Right Effort: Just Let Go | The Sangha UK #47 | 5.1.22

The Sangha discuss right effort, stream entry, Dark Night of the Soul, and the seven knowledges of the sotāpan. #darknightofthesoul #enlightenment #enlightened 

Majjhima Nikāya 117

Mahācattārīsakasutta - The Great Forty

https://suttacentral.net/mn117/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin (Bhikkhu Sujato)

https://suttacentral.net/mn117/en/bodhi?reference=none&highlight=false (Bhikkhu Bodhi)

“Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was living at Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s Park. There he addressed the bhikkhus thus: “Bhikkhus.”—“Venerable sir,” they replied. The Blessed One said this:

“Bhikkhus, I shall teach you noble right concentration with its supports and its requisites. Listen and attend closely to what I shall say.”—“Yes, venerable sir,” the bhikkhus replied. The Blessed One said this:

“What, bhikkhus, is noble right concentration with its supports and its requisites, that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, and right mindfulness? Unification of mind equipped with these seven factors is called noble right concentration with its supports and its requisites.”

Majjhima Nikāya 48

Kosambiyasutta - The Mendicants of Kosambi

https://suttacentral.net/mn48/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin (Bhikkhu Sujato)

https://suttacentral.net/mn48/en/suddhaso?reference=none&highlight=false (Suddhāso Bhiikhu)

The Buddha explains the seven knowledges of the stream-enterer to the quarrelling monks of Kosambi.

“When a noble disciple has these seven factors, they have properly investigated their own nature with respect to the realization of the fruit of stream-entry. A noble disciple with these seven factors has the fruit of stream-entry.”

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00:00:00 Right effort (samma vayama) in context (MN 117): bringing about right noble unification of mind

00:04:09 The noble eightfold path; noble sila as the result of unification of mind

00:08:42 Stream entry is a state of little effort, but we have to let go of the struggle repeatedly

00:12:20 Just let go; Dark Night issues: not letting go or gladdening the mind

00:16:13 Cleaning the house: one stone at a time

00:22:35 Working too hard; just the right amount of effort

00:30:30 From performance mode to practice mode; non-functioning methods

00:38:37 Right view as the skill of recognising wholesome thoughts; from zero to ten

00:42:59 Gladdening the mind; you’re never going to be finished

00:46:11 Stream entry and milestones; the real practice of the Buddha is a process (MN 48)

00:53:06 Samma sankappa - right attitude; coming to meditation as a loser; first jhāna

01:07:13 The knowledges of the sotāpan; the tipping point between the path and the fruit

01:21:56 Effort becomes easier

01:27:25 Energy as a factor of enlightenment