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

now the last factor of the fold path is

called rate concentration and I've never

liked that word because it's misleading

and an awful lot of people will talk

about absorption and the Buddha didn't

practice absorption well he did practice

it when he first started out as a

bodhisattva but he didn't teach

absorption concentration

he taught serenity he taught

collectiveness of mine now if you look

up the definition of collectiveness it

says that there's calm composed still

and that's a good definition so I call

it harmonious collectiveness

the word in Pali is Samadhi Samadhi is a

word that was made up by the Buddha it

was never used before the time of the

Buddha he made that word up there were a

lot of words to describe absorption

extreme one-pointedness but he made up

the word Samadhi to mean a different

kind of concentration not an absorption

kind of concentration the kind of

concentration that he was talking about

is the collectiveness when people

practice one pointed concentration their

mind is under object of meditation and

it gets stuck on the object of

meditation now if there's a distraction

they let go of the distraction and

immediately come back to your object of

meditation they are bringing that

craving back to the object of meditation

and through a lot of hard practice you

can get into the jhanas the absorption

jaundice but your mind just stays on one

thing it's not aware of things around it

it doesn't see how Maya's attention

moves it just stays on one thing and

when it does that the force of the

concentration stops hindrances from

arising and you've heard me talk a lot

about how the hindrances are important

the entrances are a necessary part of

the practice because that's where your

attachment is you have to be able to see

them and

then go not force them to stop because

your concentration is so strong when you

add that extra step of relax your mind

will not go all the way to an absorption

state it will go into a jhana but we

like to call this kind of Jonah and

aware Jonah because you be your being

the Jonah for a little while and it's

real pleasant if your mind is very

stable and your mindfulness for whatever

reason becomes weak then you have a

hindrance that you have to work with the

hindrance comes up now you got to work

with this image letting it go relaxing

coming back to your object of meditation

and you bounce back and forth with that

until that entrance gets so weak that it

doesn't come up anymore and then you'll

go deeper you'll go into from the from

the third jhana into the fourth jhana or

from the fourth jhana into the first

Aruba jhana the hindrances help you to

sharpen your mindfulness but when you're

practicing one pointed concentration

that suppresses the hindrances that

stops the hindrances from arising and

another thing that it does is when you

get out of your meditation and start

walking around you get attacked by the

hindrances you get your discipline

dislike and dissatisfaction and critical

mind and all of these other things you

get them arising but you don't really

recognize it as a hindrance because

you're not used to seeing but when

you're doing this aware jhana

you are being able to recognize

hindrances in your daily life when they

come up

and then you can start 6rn and letting

it go it works really really well

this Eightfold Path is truly remarkable

it's really something you don't have to

know all of the factors of the full path

and when you smile you're practicing all

of the factors of the old path at that

time when you six are something you're

practicing all of the factors of the

full path at that time so this practice

is really it's a basic practice but it's

the one that the Buddha chose to teach

everybody anytime you can let go of your

your time how you're craving every time

you let go of that your mind becomes

pure your mind becomes alert and you

bring that mind back to your object of

meditation so you're bringing this pure

mind back to your object of meditation

your progress and the meditation is fast

because you're not having to work with

pushing down or pushing away the craving

and trying to stop it from coming up for

a brief moment you're learning how to

truly let go of the craving and that's

the cause of suffering

until you get to the cessation of

perception and feeling and then the

practice just kind of takes over by

itself when you come back out of the

cessation of perception and feeling you

will see the links of dependent

origination how they arise and how they

cease and when there is the last letting

go of ignorance

you will experience Nirvana that's how

it works you're letting go of every link

of dependent origination until there's

nothing more to let go of and you go

into an unconditioned State because

you've let go of all conditions you let

them go you've seen them the way they

truly are and this brings true

personality training so that you can let

go of a belief in a personal self you

can let go of an idea that rites and

rituals are going to take you to Nevada

you can let go of all of your doubt

because there's no more doubt you could

you have that experience there is not a

doubt in your mind they that's right now

depending how deep you go it depends on

what stage of of enlightenment occurs

for you and this is all personal stuff I

can't tell you well you're gonna be a

soda bun and you're gonna be a non egami

I don't know it depends on whether you

have something left or not and your

merit it depends on you

you

now the last factor of the fold path is

called rate concentration and I've never

liked that word because it's misleading

and an awful lot of people will talk

about absorption and the Buddha didn't

practice absorption well he did practice

it when he first started out as a

bodhisattva but he didn't teach

absorption concentration

he taught serenity he taught

collectiveness of mine now if you look

up the definition of collectiveness it

says that there's calm composed still

and that's a good definition so I call

it harmonious collectiveness

the word in Pali is Samadhi Samadhi is a

word that was made up by the Buddha it

was never used before the time of the

Buddha he made that word up there were a

lot of words to describe absorption

extreme one-pointedness but he made up

the word Samadhi to mean a different

kind of concentration not an absorption

kind of concentration the kind of

concentration that he was talking about

is the collectiveness when people

practice one pointed concentration their

mind is under object of meditation and

it gets stuck on the object of

meditation now if there's a distraction

they let go of the distraction and

immediately come back to your object of

meditation they are bringing that

craving back to the object of meditation

and through a lot of hard practice you

can get into the jhanas the absorption

jaundice but your mind just stays on one

thing it's not aware of things around it

it doesn't see how Maya's attention

moves it just stays on one thing and

when it does that the force of the

concentration stops hindrances from

arising and you've heard me talk a lot

about how the hindrances are important

the entrances are a necessary part of

the practice because that's where your

attachment is you have to be able to see

them and

then go not force them to stop because

your concentration is so strong when you

add that extra step of relax your mind

will not go all the way to an absorption

state it will go into a jhana but we

like to call this kind of Jonah and

aware Jonah because you be your being

the Jonah for a little while and it's

real pleasant if your mind is very

stable and your mindfulness for whatever

reason becomes weak then you have a

hindrance that you have to work with the

hindrance comes up now you got to work

with this image letting it go relaxing

coming back to your object of meditation

and you bounce back and forth with that

until that entrance gets so weak that it

doesn't come up anymore and then you'll

go deeper you'll go into from the from

the third jhana into the fourth jhana or

from the fourth jhana into the first

Aruba jhana the hindrances help you to

sharpen your mindfulness but when you're

practicing one pointed concentration

that suppresses the hindrances that

stops the hindrances from arising and

another thing that it does is when you

get out of your meditation and start

walking around you get attacked by the

hindrances you get your discipline

dislike and dissatisfaction and critical

mind and all of these other things you

get them arising but you don't really

recognize it as a hindrance because

you're not used to seeing but when

you're doing this aware jhana

you are being able to recognize

hindrances in your daily life when they

come up

and then you can start 6rn and letting

it go it works really really well

this Eightfold Path is truly remarkable

it's really something you don't have to

know all of the factors of the full path

and when you smile you're practicing all

of the factors of the old path at that

time when you six are something you're

practicing all of the factors of the

full path at that time so this practice

is really it's a basic practice but it's

the one that the Buddha chose to teach

everybody anytime you can let go of your

your time how you're craving every time

you let go of that your mind becomes

pure your mind becomes alert and you

bring that mind back to your object of

meditation so you're bringing this pure

mind back to your object of meditation

your progress and the meditation is fast

because you're not having to work with

pushing down or pushing away the craving

and trying to stop it from coming up for

a brief moment you're learning how to

truly let go of the craving and that's

the cause of suffering

until you get to the cessation of

perception and feeling and then the

practice just kind of takes over by

itself when you come back out of the

cessation of perception and feeling you

will see the links of dependent

origination how they arise and how they

cease and when there is the last letting

go of ignorance

you will experience Nirvana that's how

it works you're letting go of every link

of dependent origination until there's

nothing more to let go of and you go

into an unconditioned State because

you've let go of all conditions you let

them go you've seen them the way they

truly are and this brings true

personality training so that you can let

go of a belief in a personal self you

can let go of an idea that rites and

rituals are going to take you to Nevada

you can let go of all of your doubt

because there's no more doubt you could

you have that experience there is not a

doubt in your mind they that's right now

depending how deep you go it depends on

what stage of of enlightenment occurs

for you and this is all personal stuff I

can't tell you well you're gonna be a

soda bun and you're gonna be a non egami

I don't know it depends on whether you

have something left or not and your

merit it depends on you

you