Talking to Ourselves & Buddho | The Sangha UK #37 | 3.13.22

The Sangha discuss the threefold division of the sankhāra, the two types of consciousness represented by viññāna and salāyatana, coming out of the verbal sankhāra through use of chanting and mantras, the qualities of and similes for the jhāna, the popular Thai mantra Buddho, and reaction times in the absence of discursive thought.

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00:00:00 Verbal sankhāra are discursive thoughts; citta sankhāra are feelings

00:15:24 Viññana & salāyatana - conscious recognition of input data

00:18:53 Value of these two consciousness concepts in ānāpānasati 

00:20:57 Stopping

00:24:52 Similes for the jhāna (MN 119)

00:29:16 Bypassing verbalisation; mantras; chanting

00:39:01 Relaxing into 3rd & 4th jhāna; seeing the functioning of the mind

00:48:17 Noticing what happens at the end of the out breath

00:53:24 Reaction time out of discursive thought

01:10:27 Mahasi retreat