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

good evening this is damasuke meditation

center banti vimala ramsay and he's

going to do a talk this evening

from the mijima nakaya suit number two

all the taints

and today is january the 20th

and it's 2011.

meditation center in missouri

thus if i heard on one occasion the

blessed one was living in sohoti and

jettison grove and then bendica's park

there he addressed the monks thus

monks venerable sir they replied the

blessed one said this

monks i shall teach you a discourse on

the restraint of all the paints

listen and attend closely to what i

shall say

yes venerable sir the monks replied the

blessed one said this

monks i say that the destruction of the

taints is for one who knows and sees

not for one who does not know and see

who knows and sees what

wise attention and unwise attention

what's the difference between wise

attention and unwise attention

why is it touching

what's unwise attention

unwise attention is

don't feel pressured it's okay

unwise attention is indifference

that's when you let your mind just take

off and

you say this or that

without

but with getting caught up and taking

what you're saying personally

when one attends unwisely on arizona

taints arise

and arizona taints increase

when one attends wisely honorism

taints do not arise and arisen taints

are abandoned

so what are we talking about

tanks hendersons

just focusing on the wrong word

practicing the

there are taints that should be

abandoned by

seeing

there are taints that should be

abandoned by

restraining

there are taints that should be

abandoned by using

there are taints that should be

abandoned by enduring

there are taints that should be

abandoned by avoiding

there are taints that should be

abandoned by removing

there are taints that should be

abandoned by developing

it taints to be abandoned by seeing what

taints monks should be abandoned by

seeing

here amongst an untaught ordinary person

who has no regard for the noble ones

and is unskilled and undisciplined in

their trauma

who has no regard for true men

and is unskilled and undisciplined in

their dhamma

does not understand what things are fit

for attention and what things are unfit

for attention

since that is so

he attends to those things unfit for

attention

and he does not attend to those things

fit for attention

what thinks

unfit for attention that he attends to

they are things such as when he attends

to them the honorizon taint of sensual

desire

arises in him the arisen taint of

sensual desire increases

the anarizing taint of

being arises in him

and the arisen taint of being increases

the honorizon taint of ignorance arises

in him

and the irritant taint of ignorance

increases

these are the things unfit for

unfit for attention to

that he attends to

so what are we talking about here

what do you have to do

let's talk about when you talk 6r

what happens when you don't succeed what

happens when your mindfulness is not

there

loss can arise or if it's in there it'll

get worse

absolutely

so

what we have to do is

be really careful

i'm a few clicks behind

and what are the things fit for

attention that he does not attend to

there are things such that when he

attends to them the unarisen taint of

sensual desire does not arise in him and

the arisen taint of sensual desire is

abandoned

the unarisen taint of being does not

rise within him

and the arisen taint of being is

abandoned

the honorizon taint of ignorance does

not arise in him

and the arisen taint of ignorance is

abandoned

these are the things fit for attention

that he does not attend to

by attending to such do things unfit for

attention and not attending to things

not attending to things fit for

attention

taints arise in him in a risen taints

increase

that is how he attends unwisely

i was in the past

or was i in the past was i not in the

past

what was i in the past how was i in the

past

having been what what did i become in

the past

shall i be in the future shall i not be

in the future what shall i be in the

future

how shall i be in the future

having been what what shall i become in

the future

or else he is inwardly perplexed about

the present am i

am i not

what am i how am i

where has this being come from where

will it go

when he had tense unwisely in this way

one of the six views arise in him

the view of so the view self exists for

me arises in him is true

or the view i perceive self with self

arises in him is true and established

or the view i perceive not self with

self

arises in him

as true and established

or the view i perceive self with not

self arises in him

you know

i've heard so many american dominant

talks

and this is talking directly at that

because they're so confused about what

yeah what like all of the ways that they

can get it wrong yeah yeah

it's it's also feels like it's going

through like all of western philosophy

yeah

well it's interesting before there was a

west

the whole thing with a lot of the

western

ideas is it's influenced by christianity

and christianity

there's nothing wrong with christianity

it just has a limited view

or perspective

of a being

and some people will say that when you

die you're going to go to heaven forever

that's an absurd thing to say

nothing is forever

and

they're in the new age community oh you

never die you always are around i mean

these are all views that are just

they were they were present during the

time of the buddha

but there's so much confusion especially

with the

the buddhists

that

they

tiptoe around anata as much as they

possibly can

see of self with not self arises him as

true and

established

yeah or else

he has some such view as this

it is the self of mind that speaks and

feels and per se and experiences here

and now the result

of good and bad actions

but this self of mine is permanent

that's the one that that's currently

everlasting eternal not subject to

change

and it will endure as long as eternity

with a little therapy it'll

come right in line

this speculated view

is called the thicket of views

the wilderness of views the contortion

of views

the vacillation of views the federal

views

fettered by the federal views the

untaught ordinary person is not freed

from birth aging and death from sorrow

and despair

he is not freed from suffering i say

monks a well-taught noble disciple who

has regard for noble ones is killed and

disciplined in their dhamma

who has regard for true men and is

skilled and disciplined in their gamma

understands what things are fit for

attention and what things are unfit for

attention

since that is so he does not attend to

those things unfit for attention

and attends to those things

fit for attention

those things unfit for attention he does

not attend to

why

six art

there are things such that when he

attends to them the honorizon taint of

sensual desire arises in him

and the uh arisen

taint of ignorance increases

these are the things unfit for attention

that he does not attend to

and what are the things fit for

attention that he attends to

there are things such that when he

attends to them the unarisen taint of

sensual desire does not arise in him

and the arisen taint of ignorance

is abandoned

these are the things for fit for

attention that he attends to

by not attending to things unfit for

attention and by attending to things fit

for attention

honorism taints do not arise in him

and the arisen taints are abandoned

so things fit for attention that don't

cause these other things to arise right

that's staying in the present moment not

getting caught up in in the

thicket of views

did they say trammel of views in there

yeah oh no

thicket of you wilderness of you

contortion of you vacillation of you

federer abused bettered by the federal

views

that's another book

yeah

see the worst thing that happens to

people is they believe that their mind

is them

and it's not

and

they believe that any concocted story

that arises

is that's their opinion

and they'll they'll defend it to the end

i mean it's pretty amazing

how does that belief happen

many many years of

past action without being attentive

they're shooting at your ex

don't tell him that

so

the whole thing comes down to when you

take the buddhist perspective of babies

the why

the want for things to

happen in a particular way all of these

things go out the window

all of those kind of desires those kind

of

intellectual games

when practiced

disappear

every thought that you have is a concept

what is a concept

concept is a chair where is the chair is

it the arms is it the legs is it the

seat is it the back

where is the chair

the chair is made up of a lot of little

things put together

to make up this concept

where's the body

i can show you 32 different parts is

that the body

i can i can show you how it rots and

disappears

is that the body

see everything is concepts

and the whole point of the buddhist

practice is to see

with wisdom's eye in other words see

what's happening in the present moment

without

graving and clinging

and when you see

that want for an inner child coming up

what is that

it's a feeling

and then there's craving about that

feeling i either like that feeling or i

don't like that feeling and then there's

all of your thoughts and opinions and

concepts

and then your emotional attachments

yeah it seems like there's those steps i

don't know that much about that

well they'll come don't worry

but when you

see a feeling arise

and you 6r right then

then that craving won't arise and if the

craving doesn't arise then the clinging

doesn't arise

that's how you purify your mind

you know

so a feeling arises

and then there's

thought

and there's craving i like it i don't

like it that's the tension and tightness

then the thoughts arise

by the time you six r is

this the thought always arisen or

you could six hours before the thought

you can six every door that thought

eventually

so the point is

this thing about the inner child

it's just putting more concepts on top

of concepts on top of concepts

in order not to have any concepts

and i'm sorry it doesn't work that way

in relationship to his training so far

this inner child has an excuse

yeah it's an excuse to continue he's

been looking for excuses since he

started practicing with me

he was

one of the interpreters

from from english to german

and when he got done with the retreat he

told me that

i'm not a buddhist i'm not anything i'm

a philosopher

and i said well that's the cause of a

lot of suffering

that means all you do is think about it

and you don't take part in life

and

the next time he came he was

oh i've been practicing i've been

teaching other people about the six

hours but he did in such a bizarre way

yeah

he's trying to be politically correct

like this other man that came

he tried to be politically correct i'm

sorry being politically correct doesn't

work you can't make everybody happy all

the time

there are i mean

you can't be politically correct and

criticize criticize someone for breaking

a precept

that's not politically correct we have

to accept that in that person well yeah

you can accept that in that person all

you want

but that doesn't help

them but when you point out you are

breaking the precept here it's good not

to do that

he couldn't accept the fact that

you can actually do that

couldn't accept it at all

so it's kind of a

bizarre position that doesn't have

anything to do with the reality of being

a buddhist

and

it really doesn't help

for this political correctness to be

here at this time all it does is

you you say you're politically correct

you've got to be able to say things so

that everybody will agree with you

i

i'm sorry i'm not going to do that

i'm never going to do that

because that's not the job of the

teacher to do that

the job of the teacher is to teach you

the right way

your job as a student is to practice and

see if it's right or not

but his the political correctness is

just another way of saying you're wrong

no matter what you do or say

and that's what political correctness is

i i just came back from asia i saw some

some chinese girls walking across the

street and i said oh there's some

orientals

i spent 12 years in asia that's what

they call themselves

and i was told that that's not

politically correct to say something

like that

and i said

but they call himself that

well for you you're you're not an

oriental so you can't call him an oreo

wow

that's when i got really fed up with

i i hadn't heard that expression before

the political correctness

when i left it wasn't there

when it came back it was and i've been

fighting it ever since

okay he attends wisely this is suffering

he attends wisely this is the origin of

suffering

he attends wisely this is a cessation of

suffering

he attends wisely this is the way

leading to the cessation of suffering

when he attends wisely in this way three

fetters are abandoned in him

personality view adherence

to rules and rights and rituals

and doubt

these are called the taints that should

be abandoned by seeing

so what we just said here this is a way

leading to the cessation of suffering

when he attends wisely to this way

three fetters are abandoned in other

words you become a sodapong

so i call the

first stage of awakening

taints to be abandoned by restraining

what taints

should be abandoned by restraining

here among reflecting wisely abides with

the i faculty restrained

well taints vexation and fever might not

arise in one who abides with the i

what is fever

like a fever fever

fever is craving

everything is burning

what is burning the eye is burning the

eye contact is burning paradise my forms

are burning

my consciousness is burning

eye contact is burning i feeling is

burning

what's it burning with

gravy

there are no taints vexation or fever

and one who abides with the eye faculty

restraint

no taints what does that mean

the

things you're just listing

no

sensual desire no

problem no being

no ignorance

those are the three things

what is ignorance

um belief in a

personal

no

that's delusion

ignorance is not

knowing and seeing how the four noble

truths actually work

what is vexation

bacon

well we

what is vexation or fixation vexation

fixation

confusion

yep

reflecting wisely he abides with the

year faculty restrained with the nose

faculty restrained with the tongue

faculty restrained with the body faculty

restrained

with the mind faculty restrained how do

you restrain

source

with paints well taints

vexation and fever might arise in one

who abides with the faculties

unrestrained

there are no taints vexation and or

fever and one who abide with faculties

restrained

these are called the taints that should

be abandoned by restraining

what should be abandoned by using

what tank should be abandoned by using

hair monks reflecting wisely using ropes

only for protection from cold

for protection from heat

for protection from contact with

gadflies mosquitoes wind sun

and creeping things

and only for the purpose of concealing

the private parts

reflecting wisely

he uses alms food neither for enjoyment

nor for intoxication nor for the sake of

physical beauty and attractiveness

but only for the endurance and

continuance of the body

for ending discomfort

and for assisting the holy life

considering

i shall terminate old feelings without

arising arousing new ones

and i shall be healthy and blameless and

shall live in comfort

reflecting wisely

he uses the resting place only for

protection from cold for protection from

heat

for protection from gadflies mosquitoes

wind and sun and creeping things

and only for the purpose of warding off

the perils of climate

for and for enjoying retreat

reflecting wisely he uses the medicinal

requisites only for protection

from arisen of of afflicting feelings

and for the benefit of good health

while taints fixation and fever might

arise in one who does not use the

requisites thus

these are there are no taints vexation

or fever in one who uses them thus

these are all the taints that should be

abandoned by using

so

in order to be alive you have to have

four things

really

and you have to have food

you have to have clothing although there

are some naked aesthetics they use dirt

as their clothing

they don't watch

abandoned means letting go of the

concern for and just using further just

using for the purpose of

whatever that purpose is

need a place to stay

you need to be undercover

if you just stay out in the open

there is one of the

do tonga practices

where monks can stay out in the open but

what they use for their shelter is their

rope

they hook it up

on

sticks

because you've got to get away from the

sun

you got to get away from the wind

so you try to

set it up in a place that you can do

that

so you need

cloth for clothing you need food for

eating

you need to have a place to stay in

so you can get out of

the way of

mosquitoes and that sort of thing get by

and you need medicine

it's amazing how many medicines come

your way

when you're a monk

he had to carry them all

and i didn't even get sick he got sick

the stuff i used to buy

so the taints connected with using those

being attached to them

i know one guy that

he

he dyed this rope

and

every other monk lusted after this rope

because it was a perfect color

so he was real proud because he

you know you go out strutting every day

that's so funny

well it's hard to make the robes a red

color

and one you you hit it about one out of

ten times

you have to die

okay

when you're in the forest use

jackfruit

bark

and some of the inner

inner bark

and you have to boil it for

well it's about a week

it's a major process yeah it sounds like

so

when when you do that and it comes out

perfect

i mean there's a lot of satisfaction

taints to be abandoned by enduring

and what taints

monks

should be abandoned by enduring here a

monk

distrust reflecting wisely bears cold

and heat

hunger and thirst

with

contact with

gadflies mosquitoes wind the sun and

creeping things he still endures

ill-spoken unwelcome words and

a risen bodily feeling

that are painful racking sharp piercing

disagreeable distressing and menacing to

life

in other words if you're going to be a

monk you got to be tough

and it's really true

people are keep trying to make

life so pleasant for for monks wherever

they go they were always trying to give

me more than i wanted give me more than

i needed make me more comfortable than i

could than it should have been

well taints fixation and fever might

arise in one who does not endure such

things there are no taints fixation or

fever and one who endures them

these are called taints that should be

abandoned by enduring

and it's tough to be around in a

malaria area

and get bit by mosquitoes

it's tough

have you had hillary no

i lived in a malaria i lived in malaria

areas but mosquitoes don't really like

me all that much

except

they like your ankles and your feet

at night

so i always covered my ankles and my

feet up with a piece of cloth

and i didn't have any problem

they'll bite right through socks

unless they're thick thick socks and you

don't want to wear thick socks in asia

so you just get a piece of cloth like

this

wrap it around your feet that's fine

tends to be abandoned by avoiding what

taint should be abandoned by avoiding

earmuck

here a monk reflecting wildly

avoids a wild elephant

a wild horse

a wild bull a wild dog a snake a stump a

bramble

a bramble patch a chasm a cliff a

cesspool a sewer

it's wise to avoid those things

reflecting wisely he avoids sitting and

unset upon unsuitable seats

wandering to unsuitable resorts and

associating with bad friends

since if he were to do so wise

companions and the holy life might

suspect him of evil conduct

while taints fixation and fever might

arise in one who does not avoid these

things

there are no taints of accession and

fever and one who avoids them

sometimes you can't help

but

you can't avoid

snakes

because they come around

you can't avoid dogs because they come

around do you know if it's a wild dog or

not

so

you try to avoid

as best you can because they cause your

mind to be

unstable because you get

over concerned about them

and speaking of mosquitoes and malaria i

did have one monk friend died from

malaria

malaria went up into his head

there was nothing they could do about it

these are called taints that should be

avoided by abandoning

abandoned by

avoiding excuse me

contains to be abandoned by removing

what taints monk should be abandoned by

removing here a monk reflecting wisely

does not tolerate

an arisen thought of central desire

he abandons it removes it does away with

it

six hours it

he does not tolerate an arisen thought

of ill will

um

may i ask a question yes

abandoning abandoning it you i mean i

understand that you're saying that's the

six hours is

does he explain

in what right effort he is yeah that's

right

often

he does not tolerate

an arisen thought of cruelty

he does not tolerate and arisen

evil unwholesome states

what are evil unwholesome states

evil and wholesome mistakes yes

craving someone said you break a precept

any of the any

distraction

of anything that you take personally is

an evil and wholesome state

i'd like to take the word evil out of

this yeah

he abandons them removes them does away

with them and

the six are them

while taints vexation and fever arise in

one who does not remove these thoughts

there are no taints fixation and fever

in one who removes them

these are called the taints that should

be abandoned by removing

what taint should be abandoned by

developing

here among reflecting wisely develops

the mindfulness awakening factor

which is supported by seclusion

dispassions and cessation and ripens in

relinquishment

he develops the investigation of

experience awakening factor

he develops the energy awakening factor

so the whole thing with energy

is you try too hard to make yourself

restless you don't try hard enough you

start humming and get dull

so you have to learn how to adjust

that's what the meditation part of it

really is about is learning how to

adjust

so that there can be

perfect balance in your mind

and you might have to adjust in one city

a few times

so

the hardest one

to adjust to is sloth and torpor

because you start getting sleepy and

dull

and then you notice that and you always

put too much energy in

and then that energy just kind of fades

away and then you go back to being

sleepy and dull again

you have to do it

little by little take an interest in how

the sloth interpreter arrives

how does it arise what happens first

what happens after that what happens

after that

when you start looking at how it arises

you start teaching yourself

about that hindrance

and you start to recognize when it

starts

and what you what a little amount of

energy that you need to take

energy means interest in your object of

meditation

so the more interest you use

staying with your spiritual friends

the easier the whole process becomes

the joy awakening factor the tranquility

awakening factor the collectedness

awaiting awakening factor the equinimity

awakening factor

which is supported by seclusion

dispassion and cessation and ripens and

relinquishment

while tate's vexation and favor might

arise in one who does not develop these

awakening factors

there are no taints vexation or fever in

one who develops them

these are called the taints that should

be abandoned by development

monks

went among

when for among the taints that should be

abandoned by seeing have been abandoned

by seeing

when the taints that should be abandoned

by resisting have been abandoned by

resisting

when the taints that should be abandoned

by using have been abandoned by using

when when the taints that should be

abandoned by enduring have been

abandoned by enduring

when the taints that should be abandoned

by avoiding have been abandoned by

avoiding

when the taints that should be abandoned

by removing have been abandoned by

removing

when the taints that should be abandoned

by development have been abandoned by

development

then he is called a monk who dwells

restraint with the restraint of all the

taints

he has

severed gravy flung off the fetters

and with the complete penetration of

conceit

he has made an end of

suffering that is what the blessed one

said the monks were satisfied in the

blessed one's words

i'm gonna put my glasses on here i

expect them to be here tomorrow

everyone

i don't think anybody's using your

glasses yeah i don't have no clue where

they went there did you take them

well things get moved around the camera

smile

that guy

so the whole point of the suta is to

show you the things that you need to

keep developing

what are the main things that you need

to keep developing

the six

six hours yeah

when you do that all the other things

fall into place

because you're letting go of the

unwholesome

you're relaxing and letting go of the

craving

you're bringing up the whole

all of these other

these other things will fall into place

when you keep 6r

that's one of the beauties about the

practice is it is very simple

six are

smile

laugh

everything else will answer itself

remember that hindrances are not

enemies to fight with

they're there

as your teacher they're showing you

where you're

what numbness

is that a hetero hindrance

like

you mean indifference

well like

i mean i guess it has to do because if i

had one question for you tonight it

would have been about kind of energy and

you kind of answered it about having

interest in your your friend

and

sometimes when i'm meditating i find it

hard to get in touch with that meta i

kind of i don't know there's two playing

in there

you're not smiling you know

but i feel like

i don't care

you're not smiling enough

you're being you're starting to take it

seriously when you start pushing to make

a feeling happen the way you think it

should

like the joy that happened this morning

that didn't happen for the rest of the

day

as you wanted it to happen right

it's hard to help

who wanted it to happen

i don't know

i wanted it to happen but there's no me

well that doesn't mean that there's not

a belief that you're there

what the belief is that

so the whole thing comes down to

making it into a game playing with it

instead of you you started getting a

little bit serious with it trying to

make it happen the way you died it

happened this way before i'll make it

that way again

it doesn't happen that way sorry yeah i

was trying not to do that

just

well there is no try

yoda was a very smart

there's either do or don't do there is

no try

still grief and the all beings find

relief

may all beings share in the spirit that

we thus acquired for the acquisition of

all kinds of happiness

made beings inhabiting space

livestock

you

good evening this is damasuke meditation

center banti vimala ramsay and he's

going to do a talk this evening

from the mijima nakaya suit number two

all the taints

and today is january the 20th

and it's 2011.

meditation center in missouri

thus if i heard on one occasion the

blessed one was living in sohoti and

jettison grove and then bendica's park

there he addressed the monks thus

monks venerable sir they replied the

blessed one said this

monks i shall teach you a discourse on

the restraint of all the paints

listen and attend closely to what i

shall say

yes venerable sir the monks replied the

blessed one said this

monks i say that the destruction of the

taints is for one who knows and sees

not for one who does not know and see

who knows and sees what

wise attention and unwise attention

what's the difference between wise

attention and unwise attention

why is it touching

what's unwise attention

unwise attention is

don't feel pressured it's okay

unwise attention is indifference

that's when you let your mind just take

off and

you say this or that

without

but with getting caught up and taking

what you're saying personally

when one attends unwisely on arizona

taints arise

and arizona taints increase

when one attends wisely honorism

taints do not arise and arisen taints

are abandoned

so what are we talking about

tanks hendersons

just focusing on the wrong word

practicing the

there are taints that should be

abandoned by

seeing

there are taints that should be

abandoned by

restraining

there are taints that should be

abandoned by using

there are taints that should be

abandoned by enduring

there are taints that should be

abandoned by avoiding

there are taints that should be

abandoned by removing

there are taints that should be

abandoned by developing

it taints to be abandoned by seeing what

taints monks should be abandoned by

seeing

here amongst an untaught ordinary person

who has no regard for the noble ones

and is unskilled and undisciplined in

their trauma

who has no regard for true men

and is unskilled and undisciplined in

their dhamma

does not understand what things are fit

for attention and what things are unfit

for attention

since that is so

he attends to those things unfit for

attention

and he does not attend to those things

fit for attention

what thinks

unfit for attention that he attends to

they are things such as when he attends

to them the honorizon taint of sensual

desire

arises in him the arisen taint of

sensual desire increases

the anarizing taint of

being arises in him

and the arisen taint of being increases

the honorizon taint of ignorance arises

in him

and the irritant taint of ignorance

increases

these are the things unfit for

unfit for attention to

that he attends to

so what are we talking about here

what do you have to do

let's talk about when you talk 6r

what happens when you don't succeed what

happens when your mindfulness is not

there

loss can arise or if it's in there it'll

get worse

absolutely

so

what we have to do is

be really careful

i'm a few clicks behind

and what are the things fit for

attention that he does not attend to

there are things such that when he

attends to them the unarisen taint of

sensual desire does not arise in him and

the arisen taint of sensual desire is

abandoned

the unarisen taint of being does not

rise within him

and the arisen taint of being is

abandoned

the honorizon taint of ignorance does

not arise in him

and the arisen taint of ignorance is

abandoned

these are the things fit for attention

that he does not attend to

by attending to such do things unfit for

attention and not attending to things

not attending to things fit for

attention

taints arise in him in a risen taints

increase

that is how he attends unwisely

i was in the past

or was i in the past was i not in the

past

what was i in the past how was i in the

past

having been what what did i become in

the past

shall i be in the future shall i not be

in the future what shall i be in the

future

how shall i be in the future

having been what what shall i become in

the future

or else he is inwardly perplexed about

the present am i

am i not

what am i how am i

where has this being come from where

will it go

when he had tense unwisely in this way

one of the six views arise in him

the view of so the view self exists for

me arises in him is true

or the view i perceive self with self

arises in him is true and established

or the view i perceive not self with

self

arises in him

as true and established

or the view i perceive self with not

self arises in him

you know

i've heard so many american dominant

talks

and this is talking directly at that

because they're so confused about what

yeah what like all of the ways that they

can get it wrong yeah yeah

it's it's also feels like it's going

through like all of western philosophy

yeah

well it's interesting before there was a

west

the whole thing with a lot of the

western

ideas is it's influenced by christianity

and christianity

there's nothing wrong with christianity

it just has a limited view

or perspective

of a being

and some people will say that when you

die you're going to go to heaven forever

that's an absurd thing to say

nothing is forever

and

they're in the new age community oh you

never die you always are around i mean

these are all views that are just

they were they were present during the

time of the buddha

but there's so much confusion especially

with the

the buddhists

that

they

tiptoe around anata as much as they

possibly can

see of self with not self arises him as

true and

established

yeah or else

he has some such view as this

it is the self of mind that speaks and

feels and per se and experiences here

and now the result

of good and bad actions

but this self of mine is permanent

that's the one that that's currently

everlasting eternal not subject to

change

and it will endure as long as eternity

with a little therapy it'll

come right in line

this speculated view

is called the thicket of views

the wilderness of views the contortion

of views

the vacillation of views the federal

views

fettered by the federal views the

untaught ordinary person is not freed

from birth aging and death from sorrow

and despair

he is not freed from suffering i say

monks a well-taught noble disciple who

has regard for noble ones is killed and

disciplined in their dhamma

who has regard for true men and is

skilled and disciplined in their gamma

understands what things are fit for

attention and what things are unfit for

attention

since that is so he does not attend to

those things unfit for attention

and attends to those things

fit for attention

those things unfit for attention he does

not attend to

why

six art

there are things such that when he

attends to them the honorizon taint of

sensual desire arises in him

and the uh arisen

taint of ignorance increases

these are the things unfit for attention

that he does not attend to

and what are the things fit for

attention that he attends to

there are things such that when he

attends to them the unarisen taint of

sensual desire does not arise in him

and the arisen taint of ignorance

is abandoned

these are the things for fit for

attention that he attends to

by not attending to things unfit for

attention and by attending to things fit

for attention

honorism taints do not arise in him

and the arisen taints are abandoned

so things fit for attention that don't

cause these other things to arise right

that's staying in the present moment not

getting caught up in in the

thicket of views

did they say trammel of views in there

yeah oh no

thicket of you wilderness of you

contortion of you vacillation of you

federer abused bettered by the federal

views

that's another book

yeah

see the worst thing that happens to

people is they believe that their mind

is them

and it's not

and

they believe that any concocted story

that arises

is that's their opinion

and they'll they'll defend it to the end

i mean it's pretty amazing

how does that belief happen

many many years of

past action without being attentive

they're shooting at your ex

don't tell him that

so

the whole thing comes down to when you

take the buddhist perspective of babies

the why

the want for things to

happen in a particular way all of these

things go out the window

all of those kind of desires those kind

of

intellectual games

when practiced

disappear

every thought that you have is a concept

what is a concept

concept is a chair where is the chair is

it the arms is it the legs is it the

seat is it the back

where is the chair

the chair is made up of a lot of little

things put together

to make up this concept

where's the body

i can show you 32 different parts is

that the body

i can i can show you how it rots and

disappears

is that the body

see everything is concepts

and the whole point of the buddhist

practice is to see

with wisdom's eye in other words see

what's happening in the present moment

without

graving and clinging

and when you see

that want for an inner child coming up

what is that

it's a feeling

and then there's craving about that

feeling i either like that feeling or i

don't like that feeling and then there's

all of your thoughts and opinions and

concepts

and then your emotional attachments

yeah it seems like there's those steps i

don't know that much about that

well they'll come don't worry

but when you

see a feeling arise

and you 6r right then

then that craving won't arise and if the

craving doesn't arise then the clinging

doesn't arise

that's how you purify your mind

you know

so a feeling arises

and then there's

thought

and there's craving i like it i don't

like it that's the tension and tightness

then the thoughts arise

by the time you six r is

this the thought always arisen or

you could six hours before the thought

you can six every door that thought

eventually

so the point is

this thing about the inner child

it's just putting more concepts on top

of concepts on top of concepts

in order not to have any concepts

and i'm sorry it doesn't work that way

in relationship to his training so far

this inner child has an excuse

yeah it's an excuse to continue he's

been looking for excuses since he

started practicing with me

he was

one of the interpreters

from from english to german

and when he got done with the retreat he

told me that

i'm not a buddhist i'm not anything i'm

a philosopher

and i said well that's the cause of a

lot of suffering

that means all you do is think about it

and you don't take part in life

and

the next time he came he was

oh i've been practicing i've been

teaching other people about the six

hours but he did in such a bizarre way

yeah

he's trying to be politically correct

like this other man that came

he tried to be politically correct i'm

sorry being politically correct doesn't

work you can't make everybody happy all

the time

there are i mean

you can't be politically correct and

criticize criticize someone for breaking

a precept

that's not politically correct we have

to accept that in that person well yeah

you can accept that in that person all

you want

but that doesn't help

them but when you point out you are

breaking the precept here it's good not

to do that

he couldn't accept the fact that

you can actually do that

couldn't accept it at all

so it's kind of a

bizarre position that doesn't have

anything to do with the reality of being

a buddhist

and

it really doesn't help

for this political correctness to be

here at this time all it does is

you you say you're politically correct

you've got to be able to say things so

that everybody will agree with you

i

i'm sorry i'm not going to do that

i'm never going to do that

because that's not the job of the

teacher to do that

the job of the teacher is to teach you

the right way

your job as a student is to practice and

see if it's right or not

but his the political correctness is

just another way of saying you're wrong

no matter what you do or say

and that's what political correctness is

i i just came back from asia i saw some

some chinese girls walking across the

street and i said oh there's some

orientals

i spent 12 years in asia that's what

they call themselves

and i was told that that's not

politically correct to say something

like that

and i said

but they call himself that

well for you you're you're not an

oriental so you can't call him an oreo

wow

that's when i got really fed up with

i i hadn't heard that expression before

the political correctness

when i left it wasn't there

when it came back it was and i've been

fighting it ever since

okay he attends wisely this is suffering

he attends wisely this is the origin of

suffering

he attends wisely this is a cessation of

suffering

he attends wisely this is the way

leading to the cessation of suffering

when he attends wisely in this way three

fetters are abandoned in him

personality view adherence

to rules and rights and rituals

and doubt

these are called the taints that should

be abandoned by seeing

so what we just said here this is a way

leading to the cessation of suffering

when he attends wisely to this way

three fetters are abandoned in other

words you become a sodapong

so i call the

first stage of awakening

taints to be abandoned by restraining

what taints

should be abandoned by restraining

here among reflecting wisely abides with

the i faculty restrained

well taints vexation and fever might not

arise in one who abides with the i

what is fever

like a fever fever

fever is craving

everything is burning

what is burning the eye is burning the

eye contact is burning paradise my forms

are burning

my consciousness is burning

eye contact is burning i feeling is

burning

what's it burning with

gravy

there are no taints vexation or fever

and one who abides with the eye faculty

restraint

no taints what does that mean

the

things you're just listing

no

sensual desire no

problem no being

no ignorance

those are the three things

what is ignorance

um belief in a

personal

no

that's delusion

ignorance is not

knowing and seeing how the four noble

truths actually work

what is vexation

bacon

well we

what is vexation or fixation vexation

fixation

confusion

yep

reflecting wisely he abides with the

year faculty restrained with the nose

faculty restrained with the tongue

faculty restrained with the body faculty

restrained

with the mind faculty restrained how do

you restrain

source

with paints well taints

vexation and fever might arise in one

who abides with the faculties

unrestrained

there are no taints vexation and or

fever and one who abide with faculties

restrained

these are called the taints that should

be abandoned by restraining

what should be abandoned by using

what tank should be abandoned by using

hair monks reflecting wisely using ropes

only for protection from cold

for protection from heat

for protection from contact with

gadflies mosquitoes wind sun

and creeping things

and only for the purpose of concealing

the private parts

reflecting wisely

he uses alms food neither for enjoyment

nor for intoxication nor for the sake of

physical beauty and attractiveness

but only for the endurance and

continuance of the body

for ending discomfort

and for assisting the holy life

considering

i shall terminate old feelings without

arising arousing new ones

and i shall be healthy and blameless and

shall live in comfort

reflecting wisely

he uses the resting place only for

protection from cold for protection from

heat

for protection from gadflies mosquitoes

wind and sun and creeping things

and only for the purpose of warding off

the perils of climate

for and for enjoying retreat

reflecting wisely he uses the medicinal

requisites only for protection

from arisen of of afflicting feelings

and for the benefit of good health

while taints fixation and fever might

arise in one who does not use the

requisites thus

these are there are no taints vexation

or fever in one who uses them thus

these are all the taints that should be

abandoned by using

so

in order to be alive you have to have

four things

really

and you have to have food

you have to have clothing although there

are some naked aesthetics they use dirt

as their clothing

they don't watch

abandoned means letting go of the

concern for and just using further just

using for the purpose of

whatever that purpose is

need a place to stay

you need to be undercover

if you just stay out in the open

there is one of the

do tonga practices

where monks can stay out in the open but

what they use for their shelter is their

rope

they hook it up

on

sticks

because you've got to get away from the

sun

you got to get away from the wind

so you try to

set it up in a place that you can do

that

so you need

cloth for clothing you need food for

eating

you need to have a place to stay in

so you can get out of

the way of

mosquitoes and that sort of thing get by

and you need medicine

it's amazing how many medicines come

your way

when you're a monk

he had to carry them all

and i didn't even get sick he got sick

the stuff i used to buy

so the taints connected with using those

being attached to them

i know one guy that

he

he dyed this rope

and

every other monk lusted after this rope

because it was a perfect color

so he was real proud because he

you know you go out strutting every day

that's so funny

well it's hard to make the robes a red

color

and one you you hit it about one out of

ten times

you have to die

okay

when you're in the forest use

jackfruit

bark

and some of the inner

inner bark

and you have to boil it for

well it's about a week

it's a major process yeah it sounds like

so

when when you do that and it comes out

perfect

i mean there's a lot of satisfaction

taints to be abandoned by enduring

and what taints

monks

should be abandoned by enduring here a

monk

distrust reflecting wisely bears cold

and heat

hunger and thirst

with

contact with

gadflies mosquitoes wind the sun and

creeping things he still endures

ill-spoken unwelcome words and

a risen bodily feeling

that are painful racking sharp piercing

disagreeable distressing and menacing to

life

in other words if you're going to be a

monk you got to be tough

and it's really true

people are keep trying to make

life so pleasant for for monks wherever

they go they were always trying to give

me more than i wanted give me more than

i needed make me more comfortable than i

could than it should have been

well taints fixation and fever might

arise in one who does not endure such

things there are no taints fixation or

fever and one who endures them

these are called taints that should be

abandoned by enduring

and it's tough to be around in a

malaria area

and get bit by mosquitoes

it's tough

have you had hillary no

i lived in a malaria i lived in malaria

areas but mosquitoes don't really like

me all that much

except

they like your ankles and your feet

at night

so i always covered my ankles and my

feet up with a piece of cloth

and i didn't have any problem

they'll bite right through socks

unless they're thick thick socks and you

don't want to wear thick socks in asia

so you just get a piece of cloth like

this

wrap it around your feet that's fine

tends to be abandoned by avoiding what

taint should be abandoned by avoiding

earmuck

here a monk reflecting wildly

avoids a wild elephant

a wild horse

a wild bull a wild dog a snake a stump a

bramble

a bramble patch a chasm a cliff a

cesspool a sewer

it's wise to avoid those things

reflecting wisely he avoids sitting and

unset upon unsuitable seats

wandering to unsuitable resorts and

associating with bad friends

since if he were to do so wise

companions and the holy life might

suspect him of evil conduct

while taints fixation and fever might

arise in one who does not avoid these

things

there are no taints of accession and

fever and one who avoids them

sometimes you can't help

but

you can't avoid

snakes

because they come around

you can't avoid dogs because they come

around do you know if it's a wild dog or

not

so

you try to avoid

as best you can because they cause your

mind to be

unstable because you get

over concerned about them

and speaking of mosquitoes and malaria i

did have one monk friend died from

malaria

malaria went up into his head

there was nothing they could do about it

these are called taints that should be

avoided by abandoning

abandoned by

avoiding excuse me

contains to be abandoned by removing

what taints monk should be abandoned by

removing here a monk reflecting wisely

does not tolerate

an arisen thought of central desire

he abandons it removes it does away with

it

six hours it

he does not tolerate an arisen thought

of ill will

um

may i ask a question yes

abandoning abandoning it you i mean i

understand that you're saying that's the

six hours is

does he explain

in what right effort he is yeah that's

right

often

he does not tolerate

an arisen thought of cruelty

he does not tolerate and arisen

evil unwholesome states

what are evil unwholesome states

evil and wholesome mistakes yes

craving someone said you break a precept

any of the any

distraction

of anything that you take personally is

an evil and wholesome state

i'd like to take the word evil out of

this yeah

he abandons them removes them does away

with them and

the six are them

while taints vexation and fever arise in

one who does not remove these thoughts

there are no taints fixation and fever

in one who removes them

these are called the taints that should

be abandoned by removing

what taint should be abandoned by

developing

here among reflecting wisely develops

the mindfulness awakening factor

which is supported by seclusion

dispassions and cessation and ripens in

relinquishment

he develops the investigation of

experience awakening factor

he develops the energy awakening factor

so the whole thing with energy

is you try too hard to make yourself

restless you don't try hard enough you

start humming and get dull

so you have to learn how to adjust

that's what the meditation part of it

really is about is learning how to

adjust

so that there can be

perfect balance in your mind

and you might have to adjust in one city

a few times

so

the hardest one

to adjust to is sloth and torpor

because you start getting sleepy and

dull

and then you notice that and you always

put too much energy in

and then that energy just kind of fades

away and then you go back to being

sleepy and dull again

you have to do it

little by little take an interest in how

the sloth interpreter arrives

how does it arise what happens first

what happens after that what happens

after that

when you start looking at how it arises

you start teaching yourself

about that hindrance

and you start to recognize when it

starts

and what you what a little amount of

energy that you need to take

energy means interest in your object of

meditation

so the more interest you use

staying with your spiritual friends

the easier the whole process becomes

the joy awakening factor the tranquility

awakening factor the collectedness

awaiting awakening factor the equinimity

awakening factor

which is supported by seclusion

dispassion and cessation and ripens and

relinquishment

while tate's vexation and favor might

arise in one who does not develop these

awakening factors

there are no taints vexation or fever in

one who develops them

these are called the taints that should

be abandoned by development

monks

went among

when for among the taints that should be

abandoned by seeing have been abandoned

by seeing

when the taints that should be abandoned

by resisting have been abandoned by

resisting

when the taints that should be abandoned

by using have been abandoned by using

when when the taints that should be

abandoned by enduring have been

abandoned by enduring

when the taints that should be abandoned

by avoiding have been abandoned by

avoiding

when the taints that should be abandoned

by removing have been abandoned by

removing

when the taints that should be abandoned

by development have been abandoned by

development

then he is called a monk who dwells

restraint with the restraint of all the

taints

he has

severed gravy flung off the fetters

and with the complete penetration of

conceit

he has made an end of

suffering that is what the blessed one

said the monks were satisfied in the

blessed one's words

i'm gonna put my glasses on here i

expect them to be here tomorrow

everyone

i don't think anybody's using your

glasses yeah i don't have no clue where

they went there did you take them

well things get moved around the camera

smile

that guy

so the whole point of the suta is to

show you the things that you need to

keep developing

what are the main things that you need

to keep developing

the six

six hours yeah

when you do that all the other things

fall into place

because you're letting go of the

unwholesome

you're relaxing and letting go of the

craving

you're bringing up the whole

all of these other

these other things will fall into place

when you keep 6r

that's one of the beauties about the

practice is it is very simple

six are

smile

laugh

everything else will answer itself

remember that hindrances are not

enemies to fight with

they're there

as your teacher they're showing you

where you're

what numbness

is that a hetero hindrance

like

you mean indifference

well like

i mean i guess it has to do because if i

had one question for you tonight it

would have been about kind of energy and

you kind of answered it about having

interest in your your friend

and

sometimes when i'm meditating i find it

hard to get in touch with that meta i

kind of i don't know there's two playing

in there

you're not smiling you know

but i feel like

i don't care

you're not smiling enough

you're being you're starting to take it

seriously when you start pushing to make

a feeling happen the way you think it

should

like the joy that happened this morning

that didn't happen for the rest of the

day

as you wanted it to happen right

it's hard to help

who wanted it to happen

i don't know

i wanted it to happen but there's no me

well that doesn't mean that there's not

a belief that you're there

what the belief is that

so the whole thing comes down to

making it into a game playing with it

instead of you you started getting a

little bit serious with it trying to

make it happen the way you died it

happened this way before i'll make it

that way again

it doesn't happen that way sorry yeah i

was trying not to do that

just

well there is no try

yoda was a very smart

there's either do or don't do there is

no try

still grief and the all beings find

relief

may all beings share in the spirit that

we thus acquired for the acquisition of

all kinds of happiness

made beings inhabiting space

livestock

you