How to Feel Safe, Secure, Satisfied and Successful through Anapanasati Practice | Justin #3 | 8.2.21

Justin and Dhammarato discuss the differences in meditative approaches practiced by the Buddhists and the Westerners. Justin shares that by adhering to the method of Anapanasati, he can see tangible results in his everyday lifestyle and ways of thinking. Dhammarato revisits the issue of safety and security as a starting point for developing satisfaction and, later, success in life. He gives a more accurate definition of "enlightenment" as an easily available yet not permanent state of mind. He then focuses on sustaining it through an everyday practice by using Sati, or "remembering to catch yourself" and Nurturing yourself back into it by gladdening the mind with wholesome thoughts. 

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0:00 Learning satisfaction

1:50 Meditation: origin and problems 

10:30 Nothing Method. Choiceless awareness

16:40 The Right Effort

17:48 Distinction between critical and Nurturing thinking

21:30 Three ways of thinking: saying; feeling/sensing; observing

28:28 Making a change in patterns of thinking and building new neural circuits 

41:20 Anapanasati - informal meditation

43:00 Waking up the Adult

51:40 First Jhana vs Mystical interpretation of it

58:45 8 Fold Noble Path

1:08:15 Feeling of success

1:09:30 Putting pieces together in practice - Tangible results (Justin)

1:16:05 Enlightenment as a state of mind

1:19:53 Attitude of the winner - the feeling of the winner

1:21:22 Sustaining the joyful state