The Organized vs. the Natural Training Method | Zach #5 | 6.29.21

Dhammarato and Zack talk about the natural method and the organized method of teaching, unremitting sati, and anapanasati.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:00:42 Description of retreat

00:03:56 Organized vs. natural anapanasati

00:08:02 The shortcut method vs. dry insight meditation

00:21:19 What's the point of meditation anyway?

00:25:07 Unremitting sati and the Seven Factors of Enlightenment

00:31:24 Mindfulness as a translation for sati, Meditation is active

00:35:38 Nurturing vs. critical thinking

00:40:28 Samatha  and Vipassana

00:48:12 First get the mind into a wholesome state, away from the instincts

00:53:46 Investigation (forth tetrad of anapanasati)