Ajahn Amaro : Dhamma Talk with Q&A #10 

Grateful to Ven.Ajahn Amaro for sermon on Dhamma in daily life in very simple but lucid language for lay people like me.

Thank you Ajahn! That’s how I feel about Amaravati. That place is very peaceful and gives us something more beneficial than any of the economy growth -driven individuals can imagine. We learn how to be happy, forgiving and giving, thank you for being so open-minded and loving 🙏

Attended Amaravati when Ajan Sumedo was Abbott.This teacher is good!

Dudes who had the gumption to join the Sangha and keep the Sila vows and live the life...hats off... inspirational.

Wise and cheeky at the same time, Anumodana dear teacher! :)

Glad I stumbled upon this. Great stuff! Satu Satu Satu 🙏.

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Today i will talk about new way to contemplate walking meditation. How these methods improve concentration, remove concept ideas, and brings calm to the mind and making one become more skillful in the journey into knowing this mind and body. Lets begin: Thinking are the cause of sufferrings. Although before anyone can become enlighted, thinking will be the one doing the meditation job initially. As gradually our meditation progress we sees that thinking become the greatest hindrance and that we have to scale it down to smaller and yet improve our meditation experience. Now from thinking to knowing. Knowing the insight within this phantom body and mind. Consisting of meditation awareness in object like physical body and its feelings, pain, the bidy abd mind synchronisation characteristics, when is thinking, when is in knowing the thoughts(mental perception and mental fabrication), when it is in concious of the object, touching, thinking, rising, falling, itching, right left (when walking comprehension) and left leg become right and right leg become left (changing the mind from being in conceptual state) standing as standing and when walk at slightly faster speed mind contemplate right, left, then left become as you continue to walk the mind keep focus on this right(training the mind to rule out concept) gradually to just do away with concept again. After some time you begin to change the right and left leg to just become walking(when right leg stretch you say walking) when left leg stretch you say walking. So this mean you stop saying right and left in your mind and replace it with walking only. So your mind just note your walking meditation become Walking,walking, walking and in between the walking you can add in Thinking, thinking thinking, (while you walk) thinking(irregular if you are walking though your leg that do the walking is right or left your mind just say thinking, thinking, thinking(right and left become thinking comprehention) Once you practice in this way for some length of time, you begin to train the mind to adapt and incline to do away with concept and by following these instructions, you will begin to realize that the mind truely begin to become more stable and calm and as you keep on day in and day out practice in this way, your meditation begins to show progress. Once after you have practice in this way, you will also notice your walking at time you need to stop to stand still. This stand still type of meditation, i will try to write it again in our next meditation instruction discussion. For the main time, please practice the way i have instructed so you can progress faster. Patience are highly required while practicing and allow time to get use to this meditation instructions that i have master that can calm the mind. BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

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