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5. DoubtHiriiri-ottappaottappa: Moral shame and Fear of kammic consequences – known as the “twin guardians of theworld”.Iddhipādada, The Four:1. Chanda samādhi – concentration of intention accompanied by effort of will.2. Viriya samādhi – concentration of energy, effort.3. Citta samādhi – concentration of consciousness.4. Vīmasa samādhi – concentration of investigation accompanied by effort of will.Indriyas, The Five:The control or rule one exercises over one’s mind.1. Saddhā, faith2. Viriya, energy3. Sati, mindfulness4. Samādhi, concentration5. Paññā, wisdomJhānasnas: The deep meditation states of letting go.Kamma: Action, or activity created by volitionKāma: Pleasure; lust; enjoyment; an object of sensual enjoyment.Khandhas - Aggregates: The 5 groups into which the Buddha has summed up all the physical andmental phenomena of existence (modified from “Buddhist Dictionary”). That is:1. body, rūpa;2. feeling, vedanā;3. perception, saññā;4. mental formations, sakhāras;5. and consciousness, viññāa.Kruba Ajahn: Meditation masters in the Thai ‘Forest Tradition’.Mārara: Literally, ‘the killer’; often called ‘the Evil One’, is a tempter figure who seeks to keep beingsbound to the round of rebirth.Mullah Nasrudin: Is a favourite character in stories throughout all of the Middle East. Children inAfghanistan hear Mullah Nasrudin stories just as Western children hear Mother Goose rhymes andfolktales. Many of the stories teach a lesson while others are just funny.Noble Truths, The FourThe truth of:1. Suffering;2. The cause of suffering;3. The cessation of suffering;4. The path leading to the cessation of suffering.Nibbānana: Literally; “Extinction” (as in the going out of a flame). The supreme goal for Buddhists – itis the destruction of greed, hatred, and delusion – thus, the end of all suffering.Nimmitta: A sign, characteristic. In the context of Buddhist meditation, a mental sign.Nirodha: Cessation, as in dukkha-nirodha, the cessation of suffering, the Third Noble Truth.Pāli: Language of Indian origin, related to Sanskrit, in which the Lord Buddha’s original teachings arerecorded (Pāli Canon), at first orally and later in writing.Pātimokkha: A collection of precepts contained in the Vinaya.319
Painissagga: “Letting go”, abandoning.Pītisukha: Joy and happiness born of letting go. Factors of the first two Jhānas.Precepts, The Five:Undertaking the rule of training to refrain from:1. Killing living creatures.2. Taking what is not given.3. Sexual misconduct.4. Wrong speech.5. Intoxicants and drugs which cloud the mind.Puthujjana: Ordinary person, in the sense of not having yet penetrated the Four Noble Truths andattained one of the four stages of Enlightenment – as opposed to the Ariyan.Reflections of a Monk, The Ten:1. I have entered upon a classless condition.2. My life is dependent on the generosity of others.3. My conduct must be different from that of a householder.4. Do I reproach myself in regard to virtue?5. Do my wise fellow monks reproach me in regard to virtue?6. I must be separated and parted from all that is dear and beloved to me.7. I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions …8. How do I spend my days and nights?9. Do I delight in empty huts?10. If I am questioned by my fellow monks at the time of my death shall I be dismayed?Rūpaloka: Literally: “world of form.” It is comprised of the realms which correspond to thefour jhānas. One of the three worlds (tiloka).Samatha: Calming. Often refers to meditational techniques whose end result is jhāna.Samādhidhi: Sustained attention on one thing.Sasāra: The round of rebirth (Literally: ‘wandering on’).Saghagha: The community of ordained disciples of the Lord Buddha. The third of the Three Refuges forall Buddhists.Sakadāgāmī: A Once Returner, or second stage of Enlightenment.Satipahānana: Focuses of Mindfulness. There are four: body, feeling, mind, and mind objects.Seven Factors of Enlightenment:1. Mindfulness,2. Investigation,3. Energy,4. Rapture,5. Tranquillity,6. Concentration,7. Equanimity.Sotāpannapanna: Stream Winner, the first stage of Enlightenment. One guaranteed to attain FullEnlightenment within seven lifetimes at most.Sutta: Discourse of the Lord Buddha, or one of his chief disciples, as recorded in the Pāli Canon.Tathāgatagata: One who has gone so; the Enlightened One.320
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Simply ThisMoment!A COLLECTION OF T
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CONTENTSPage1 Ways and Means into J
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This gives one great insights into
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ūpaloka, even though we are only a
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too much body-awareness. With body-
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and thoughts - apart from the exper
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faculty of the mind to sustain and
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- and this is a natural phenomena -
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involved I stress the word ‘fully
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though he was a Noble disciple pass
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Anyone who claims the experience of
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Sometimes people have so little con
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the shelf and we know how this whol
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The Delusion of Freedom‘That whic
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monk telling me once that his fathe
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say that in the Anupada Sutta (MN 1
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it’s been still for a long time,
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3 DETOXIFYING THE MIND2 nd of Febru
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consciousness - or as I would prefe
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is letting go of the pleasures of t
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never overcome thirst in that way.
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Use the triple practice of sãla, s
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after another, hundreds, thousands
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much fire in their minds. This is w
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4 LOOKING FOR THE SWEET CHILLISeeki
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Listening to fine music. Is this it
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freedom is not freedom at all becau
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We have a story in Buddhism of the
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This is real contentment! This is r
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Watch this inner conversation going
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monastic life does respect the sile
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delusion because it has kept us goi
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This is the opposite of suffering.
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ight view. It’s very hard for a h
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always be on the wrong path, and on
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“Look, if this is causing sufferi
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out of control. The monastery goes
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the past and the future, and we’r
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at all. Who can trust memory? In me
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can. Give it full attention every m
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in the morning, afternoon or evenin
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yourself from all that’s happened
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mutti is releasing and anālaya is
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instructions without question.It’
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comes into the mind, then we start
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hold in the mind’s eye and I was
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of letting go, not stages of attach
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Sayutta there is something that imp
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pushes you out of sasāra whether y
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7 DHAMMA PRACTICE10 th May 2000I’
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Adult people look after their own k
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many people in the world who write
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What if you make that your goal, an
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things really complicated. It’s s
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‘The monks here, or the teacher,
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and surrender to the path. Surrende
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8 HUMAN RIGHTS IN BUDDHISMDhammalok
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doesn’t really have any meaning o
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These things are not freedoms, they
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told me in Malaysia and Singapore t
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When Jerusalem fell in 70AD, becaus
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To question is a right for people.
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embarrassed by my fellow Buddhists.
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many countries between laws which a
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It’s a very narrow truth. The tru
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guilty you have to be punished! You
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the Zendo - but the more you smile
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Having planed off the rough parts,
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got the flu and cancelled your appo
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I was taught to choose to watch the
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From Diversity to UnityMeditation i
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usually if someone is dead they wou
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There are other cases like that. On
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10 CONDITIONED REALITYDhammaloka Bu
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The Buddha very clearly outlined th
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even your bare perception is alread
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way, there has to be some other exp
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Seeing Truth and RealityI want part
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talked with one of the people - who
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was able to follow to get into deep
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ideas are not actually the true Nib
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that the air around it is not movin
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and find out what that pain really
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mantras, all words of instructions,
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just observing. Surely the thinking
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without valuing, without weighing o
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so difficult to attain. It is becau
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12 REFLECTIONS THAT ARE CONDUCIVETO
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the mind, and that’s the jhānas.
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need the calm which is developed by
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can try it with virāga.VirāgaPeop
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with all of its difficulties and al
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clinging stops us from experiencing
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the thirteenth giving up the critic
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from peace. The will ‘to be’ is
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the future, to fantasies, to the pa
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taught here. Going into the present
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that the core of all this is ‘emp
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14 STARVING THE TIGER TO DEATHOverc
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inappropriate for a monk to be doin
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When a person really understands wh
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getting angry and upset. This way y
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You will find simplicity means that
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use them to make progress in your m
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By developing seclusion from all th
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People in the world say everything
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15 THE LAW OF CONDITIONALITY3 rd Ja
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elate that sort of smell to a very
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When you start to see the will ceas
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up. You see that anger is not the c
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Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be a
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Once you can see this whole cause a
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whether you like it or not. So you
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anymore than you can break the laws
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is the barrier of the five hindranc
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experiences, resting on them, based
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attention to the sensory world, we
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Instead of having kāmacchanda we h
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distraction of ill-will? Outside, w
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Sloth and TorporSloth and torpor ar
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wherever you want mind, I’m compl
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Wherever there’s thinking, it goe
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17 I KNOW YOU MĀRA25 th August 200
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“Come on, who do you think you ar
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you don’t have a clue, that so ma
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unfolding. In fact, the more you le
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they’ve got into that habit. What
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As the Buddha said in the Indriya S
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about anything because worrying is
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seeing clearly. Sometimes people ge
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There is just so much happiness. Th
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see so much detail. It was always t
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