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01 Meditation Panel Preface.indd - United Nations Day of Vesak 2013

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piness during practicing vipassan but after doing, you can reect how happy you were in such state;<br />

but during samatha, you can feel bliss and purication in your mind at the very moment <strong>of</strong> meditation.<br />

“Life is suffering,” <strong>of</strong> course - every Buddhist knows and remembers this truth verbally.<br />

Well-sharpened and stable concentration will rst make you experience happiness. The bliss and<br />

purication <strong>of</strong> mind will encourage and motivate you to practice so that you can prolong this blissful<br />

state more and more through meditation improvement. The happiness from samatha never escapes<br />

from the realities <strong>of</strong> the world. After you maintain the stable and undistracted mind deepened through<br />

samdhi, nally the mind will be ready to see suffering and two other lakkhanas culminate to<br />

the nal liberation. Therefore, the practice <strong>of</strong> samatha through npnasati meditation <strong>of</strong>fers<br />

a sequence <strong>of</strong> progressive improvements in our daily life in parallel with vipassan training.<br />

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