration

many students come to me and they say is

it possible to be awake and asleep at

the same time

as a child

and my answer is yes that is the state

of neither perception or non-perception

is

you'll be in this state for a short

period of time maybe five minutes or so

it

and is you come out of that state you

remember what happened while you were in

there

you will be able to see colors and

shapes and

different kinds of patterns and things

when you see them you 6r

and then your mind becomes exceptionally

calm

you might be able to sit for an hour

hour and a half two hours without

anything arising

as you get used to this state you will

start to see

very very subtle

links of dependent origination

by this time your six hours should be

automatic

your mind notices

contact

and as soon as it notices six hours and

i relax

and then you might see

mentality materiality arise and six are

that and relax

and then you see

very subtle

consciousness

arise

6r radar

when you let go of the formations there

are no more conditions

um

in other words

that is

you will get into a state that is called

the cessation of perception

feeling and consciousness

you will be in that state for a short

period of time two minutes five minutes

10 minutes like that

when you come out of that state

you will see how the links of dependent

origination arise

and how they cease

and when that last formation disappears

that is what i call the big o wow

when you come out of that state you will

be happy

because

a lot of people are too happy to do that

so i let you go for a little while then

i put you back to work

everything in buddhism has to do with

your understanding

and the way you truly understand is by

seeing it

exactly as it occurs

in english it's called knowledge and

knowledge and vision

that's why when you finally see

exactly how dependent origination works

you understand it

and then there is this huge release

okay

now we're talking about neither

perception nor non-perception

he emerged mindful from that attainment

having done so he observed the states

that had passed ceased and changed

so indeed these states not having been

come into being

having been they vanish

regarding those states he abided

unattracted

he didn't like the state and try to hold

on to it

and with the cultivation of that

attainment he confirmed that there is

course

again monks by completely surmounting

the base of neither perception or

non-perception

sorry

entered upon and abided in the cessation

of perception feeling and consciousness

and his distractions were

you remember at the start of this i said

anytime you hear the word

wise or wisdom in the buddhist

literature

it's talking about the links of

dependent origination

all craving all clinging

vanish

by his seeing exactly how it occurred

he recalled the states that had passed

ceased and changed

having been they

regarding those states he abided

unattracted unrepelled independent

detached free dissociated with a mind

rate of barriers

he understood there is no escape beyond

this

and with the cultivation of that

attainment

he confirmed that there is not

so

remember

to keep using the six r's because you

will use them all the way to the end

and nothing would make me happier than

to see this whole room experience this

is

is it possible

sorry did it in two weeks

right

okay

monk's rightly speaking word to be said

of anyone

he has attained mastery and perfection

in noble virtues

attain mastery and perfection in noble

collectedness

noble wisdom

attain mastery and perfection in noble

deliverance

born

and is kept rolling rightly by sariputta

sariputta is

that is what the blessed one said

the monks were satisfied and delighted

in the blessed ones

that

so i gave you all the keys you need to

get into nibbana

christopher

there's still a few more things i need

to talk about

but this

is definitely gives you an idea of where

you are

on the path

and what you need to do and what your

experiences will be

i have had students tell me

that what i'm saying about this is

exactly right

uh

so does anybody have any questions

now you know why this is my favorite

suitable

anybody

everybody's yeah

do you believe that our capacity is even

better than that

kenya

so you have to come to the next retreat

in swan

foreign

how long did it take doug when he got

there

that was less than 10 days

just let it alone let it alone it was

less than 10 days

yeah and we had we had

two other people that came and they were

there for nine days

very successful

but to be honest

i have to tell you they did a lot of

meditation with me before they did they

came

for that

foreign

you said that you gave us the key to

nibbana is that key

yes absolutely

that is the way

you have to understand even the links of

dependent origination

are

a

distraction

and when you

keep using the 6r and the distraction

gets smaller and smaller and smaller and

finally there is no more

that's when you attain nevada

it is a six hour

and we are talking about very subtle

states of mind where your awareness has

to be exceptionally

m

well in the course of meeting uh

when we leave when we forget about the

key

and forget about six hours what should

we

drown yourself

might as well just commit suicide

don't forget

that's the whole point um

showing you how to carry that with you

when you're walking from here to your

car

before you go to work

i'm showing you how to carry that with

you in many different ways

so that when you get off retreat you can

continue

meditation is not just about sitting

here meditation is all of life

and there will be times that you will

forget and you will get caught and you

will suffer

but the length of time that you suffer

gets to be less and less as you become

more

uh familiar with the six r's and you

start to use them more

and life

really begins to be fun

sometimes it makes my whole day when i

see a little child

that is crying

and i radiate meta to them

so you make other people happy when you

get happy

why do you think i tell you to smile all

the time

it reminds you it makes your mindfulness

sharper

me

um

something

may suffering ones be suffering free and

the fear struck fearless be

may the grieving shed all grief

and may all beings find relief

may all beings share this merit that

we've thus acquired for the acquisition

of all kinds of happiness

may beings inhabiting space and earth

devas and nagas of mighty power

share this merit of

they long ours the buddha's dispensation

you