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This is the Path | The Sangha US #37 | 5.6.22


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The Sangha discuss wakefulness, sleep, and consciousness as an object of meditation, mindfulness as profound contact, nibbāna, knowledge and vision of what is and is not the Path, the fantasy of enlightenment as an incentive for practice, and delight in practice and in the Dhamma. #enlightenment #sleep #saddha 

Majjhima Nikāya 2

Sabbāsavasutta - All the Defilements
https://suttacentral.net/mn2/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin (Bhikkhu Sujato)
https://suttacentral.net/mn2/en/bodhi?reference=none&highlight=false (Bhikkhu Bodhi)
https://suttacentral.net/mn1/en/suddhaso?reference=none&highlight=false (Suddhāso Bhikkhu)

The diverse problems of the spiritual journey demand a diverse range of responses. Rather than applying the same solution to every problem, the Buddha outlines seven methods of dealing with defilements, each of which works in certain cases.

“I am the way, the truth, and the life”

https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/John%2014:6

“I and the Father are one”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2010%3A30-38&version=NIV

Illegitimi non carborundum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum

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00:00:00 Learning about doing meditation vs. doing meditation; skill development

00:11:10 Samādhi as outcome of the Noble Eightfold Path and the jhānas 
00:13:55 Piti and relaxation; staying awake during the night; wakefulness training (MN 2)
00:39:19 Consciousness as an object of meditation; experiment with your own body
00:52:27 A new way of thinking about going to bed
00:56:32 Mindfulness of swimming; golf; zen and the art of archery
01:02:15 Profound contact vs. noting or thinking about meditation; frustration with Mahasi
01:06:11 Sati vs. concentration practice; Western meditation is a set of incorrect translations
01:09:41 Nibbāna is something you make; cessation vs. everything is relative; the quality of success
01:14:34 Elimination of doubt: knowledge and vision that this is the path
01:16:12 “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6); the magic of life; illegitimi non carborundum
01:21:50 Delight in the practice; utility in the fantasy of enlightenment 
01:29:00 Hindrances as melting snowflakes

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