Seeing your own mind

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Grasping the signs of one's own mind is the necessary condition for the Stream entry.
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@brianl9419 2 месяца назад

Mind blowing, literally! Thank you Bhante.🙏🙏🙏

@j.m.kocsis2557 2 года назад

This is outstanding. Thank you Venerable Sir. You’ve given other talks about this, but this talk helped a lot to clarify, although I will be listening to it several times again. It’s just truly astonishing to me that the Buddha came to know this and had such pure compassion to teach it, as you are now.

@9tiesimonsomething 2 года назад

Very good, I find this is what makes the practice of even whole life- come alive, no longer blindness but knowing, seing. Thank you for the talk Bhante! :)

@laydisciple 2 года назад

Hi, Is this a correct way of understanding citta nimitta? In solitude, I notice my behaviors and actions change according to the state of mind I’m in at any given moment. For example, when the mind is dull, I notice myself lean into laziness, sloth, distraction. When the mind is excited/energized I notice the need to get things done and be active. But in reality, I have noticed these states of mind as a peripheral container to my current situation, enduring on its own (the mind is discerned secondary, but more fundamental to my actions). Knowing this, it seems much easier now to base my actions/attention NOT on the state of mind I may be in at any given moment. I know obsessed mind as obsessed mind by seeing how I’m interacting with the 6 sense bases, but now have the confidence and sight to either restrain my obsession or indulge in it. Thank you

@cwilkinsonwck 12 дней назад

What most do not know ...the mind consists of visualization, thinking, intention and awareness. Most jump from visualization to thinking on autopilot. All are draining energies except awareness. One can completely drop ones thinking. This is kindergarten teaching, a base one must know.

@heartofayurvedaparis3479 2 года назад

thanx you for this video, can you give an exemple of it, a concrete, practicle exemple of Citta nimitta? how all this works together?

@konaraweb 2 года назад

As a starting point, discerning " the five hindrances" as the major categories of the signs and features of the mind. Things that we like, things we dislike, laziness or sleepiness, worries of the past and anxieties of the future, doubt. Identify as they arise in the mind and the mind is right there... There is also six types of "Sanskhara" buddah explains that mind laches on to as well .. which are - inhale(asvasa), exhale(prasvasa), sense-contact(sagña), Signals of the contact as in good/bad/ neutral(Vedana), Thoughts ( chethana) , contemplations ( manasikara) which we can also identify as the mind time to time laches on to these points. Its ok to use some of it such as the breath as a reference point to develop the right concentration. But the mastery is finding equanimity through that concentration and observing all of the above mentioned as phenomena which arise and simply disband. Which is reality and the nature of all things and Dharma 🙏🙏🙏 If this short summary is lacking anything, venerable thero shall most kindly re-correct.

@karrimzz 2 года назад

see comment by Asu Dhakal for concrete example of doing your action by observing Citta nimitta

@CarolAdderson 2 года назад

see comment by Asu Dhakal in this page, "noticed these states of mind as a peripheral container to my current situation". The main thing is to develop the capability of noticing peripheral emotion, and this require lots of practice to become an automatic check

@hemsaravithanage1169 2 года назад

🙏🙏🙏

@atozdhamma4248 2 года назад

Gratitude Ajhan! Very clear, 'STOP' sign as an example was the best to understand our 'seeing' mechanism. Incident is just seeing colour but background? All wholesome, unwholesome or neutral actions start while recognising.. Please continue such short explanations for us to use them for making out of this suffering cycle.

@Subtledrop 5 дней назад

Hello Bhante, Thank you for this clarifying talk. Would it be correct to say that developing the perception of the citta nimitta would be a form of yoniso manasikara? Thank you.

@User-kjxklyntrw 2 года назад

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@saxy1player 2 года назад

Thank you for this! I had some sense of what is meant by citta nimitta, but this clarification was very welcome. When you say that the immediate is determined in relation to the peripheral, is the peripheral in a very much similar (or identical) way determined in relation to the immediate? I understand how focusing (in the sense of being absorbed) on the immediate prevents one from seeing the peripheral. Would a good approach to discerning this relationship be watching how some of the peripheral changes and some of it endures with the changing and enduring of the immediate?

@HillsideHermitage 2 года назад

1. Yes. 2. No. It's other way around. Watch ENDURING of the periphery (moods, feelings, intents) while the immediacy comes and goes.

@cliffmilbrun2803 2 года назад

@@HillsideHermitageThank you for this explanation of citta nimmta I was going to ask the same question about periphery of experience like moods intent feeling simultaneous with whats in the foreground even on sensory level because that's the only place I see that's applicable. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thank you.

@j.m.kocsis2557 2 года назад

Ajahn Nyanamoli, is noticing the presently enduring feeling (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral) the same as noticing/seeing the sign of the mind, or is noticing presently enduring feeling more “general”. My thought is that noticing feeling is general and the sign of the mind becomes apparent after the sense organs come in contact with a sense object. So for example, I see something in a store I like, and I feel an unpleasant feeling of desire for that object. I know I feel the desire unpleasantly, but I also know the sign of the mind is greed. Is this correct(ish)? Thank you!

@HillsideHermitage 2 года назад

Mind is where the feeling is, and vice versa. Practically speaking that's fine. The sign of the mind is more on the level of your entire sense of Self experiencing such-and-such thing at the time. But the only way to correctly reveal that entire sense of self is through enduring the present feeling correctly first.

@j.m.kocsis2557 2 года назад

@@HillsideHermitage Thank you!

@cliffmilbrun2803 2 года назад

Great question I was thinking the exact same thing

@yhseow 2 года назад

Which video elaborate more about signs (nimitta)? I would like to understand more about it. Thank you.

@jaredlangson3038 Год назад

Hello Ajahn, is what I'm about to describe an accurate way of discerning the sign of the mind? I see a wall, it's yellow. Knowing that a color is yellow is perception, and perception is part of the mind.I realize I am thinking. To think requires a mind. So the thinking points to the existence of the mind. Are either of these correct?

@designbuildfirmvisionstar1750 2 года назад

wow. thank you sawaminwahanse, wow

@Moriah7913 2 года назад

For a lay person, being in seclusion can be difficult to do, just based on the structure of society (working, buying groceries, etc). Something I do is make time to be alone for a whole day or two when possible, and avoid things like movies and music that will only distract me while I'm alone. Do you think this is good practice for a lay person that can lead to knowing the mind? Also, I have noticed that I dislike being in the company of others and prefer being alone most of the time because it feels safer and more comfortable to me when I'm alone. Is this a bad thing?

@cliffmilbrun2803 2 года назад

From what Im experiencing citta nimmita is like the blood sprayed with luminol on a crimes scene. Sense restraint is like the luminol, blood is like the mind, discernment is the uv light.

@seanjohndoe 2 года назад

What exactly is meant by "enduring" in this context? Phenomena seeming more permanent than other phenomena? Or being the basis of other phenomena? Thank you.

@hcoliveira 2 года назад

Ajahn Nyanamoli Thero, I'm a 22 years old student from Brazil. I was hoping if you could help me with a little doubt I'm having. The doubt is about meditation. If I'm understanding correctly, the breathing in meditation should be the "background", while the "foreground" is the awareness of what's happening (feelings, thoughts, etc.). Is that right? Did I understand correctly? I am also trying to lead a virtuous life in the past six months. Thanks for your attention and kindness.

@HillsideHermitage 2 года назад

Yes, practically, it is fine to regard it like that. Don't attend to your breathing directly, but don't completely lose the sight of it either.