Dukkha Patipada: Using Challenges in Meditation for Insight | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri

Often we're not experiencing rapture and bliss in our meditation, but lots of challenges, painful memories, fears, and pain. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with us.

Only a person with a mind already very pure from advanced practice in previous lives will be able to sit down and quickly attain bliss and samādhi. Due to the weakness of their defilements, these individulas (like e.g. Venerable Sāriputta) develop sukha paṭipadā (easy/happy practice).

For most of us (and actually even for the second chief disciple, Venerable Mahāmoggallāna!), practice involves quite a bit of dukkha paṭipadā (tough/difficult practice).

However, these difficulties can actually be an excellent opportunity to develop wisdom and insight. If we don't complain or get discouraged by whatever challenges arise in our meditation, but take them up as an object of contemplation, analysing their impermanence and not-self nature, we can even have an advantage compared to those with easy practice, because we're not in danger of neglecting insight practice.

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