Ajahn Brahmali gives a 50-minute talk on the process by which meditation happens, exploring the three key qualities namely letting go, enjoyment, and mindfulness with a particular focus on letting go as the foundational quality that allows the others to follow. He also describes the roles of other valuable meditation supports, including the gentle mind, morality (sila), and good company (kalyanamitta), as well as offering reflections on the chattering of the restless mind as it starts to relax and how thinking naturally fades away when the meditator recognises the futility of solving life’s problems through thought. The video ends with a 30-minute guided meditation drawing on the methods discussed during the talk.
[0:00] Teddy bear meditation: the importance of a soft, gentle mind
[5:48] Defining “sila” (morality)
[8:47] The three key meditation qualities: letting go, enjoyment and mindfulness
[16:10] How letting go happens
[21:58] Death contemplation as an aid to letting go
[29:01] Why the mind starts chattering during meditation and how it stops
[39:33] Morality as an aid to letting go
[42:09] Learning to find enjoyment: good company and other helpful reflections
[52:36] Guided meditation
[1:24:14] Walking meditation instruction (Ven Canda)
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We sometimes struggle with our meditation practice, but have we looked carefully at the well-structured teachings of the Buddha? He describes the stages of the path to Enlightenment clearly and it all begins with sila, ethics.
The Buddha said that stillness founded on virtue is of great fruit and benefit:
“Sila paribhavito samadhi, mahapphalo hoti mahanisamso.”
~ DN16 Mahaparinibbana Sutta.
Drawing on the early Buddhist texts and his own extensive experience, Ajahn Brahmali will describe how to develop beautiful qualities such as generosity, kindness and harmlessness that give rise to blameless bliss. Empowered by these qualities the mind becomes so energised and bright, that meditation happens naturally, in a way that leads to freedom.
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