Missing in Mahasi | The Sangha US #27 | 2.27.22

The Sangha discuss elements that are lacking in the Western practice of Mahasi Sayadaw’s vipassanā techinque.

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00:00:00 History of the nimitta as training in photographic memory

00:07:50 The fourth tetrad: vipassanā; Mahasi technique

00:15:17 Essential to remove the hindrances - a mind fit for work

00:18:58 Mahasi terminology is archaic and misleading to Westerners

00:23:07 Arising and passing away: creating change; piti

00:27:06 Looking at the features of 1st jhana; 4th jhana, upekkhā

00:33:32 The Western Mahasi technique ignores “seizing the object”

00:37:48 Indiscriminate noting vs. gladdening the mind

00:44:11 Applied and sustained, sukha, upekkhā

00:46:29 Sadie Hawkins success

00:47:24 Piti comes from the realisation you’ve got it

00:48:56 The delusion of the fixed me vs. the crowd; expansion

00:55:29 Seizing the object, the importance of the body, right effort: gladdening the mind

00:59:27 Jhāna is a normal state of mind

01:06:47 A serious mind is dukkha - lighten up

01:09:07 Choiceless awareness vs. practice and performance; being overwhelmed

01:20:44 Letting go; skill development makes things easy

01:25:12 Unwholesome thoughts are coffin nails; āsava

01:28:11 The universe is a cosmic joke and you are the punchline

01:30:25 We’re not supposed to be happy in our culture

01:33:43 Anxiety losing its grip; Mahasi can have benefits

01:37:27 In a Goenka/Mahasi retreat seize the object

01:38:45 Balancing happiness and reason; choice is a reason