Choices & Changes | John #1 | 6.16.22

John and Dhammarato talk about the things that are missing in most Western systems of meditation and compare them with the method explained in the suttas of remembering to look and making a change. #goenka #mahasisayadaw #buddhadhamma

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00:00 We must be making choices and changes; remember to wake up, look, and make a change (MN 19, MN 117, MN 118)

07:33 Most systems are missing right effort (samma vāyāma); gladdening the mind; thus one trains oneself

13:43 Goenka misses control and gladdening; the noble Dhamma becomes self-evident

23:33 The 16 stages of insight; starting students at step 12: the four noble truths

27:43 Seeing the need for change; Muktananda

29:48 U Pandita; Bhikkhu Buddhadāsa; Achan Poh

33:34 Samādhi as unification of mind - gathering together; keeping the mind wholesome; first jhāna (MN 36)

39:56 Samma sankappa (right intention, right attitude): I can clean up the mind

43:04 Don’t worry about the long-term, practice right now; practice joyfully

46:49 Dukkha, dukkha-nirodha; the method is to remember to look at what you’re doing and make a change; hindrances (MN 2)

50:30 Life-stories don’t help; monkey see, monkey do

55:25 Choose how you feel; dukkha, dukkha-nirodha in this moment